Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of you and women, it is my great honor to be here with you this evening for the 2016 GemTech Award, together with our great partners in the ITU. Today marks the third year of our joint commitment to hold this global recognition of individuals and organizations working to empower women in and for ICTs. I want to sincerely thank Mr. Hooling Zhao for his commitment and leadership in this important partnership. I also want to congratulate the wide network of women leaders from around the world who are here with us tonight and who are at the forefront of our common efforts to ensure that women and girls are active participants in the digital world. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the incredible potential of the ICTs in transforming the lives of women and girls. But we also know that this change is not automatic. To realize that goal, we need targeted investments in women and girls, not just beneficiaries of the new digital economy, but as its creators and decision makers. And the GemTech Award is unique because it has allowed us to showcase great initiatives from around the world to show what this can look like in practice. Empowering women and girls in science and technology is no longer an option, it's a necessity. And women are acutely underrepresented in ICTs, making up just 15% of top decision makers in the sector. And as all of you know, technology is a fast growing industry that provides tremendous opportunities for employment and for women to create wealth. But these changes could also exacerbate inequalities, especially for women who are overrepresented in sectors such as garments manufacturing and electronics, where machines are increasingly replacing labor. So it's critical that we support women to develop the technical and core skills that they need to take advantage of the opportunities that these changes offer. And we know that the benefits of doing so are immense. It is estimated that 90% of future jobs will require ICT skills. And this is why we at UN Women are investing significantly in building women's digital literacy and skills. At the global level, we have embarked on the development of two targeted global ICT programs. One is the virtual school, which aims to provide women and girls, including the most marginalized, with digital access to skills and second chance opportunities for millions of girls who have either been deprived of education or who have dropped out of formal education systems for one reason or another. The second is a technology-based mobile enterprise platform that would create and facilitate large communities of women entrepreneurs in various sectors across developing countries. And within Asia and the Pacific, UN Women has joined many innovative initiatives that use ICTs to increase women's economic and political empowerment and to eliminate gender-based violence. In Pakistan, for example, we have supported the development of a tech-based food ordering platform that increased livelihood opportunities for women home-based food vendors. In Papua New Guinea, we are helping women market vendors to use cashless payment systems, which has allowed them to increase their earnings, avoid and bypass corrupt middlemen, and reduce their vulnerability to violence. And in the Philippines, we have led efforts to promote safer public spaces for women and girls using mobile technologies. For example, by organizing a safe city hackathon which has challenged tech experts to develop mobile safety apps to combat sexual harassment and ensure that women and girls are safe in public spaces. As all of these examples illustrate, and as we will see and learn tonight, women and girls around our region and indeed around the world are already innovating and using the power of technology to find creative solutions to improve their own lives and those of their families and communities. And we all have an obligation to support these women and girls as the leaders of today and tomorrow to ensure that their rights are realized online and offline. And as we present the awards to the 2016 winners, I can assure you it was not an easy pick. All the winners you'll see here tonight have gone above and beyond to reach the stage. And as you continue on your journey, we look forward to giving you more support, resources and opportunities to expand on your amazing work and to take it even further. And more importantly, we want to help spread the word and share your success stories so that they can inspire the rest of the world and to help even more women and girls follow in your footsteps. So once again, a big congratulations to all of the winners, all of the finalists and everyone who joined and contributed to this incredible event. We celebrate you, we salute you and we wish you a pleasant evening. Thank you very much.


The 53rd Infantry Brigade takes part in a large-scale U.S. Army-led, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between U.S. NATO and partner militaries. The 53rd IBCT's mission as part of immediate response 21 and the linked exercise of Defender 21 was to deploy expeditiously our brigade from the United States over to Eastern Europe so that we could take our forces, spread it out over five different countries. We were able to take those missions once we deployed and our soldiers were able to embed with our partner nations and were able to do individual and collective training. Thus, building the interoperability with our partner forces but also building our readiness and their readiness at the individual and collective level. Izaira Smiley, an Albanian cadet, speaks of her experience working with U.S. soldiers. We started by some stationery. We have to go through it and learn different stuff we need in military. It was a real pleasure. We learned new things. We developed what we learned during this time and our interaction was very good. We wear slightly different uniforms. We wear slightly different flag patches on our shoulders. When we get down to it and we get behind our rifles and we start doing individual soldier skills, we're exactly the same. For the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, it's time to go home but our commitment to Defender Europe will carry on. As we now undertake difficult tasks, there are necessary to achieve Albania's full attention. The biggest gain that we got over here was working with our partners and getting those shared experiences, learning new things from our partner forces and seeing problems, issues and training through another lens.


Hey Virgo, welcome back. Welcome back. I hope you guys had a lovely weekend This is Kelly from house of Virgo This is Kelly from house of Virgo if you're new welcome Please smash that like button and subscribe if you enjoy the readings keep your mind This is a general reading some of the messages may or may not be for you This is a channel for Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising or Venus, but all signs are welcome All right, Virgo, we're gonna do your Sunday singles see what your Messages are for who's coming toward you From now we'll go into the month of June if anyone new is coming toward you in love Their physical features and other message we might be able to get see what spirit wants you to know Okay, also personal reading links are in the description box below You can book with me or Brandy if you're unable to book with me. Okay, so let's get into this Okay So you've got make the effort great love is worth taking the steps you're guided to take Express your love Virgo Go ahead and make some kind of romantic gesture. Let's see what else is coming toward you Let's see Whoa, a whole bunch of stuff up and out. Yeah, okay. Let me come on pick it up pick it up. Okay There's passion You have new love a new person is stirring your romantic feelings. Ooh, la la ha you've also got children And your love life could be affected by children and you've got you deserve love Virgo. You are lovable. That's right Virgo is lovable. Okay, so There's definitely a new love coming in Why can I never pick up these cards? Okay? Oh real quick release your ex Virgo Hey, you know what new love sometimes new love can come in if you have your ex Energetically still in your life For some of you that might be the boost you need to let go and for others you may need to really like release your ex and Start looking around or just trying to make yourself available for new love Opportunities. All right, so let's take a look at the tarot Excuse me Let's say Virgo I've got cards sticking with cards sticking with cards. All right spirit. Please tell Virgo. Who's coming in? Who is this new love? opportunity Someone making a romantic gesture towards Virgo. Who is this? What can you tell Virgo? About this person. Okay, so it seems like they might be at a distance to you Um Yeah They could be somebody that you're talking to online. Hopefully you're not doing those online long-distance relationships If you are See to it that you know, there's a plan to meet and if somebody's not meeting you within a certain amount of time be gone Be done with that. Okay for your better health Virgo. So this could be somebody you're talking to online Um Somebody you connect with through some kind of online service worldwide web kind of energy. Okay. Hmm. Oh Okay, that's a stir right all right. So, hmm this person's very intuitive. I have to say They have like there's a very I don't know. Hmm Yeah, this this person's like oh My goodness I'm just picking up like a very intuitive vibe from this person. That's all I can really see This is like someone who trusts their gut. Okay, that's great. You know As it should be but let's see what else is showing up here for Virgo. Gosh. I'm having a day today with the cards All right, King of Ones. So it's a fire sign Virgo. There's a fire sign Um Fire sign is battling a lot of stuff. I feel It's trying to get away from an abusive relationship or someone is trying to like get away from someone who's just making them nuts So, hmm So Virgo, um, I don't feel like this person's coming in without some baggage I just have to say that. Okay. Um, there's Excuse me. I mean There is definitely something Here with this person where they're they're definitely in this They got a lot of stuff going on external to them Where there's like some drama. I'm just going to say that. Okay So, you know, I wish I could bring you like a prince or princess on a platter Unless you're planning to date like a virgin and someone that has not experienced life yet This is going to happen. Um, so I don't really feel like Perfectionism is going to be needed here. I do feel like whoever this person is coming in this King of Ones All right, and you can reverse the roles male or female is what I mean. Um, yeah, they're they're kind of like trying to get some Energy off their backs. So they got some problems. Okay, and I do feel like they have made a decision To move away from some negative energy and it doesn't have to be that they have baggage with an x I mean, if that shows up, it shows up, but whatever Whatever is going on, they're handling it. I feel and they are Definitely in this position of like trying to block that energy just keep it out of their life they're just definitely some drama and they are Someone who has made a decision that they're moving on and trying to have like a new start in their life Okay, um, all right, so Okay, that's your first message. What else does Virgo need to know about this person? That's coming towards them Now just remember there's a lot of Virgos listening to me right now. So It may be for you, but there may be Um, it may not be this person for you. Okay, so just Listen with an open mind is what I feel like I need to tell you what the f So, okay, if the king of swords and the queen of swords all right In the moon Okay, some of you do have All right, you know what? This is how this is going to go. There's also a king of swords King of swords queen of swords Okay, one or the other coming towards you. Why is this moon here? What's going on? Show Virgo. What is why is this? Okay, Virgo. Um All right, I just heard some of you Virgos have this like, um You got some shady fool that you're also going to be dealing with Coming up. Okay. I don't know who this person is. I feel like Yeah, I'm having a hard time reading this one. I feel like There is someone else as well could be someone who Maybe you were involved with a Aquarius Libra or a Gemini Or this is your energy here male or female because it came out together So I do kind of feel like that's like it's it's like maybe they're bi Or they're confused about their sexuality or they're they're you know, maybe they're homosexual. I don't know Or to you But this is like one person this feels like one person. Okay Anyway, there's there's a little bit of shady behavior that I kind of feel like Someone's doing some risky shady behavior coming towards you. Okay. Why are they coming? Like what's oh my gosh. Yes Okay Oh my gosh There's a lot like the king of wands the king of swords the queen of swords the queen of cups There's a lot of people so for some of you there could be a queen of wands coming towards you for others Um, there's a queen of cups coming towards you Okay, which would be water energy cancer scorpio Pisces. Okay Because I really feel Virgo and you could take you can if you want to read your own cards go get your own channel But I really feel like this is your energy Um combined because Virgo the the sword energy the queen of swords kens are the king of swords kens sometimes represent Virgo's energy because it's especially in the Gemini. It's mercury ruled So it's all about communication and truth and I feel like I don't know I have to explain myself But I feel like there is a queen of cups also showing up. Okay um I want to see what's going on with this moon and this fool energy Oh boy I don't know Virgo. I feel like This queen of cups is showing up really shady um really shady and that 10 of cups in the reverse kind of I don't know. This is like trouble Or broken broken up kind of thing. I feel like this queen of cups is trying to come at you now. I don't know if they are separated or They're divorced they left They were they were cheating. I feel like there's somebody also coming towards you who um Their relationship or their marriage the relationship ended because they were being shady And they were stepping out carelessly and taking some risks. So What is this a warning? Virgo is this a warning for you? I don't think Virgo is going to have a problem because Virgo is just like Yeah, I'm going to need some proof. You need to hand it over right now I need to see your like prison records and your references. Okay, whether you know this person or not I don't know but I do feel like there's a couple of people coming in During this time period.  Okay. If you're sitting home on your couch Watching Netflix and eating potato chips You're not doing anything. Um I don't you have no drama in your life. This isn't going to be you.    Yeah, I can't this this is if that's you And you're not doing anything then I don't hear it. This isn't free I don't hear that.  So, okay So, yeah, this for those of you who are out there, there's like a couple different people coming towards you Okay, usually we just got one but we have a couple different people coming towards you and one of them is They definitely have some drama to summarize and they definitely have some stuff but they got it under control and they're handling it Now is this drama with another person? Like a romantic person or someone that they were dating or is this drama with Others like a group of people Whatever is external to them. They're they're pushing back on that. They're blocking on on that They don't want that in their life anymore.  I just want to get a clarifying card for the two of swords Okay, yeah, so Either they were married or in a long-term committed thing and they they've and they decided it's done They're putting and this is not someone like it's just king of wands. Okay. It's fire This is not someone that sits home and mopes for like six months Um or a year before the now the king of wands is basically like yep, that's over Next and keeps it moving. You know king of wands does not wallow King of wands does not shed tears and get down into like a sorry sappy ass type of energy King of wands is like Sunshine vibrancy keep it going adventurous and is very positive Whatever was going on with the relationship that they were in or whatever they were involved in that was like a Committed kind of thing. It's ended and they're like no, it's done and they are not trying to Go back the king of wands doesn't generally return back because they're so confident That they know that there's you know a lid for every pot and they stay upbeat and positive and that they will find somebody There will be somebody else for them.  Um, they kind of have those scott peterson vibes Not not the ending part, but just like Lives in kind of a weird fantasy world is just not really in tune with what's going on around them They kind of like to lie about things and a bit deceptive and you know, I don't know Virgo If I had to give you a warning I feel like your warning is to kind of like don't date scott peterson Or patricia peterson or anybody related to that kind of energy like keep it moving. Yeah too much There's just too much fantasy And they kind of like have very deep feelings, but like they keep a lid on their feelings So they don't really communicate how they feel I don't even feel like this person can discern how they feel They wouldn't even know they can't put their feelings into words.  I can talk About my feelings. Like I can talk and walk at the same time. That's Virgo. Virgo's like, yeah, I can express my feelings Sure I get Virgo's not going to go into like this long depth type of thing, but it feels like hey, okay Let's see. I'm feeling happy. Let me just tell you about it. I'm feeling sad. I'll just say I'm sad I'm feeling angry. Okay. I'm gonna say that, you know I don't feel like this is a really good match I don't know why I just don't look here's queen of wands again. Yeah, I feel like kind of Virgo You might be a little bit inspired by the energy of fire because fires like basically that that friend that's that you know Comes into your house and like lifts all the blinds and opens up the windows to brings in the fresh air lets the light in You know, this is this is like that type of person You know, they they you know, they they they put you in the shower. They pick out your clothes. They're like, come on We're going out.  I know sometimes you can get into overthinking and the fires are like There's so much steam coming from your head and it should be coming off your feet You should be moving You should get up there and get going and get moving.  They're amazing. They're energetic The person you might have been with in the reverse might have some might have been someone who is very like angry and overly aggressive or a bully you know Or just someone who is not ready to commit that's that's usually fire in the reverse. Okay and cold not in the upright, okay so Yeah, I feel like um The two choices like I feel like you're gonna try to be really clear if you talk to this watery energy You're gonna try to be clear with this person and have conversations You might even call your brother and be like, what's the matter with this person and have them come in and talk to this person If you're talking to them, it's just an example, but I don't feel like you're gonna really be like Because there's shady behavior I can't like, you know what if if this person if the moon wasn't here Virgo, and it was just the full and the 10 of cups in the reverse I would just be like, okay. This relationship ended and this queen of cups has moved on But I don't like this. This is hiding this moon. This is like deception. This is like someone who Can't see problems before they happen. They're lacking that precognition.  I feel like that might be something You come to terms with okay I don't know that this person's really a bad person. I just think that They don't they there is deception behind why something ended with another person And I feel like they might not say it or they just might kind of be very vague about what happened and Virgo's like No, don't be vague. Just tell the truth. Okay, so Oh, I just have to make check. I don't know what's going on like I keep thinking that I'm not recording um, so yeah, I kind of feel like, you know You got a couple options here and I'm definitely not going to tell you what to do but I do feel like You will get an opportunity to decide What Or who's going to fit you better? Yeah, just like I said, you know, you're going to get an opportunity You know on on boats like that's the beauty about dating. You get to choose You don't have to like fall for the first person that comes along You get to like figure out what it is that you want.  So, um I think though It's crazy, but I feel like the the the fire is going to be more the one kind of leading the way I'm picking up a really strong alpha energy male or female the the the fire is going to be the one leading the way The the water you're going to be the one leading that so whatever you prefer. It's up to you, right? It's up to you Um, let me see what your Other messages are here going forward physical features and your love oracle any other messages I know I should be doing the singles reading more so like what you need to be doing with yourself as a single person But this is kind of a hoax who's coming toward you But I will say Virgo if you are single and you don't have anyone in your life at this time um I hope that you are not focusing on what you don't have and being grateful for what you do have And I hope that you can like get yourself in the mindset like that if you are not already in that because It's one thing to have someone by your side just to have someone by your side um Relationships are a lot of hard work and a lot of people out here don't even know what they're doing They can barely even figure them own selves out and what they need to do with themselves, you know So there isn't going to be anyone that's going to really just come in and Shield you from yourself basically, you know, I don't know. I just sometimes I feel like relationships get like they're so overrated I mean I know some of you guys have been married The work and the effort and when you're dealing with someone that is Reflecting not only the good but the negatives about yourself back to you if you're not that person That's willing to look at yourself and say You know Yes, I'm great, but I do have some flaws then, you know, relationships are tough. I mean, I don't know It's like the difference between like staying home and raising kids or going out to your job I stayed home and raised kids and I worked also out of the house and working out of the house Was a lot easier because you're dealing with adults children are insane when they're little They're like little crazy people running around so yeah Virgo. I feel like it's kind of like that But anyway, love is love and you know When you find someone that just fits you beautifully and you both Fit each other It's just more better than it's worse and that's how I feel like it should be Relationships should be more positives in a relationship than negatives coming from both sides Not just one putting in all the positive all the time. It's got to be equal. Okay. Anyway, that was my rant What do I know? I don't know anything. Let me see.  It doesn't mean people aren't going to show up I do see a couple of people showing up here in your life. Okay, you've got friendship and children again So that's the second time children has shown up. So Maybe you're taking care of children.  Maybe you're swinging on the swings Or you're hanging out at parks or you're just trying to reattach yourself to your youth again And I see a lot of you actually making some friends during this time, which is so important networking having acquaintances and Picking up a friend group during this time as well as a single person, which is awesome You've got some friends. Are you're going to make some friends coming soon? And that's I mean, that's a lovely thing having a friend group or connecting with some friends. I know some of you like Or like no, I got my dog and I got my cats And that's fine. If you don't want friends, you don't have that friends Let me see. What else does Ferga need to know here? I don't even know how much time we're at here Okay, oh she showed up before I'll say mature woman socialite connecting high society Okay Well, the difference between being childlike and being mature is that's a huge gap in between. Okay, some of you are actually Matureing. That's what I feel like. Maybe your relationships in the past. Um There's growth. That's what I feel. That's what the gap is in between If in the past you were kind of like childlike in your decisions about relationships and people that you got in to relationships with, um, I feel like you're seasoned I feel like things are different for you now Your priorities are different about who you want to connect with maybe in the past You were still kind of I don't know how to see this like You know Relationships are dating like you were still 20 That makes sense. Maybe you were married for a really long time and you got back out in the dating world and it's like I don't know how to do this. Do I some of you might have went back out into the dating world like as if The age you were before you settled down with somebody Okay, um, and you've matured now.  So I don't know I'm kind of hoping that like you're you've advanced in a lot of ways depending on how old you are I just kind of feel like this is just your energy of like, you know, the things that I want now are not the things I wanted 20 years ago even 10 years ago.  There might be a gift from a past love as well I'm just going to put that out there Some presents or some kind of surprise Okay Yeah, and this is someone I feel like is fair so they have like lighter either lighter skin Or lighter eyes or lighter hair And if it's not a past love, I mean it could be a Could be a son if you have a son that looks like that might be giving you a gift or surprising you with something Um, or maybe you'll have a son. That's like a gift to you.  Okay One more please for Virgo Oh, they said no two more Okay Long distance youthful young female. Okay Hmm. So yeah, there's definitely going to be a long long distance connection also with a young female Um, so this will be someone who is in her She's somewhere in her teens to her early 20s. Okay And um, she's attached to music and fashion. Okay, but she's At a long distance like foreign land or foreign country. So that could be something connected to your work. It could be family um, I do feel like as a single person there will be something Coming up in relation to you in relation to her. It doesn't feel romantic. It feels more like You have ice queen hmm She's leaving her mother. She's coming to where you are or she's moving out. That's what I hear It's just what I hear. She's leaving her mother.  Yeah, there's going to be some communication About a mother and a daughter long distance. Okay, there's going to be some communication Texting phone calls or some online messages in regards to this young female and a mother figure Okay, one more just one more. All right triangle crowded relationship choices. Well, you you definitely have um There's a triangle for sure. Okay, you're going to have to make a decision There's a decision coming up as a single person. You looks like you're going to connect with two people Now listen Virgo, the message is that I'm giving you about these two different people Um, it's up to you at the end of the day when you meet them to be able to vet these people on your own Despite what I say you keep it in the back of your mind But you have the final decision if I tell you that you know Person a is coming in and they're like coming down from heaven and they're most amazing person and you find out They've been in jail for murder. Um, yeah, it's going to be your decision at the end of the day Okay, so don't take my advice Literally like take it with a grain of salt because I'm not there in your life And um, I don't want you coming back to me and saying, yeah, you know that person you were talking about. Okay. Well Here she um Yeah, they did something really really really bad. So I'm confused. No, don't be confused If you're not comfortable that they did something really bad then Take your own advice. Okay. Just leave it out there. Just you know, just leave it out there All right, Virgo. So that's going to be your singles reading.  Should I do some crime? um Crime tarot I have to figure out how to do that like maybe I don't know. I want to do something with like crime, you know, you guys How they have all those crime shows and stuff like you really want to get into that But anyway, yeah, let me know if you have any ideas Send me an email house of Virgo. The link is in the description box below If you have any ideas for like something to do with tarot reading and crime or what you would like to see Yeah, give me a heads up. Send me an email. Let me know what you think Maybe something cool can happen this summer. All right, you guys have a great week ahead and don't forget Click that like button on your way out. I don't even care if you don't subscribe Just click the like button so that the algorithm is like, hey, we see you and uh, if you want to book a reading There's a link in the description box below. I'll write. Love you. Bye


I'm a big fan of Mahara, and that's not just because I was born in New Zealand. Do we have many Mahara people with Mahara in their institutions? Yeah, lots of hands. We've seen usage at Queen Mary grow and grow over the seven years that we've had Mahara. Nowadays we're seeing a lot of interest around degree apprenticeships with the smart evidence in Mahara, and we're seeing a lot of work in one of our Chinese universities in Xi'an with personal development planning, and also in our language centre our foundation courses use Mahara a lot. So there's quite a lot of activity going on in Mahara. And one of the things that our students are always talking about at Queen Mary is, can you please make things more integrated? Can you make things more seamless? Can you make things work together better? And we've got a system here called Mahara, how do we do it? We've got a setup here where in one system, a friend posts on your wall in Mahara, and you notice it five months later and respond to it. Or you keep having to log into Mahara to see if you've got feedback on something that you're waiting to receive feedback on a Mahara page. And to get into Mahara, you're having to go through Moodle to log in. So there's a lot of clicks to even get to the place where you're waiting to see if you've got any feedback. And your mates in your Mahara group that you're working on something in are sending you messages, but actually you're not getting those messages very quickly. So quite a few issues here. So the issue also comes down to the fact that Moodle and Mahara both have their notification systems because they're designed to be standalone. And there is not actually much the way of integration at the moment for bringing notifications across between systems. I don't quite know why, because this seems like an obvious thing to actually do. But you get, in boxes you get notifications, all these different apps have this. So we're marrying and we sat down and said, how can we fix this? How can we bring all notifications into one place? And so what we do, we funnel notifications as they're generated in Mahara, we funnel them to the Moodle because everyone's going to go through Moodle. Everyone's going to see their notifications for everything in their digital life that is in their student world. And by bringing everything into the Moodle, we know they're going to see it. We know they're going to go, oh, there's activity. Now, maybe they're not going to deal with it right now, but they know it's there. They can go and see and they can go and integrate and active and do things. So yeah, so doing this means that we think that it brings everything into one place, which fits in with the modern expectations for UXs. And what we're also noticing is that we're seeing an increase in student engagement because they're now getting their notifications more clearly in the Moodle notifications bar and research at our institution would suggest they're logging into Moodle five or six times a day. And we've got a major institutional initiative where all first-year students are starting to engage with the portfolio. And we're also seeing a slight increase, although it's only been two months since we've done this integration, with the amount of activity going on in the portfolio. But this is not really the end of the journey. So far we have web services talking between the Moodle and Mahara to get notifications in one place, but there's more we can do. Yes, we can bring more calls to action from Mahara into Moodle. We've talked about bringing assignments that you would normally just do in the Mahara, or reflection activities you would do in the Mahara, and surfacing those in Moodle. Exactly how it's going to shape up, we don't know yet, because we're still looking at what can be done and what the student needs are. There's certainly more integration that you can do than is done today. And we're still kind of always start the journey of what we can actually do with this, but notifications was the very first step for us and bringing that to where users can actually use it. Yeah, I only wanted to add that things like feedback, being able to push your feedback back to from Moodle into Mahara and reflect on it would be another area that I think we could work on. Maybe even pushing feedback from Mahara into the Moodle grade book in some way or another. I think you've just mentioned adding a reflective activity within the Moodle activities picker would be a really good idea to integrate the two better. And potentially something we've already designed with Catalyst, but which we could roll out is the ability to set up your Moodle groups that you've already set up in your course area in Moodle that you can just push straight into Mahara. So they're auto created for you to save time. So those are the kind of things that we think would be a really good idea. And to preempt your question, we are about to release this to the community. So there's going to be some work done on the Mahara side to actually support functionality that we need. But I've been talking to Christina about this. I'm going to try and rub this out for 1910. So this will be available in theory from 1910. So anyone want any questions for us? Anything we can help with? He has preempted my role there, Peter. But yes, raise your hand in the air if you'd like to ask a question. If not, time for lunch. OK, thank you very much. It is indeed time for lunch, so walk don't run to.


What's up everybody, Jayce here for jayspeakscasebase.com. We just sold out 20-22 Panini National Tragas FIFA Rolls or the World Cup Soccer One box break number 19 pick your teams And again guys, so we had to do a little four team R&B Which we did get done with So here's everybody that bought in straight up There were the four teams that are part of the random number block and Then here are the customers that are part of the random number block teams right there so We have three boxes remaining out of this four box case You just X them all so there's an X and we have one two three. Let's see which one we'll use here for this break See if I can roll a one two or three. It takes me a couple more than my two three tries And we'll just do a little random generator Three all right. That was number one first one two three. We're gonna go with the bottom box So these next two will be for the next pick your team, which is already on the website You guys can get it going Jaspie's case breaks that pound And let's rip open this empty soft drink one pick one. Maybe we got a book Maybe a bookly Booklet kind of sticking out a little bit Yeah, we definitely got a booklet. Let's see what kind of book of that is those soon All right, so first one we got is a Moises For Ecuador tonight, and I and then we got a Arthur for Belgium Arthur for Belgium to 25 All right, let me do have a book play and it is a five of ten jumbo triple materials Looks like for Argentina. Wow. Look at that literal Martinez Lionel Messi and Paolo Davala Very nice Five of ten Argentina is going to Alex straight up It's a pretty sweet book right there and all our player worn used material for that one That's what put that on a slider box The end of this break James Ward for England. That's 48 out of 49. That's part of the random number block For England eight is Daniel Smith We have a Pedro Nieto, and that is for Portugal 9 of 49 Portugal's mark and we got another Portugal who relic tonight and I this time is Bernardo Silva We got a redemption and we got a fiago To 49 for Italy Italy's going to David V and then how about a dual autograph for Italy? Giuseppe and Antonio Cabrini National Treasures autographs dual That's pretty sweet Back to back hits for Italia, and we got an on-card right here to 15. That is Jurgen Klingsman that's for Germany and Germany That is going to David V nice break for you buddy back to back to back hits and last one looks like it's just gonna be a plate But it looks like a one-on-one plate for Colombia David. Well, Spina one-on-one And Colombia's Daniel Smith That's a nice one right there All right, let's check out this redemption really quick Let me also pull up the checklist because I'm sure I'm familiar with the name yet. Didn't fully see the name but just in case We got Penmanship car number 45 Jean Luca busio Let's see car number 45. Is that USA? I think it's USA No, that is USA, right? Where's penmanship car number 45? Yes, and that is number to 83 And that is USA going to spot zero and Alex Yeah, by the side USA in zero and there you go folks pretty nice box, right? So we got that redemption got that one-on-one Klingsman dual autograph there Cabrini and Giuseppe another hit for Italy Tiago Couple relics here, and then we ended up getting a booklet That had a Martinez Messi and Diabella and there you go folks So I appreciate you guys number 20s in the store Jasper's case breaks.com You


I'm gonna go for UI Goku. I don't know. I made such a big mistake early on. Oh, that was so clutch. How's it going? Everybody dotted away here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters online matches. And we are once again continuing on with the official Bandai Namco hosted online tournament. This time we have advanced all the way up to preliminary round three, and we are going to be competing against some of the final contestants here before the final round. I actually don't remember when the final round even is, but we are getting closer and closer to that final group of people. Whoever it may end up being. Let me just check here again if I can't change my team. Nope, it doesn't look like it. Ugh, I regret going with this team. I want to play Broly, man. All right, the third round of preliminaries has officially begun with, I think, a Bandai Namco employee standing in the middle. He's here to make sure it's all above the belt.  He does look quite out of place, though. He's like, wait, why shouldn't be here right now? Oh man, hopefully we get an early match. An early match would be amazing. I've gotten like some of the later rounds. I would love to get started with a good first match. Oh, nope. We're not getting in the first group of people. That's fine. Oh, or the second group either, huh? That's, you know what? That's cool too. That's okay with me. I've never been one to get the early matches or the third batch. That one hurts a little more. Yeah, we're in it. Okay, good. All right, we're going up against our first opponent and he's playing UI Goku on point with two Csys backing him. Wait, what? Wait, could I, did I perhaps see it incorrectly? How did he use another assist? Wait, is the special rule on with Z-Assist zealot? No, that's a C-Assist.    All right, it is lie. Oh, this is the laggiest game so far. It is consistent too. We are just going to have to keep it going. No fancy combos though. This is where Broly would have come in handy. All right, you know what? With the state of the game now, we have to go for the Yamcha level three. I'm worried he might UI Goku tech and that is on my mind. But we still go for the leg sweep anyway. We'll take it. It is a consistent seven frames and you know what? Maybe it's better that it's consistent rather than jumping around. I was born in 19 frames after all. I've seen it all. Okay, he's tagged out. What a two and Jiren leaps into action. All right, I'll take it. I'll take that. People are jumping out of 6M now. It's fine. Ooh, side switch. I told you I was born in the lag, dude. I told you I was born in this kind of frame weather, sweater weather, call it what you want. I was born here. You can't take me away from the fraves. I didn't block the C assist. I forgot he had it. I wonder if that C assist rule is actually on her. Maybe I'm blind. Maybe he didn't have a C assist. I don't know. Got him. Lower that sparking timer. Let me take you across the screen. He command grabbed. I can't react to it. I literally don't. I can't react to that move normally. He got us. Oh, it's bad. It's bad. It's bad. It's bad. Oh, no, it's really bad. He has to spend a bar at least. Don't do two. Okay, he didn't do two, which might not even be a good thing for us. I don't know why I said that. It's not like he has a ton of blue life. Beautiful. Get Bardock out there. Yamcha is not the one we want on point. Oh, I'm sweating, dude. What? What? What? Would I want something? I'm going to get it. Tell me. Oh, no, he almost got us. You can tell that Bardock wants this. He's not going to let seven frames stop him. And I like that about Bardock. Let's go. One, two. This round is taking forever, though. That's the only thing I'm worried about in the back of my mind. I mean, first, we got to focus on the win. First and foremost, but I'm worried that we might be like, I don't know. We're taking too long. I couldn't stop him. I couldn't level three. I got to stop him trying to panic level three. Just work your way out of this. Win your way out of this. Oh, I'm doing so bad. Oh, no, we got to focus on getting the win.  Oh my goodness. That's got to be level three range. Please. I'm not doing a level one to level three in this connection. If you can hear me. Yes. Oh, we needed that so bad. We needed that so bad. What a 2-H. What a first game. Let's get a move on, though. We can't stick around to celebrate. Okay. We are back into another match against the UI Goku and I've never been more terrified. We did not get another seven frames. It doesn't feel seven frames. I will be honest. I don't feel this at all. I don't feel seven frames at all right now. We are moving. I don't know if this is going to kill. Yeah, I made a mistake there. Huge mistake. I am just one. I'm going to go for UI Goku. I don't know. I made such a big mistake early on Krillin. He was like Bartok take this just through one rock saved my life. Oh, I can't say the same for that time. Love to see it. Get the combo going. Bartok messed up the combo route. That's fine. Get into the option. See if we can't trick him up with that. Oh, you option assist. Whoo. I'm going to cross upon this one. No, he wanted. I couldn't block that. He just took his sweet time coming to attack me. I like it though. I like it. It definitely worked on me. I really don't feel the frame delay at all to be honest. I don't know why it says six. I mean, it's probably there, but because it's so consistent, I don't really notice. It could be one of the two. I'm going to. No way. What a ginormous mistake for me. I didn't even. I didn't even think that he would read that because I didn't really think sparking was all that good of a play. Honestly, I didn't think he would think of that. Wow. That one was a that was bad for me. That was really good by him. I can't believe he even had that in mind. Bartok just punched me in the face. I'm sweating. I don't know what to do now. What are we going to do? I guess level three. We got to try to make something happen. It is Jiren though. So counters could be around every corner. Nope. No counter here. No counter here. Not now, not ever. Can't kill though. Beautiful. Could not have asked for anything better. That guard cancel might have just gotten them. Zero bars. Zero bars. Nice. Jiren comes out with a decent chunk of blue life and we are working towards maybe making this the end. It's fine. And give him what I got earlier in the round. That was sick. Another win in the book. We only had one chip to start with. I don't know what this is going to bump us up to, but that was an important win. Just four chips. Come on. That is so rough. That is such a rough number for two games. I have no idea how the chips work by the way. I have absolutely zero clue how it works. I just come out with a random number every time. We have a rematch with the same opponent and I'm not going to lie. It's a little worrisome. You never want to. It's hard to go up against people you've already gone against because they know what you're aiming to do. Beautiful though. What a scramble opportunity for us. I'm glad we didn't let it go. Now this is UI Goku we're talking about. Yep. I can't believe he actually did it right there instead of in the corner. That scared me so bad. I didn't even yell. It was just a kind of terror you get. You feel on the inside. You're just like, yep, that's happening now. I can't believe it. No vanish. All right, we switch out there. We switch out there to try to preserve as much blue life as possible. UI teched again. Now he's starting to do it more.  I'll give you Krillin. I will give you Krillin. I'll make that. I'll make that happen. He did it again. He's good. He's making adjustments. He's adjusting. This is why we didn't want to get a rematch, but we have to win regardless. This is not something we can just decide not to do spark. He got me. He got me on the most important point of the game. Wait, he dropped it down to one bar. He's not going to be able to finish now. Fuck. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We're getting out of here. We're getting out of here into our other point character now. We still have his spark to worry about as well. Come on, that was great. I'm so glad Krillin was able to get out of that. Harley, I think it was a mistake on his part. I can't remember now. What a mix. Thank you. Thank you, Yopcha. You are actually the best. Where would I be without Yopcha? I'm going to make you use that sparking. I'm going to make you use it right here and now. You're going to use it. You're going to. He's probably not going to. He did. Okay, couldn't make a block. That's fine. As long as Krillin didn't get hit, I guess that's okay, even though Krillin's pretty low right now. Mostly here for the assist. I hate going up into those up-tech dragon rushes. For some reason, I am so weak to them. It's ridiculous. Down tech just in case he messes up, but I don't see a mistake coming. I just hope we bought enough time from that spark. It doesn't look like it though. It doesn't look like it's even close to done. Missed the 2H. Wait. Oh, he was able to combo off it. Yopcha, I need you to win this for us now, dude. I need you to win this for us. Six frames on the board. Beautiful. Let's make it a one bar for sure. Let's make this a one bar. Well, technically, we made it too. I just meant let's make sure we don't have to spend three.  We were just running around him. No, we're still not able to kill. I'm going to save the one bar for defensive purposes. Whoa. Double jab to the face. Y'all, I'm just special. Get him out of here. That was crazy. I'm sweating. I'm not even talking this video. I'm doing no talking. It is all focused. How many chips? Eight. I got up to 32 last time. What is going on? What is the difference maker? Okay, this may very well be our last game of the third round preliminary. We just got kicked in the face. He's playing dangerous. He is playing dangerous and I don't like it. Obviously he's playing a very good team. Go tanks. Go. I'm sparking. Beautiful. That was really good. Obviously we wasted our spark super early.  Nice beam as well. Oh, but a terrible drop afterwards. That one's going to sting. No, not a tag out. A tag out was not what we wanted. He blocked it. We tech it though. Why did he go for something so slow? Oh, no way. He got us in the air there. Nice. The lay is pretty good. We've been, uh, we've had a little bit of a rough patch with the connection again. Wow. Just pushing us all the way down to the ground. Beat him there. Early. Why? Oh, a super dash. Why? Hopefully doesn't combo off of that. He will though, just with standing jab. Just UI things. I'm regretting using our spark so early though. That's probably going to be the kicker. Don't block. Oh, I'm guard canceling too much. Yeah, I don't know why I'm so extra nervous this round. Nice combo delaying it a bit. This is where I should have sparked. This is where I wish I would have sparked. I don't know what's best. We have to, we have to try to win this. Hopefully hope the worst case scenario is we do a good comeback attempt and then lose because then we spend a lot of time losing, but I think it's still worth putting up a shot here. Nice. Unreal. Oh, come on go takes. How many punches do you got for me? Oh, this game is not looking good. We needed this win. We needed this win too. We're only at eight tokens for some reason. No respect. What am I doing? The regret I feel for not just going for a level three there and eating that. Oh, that time I didn't respect and got punished. The, I just regret not going for a level three. I wanted to try to buy save meter and I just got two ahead of myself. Couldn't block the six M either. This is disastrous. We're heading towards our first loss of the tournament. At least maybe with this one, at least we got sounds weird to say, but at least we got beat down pretty fast. But my pride's not going to let me just get out of here. I'm going to keep fighting for this. I'm going to keep fighting for this win. I'm going to fight for this win. If you want this win, you're going to have to take it from me. You're going to have to take it from me. I don't give anything over. Oh, no, I'm giving it over. No, how many, how many crucial mistakes I tried to definitely try to penny pinch damage right there and it cost me. Oh, no, that was bad. Hopefully we can get one more game in just one more game. We need, I think we need another win. Maybe. I don't know. We're only at eight. It's looking bad though. Now it's looking really bad. Time for an ultra quick match. We could win this. I know the rules. I know the rules now. Get me into the next match. No, is this going to be the end? Two minutes left on the clock. Two minute warning. Please give me one more game. Please. I don't know where everybody else stands. Yes, we can't afford to lose this. We can't afford to lose this. We have to do the best we can in the 10 seconds we're given at the time. 30 seconds. Okay. That's all I need to see. 30 seconds. I'm going to take this life. Get rid of it.  I told you if you gave me another chance, I shouldn't have killed him. That's kids. No, no. Okay. We're not killing any more characters.  Call it ref. Call it.  I didn't think about that. Whatever. End the match. I can't believe we did that. We reset the clock. Oh man. Please have like 20 tokens that you just dropped out of your pocket. It's the only way we're making it to the finals. Load in. Load in. Register my chips. 16. Oh, we barely had enough time. I almost, I almost threw the match. It's probably still over for me. Let's be honest. I lost one game in the whole tournament. Will that cost it? That was a long loss though. I got to be honest. That loss was one that you cannot afford to have in this format. So if it ends here, I understand. I made a misplay. I'm glad we got that last game win though. I almost, I almost threw that away by killing that character. You got to think of the meta on the fly here. Here they come. Just do what you got to do. 7th place finisher baby. We're moving on. Congratulations on advancing to the finals. Please move to the finals lobby. Yes. Yes. I'm so glad we were able to make it happen. We did it boys. Well, well, well, if it isn't my nemesis legendary black, I knew he would make it. Dude, I could tell. I could tell you'd make it. Who else got PRZ is here? Another nemesis. Well, I'm going to end this here. There we could see bad eye over there. This was quite the fight, dude. We made it all the way to the finals again. Last time we lost the round one. Will it be any different this time? Probably not, but we'll see how it goes. 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weapons coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country you the American people against aggression this is the big picture an official television report to the nation from the United States Army now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant Stuart Queen no fighting man in history has enjoyed as much behind-the-scenes support as does the individual American soldier of today weapons equipment personnel all exist basically to make the force of the foot soldier as strong and as effective as possible to achieve this goal surely yet economically our army is now calling upon a pool of resources only lightly tapped in the past foreign nationals the big picture study of today to many people the words army and infantry are synonymous true the infantry is the backbone of the army for an army is organized trained and equipped for combat on land only land forces are prepared to fulfill the army's mission to defeat an enemy's land forces then to seize occupy and defend the hard one ground coordinated with the infantry armor and artillery bring their heavy weight to bear on the enemy and behind the frontline power is a well integrated but enormously complex force men to make weapons others to build highways and bridges where the weapons may pass lines of transportation stretching from factory and farm to the battleground and communications welding all into a unified force no army in history has provided better medical facilities or achieved greater life-saving accomplishments than America's medical core of today as invaluable as physical aid and comfort is the spiritual support of the chaplains for the well and the wounded alike for every single foot soldier there are seven men and women in support working to make his efforts more successful with the signing of the Korean troops in 1953 and the subsequent rotation of American units there has been no weakening of support for our remaining troops while the number of Americans on duty here has been reduced assistance has been increased from another quarter South Koreans by the thousands have been employed by the 8th Army and scores of jobs vital to the strength of our defense force use of this large reservoir of locally available workers cuts down the number of troops needed for rear area jobs moreover it saves money costs of transporting manpower from the United States are eliminated entirely the 8th Army's operations are made more economical too because the salary outlay for the native Korean is fractional compared to the cost of paying and maintaining United States soldier to do the same job then to the wages paid by the army to its Korean employees results in a welcome contribution to the war weakened Korean economy because the communists whose initial thrust the United Nations acted to thwart feed on poverty and unemployment our armies use of Korean civilians acts as a continued deterrent to the spread of communist influence in Asia this same strengthening of the Korean economy operates on another level Koreans with special aptitudes are fitted into the working scheme through on the job training by army specialists with the new skills acquired by individual Koreans the total economic potential of the Republic is raised types of jobs in which Koreans reduced the need for American manpower range from skilled artisans and scientists to special police and military guards the communist attack in Korea spotlighted our need for supply depots in the orient when thousands of tons of equipment had to be rushed shipped to Korea from Japan although the truth prevails now one of the army's biggest jobs in Korea is to protect its depots from thieves whether they operate as organized subversives or as small boys developing bad habits at the same time in Japan more than 100,000 Japanese nationals are employed by the army further is strengthening the supply chain which equips and maintains Americans of the far east command some serve as guards at military installations while others work with army MPs protecting the rights of American and Japanese civilians and military personnel alike once a Japanese national has passed his first interviews and examinations qualifying him for a civilian job with the army he is fingerprinted for purposes of record and security in Tokyo following his fingerprinting the prospective employee reports to the Tokyo army hospital for his physical examination included with the physical checkup will be a dental and x-ray examination when the applicant here Mr. Shimamura has been fully processed he will be ready to join the ranks of civilians who are helping the army to fulfill its policy of nearly a decade to emphasize the assigning a military personnel to purely military duties and to use civilian employees and non-military occupations as much as possible assigned to the 22nd border pool in Tokyo Mr. Shimamura reports first to the army's driver's training school in addition to a thorough working knowledge of traffic rules the students are required to be fully informed of the techniques of preventive maintenance during the several weeks of instruction the students familiarize themselves with a wide variety of vehicles so that whenever a need arises for drivers of a certain type of car or truck there is always an adequate number of qualified men on hand to handle a job because supply is one of the army's biggest jobs in Japan these drivers play an important part in boosting the army's overall effectiveness all down the line the aim is to use more civilians so that a greater number of soldiers can be freed from assignments not requiring military skills in no area is the effort better affected than in the professions of dentistry and medicine Japanese nationals like 24-year-old Dr. Sakuma rank high on the army's list of human resources Dr. Sakuma's education includes three years of pre-medical study at Yokohama University then four years of medical training at the College of Medicine following his schooling Dr. Sakuma applied for an internship at a United States Army Hospital following his examinations at the Tokyo Army Hospital he was accepted for internship at the Yokohama Army Hospital where he's currently serving men of Dr. Sakuma's intelligence and training provide the army with a rare resource they fill important posts in specialized areas for which the army of necessity has only limited training facilities the training period is not so long as a doctor's but the problems of filling the positions with the right personnel for secretarial jobs is equally great particularly spots for girls with an understanding of both Japanese and English girls like Dorothy Nomura fulfill one of the army's greatest needs in Japan not only is Dorothy able to handle intra-army correspondence she is able also to bridge the gap between American and Japanese officials as a combinations stenographer typist interpreter Miss Nomura is a valuable contributor to better international relations contributions made by Japanese civilian employees toward better international understanding are not confined to their places of work over the mahjong board American servicemen learn from this oriental game more of the working of the Asian mind than they could from any lecture this process of getting to know one another better is carried on continually in game rooms provided for the mutual use of American and Japanese personnel at the bridge table cards replace the ivory mahjong pieces but the interchange of ideas and customs continues further insight into Japanese culture is gained at the Ernie Pyle Memorial Theatre where programs of native classical dances and plays were presented regularly just as the Japanese share the American mania for baseball so they also appear as a nation of amateur photographers the average GI Shutterbug or lens lover feels right at home naturally the membership of the Lensman's Club is composed of Japanese nationals and Americans an excellent example of growing friendship is found at the St. Odelia layman home for orphans in suburban Tokyo the men of the Fucho Ordnance Depot have informally adopted the children of the home every man allots part of his paycheck to help support the orphanage the money for the most part goes for food and clothing delivered by the ordinance men themselves every Saturday the men give up their free hours to visit the home here they turn their working day army skills to repairing and improving the orphanage facilities for men thousands of miles from home who may even have children of this same age there is great satisfaction in sharing with less fortunate youngsters the informal adoption of orphans by American service men is more the rule than the exception in Japan in addition to their duties with the 16th Corps artillery the men of Hardy barracks Tokyo regularly find time to take the children of the Japanese orphans hospital picnicking in Tashimen Park oddly enough the men of Hardy live within a stone's throw of the Japanese Communist Party headquarters it is difficult to see how the red propagandists reconcile their word portraits of the American service men with the flesh and blood reality men who would rather spend their off-duty time entertaining a bunch of kids at a picnic table than in other more rugged pursuits just as the informal adopting of an entire orphanage by United States Army units is a common occurrence so too legal adoptions by American service men and their wives are becoming equally commonplace picnics like these lay the groundwork for mutual affection mutual cooperation is the key word in describing American military and Japanese business interests in Japan jobs are created indirectly for thousands of Japanese nationals through American supplied ideas with an enormous population concentrated in a small area the Japanese traditionally have been masters of the miniature the export firm of Marusan Shoten alert to possible new products and potential markets is currently making good use of a suggestion provided by an American Army officer because the United States is world renowned for its automobiles for both design and mass production the manufacturing of miniature American cars seemed like a fine prospect for a product with a universal appeal acting on this suggestion Marusan Shoten limited added miniatures of American automobiles to its list of products every toy is an exact duplicate on a fractional scale furthermore the cars actually run the idea suggested by an American Army officer pursued and developed by an ingenious and far-sighted Japanese businessman has already enjoyed considerable success by cooperating with small businesses in this and similar ways Japan has helped to stay free of the influence of her communist dominated neighbors on the continent of Asia the toy automobile is small in itself but combined with other products and multiplied by the thousands it becomes an important weight in the balance of world trade the same initiative shown by the small businessmen in Japan is displayed by individual workers employed by the Army at the Opama Ordnance Depot here civilian employees have established a training school on their own the new skills acquired in these classes furthers the individual workers chances of advancement in his line of work not only that, the beneficial results of such classes are seen in the figures for every American job there are 10 Japanese workmen on the other side of the world foreign nationals give additional strength to the United States Army at Kaiserslautern in western Germany is the largest single complex of field supply installations in the world here are concentrated millions of dollars worth of supply dumps and depots arsenals and repair shops open and concealed warehouses petrol dumps barracks and maneuver grounds supplies and weapons ranged from the obvious to top secret above ground, on the ground and below ground at the western area command headquarters at Kaiserslautern close to France and west of the Rhine River a veritable electronic and mechanical army within an army is needed to keep tabs on the myriad items kept on hand to meet the need of the Army the primary mission here is the receiving, storing, breakdown and issue of supplies and equipment this is a service command backing up our combat ready army in Europe in and around Kaiserslautern are found mile after mile of new railroad track and paved military highways great loads are being trans shipped from nearby railheads or being brought in in trucks from receiving centers in France the Kaiserslautern area is noted for its size however much of the building expense came from German paid occupation costs and most of the manpower for construction and maintenance is supplied by German nationals there are more than 300 types of jobs open to the citizens of the new German Republic when a department head needs a man to fill a particular job he first contacts the employee utilization office in his area this triggers a chain reaction aimed at getting the right man for the right job as speedily as possible currently there's an opening for a fireman responding to an advertisement placed in a local newspaper Joseph Mueller reports to the employee utilization office where the initial information about his background, education and job experience is elicited because Mueller appears qualified he moves to the third phase of screening if he passes the series of interviews ahead of him he will join the more than 11,000 German civilians employed by the Army in the Kaiserslautern area alone the more than 130,000 foreign nationals augmenting American military and civilian personnel in Europe while Mueller receives his second screening interview G2 Army Intelligence receives a copy of his application form when his statements are checked out against the records Mueller receives his security clearance at this point Mr. Mueller's prospects for the job look good he returns to the employee utilization bureau where he is briefed on matters of salary possibilities for advancement and on the job procedure he will put in a trial period on the job before he goes on the payroll officially the advantages in employing a civilian for a job like Mueller's are plain he will put in a full work week with overtime if necessary and will not be diverted by combat instruction or other activities required of military personnel from the bureau, Mueller reports to the firehouse in Vogelwe where he will be stationed although civilians like Mueller do not enlist for a prescribed length of time there is a better than average chance that he will make firefighting his career the foreign nationals who man Vogelwe's fire department are a vital adjunct to the United States Army in Germany for Vogelwe is a uniquely important military installation in the summer of 1950 while the United States was deeply involved in the Korean conflict Earth moving equipment went to work in the farmland near the ancient town of Barbarossa six army divisions were on their way to Germany from the United States to prevent another Korea in Europe the land cleared was one day to become the town of Vogelwe an integral part of Operation Palatine the cover all term for the total military installation in the Kaiserslautern area on the original blueprints and specifications the town of Vogelwe was slated to house more than 12,000 people the actual construction work was done by French, German and American subcontractors employing for the most part local German artisans and laborers Vogelwe today is a city in itself composed of more than 104 story apartment buildings each of these houses is a city block long strung out along a maze of winding streets which enclose and isolate the community in Vogelwe are schools and athletic fields shopping center and a 1,000 seat theater post office and police station gymnasium and beauty parlor a chapel for all faiths and super filling stations run by the Army quarter master corps the schools range from kindergarten through high school with recreation facilities for all agents Vogelwe is big bigger in fact than many of the home towns from which come its inhabitants the soldiers and their dependents it's far bigger than the older surrounding German communities frequently it's called Little America if it weren't for the military legends on the buildings the busy super shopping center might be mistaken for one in any suburban community at home from Long Island to South Los Angeles in the quarter master commissary are found all the brand name goods advertised at home on television and in the newspapers on the surface Vogelwe is suburbia fundamentally it is the center of a mighty military installation which stands as a bulwark of security in the heartland of Europe because Vogelwe is essentially a military establishment the living quarters of thousands of Americans some of the individual tenants responsibilities are lightened so that the soldiers can devote full time to their proper business soldiering servicing the buildings of Vogelwe therefore is a preventive maintenance organization manned entirely by German nationals with special skills members of the preventive maintenance teams are prepared to install or repair electric wiring and windows in addition to plumbing fixtures maintaining an American soldier in any one of these necessary maintenance jobs would cost around $5,000 a year for a German national the cost is a fraction of this of course in any community where you have several thousand married couples you're bound to find additional thousands of children and where there are lots of children there are bound to be dogs lots and lots of dogs and to carry this logic a bit further where there are dogs by the yard even dogs by the mile Bowser or Fido or call him what you will at some time or another is going to need medical attention so at Vogelwe not even the needs of the dog population are overlooked the veterinarian clinic is manned by German nationals naturally who better to care for a luckless doxon in Vogelwe the little touches of home are there for the married soldier but what of the unmarried private the bachelor captain who darns the holes in his socks or affectionately sews on the insignia denoting a promotion in the military world here again the civilian population the small business enterprise applies the answer cleaning pressing and tailoring shops managed by German nationals operate to meet the demand for every branch of the army operating in the palatinate there is a pool of civilian labor to augment military duties experienced German linemen help keep the signal core communication channels open civilian firemen protect both American military and civilian property this is civilian Joseph Mueller's first response to a fire alarm since joining the Vogelwe fire department he is still in the two-week trial period before his name goes on the list of regular civilian army employees but because of his past firefighting experience and the initiative and sense of responsibility displayed in his first days on the job chances are very good that Mueller will become a dependable member of the Vogelwe fire squad Mueller's income and the income of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals like him does much to strengthen the economy of the new German Republic which stands in the shadow cast by the Soviet Union's arsenal to the east at the same time our own economy is strengthened at home our outlay of tax garnered money for military costs are reduced because the jobs undertaken by foreign nationals are performed more economically than they could be either by American civilians or military personnel on foreign soil Moreover, our resources of skilled technicians and professional people in the United States remain strong a healthy nucleus for expansion in an emergency for defense in case of attack for immediate mobilization to strike back equally important, foreign nationals working for and with the United States Army wherever it is stationed around the world cannot help but to know and understand better Americans our ideals, our sentiments and hopes and for every foreign national in civilian garb an American soldier in uniform is freed to serve his basic purpose to defend, to take, to hold the land the policy of employing foreign nationals as a supporting force for the United States Army has four key benefits the program makes our total operation more economical at home it keeps America's force of skilled labor strong equally important, it strengthens the economy and fosters the ties of friendship in the countries abroad where the American soldier serves today now this is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again next week when we will present another look at your Army in action on The Big Picture The Big Picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas produced by the Signal Corps Pictorial Center presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station you too can be an important part of The Big Picture you can proudly serve with the best equipped the best trained, the best fighting team in the world today the United States Army