What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer? Or diabetes? Or heart disease? Or high blood pressure? This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life. Well, the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet. In other words, one centered around whole plant foods. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. There are lots of things you can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer. Avoid tobacco, maintain a healthy weight, but one of the simplest kinds of cancer prevention is to follow a healthy diet. The vast majority of cancer research is devoted to finding cures rather than finding new ways to prevent disease, and the results of these skewed priorities are plain to see. 2021 is the 50th anniversary of Nixon's declaration of war on cancer, and the death tolls from the most common forms of cancer in the United States have continued unabated. We've been looking at the very nature of cancer in the wrong way. Breast cancer doesn't begin when a lump is first detected. All the common cancers, like lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate, which counts for the majority of deaths, have a long latency period, often 20 years or more.  You haven't been healthy. You've had cancer growing in you for decades. Indeed, there's a bizarre misperception that people are healthy until they have actual symptoms of invasive cancer. But the barn in which hay is smoldering before it bursts into flames is not a safe place. What about using diet and nutrition to prevent and treat cancer? OK, but what kind of cancer? There are more than 200 types of cancer, but they all share the same hallmarks. In a series of papers cited more than 40,000 times in the biomedical literature, 10 hallmarks of cancer have been identified. Increased sensitivity to growth factors, evading your body's tumor suppressors, dodging your immune system, being able to grow forever, tumor-promoting inflammation, the ability to invade and spread, and hook up its own blood supply. The accumulation of DNA mutations disarming the self-destruct mechanisms in place and hijacking the cell's metabolism. And yes, of course there are classes of drugs to try to counter each one.  Now ideally there would be drugs able to target multiple hallmarks at the same time, but that's not how drugs tend to work. And this is one of the major reasons why in the context of cancer research there's so many proponents of investigating plant foods as they can deliver a cocktail of bioactive compounds, bioactive compounds that make target most, if not all, of the hallmarks of cancer. Compounds found in fruits and vegetables, such as berries, greens, and broccoli, shown to be able to target each of the 10 hallmarks of cancer, at least in a Petri dish. Moreover, they fit the characteristics of an ideal chemo-preventive agent. I mean, if you were to design the perfect candidate, you'd want them to be selective for cancerous or pre-cancerous cells while leaving normal cells alone, be side-effect-free, target most types of cancer, be able to be consumed as part of a daily diet, be conveniently available almost everywhere, and be relatively inexpensive to boot, and plants have all these. So no wonder those eating more plant-based and have lower cancer rates. However, it should be understood that we're not talking about taking supplements containing extra extra purified phytochemicals, but rather eating whole plant foods themselves, more of a food system-based approach to targeting the hallmarks of cancer. Foods contain many thousands of substances that lead to vast numbers of possible interactions, yet much of nutritional science has long been directed towards the impact of single dietary components. Yes, this kind of reductionist approach can reveal the role of individual nutrients or foods in the development of disease, but let's think about what the optimal research strategy would be to study the effects of bioactive natural plant compounds on disease prevention. Instead of using isolated phytochemicals in the management of cancer, how about using whole foods? Because sometimes the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, a concept known as food synergy. Check out this study. The simultaneous inhibition of a series of cancer stages in breast cancer cells using a phytochemical supercoctail, two breast cancer cell lines were treated with six different plant compounds individually, and then all together at the level you might find your bloodstream after eating foods like broccoli, grapes, soybeans, and turmeric.  The plant compounds did all this without having any deleterious effects on the normal non-cancer cells used as control. No wonder the Foundation of Cancer Prevention, based on an update of the most extensive report on dying cancer ever published, is not pills, but plans. Cut down on alcohol, soda, meat, and processed junk, and center your diet around whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans. In our next story, we'd look at whether choosing organic over conventional fruits and vegetables could protect against cancer. In a review updating the evidence on human exposure and toxicity of pesticides, the body of evidence linking pesticide exposure and cancer is said to be so huge that the role of pesticides in cancer development can no longer be doubted. But most of the evidence that shows DNA damage from pesticides is from occupational exposure among farmers and workers in the fields, the pesticide industry itself, or those living in high-spray areas. There is evidence linking non-occupational exposure to pesticides, to DNA damage, in this case single and double-stranded DNA fragmentation in sperm of men with higher levels of pesticides flowing through their bodies. But that was in China, where the average pesticide concentration are as much as four times higher than some other parts of the world. Another way pesticides could potentially facilitate tumor growth is to adverse effects on anti-cancer immunity.   For example, if you put a bunch of natural killer cells in a petri dish, along with human leukemia cells without any pesticide, your natural killer cells can clean house and wipe out more than half of the cancer.  OK, but how much pesticide are we talking? The researchers used the maximum level found in those actively spraying pesticides. Most of us, however, privileged enough not to be forced into such a job. So what about looking at just the residual pesticides left on conventional produce? Is choosing organic for cancer prevention worth the investment? In the United States, more than 90% of the population has detectable pesticides in their urine and blood, regardless of where they work or live. And we know it's from the food we eat, because crossover trials where people are switched between consuming conventionally grown and organic foods show you can turn on and off urinary concentrations of pesticide metabolites like a light switch. But that doesn't necessarily mean the pesticides are harming you. The health consequences of consuming pesticide residues from conventionally grown foods remain unknown. But a recent study did find that those who self-reported the highest frequency of organic food consumption had about a 25% lower risk of getting cancer. And here it is. The first of its kind to evaluate the association between frequency of organic food consumption and cancer risk, controlling for a wide array of other factors. Doesn't it matter that organic consumers are younger? The researchers controlled for that and still found significantly lower cancer risk. OK, but maybe organic consumers get less cancer because they're more affluent or more highly educated or skinny or exercise more or eat less meat or smoke less. Nope, they controlled for all that and still found significantly lower cancer risk in organic consumers. Maybe their diets were different in other ways, though more fruits and vegetables overall or less junk food? Nope, they still found significantly lower cancer risk. They concluded, our results indicate that higher organic food consumption is indeed associated with a reduction in the risk of overall cancer. This is the most sophisticated study of its type to date, but there was an earlier study that was even bigger, and little evidence was found for a decrease in the incidence of all cancers except for perhaps one kind of blood cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Here are the data. No difference in cancer overall between those who never choose organic or those who usually or always do with the only significant findings a lower risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and an increased risk of breast cancer. Is it possible that women who choose organic food are more conscientious about getting screened for breast cancer and that explains the higher diagnosis rate? We really don't know. Of course, what we care about the most is not just cancer, but so-called all-cause mortality, the risk of dying prematurely period, and higher blood levels of a pesticide known as beta-hexachlorocyclohexane are associated with living a significantly shorter life. How do we cut down on our levels? Well, there was a study done way back when that found that the breast milk of a vegetarian mother was found to have less beta-hexachlorocyclohexane than the milk of her sister, who was also breastfeeding at the time, but included meat in her diet. The vegetarian sister apparently had levels of that pesticide that were lower by about a third compared with her omnivorous sibling. No surprise, since this class of chlorinated pesticides are fat-soluble, so they're found most frequently in foods of animal origin. A more recent study failed to look at beta-hexachlorocyclohexane, but they did find that chlorinated PCBs were associated with increased mortality risk. And again, the toxins were found in the same kinds of food— dairy products, eggs, and animal fats. So no surprise the blood of those eating vegan was found to be significantly less polluted than omnivores, regarding a whole series of PCBs, including those found in the study to be associated with increased mortality. But the vegans did not have lower levels of beta-hexachlorocyclohexane. The bottom line is that if you're worried about the adverse health effects of pesticides and pesticide-type compounds, you may want to lower your intake of animal products. But when it comes to fruits and vegetables, the benefits of consuming conventionally grown produce are likely to outweigh any possible risk from pesticide exposure. So concerns over pesticide risk should not discourage us from stuffing our faces with as many fruits and vegetables as possible. That would give us a huge health benefit, whereas the potential lifelong damage of any pesticides on those same fruits and veggies has been estimated to only cut up a few minutes off a person's life on average, which is nothing compared to the nutritional benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may share it on our social media to help inspire others. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, or studies mentioned here, please go to the Nutrition Facts podcast landing page. There you'll find all the detailed information you need, plus links to all the sources we cite to each of these topics. My latest two books are How to Survive a Pandemic, Available on e-book, audio book, or actual book, and The How Not to Diet Cookbook, with more than 100 recipes for delicious and nutritious meals. All proceeds I receive from the sales of my books go to charity. NutritionFacts.org is a non-profit science-based public service where you can sign up for free daily updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos and articles. Everything on the website is free. There's no ads, no corporate sponsorship. It's strictly non-commercial, not selling anything. I just put it up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother, whose own life was saved with evidence-based nutrition.


It's not even muted But you know we got nineteen fifty six etc to go so there's no sound on their stream right now So we're good to go We're good to go. I got everything loaded up and ready How you guys do it Elden ring? So this is a game I Personally have only played like the like a super early into it. I have not played a ton of Elden ring and I Really regret it. It's honestly something that if Nintendo has a really light release late this year I'll probably dive deeper into I own it on PC but I just I Don't know why I haven't put as much time into it, but I don't know I mean if it's on switch, too I'm obviously gonna really dive into it, but So you guys will probably be more hyped about this DLC than me because I got him I got to play more of the game. You know what I mean? I got to play more of the game Everyone like the streamer. Yeah, I have no idea how many viewers we're gonna get on a stream like this It's obviously not related to Nintendo. So But we'll see we'll stream this well. I was gonna watch it anyway. So why not stream it? It's what I expected from a partner showcase. I think be be a story Yeah, I do I enjoyed the partner showcase Personally, but the bird is the word do not doubt the bird a little bit for a little tweet Never doubt the bird Oh, it's great Funny thing is I lost subscribers. I lost subscribers because I called it I Called it a Leak and people got mad at me that I said that the Pioro stuff was a leak. I Don't know how many more times we need it. We need it proven that Pioro is like goat of leakers I He's just a leaker.  He's just a leaker That that's what he is All right. Anyways, I don't know why people expect a Zelda or Mario game You do people thought Pokemon like I don't know what people are doing man Yeah, they just announced the Pokemon presents. We're clearly getting Pokemon in this Don't get it Was not a fan of Elden Ring at first kept at it spent 300 hours beating it one of the best games ever played It is widely considered one of the best games of all time Xbox fanboys are trying to just I don't know why like Kappa what I don't understand with the Xbox people doing that is like Xbox told you They literally had a whole Podcast a 22 minute show or 23 minute thing where Xbox is like hey We are bringing for these four games you they won't say what for we're bringing four games to other platforms And we already knew what the games were, you know what I mean? I don't understand what they're mad about What what are they mad about they already knew this was gonna happen? I? Don't I just don't get it. I don't get it I'm a part of another tweet because I I'm seeing all some negative reactions to the department showcase everywhere right now Now that I'm glancing at my feeds. Oh my gosh. I can't type all right. There we go. There we go I'll show you guys my tweet in case you guys wanted to see it for my my initial reaction to the director Says I thought then it's our direct partner showcase was a solid be a new endless ocean and monkey ball is awesome Did not expect those rare games come down.  That's also just my opinions. All right Back to back to the thing at hand Elton ring 14 minutes 14 minutes Am I getting any game in the showcase? Yes, I will be getting pennies big break away I don't know if I'm gonna nab it today I got a you know, I gotta check I gotta check my game budget because you know I wasn't planning on it dropping today, so I gotta get pennies big break away I'm gonna probably get Depending on the price, I'll probably pick up the og battlefront just to do some online stuff with it I will pick up the new endless ocean for sure that that one's gonna be picked up in May And I'll probably grab the new super monkey ball as well That one Uh, I'm gonna try the demo of that uh that unicorn One and see if I like it And then if I do like it, uh, I'll probably pick up that one Let's see A world of goo too is a maybe we'll see I enjoyed the first one. So there's a high chance. I'll probably pick up the second but we'll see um Gosh that's already a bunch of games from the stand direct South Park snow day Has always been on my radar Let's see here Thinking back like in the moment without the list in front of me So we'll start. We'll just leave it at that. Well pentamin. I I never downloaded pentamin from xbox. So I might just buy it on switch I might get pentamin. I I've played grounded. I think I'm good on that I probably won't get that one, but I I'll probably pick a pentamin on switch Yeah, unicorn overlords Everything I was interested in is available on steam. So nothing worthwhile for switch as far as I'm concerned I mean I understand that nick james what I'll also say though is discrediting a showcase because Uh It's a third party one. So a lot of the games are on other platforms. I always find that to be a little weird You know, it's kind of like yeah games around steam or the games around xbox or the games around playstation Yeah, and now they're on nintendo Which is cool because nintendo has been lacking third party games for so many decades at this point Now like it's actually really good to see games come even if it's like something that you already own So you're just not going to pick it up like it's so good for the platform It's like a healthy thing For other people who don't own those platforms to find they get a chance to play Now you never need to care about what other people are doing right like Obviously, you know for pure purely selfish reasons You only want to ever see things you want to play that you haven't played yet. I and that much I do understand Anyways, we'll talk more about this tonight on the nintendo prime podcast Because we got elden ring coming up man. Well 10 minutes away. Well, we'll flip over in about five minutes Let's see here I really want to buy epic mickey. Remember seeing that game covered during the wee times. It looks like a really dude Epic mickey is amazing the first one. I'm glad it's the first one. The second one was a big disappointment The second one was a massive disappointment But the very first epic mickey is a masterpiece in my opinion It is awesome And that's the one that they that they remade and that's oh man That's awesome that they remade that game Epic mickey is It's a great game Joshua Erickson on the other side of the spectrum giving it an a Joshua Erickson very happy with that partner showcase Defox platinum elden ring. Congrats, dude Yeah, I dude elden rings a game that I know I love I just for whatever reason maybe because I'm afraid to have my life sucked away by something I don't make content on That was probably like the primary reason I didn't dive too deep into it because I'm like man My life's gonna get sucked up by a game.  Oh, yeah, dude. I should download the demos right now And I definitely want the unicorn overlord demo I know I want that one for sure didn't Unicorn overlord, you know what I'll probably download that demo for contra too Pepper grinder. I don't know Didn't look like my kind of game, but Unicorn overlord is one I want to check out let's go Unicorn I'll say someone asked earlier if I'm going to play octane your time today. I'll let you know in a bit um Because I'm coming up on my second meal of the day here once So I'm gonna take a small break after this stream And then I got to see what other news is going on for videos Uh, but I might I might uh get one in our unicorn overlord Man, there's a 60 dollar game this demo better impressed me They're they're they're charging triple a price for this game I hope this demo impresses me. All right. It's like a unicorn overlord going up And then uh, the other one was contra something I want to try contra Yeah, I go get those demos, baby I was type contra and because I gotta forget the name of it. I'll know when I see it No, no No Really I have to type in the actual name It's contra What was the name of that contra game guys What was the name of the contra game?  It's 40 dollar game. All right. I'm down with that demo too You know, let those download. All right. I got it. I got it. I got it Have I ever played the back rooms? No, I have not All right, uh, I said I was gonna flip over here at The five-minute mark. So that's what we're gonna do. Uh, let me see here. We got uh that Flip over. Whoops. And there we go Elden ring shadow of the earth tree Let's go, baby Let's go Surprise they don't have any music playing That is a sick graphic, but there's no music playing in the background. I mean the music you're hearing is mine I'm kind of shocked Do I have any elden ring music? I do have some elden ring music You know what they won't play elden ring music.  That's some elden ring music I they're they're not playing any so I'll play some What are we doing? You won't play elden ring music. So I'll play elden ring music Uh, her rumored shoes give him back in dlc.  So I'm sure this dlc is gonna be awesome Epic music. Yeah, I mean this this is music Because is this the elden ring theme song? I can't even remember. I added this to my thing a long time ago like years ago Honestly, I why everyone is so angry at the end of the day We knew this was going to be a partner showcase with no first part If people are upset that there's no first party games then Which arguably there is because endless ocean luminous is literally A nintendo ip nintendo owns it, but yeah people get mad about things Sorry about that Stop being dumb Oh, why am I computer did that just being dumb? all right Here we go, baby Two minutes ago I'm so excited about this.  All right put up the poll What grade would you get the partner direct a bcdf? Is the name of the line with the travel club f a c e the spaces are easy Mr. Travel That's not even correct That's uh one way I used to learn learn the musical scale It was a song Um I ban I haven't heard that song in forever. I'm so that's that's drawn back from my childhood when I had piano lessons Here we go Here we go Peggy's 16. We'll turn it up here for you guys Here we go and then Namco, baby. Let's go Pure and radiant He wields love to strive clean in the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying Oh father's rebirth demos out. I better go download that In that forsaken place Blood must spill A load of your fellows Man, I really gotta that keep waiting for a switch to version That keep waiting or I finally just bite the bullet And just play it. That's it. That's probably it That's probably all it was. Yeah Pretty sure it's just a trailer Okay All right, so they so they dropped the trailer.  I know I've already played a bit of it. So I'm like, man. Do I just continue my playthrough on pc Although I don't have that pc anymore because that pc blew up Well, it was that pc that blew up last year. That's what I was playing and on um And this laptop isn't gonna be able to play very well That means I gotta buy it again on like playstation 5 Or do I wait and hope it comes to switch to Because it might come to switch to in a complete edition, right? That includes the dlc Mm. I don't know man. It looks sick though It looks sick. All right, we're gonna call it there then just a nice short stream for the elden ring stuff I hope you guys enjoyed it. Uh, I'm gonna go and do my thing and uh, probably be back with a Uh video later today. We have our podcast tonight.  Have a good time, everyone later


This building was built a long time ago to be both a pension bureau for Civil War soldiers so they could come in and pick up their retirement checks or pensions, and also a space to have inaugural balls. As we're going through, we're going to be drawing things and looking at different aspects of the building and seeing how they can reveal information about how this building was used. I can't tell you the last time I've drawn a picture, so just being forced to do those things and remembering what it's like for the kids, and also just learning new things. I mean, I grew up in D.C. and I've been to this building, but I didn't know half of what I learned today. There's a clue, look at that Civil War, there's the same war clue right there. There's people coming to get their pensions. Just to open up your sketchbooks, we are going to do a 30-second quick... I want you to get sort of a big picture overall impressions of what you see in this space, okay? What were you able to capture in 30 seconds? Okay, so columns, arches. Maybe something that the architect really wanted you to look at and focus on when you came into the building. What about those arches and columns? What did you notice about them? They look like aqueducts, okay? Aqueducts from today, or from... Okay, so like the Roman aqueducts, so they were wanting to... We're looking at ancient Greece and Rome. What connection does it have to that? What message are they trying to send? So I think being here sometimes reinforces some of those ideas about those things we've discussed in class. It's you. We might be able to actually do a field study to a site. If not, we also discussed starting by just analyzing the buildings that we're in. So many D.C. schools have this history and we just kind of take the time to look at what's around us. The buildings themselves tell an important story.  Drawing? I thought that was neat because then you really do get to see what different people think is important. None of our drawings were the same. We're going to do a really quick share. This is the easiest way to share, okay? Everybody hold up your sketch pad like this. There you go. Okay. Take notice of what other people have drawn. Do they draw things that are similar to you, different? Yeah, they do. I don't see what other people see. There's always a new technique. There's always somebody that you meet that has a different perspective. In just the short length of time, it's opened my eyes to other ways to address the children. Really having more instruction that's almost individualized to each child so that they can think more deeply about the place and the power it might have. What were some of the things that people drew? The door. I want to tell you about how the building was used. Is it like a normal door you would see on a house? How else is it different from a normal door? It's huge. It's inviting the window above it. At the same time, kind of, you know, whether it's not a snake or a swindler, but still you see an old castle, old church. So it's a little bit elaborate. It's not really a plain door. What about the sculpture around the door? Okay. It's so different from that. So the sculptures around the door, anybody want to guess who those people might be? You have different ones. You have the navy kind of on this side and then you have the army major on this side. We know it's for the pension bureau. So these were some of the people who were going to be coming into the building. So they had a visual clue on the outside of the building about what this building was used for.


Welcome to Nation Beat. I am General Novel bringing you this brief on the pulse of our nation and highlights around the heart of St. Lucia. An historic agreement on criminal matters between the governments of St. Lucia and the French Republic to come into effect by year end. Junior achievers are recognized for their innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. Primary school students are sensitized on their rights as consumers and the Barbano Secondary School to undergo a transformation. There is a new addition to the arsenal of St. Lucia's criminal justice system as the island formalizes agreements with the French Republic. The historic agreements facilitate mutual assistance in criminal matters between the government of the French Republic and the government of St. Lucia. An extradition convention between the two governments also forms part of the legal instruments which were exchanged Wednesday 10th October 2018. Alicia Ali has the details on the agreements which come into effect the 1st December 2018. Though the official documents were signed on September 30, the ceremony for the exchange of the instruments of approval was done in the conference room of the Department of External Affairs. Ambassador in the Embassy of France to the OECS, His Excellency Philip Ardanez says the Convention on Mutual Assistance under the extradition convention between the government of the French Republic and the government of St. Lucia represents a new era in fighting crime. I think there is no borders for criminality, there is no borders for terrorism, so we need to fight criminality and terrorism with no borders. And this is very difficult to do because each country has its proper rules and its proper sovereignty. So we were working together at St. Lucia and France for many years and we decided in 2015 to have a common agreement on common legal assistance and on extradition. Minister with responsibility for external affairs, the Honourable Sarah Flood Bobra, celebrated this momentous occasion, noting that law enforcement agencies are getting the support that is needed. This is really historic and I dare say something that should have been done a long time ago. Bearing in mind the world we live in, the extent to which there are no borders really, the terrorism that is abound and the need for countries to collaborate in fighting terrorism and indeed crime. And this is all the more important when we consider our close proximity for example to Martinique and how much there is such a free flow of traffic between our countries and certainly we know what we have to face in terms of drugs and crime generally. Director of Public Prosecutions, Lazarian Green, notes that this will make the process in his office smoother. I do believe it's a very long time coming as we previously used the backing of warrants acts, etc. to deal with getting on the assistance that's necessary but with this endeavour we would have a smooth transition into what is necessary to fight international crime, terrorism, etc. Both the mutual assistance and the extradition convention will come into force in December 2018. From the Government Information Service, I am Jacquelyn Pomp. The Republic of China Taiwan was praised for its support to developing nations by St Lucia's Prime Minister, the Honourable Alan Sharsney during an official visit to Taipei. Prime Minister Sharsney also expressed that St Lucia and Taiwan face similar challenges on the world stage and the two countries must continue to stand together. The Prime Minister and the delegation arrived in Taiwan on October 6 to take part in activities marking Taiwan's 107th National Day or Double 10 D. During remarks at the military parade, Prime Minister Sharsney congratulated the government and people of Taiwan and reaffirmed St Lucia's commitment to Taiwan. Discussions between officials of the two states included continued cooperation in the areas of technology, agriculture, trade and assistance in the area of infrastructure, with financing for the redevelopment of the Hironora International Airport, and road rehabilitation. President Tsai Ling Wen for her part noted that the two nations have strong and cordial bilateral ties and expressed her desire to visit St Lucia soon to personally witness its beauty. President Tsai also stated that her government will actively encourage top Taiwanese manufacturers to invest in infrastructure in St Lucia to help its development and elevate the partnership. Outstanding achievers, partners and stakeholders of the Junior Achievement Programme were recognized Wednesday for their contribution to youth development. Here's Anisia Antoine. Junior Achievement St Lucia is a professional program which focuses on the three pillars of success, namely entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness. The organization hosted its annual award ceremony to recognize students for their hard work and outstanding performance in the Junior Achievement Programme 2017-2018. The ceremony was held at the Golden Palm Events Centre under the patronage of Dimple at Luizi. Kurt Hosam is the chairman of the Junior Achievement St Lucia Board. Thanks to the passionate delegation of more than 350 volunteers, work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs were delivered free of charge to over 4,000 youths. I believe that deserves a round of applause. The inspirational individuals committed their time, energy and expertise to deliver JAA programs in approximately 230 classrooms across St Lucia in order to shape today's young minds and reshape tomorrow's workforce. Certificates of participation were awarded to students who took part in the elementary and middle school programs and entrepreneurship week. The Natural Touch Company of the Babono Secondary School was awarded Company of the Year and the Quaring Secondary School received the Patrons Award for Innovation, Creativity and Originality. Zena Hadid emerged the national achiever of the year. We decided to create a paperless classroom. Now we adopted the idea of room classroom, which is an app created by Google that allows teachers to set assignments and feedback at every place. So we used that and in order for us to really start up that paperless classroom, we decided to provide Wi-Fi services. Now, although the majority of our school was not able to access the Wi-Fi, we did receive a lot of positive feedback and we managed to exceed the rate of 94 by 1. Junior Achievement St Lucia has been contributing to the success of students for the past 22 years, influencing over 45,000 students nationwide. This year's guest speaker, a past junior achiever and CEO slash co-founder of EcoCarib, Dinelle Florius, encouraged the students to pay attention to climate change and preserve in our planet for generations to come. As a business person, your goal is to always be selling and what you want to do and what you want to achieve is all a matter of the programming that you put into your mind. Whatever you think of that you want to be, you can achieve it. One of the critical words that I live by as well in the critical principles is faith. Faith in God, faith in his direction in my life and faith in myself. You cannot just depend on others around you to believe in your dream. It's your dream, turn to it, it's your dream, work towards it. The first event to be held by Junior Achievement St Lucia for the year 2018-2019 will be the JA's Data Pet. From the Government Information Service, I am Anise Antoine reporting. The Consumer Affairs Division educates primary school students on their rights as consumers. The Department of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs is continuing efforts in sensitizing students on the role of the Consumer Affairs Division, the rights and responsibilities of consumers and the need for consumer protection in St Lucia. A number of primary schools around the island have been selected to participate in the Ministry's Outreach Program. Consumer Affairs Division's Information Officer, Marilisha Williams-Gavey explains why engagements like these are important to students of this age group. The importance of consumer education at an early age cannot be overemphasized. When we at the Consumer Affairs Division engage children at that level, the primary school level, it is important because we want to lay the groundwork for a nation of more discerning consumers. We want to equip these little consumers with the intellectual building blocks necessary for spending and saving wisely. Many times when we think of consumers, we think of the adults. But do you know that when we go out to shop, children are not passive bystanders? Children nowadays have taken a substantial place in families and have a major influence on parental buying decisions. Williams-Gavey says the protection of children's consumer rights is a major priority for the Consumer Affairs Division. In fact, children have become a very important consumer group and they are seen as a primary market. And so we at the Consumer Affairs Division find it extremely important to engage our children from a very early age to teach them about their rights and responsibilities as consumers, how to protect themselves in the marketplace and of course how to budget and save. A prolific writer once said, we worry about what a child will become tomorrow. Yet we forget that he is someone today. And so we at the Consumer Affairs Department, we know that while they are students today, they are also very influential consumers. And so we are doing all we can now to guide them on the right path. The program runs from October 9 to October 51, 2018 and is aimed at students of grades 4, 5 and 6. From the Department of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs, I am Marvin St. Louis reporting. This is Nation Beat when we come back the Barbano Secondary School undergoes a transformation. Everyone is at risk forgetting a foodborne illness. While most foodborne illness cases are mild and go unreported, long-term health complications and even deaths can occur from a foodborne illness. Foodborne illnesses are caused by contamination of food at any stage of preparation. If you are a food handler involved in home-based food production, meat, fish, chicken or a big shop, as a food vendor, how you prepare food can put your customers at risk. Do you know the risks and how to avoid them? For more information, contact the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards at 456-0546 or email slbs.candw.lc or visit the website at www.slbs.org.lc. St. Lucia Bureau of Standards, making quality and standards our way of life. Welcome back. Small Island developing states like St. Lucia continue to fall victim to the effects of climate change. The Caribbean region since the global phenomenon has witnessed an increase in major hurricanes. The government of St. Lucia has since highlighted its intentions to ensure all steps are taken to increase resilience, mitigation and adaptation. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Iva Daniel, referencing the construction of the Denry polyclinic highlighted that steps will be taken to address such issues. Right now we have the issue of climate change. We have the issue of the frequency of seismic events. And so the consultant, having conducted his review, his structural review is saying that hey, we need to make some modification to this. And I'm not saying this to you from his perspective because I need to say it. I'm saying it to you as my client that you need to do something about this and look at it very closely. I must say to you that it was escalated to the level of the World Bank. The engineer at the World Bank took a look at it and felt that the advice provided to us by the consultant required what's strong enough to warrant us taking a step back, reflecting and to decide whether we would come to the people of St. Lucia and say, hey, we have a delay in time. We have to trade off time on this project. We won't compromise quality. We won't compromise the delivery and the costs, but we have to trade off the time. The chosen sign for the polyclinic is Wajili Denry. The polyclinic will provide a wider range of services than what obtains at the Denry hospital. The permanent secretary indicated that while the decision to redesign the plan will set the project back, it is imperative that the necessary steps be taken to ensure the longevity of the country's asset. So people of St. Lucia, we say to you that we are now at the point where we need to redesign. We need to slow down. We need to redesign. All of this project will not be able to move forward because we would have a contractor on site who would be unable to proceed. And if we were to proceed with it some years down the line, we would encounter a lot of issues of a technical nature on this project. Meanwhile, officials with the Banana Productivity Improvement Project, BPIP, are advocating that farmers implement simple resilience methods to guard against future severe weather events. A recent talk in Lucia's farmlands following tropical storm Kirk revealed that the majority of the damages sustained were due to high wind speeds. Kurt Severin, project manager for the BPIP, observed that farmers with windbreak sustained fewer damages. It is a very interesting case. What we notice is that, for example, in those areas where you had barriers, trees, mango trees and so on, the impact was a little less. So as we move forward and we try to build resilience to climate change, it is one of the things we have been advocating. It is one of the things we have been preaching. We will emphasize it even more now that farmers, because under the global gap, you are supposed to have barriers and so on, windbreaks and so on. So we will be re-emphasizing it as we move forward in an effort to build resilience for down the road. Severin explained that while most trees snapped under the weight of the fruit, others toppled, which is a cause for concern. The majority was snapping, and it speaks again to the whole question of the productivity level. The bunches are heavier, and even though they were propped, what they did was they snapped. So the majority, I would say, between 60-70% of the crop, the damage was due to snapping. The remainder, I would say, toppled. And you're right, we know for a fact that we did a survey this year of nematodes, a nematode survey. And we discovered that there are high levels of nematode infestation across the country. So we are, under this group, we have taken steps to actually try and ameliorate the situation. Under the Banana Productivity Improvement Project, critical inputs like oils and the fungicides that control black cicatocca are readily supplied. Severin says it may be necessary to also consider nematocides and herbicides in order to sustain the health of tree roots. The Barbano Secondary School is celebrating the accomplishment of a major initiative that will help to transform the school's appearance. Chris Satney reports. The Barbano Secondary School prides itself in challenging students in order to unlock their potential within, as the school's motto suggests. The painting of a mural was determined as a great initiative that would not only enhance the environment of the school but also involve many students and the wider community as well. Now completed, the mural is located on several different sections of the school's perimeter wall and its main entrance, portraying the accomplishments of the school in many areas. The school principal Terence Fenelow is very pleased with the project and suggests the new mural will boost morale of both students and teachers and take them to even greater accomplishments. It has really served to liven up the environment, so to speak. The teachers when they came in, when they reported for duty at the end of August were all elated because this greatly enhanced the teaching of the environment. The school received the much technical support from artist Nazja Simeon who says he was more than encouraged to assist because of the enthusiasm of the students. He encourages more schools to take on projects of this nature. This mural really brings out the spirit of the school and it's something that the outdoor gallery has been doing for a long time here in St. Lucia. I would just like to thank all the kids who took part and also to encourage the community out there to keep donating paints because this was all community service and the children really came out and did a good job. I'm very proud to be part of this initiative. On the mural we have clubs which are present at the school and sporting activities which helps bring out the spirit of the school. This project was also done to uplift the environment of the school. But that's not all for the students as they look forward to extending the mural to other parts of the school. Teacher of the Barbano Secondary School, Junior Dili says students are ready to take on more projects that will help to make their school beautiful. What we're asking is for some more stakeholders to come on board as this is just phase one of what we're doing and we have two more aspects of it to do as well. The paintings were initiated by the team members of the Beckwick International Leadership Development with the support of Joanna Husbands of the Department of Sustainable Development who is also a former teacher of the school. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, I am Chris Satney reporting. The island experienced a total electrical system shutdown at approximately 9.04 am on Wednesday October 10. The St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited informed that the power outage was caused by a major internal fault at the Curly Sack Power Station. The fault initially tripped three of the generators and then the remaining engines resulting in a total system shutdown. After the fault zone was isolated, appropriate checks and inspections commenced and the process of restoring the system was initiated. Power restoration started around 10.28 am and was done gradually across the network. That's Nation Beat. Join us next time as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Janelle Norville.


Hello everyone. My name is Tiberio Rado. I'm a Program Manager on the Azure Stack team. Welcome to our new episode in the Azure Stack Hub Partner Solution Series. We are today joined by Glenn from Byte. Although he's in lockdown, he was happy to join us and kind enough to join us to give us a bit of information on what exactly they do and how they as a service provider sort of work for their customers. Let Glenn introduce himself and tell us a bit about the company. Sure. Thank you very much. My name is Glenn Neeland. I'm a Glorified Account Executive, but I've got a more fancy title, but we'll go with the Account Executive. I work at Byte Information Technology here in Australia. We have been in existence for 25-plus years. We started from a consulting background, and we continue with that vein in our approach to our customers. We're looking at how we can improve their business, how we can actually meet and solve their problems without coming to them with a technology solution per se. Very closely aligned with Microsoft and offer a lot of Microsoft solutions, particularly around a zero stack, clearly, and also teams and enablement for the modern workplace. So we work in those spaces quite a lot. Excellent. The solutions you offer, do they span Azure as well as Azure Stack Hub? Yes, absolutely. Depending on the customer, we do a lot of work with accounting firms, professional services firms. In that instance, Azure Stack Hub is a really good tool for them because they're very conscious of data security and data sovereignty and the customer requirements for segregation of their data into nice secure tendencies, etc. So in that case, Azure Stack Hub is fantastic for that. We can utilize that in an on-prem hosted solution, which is not so much in their home buildings, but it's clearly in a class one data center, those types of things. Then we use the extension of that as you're public for the flexibility in that single pane of glass. Excellent. Do you have Azure Stack Hubs, which are dedicated to one customer, or which are multi-tenanted and have multiple customers onboarded? At the moment, they're very much single customer. So each customer has their own requirements. So we've done Azure Stack Hub as a hybrid model. We've also done Azure Stack or HCI when they wanted really dedicated high-power, high-performance, but on-prem, but still with that same familiar interface of the Azure Stack. Excellent. That makes it easy for my team to manage and have consistency across the different platforms. Excellent. And your team will be operating and managing the hardware or also working with the customer to build their solutions? Yes. Hardware and then the solutions. We will go as far up to the vendors level on the applications. And in some cases we'll do, if their requirement is there, we'll go and do integration work and extend it out into leveraging other services. For example, one of our customers at the moment has a fairly significant SQL environment, and we're working with them now to start using SQL services out of Azure Public and blending that in across the Azure Stack. So it's a mix of both consultancy, architecture, support, trusted advisor, as well as managed services. It's a mixture of all the worlds. Have you done this from the beginning with them or was it like a journey to sort of get there based on the data privacy and regulatory requirements that you mentioned? Look, I'll give you one example where we had a customer that was on a journey themselves and they'd move from everything was on-prem probably four years before you introduced to them, they went to an IS model, but felt all they'd done was just lift and shifted their own issues to someone else to manage and they weren't at all satisfied. We actually introduced them to the concept of Azure Stack and talked to them about how we can leverage physical hardware and Azure Public and give you that nice sort of blend and single pane across the two. And that has enabled that organization to stop worrying about whether their environment's up and running and now they're starting to look at innovation and how they can enable the technologies to meet the needs of the business. So we heard what they were talking about when we were initially talking to them and that's how we sort of presented it back to them and it really resonated with their CIR. He was very happy with that. We now run roadmap every month, every quarter to go through and revisit. Are we still delivering to the right direction? What's the next level innovation? So that's been a great journey for that organization. I can see that continuing on. They'll never, never will never go backwards there. I think eventually they'll be all, they'll move a lot of more of their services to Azure, but at the moment they're putting their toe in the water and very comfortable with the temperature. I see. So it's more of a journey, like a step-by-step journey. So probably the things that can go to Azure will go to Azure and then based on the regulatory compliance security issues you will use on-premises to sort of host those workloads needed. Right, yeah. That's a great point and that's one of the main use cases for Azure Stack Hub and something we've seen with many other partners as well where they use Azure Stack Hub as an accelerator for their Azure consumption rather than a replacement for Azure. I assume overall you're looking right now at the IaaS parts and starting with virtual machines and moving the workloads as is and are you looking also at higher up services, so containers and app services and that sort of thing? Yeah, absolutely. And that's absolutely spot on. So the issue that we come across with multiple customers is their applications, the maturity of their applications and the way they run they're not ready for Azure services and Azure containers. They're still the traditional IS model. They require a VM and then from a value proposition to move them to Azure, it doesn't always work. Right. But the Azure Stack Hub gives us that great stepping stone so we can get them off some fairly antiquated and legacy equipment, get them on to modern architecture and then we can chip away at it in a more systematic sort of approach and say, okay, let's test this one, move across. So going back to the example I was giving before we have an file services proof of concept running with them at the moment. So once that gets up and running, I can see a lot of the data that can be moved to Azure file services will go there because they don't want the cost and effort of backups and storage and so forth and takes pressure off there and they're sequel environment. We're looking at database services and so forth and re-architecting a lot of their apps to leverage the modern database services that we can get to. And from an Azure Stack Hub perspective, even with these moving these VMs, for example, even if they are VMs, are you leveraging things like ARM templates or infrastructure as code or any of the ARM dependency, the ARM enablements, so to say? To be honest, I'd be speaking out of my technical pay grade to say whether we are or not. I know that we've been running Azure Stack Hub for coming up to two years that we've been utilizing it. When we first started, I think we're doing a lot of very manual activities and I know the guys are now taking advantage of that. I think the feedback I've had is, I wish we had those tools when we first started, which is always a way, development comes a long way. So certainly made it easier. We recently did a HCI implementation for a customer that needed on-prem equipment and that ran really smooth. It was amazingly quick and the customer kept saying, we made me finished, so that was a great result. Excellent, excellent. As these projects sort of onboarded and your customers use Azure Stack Hub, they use Azure, they use Azure Stack HCI in a combination of manners, right? They have a number of ways of doing things, but from a business value perspective, what are some of the lessons learned you've seen throughout the years and some of the gatchas that you've identified in these projects? Step back one from there. We certainly have learned that it makes a lot of sense to get a really good relationship with the hardware vendors. Obviously, when we're doing Azure Stack, we're going to one of the third vendors and we're stuck with Dell in this case and then leveraging their expertise is setting up the base level. So thinking you can do that yourself, thinking that you can just follow the knowledge-based articles and do that without assistance is a lesson. Don't attempt it, leverage the expert, pay the professional services. From there, then I think the next lesson is really don't underestimate the complexity of the work you're doing, but at the same time, be prepared to reach out to the knowledge that you can get from Microsoft or from Dell. I think we struggled on the first one. We took the old engineering approach of we can work this out. So the very first one we did, we probably spent way too much effort and over-invested in the solution. Post that, we've learned to leverage that and very much more efficient and cost-effective delivery. Excellent. And from your customer workload perspective, do you have any insights on how the customers are or what types of applications they're using? I assume you're not using any ISVs to provide the things on top. The customers would bring their own applications or would you provide the whole solution to them? No, in most cases, the customers are bringing their own applications and they can be everything from, if we're looking at accounting and legal side of things, they're typically your various accounting, auditing, those types of applications. The example where we've gone with the HCI solution, they're a heavy graphics and drafting organization so that they need that strength or that power locally for them. So they bring their own licensing there and we've found that the HCI solution, for example, on the graphics and the data speeds, there's been no issue, no complaints whatsoever since we've installed them. In fact, the level of support we need to do for that organization has probably diminished significantly, which is great for my operations team. Yeah, that's what I wanted to say. I guess the operations team is happy about that part. I don't think they would be sad to have a system that works properly, right? Exactly, we just get into a routine and cadence and keep it up to date and patched, which is probably the other lesson learned, staying on top of the developments that are happening in the Zero Stack Hub, keeping all the roll-up patches and all the various, staying on top of that has been a lesson that you don't ever let get behind. Because we're missing out on the advantages that are coming with the new patches and the new changes. So, yeah, I think early on we were a little bit, Blase is probably the wrong word, but I think we were thinking, oh, we just will roll this up in each quarter, but no, I think, right, just stay on top of it. And when it's ready, we're basically one month behind and just keep going and keep on top of it. I think it's more, I think we've touched on it, but it's giving the bandwidth for the organization and for us to focus on innovation and customer-enablement. That's really the area that I want to highlight. It's less about having to keep the lights on, the lights are on. So, let's focus on how we furnish the room, let's focus on how we can actually do the next step. That change of spending every month, just, is it, if we fix this issue, that's gone. We're now focusing on, okay, what's the next step on our path to enable the organization to work more effectively? And one of our larger customers is now looking at how they can expand it out across some of their, if we look at it into, we're providing support for the organization at the base level IT. Now they're saying, okay, how do you expand and support our consultants so they can actually sell a service to our customer, their own customers. So it's jumping out to the next level. That is a great point and a good thing to catch because what we've seen across all our partners is the thing that you are highlighting as well, where instead of focusing on keeping the lights on, you are now focusing on creating value for the customer, enhancing their operational or development or DevOps processes, as well as focusing on the higher levels of the solution rather than keeping the lights on as you've said. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you everyone for staying with us and hope to see you in the next one. Thank you.


What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today. I'm gonna be sharing my thoughts and predictions on WWE stomping ground. It is a new pay-per-view. It's gonna be coming out this coming weekend. It looks like so far It's gonna be pretty interesting and I have all the matches right in front of me. So like always Let's get right into this up first. We have the Smackdown tag team championship match Daniel Bryan and Rowan versus heavy machinery Ever since coming up from NXT heavy machinery I've enjoyed everything they've been doing. I enjoyed what they were doing in NXT So I'm pretty happy that they get a chance to face the Smackdown tag team champions for the titles As you guys know as ever since Daniel Bryan came out of retirement I've always felt like WWE was pushing him too much when they already had talent That's been here at the time that he was already retired and they've been proving themselves and as soon as he came back from retirement He started to get pushed a lot more for championships Than any of the other people that's been here the past three years since he's been retired So I just feel like they pushed him way too much and for me. I don't like his whole earth gimmick I don't like everything about that. I know that's what Daniel Bryan stands for in real life But I just don't like the gimmick so much. I don't like that. He's heel Rowan however, I'm happy that he has some sort of role after returning from his injury So that's pretty interesting there. I just wish that they included Harper Luke Harper would have been awesome either in This as a trio or just teaming up with Rowan as a new tag team gimmick Something like that would have been interesting and not with Daniel Bryan For him to have a solo career, but for this match here, my prediction is gonna be heavy machinery I think that'd be great to beat Daniel Bryan somebody that everybody is usually a fan of and Rowan to become the new tag team champions of SmackDown. I think that'd be very interesting So that is my final prediction next up is big E and Xavier Woods basically New day versus Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane Something tells me that Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane may win this match However, my prediction is going to be that big E and Xavier Woods win this match One thing that I want to mention for this match though Something tells me that in the future since big E returned from injury not too long ago WWE might be breaking up the new day and in my opinion I wouldn't be really happy with that because they've been dominating for years They've branched outside of WWE with up up down down and other things that they're working on outside of the company and To have them split up might not make sense with their other projects if that makes any sense But what I'm getting at is something tells me big E in the future may Attack Kofi Kingston and then may have a one-on-one match for the WWE championship I think that'd be interesting if they were to do it But I honestly wouldn't be a fan of it, but something tells me WWE is leading up to that this match here My final prediction is still gonna be big E and Xavier Woods Next is gonna be the United States Championship match Samoa Joe versus Ricochet Samoa Joe is a two-time champion He's been dominating. He's been doing great things Ricochet is a fast opponent ever since coming up from NXT He's had a couple other opportunities the raw tag team championship money in the bank He's been doing great things as well. One thing that I think is odd that WWE keeps repeating He's having Samoa Joe who is a big guy and if he catches you he can make you tap out very easily Aka Remastero at WrestleMania. I can't remember how long it was But it was just a couple seconds and he made him tap out So to have smaller guys like ricochet and Remastero face Samoa Joe for the championship repeatedly I don't know how I feel about that Something tells me that ricochet with his speed it might come in favor for him But if once again if Samoa Joe catches him it might be over really quick this match here because it's ricochet this time I'm gonna say my final prediction is gonna be ricochet is going to win But I think it's gonna steam an even bigger rivalry between these two and I think it's gonna continue for a couple more weeks Maybe even a couple more months. So final prediction for this match is gonna be ricochet Next is the cruiserweight championship match with the champion Tony niece versus a cure to Zawa versus drew gulik Honestly, I curious a cure to Zawa has won the championship before so it's kind of interesting that he's Keeps getting opportunities for it. He's definitely proving himself in the ring to get these opportunities This match here, I know Tony niece just wanted at WrestleMania not too long ago But in my opinion a cure to Zawa has nothing else going for him right now He might as well become the cruiserweight champion because he is one in my opinion one of the top guys in the cruiserweight division So for him to be the cruiserweight champion makes sense. That is my final prediction for this match Next up is going to be Roman Reigns versus Drew McIntyre once again. This match happened at WrestleMania but with everything with Shane McMahon and Elias that's been happening everybody that's been going against Roman Reigns This match is gonna be very interesting Something tells me that the Miz is gonna be trying to help out Roman Reigns because you already know that Shane McMahon and possibly Elias They're gonna be trying to help out Drew McIntyre. So maybe the Miz can attempt to Make things even in a way Give Roman Reigns a little bit more help that'd be interesting to see but this time Roman Reigns won at WrestleMania this time. I think it's gonna go to Drew McIntyre I think there's gonna be a lot more stuff happening with this rivalry with this feud coming up soon in future pay-per-views And for the next couple months, maybe just weeks. I don't know but my final prediction for this match is gonna be Drew McIntyre Next is gonna be the Smackdown women's champion Bailey who cashed in her money in the bank briefcase on Becky Lynch This match here. I was actually really happy that she won the championship. She's gonna be facing Alexa Bliss Who I'm excited that she is getting an opportunity for a championship once again But going against the Smackdown women's champion whenever she is I believe part of raw I might be wrong on that but I thought Alexa Bliss was part of raw But anyways having them face each other. It's gonna be a great match in my opinion I think it's gonna be very interesting. I would love to see Alexa Bliss as the champion yet again But Bailey just won it not too long ago. I think Bailey is going to retain it in this match That's my final prediction. I just don't want Bailey to lose it this soon I would love to see Alexa Bliss win the championship in the future But I really want Bailey to retain it for now Because she just won it not too long ago The next match is the raw women's championship match of Becky Lynch versus Lacey Evans yet again This match here. Lacey Evans came up from NXT right now. I'm not sold on her gimmick I'm not sold on what she can do in the ring yet Very interesting choice going after Becky Lynch going after the man going after the Whenever she was the two-time champion the raw and Smackdown women's champion very interesting for her to do that I just don't think it's her time to win the championship quite yet Maybe in the future maybe in a couple weeks a couple months down the line She'll have an opportunity and win the championship Against Becky Lynch one-on-one. I just don't see it happening. So my final prediction for this match is going to be Becky Lynch Next up is going to be the universal championship match Seth Rollins versus Baron Corbin this match here I'm very excited to see what happens because of it This match here just happened at the last pay-per-view in Saudi Arabia. So to have a repeat I don't really know how I feel about that But Seth Rollins versus Baron Corbin like I said after WrestleMania Baron Corbin beating Kurt Angle at WrestleMania at Kurt Angle's farewell match to me He's gonna have great things in the future. He's gonna have bigger opportunities championship opportunities And that is what we are seeing right now, which I am extremely happy for I just wish they would change his gimmick up a little bit and Maybe have it more like he was before just with the short hair I don't know. It's it's be interesting to see what happens But he's getting his championship opportunities, which I'm extremely happy for He lost to Seth Rollins at the Saudi Arabia pay-per-view But this time I think he's gonna have a little bit more in him, but I still think Seth Rollins is going to retain his championship I'm just happy that Baron Corbin is getting opportunities, but I still don't think it's his time yet But he is proving himself having these opportunities and seeing what he does in the ring Final prediction for this match though is gonna be Seth Rollins retaining the universal championship And the last match is gonna be for the WWE championship It is Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler yet again, they faced each other at Saudi Arabia pay-per-view But this time they're gonna be in a steel cage match, which I'm happy to see WWE Changing up a couple matches from the last pay-per-view a couple weeks ago in Saudi Arabia This one here making it a steel cage match is going to be a little bit more special in my opinion Because as we know both Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler can do high-flying moves if they need to they are pretty quick So to climb over the cage might not take them long at all, but it's gonna be interesting to see what happens It's gonna be interesting to see who it comes out to help who out like I said I think Big E in the future may turn on the rest of the new day So if that happens in this match, it's gonna be interesting to see or if Drew McIntyre or if Anybody else that is against Kofi Kingston where to come out to try to help Dolph Ziggler when that would be interesting as well It's gonna be a very tough match to judge But because Kofi Kingston just won it not too long ago won the WWE championship I don't think he's gonna lose it quite yet. I think he might lose it around Summer Slam That's maybe when he's gonna hold it till but I don't think he's gonna lose it yet And I don't think it's gonna be against Dolph Ziggler nothing against Dolph Ziggler But the problem I have with Dolph Ziggler is he's been away from the company for months doing his stand-up comedy Which I can honestly respect But the reason that they put him in the Saudi Arabia pay-per-view is because Kofi Sorry, it's because Kevin Owens backed out. He said he didn't want to go to Saudi Arabia, which I can also respect So they had to push somebody in so they used adult the Ziggler and it's interesting to see adult Ziggler that he has Returned I just don't think it's gonna be permanent because he has so many things on the go and it'd be interesting to see what Happens if he does stay if he does decide to do more comedy stuff and back away from the company once again So that's why I don't think he's gonna be winning the WWE championship because he has so much on the go right now There's no point for him to hold the championship quite yet until he knows that he's gonna be staying in WWE for a longer Period of time. So my final prediction for this match is gonna be Kofi Kingston retaining the WWE championship So these are my thoughts and predictions on WWE stomping ground this pay-per-view the whole concept behind it was a little bit odd I didn't even know about it until after the Saudi Arabia pay-per-view then they announced it saying in two weeks They're gonna be having a stomping ground pay-per-view, which I don't know to me It's out of the norm for WWE but for WWE making these random pay-per-views pop up every once in a while They're starting to do it more and more. I'm not so much of a fan of it Especially when a couple of these matches were the same exact matches from the Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia pay-per-view a couple weeks ago To have pretty much a repeat on a few of the matches Makes no sense and I do not like that But it is gonna be interesting to see what happens Maybe the outcomes of this pay-per-view are gonna be different from Saudi Arabia Who knows but I hope you guys did enjoy this pay-per-view prediction video. Hope you guys are excited for stomping ground It's gonna be interesting to see what happens and maybe some of these matches may change before then like I said It's gonna be this weekend, but I am gonna leave this video here. Please take care. Peace


This place is absolutely gorgeous. Sometimes you forget that you're looking at it through a digital camera. It's only going to get better, so I'm excited for the future. No one on the trail, so we should be good.


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