Hey survivors and frivers, please like the video, share your thoughts in the comments, share the video with anyone who believe in my help, subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet and click the bell icon so you can receive the notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at narxfevercoaching.com. The Narciss will kick you when you are down. When you are down, the Narciss will not stop abusing or manipulating you. They will not stop trying to ruin your life. When you are down, the Narciss will continue kicking you to see how much damage they can cause. You might be trying to hold on to your physical, emotional or mental health and the Narciss will see that you are suffering, but they will continue attacking you to see how much they can mess you up. They are sadistic, so this is actually something they enjoy, they get a kick out of it. They could cause problems for you in your work, which will affect you financially and even though you may not have much money left, they will take what little you have so you are completely broke. They might target your social circle and create smear campaigns until you lose all of your friends. You could have one friend left and they will try to turn them against you, or if they have already destroyed your social circle, and the only company you have left is a pet. I have heard stories where they will even kill your pets, just to ensure you are completely alone and isolated. They will not provide you with any support and they will not help you to get back on your feet if they do provide you with any support. It will only be so they can take it away, which will give them more supply, or they will give you false hope and make you believe that it will get better while they are secretly plotting behind the scenes to make your life even worse. Narciss have so much hatred and anger within them. It is self-hatred, but they do not accept or acknowledge this. They see you as an extension of them, so they will use you as an emotional or even physical punching bag to take out all of the hatred they have towards themselves.  They are just using you to express the hatred they have for themselves. They don't self-reflect or look within. Instead, they will project these emotions onto whoever is closest to them and they won't just kick you when you are down.  They are just using you to express their hatred, anger and frustration. They are shame-based individuals doing whatever they can to avoid reflecting on their shame. If something triggers them to reflect on their shame, they are likely to become abusive towards you when you present yourself to them. They feel as though you are better than them. They feel as though you are superior to them or above them. When you present yourself to them, they feel threatened. They feel like they are less of a man or woman. As though they are not enough, your presence triggers them to reflect on their perceived deficiencies. And this could be anything when it comes to a narcissist. They have so many weaknesses in securities and vulnerabilities. That's why they created the false self. That's why they have chosen to deny the truth and live in a fantasy world. What they should have done is reflected on who they really are and identified their weaknesses in securities and vulnerabilities or their faults and mistakes. Then they could have corrected them or at least improved them in some way. But instead, they chose to deny the existence of this, which made it impossible for them to learn or grow from them when you present yourself to them. And they feel as though you are better than them or above them in some way. It triggers them to reflect on these perceived deficiencies and the shame they feel for possessing these weaknesses in securities and vulnerabilities or making a fault or mistake. It makes them feel like less of a man or woman. As though they are not good enough because of their perceived deficiency. So now they feel as though you are better than them or above them. They now have two choices. They could either self-reflect and own their perceived deficiency. Or they can project it onto you and kick you down. Narcissists do not self-reflect. Which leaves the remaining choice of kicking you down. And they will kick you down again and again as a way of regulating their emotions and dodging the shame for feeling as though they are not enough.  Whatever it is that triggers them to reflect on their perceived deficiency. Whether it is something they do not have or something they feel could not be enough. If they feel threatened by something, they will try to destroy it. If your presence is threatening them and making them feel like less of a man or less of a woman. They will make personal attacks against you. They will target your character, personality or appearance. Even after they have destroyed everything good about your life and repeatedly attacked your character, personality or appearance. And they have put you right down. They will still continue to kick you. Narcissists feel so completely worthless and insignificant inside. That no amount of abusion you could ever satisfy them.  They never feel equal. They still feel as though you are better than them or above them. And as long as they feel this way, the abuse will continue. Until they finally feel as though they are above you. But by that time, you would probably be dead. And even then they would still feel as though it wasn't enough. They would still feel as though they are deficient in some way. Because they never took the time to self reflect or look within and correct or improve their perceived deficiency. Narcissists enjoy kicking you when you are down. Because it makes them feel as though they are above you. It is a form of escapism and a distraction from their problems or deficiencies.  But if they can make you miserable suddenly they don't feel so bad anymore. They almost feel happy in comparison to you once they have targeted your happiness and contentment. If they can cause problems or deficiencies in your life suddenly their problems or deficiencies don't seem so bad anymore. Narcissists are always comparing themselves to other people. That's why everything seems like a competition with them. They are always trying to compete with you. Always trying to outdo you. You may not even realise that you are in a competition with them. But they will constantly try to prove their worth. Because they feel as though you are better than them or above them. They will endlessly try to compete with you and act as though they are superior to you. But they don't really believe that. If they really believe that they would feel no desire or motivation to compete. They are just trying to make you believe that they are superior to you so that it makes it more believable to them. But deep down they believe that you are better than them or above them. That's where their desire or motivation comes from to constantly compete with you and constantly abuse you.  Because it triggers them to reflect on their perceived efficiencies. They will kick you even when you're down. Because they are envious of your happiness and contentment. They know your capabilities. They know that you could get back up at any moment. That's why they've got to keep kicking you down. If they knew that you were down and you're not going to get back up again they would just leave you there. But they will constantly return to you to ensure that you do not get back up again and trigger them to reflect on their deficiencies. They will kick you even when you're down because they are envious, because they have low self-esteem and because they are using you to express their self-hatred, anger and frustration. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate my PayPal links in the video description. Coaching Inquiries, you can email me at NarxFiverrCoaching at gmail.com. We have a private Reddit community where survivors and frivers can share their experiences and knowledge. If you are interested in being a part of this community you can sign up through our Patreon page, the link is in the video description. Check out the NarxFiverr Merch Dice Store where you can purchase your own NarxFiverr t-shirt or mug. 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What makes it different from other zombie films with Grants of Love over the years? I don't really think it's a zombie film to be honest. I didn't read it as such and I didn't accept the role on those terms you know that the zombies aren't really front and centre in this. The fear of them is palpable but you don't see them an awful lot. You know what you see is the tension around them and you see the familial struggle really. You see kind of people coming to terms with loss and saying goodbye to things and people that they love. Yeah that's what makes it different. Two of your co-stars are incredibly young. What was it like working with them? How were they?  Yeah Simone Landers who plays Toomey the 11 year old girl who was who we kind of cross paths with and we ended up helping each other really. She was amazing. I think it was the first time she'd acted before. She was a joy I really like we made each other laugh a lot and babies is kind of fun working with babies. I mean there's a reason that they say don't work with animals and children because they do tend to do their own thing but yeah I like babies. I like the company of toddlers. I think that's my level. You also get your own sort of zombie transformation of sorts. What was the whole makeup process like because it's not what you would normally associate with zombies I'd say. It was quite involved the makeup. It took a wee while. It wasn't the most comfortable thing especially in sort of very very hot mosquito infested land. Very dusty and dry.  The escape scene from the cage was pretty intense. What was it like to film that because it was a night shoot. Night shoots often are exciting from out the first three hours and for the next five hours you're thinking what the hell am I still trying to act for at three o'clock in the morning. It was great but again it was just me and Simone Landers who plays Toomey. We're relying on each other you know in the same way that the characters rely on each other. She and I as performers relied on each other because a lot of the film is mainly me and her and that's interesting when you're dealing with somebody A who is a child and B who has not really done it before. So you tend to take on a slight mentoring role as well as being a colleague. What was it like it was cold. It was quite cold. Also handling a lot of entrails as well and yeah what was that like having that. It was great man yeah I love it yeah sticky. Did you ever envisage yourself I guess years ago thinking I would be in a in a zombie because obviously you wouldn't say it's a zombie film but in a zombie type film. It wasn't particularly on the list. I only did it really because I liked the script so it wasn't like I wasn't searching for a zombie film and I didn't think oh I'd better do a zombie film it's just what came up. For me it's a film about family that happens to have some zombies in it so that was my attraction to it.


So we're going to start with a quick ask of our counsel, Mr. Martin Parkland, who joins us at the table this week. And as we get started, just to review for the committee and for the room, so we have a recapitulated miniature sort of the asset review process in the last week for a lot of testimony about energy efficiency modernization. The week before, here in the fallen trip, we're looking at energy landscape. The idea is that based on what we've heard, the goal is to move forward with the idea that efficiency utilities in the Salomon could address increasingly in the next period of time, three years, is what's been proposed in the bill. Emissions related to thermal and transportation. So they've been doing some thermal work. And then as we heard sort of painfully repeatedly last week, that the largest area of emissions is one they've been unable to work in at all. So the idea is, how can we change that story? I'll also recognize that there's a full proceeding of the way of the PUC to deliver just such an all fuels energy efficiency program model for it and other answers next year. So based on what we heard last week, I asked you to draft this and we'll get an introduction, work on it as a group this week, take some more testimony. And I hope by Friday, because it is quite narrow and well-defined, that it will be ready to vote out committee vote. For the committee, committee votes go directly to the floor. So if you're off to notice, an affraction doesn't get referred to. So to ask the question. So is that just the process that's interesting to me? So it goes right to the floor. Does it go to another committee, unless it has something in there that is required to vote hand? You know, it's an interesting question. I'll have to go back to this. Does I can ask the Secretary Blum or just to see if I can. Yeah, so I checked the Secretary Blum generally. But I did ask him, had there been any appropriation of this? Maybe I'll set rule 41 or something like that. It wasn't automatically for all, which would make sense. But so we're not voting or we're not dealing with taxes or I think we're just currently in the floor. So with that, Mr. Martin, thank you. If you could walk us through the draft one of the draft four of the committee. Thank you very much, Louie Markland, Director of the Council, Chief Counsel General Assembly. I was asked today to do a quick walkthrough of this two page bill, based on the testimony from last week concerning Act 62. You have not seen it yet. That's why I have draft watermark on it and I'll walk through it and we'll read it line for line. But I'll try to paraphrase it for you. And as always, please interrupt a few questions. Can I start with a quick question? You remind me. So in terms of making this an official committee bill, what's the process there? What takes us from being in draft to having to be the first official committee bill draft? I was just doing this because members of the committee haven't seen it in his draft four, which just means that the sponsor and I were working through different versions over the weekend. So I wanted to explain that. That's why I put the watermark on it. The official committee would take it up, discuss, modify it as they think appropriate, and then vote on whether they would pass it out. I don't think I ever read the statement of purpose as introduced, but it's worthwhile taking a second to read it because everybody summarizes the purpose of this bill before I go to the language. And what the bill tries to do is, for a limited period of time, three years, allow energy efficiency utilities to use a portion of their budgets on programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal and transportation sectors. So let's now look at the language in the actual bill. First of all, you notice the session law, not codified in the green books. Starting in line 14 on page one, it says notwithstanding any provision of law or order of the PUC to the contrary, for the calendar years, not fiscal years, but calendar years, 2021 through 23, an entity appointed by the PUC to provide electric energy efficiency and conservation programs and measures. There's a cross-reference. This basically means the energy efficiency utilities. Shall be authorized. So that's mandatory. Shall be authorized by the PUC to spend a portion of its annual resource acquisition budget on programs, measures, and services that shall. So as I stress, on line 18, it shall be authorized by the PUC. And it states a portion, but does not give a specific amount. Clipping to page two, here are the criteria. Number one, reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal, energy, or transportation sectors, or both. In other words, one of the programs, measures, and services could be specific to thermal, specific to transportation, or somehow cover both. Number two, result in the largest possible greenhouse gas emissions reductions in a cost-effective manner. In other words, biggest bang for the buck. Number three, demonstrate a clear nexus with electricity usage. And four, be complementary to and shall not be replaced or be in competition with. And this line basically means a tier of three programs under the RES, so the so-called energy transformation programs. Are there any questions about what have covered so far? Yes. How is clear defined? Because something that might be clear to me may not be clear to us. Clear is not defined clearly or unclearly. I mean, it's, you're right. It's common sense. It's not a defined term. Neither is nexus. So these are words that the community could use. They're different words, but it's a little bit of common sense. And remember, this is session law. We're not quite as exact in the drafting. So there's other words that are better. OK. You do it. B, this is, in essence, a carve out that applies to Burlington Electric. Because remember, Burlington Electric is both a utility and a efficiency utility, the DUNEU. Any funds spent on programs, measures, and services pursuant to this section by a retail electricity provider that the PUC has appointed an energy efficiency entity pursuant to when there's a cost for reference, shall not be counted towards a calculation of funds used by that retail electricity provider for energy transformation programs. What this basically says is that, if you remember, there is under 30 PSA 8005. There is language that the tier three programs, the energy transformation programs, shall cost the utility less than the applicable alternative compliance payment rate. And then later on, in the same statute, there's actually numbers for the alternative compliance rates, and the PUC has the ability to modify them. In essence, what this does is Burlington Electric's concern, I think, as they voiced in the committee last week, was that if they're engaging in additional programs, according to the session law, they do count the cost of those programs. They would put them above the alternative compliance rate, and they would therefore be penalized. And this applies only to Burlington Electric and prevents that. So that's really what this language does. Then finally, section two, the effective date. They actually take effect on passage and shall be repealed as of January 1, 2024. If you remember, this applied to calendar years 2021 through 2023, in other words, December 2023, is repealed as of January 1, 2024. And this language, perhaps a little redundant, just makes it very clear that this is a time limited three year. There are any questions for me? Thank you. Thank you. My team on the first page shall be offered with the PUC's sort of portion of its own research. And then will the PUC can set that portion? Or will the? That's a good question. I had read it as more that the programs would be suggested. And if they meet the criteria in page two, the PUC has to, shall prove them. Perhaps it could be read as PUC underrollable authorizing what portions that maybe some community wants to discuss. Yeah, well, thank you for that question. There are the portions. So conversations, I worked on in Blackville in the summer and fall, but at one point laid out sort of an allocation formula. The more I learned about the process, the more I concluded that there's a lot of sophisticated analysis behind deciding what kind of measure ought to be funded or not. And we have the department working in all the stakeholders that you use, but that you use all working at the PUC to have these conversations. And I felt like, OK, so let's stick with the well-defined process we have that's got so far. And we'll come on the PUC to figure out what the right proportions are. Because frankly, any member just said just a little more. At one point, I said, well, what if we get 5149? I think, well, what type of sense does that make? So let's rely on the process to deliver the best definition of what portion. The other thing is, because I think based on what the PUC said last week, proposing to only use EEC dollars that originated in EV charging, I think, was part of their proposal, that generates something in an order of $120,000 worth of EEC money currently, or last year. Does that such a small report on that seems to me like they're not charging ahead? It's a big progressive way. They're offering a very modest step, so it makes me feel as though they're going to take a cautious approach in determining what that comparable portion is. And then thirdly, I don't think, honestly, we could move too much money too quickly, because there are capacity things. How do you find the programs? What kind of personnel delivers them? Do we already have those resources? So the notion I have for myself, and we'll take testimony this week to flesh this out, is that we're asking analogy that comes to mind for me is almost all the weight in the efficiency utilities is in the right fit, meaning they're doing traditional electrical energy efficiency work. Talking about doing work in thermal transportation is sort of like putting weight into your left foot. Well, how fast do you shift weight from one foot to the other, and what's the balance at the end? This seems like the kind of thing that will evolve, and try to write any statute will be a bit on the clunky side. How will we know we have right numbers? Why not work with expert parties and stakeholders to figure that out in person and proceed? So that's why it's this portion and doesn't mean further portionings. Is there any camping? Mr. Chair, it's the three-year time period. I thought that was based on the report. Do you back? No. Well, so that's based on, right now, the energy efficiency utilities have filed for their next main resource plans for the period 21, 22, 23. And so it's matched to that next performance contract period. And the idea there was to define a period that made sense with the way they make their plans, get their budgets approved, and all the rest. Provide some longevity so that people know they can move into this area and make investments without having a room pulled out for underneath them only 12 months later, as I like that. But not make it permanent so that we know that, yeah, we want to actively monitor this and then participate in future years. And with further adjustments, I hope to get to the true comprehensive fall fuels energy efficiency program that acts 62 content lengths. The other questions about what this does or whether or not it's a good idea about what it does. I can't comment on this a good idea. So how would that be different from what happens if we don't do this? Council, there are certain things prescribed. If you don't do this, my understanding is that there could not use the money for the thermal and transportation sector, greenhouse gas, and emissions programs and services. So it allows them to spend money on stuff they couldn't otherwise spend. Who couldn't use them? The energy efficiency utilities, for example, the supermoder, Burlington Electric. And will we to endorse this, what will the money be used on? Well, there's criteria of age to, but beyond that, I couldn't comment. So the proposals would have to check all those boxes. But beyond that, I can't give you more specifics. So would the PUC decide in the interim what the money is used on? Well, the language is shell as opposed to may. So it says that basically if they come to PUC with a proposal and it checks those corporate theory or boxes on the top page too, PUC shall prove. So this is a nice question. Mr. Chair, last year, we broke our promise to pay this charge. And we did the eyes wide open and we were straightforward about it. And we said it was going to last 18 months. Money was stolen fair and square from my words, from the usual places that it went. It was done with the understanding that it would be used to do things like train people to get ready for the next step. It was used to move ahead and this global warming stuff. And it was all the things that it's being used for 18 months were stuff that's going to have to be done no matter what our solution is. It wasn't a risky thing. Can I check on that? So it had to be done. I think where we made new monies available was in weatherization. Into that slot. So it had to be done. I agree. I mean, that's part of the overall number of things we know we're going to take. And simultaneously, the transportation committee has been moving forward on trying to deal with the transportation side. I'm perhaps prejudiced. I've got my concerns with PUC that often comes in and doesn't tell us what they're going to do and we ask them what they're going to do and how they're working on stuff. And then we go home and we see the rules come out to do things that we didn't authorize. We get caught up in it and the public starts to make changes, et cetera. We should be making the changes. I think most of us are in support of this, what's saying, but the global solutions planning What are my climate change? What's the point of the question? Climate change? I signed on to the bill. What's the bill? We should ask you. Yes, I'm going to run the table what it's called. Are you doing global warming solutions act? Yes. You refer to upstairs, OK? Yeah. And what that does is it sets a timetable that nothing really has to happen for two or three years. And at that point, it's going to take a vote in the legislature to make it happen. But we've established a council that votes on what the plans will be. And the council is, that's our job to vote on what things should be and not put that out to people that aren't elected to do it and people whose interests are dictated by folks that live in other states and stockholders that are there, that it's about 22 or three people who are putting it out to them to do something that's going to, may or may not, take place in three years. I'd like to know what we're doing now other than authorizing the PUC to take money beyond the 18 months that we've taken from the elected great bear so that they can continue to take the elected great bear's money and use it as they see fit. Isn't that what this bill does? Yeah, so I, to respond to the council, so we all will have a fuller conversation about the global warming solution if the House sends something to open. But I'll say right from the outset, I agree that there are policy choices to be made on behalf of all the monitors. And I think the Vermont General Assembly is the place to make them. Not necessarily a council of people who aren't elected. So, but we'll get to that one later. So, to your point, I think what we're, I'm hoping we're doing here, my goal is to find a policy that our energy efficiency utilities shall take on work in all three sectors. We. And then, because that's what we're gonna hire, what we're gonna hire the efficiency Vermont to do in the future. We hire them, we tell them to do. I assume that probably be the ones that get the bid to do this because of their experience which we're bringing. But who knows, who would get hired today. So that, so I wanna keep these two threads separate. So for the final Act 52 report a year from now, that it is very clear that there may be new entities, existing entities, whoever, whoever, I don't know, who would, who the participants in all fuels energy efficiency the program is, that very specifically avoids the word utility. It says it's a program. Utilities will very likely participate, but it's not, it doesn't necessarily suggest that those who are already doing the work will do that program. In this case, we're saying, before we can do that bigger lift, let's take the current actors we already have working the space and allow them to do more work. And so that's where my goal to your point is to keep the policy decision, should efficiency utility be able to work in one sector or three, keep that in here and we're the ones to say we're all three. I think it's an excellent draft and it's put out before us some of the decisions we have to make and I believe in that spirit. Thank you for putting context with the other moving parts that made it more. I mean a lot of pieces going at the same time. The other thing is so, Luke, can you just, Mr. Martin, can you explain, when we put something in a session law, in this case it's a three year program. I'm looking, so is that the rationale for doing it there as opposed to putting it into the range of rules and is there a legal distinction between the impact of using session law versus writing in the general books? So session law is equally binding as opposed to codified law and green books are both law, they're both binding, neither has greater or lesser weight than the other. We put some provision in session law for time limited if it won't last for a long period of time or something. So this is an example of a three year in essence pilot project or temporary project be appropriate for session law. I think just one of the things that I wanna point out in terms of how this is set up is the criteria on page two, one through four are ended so that you have to be able to check all four boxes and those boxes were making notes last week while we're going through stuff. Those were the things that I thought I think this meeting was just one to see whether these are well expressed yet or not, we'll figure out this week. My goal is that we check back in with stakeholders here about those criteria, make sure that we are clear and center at this point and that we're being prescriptive enough at the policy level to maintain that responsibility which is ours, but the reason that it's being sent to the PUC is that again, I've done everything I saw in previous proceedings and in Acts 62 that it's the right form for taking in the amount of complex data from different stakeholders when we're working in through to come up with what kind of measure meets the floor criteria. And then to get back to portion, I figured that that too is the kind of analysis that we've seen the PUC do in the past. There's a tendency of balance that I might adopt between maintaining policy responsibilities here and then if the limitations, responsibilities and analytical responsibilities work in the PUC. Do we have the right balance item? I don't know. When you play the game of paper scissors rock, what's the balance? When, what's that question translated? It is when you're meeting the largest possible greenhouse gas emissions in paper, when you're doing it in cost effective manner it's to get the most greenhouse gases or whatever that scissors and when there's a clear nexus for electricity that's rock. So you've got three-legged Duncan, two nails. So I would say these are all rocks, they're all rocks. We make those decisions and we're giving them to the PUC for the next several years and whatever they do is gonna be what they think's best. After they have listened to the testimony from various lobbyists and special interests, that's our job. Once we have something in place that works in a certain way, we turn its future administration over to the PUC. That's our job and when we turn things over to the PUC and say do this and you're interested in rocks and I'm interested in scissors and you're interested in paper and they come out with what they come out with that becomes the law. But Mr. Chair, we should do that. So this is my frustration with this policy. We put it off into the future and then we give it away in statute to do things that in current statute. I'm wondering does it matter what Senator McDonald say? Because really the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal and transportation sectors. So who cares if it's rock, paper, scissors? If that's the goal and things are reduced, it doesn't make any real, to me, it doesn't make a difference. The fuel dealers makes a difference to them. The automobile manufacturers makes a difference to them what this is thermal. It makes a lot of difference to a lot of people who need to come in and make their case and they're going in to make their case to the PUC pointed forward. It wasn't a point of this purpose. They're not coming in to make the case with us. And we're saying you guys make the case in there where the PUCs rules for take a test among them for doing a whole bunch of things. It's we represent the citizenry on what we ought to do. And sometimes we send it to them once we clear on what ought to happen. Sometimes we ask them to recommend to us what ought to happen and we endorse it. But in this case we're saying we don't know what should happen. You guys write it and put it into law for the next three years. So while we mess around with the, I can't remember if I'm going to change whatever initiative and work that out. Boy, that's a free ride for 180 people. Well, it's meeting a goal it's supposed to be. So I'm seeing him this morning saying I was going to be relaxed this week. Yeah, so far so good of people at this time. The, So this is a great, great, great idea. I would, you know, if I made another analogy, I would think that if we're saying we want housing, we want it to be adequately sized. We want it to be sanitary. We want it to be energy efficient. We want it to be well located. So I'll just elicit four criteria for a housing project. The fact that I didn't choose adequately sized and throw off the other ones overboard. It doesn't mean that I'm not expressing policy. The fact that we have four criteria to consider in making a decision doesn't, to me, suggest we've drawn our hands up or saying of the 50 things we could dream of, we've focused on four. And we're looking for a solution that can satisfy all four. So I don't see it as advocating. I see it as specifying, you know, this could be one very long, could be one, a very long one. And what would that say? Oh, there's only one thing we've made our decision. But I feel like right now, how do you, how do you talk about it? The question, chicken and egg problem, Mr. Chair. Not too many years ago, we had a chicken and egg problem with a 10 acre loophole. The way to solve the 10 acre loophole was to change the law and to do with septic systems and septic system designs. And we weren't able to get over that home. And we didn't give the department the authority to change septic systems because the representatives from Addison County screamed bloody murder because they got the correct clay. So we directed the administration to come up with a plan to change septic systems and how do we change the new law? And bring them to the legislature. They brought it to us and we endorsed them. But they were not allowed to implement them and start them before we endorsed them. And that was because people in Addison County were just thought that that was, damn it, they were gonna give that and it was a legislature's job to do it. It didn't work. We tried the same thing with solar a few years ago. We asked the PUC to come up and give us a bunch of rules to give us proposals on 15th of January. They didn't do it. They used the authority that we gave the PUC in the event that the legislature dawdled with the January 15th report and didn't implement it in time to get the rules in place. And we gave them the authority to do it by rule on the event that we dawdled. And they went and did it by rule and never gave us the report. I don't trust them. And they should, we're gonna endorse a recommendation. We do it. We don't say you go out and decide what's gonna happen and implement it. Well, okay, so I don't wanna get stuck here. That's why, yeah. There's four. Here, would you just, to satisfy where you're at, would you pick one of these and eliminate three? Is that? I'm very unfairness to what you're trying to do here. I'm prepared to listen more to how we solve the problem. Getting to things started today that we direct under our guidelines, knowing full well that the law that puts together a climate council and has 23 people in it who somehow have some voting or rights that will probably not result in concrete action for three years. If there are other events that we've done at the interim, open to listening for what we've done at the interim. Well, I'm all forget, I've been done in three years, that's for sure.  And I don't wanna farm it out to the PUC before we sign on. I don't wanna have that being implemented and have us go around to talk where constituents and throw play months to PUC did. PUC doesn't have to make an argument with the public that PUC doesn't have to justify what it does. We do. Well, but I don't disagree with any of that. I'm just not sensing that we're putting ourselves into that predicament. I mean, one other version that says it may already be covered in law. I don't know if there's a reporting requirement that says trust but verify. I've seen enough things go on. I've had a different experience than you've had with some of the proceedings. So, and especially as I listened to what we heard to hear from the Axics, the artisans last week and the filings they had that were much more lengthy and detailed this summer and fall. There's already a lot of work been brought forward. So, I'm myself, I'm sensing that it's a productive venue for us to work through. And as long as, and that I agree, we should provide sufficient guidance so that we're still owners of the policy. I work. Mr. Chair, you're, the Chair's committee and you are having yourself focused on a result that most of us here are in the embrace and we're, we're, you can see where it's at where we get there. Okay. So, let's move forward. Let's move forward. Yeah, great. So, all right, so in terms of this draft, we tomorrow, people are looking at our schedule where the department, so we had a PUC report on Act 62, but happily enough from, I think the legislature's point of view, two years ago, we started down the path to having annual energy report from the department. And they have a longer and more sophisticated description of what it includes. But for me, it's, I call it a low hanging group report in a way because it helps us look at what's going on in the market, energy across sectors and helps us see what's going and how that matches up to things like the compliance with energy plan. And the whole idea, when we requested it starting two or three sessions ago, was that rather than have legislators come in and have to start from scratch each year, how about have a report that would bring us up to date and let us see the most cost-effective measures that we already had and we might have new measures, we might change funding for existing measures, but it would give us a place of being well informed to work from it. So, we'll get that report tomorrow morning, but it also has an impact on these discussions about this draft bill, so there's a good access there as well. Meanwhile, I'd say no one's really had time to study this bill, think it through. So, I'd look at the people in the room, if you have anything you would like, I'm gonna ask everyone, all parties in the committee, to read the bill, think about it, have discussions coming starting tomorrow to be able to work through it. It is concise, it's only two pages. My goal is that by Friday, we'll have enough conversations, enough edits as a week, we'll feel comfortable moving to them. This thing by itself? Great. This thing by itself. You can do it. There's other things to do, but there's no reason to do, wait for everything else to show up. We can walk, to go, skip roads, and a couple other things at once. Great. Thank you. Thanks for taking the lead on this too. Okay. So, before we adjourn, anyone want to put a question on the table, sort of a first impression here, something that I would want everyone to think about before we adjourn? Otherwise, we'll, so let me pull out for you. Any takers? Senator Dowles, got something going for us? Anyone else? Okay. I'm a very happy group, although you're expressing it so super subtly. So with that, we are adjourned.


Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Anisia Antoine, this edition's top stories. The fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the revision of St Lucia's travel bubble. The St Lucia tourism authority is laser focused on maintaining the island's competitive edge and preparations are ongoing for the opening of the new academic year. The fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the revision of St Lucia's travel bubble. Two Caribbean countries have been removed from the bubble, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, due to the increase in cases of COVID-19. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belma George says the revision is aimed at keeping St Lucia's safe. The travel bubble she noted must consist of countries with low to zero cases of COVID. More now from Jesse Laos. After two more COVID-19 related deaths in Trinidad and Tobago and a steady increase in cases this past week, the Twin Island state has been struck off St Lucia's list of designated travel bubble countries in the Caribbean. Daily, Trinidad and Tobago has recorded new patients by double digits. This week alone, officials there recorded over 200 new cases. An update to the nation on Wednesday 19 August 2020, officials in St Lucia made the announcement. The revised list also excludes Guyana. Guyanese health officials reported 14 new cases and four COVID-19 related deaths as of Wednesday. Travelers from bubble countries are currently the only arrivals exempt from quarantine in St Lucia once they present a negative COVID-19 test result. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belma George explains the vetting of bubble countries. We are monitoring all of the islands and we look at the last seven days. We use three indicators when we assess the bubble islands. We look at the number of cases, the number of new cases of COVID-19 within the last seven days. We look at the incidence of COVID-19 that is number of new cases per 100,000 in the population and we also look at the trajectory. They're increasing if they're decreasing or if they're stable. And it gives us an idea of the level of risk to our island of them coming in because the bubble countries, they need to come in if a negative test but they're exempt from the quarantine. So we have to ensure that the level of risk is low enough to allow that possibility. After the latest review, the Government of St Lucia has identified the following countries that present a low risk of transmission of COVID-19 as a designated travel bubble. Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Kurosawa, Dominica, Grenada, Montstrat, Saint Bartholomew, St Kittson-Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines. In this week's update, health officials also re-emphasized the importance of the 14-day quarantine for travelers outside this bubble as demonstrated by the latest case of COVID-19 in St Lucia. Patient 26, a 32-year-old female, arrived in country on 9th August with a negative test result from New York City. As per our protocol, she was placed in institutional quarantine at one of our public health facilities and we have instituted a measure where after seven days we do the PCR testing again. On the 16th, she was tested positive. We got that result on the 17th, tested positive for COVID-19. So that being said, it gives the importance of persons who are either in institutional quarantine or in home quarantine, the importance of ensuring you adhere to that protocol where you stay in. What if this was somebody on home quarantine who after seven days decided to go out? It means that there would be a possibility of community spread at that point. Another measure to minimize the risk of possible COVID-19 transmission to local communities is the restriction of local guests at hotels. Locals are not permitted at hotels where visitors from international markets are allowed to stay. They must utilize properties certified for the travel bubble. It is to reduce the contact of persons coming in who are still within that 14-day period and causing some level of transmission within the communities. So it is extremely important they are certified. There are other villas and guest houses that can be used for for staycations and for persons within the bubble. It is important that we maintain that level of separation at this point because the level of risk for introduction is still there. The public is also reminded that permission must be obtained from the relevant authorities for mass crowd events. While permitted, such activities are restricted to 200 persons who are encouraged to keep a safe distance. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leance reporting. The St. Lucia Tourism Authority's response to COVID-19 is being driven by the important need to ensure that the local tourism sector does not collapse under the strain of the pandemic. The Chief Executive Officer spoke on the efforts during a panel discussion on NTN Wednesday evening. The impact of COVID-19 on the tourism sector has been devastating with some 14,000 St. Lucia to earn their livelihood from the travel and hospitality sectors on the bread line. Since the decision was taken to open the borders on July 9, the tourism hospitality sector has been slowly coming to life. To date, 2,000 tourism employees have returned to work. The agency responsible for marketing St. Lucia as a tourism destination has ramped up efforts to ensure that the island maintains its competitive edge despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Beverly Nicholson-Dotty is the Chief Executive Officer of the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. We really have had to be laser focused during this period in ensuring that we did two things. Making sure that St. Lucia remained top of mind in all of our core markets, the UK, Canada, the US and the Caribbean. But in addition to that, we've had to be implement those messages that tell about the fact that we want to be responsible in our reopening process. And so it has been twofold, making sure that St. Lucia is still the number one destination to visit but also conveying just how important it is for us to have health and safety procedures. With the drastic revenue loss for central government, the tourism authority, as with all other departments, has had to review its budget. As the CEO says, the SLTA has been creative in using all social media platforms. Starting with Seven Minutes in St. Lucia, which was widely popular, moving on to our featuring of St. Lucia. St. Lucia offers, looking at how we use limited digital marketing dollars to get the most bang for our buck. And we've also been just really out there in terms of public relations. We've had over 600 article stories placed about St. Lucia in the last five months. If we have to pay for that coverage, it would be almost US $5 million. So we've become even more creative in terms of getting our messaging out. A critical component to sustaining a successful opening of the tourism sector is airlift. Mrs. Dotty says the airlines are increasingly returning to the local skies. Based on the maintaining of our relationships with the airlines, we're pleased to say that on a weekly basis, we have two flights from the UK, British Airways. We have 11 flights a week out of the US. And out of the Caribbean, we have over 700 seats per week. So in total, we're looking at 2,500 seats a week right now coming into St. Lucia. And we are gearing up our marketing efforts, understanding that as more hotels open come this fall that, you know, airlift is a priority and making sure that we maintain and grow that airlift throughout the season. Chief Executive Officer of the St. Lucia Tourism Authority, Beverly Nicholson Dotty from the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. Meantime, operations at the Urinary International Airport have been adjusted to comprehensively respond to COVID-19. Airport Manager Edgar Steven says the established protocols have been incorporated into all aspects including customs and immigration, port health, port police and airline staff. This has included structural implementation of checkpoints, the health facility. It has also meant new rules on where our PPE is and also how we facilitate how we move people through the space. So overall, we've had to change how we do things at UNR. COVID has taught us collaboration. We've had to collaborate both outside of course Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Health, the CMO. We've also had to work with events in Lucia so for SLASPA working with other agencies on the outside it has been a really learning process in terms of working outside. But also within the airport, we've had to realign or rework the way we do things. Usually it had become a norm for different agencies to work in more or less a bunker sort of mindset. Immigration does what immigration does. Customs does what customs does. But COVID-19 has made us come together a lot more in terms of facilitating. So from the landing and positioning of a plane and moving the client across to when we actually put them on a taxi we've had to work a lot closer. As I like to say, one various unit but one operation. So we've definitely had to work a lot closer with each other. The health facility set up at HIA, Mr Steven says, augurs well with the management of travellers as well as the safety of staff. This has added another facet to what we do and another component to how we would usually facilitate. It has meant that the client would take more time moving through the space. Also it would have meant that we need to communicate more. The operation would have to be more, it has become more complex. You have various people coming to St Lucia to do various things and they would be placed in different categories in the health facility. Also the nurses, the frontline people would have various challenges as the operation goes. So the health facility has added more complexity to how we do things. Airport manager at the Euronora International Airport, Edgar Steven. Preparations are ongoing for the opening of the new academic year beginning September 7th. Lisa Joseph reports. The Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations has been intently laying the groundwork for the commencement of the new academic year in September. The efforts have been more deliberate given the impact of COVID-19. Several meetings were held with various stakeholders including the St Lucia Teachers Union, the National Principles Association, the National Youth Council, the National Students Council, school boards, teachers and principals to decide upon the best path to the reopening. Dr Fiona Phillip Meyer is the Chief Education Officer. The reopening of school is nothing that we take lightly and so the first course of action was to get confirmation through the Department of Health and in particular from the Office of the Chief Medical Officer saying to us that a proposed reopening as of the 7th of September for children and the 31st of August for teachers is a possibility that we've been working towards and we continue to engage our stakeholders hopefully with the best possible program for our children who've been out of school since March for the most part except our grade 6 and our form 5s. Dr Meyer says the Department notes the public concern about the health and safety of students amid the threat of COVID-19. However, the Chief Education Officer says the Ministry of Health has been directing education officials with establishing the protocols needed to protect students, teachers and ancillary staff at all schools. The phased reopening in June for the common entrance and CSEC examinations, she said, tested the system. That system, Dr Meyer added, has been reviewed and fine-tuned. Through the Environmental Health Unit, we've had the team at our schools, going through our schools to make sure that the proposals that we've looked at is up to standard and that we have gotten feedback from them as fast as possible way forward. As a proposed date for the reopening of school draws near, Dr Meyer is employing parents and guardians to ensure that they take advantage of all avenues of assistance available to them through the Department of Education, including the bolstery for students entering secondary schools. As we speak, District 3 has been subsidized now and it's been rolled out in all of the districts and it will be rolled out in the ones that haven't gone through it. We appreciate that every little bit counts and that this support to families, to parents, will go towards helping our children transition from Grade 6 into Form 1. On Monday 24th August 2020, a comprehensive discussion on the new academic year will be broadcast live on the National Television Network and partner stations. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. The Ministry of Health and Wellness continues to receive donations from various organizations to assist frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19. More in this report from Fanelle Neptune. The Ministry of Health recently received the donation of personal protective equipment, PPEs and medical supplies from the Coca-Cola Foundation through the St. Lucia Red Cross. President of the St. Lucia Red Cross, Yuba PSS, as part of its mandate, his organization felt it was necessary to assist in St. Lucia's response to COVID-19 and hence the need to source support from outside agencies. The Coca-Cola Foundation did make some money available to us so that we could purchase some things or a few materials in the fight against COVID. And today I am extremely happy that through the efforts of the Coca-Cola Foundation and that of the Red Cross, we will be given to the Ministry of Health 30 gallons of hand sanitizer, 200 gallons of bleach, 1,000 face masks and 15,000 gloves to enable them in the fight against the COVID. Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Glensford Joseph, expressed gratitude to the St. Lucia Red Cross for the efforts in providing supplies which will assist St. Lucia's response and management of COVID-19. The St. Lucia Red Cross sought fit to contribute again to this COVID-19 response through the donation of personal protective equipment that are going to be very vital to ensure our frontline workers are able to face the continuous and evolving threat of COVID-19. Moreover, as pointed out, we need a very clean environment in which we conduct our activities. And with this, the cleaning agent provided by the St. Lucia Red Cross is going to go a very long way in ensuring that our cleaners are able to provide us with the environment in which we can conduct our business of managing COVID-19. The Ministry of Health received the donation of hand sanitizers, face masks, gloves and bleach. Reporting from the communications unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fennel Neptune. This is NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers Hutchinson with the NTN novella Quey All. The Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment wishes to notify all clients of the Public Assistance Program from Castries, Babuno, Grosile, and Sousimi-led regions that payment for the month of July has commenced. On Thursday, August 20th, to Friday, August 21st, 2020, payments will be made at the various locations from 9 a.m. daily. For further information, please contact the Ministry at telephone number 468-5108, Castries, or 454-6478, the AFU. Welcome back. We now join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN novella Quey All. Thank you so much for being here. Ladies and gentlemen, the University Department for the formation of this government, G.I.S., and the NTN National Television for the new Quey All. Thank you, Primers Hutchinson. A special arrangement for the poor residents to travel, to make connections and for the family, for the exam, and for the people who are also on vacation here. For the publication, I found eight visits by the tourist authorities here. There are some who have visited these countries who have designated the arrangement and who also have the history of traveling to give 21 days to go to quarantine, but it is necessary to test those who are negative not more than 7 days before you go to travel. You can go to pass the examination after you fight in a country. Well, to make sure that you stay as a destination, it is not a response to the corona disease. On the way to travel, I found eight visits again and again since it was made. I saw the public relations of the tourist authorities here during George's note that after the examination was done by the Ministry of Health, it was decided to choose those countries for Grumbubble. According to the medical officer, Dr. Glenford Joseph, he declared that it could be Bahamas, Jamaica, Rubber, Semathe, and Bermuda. Dr. Joseph added that the Ministry of Health has decided to determine if a country deserves to Grumbubble. The tourist authorities have said that health and protection of citizens here and the community is the most important thing for you. The New Appell Health Organization of the Pan-American Health Organization has decided to place more importance in the health service of the corona disease for people who suffer from corona disease. According to Dr. Aitien, the corona disease is a bad situation for the health care workers who have never been treated before. It is a very important country to place the health care service of your own needs. The health care director is a very important country for the health care workers who are in some domestic violence. I have been so critical about the pandemic. Dr. Aitien noted that the corona disease has affected almost 11 million and almost 400,000 people who have also affected the health care workers who have placed the health care worker in WIS. I am very happy that the health care service has affected the health care workers and the health care workers who have not been treated for the health care workers who are no longer personal or professional to continue the health care work for the corona disease and to address the health care workers as well. Dr. Aitien noted that the health care workers have assisted the WIS to strengthen the WIS to assist the health care workers and also to stop the WIS and to stop it because it is current in many countries and to support WIS to improve the health care workers to support the WIS. If the health care worker has to learn a better and better way We have to be careful with the situation. Especially, when it comes to the health problems. If we are to test positive health problems, we have to be careful. If we are to find a good solution, we have to be careful. That's not a big problem. The health department, the public health department, they have to do it because they have to do it because they have to do it. That's the same thing. the authority to force dissidently a current in a facility government. That is why you have to follow and obey your way to stay a current in Akayumem. And because of this, the family has to accept it. And you have to understand that the way to stay a current in Akayumem is to accept the laws that everyone who wants to go out of the country has to respect it. In this discussion, I would like to point out that the authority to force a current in Akayumem is to follow all protocols and to respect the restrictions not to remove the authority to visit the facility. In this way, I would like to point out that the authority to force a current in Akayumem is to follow the laws that are in place. So, immediately, the authority has placed four more ways to prevent a current in Akayumem. So, the person who wants to go out of the country immediately will have to go to the facility government and the police will have to force the compliers. So, that's why I would like to point out that the authority to force a current in Akayumem is to follow all protocols and to respect the restrictions not to remove the authority to visit the facility government. We can't go outside of Anissa. Messy-appealed primus. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Saint Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Anissa Antoine.


So show a hand to here makes money from somehow inside the 3d industry. They got a job at a studio. Yeah, almost everyone who doesn't Okay, what are you guys doing here? No? So I love this job, it's it's really it's fun and that that childlike wonder of like Yeah, bringing something from my head into life is still there. I just I really enjoy it But I want to continue doing this, you know, because it's it's a fun job but if you've paid any attention to the news and you've no doubt seen reports of Automation and AI the doomsday theories that we're all gonna be out of jobs all sitting on the street nothing to do and I always thought like yeah, but that doesn't apply to 3d because like what we're doing is art and computers could never replicate art But then you see a couple of stories like how machine learning was used to create high fidelity animations on the face of Thanos I'm like, okay. All right, and Then you see an algorithm that'll take the styles from famous paintings in history and apply it to a photo And then I'm really sitting up and paying attention because I'm like, okay that I didn't think a computer could do that And so I wonder like what what are we looking at here? Like it it kind of made me wonder if this is you know the old days of the Disney 2d animators being replaced by the 3d animators Are we gonna be replaced? by server racks running AI and machine learning to auto generate the movies So that is what I'm gonna discuss in this presentation. How AI and automation might change the 3d industry Quick side note. I'm gonna be using terms like AI and machine learning And some people are like no, that's not AI. You've got to call it this and For all intents and purposes doesn't really matter for what I'm talking about at the end. It's still the same result, right? It's a software doing something that an artist does so anyways There is one guy who's very good at making predictions for the future the Amazon guy Jeff Bezos Who's you know in hot water at the moment for his treatment of stuff wasn't very good at predicting that but For the last 20 years He has been basically ahead of the industry and so he said I frequently get asked What's gonna change in the next 10 years? I almost never get asked What's it not gonna change in the next 10 years and that's actually the more important of the two and he went on to explain that You know an Amazon customer of the future is never gonna say I wish the prices were higher or I love Amazon, but I wish it took longer for my packages to get here, right? So those two variables he knows for sure are going to be desirable in the future So actually what's not gonna change is what you should be focusing on not worrying about hypotheticals And so I thought that's that's great. It's a great exercise and applying that to 3d. I Think that any technology that makes things better faster or cheaper will eventually become standard It's inevitable things get rolled out once the studio execs realize that this is gonna save the money They put it into practice So what is costing money at the moment games are costing money? So Raph Costa Plotted some games from 1985 to today and he found a disturbing trend that every 10 years the cost of games go up 10 times So this is a log scale. It looks deceiving like it's not that big of an increase But every single one of those horizontal lines there represents a 10x increment on the one before it So basically every year it goes up 25% By 2020 the average triple-a game might cost 200 million dollars So they're already more expensive than feature films And it's getting unwieldy because they all have to spend more to try to outcompete the others and mobile gaming Yeah, it started out cheap But that's happening as well because it's now a saturated space So the costs are way too high and they need to come down a big portion of this costs is assets assets are unreasonably expensive So let's say for example, you're making a video game that involves the street You've got to have characters running down the street for whatever reason. So you got to model a building Okay, and it's a pretty detailed apartment. So you work pretty hard. You might be able to get it done in 12 hours Okay Then you got a texture it texturing often takes just as long as the modeling But let's say you get it done in 10 and then halfway through the the work week You've got it done in 22 hours Which by the way is unreasonable because that assumes you're productive 100% of the time It's usually more like 50% of the time, but let's say you got it 100% productive Then if you're in the studio, there's also a revision multiple of two to four times You know narrative changes. Maybe they want to make it take place in Paris instead of New York Maybe they won't have a tunnel running through the building for whatever reason so changes have to happen repeatedly And they have to go back and revisit old assets So at a cost of $60 per hour the average wage this building ends up being about $3,900 So when you look at a game like the division put price tags on everything And it's very easy to see why games are costing hundreds of millions of dollars It's and and this is kind of this is kind of dumb, right? Because like we're working virtually none of this stuff exists in the real world Like we should be able to approach this smart smarter Lee because I Think that a large portion of this cost Comes to the fact that this is a static workflow You're getting a one-for-one input to output ratio if you want to make another building you often have to repeat the work And sure you might be able to you know start from the base of the other But you often have to do so many details and topology change and then you got to re-texture it So you're still getting a pretty similar similar output so I Think that the first leap that's going to happen to the 3d industry in the next five to ten years is procedural workflows becoming Mainstream or the standard to say So approaching the problem of modeling a building to do it procedurally would look like this Instead of modeling the building yourself You would set the parameters for what a building should look like within certain ranges So a building should be this height to this height it might have between five to ten windows on it two to three doors It could have this many floors in range and then basically you let the software self-generate and This is how you bring those costs down So this was actually a course taught by Anastasia opera. I believe he's actually Dutch could be wrong But she made a procedural lake village using Houdini and she went on to Explain that she thought that proceduralism would really remove the the creative aspect of it But actually it forced her to understand like what makes something look good because you often don't know as an artist You're just like at doing things without thinking about it But when you had to put it into a program you had to explicitly Define what that looks like and so that was a good exercise And then also what you got out of the machine at the other end I was often ideas that you hadn't thought of before so it can actually be a huge advantage So this is procedural modeling obviously you've got to then texture it in this example. It's textured. I'm not sure how she did it but Texturing so I run polygon who here's her to polygon All right, my advertising worked So when we started polygon two years ago every single texture on the website was captured with a camera And we would find a floor like that and we said great We need another floor we would have to find another wooden floor capture it make it seamless process it So it was that one-to-one input to output then we discovered substance designer whereby you would Spend a lot longer Generating a node setup making something 100% procedural meaning that there was no camera was involved whatsoever You would make it digitally, but once you've made it once it's very easy to create variations from that and So immediately we realized the benefit of this not only could we capture things that are very difficult to capture Like marble would otherwise you got to go into people's homes and capture their floors But also it was a huge cost saving so basically that's all we do now We a lot of our materials are now made with substance designer save for photo scanning which are still best captured for for for grounds But yeah, we've doubled the size of our team and game studios have realized this as well Which is why you look at job listings all hiring substance designer artists Then of course you got to apply this to a model, okay? Model will have you know creases and crevices and all sorts of occlusions that you've got to take into account for So our algorithmic was very good by making a sister software substance painter Which enables you to take the thing it'll bake all the maps for you And then it'll apply the smart materials that you got from substance designer smart masks and things to add in grunge And whatnot So it's the number one texturing software in the world right now for this very reason it is saving studios Hundreds of thousands of dollars because it's procedural when you go back and you change something with the model if you've got the pipeline right It should auto update with the texture. So very very cool And then finally you've got level design. So putting the assets into it So I had the the start in New York City example, but let's say you're making a forest, okay? so Far cry 5 You know, they've made a lot of Far Cry's five of them in fact But Previously they went about, you know, like you would make a forest usually like you have particle systems and you place things by hand But the problem was was that as the story would change over the months the landscapes would move around as they had to have roads Go through different places every time they did that they had to update and like hand place and remove all of the trees This time they did it a different way They created an ecosystem So they set rules to define where certain trees and plants would live So big trees would grow towards the center of the forests small trees towards the edges underneath the trees There would be ecosystems of like smaller plants that would grow in the shadows if it was near a lake There was gonna be different plants there It would automatically update according to the altitude. So if it's higher up, there would be smaller trees I know we're able to build in handy tools into that as well to quickly build roads and and buildings and The whole talk is definitely worth watching by the way if you get a chance So this I think is gonna be the future this workflow Procedural modeling materials texturing and wall building already materials and texturing are pretty well embedded into the industry now It's pretty well standard, but I think modeling and wall building are are gonna be Taking the next spot At the moment Houdini seems to be really good at this, but I'm really hoping that that juxt wherever he is Yeah, there he is Hassle him about everything nodes Because I really hope that this can come into blender So that was leap number one was that Leap number two machine creep. Okay, so this is where it starts getting interesting So traditional software typically work like this You have an input See you've got a photograph and you bring it into Photoshop and then you want to apply a filter to it You apply the action to the photo and then you get one output. It's very predictable You know what you're gonna get and also leads to obviously a lot of manual work tweaking things as you need Machine learning is different. You start with an input. It might assess it It might apply an appropriate action and then most importantly compare it with others From its training data set then be able to judge whether or not it is good or bad Sometimes a human has to do that step if it's not try again and this by the way is a very gross Over simplification of machine learning. I'm not a computer scientist. I didn't go to university but this is what's helped me as an artist to understand this this process and Basically, the result that you get out of it is usually multitudes Multitudes better than traditional software So the key point here is that it has the ability to learn and to improve over time Now what it needs in order for that to happen is huge data sets and fast hardware So I think like five years ago. You started, you know Hearing the the train of news about machine learning taking all our jobs and everyone was hyped up and scared and then Nothing really happened And I think a large part of that is because it's not love not enough data and also not fast enough hardware I think now we're reaching the tipping point and actually you're starting to see some consumer software That is making use of machine learning already, which I'll show you in a second So one thing machine learning is very good at Denoising Okay, so everybody's familiar with noise you render something. It's grainy, right? And D noises typically will smooth it out a machine learning denoiser will do it really really well So this is one Which is owned by Nvidia. I assume it's the same one that is used for the RTXs Which is enabling them to do real-time ray tracing that is by the way how their RTX is able to do that It is rendering one sample every single frame of the game and then it is applying a denoiser on the same frame So it's doing this in real time And how on earth it's able to take that blue square That noisy blue square and read anything from it is a testament to how machine learning is is working Like that's just absolutely insane that it's doing that So blenders cycles denoiser as far as I know has nothing to do with machine learning or AI And so it obviously would very much fail in this situation Which is why I really think blender needs to get into the into machine learning and AI Disney and Pixar also own one and they're trying to solve the problem of the frame flicker Because that's a common problem with D noises, but they're also building artist tools to do it Nvidia own most of the papers regarding it And I think that's because they realized there's a huge amount of money in it because not only every renderer will need to use Their denoiser, but also every camera manufacturer because if you've got low light sensitivity and there's all this grain Well, they can solve it with denoises So that's one thing it's good at another thing is uprising So you've got a small image small little jpeg you find you're like, ah, but I need it to be double that size This is uprising. So as a test I took this image, which I'm making at the moment of a kitchen I rendered it at 50% and then using AI gigapixel from Topaz labs. I Uppressed it by 200% so that it is now as if it was rendered at 100% and then I compared it to an actual render at 100% And if you look at it, there's not a lot of difference there And obviously there's a little bit more detail in the one that was actually rendered 100% But not much and certainly not enough to qualify like a four times extra rendering So this was like really caught my eye I was like wow and this is consumer level that you can actually buy this Get the trial is 99 dollars or something like that to purchase the full thing This is already out there and this is a start. I think of of where the industry is going and There's also other uses like for example motion capture So I think we're gonna be doing away very soon with the mo cap suits and the expensive studios Because now you can capture just from raw video. So there's no sensors. This is not a special camera This is just simple video And the algorithm whatever it is I don't know what I'm talking about was able to figure out where the bodies are and most impressively It's able to guess the occluded parts like what's on the other side of that arm because it can't see that but it's guessing And it's doing an amazing job at it. So I think it's in the future. They're not gonna have mo cap suits I'll just film the actors doing whatever and that's gonna be it And then there's this other one which to be honest I don't know how it works But they filmed the dog in a mo cap suit for an hour doing running and jumping and then using neural networks Whatever that is They translated that into player motion in a game and what's most impressive is its transition from one behavior to the next going from running To walking to jumping is incredibly seamless. There's also very little foot sliding and There's also another example with a human like and it adapts to the terrain and it jumps over things I think this is inevitable. I think you're gonna start seeing it in games So that's machine-learning basically We're just gonna start seeing it in our software in the future You'll start, you know, you'll have an action in Photoshop and you'll be like, oh, that looks really good You find out it was machine-learning built into Photoshop premiere We most Autodesk products. I think it's really I think blender needs to really get into it I think it's the future and I think every every Silicon Valley company has realized it and yeah There's this quote by the guys who made the Thanos facial animation if you're not using machine-learning in your software You're doing it wrong. I think that's very true So elite number three is machine-assisted creativity This is really fun because this is something that I always thought that you know computers would never be able to do like Creativity like that's something that is very human and it's true like intent is very hard for a computer to do But you would be surprised at what it can actually do to help you, okay So as an example as I mentioned, I'm working on this kitchen scene Which I wished I could have got the tutorial app before I came to Amsterdam, but I ran out of time So it's gonna take another month But I'm working on this scene. I you know whenever I'm making something I reach a certain stage like this where it's okay, but I know it could be better if I tried more ideas So you just start throwing stuff at the scene and seeing if it looks better than what it did previously So you might change the lighting add in some little blinds and might be a marble on the left You know and then you try it with like adding food to the table No food adding some boxes no boxes a refrigerator instead And you just have to keep doing this and what I've realized that as my workflow This really eats up about 50 to 70 percent of the production time Because and there's a bunch that I haven't shown you like 20 other renders Where you just you've got to try this stuff and it takes so much time Sometimes you have to model the thing like was it gonna look good with a wine bottle I have to model a wine bottle or you purchase it or whatever Then you place it and then you have to render it and that is a really really long process So if there was software that could do this for you without you having to go through all the effort To add it in there in order for you to make the decision if this is good or not That would be incredibly powerful, right? So there is hey So this is a really impressive paper You give it an outline of an object the photo that the outline was based on and then it will generate a bunch of ideas for you and It works really really really well So it actually helps to see it as it's generating. So this is a building facade The only thing that was given was the top row and then this is the shoes And if you paused it at any point in this any one of these frames here could be a unique design So I think that this is kind of the future I think what we're gonna see is you'll make a character for example And then you'll put it into the software and you'll try out a bunch of ideas different clothing different types This is one used for an environment different sceneries And what's crazy is that the input that's given to it is so simple And yet it's just churning through ideas and spitting it out And I think this is absolutely gonna be part of a lot of creative meetings in the future And this is actually one you can try online if you go to that web address there It's based off a different paper technology, but very similar thing. So I drew this cat right very simple looking cat And then I hit a button It reminds me of those things where it's like, you know like the dad finishes the children's drawings And he's like a really good artist and he just makes it look high fidelity Obviously, it doesn't look very good. That's because my drawing is crap But you could obviously see like this is it's gonna be a finished product But this is definitely be a starting off point for a lot of concept artists So I think this is it's a sign of the times we're gonna start seeing this Speaking of which does anyone recognize these celebrities Does anyone know who they are?  You're like, is that like a footballer pretty sure I've seen her in something either she's a musician or an actor Well, I see they're imaginary. They don't exist.  So obviously real estate examples You could get by you know if you've got like a game and you need to have 20 different NPCs And I don't know you just pull photos of people that match the region that you're creating the game for like I need 20 NPC Mongolians just download a data set of Mongolian faces. I mean you just got unique faces There's no like likeness Infringement or whatever you've just got uniqueness, but it also worked for other things I don't know how it did this because these photos have perspective in them But this was also generated these these bedrooms there, which is bananas That's exactly what I mean for my kitchen, right?  That's not it's not pulling from a stock library by the way that was generated So Amazingly the way this works is that it was trained to recognize what the features are and what something is like red bird Okay, this is what a red bird looks like then when it notice when you type that out It creates the blob of whatever that shape should look like and then there's a second pass where it adds in the detail to that And it's crazy like this is like the closest thing to like sorcery I don't understand it. In fact like a lot of papers. I've seen I'm like very skeptical. I'm like, they're cheating There's something they're not saying because this can't be true But if it is if it's as good as this is and it's like today, I think this was actually from 2016 I think this is inevitable. You're gonna have a creative meeting with a director who's like, all right Let's let's create some ideas ancient city Road through the middle Canyon in the background spit out like 20 different ideas And then one of those ideas you give to your one concept artist To to flesh it out. I don't know. I think it's inevitable, right? And then another really interesting one is style transfer. Has anyone seen these by the way style transfer? Basically, you feed it a bunch of images that you like Like I want this style from Claude Monet, whatever and then you put an input in this is my photo I took on my holiday and then it spits it out Which is just crazy and It also works for video, which is really cool as well If you look at the paper they filmed like in I don't know somewhere in Germany people walking down the street And it's a painting but every frame is moving and it's so weird and What's most crazy of all is that it actually fooled 39% of art historians into thinking that they were looking at something That was actually painted not computer generated. I couldn't think of anyone more wanting the machine to fail than an art historian But it worked right you worked So my prediction is that artists will use machine learning to explore new ideas I think that's just gonna be the future. It's just gonna be part of our pipeline It'll first of all start going to studios and it's gonna be in the hands of consumers and we're all just gonna go like Yeah, how I made this scene first of all, I generated a bunch of ideas. I Think that's how it's gonna work. So these are the Expected changes that I predict will happen within the next five years. I think procedural workflows will become standard I mean texturing is definitely already there with substance designer and substance painter But I think it's gonna happen without level design as well as modeling Machine learning is just gonna slowly creep its way into all the software that we use and it's gonna do a lot of really tedious Technical things and I think we're gonna get creative assistance from machines as well So I can feel the mood in the room.  Are we being replaced? so people had this thought actually in 1997 When Casparov was beaten by the IBM Deep Machine, that's what that's what it was called And it was the first time that a computer had ever beaten a human and people thought like that's it for chess And it might be the end of humanity too It was depressing and they thought like chess is dead and Then Casparov realized that like, you know, if the computer has access to all, you know Potential moves of all the previous of hundreds of thousands of games and it's able to work from that It makes it should be fair if the human also has access to that So he created something called advanced chess Whereby the human player has access to the same information the computer has and he will listen to the computer and occasionally Overwrite it just like you would as EPS navigation when you know something is wrong based on what the computer is giving you and Today the best player is A human to machine counterpart a purely AI chess will win in a tournament in 142 games Whereas a human and machine 152 So there is there is a purpose to your life. It's not just all machines And what's more so is that since then the number of grandmasters in the world has doubled So it wasn't the end of chess. It was good for chess So I think it's the exact same thing is going to apply to our industry. I don't think that these new technologies I don't think it's going to it's not going to make artists redundant because you know You give this to a monkey is not going to be able to make anything good out of it It's gonna be hit hit a few buttons and yeah It might generate some semblance of an image, but it's doing is the human to put intent into it so I Feel like the based on these these learnings the most at-risk jobs are those that are labor-intensive Narrow-skilled and repetitive the great jobs like mo cap cleanup rotoscoping retopo mesh cleanup make 100s of these jobs basically the kind of thing which is usually outsourced to a I don't know a floor of workers in India where they've been told to rotoscope these shots from the upcoming Hollywood film Where you just try to just throw manual labor at it. I think that's something which will definitely be replaced The safe jobs are those that involve critical thinking wide-skilled tasks where you know how to use Different softwares and different solutions in the right way and niche tasks which are too or too small to bother automating So our direction project management good generalists Program is obviously to oversee a lot of the scripts and the programs people are using and freelancers because they will always be a Market for people who don't want to use any software whatsoever and they want to pay you instead So really the the at-risk jobs are the undesirable grunt tasks It's the stuff that nobody wants to do but we have to because it's part of the job The actual art I think that's safe And failing that if that itself, you know wasn't enough to make you feel better The the forecasts for the 3d industry is insane. It is blowing up For almost every single one of these sectors you're expecting to see huge amounts of growth over the next five to ten years And that's not by the way even taking into account VR One report said that 3d rendering and visualization is expecting to see twenty five point five percent growth per year until 2025 compound annual growth or Basically double by 2022 and quadruple by 2025 So the number of people at this conference in four years from now could be double that by 2025 quadruple that I think the 3d industry is is poised to blow up So yeah, maybe each studio there would be a reduction of the grunt work The the juniors that they're hiring to do the stuff that nobody actually enjoys anyway But in its place there might be five studios around it so That is it that was that you climatic wasn't it thanks guys


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Good morning everybody. My name is Lucia Hindorf. I'm a Program Director in the Division of Genomic Medicine at the NHGRI. I'm one of the Program Directors that works on the Clinical Sequencing and Exploratory Research or CSER program, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the joint CSER Emerge meeting today. Those of you that were at the last joint CSER Emerge meeting will remember that it occurred during a federal government shutdown, so I'm particularly pleased to actually be here in the room today with you all. So that's really just the starting point, that the program committee has done a fantastic job in identifying a number of sessions that are sure to be of joint interest to both consortia and speaking from the CSER standpoint, we've been thinking about these things for quite some time, so it's particularly special to have twice the brain power in the room to discuss and tackle these issues. So I'll turn it over to my colleague Rong Ling-Li right now.


Tony had a sore ankle from his last football game, and the doctor he had seen had told him that it was just a light sprain. It would heal shortly, but not keep him from competing. He was not the injury to the ankle, but that straining it before it heals will make other injuries far more likely. He was just so painful that he lipped. The coach, when he talked to him about it, noted that the team had a chance to take the Simmons Trophy, and his sitting out the game would reduce their chance of beating Clyde in their final game. You need to think what this means to the school. That said, Tony, to thinking, did the school have different values than the students? In the end, the choice would be his. But what was this about a school purpose? Whose purpose was this? He knew his parents had purpose. That is why he wasn't school. It was to get an education, to come out as an effective adult. He knew the teachers had a purpose, but it was also focused on his coming out as an educated adult. Who was it who had some different purpose? Say hello to the enemy of civilization. It is a spirit that, for the good of the students, is willing to sacrifice a student. It is gathering of people who, like a mob, have so little sense of purpose that they can accept a group purpose that is not the purpose of the people in the group. It is seen in a national government that is willing to sacrifice the wealth of its people and the lives of its young men to accomplish some political influence that is not so heavily valued by the people of the nation. While this enemy is encountered in most corporate gatherings, it is most visible in associations where the people are not gathered for any performance purpose, but are simply associated with each other. It is then that any leadership can claim purpose based on being correct or authoritative without having any real support for the claim. Performance analysis is cruel in its simplicity. If people are compelled to act to a purpose that is not their own, then they are being denied personal freedom. If people are taxed to support a war that provides the people no benefit, their prosperity is being taken. The purpose of this enemy is anti-human. It is to assault the welfare of the family, to deny or limit personal freedoms, and to reduce personal prosperity. So what is it to a student? Does it impact upon education? The answer is an interference with the students growing into an effective adult. It is seen in doing things for the good of the school, or furtherance of education, or for political reasons, instead of for the purpose of the students, parents, and teachers. It is distraction from the purpose of education to see to other purposes that are not the purposes of the people. In the United States, it is probably most clearly seen in teaching regular classes in Spanish for Spanish-speaking students, and teaching eubonics as a dialect of English. It is teaching that interferes with communication among U.S. citizens, as if this was some sort of benefit for students. It is redirecting of communication from learning to communicate among citizens to other purposes, purposes that interfere with open communication. This is the enemy of civilization in full display, teaching language as a social lesson that divides people of the nation, instead of bringing them to common understandings. The enemy is seen in teaching black history as if people have been living in two separate worlds. Again, it is teaching of separation and enforced division, instead of bringing people together to gain anything. Who does it serve? Who is it that benefits from teaching division and separation? Who benefits when graduates from our public education cannot even understand each other clearly? It does not serve the students. It does not serve their parents. It certainly does not serve the teachers. With performance orientation, we see that it does not serve the public. As a student, there is little that you can do to avoid this abuse of education. You are intentionally the subject of it. What you can do is focus on your own personal time and effort and becoming an effective adult.  As a teenager, you will increasingly be able to direct your efforts to what will serve your personal and social purpose. And that will aid you in becoming able to draw together with other adults to accomplish what you all value. Where you as a student choose to commit your own time and effort to see to your own understanding of educational purpose, you will almost certainly gain the support of both parents and teachers. Your efforts to become an effective adult are in accord with the larger public purpose and with the purpose of people in general.


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