I think the record of this last decade, it has been a decade of development. We've seen 50,000 people in ARVs in 2002 to more than 3 million today in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 200 million bed nets as a direct result of the Gleneagles commitment. And again, bed nets are not an ultimate outcome, but malaria deaths cut in half in a number of countries, Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, there's a lot to be said for that. We clearly believe the last five years, the period since Gleneagles, have seen historic increases in aid flows and in debt cancellation to Africa and that there's a lot to show for it. In addition to kind of quantifying and measuring the successes that we're having, we have to rebind our constituents that Africa matters to us, but what matters more even than Africa is our values in the world matter, and that if we retreat from Africa, there are other global interests that will have long-term influence, not just on how African economies develop or underdevelop again, but also what kind of governing systems they have. Now, what will be the liberties that the people in Africa enjoy if they do? Will there be religious freedom?  Where we need to focus our aid going forward is how do we best support Africans in achieving their own economic development, in becoming active participants in a regional and global trading system, in receiving and making good use of foreign investment, in creating jobs on their own, and that, I think, is the big challenge for our foreign assistance, recognizing that we still have an important role to play in just paying for drugs as we are to deal with the AIDS pandemic. Jennifer Cook with CSIS, just billing on that last point. It's a bit of a dilemma, I think, for the advocacy community and for Congress. The idea of turning to African-led objectives, a part of the success of PEPFAR, and I think the Glen Eagles was the sense of urgency, the quick results that access to ARVs provided, kind of the Lazarus effect and so forth. Now we're moving to a stage when we're thinking we've got to get past these kind of emergency responses. We have to build long-term capacities, investments in research and training and systems and so forth. That's very hard to measure over the long term. It's hard to put in a brochure, you know, that the impact. And I think, for one, and for Congress, too, how do you convince people to make these long-term investments that don't pay off in five years or two years, but maybe in ten years, but are going to be the thing that counts for sustainability for African ownership and so forth down the line. I share your burden. Our leader, co-founder calls this the search for the melody line. It was not hard to say, as 2000 approached, there's a jubilee year.  There was a time-limited effort.  There's an emergency going on in Africa. That was the AIDS crisis. I don't know if I should say we're searching for the next one because I just don't know if it's realistic or honest to try to tell people that there's some magic bullet they need to rally around that's going to get this all solved. And that is the challenge to all of us in the advocacy community. This is complicated and it's not just about aid. It's about leadership within those countries. It's about none of us believe we can get where we want to go without private sector capital and job creation. Everybody knows that it's all these things coming together. It's a complicated story to tell. But I think there is something in there of an Africa rising and leading its own way, this impatient generation of young Africans who are really hungry to take charge of their own future, frustrated with a lot of the, frustrated in some cases with foreign aid, frustrated with their own leaders. And I think there's a very positive story to tell about us responding to that and supporting that. And of course, as advocates, you always need to let people know that progress is being made and it is.


When is the best time to use songs in a classroom for young learners? I was an English teacher in Japan for over three and a half years. In that time, I gained a lot of experience teaching young learners. My students were aged from 2 to 14. As I taught these students, I learned a lot about how songs can be used effectively in the classroom. Songs can be used to teach students structure, routines, vocabulary, and help aid the understanding of instructions in the classroom. Learning Path Before students can even grasp the language, they can understand rhythm and music. When teaching the youngest students, two years old, we used a lot of chance. Chance are not necessarily music but work much in the same way. Generally, these chance all had the same rhythm but used different vocabulary in every lesson. Furthermore, each lesson included a different structure. Some included a question and answer structure, while others were propositional utterances and responses. For example, we would practice, who is that? With varying answers such as, that's my mom, brother, grandpa. Similarly, wow. That car is orange. With a response, it's cool. Understandably, two-year-olds can barely communicate in their native language, so their lessons mainly focused on building listening skills. Young Children In the preschool age classes, ages 3 to 6, we use songs in almost every part of the lesson. We used music to say hello and to talk about the weather of the day. In other words, for casual conversation techniques. The problem with this was that students memorize that response and don't really know how to express their feelings in another way. For example, the question, how are you? Only received and I'm fine. How are you? Response This response became so ingrained in memory that it would often be the quick response to hello. Similarly, there was a song to ask about the weather. We'd sing, how's the weather? And sing back, it's sunny, rainy, snowy, etc. However, the weather was so often nice, that even when the weather was bad, students would still make mistakes and sing, it's sunny. As such, they're still practicing sentence structure and vocabulary. In short, singing songs is great for memorization, but at times that memorization can become confusing for students should there be a change. Lesson flow Other parts of the lessons were used more for study purposes. As part of the lesson structure, we sing the ABCs. We also practiced using songs with the total physical response methods to practice the alphabet. We'd sing songs using gestures and make the shape of letters with our bodies. In addition to letter recognition, we would practice phonics skills using flashcards. Singing the letter sounds really helped students remember them. In fact, singing the tune and asking any letter students would be able to answer quickly. The human mind is always searching for patterns and music has a lot of patterns which makes it easy for many students to memorize information. Transitions In addition, the classroom used a simple song to indicate when students should be moving on and preparing for the next task. Song to a simple tune, put away, take your things, book, cards, etc. and put away. Would signal to the students that the current task was finishing. As in any class, students get distracted. They may argue about who won a game, or who has a cooler pencil case, but anytime they heard this song, their attention immediately refocused and they were ready to participate in class again. So, this song taught them routines and helped them learn classroom instructions. Songs and music have a definite advantage with younger students. They don't get embarrassed in front of their peers and are more likely to participate. School kids The next group of children is school aged, from ages 7 to 12. For this age group, the lesson plan called for a section of the class to be dedicated to a song which dealt with the language of the unit. It contained the structures and vocabulary that the students practiced. As a result, students had to perform tasks as they listened to the song. I found these students to have more variation. One class at one level really loved songs in the classroom and would stand up, sing along, dance, and follow instructions given such as clap when you hear an animal. While another class at the same level hated it and wouldn't move at all. The oldest students in this group would sometimes beg for the song not to be played, while other students would do the tasks, albeit begrudgingly. In any case, there are far fewer songs in the lessons at this age group. Teenagers The final group of students was junior high school students, who were 12 to 14 years old. This is a little older than what HIDI-TT classifies as a young learner, but at a language school, they were still too young to be placed with adult students. These special courses developed specifically for junior high school students had so songs or music in the classroom. Are you ready to teach English abroad? In conclusion, any time is a good time to use music and songs in the classroom. It is a great way to engage students and make class fun and interesting. However, teachers should be aware of their students in any age group. As the students are older and starting to be more aware of their own likes and dislikes, and what their classmates think, it will affect the classroom. If a student doesn't want to sing or participate in a musical activity, they should not be forced to do so. Forcing students may damage their motivation and trust in the teacher. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. 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Hi, my name is Tamara Mahoney and this is the Open Energy Access web series. We have all the most recent episodes of Open Energy Access on the NXS YouTube page and Open Energy Access is also published in a podcast which is available in any podcast player. Open Energy Access is a show that I started to have a place to talk about open innovation projects, development ideas and generally speaking open principles within the energy access sector. So today I'm talking with Oscar, a power systems engineer with Okra. We're going to be talking about one of their most recent projects, the Cicada Wi-Fi. This is a communications module that provides internet access to remote communities. I think you will want to watch or to listen to this episode if you are a similar sort of company like Okra. They create technology that enables affordable and reliable access for anyone in the world. So if you are a similar sort of company, this is definitely going to be a conversation that you should listen to. Or if you're working in a mini-grade company or an SHS company in a remote area, you're definitely going to want to hear this. Or honestly, if you're just a communication technology enthusiast or an open source enthusiast, we really invite everyone to listen. Before we get into the chat, I will do some introductions. So as I mentioned, my name is Tamara and I work at the NXS Foundation. NXS funds open innovation in energy access and we also promote and educate about open innovation. So the goal of NXS is to get more people in energy access, adopting, contributing to, or using open innovation tools. NXS has funded the Cicada project and Oscar was really the main point of contact for that. You are what I would describe as the project leader. So with that introduction and my side of the story behind me, why don't I turn this over to you. Oscar, can you tell me a little bit about yourself when you got started working in energy access and what you do with Okra? My name is Oscar Acheson. I am an electrical engineer specializing in energy access and in microgrids specifically. That's what I've kind of devoted the last five or so years of my life to trying to solve the problem of energy access and eventually came across the co-founders of Okra, Afi and Daimo, who had this concept that in its infancy was not quite what it is today, the mesh grid, but was based around this kind of fundamental idea of okay, how can we make energy access happen faster and more affordably? And it was based around the idea, okay, this guy has a solar panel on his roof. It's not being used all of the time. The capacity is not being fully utilized. How do we take some of that spare capacity and use it in the neighbor's house? And that was the fundamental concept that got Okra started. So I've now been working with those guys at Okra designing the mesh grid and trying to improve that product today where we've deployed mesh grids with partners in I think five or six countries and yeah, particularly in the Philippines, that's where we've got most of our devices out there at the moment. So yeah, really excited to talk about the next phase of evolution for the mesh grid. Why don't you start by telling us a little bit about what a mesh grid is? What makes it different than a mini-grid or a micro-grid? Yeah, that's definitely something that we need to do. So a mesh grid, you can think of it as a network of interconnected solar home systems. So unlike a mini-grid, a centralized mini-grid, where there is a power plant in one central location, a whole lot of solar panels and batteries, and you're distributing that power from one place all the way to every single house in the village, a mesh grid is decentralized. So each house typically has its own solar panel, its own battery, and cables going in between them. And our device that we manufacture, the Ocropod, is the kind of brains of the system. It's deciding, okay, this house, this battery has all the power it needs, there's some spare solar power available, I'm going to send it onto the grid where somebody else can receive it. So yeah, it's kind of this dynamic smart grid that's balancing supply and demand throughout the grid as needed. And really the benefit that we bring by doing it this way is bringing down a lot of the heavy distribution costs that come with a centralized mini-grid approach. So generally quite a large percentage of the cost of a mini-grid comes from the actual cable distribution poles and wires that are quite heavy infrastructure running all throughout a village. So that makes them quite complex from an engineering perspective, and it also makes them expensive. So we're trying to remove both the complexity and the cost by decentralizing into what we call a mesh grid. So Ocropod is sort of the, you guys are manufacturing, you're creating the technology that you then sell to the mini-grid company or the SHS company in order for them to distribute the electricity. Am I right? That's right. Yeah, we're a technology company. We build hardware, we build software, and we package everything that you need to set up a mesh grid into a kit, and we sell those kits to customers around the world, Nigeria, Haiti, Cambodia, Philippines, and others. Okay. So what we're going to talk about today now that we kind of know a little bit more about what Ocropod does, although I bet a lot of people that would be watching are already familiar with your name. We're going to be talking specifically about Siketa today, and that's your name for this communication module. So we're not talking about the insect. At this point, it sounds so normal to me to be like, yeah, we're talking about Siketa, et cetera, et cetera, without actually saying. We should clarify that, yeah, we're not talking about literal Siketa insects, yeah. No. So you guys have decided today this communication module. Siketa, can you tell me why? We kind of have that tech startup, Apple type mindset of naming things in what we hope is a memorable way rather than calling it the IoT Wi-Fi communications module. Yeah. Yeah. I like it.  Yeah, why the insect? I don't really know. A lot of people ask us, why Ocropod? Exactly. Why not? We don't really have a great story, to be honest. Yeah. I mean, it's a really easy word to say in a lot of languages. So that is smart actually. Yeah, it has had that benefit. Yeah. So I think what a lot of people who may be watching and listening, they probably already know this, but it's kind of good to just sort of set the scene to remind people that the types of modern off-grid energy solutions that exist today, they rely on internet connectivity. This is just again, to kind of try to set the scene by asking you to tell me about what Siketa does because I keep referring to it as a communication module. And I think we should kind of put that into plainer English. So what is Siketa? What does Siketa do? Sure. So I'm going to try very hard to not use the words communication module. Thank you. I would love to have different words to say. But it is a really the device that allows any, so we can talk about the Ocropod, which is the device that we manufacture. It needs to communicate with the outside world. It needs to send data on energy consumption, on solar panel production, battery state of charge, customer billing information, a whole suite of pieces of information that needs to send and receive. So how does it do that? Well, you can communicate over the cellular network, 2G, 3G, 4G, or you can communicate in some cases over satellite, which is what we're going to talk about, or over Wi-Fi if there is a Wi-Fi network locally in the community, which we'll also talk about. So the Sikata is really simply, it's the chip that facilitates that communication. So it's a chip. Yeah, it's a chip with some, yeah, there you go. No, but tell me, so why is it important to have this connectivity? So if you're setting up a mini-grid in a community or in SHS, you're selling solar home systems to customers, why does this company need to communicate information to where, why? Again, I think a lot of our listeners or viewers probably know the answer to this question, so we don't have to go too deep into it, but I'm thinking about people, yeah, who are a little bit outside of our sector who are just, have that question, why? Yeah, put simply for an operator to provide some kind of energy service or any kind of service to these really remote communities, they need to be able to see what's happening, and they ideally need to see that remotely, because it is, we talked about the last mile, these places can be incredibly difficult to, and expensive to travel to. So it's really become a must in our sector to put as much of that information on the cloud, on the internet as possible. Think about the scale of the problem we're trying to solve, right? Hundreds of millions of people. It's in incredibly remote areas, it's just never going to happen if it relies on a bunch of traditional utility methods of employing heaps of staff in every location. We need to be smarter and use what technology has to offer if we're going to solve the problem. I'm not sure if you were working with Okra when Cicada was first released. I think you were. When Cicada was first released, it was with 2G, 3G, 4G, and then there was kind of a break, and now it's being released anew with Wi-Fi capability. Can you tell me why it happened in this way, and what is so special about adding Wi-Fi to it? I guess I could start by giving a little bit of background on why it was even necessary to develop this module in the first place. For a company like ours, we're trying to develop hardware. By hardware, I mean electronic PCBs that perform a specific function in the field. To do that, you want to start by using whatever is already available. If there are off-the-shelf kits or boards that you can use that fulfill a specific purpose, then you want to try and leverage that. We were doing that in the initial phases, but using off-the-shelf 2G communications modules. It really caused us endless headaches, because they weren't designed for what we were trying to do in these super remote areas. They were just not rugged enough. They were failing all the time. We were having all sorts of problems that were very difficult to diagnose, and that prompted the need for, okay, we need a better solution to be out there. We're going to put the effort into developing it, but other hardware companies that are in the same boat will also need access to this. Hence the first collaboration with you guys with an access that enabled us to get the funding to actually develop an in-house 2G, 3G, 4G communication solution, and then open-source that so that other companies like us didn't have to go through the pain of using the crappy off-the-shelf solution. They could have access to all the design files and everything and understand the firmware and tweak it to their own needs, which is really important, because if you're trying to debug something, you need to understand how it works. You need to have all the design, all the source code available to you. That was really the background between behind why SCADA. Then the next phase, which we've just completed now, the SCADA Wi-Fi, it was something that we had on the horizon for a little while, but has become increasingly important for us, because we've run into these scenarios more and more where 2G connectivity is less prevalent and less reliable than we had thought, honestly. We're running into quite a lot of scenarios with our customers where there's either zero cellular connectivity at all in a site that they want to energize or they have to, that they've been given to energize, or there is some 2G connectivity, but it's very, very weak or very, very spotty, so it's only available in this one location in the community. There was that twin need of, okay, we need a solution that's going to be able to cope with these low or no connectivity environments, and Wi-Fi was what we decided to go with to solve that problem. Again, the same needs exist for other companies that are going through a similar journey, having access to all the design files and being able to adapt it to their own needs, but we'll just save them time and money. The fact that this project is open source is so important for energy access. By open source, we really mean the hardware, the firmware, everything is available on GitHub. I want to ask you about the pilot project and how it went, and for you to describe the type of community this is listed in, but having made this technology open source, and just one minute or less, have you seen any downside to that? No, we've thought about it at various stages. What if competitors use this to get a leg up on us? Which is the kind of common concern, right? No, I mean, I think that the openness that we have with other similar companies in the space is something that I really like about our space. We kind of recognize that we're all trying to solve a really, really hard problem, and we're doing it, hopefully, most of us for the right reasons. I find that there's generally a lot more willingness to share information, and use that ethically, right? Not using information that you're given by somebody else to take advantage of them or whatever. In short, I haven't seen any downside to open sourcing this stuff. Okay, so to go back to the scene where you're talking about making the Cicada Wi-Fi, when you were coming out with this, you wanted to do a pilot, like to do the field testing, to see how it would work. So you picked this village in the Philippines called May Bujo, May Bujo in the Philippines, and you worked with a company who had kind of operations on the ground there called Ateko. So they had been, I read your case study, and you had written that they had been operating with the Okra mesh grid, I think already for a couple years, but they were doing that without any cell signal. So I'd like you, if you can, to kind of paint a picture of what that looked like. As is often the case with energy access projects, you have to work with the regulators and within local regulations, and they don't always necessarily give you total freedom to choose the perfect site for your project. So I'm sure that Ateko probably would have opted to choose sites that were easier to access and more, you know, had cellular connectivity for a start, but that was not part of the area that they were given, right? So they had to provide a solution for this specific village, and they did that with Okra mesh grids, even though it is running offline, it still does function, you know. We built it in such a way that all of the core grid functions still work autonomously without any kind of signal, but what they were lacking is, A, the ability to do any kind of advanced billing system, so to track consumption and bill people based on their consumption, in a prepaid way at least. And the other thing that they were lacking was any kind of visibility on when things went wrong, right? So if a battery was degraded and wasn't getting a full charge or anything like that, there wasn't something that they had any visibility on, so if there was a problem, they would have to physically send somebody to go out and check it out, and that's a lot of time, a lot of money, and it's very difficult, right? So it's doable, and they did it for a couple of years, but yeah, it's difficult, and it's something that operating an off-grid energy business is already difficult enough, so you need to- I think that's a nice summary for the start of this conversation. It's like, well, what does it like to work without any connectivity? It's difficult enough. Let's solve the connectivity solution. So yeah, and I also encourage anyone watching or listening, you've really got to read the case study that Oscar authored because you talk about just in order for the person working in the village to have any communication with a TECO. It's like a hike up a mountain to get any kind of signal, and yeah, you can kind of feel yourself there, kind of like you have a simple problem to solve, and it might take days just to communicate the simple problem with a potential super, so yeah. And this is the case, not just in Mabuho, but there are- Sure. Many, many communities in the Philippines and around the world, but specifically the Philippines has this issue of so many islands, thousands and thousands of islands that make up the Philippines, and lots of fishing communities that live on those islands that are yeah, really quite isolated from any sort of infrastructure. There's still so many people left that don't have connectivity and they've been sort of deprioritized until now, and you can see why, I guess. Right, yeah, you know, if you have the ability to choose to have your pick of sites, you're going to try and choose ones that are going to be easier to operate, they're closer to where, you know, a regional center or mainland or whatever. But they may not- there may be very good candidates for electrification otherwise, you know, it could be a- in the case of the Philippines, there are hell of a lot of large off-grid communities that are- that have a reasonably steady income from their fishing, that makes them quite good candidates from an economics point of view, as in they have the ability to pay for energy relatively consistently, you know, it is still off-grid we're talking about, so of course they have seasonal incomes just like everyone, but generally speaking, these Filipino fishing communities can be really, really good candidates for these off-grid energy systems because they can pay for them, but yeah, if they lack any way to communicate, it makes operations really difficult. So why don't you get a bit technical for a moment and tell me, how does this work? How- what is the VSAT technology? How do you bring Wi-Fi into an unconnected community? VSAT satellite internet is something that has been around for quite a while, actually. It's- it's not something that we invented, but- and it's not something that Elon Musk invented either with Starlink, but it is basically the same principle with Starlink. It's- it's using satellites to set up a base station in a- in a location and use that- that signal to then set up a network, a communications network throughout the site. So VSAT is the way that we communicate with the outside world and Wi-Fi is the way that we take that signal and distribute around the site, which is what we did in- in Mapujo. The costs are actually fully laid out in the case study that you mentioned. At least in the case of the Philippines, it- it really is getting to the point where it's quite affordable. We're- you know, we're only talking about a few thousand dollars for- for the actual capex of the satellite dish and all the various communications equipment, routers, etc. So no, it's not an expensive undertaking. The cool thing about this project being open- and that's why when we were talking about the money before I mentioned, like, and Access funded this, you know, this project because it's open source. So because we hope this has this kind of ripple effect, it can help other companies scale more quickly, you know, contributions. Like, there's so many ways to- to grow quicker, to get energy to communities quicker. And yeah, the fact that you guys laid out all the costs and everything is there in the- in the case study for people to read. And I kind of want to talk about- about what happens in the community when- when you did the field testing.  It was successful. It worked. And what sort of impact did you see when you were- when- when everyone was out there? And was it what you expected? And when I- when I'm asking about what it was you expected, I- I know that when you set up a project like this, you know, you kind of have, okay, like, here's my expectation. This is sort of my mark of success. So did you reach that and did anything happen that was kind of unplanned? Uh, there are always- the answer to that is always yes. There are always unplanned things that happen. Um, but thankfully, uh, the implementation was smoother than expected, and the devices performed better than expected. So we thought we were going to have real trouble getting all of the pods in every single house to communicate with the- uh, the outdoor access points, uh, Wi-Fi access points that we set up around the- the community. Uh, but thankfully, uh, they performed very well, and we actually feel like we kind of overdid it, and we didn't need, uh, as much equipment as we bought, um, which was- which was nice. So, uh, I feel confident that there's room to optimize the costs and the design even further. So, yeah, that- that part of it went smoothly. The impact, uh, the immediate impact to, uh, Teco and their business, uh, is that they're able to see these households on our software platform harvests for the first time. So they're actually able to start getting some information, uh, about their operations for the first time. How much energy are people consuming from these systems? Okay, can we, uh, you know, start looking at things like appliance financing? Now we can do that because, you know, that's a feature that- that we have that allows you to kind of bundle appliance financing in with people's energy bills. So now they can look at that and go, okay, yeah, uh, this customer, uh, maybe we can offer them a freezer on finance and, uh, have them- have the payments be tracked on our platform. So that's really the- the short-term impact that, uh, we were kind of going for with this implementation, but the perhaps more significant question that we were trying to answer, uh, that we haven't yet answered, uh, it'll take another few months of- of kind of monitoring to get there, uh, is can a Teco comfortably cover the costs, the ongoing costs of the VSAT service by offering, uh, internet as a service to these, uh, to this community in addition to the energy service? Because if they can do that, uh, efficiently and, you know, uh, consistently, then that makes the- the fundamental business case for installing the VSAT, uh, viable. And it means they can replicate that to all of their sites, uh, and they've got quite a number of these sites that don't have any connectivity. Uh, and it's, uh, yeah, it's a great thing for the communities themselves and for Teco scaling their impact. Um, so yeah, that's- we've kind of anecdotally heard that, uh, this is- this is working out well, but, uh, we'll need a little bit more time to really say for sure. The Cicada Wi-Fi was kind of bought in to kind of be this, you know, to give these very obvious and very important benefits for the company, right? So to be able to monitor everything is fantastic. But now you're kind of mentioning there's also this idea that Wi-Fi could be offered as a service, basically, you know, so that just people in the community would now have access to the internet. That's right, yeah, because you're- you're bringing this, uh, you're bringing an internet connection to the site, uh, and that internet connection is only a very tiny fraction of the bandwidth that you're purchasing is actually being used for, uh, transmitting this IoT device data, you know, energy consumption and things like that. Uh, you know, it's in the order of megabytes per month, right? Um, so there's all this unused capacity, uh, so if you can make use of that by, uh, offering it to the community, you're giving the community a very valuable service, and you're also bringing in another revenue stream, uh, for your operations as a- as an, uh, energy micro-developer operator. And that's- that's making the entire model, uh, more economically viable and interesting. I know that, uh, funders are increasingly starting to look at this, uh, this, like, multi-service or multi-utility model, uh, as a way forward, like, to improve the unit economics of- of mini-grids. So, uh, yeah, I- I think it's- this pilot for us has been, uh, a way to kind of try and demonstrate that, yeah, you can actually offer these, uh, these multiple services and it, uh, can not only, uh, cover its own costs, but it can also provide all these additional benefits.  Um, so I'm always cautious of saying, uh, you know, it's gonna transform people's lives and- and things like that. Uh, but, uh, I am, uh, genuinely really, uh, excited to see, uh, the benefits that the community gets from having this access for the first time, because all of the activities that are made so much more difficult, uh, by a lack of telecommunications, uh, it seems so obvious that there should be massive improvements in those areas.  Uh, you know, there are all these kids going to school, um, who don't have the ability to, uh, you know, Google something or, uh, you know, access educational materials that now will have that. So, uh, yeah, these are all kind of more long range impacts. And then, uh, I think one of the most, uh, potentially impactful things, in my opinion, is the ability for people to communicate, uh, during, uh, kind of a crisis or a disaster situation, right? So, uh, there are a lot of, uh, typhoon, uh, strength storms in the Philippines every single year. Uh, even if it's not actually a typhoon, uh, like just a severe tropical storm, it's still, for these communities, really impactful to have some, uh, some ability to communicate with the outside world because, uh, past a certain point, the Coast Guard basically says you're not allowed to, uh, not allowed to have any, uh, any boat travel because it's too dangerous, right?  So, all these communities during these tropical storm events that happen like 20 times a year are completely cut off from the outside world. So, you know, imagine what happens. You're, you're on an island in the middle of a tropical storm. Something bad happens.  Right. So that's the most basic, the most basic need, right? Is just the ability to communicate. Yeah. For the outside world. It doesn't have to go much more than that before you can start to imagine all the other ways, everything that, that means, but you're, you're absolutely right. You know, just opening that up starts, uh, starts everything. And I, and I understand where you're coming from in terms that you don't want to predict and you don't want to promise everything. I don't want to say that I'm the cause of, you know, Ocaro. Right. We're doing all these things, but I just think in general. You're putting the idea. Yeah. Yeah. And the idea is there. Right. I'm sure that you, I don't think Ocaro is the only company in the world that's working on this problem. But it is open sourced for anyone else to look at and for anyone else to do better if, if it didn't work out for one reason or another. You've laid it out there so that if this didn't work out well, if the plan needed to be tweaked, um, everything is there. And that is already tremendously helpful. So, um, I mean, that's what an access is excited about. And again, I'm just speaking for myself here, but that's, that's why we all do this. Right. Yeah. And I would hope that I think it's okay to, to say it like that. Like this is, this is the point we're looking to, um, to improve things. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I would, I would just encourage like, uh, anybody who is currently doing micro groups or, uh, yeah, deploying energy access solutions to just think about, uh, is it also possible to offer these, uh, these other services, be it internet or be it, you know, water or something like that. I know it's, uh, it's an additional layer of complexity, but I guess my hope from the outcomes of this project is that we can show that it, it doesn't have to be that complex, you know. Um, and hopefully we've, we've helped, uh, some other companies look at this and go, oh yeah, there's enough information here that I can, I can take to my decision makers and, uh, and try this out for myself. So what do you think is, is next for Cicada Wi-Fi? Where, where do you plan to go with it after, you know, the successful pilot and everything? What, what do you see happening? Like I said earlier, I really want to, uh, see the data come through on, uh, willingness to pay for an internet service in the community consistently. And if that is, uh, easily covering the costs, um, then that's the justification that, uh, companies like Ateco need to, uh, to roll this out into many more communities, uh, without any connectivity. So that, that's my, my hope of where we get to, uh, from a technological standpoint, um, we're also looking into the future and trying to think about, uh, okay, we've kind of done this first pass at a, at a telecommunication solution that's not based on cellular, but, uh, how can we improve it? How can we make it easier and simpler? So, you know, we're looking at, um, different communications protocols. We're also looking at, you know, ways to extend the range to make it, uh, easier so that there are fewer devices, fewer gateways, I suppose, um, required for a larger site. Um, so our aim is to keep innovating on that and trying it in our other markets where we have customers. So in Haiti, we've got a customer who's looking at this right now, uh, that's really exciting. Uh, and we'd like to do the same in, in Nigeria, um, because you know, similar needs, uh, not, not on islands this time, but still plenty of zero connectivity areas that need a solution. So, um, yeah, that's where we'd like to get to is, uh, proving this out in, in all of the markets where we have customers. Well, thank you, um, so much for chatting with me about this today. Um, is there anything that you'd like to add, maybe where to find the information or how to get in contact or anything? Yeah, I guess we, we should mention that, uh, if you're interested in using the, uh, Wi-Fi Secata, uh, in your product prototype, if you're developing a product that, uh, you want to add Wi-Fi capability to, um, obviously, yeah, we already mentioned the design files are all in GitHub, but we also have, uh, manufactured a, a number of, uh, boards, physical boards, uh, on a marketplace called, uh, Seed Studio, that, uh, they're facilitating the whole, uh, shipping and everything. So, uh, you're able to just go onto that website and click add to cart and have it shipped out to you. And you can have a Wi-Fi Secata, uh, for you to prototype and play with, uh, as a, uh, as a development tool. So, uh, yeah, I guess if you're interested in trying to use this, feel free to jump on there, buy a prototype, look at the design files, and if you've got any questions, reach out to our team and, uh, be happy to, happy to answer any questions. Yeah, that was a really, uh, a really cool part of this project is being able to, to order the board directly. It's ready to go. And, um, everything that you need to use, um, Secata is, if you go to nxs.org, uh, Okra, Secata, you're going to get to the GitHub, you're going to get to the Seed Studio, you're going to get to Okra's website, you're going to get to the case study. So it's kind of like, everything you need to get started is on nxs.org. And of course on Secata's homepage, you have, I'm sorry, on Secata's homepage, on Okra's homepage, you have, uh, you know, everything you need to learn more and to get in contact with, um, with everyone at, at Okra who's, uh, yeah, been a fantastic partner to work with on this project. Uh, we love the way that you guys write your documentation. And I think that is, uh, something that not enough people get praised for. So thank you for doing excellent documentation and, um, for, yeah, for, for bringing, you know, Secata out there and to open sourcing it and to being open to do that. And for just being so transparent with, um, you know, everything that you've been transparent, been transparent with so far. So this is definitely, uh, what we believe is going to help achieve universal energy access faster. So thanks for working with us. Yeah, no problem. Thanks to an access for the support.  Um, but it's the, it's kind of the catalyst for projects like this that otherwise wouldn't happen. Right. You might have a lot of companies out there who are willing to open source stuff. But to get the buy in and spend the time to, you know, like you said, put documentation around it and everything, uh, yeah, you kind of need some, some extra support and some justification for that. So having the funding available from an access was, uh, was great for us to, to internally get the buy in like, okay, yeah, let's do this and let's open source it. And I think that's, uh, that's a really useful function in the industry. So yeah, thank you. Yeah. And I encourage, you know, anyone who's listening, who's in energy access, if you have an idea for a project that you're working on, that you think, um, you know, for us, your project has to have value for more than just your company. So we want the project to be successful and we want you to like grow and have lots of success, you know, both professionally and maybe even, you know, make a profit on it, whatever, that, that's great. But the idea is that, uh, the projects that we fund have the potential for much bigger impact than that, that they could, um, yeah, have this ripple effect. So if you're working on something, um, like that in energy access, uh, and you need funding, then head over to our website and see, go through our FAQs, check out our funding limits and, um, yeah, send in your application. We don't have deadlines. So we are open to receiving applications pretty much anytime. If, if for some reason we can't, we wouldn't have the, the form up on our website. So if you see it, apply. And, uh, thanks again, Oscar. It was a really nice, uh, conversation with you today and we'll, uh, yeah, we'll let everyone know, you know, towards the end of 2022, um, how things are looking, uh, with Sikita Wi-Fi and, uh, and we'll keep sharing. So thanks again and thank you everyone who's watching or listening. Um, subscribe, whether that's on YouTube or in your podcast player and send it to a friend. All right. Well, yeah. Thanks. Thanks tomorrow for the chat, really appreciate it.  Okay. See you later. Bye-bye.


Happy Halloween YouTube is Zeke and welcome to the dream green show today We're gonna figure out how much money I made in dividends in the spooky month of October. Let's get into it Our YouTube we're back is October is Halloween and I have on my costume a USA track and field uniform Well, it's not much of a Costume as it is my old uniform. I ran for the USA team back in the day 100 meter dash. I was pretty fast. Check me out But um, this is my outfit for October 31st Halloween and today We're gonna talk about how much money did I make from dividends in the month of October? So if we take a look at my rival hit account right now, I have eleven thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents on the day I'm up one hundred and six dollars and eighty three cents point nine seven percent and after hours I'm up nine dollars and one cent up point zero eight percent So not a bad day. Not a bad day on the week on the week I'm up one hundred and ninety five dollars and ninety six cents one percent one point seven nine percent So as you guys been waiting for you guys been wondering how much money that I'm making October October I had a total of seven dividend payouts and it's my best month yet I made the most in October just from seven paychecks. So let's check it out. Okay, these are my dividend payouts for the month of October I got KO VOO AGNC CTRE O and SPHD NNRZ Okay, we take a look at Coca-Cola Coca-Cola pay me out one dollar and sixty cents I own a total of four shares of Coca-Cola I plan on buying more because I drink a coke almost every day and I support that company So I got a total of one dollar and sixty cents from Coke. They paid a total of 40 cents per share Okay, the next one is VOO. It's Vanguard S&P 500 ETF I own two shares and it paid me two dollars and sixty cents It paid out a total of one dollar and thirty cents per share and that's Vanguard S&P 500 Tickle Simber VOO My next payout is AGNC. It's a high paying dividend stock It's around twelve percent double digits. I own a total of nineteen at the time Making sixteen cents per share with total amount is going to pay me three dollars and four cents Okay, so at the time with AGNC payout only on nineteen If I take a look at AGC now, I now own a total of sixty six shares So I plan on getting a very large dividend amount from them next month. This month only made three dollars and four cents So and that's just from nineteen shares The next one I own is CTRE Caretress REIT. I own three. I'm holding on to it right now I might get some more in the future, but I'm trying to build up my SHD shares I own a total of three shares of care trips and the total amount paid out is 68 cents And they pay it out 22 cents per share. That's caretress The next one that paid me out is O. I own the total of three Amounts per share that paid out was 22 cents per share total amount of 68 cent And I think I just bought another one of O today So I went from three shares to four so I should make a little bit at least 22 cents more of O and next month and SPH D prior share S&P 500 dividend low Volatility ETF that was a lot to say I own a total of 31 shares This one paid me a 15 cents per share with a total amount of four dollars and 72 cents of SPH D This one is a monthly paying dividend So I'll be getting four dollars and 72 cents every month into the future and I'm going to reinvest that right back into the company In the last one the one that made me have the highest dividend month so far is in RZ I got paid a total of 35 dollars even Number of shares I own with 70 shares and the amount paid per share was 50 cent per share If we take a look at in RZ his company has is I'm up today $19 and 9 cents 1.46 percent total return so far from this company just from holding 77 shares actually how many I had 70 shares Was down four dollars and 58 cents, but now I own a total of 83 shares So my next pay off from in RZ should be even higher than 35 dollars On my total returns is not showing my dividend gain So I do say I lost four dollars and 58 cents, but we take a look and go down to my history and Filter for a dividend payouts. I got paid $27 back in July. I'm getting paid $35 here in October So that already outweighs the four dollars that I lost from just holding the stocks that I gained from dividends And I take these dividends and reinvest it right back into the stock in RZ Okay, so let's go back to my main portfolio. If you guys want to invest in Robin Hood that have free No commission trading the link is down in the description if you guys want to sign up for Robin Hood It's a simple app on your phone If you sign up using my code You guys get a free stock and I get a free stock and then you just come back to the video and come Me down on what free stock that you receive from me. Alright, so you guys are running How much money total did I make this month this month? I've made 48 dollars and 32 cents This is my biggest month yet. Let's try to take a look at my year to date Okay, if we look at my account statement my year to date on dividends was $61 and 17 cents back in September So we add October to this of $48 and 32 cents I'm somewhere a little bit over $100 on the year from dividends And I just started dividend investing less than let's say four months ago So not too bad and I'm really growing my dividend account very fast I'm gonna keep re-investing that money right back to the account and also $200 every single week for my dividend Robin Hood Challenge that I have here on YouTube if you guys want to follow along the playlist is on the side But yeah guys, that's all I have for you today If you guys want to try Robin Hood the link is down in the description. Also, I have a free agency Share giveaway that I'm doing the link is also down in the description You just click that subscribe if you subscribe to the channel you guys will get a free 25 Entries into the context if you watch these other videos you guys will get five other free entries But right now it's around 27 people signed up So you have a very high chance of winning a double digit dividend stop So you guys click that link down in the description sign up and have a great chance of winning But other than that hit the thumbs up button like and subscribe Comment down on what free share you get this is Zeke bringing you the dream green show and I'm out peace


I've got to ask you about the doctor because it's so iconic, would you ever be up for a turning card? Yeah. Why not? I'd come back. Yeah. I'd come back. Yeah. You know, if the timing was right, I think we've got to give a few years to Miss Whitticats to sort of get the, get the tally set red belt as it were and then, yeah, one day, I'll, look, I'll, I'll be back one day when I'm old and grey, which isn't far off. Don't say anything. Sorry. I can only say it because I am as well. And they are not. I'm really grey. You're not. And do you have any advice for Jodie going into it? Yeah. I will tell Jodie what I told Peter. Listen to no one. Listen to no one.


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Yes, something I can do for you gentlemen. Yes ma'am, we're police officers. Oh yes, about the robbery. Yes ma'am, are you glad it's Nickel? Yes, I am. I'm the owner. I found out that the safe had been robbed. I think you mean your safe was burgled, Mrs. Nickels. What? Well, you're safe. It's a technical term. We refer to it as having been burgled, not robbed. Burgled? Robbed? They took the money out of it. Well you see ma'am, a lot of people make that same mistake. A safe is burgled and a man is robbed. Oh, yeah. Well, I came in this morning. I didn't get your name. I'm sorry. My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith. Well, I'm pleased to meet you. Hi Bill. Like I said, I'm glad it's Nickels. Yes ma'am, if you'd just tell us what happened here. Oh, sure. Well I came in this morning, 8.30, just like I always do. I've been doing the same thing for the past ten years. Eight years at the old location. Always opened exactly 8.30 on the dot. Yes ma'am. Miss, Miss Nickels. I took my maiden name when my husband died. I'm sorry. Go right ahead, please. Oh, sure. I came in at 8.30 this morning, opened the door and came on in. Everything looked just like it should have, hung up my coat, then I rolled up the shade on the front window. After that, I opened the safe. And that's when I knew that I'd been robbed, burgled. That's right, ma'am. I could tell it right away. Safe was empty. Not a bit of money left. Cleaned it right out. Do you know how much money there was in the safe for Miss Nickels? Oh, yes. $423.76. I know exactly. That's right. I can't understand it either. It should have gone off. It should have worked. I can't understand why it didn't. What's that, ma'am? Burglar alarm. Oh. Yes, not a peep out of it. Nothing. A man that sold it to me said that if anybody so much as looked at something and thought about stealing it, the alarm would go off. But like I said, not a peep. Oh, I wonder if you'd excuse me for a minute. There's Mrs. Johnson, old customer. Yes, ma'am. It won't take a minute. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, Vera. Morning, Gladys. I want a pattern and some material. All right. What patterns do you want? Oh, I was over to the punk. It's the other night. Barbara had made some of the cutest pillows I ever saw. Looked like pieces of fruit. You know watermelon strawberries. Oh, yes. I know the ones you mean. She said she saw them in a magazine. Sent for the pattern, but I thought that anybody that had it, you'd be the one. Have you? Sure. It's new. I just got it in a couple of days ago. I guess you heard about my being burgled. No. Really? Sure. Last night. Those two gentlemen back there from the police came in to talk to me about it. And you were really raw burgled, Vera. Safe as burgled. A man is raw. Oh. Now, is this the pattern you want? Yes, that's the one. See there? I want to make the slice of watermelon and the strawberry. I think they look real nice on the bench in the parlor. Oh, yes. Yes, they sure would. They saw those things. Said she wanted to make some. You see them, Joe? No, no, I never have. They're real nice. Probably not too comfortable, but they sure look pretty. How much material do I need for just the two? I'm not sure. I'll have to look at the pattern. Do you want just the melon slice and the strawberry, that right? Yes. Mm-hmm. Well, for the melon you need, let's see. You want it out of cloth or plastic? What? Cloth or plastic. You can make them out of either. Cloth, I think. Yeah. Fay's going to use plastic. It's better for the kids. Yeah. You'll need three quarters of a yard of red and a quarter yard of green felt for the hull and stem. That's for the strawberry. And then for the melon, you'll need a half a yard of white, a half a yard of pink, and a half a yard of green. All right. Well, how about embroidery cotton? You'll need four skeins of the six strand black. I have plenty of that. Well, I'll measure it out for you. If you're adding some excitement around here this morning, all those policemen running around looking for fingerprints and clues was really excitement. Mm-hmm. Have they caught the man yet? No. That's what those three men are here for now. Want to ask them some questions? Certainly don't look like policemen. Now, why do you say that? Well, you know, they don't look anything like they do in the movies. Never do. Now, you will need some muslin for this, too. You want to get it now. No, I'll pick it up later. Got to get some batting, too. All right. That's the stuff that gives Fay trouble. What? Batting. You know, the stuff you put inside the pillows? Fay always has trouble with it. Stuff always creeps down to one end of the pillow. You got one real fat end and the other one just hasn't got anything in it. Kind of uncomfortable when you sit on it. Yeah. Just put that on the bill. Will you glad is? No, you betcha. Sure, I hope you get the burglary all straightened out. Oh, I know they will. Thanks for coming in. Now then, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. That's all right, ma'am. About that burglar alarm. Yes? About the switch. Are you sure you turned it on when you left the shop? Sure. You just bet I did. I always do. Right after I pull the shade down, I always switch on the system. It's supposed to ring when anybody tries to get into the place. It didn't work this time. Not even a peep. Well, now you say this time. Do you mean that something like this happened before? Oh, no. No. Just a figure of speech. No. Never been anything like this before. Did you notice anything disturbed in the place when you came in? Anything that made you think something might be wrong? No. Not a thing. Came in, rolled up the shade, and then opened the safe. That's the first I knew about it. Somebody opened it up. Must have known the combination. Just opened it up and took the money. Does anyone else have a key to your front door here? Anyone besides yourself? Well, there's Alan. Alan? Yes, Alan Hoffman. He comes in, straightens up for me. He's a decorator. At least he's trying to be one. He likes to come in and putter with the material. He works in some sort of store during the day, and then he comes in here in the evenings and works with the material. You know, tries out different things. Yes, ma'am. Does he have the combination to your safe? Oh, no. I'm the only one who has that. Do you know if he was in here last night? No, I don't. But I know that Alan wouldn't do a thing like this. I'm sure of that. How is it you let this Alan have a key to the place, ma'am? Let him have the run of the place when you're not here. Oh, well, I've known Alan for a long time. I knew his mother. We've always been good friends. Once in a while, he gets a commission to a house, and he always gets the material he needs from me. He's awfully nice. You'd like it. You know where we can get in touch with this, Mr. Hoffman? Sure. I can give you his address. Lives over on 9th. Got a real cute place, all modern and all. He does those mobiles. You know those things made out of iron, plastic, hangs from the ceiling, just hang there and go round and around. It's a new art form. Yes, ma'am. I don't understand them myself, but I guess there are a lot of people who do. Yeah. Are you insured against theft, ma'am? I beg your pardon. Do you have any insurance against theft? Sure, I have insurance. By golly, that's the first time I thought about it. I always thought that it was kind of a waste of money. Sure, glad I have it now. This whole thing won't cost me a cent. Well, now, outside of this Hoffman, do you hire anyone else in the store here? No. Well, I don't pay Alan anything. He just comes in and putters. There's no need for anyone else in the store. I have a man come in once in a while to wash the front windows, but no one's steady. Has there been anyone around regularly? Anyone who would be in a position to learn the combination of the safe, ma'am? Find out where the switch to the burglar alarm is? No. No, not that I can think of. Of course, most of my customers are pretty regular. Come in all the time, but I'm pretty sure that none of them would do a thing like this. Wonder if you could give us a list of the people who come in regularly, Miss Nichols? Sure, I can. But I don't want you to go around bothering them, asking a lot of questions and causing embarrassment. I just won't have it. Money just isn't that important. It doesn't make that much difference, especially since I'm insured. Well, we won't embarrass anyone. It's just that we'd like to have the list if we could. Oh, well, all right. What time did you close the store last night, Miss Nichols? 6.10. Same as always. Did you lock the store yourself? Yes, sir, I did. Did you notice anyone loitering around outside? Anyone who might have looked a little unusual like they were waiting for you to leave? No. I don't think so. If there was anyone, I didn't notice them. Did you leave any sort of a light burning in the place? I beg your pardon. Well, a night light.  Sure, sure. That lamp on the counter, old coffee grinder, I leave that on, has 150 watt bulb, throws a lot of light. Of course, you can't see anything from the street when it close up. Just a lot of shadows. My big pardon. Well, I pulled the shade down when I leave. Once I had some material fade that was in the window. Since then, I pulled the shade down. When it's down, you can't see it inside in the street, at all. Uh-huh. If you don't mind, I'd like to make a phone call. Of course, ma'am. I want to call those people and tell them what I think of them. They're going to have to make good on that guarantee. Who's that, ma'am? Burglar alarm people. They didn't work at all. Not even a peep. 11.18 a.m., Frank and I checked by the crime lab to see if they'd been able to come up with any physical evidence from the scene of the burglary. As in the previous cases, there was nothing to work on. For the past month, the series of burglaries had been taking place in the same one block area. The M.O. in every instance was the same. Somehow, the doors to the shops were being unlocked, the safes rifled, and then closed up again. In those stores where there wasn't a safe, merchandise was stolen. In all of the burglaries, whoever was responsible for them got away without leaving a trace of physical evidence behind. Store employees were interrogated. Owners were questioned. None of them could give us any leads. The M.O. had been run through the stats office, but they couldn't help us. Stakeouts had been placed on the stores. The men were sent out from Metro Division to patrol the streets. The men saw nothing, but the burglaries continued. The thief or thieves seemed to know just what stores were under surveillance and seemed to keep clear of them. Wednesday, 12.14 p.m. We ran the name Alam Hoffman through R&I, but we got no make. Frank and I drove out to his home address on 9th Street. He met us at the door and asked us in. I'm doing some work back here. Mind if I go on with it? No, sir, you go right ahead. Right back here, Sun porch. I got a commission to do a place. I'm working on some mobiles for it. Oh, is that right? Yeah, I think I'll call it Doves at Sunrise. Well, sit down. Any place? Yeah, thanks. Just a couple of questions we'd like to ask you, Alam. Sure, what about? Were you in Ms. Nichols' shop last night? Oh, no, why? Can you tell us where you were last night? Yeah, I think so. I went to an exhibition of mobiles placed down on Pico, a friend of mine, had a one-man show. Great ideas. Bad color, but great idea. Can you prove you were there? Well, sure, if I have to. What's this all about anyway? I understand you have a key to the shop. Is that right? Yeah, Gladys gave it to me. I go down there and check the material. Get ideas for decorating. What do you work, Mr. Alvin? Right now, in a store out on Beverly antique shop, I want to go on business for myself interior decoration. I've been working for it a long time. A couple of more good commissions I'll be able to do it. Do you work at night down there very often? You mean at Gladys'? Yeah, that's right. Maybe a couple of times a week? What time do you usually get there? It depends on what I'm doing before. Usually I have dinner and then go by. What's this all about anyway? Is something wrong? You probably know that there have been several burglaries down in that area lately. Yeah, I heard about them. You figure I had something to do with them? Is that it? Well, we're trying to find out who's responsible for them. No, it isn't me. You ever notice anyone around the place when you were there at night? No, not that I remember. Hand me that piece of balls, will we? This wood here? Yeah. Yeah. Right, here you go. Thanks. No, I've never noticed anyone around there. What time do you finish up at the shop there? Sometimes, the latest two, maybe three in the morning. Uh-huh. Miss Nichols tell you where the burglar alarm switch is? Sure, I know. Couldn't move around the place without knowing about it. Have half the police force there if that thing ever went off. You got any idea as to how that safe could be opened by someone other than Miss Nichols? No, no, she's so touchy about that safe, she'd never let anyone get near her when she's opening. Even after she finishes the combination, she twirls a dial so you can't tell what number she's stopped on. You've looked, have you? No. I don't like what you're trying to say. Well, we're not trying to say anything, Hoffman. Well, you imply that I might try to knock over that safe? No, we didn't say that. You've said the same thing, asking me if I'd try to see the combination. Well, I'll just take it easy, Hoffman. If you haven't done anything, you got nothing to be afraid of. Got nothing to be afraid of. I just don't like your remarks, that's all. You ever been arrested? Hmm? I see you ever been arrested. Oh, no, no. A couple of tickets for running red lights, that's all. You give us the address of the place where you were last night? Yeah, I suppose so. You guys really think I had something to do with this, huh? We got to check everybody out, Hoffman. You came up on the list. Well, that's all it is, huh? That's all it is. Well, I'll give you the address. You can check there. I'll tell you, I was there till about 3.30 this morning. And then I went out to get something to eat. I came home about 5 this morning. Went right to bed. Anybody see you come in? No, I don't think so. You guys figure it might be an inside job, these burglars? Looks like it might be, yeah. Well, that's why I've got it figured. From what Gladys tells me, it's almost got to be. That right? Sure. Hand me that piece of red plastic, will you? The what? That piece of red plastic. This here? Yeah, that one. Oh, here. Thanks. Oh, sure, it's got to be somebody who knows all about the stores. You know, when to hit the safes, when not to. Where they walk into the places, no marks on the doors. Nothing broken. You seem to know quite a bit about the burglars. Well, you know, I heard about them. Talk to Gladys. Looks like an inside job to me. Say, officer. Yeah? Would you hand me one of those swivels there in the box? What? Here? Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Now, clip it on here and hang this thing. Just hang it up like that? Yeah. There, finished. Balance is good. Good movement. Doves at sunrise. Is that all it does? Just hang there? Yeah. What do you think of it? Of course, it isn't as good as war recumbent, but it gets the feeling across, don't you think? Yeah, it sure does. Doves at sunrise. Yeah, doves at sunrise. How about that? Oh, excuse me. Yeah, sure. Joe. This is Hoffman. Yeah? You get it? Who? What? Doves at sunrise. Sergeant Friday. Yeah. It's your office. Oh, thanks, Hoffman. Hello. Oh, yeah, Kevin. Mm-hmm. No, we're here now. Yeah. That's what he seems to. Yeah, who? All right, we'll be right in. All right, we've got a call to make. What? Over on Pico? Yeah, mm-hmm. All right, after that. Yeah, all right. Mm-hmm. Wisdom. Yeah, you want to see it. Yeah. We'll probably want to talk to you later, Mr. Hoffman. We can reach you at this number, is that right? Yeah, either here at the shop, if I'm not at either, Gladys knows where I am. All right, I wonder if you could give us the address on the phone number of the place where you were last night. Sure. Yeah. We've got a piece of paper here someplace. You never can find anything when you want it. Yeah. Oh, here we go. You, uh, you've got to go out there, huh? You can't take my word for it. That isn't the point, Mr. Hoffman. We can't take anybody's word for it. If we don't know it, we've got to check it out. Mm-hmm. I suppose so. Oh, here you are. Ask for Rudy. He's the one who had the exhibition. He'll tell you. Rudy, isn't he? Yes, that's right. I was with him all evening. He'll tell you. Okay, thanks, Hoffman. Oh. Say, uh... Yeah? I wonder if you could leave me your card and phone number. Yeah, sure. Here you are. Thank you. I'd like to give you a call. Sir? I'm holding my own show of mobiles. I'd like to have you two guys there. Yeah. Thank you very much. You bet. I'll be calling you. Yeah. Thanks a lot. What the captain wants? He's raising the roof. Says he just got a call from the corner pocket. They're leaning all over him. Yeah? Says he's tired of answering questions. Says we better come up with some of the answers for him. 12.58 a.m. Frank and I drove over to check on Alan Hoffman's alibi. We talked to Rudy Nixon. He told us that Hoffman had been with him until around 4.30 that morning. At that time, Nixon had dropped Hoffman off at his apartment. We drove back to the office and ran the name Rudy Nixon through R and I, but we got no make on anyone answering his description. 5.45 p.m. Frank and I reported for stakeout duty. The night went slow and we came up with nothing. The next morning at 8.16 a.m. we checked back into the office. You know, since we get this thing over with, I'm gonna sleep a week. Oh, man, you got company. I'm gonna tell Faye to send the kids out of town if anybody calls me, tell them I just left for Hindu stand by fast freight. Well, how'd it go? Nothing, Skipper. Sat there all night. Not a thing. How about the other guys? Oh, I just checked with Metro. None of their cars saw anything. The other men out there came in with the same. Now I got it. Berglary Wisdom. Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm. For what time was that? Right. We'll send a couple of men right out. Use the address. 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Thursday, January 24th, 8.52 a.m. Frank and I drove out to see the latest victim of the burglars. The crew from the crime lab arrived and went over the place. The MO was exactly the same as in the previous steps. The front door had been unlocked, the safe had been opened, the contents taken, and then the safe closed. There was no physical evidence. However, on one point, the thief had varied his method of operation. The latest victim was the owner of a radio and television store. A check of his stock showed us that an expensive record player and none of their cars had reported seeing anyone on the streets carrying anything that fitted the description of the missing merchandise. The serial number of the set was given to us and a local and an APB was gotten out of it. We talked to Lieutenant Stevens at Metro and he agreed to double the number of cars cruising in the area that night. Three more teams of men from Burglarie were assigned to the stakeout detail. 6.02 p.m. Frank and I checked in for duty. Nothing happened. Two days passed, still no new leads. All employees of the stores that were victimized were checked and rechecked. Nothing. Saturday, January 26th, Frank and I were assigned to a toy shop in the middle of the block. We waited. 8 p.m. 9, 10.30 p.m. Nothing. Oh, boy, I'm stiff. Yeah. Joe. Mm-hmm. What time you got? 10.46. I sure wish I could have a smoke. Yeah. I wonder if he's gonna show. What do you think? I don't know. 11 o'clock. We waited. From time to time, we could see the lights of the undercover car go by the front entrance. Midnight. 12.30. Still nothing. Joe. Mm-hmm.  No, I'm not hungry. All right. Sure you don't want some? No. We've been in every store in this block. Past months, I don't think the guy's gonna show. Mm-hmm. That's kind of stable. Wait a minute. What's that? Something moving, something. Sounds like the ventilator, doesn't it? Hey. I might even hold it. Yeah, look. See the ventilator on the far wall? What? Is that moving? Yeah. Somebody's coming out of there. See? One for the burglar alarm. See, look at that. What do you do? Snapped off the burglar alarm. Oh. Is that the safe? Yeah. It's got it open. Come on, let's take it. All right, Mr. Hold it right there. Watch it, Joe. He's gone for the ventilator. I see him. Come on. You see him? No. It's up in there somewhere. Yeah. All right, come on out of there, mister. There he is, Joe. Gun flash. Yeah, I see him. All right, come on, mister. Throw that gun out here. Get out of here, cop. You come back here.  You got no place to go up there. Now come on, give it up.   I will. I'm warning you.  Wait a minute. Wait.  Please, don't shoot anymore. Please. I quit. Please. All right, throw that gun out here. Come on. Here it is. Wait, come on out of there. Come on. Come on out of there. You're going to come out of there? It's like he's got some kind of a room up there. Can you see? He's got himself a room. Yeah. He's got to get right out of the earth here. All right, come on. Come out from behind that crate. All right.   See, I got my hands just like you said. I quit. Are you going to shake them down? Yeah. Come on. Stand still. Put your hands against the wall. Clean, Joe. Listen here. Where I live. All right, we'll take a look. How about this, Joe? This room must be 20 feet square. This all the stuff you stolen? Yeah, most of it. What's your name? Warwick. Dan Warwick. Really had you guys going, didn't he? All right, let's go. Really had you. Couldn't figure it out. I used to watch you sit in the vents and watch you. Used to laugh how hard you were trying. Really had you going. Couldn't figure it out. Yeah, sure. Come on, now let's go. Really had you going. You never would have found me. I could have stayed here for years. Douglas wrote myself every bit of it all by myself. Stayed here when you guys were around, except when I watched you and you and the others. Couldn't figure out how I knew about the safes. Used to just sit there and watch them. Watch them open the things. Simple once you know how. Really had you going. All right. You bet you did. Run around in circles. Real fun. Yeah, we knew where we were going. The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On May 17th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Phenomenon. Friends, it's getting a little closer to Christmas, and there's a man right near you. You're a neighborhood cigarette dealer who has a lot of fine gift ideas. Of course, he's featuring the gift of the year, the Chesterfield Christmas Carton. 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systems works and a perfect symphony together to fully employ a infantry company out here in Fuji. No matter where we go or what we do or who we have to fight, we have a force package that is ready to deploy to moments noticed. Fuji Viper essentially a chance for a forward deployed force to conduct training and work on partnering as well as sustaining the force in its lethality and proficiency. This training was designed with the pacing threat in mind and with the mission of the 3rd Marine Division and 3rd Battalion 4th Marines out here for deploy to combat and deter the pacing threat that is here, we came out here to make sure that our Marines are not only ready to do that, but have rehearsed doing just that. Two, one, pull. We operated everything from individual rifles to crew served weapons. The reason why this is so important is because each one of these weapons systems works in a perfect symphony together to fully employ a infantry company out here in Fuji. No matter where we go or what we do or who we have to fight, we have a force package that is ready to deploy to moments noticed. You can take a desert wrap from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and put them out here at the Combined Arms Training Center and have them operate just as well as they would in their home territory. I think when you look at a unit that is able to be so versatile and go to so many different types of terrain and areas, you truly calculate what it means to be a Marine. 3rd Marine Division, especially 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, is ready for this fight and we came out here to rehearse what we're going to do and to confirm that we're able to do it.


My name is Anthony Chow, the director of the San Jose State iSchool. I wanted to welcome everyone to the second installment of the iSchool Speaker Series and final activity and celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Again, I'm Dr. Michelle Villa Gran, the chair of the iSchool Diversity Committee and assistant professor in the School of Information. And I also want to welcome you to today's webinar, Collaborating for Success, a Hispanic Heritage Month case study. I would now like to introduce our speakers for today, Nicanor Diaz, Neighborhood Services or Immigrant Services Manager, and Nadia Rendon, Spanish Services Coordinator with the Biblioteca Pública de Denver, Denver Public Library. I believe that libraries owe their entire community services and programs, and that includes their Spanish-speaking community. And we need to make sure that everyone that we provide access to resources and materials and services to everyone in our library system in our community, regardless of what language they speak. We are the ones who have to try and put resources into connecting with our Spanish-speaking communities, and it's not that they don't use the library because they don't want to. It's most likely because the library is really not connecting with the Spanish-speaking community, and we're not producing the services and programs that they need. And in order to find out what that is, we have to build a relationship with that community and we have to collaborate with them. If we are providing English-only genealogy programs, then we're not doing justice to our Spanish-speaking communities, and we should be able to provide those. The more that Nadia and folks like Nicolas can do these types of programs in Spanish, and the more our library staff and our library administration see the impact that it has in our community, then the more we'll be able to do this outside of Hispanic Heritage Month and just include this in a regular programming series. We have one publication in Spanish. It's called Conexiones, and we have one publication in English. It's called Engage, and we have them come in every first of the month, and they highlight events and articles that our own staff can write. Everybody was very willing to help support and participate in being part of this effort. I didn't encounter any blocks on the road to do this at all. What you've really highlighted, or what I've heard today, it's about community. Who is your community? How can you really provide valuable, insightful, highlighting programs that really connect with your communities, but also the importance and the value of the partnerships and collaborating, whether it's internal or external agencies or community partners out there to ensure you have successful programs. Especially for public libraries, remember, we are getting paid with taxpayers' money to serve the community, so you have to serve the community. It's like our ethical responsibility to do that.


Namaskara, I am Dr. Basavaraj Kuntoji, Consultant Physician and Intensivist working at Manipal Hospital in Malesuram. Today I will be briefly talking about Dengu fever. As we all know during the rainy season and this year also we are seeing lot of Dengu patients and the most the Dengu fever happens because of the mosquito bite. So prevention is always better, so one need to take all preventive measures to prevent the bite of Dengu mosquito bite either at your home or at your office places or wherever you go outside also and once the mosquito bite happens after 3 to 7 days one can start developing the symptoms of Dengu fever which can be fever, severe headache, body pain, back pain, myalgia and all and this may last for 3 to 4 days or 5 days. Following the subsidence of the fever they may land up with critical phase and during the critical phase one can have a bleeding manifestation either in the bleeding in the brain, mouth, nose, urine or motion or they can have a low blood pressure or sometimes they can involve the organ like brain, kidney and liver and they can have a low blood pressure also and if this phase passes generally most of them will land up in a recovery phase and most of them will recover. So with respect to till what stage one can monitor themselves at home is one as long as they are able to eat well, they are able to take enough amount of liquids or soft diet they can continue to monitor at their home. Second if they do not have a warning signs, if they do not have a severe pain abdomen, if the LFTs are not HGOT, SGPT is not beyond 700 or 800 and third one if the platelet counts are above 50000 these patients can be monitored and continue treatment at home with the advice of the doctor can be done and as I said if somebody is unable to drink enough liquids, is having vomiting, is having pain abdomen, is platelet counts are less than 50000 and LFTs are deranged these patients needs to be admitted to the hospital and main thing in dengue fever we do not have any antiviral dengue manifestations and hence prevention is always better than the cure but however some patients whom I have mentioned those patients needs to be admitted to the hospital and even hospitalized patients we have seen majority of them have recovered.


I thought what I would do is talk a little bit about my own experiences and my background leading into South Royalton, partly because I'm on a panel with a bunch of other people who were there. So if I recount what went on, it was the same thing everybody else experienced. I thought I don't want to repeat what they have to say. I didn't realize I was going to be speaking early, see? So, you know, I could use all their stories, but really, I was an economics major as an undergraduate. I went to the University of Florida, graduated in 1972, so that was two years before the South Royalton conference. And as an economics major, I had no clue that there was anything like the Austrian school and not only the Austrian school, but any sort of intellectual foundation for free markets and liberty. And I mean, if I looked out in the real world, you know, I could see the problems with the centrally planned Cuban economy, and I could compare East Germany, West Germany, and seemed like a kind of a practical thing to see how well markets worked. But I had some, quote, intellectual friends as undergraduates and why I was thinking they were intellectual as they were taking all the honors courses and they liked to read a lot and that sort of thing, and they were all socialists. And their idea about contemporary economics, they picked up, well, John Kenneth Galbraith was the leading guru of contemporary economics, macroeconomics was all Keynesian macroeconomics and fine-tuning the economy and that sort of thing. So my impression was that this idea of the efficacy of free markets, it was a practical kind of idea, but it was really anti-intellectual. The reason I thought that was all the intellectuals I knew were socialists. So when I got to graduate school, that's when I found out about the Austrian school and Mises, Payek, Rothbard, and I found that out through my classmates. I didn't get any of that in class again, but I was fortunate to have some classmates who had done a lot of reading and knew a lot about the Austrian school. And so I could talk with them a little bit. I started doing some reading myself, and then I started getting the laissez-faire book catalog, which people at my vintage will remember that, which is where I found out other stuff to read. And it was just a revelation to me because I just had no idea that there was a well-established intellectual tradition supporting liberty, supporting free markets. I mean, this was new to me. So I started doing a lot of reading, and so in the next couple of years, by the time the South Royalton Conference came around, I'd read all this stuff. I'd read Hayek's work. I'd read Human Action. I'd read Rothbard. The Kursner's Competition in Entrepreneurship was a new and exciting book. So in a couple of years, I had familiarized myself with that. And then when I found out about the South Royalton Conference, I thought, oh, this sounds pretty interesting. So I'll attend the conference. One personal recollection I have on that conference was Walter Block was there. And he had brought a chessboard, and not only a chessboard, but a chess clock. So I knew how to play chess, but I'd never played with a clock before. And Walter had pretty much mastered working the clock and keeping the time and everything. So I played chess with Walter a lot. I never won a single game. And another recollection I have of that conference, I'm sure everybody else will remember this, too, was Larry Moss, who was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia at the time, was a great magician. And so he did a lot of magic tricks during the conference. One evening, he put out a whole magic show. It was really professional quality stuff. So it was just fun to see Larry do the magic and everything. And I sort of bugged him, show me a trick. Show me how you do a trick. And magicians never tell their tricks. But anyways, I thought I'd persuaded him. OK, I'll show you a trick. So he pulls out this pocket knife, and it's got a red handle on both sides. He shows me both sides. It's a red handle. And then with a sleight of hand, I have no idea. Sleight of hand, he turns it green. He shows me both sides. Now it's green. And then he turns it red and turns it. How do you do that? Wow, this is incredible. So now he's got two knives. He says, well, I've got this one's red, this one's green. And he shows me, oh, two knives. Then he turns them both red, and he turns them both green. And I had heard, by the way, that he had done some of these magic tricks for Ayn Rand who hated them. Because she had this idea, A is A. So that was pretty entertaining. But like Richard was saying, it was quite a shock for me to meet Murray Rothbard. And here I would just say the same thing that Richard said, that I just pictured Murray to be this sour old man, bitter at the oppression of the state, and so forth. And so you meet the guy, and he's like Santa Claus. He's just laughing and really just had that magnetic personality that people would just gravitate to him. He had fascinating story after story. So it was really exciting to meet him. And if I think about the experience of being at South Royalton, being at that conference, I had been introduced to these ideas and to the Austrian school by my classmates. And we talked about this stuff among ourselves. We would also raise it in class. It was especially interesting to raise some of Hayek's ideas on the business cycle in macroeconomics classes and things which would annoy my professors a little bit. But it seemed like here we were this little niche, like a few people who knew this literature. And so one of the things about South Royalton was the lectures, the things that we heard from the leaders of the movement. So I mean, at the time, I think Rothbard and Kersner would have been, well, the preeminent Austrians. And so to actually meet them and see them, that was great. The lectures, in a way, I mean, if you look at the audience who was there, you look at the people who had attended. And everybody already knew a lot about Austrian economics. So it wasn't a matter of introducing people to these new ideas or trying to persuade them about the significance of the works of the Austrian school because the people who were there already knew that literature. But what it did was to bring together a group of people who had these similar interests. So you could see, well, not only were you interested in these ideas, but there were people from all over the country, a group of young scholars. There were some more senior people who were there. But there was actually a group of people that were essentially the contemporary Austrian school. I mean, the Austrian school had sort of faded by the wayside. And South Royalton conferences talked about as the beginning of the Austrian revival. And at least I think one of the big reasons why that's true is that there were people from all over the country, different schools, different places who were familiar with these ideas. And to get everybody together, you could see, hey, here's a group that there actually is an Austrian school. And I think in hindsight, that's turned out to be the more significant part of the South Royalton conference than the actual content of the lectures. I mean, Murray's lectures were great. And he's such an entertaining speaker. I mean, if you didn't have a chance to hear him, Murray was great. Israel was an interesting speaker. Lachman, I could not understand anything he was talking about. And I said, I don't know, Ed, I don't know how much editing you did on that volume. But actually, if you read the volume, you can follow the ideas. But I'm sitting there listening to it. It's time is incomprehensible. But you had the lectures. You were able to hear these people. But we were already familiar with those ideas. The people who were there already knew those ideas. And the big impact in hindsight, I think, was that we discovered there's a nucleus of people here who are interested in these ideas who want to develop these ideas. And if you look at the list of people who were there and you think about where the Austrian school has come over the last 40 years, I mean, you see that maybe we can attribute some of that to that conference. But I mean, you look at people like Joe. May at the conference, that might have been something that kept you in the Austrian school. And so you're here today. You look at the Austrian program up at George Mason University. It was started by Don Lavoie, Jack High, Karen Vaughn. They were all there. You look at the Austrian program at New York University, not quite as strong as it used to be. But Israel was there. Mario Rizzo was there. So you look at the development of the Austrian school. And I think one of the really significant things about that conference over and above the content of what was there was that it gathered together a group of people where we could see, there's a group of us who have common interests. And so that laid the foundation for the development of the Austrian school over the next 40 years. And so you look at the people who were there. And I guess I was one of the young people there at the time. But the people who were there and then their students and their students, that's what made the Austrian school what it is today. So I think the real significance of that conference was the fact that it actually got all those people together in one place. So we could see, here's the potential for the Austrian school. Thank you.