Putin will again use natural gas as a weapon. Natural gas will continue to be a valuable resource with high global demand for a considerable period to come. Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted. Speaking via video link at an event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of state energy company Gazprom, the Russian leader noted that global gas consumption has nearly doubled in the last 30 years and is expected to increase by at least 20% in the next 20 years. In the so-called transitional phase, demand will be huge and countries of the Asia Pacific will account for more than half of this growth, especially of course in China, given its economic development rate, Putin said. Further growth of the huge gas industrial complex already established in the east of Russia is strategically vital for the country, the president added. Regarding Gazprom, Putin described the state-owned companies explored energy reserves as enormous. Well, here are the Bovonenkovskoe and Karasaveyskoe gas fields. The first one contains 4.9 trillion cubic meters of proven reserves, almost 5 trillion. The second one about 2 trillion cubic meters. These are astronomical reserves for any country, the head of the state observed.


Good morning everybody. We're just leaving Summit, South Dakota on our way to Calgary, but we're sopping by the house on the way, so we'll be at the house tonight. Freeway I-29 North here. The wholesome donkeys today. Five and a half to six hours of driving. Well, about four hours from the Canadian border. Take too long. This load I have behind me, this steel that I showed you in yesterday's video. If you haven't watched that, go back and watch that. This steel has some special requirements for me to do at the border. I got to go talk to the broker at the border and get some special paperwork for it to be cleared. So it's a little different and hopefully it won't take too much longer than usual crossing into Canada. Well, close to the border, I was going to say Brandon, or pretty much at the border with Saskatchewan. We're still in Manitoba. We're at this little rest area here. And we've got some very unfortunate news for you. There's white stuff falling from the sky. A boat in it too. Okay. Weasel, you ready? You ready, buddy? You would? Okay, he's ready. We still live in Canada. Yeah, okay. That's cool. Western Canada. Eastern Canada's probably still all nice and toasty warm right now. Western Canada's getting snow. All right. How about it? Beasley, you want to go inside and we get on down the road before the snow buries us? What do you think? Didn't get your Marv wish idea, man. So I had to break out the winter jacket, mostly because I forgot my vest at home. Got this. So at least I'm reflective and shiny. People can see me and hopefully won't run me over and kill me. But other than that, yeah, it's getting chilly, but it is that time of year. We already had our first snowfall, but all that snow that we had a few weeks back that all melted like I figured it would. So this is our first normal snowfall, I think. It's only a few months, you know. October, is that not actually that cold yet? It gets colder. October, November, December, they're okay. Don't worry about those months. If you're new around here, don't worry about those months. Even the first week or so of January. Last two weeks of January, first two weeks of February.  That's when you have to make sure you use a diesel fuel anti-gel, fuel conditioner, and your fuel. Make sure that your fuel doesn't get so cold that your diesel fuel will actually turn to jello. If you don't put conditioner in it, it's happened to me more than once. It's terrible and it leaves you stranded in the middle of a very cold winter and your truck doesn't run. So that's what we have to look forward to. But the best part about it is that after spring comes and then summer comes. So it doesn't last forever. It's part of life up here. Now you learn to love it.  I don't hate it. It's part of life. I actually enjoy the winter because it purifies the land, right? Hold on. Telling a story.  What? Me and Britt are talking about setting up the Christmas tree soon. Not yet, not yet, but a couple of weeks. She's all excited. I was talking about, oh yeah, the cold comes in and it kills off everything. So we have really no poisonous animals up here. I can go walking right through the long grass and not have to worry about a snake biting me. Oh, we have our garter snakes. They're not poisonous.  I mean, you go further west into B.C. where it doesn't get as cold and you got black widow spiders and more poisonous snakes and here in Manitoba it keeps the riffraff out, you know? Humans and animals. They just stay away because it's way too cold. No one wants to live here. Not even wildlife. They don't want to live here. That's why I live here. I like my peace and quiet. Oh, it's time to get going. My dad is on his way to Edmonton and he's just probably about an hour ahead of me right now. He just messaged me to tell me that it's snow blowing over the road over there. So it's probably pretty much the same as this here. But he also said that there's clear skies ahead of him. No, we're still in the rest area, Karen. I don't know where you're going. I'm going to Calgary. Heart of the New West. That's their slogan, right? Is that still their slogan or was their slogan last time I checked? Heart of the New West. So let's get out there. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad, but if dad says there's clear skies ahead of him that's just a couple of hours ahead of me. So we just got to make it through this little perfluffle of weather here. Whoa, was that? Ah! Whoa! Ha! I don't make those sounds of me. Grumpy truck. I don't like it that it's snowing either. I think I need to get my windshield wiper motors replaced soon. When they're cold, they do that. They scream at me. Coffee in the morning. Sucking the fuel at 55 to 60 liters per 100 kilometers. Just have to use my brakes. Just let the wind slow me down. Wow, just pulling into Musumen here. Gonna go say hello to Timmy Hose. Grab myself a coffee. Some breakfast. Maybe they got those Belgian waffles. What are they? What are you calling things again? It's like a biscuit, but instead of having a biscuit it's got a little Belgian waffle. I don't know what it's called. It's delicious though. Car charging stations here as well. They have them in Whitewood, which is the next town over heading west. Calm down, Karen. No one cares right now. I don't think they're getting them here. I wouldn't be surprised if they did eventually though. As we were talking about in the past, Canada is developing the TransCanada Highway from coast to coast into an electric highway where you'll be able to have regular electrical charge ups. I guess you can do a cross-country road trip then in your Tesla. Good for you. As long as I can before getting an electric vehicle because I want other people to test it out for me. I want them to work all the bugs out before I buy one. I wouldn't mind having a Tesla, but they have a version of the pickup truck that they're working on right now, but it's so ugly. It is ugly. I want a tough-looking pickup truck that looks just as good as my pickup truck if I'm going to buy an electric one. And it better be four-wheel drive and have all the same capabilities and towing capabilities. That's what I was wondering too. If I want to tow my travel trailer across the country, how would I do that with an electric vehicle? What am I going to have to stop every hour for an eight-hour charge? So many questions. I don't trust it yet. I don't trust it, but I'm willing to see where it goes. I'm willing to see where it goes.  Let me know how it goes. Maybe, maybe one day they'll convert me. Maybe. Oh, they put a fence back here now. We can't park back here anymore. Is that not their property? Oh, what's this? Look at it. Look at these little poles here. I bet you they're building an electric charging station there, speaking of. Okay. We'll have an open mind, okay? I haven't open my soul on it yet. And I don't guarantee I ever will be. Potholes, man. Maybe spend, spend some money into fixing these potholes instead of building a little fence. I don't know. Just a thought. It's going to be a good day now. It's going to be a good day now. Got myself a sausage and bacon wrap. Oh, there's a hash brown at the bottom too. It's on a hash brown. I'm going to have that right now. And for dessert, I got myself a honey crueler donut. Mmm. I myself a large coffee, two cream and a shot of espresso in it. Just to make sure it tastes like coffee because Tim Hortons doesn't know how to make real coffee. I know I'm, that was just a sin against all things Canadian.  Excuse me for talking with food in my mouth. Hungry. But their dark roast is a little better. So I got dark roast with a shot of espresso. Gives you that extra little pow right in the face that you need in the morning, you know? You have a kick right in the face. Ready, Diesel? Right in the kisser. Yeah? Oh, you want this? Oh, I get what you want. So I checked my weather app while I was stopped there and apparently this wind is not going to stop until we get near Calgary. So this will be an all day, it's so windy out here. Look at this, like what the big fans turned on again. Direction going east right now. Practically just put it in neutral and let the wind push you home.   And it's sooner or not a minute later. Apparently they have the police there. I was telling you this already, right? Yeah. I don't know why, but we're going to find out. Very curious why they'd have the police there. If I show up early, they're going to give me a fine. Too many people can say that they'll actually get a fine from the police if they're early to work. I don't know if they'll find me if I'm late too. 12 noon on the button. It's when they want me there. Found ourselves in swift current, Saskatchewan, and naturally found ourselves at Walmart. I needed groceries, what? And I just like Walmart. I was really low on food. And by low I mean I was out. No food, no water in here. I don't like to do that because what if I become stranded, right? What if I get stranded? No food, no water. That is a recipe for not a very pleasant time. So we're all set now for the next couple of weeks. Next week anyway. I don't like taking too many groceries with me because I just don't have the room and my fridge is really small. But it is. Take the entrance to the right on Highway 1 West. How do I get on the TransCanada here? TransCanada? Here we go. Number 1 West. We want to continue going west into beautiful, beautiful Alberta. We should be there in a couple hours. We still have about five hours of driving to get to Calgary. I'm going to be getting there pretty late, but I don't deliver until noon tomorrow so there's that. Not a minute sooner, not a minute later. Too big of a rush. The highway here continue our trek.


Today, I am at Epcot because I hear they have some fantastic annual pass holder exclusives, a little secret dessert, and some surprising discounts that they have not offered before. So let's go do this. Talk about a surprisingly slow day. Frozen Ever After is only a 40 minute wait. And actually the highest wait out of all the attractions in the park is Test Track at 45 minutes. Soaring is only 15 minutes, living with the land is closed, and oh, grand fiesta, two or five minutes. I guess first thing on the list is to head into the land to check out the secret dessert that they're exclusively offering to annual pass holders. I've seen some pictures of it online already, but I really want to try it. I want to know what it tastes like. It looks like it's delicious, but I want to know if it's delicious. So the location for the super secret dessert is going to be at Sunshine Seasons. That's kind of like a tongue twister. Sunshine Seasons. Sunshine Treesons. Sunshine Seasons. There we go. What an awesome planet. Wow, I got super nervous that maybe they closed. There's nobody down here. Huh. Who do I talk to about the super secret dessert? Okay, you want mine? Yes, super secret annual pass holder dessert. There it is. There it is, the annual pass holder secret dessert. It looks like it's a sugar cookie with vanilla gelato and chocolate drizzle on top. I'm excited, and it actually was pretty cheap. Only $4.68 with your annual pass holder discount. Not too shabby. That does not include the annual pass. I'm going to take that back now. Just pretty for the photo op.  I mean, it is an ice cream sandwich, but honestly, that is huge, isn't it? I'm going to go for it. I mean, I don't know what else to say. Oh boy. Look at that. Oh yeah. Nope. Nope. You cannot eat that like an ice cream sandwich, or you can't take one big bite out of it. It is way too thick, so I guess you got to kind of just nibble away at it. That is delicious. Look at that. Look at the cookie. It is really good, and the gelato is really good too. It definitely gets my stamp of approval. I do have to say, it does make quite a mess, so be careful. One thing about this dessert that I just don't understand is, it's pre-made and it's sitting in the freezer, but how do they freeze it without the cookies getting hard? The cookie is soft. How is it saying soft? If you freeze cookies, they get hard, right? But no, the cookie is soft and the ice cream or the gelato is hard, which makes it like a very good texture. I like it a lot. Now that we have officially determined that the secret annual pass holder dessert is indeed delicious, we are going to head to World Showcase to show you some other cool annual pass holder exclusives, but it's not dark outside. It did start raining. Raindrops falling on my head. Well I thought I was taking the quick route over to World Showcase and then this big wall showed up, so I'm going to have to go in here and then come out the other side and they got this all blocked off. Must be getting ready for food and wine. Speaking of food and wine, I did talk to the girl that works at Sunshine Shesons and they said that the annual pass holder special dessert is probably going to be available all the way up until that time or until it actually sells out by popular demand. I tell you what, I love it when it rains. Look at this, everybody, there's wide open spaces. This is definitely a prime example of my crowd calendar, how to tell when it's actually busy at Disney World and that's if you can run around in a circle without bumping into people. I've got a slight confession, I like the smell of wet ponchos. And look at that, getting ready for food and wine, August 29th, I'm going to be very excited. There's a lot of cool things coming and I am stoked. I think that was the first time I've ever said stoked, an actual sentence. Look at those gondolas scooting by, it's like the boats waiting from the pass, up, up, there it goes, double transportation, love it. So our next annual pass holder exclusive is going to be a discount because now they offer 10% discount on alcohol at Block and Hans and Fife and Drum, which is pretty awesome because you don't get that, I mean you get tables in Wonderland for sit down services but 10% is 10% and I'm all in. We can get a beer flight, some local light lager, some American beauty paleo, 10% hey. So the beer flight is only $9.50, I'm thinking. So I decided to get the Kentucky Vanilla Barrel Cream Ale, it's $9.50, save myself a dollar, a dollar I say. One more super awesome annual pass holder perk that they got going on is reserve seating for Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Live. You get actually these nice two front rows there, all free annual pass holders, nobody actually came for the show though so they actually like took down the sign and just opened it up to everybody. But it's pretty awesome that they do give you that reserve spot. I'm not going to stay and watch the show because I did just see the show I think last week or the week before because there is something else I want to show you guys, another annual pass holder perk. So we're going to move along, thank you. I don't know if I got to tell you guys that I made a very wise decision with getting the Kentucky Vanilla beer because they don't actually include it in the flight. I was going to get the flight but the fact that this was missing out, I am very happy that I got it because it is delicious. I guess enough with the beer though because we are at the Italy Pavilion and over here they actually have a photo pass opportunity just for annual pass holders. So I wanted to catch that before the actual sun went down so we need to find ourselves a photo pass photographer. I know they're around here somewhere. Not fogging up. Hey, boss. Hey. Sorry. How are you? Good. Are you doing the annual pass holder photo opportunity? This was monitoring the way onto night shot so I don't have the button. Oh no. Yeah. I missed it. Yeah. Well I guess we're going to have to chalk that up to a fail because they aren't doing the annual pass holder photo pass opportunity at night. It's only a daytime thing but it is here on the bridge at Italy. And I don't know. I guess I'll just have to improvise. I'm sorry I wasn't able to show you guys the annual pass holder photo pass opportunity but I hope my shot's actually made up for it a little bit. I'll definitely come back and check it out and there are a couple of other offerings that they are giving for annual pass holders including a free dessert if you're dining at Coral Reef but we didn't dine there today so I couldn't show you that. But other than that, lots of cool stuff happening at Epcot and I absolutely had a blast here today. So, love the life you live and we'll see you next time. Bye. I did that so you can see the spaceship right now.


Hello, hello. And welcome to another coordinating call of DM25, the Movement for Europe, featuring progressive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. I'm Merron Khalili, and we've got a few topics for you today. First, we'll talk about the crisis at the EU-Belarus border where tens of thousands of families are stranded in desperate conditions. To what extent are they being weaponized by political forces in Belarus and political forces in the EU? Then we'll talk about Germany, where we've just founded a new political party. What are the next steps there for us at DM25? And as the new coalition government takes shape, what are we going to do about providing a progressive alternative for German voters? We'll talk about how to make next Black Friday or Black Friday, make Amazon Payday with our sister organization, the Progressive International. But first, there's someone who unfortunately is missing here today, and that's our colleague, Rosemary Beckler, who passed away last weekend. So first, we'll be remembering her. Janis, please get us started. Thank you, Merron. Rosemary is one of those exemplary comrades, human beings, scholars, activists, that we simply could not afford to do without, not just DM25, the planet, humanity. I got to know her because she joined DM25 on day one of DM25 when we converged in Berlin. She was there. She had no reason to be there, except that as a true internationalist, left-wing socialist internationalist, she saw in DM25 an opportunity to work across borders. That was the one thing that really motivated Rosemary's life, to break down borders. Whether these are borders between communities, trade unions and political parties, different groups and group of schools within the left, the Greens, different regions and countries, she had this penchant for demolishing the walls that separate, she had this true belief, genuine belief in the capacity of progressive causes to bind together people and communities. And ever since she joined DM25, she's been the best example one can think of of somebody who is hugely supportive of everyone, each and every one of us, while at the same time being hugely critical. Because today, with all this nonsense that has infected even the left about the importance of safe spaces and everybody being kind to everyone, she is a paragon of what we really need it, which is, yes, you need to support everyone, everybody must feel that they belong, while at the same time being ruthlessly critical of everyone, including herself. She, you can go into a website and you can see that Johannes and others and David have put together a beautiful tribute to Rosemary Bachelor. I shall simply end this, I could talk for four hours by saying that none of us knew she was sick because she thought it was just a nuisance that she was very ill. And she also believed that as long as she had the breath inside of her, she was immortal. And the way she put it to us was that because she was actually sending us messages with guidelines on what we should do for our national health service campaign in Britain, our party in Germany, our party in Greece, even while she was dying from a hospital bed. And most of us didn't even know she was sending us those messages from a hospital bed. We just, I knew, but I was even trying to, it was very difficult to imagine that she was so ill because her messages were long and juicy. And then at some point they stopped. And that was the end. Soon after that, we found out from Nick, her wonderful husband, great comrade that she passed. It's devastating for all of us. But at the same time, we have a duty to celebrate her life and to draw strength from that. She would not want us to lament. She would not want us to mourn. She would simply want to do that what she said in her last email to me. And I'm sure in other emails, she had equally significant things to say, poignant things to say to others. She said, go to sleep now, she said. You've been very tired with all this campaigning that you do. I will go to sleep as well. But going to sleep simply meant recovering strength to continue the struggle. So here's to you, Rosemary. Thank you, Yanis, and we'll miss you, Rosemary. Okay, we're going to talk now about the crisis at the EU Belarus border. And if I can pass the ball back to you, Yanis, because I know that you have to go and you started talking about this topic last time. And it's evolved a little bit since then. So perhaps if you could speak about that and then we can open it up to everyone else on this topic. Well, the great German philosopher, not even a hugely progressive one, Emmanuel Kant, made the point that the one thing we don't have the right to do is to treat human beings as means to some exogenous objective and that we have a duty as human beings to treat human beings as ends in themselves. To treat them for what they are. An autonomous purpose. So weaponizing and instrumentalizing people is a form of slavery. And Kant's point, and I think it was a good one, one that another German philosopher Hegel took further, was that if you do that, if you instrumentalize people, then without recognizing it, without even realizing it, you are instrumentalizing even yourself. Okay, from the highly abstract philosophical, let's go down to earth and to the tangible. In the summer of 2015, when Syrian refugees and other refugees started streaming from Turkey to Greece, the island of Lesbos famously, but other islands as well. Angela Merkel had an epiphany for about 10, 15 days. She was a good person. She opened Germany's borders to these refugees. And immediately after that, the Christian Democrats within her own party threatened to topple her. So being Angela Merkel, she immediately came to a very sorted deal with President Erdogan of Turkey. Effectively what Merkel did was to go to Mr. Erdogan and bribe him with billions of euros so that Erdogan would allow her and the rest of the European Union, which did as it was told by Angela Merkel, to violate international law. What Erdogan was trying to do was to increase his own power vis-a-vis the European Union. And he was instrumentalizing these refugees, controlling the flow of refugees to the European Union, okay? In order to extract benefits, diplomatic benefits, financial benefits and other benefits from Angela Merkel. And Angela Merkel cut a deal with him. She bribed him with billions of dollars and euros to, you know, if he regulated those flows, we would then violate, we the Greeks, the Germans and so on, we would violate our obligations to refugees. So it was a double weaponization or instrumentalization of hapless refugees. Erdogan was weaponizing the refugees so as to extract concessions and money from Merkel. Merkel was weaponizing and instrumentalizing the refugees so as to signal to their friends in Syria, in Nigeria, in Ghana, in Afghanistan, don't come to Europe because you will end up in Turkey or in a horrible camp, you know, on Samo's. Now we have prison camps, you know, like prisons, large prisons. Why am I mentioning this? I was supposed to be talking about Belarus. Well, because if one dictator discovers that there are benefits to be had, similar to the ones that another dictator has extracted from the European Union, what did Merkel think? Didn't she know that Lukashenko and others would, you know, bordering the EU would look at all the benefits that Erdogan manages to extract from her and say, I want some too. So this is exactly what he did. When the European Union started imposing sanctions against Belarus, the regime, the leadership of Belarus, Lukashenko said, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it as Erdogan did. So he had some refugees imported from Turkey and other places to Belarus and weaponized them. And what is the European Union doing? Instrumentalizing those people. So you've got the Belarusian authorities pushing them towards Europe, the European Union, the European Union pushing them back. And now Angela Merkel and Lukashenko are engaged in exactly the same process of corrupt misanthropic issues that Merkel and Erdogan and they will find some formula. But what really matters is that Europe is losing its soul. It is selling its soul out in exactly the same way with Belarus as it was with Turkey. This is to the detriment of the people of Turkey, to the detriment of people of Belarus, to the detriment of the souls of citizens of the European Union and of course, to the detriment of Scotland in no man's land. This Europe is going to go down in history as their major violator of human rights. You know, Lukashenko, he's here today, gone tomorrow. The European Union is supposed to be a rules-based liberal democratic construct. This liberal democratic construct, which is only liberal and only democratic in name, is going to be the one that history will judge very, very harshly. Sianis, Maya Pelovich. So yesterday we had an opportunity to see an episode of The Envoys where my dear guest was Basil Abu Fahir who is a Syrian cellist that now lives in Brussels. And I had an opportunity to talk with him and probably we will have a link in somewhere where you can see it and you can see the whole show. But while talking to him, I had an opportunity to hear his whole story because he is a Syrian refugee. He came to Europe in 2015. He was one of the fortunate ones. He was from an upper class family. So he had money to actually come to Europe. And he told us, which you can hear in the show, the whole situation of him coming to Europe and of all the criminal activities that happened while he was coming and he needed thousands and thousands of Europe, him and his family to come to Europe. He was of course in the refugee camp for fortunately only a some month and a half or two months in very terrible conditions. But he was, and he says about himself that he was one of the fortunate ones. Of course, not all of the refugees were fortunate. Ask him to come to Brussels. But the thing that he forgot to tell me during the show, which I would like to say now because of course we talked about a lot of things. So we couldn't, he just forgot to tell me and it is an important thing is that he still has in his ID card where it says nationality. It doesn't say his nationality, but it says refugee. So from 2015 to now, which is like 2022 in a couple of months, he is still a refugee in Europe. And of course, all the expectations he had of the promised land Europe that he was coming to after a couple of years, now he thinks of Europe differently, seeing how Europe dealt with the whole crisis. And he also told me that of course at this moment because he doesn't want to return of course to Syria. He doesn't know what the situation precisely there is because he doesn't live there anymore. But still in a way he thinks that the war in Middle East is not finished, it's just began. And he thinks from his position of a young man that lives in Brussels from Syria, that the whole story has just started and we will see a lot of it in the near future. So I think that this is a crisis that is not over and in my opinion and of course in his opinion and that it's a crisis we will have to deal with in the next periods. Thank you for sharing that Maya. Ivana, Nenadavic. Yes, thank you. I would like to underline basically what Janice and Maya already said. And that is the hypocrisy that I can see from the European Union once again when it comes to this judging non-EU countries for not accepting the refugees while the EU has barbed wired fences and the dogs at the border of Hungary or Croatia. So we must not forget that refugees are coming daily to the Balkans to Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia which are also passing the hot potato between the borders.  And those prison camps are just torture points for them where they're waiting, the bureaucracy is heavy. Maybe 10 of them will pass, maybe they won't. It's just torture. And now the focus is only shift to Belarus and Polish border in my opinion because there is just another dictator that should be replaced. So it's convenient, but unfortunately it doesn't have anything to do with solving the crisis and providing people the free movement. Thanks, Ivana, Patricia. Potso. Thank you. Well, on one hand Europe seems as Ivana just said once again to be unable to deal with these humanitarian crisis. But let me underline that it's interesting to see that a network of mayors is coming up to welcome these refugees. Let me explain you a little bit better. There is on one hand government of the national countries that are completely unable to find any form of agreement. On the other hand, mayors of the same countries is starting working together. I can make example. For example, I live part of my week in Palermo. The mayor of the city of Palermo is one of these men. But there are also other cities like Tirana, like Postnam in Germany, for example. And they are trying all together at least first of all to welcome people who need to be welcome. And after this starting any other type of discussion. So that it's interesting for us as DM-25 also to understand that's what we always said that local, in a way, local solution, municipality is a good way probably a form of possible hope in this moment. Where of course once again, Europe is totally unable. Thank you, Patricia. And thank you for moving us towards solutions in this terrible situation. Avid Castro. Thank you, Mehran. Just to go back to what Maya was saying earlier about Basel because I actually happened to live with him. So I've heard these stories over the last five years since I've known him when we met here in Brussels. By the way, Basel also was the person who created the music for our DM-25 documentary. If you haven't seen it, you should go and watch it on our YouTube channel. But just a little comment about Basel. The idea when coming to Europe, a lot of people obviously would imagine that it would be a land of peace and a land of security and somewhere that they could look forward to living with their families and so on. But what actually happened, and not just to Basel, but to I would say the majority of refugees and migrants that have arrived in Europe over the last 10, 20 years has been precisely the opposite. Instead of finding peace and security, they found essentially permanent insecurity where their families have been split up. They haven't been able to see each other. And that's something that we have to change. I mean, what kind of European Union is this? And even he mentioned yesterday, there is no European Union. There's a European, this Union has also we've been saying at the DM-25. So we have to put forward solutions as a movement. We have to be able to also be in power in order to implement those solutions so that we can actually act as a European Union and not this kind of divided and this United, this, you know, Union of States, apparently that we have today, you know, this has to end so that we can actually be a force for good in the world, but also within our continent. Thank you, David. Well said. Amir Kiayi. Thank you, Mehran. And just to add to, you know, as you're moving the conversation into what the policy positions, et cetera, should be in DM-25, as many of the audience might have seen from our website, we have a green paper on a migration issue, of course. And not only do we include measures that are looking at the issue from a short-term point of view instead of changing, for example, front-text from a, you know, militarized border force into a search and rescue, et cetera, transition, but also looking at the underlying causes of the crisis facing us. And that is primarily wars and military conflict, which Europe is very much involved in, whether it's supporting dictators that lead to civil wars, et cetera, across the near East and in Africa and other parts of the world, but also the fact that the weapons industry is quite active in many of these countries. That's the first issue. The second issue, of course, is climate change. And as the audience also is aware of from a green idea, for your point of view, we are trying to tackle that. So this is the difference. We are looking at the audience, and if there's any people who are willing and able to join DM-25 to work on these policies, that would be very welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Amir. And if you'd like to work on that, DM-25.org slash join is the address to stick into your browser. Let's move to our next topic. The weekend before last, no, was it last weekend? I forget now. These weekends are merging into the weeks, but we've recently started a party in Germany, a political party called Mara 25, as our Greek party is called. And next steps, what are the next steps for that party? How can people in Germany and across Europe get involved in providing a real progressive alternative for people in Germany? Let's start with Judith Meyer. Yeah, I think that people are already realizing how important our alternative will be for Germany, because as you may have heard, the coalition talks are in their final stages. And we're seeing that basically the only reason a lot of people voted greens to prevent climate catastrophe is not really a big topic for the greens there, rather happy to give up a lot of the goals, such as ending coal earlier, or restricting the sale of combustion engines earlier than the EU demands it anyway. Also, we're seeing that the list of prospective ministers that has been leaked is very dark. We would see, for example, Lindner as finance minister. So this means more austerity for Europe. And also for Germany, of course, he would have a very strong line on that. Then what, that was kind of expected, I mean, between, it was always going to be either Habeck or Lindner. Habeck would have been better, I think. What was less expected is that the FDP, that is the Liberal Party, they're going to claim the health ministry and they want to put in a guy called Teura. I was not so familiar with this guy before, but apparently he's close to the corona denying faction, like close to, yeah, basically it's going to be a catastrophe to have this guy in charge of the health ministry at this time, even if he doesn't explicitly say that there is no pandemic, he's saying that we should behave as if there was no pandemic, he is against closing anything down, basically anything that might hurt the economy. That is looking pretty awful. And yeah, the Greens would have mainly a topic in the economy and climate ministry, which would be a powerful ministry, but who cares if they're not even going to have any rigid targets in the coalition treaty, who cares. And yeah, Annalena Berbuck would be foreign minister. Now I might have said previously that it's a good idea for the Greens to have the foreign ministry because the Greens come from a tradition of pacifists and pro-migrant stances, but Berbuck in particular is not a pacifist, she's as hawkish as the Green can get. And also the Greens have been hemming and hawing about the refugee crisis on Europe's borders in the past few weeks. So if they're doing that before they even formally get into government, I am not expecting all that much from them. And I think that a lot of people are seeing this already who might have put their hopes in the Greens or in SPD, and they're seeing that basically this government will be not that different from the previous ones and that is why we need this alternative for Germany and we needed it yesterday. Thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say you painted the picture. Fortunately, we have an alternative. Johannes, tell us about that. Yes, thanks. We had a very exciting weekend. Actually it was 10 days ago, 13th of November here in Berlin where we presented Mera 25, who's going to be, which is going to be an alternative for politics in Germany to be different from what we just heard tonight. I think beginning with the migrant crisis and people being used from different sides, as Janis explained, as well as the current COVID crisis really getting very, very bad here in Germany and the cases are rising and there's no politics that actually tackles that. And of course, as well as Judith already said now, the climate crisis is lurking behind and what we really need I think is the politics that in the current talks, the word stability is used a lot. Stability for the finances, stability to not change that much, but I think what we really need for all kinds of reasons that I've just mentioned is a new vision for actually taking responsibility, politics taking responsibility for the states of the country as we are in and the continent as well, of course, and what we presented and there will be this week, there will be a video released from the whole event so you can all watch it. So watch out our YouTube channels of the Mera 25, our party in Germany, but also this one of course for this video to rewatch the event and what we presented was our program and not the 160 pages that you can read on our website but the 11 goals that we have that we took out of this program and that are important for us. I'm going to mention two now, which are tackling some of the things that we heard about tonight. The first one to mention is the goal to abolish Frontex. As Amir already mentioned as the M25 has the goal to transform it into something that is good for humanity. That's also what we are going to have as one of our aims of the lecture wing, the party in Germany and to abolish the debt break that we have actually written in our constitution in Germany which is a huge problem for all good things and good things you would be able to do if you would actually manage to get into power to change our society and fight climate change and our social problems that we have. This is not possible with the current stability policy that is very prominent in Germany and we are going to take this hat on. Thank you, Johannes. Juliana next but perhaps you can answer the question for me. If I'm sitting in Germany watching this and I like what I just heard from Johannes and I want to get involved, how do I do it? What does the M25 new party in Germany marry 25 need and also what's the electoral timeline that you guys are looking at? When might this party be competing in elections or is that not yet decided, Juliana? Yes, thank you, Mehran. Well, to answer your question I think we can put the link to our homepage of Mehran25.de in the chat so this is where you can first look at our programme and there you have all the information you need about us at this moment. For us it will be, I think, and this is just, we haven't finished our strategy yet but we're looking at local elections probably in the middle of next year and not trying this far. That could be something realistic for us so this will be our first step. There are other local elections before but there are two short notice for us and what we need is basically everyone. We need everything and everyone. I think with the election being now two months away what you can really see in Germany in Germany feels like an abandon ship right now. The current Chancellor is kind of gone and the new government is yet to come but I've saw recent polls and there hasn't been that much less trust in a government coming up after elections in this one. Schultz is also a Vice Chancellor at this point but he hasn't been publicly seen for two months so I think there is a lot of fears and a lot of anxiety going around to Germany about what's happening here. The corona crisis is at the same point as it was last year but there's no plan. There's no one having any vision how to come out of this. The new government hasn't said anything so I think it's really time for people to look for alternatives and they will look for alternatives because how I can feel it in my circle of people friends around there are all like we have no idea what's coming up the next five years and nobody's very hopeful that any goal will be reached when it comes to climate crisis or when it comes to the low wages when it comes to essential workers because they are really really being really isolated in this crisis they have to work all the time and to be there for the mistakes that politics are making and work all the time but they're not getting much more payment and I think the new government will not do that so this is what I'm saying is people need to organize and they need to voice what they want because it won't be served to them just because it's the right thing to do because what we see is politics in Germany is not doing the right thing it's just simply playing political chess games who will be getting which ministry and so on so I think it's clear to everyone and for us it will be very exciting to start from that point because it's not a better point to start from I mean it's not nice that we have this situation but I think it's a good point to start speaking to people and giving them a perspective with our program, with our points and to see how they will react on it and I think from the event last week or ten days ago we already saw that many many people are on board with our program and that's very important so please check it out and join Thank you Juliana and for you out there who may have missed the address mera25.de if you would like a new way of doing politics in Germany get off the spectator seats and sign up and get in touch and you can be part of making this happen Beral, Beral Madra on Germany Thank you Yes looking to all these developments from Turkey maybe we'll make the environment more clear what I'm thinking is at the moment we have already 5 million refugee people living in Turkey but today one dollar became 13 lira which is quite high I have really no problems with my living but even people in my position are thinking about the next future in Turkey because everything inflation is 30% or something so how do you think all these 5 million people will be able to live in Turkey when 20 million people are under hunger line and another 15 million is power to line so I think the governments the new government in Germany and all the other governments will have a difficult problem in front of them because these people will not be able to live in Turkey forever so there will be another movement from Turkey to Europe because when I went to take my visa I saw a line of 100 people in 3 hours there were 100 people and people the official people there told me that everyday 200 people are looking for visa to Europe so maybe people will take their time and go to the visa offices in Turkey and one by one they will come to Europe so in the near future Europe will have a more difficult problem dealing with all these foreign people the others they are the others they are all still the others for European populations so I think this will be a problem thank you Beryl and migration will definitely be something that the German party will be aiming to tackle if when it gets in power ok let's move on to the next topic this Friday is Black Friday and as last year we are going to attempt to make Amazon pay we've got David Adler from our sister organisation the progressive international talk about this campaign David the floor is yours press the wrong button you should be able to see me now thanks for the introduction I think you said we are going to attempt to make Amazon pay now we will together make Amazon pay and we are very excited with the development, the evolution the growth of this campaign from a year ago where we had the crazy idea of building the first global coalition of workers environmental activists, tax justice advocates to take on Amazon and its exploitative labour practices destructive environmental policies that was a huge success for the first time we had traction in multiple countries we built a parliamentary group of over 400 MPs in 36 countries signing an open letter to Jeff Bezos to make it clear that the divide and conquer strategy that Amazon relies on to get its way in whatever jurisdiction this was not going to stand since then we've been working to build that coalition across Amazon's supply chain so that's not just the warehouse workers, delivery workers in countries like Germany and Poland and Spain and Italy although we have deep in the relationships across the unique global affiliates and Siegel in Italy and Verdi in Germany and many others but also across the supply chain in Cambodia and Bangladesh where government workers who are working for Amazon suppliers have faced mass firings and underpaying and wild schemes that basically suppress labour organizing in Amazon suppliers which we hold to be just as important as actual Amazon employees so this mobilization on Black Friday will be the largest in history strikes and protest actions in over 20 countries it will be a true transnational strike which in the spirit of GM25 speaks to our vision of the world and its need to transcend national boundaries and defence of things like workers' rights and put an end to corporate impunity and we're calling on everyone to get involved so we're very excited about the work that we're already doing with people like Lucas with Claudia with David on having the campaign take flight across the GM25 but we would encourage anyone who's watching the stream to go to makeamazonpay.com to see where the actions are located to get in touch with us if you'd like to host an action if you'd like to join one that's already there there should be some more information that we can pass along because we're going to need as many arms and legs and eyes and ears as possible to make this clear so we're calling on people to respect the digital picket line I think that the DM line on the Black Friday mobilization is that it shouldn't just be restricted to Black Friday that Black Friday is kicking off a whole weekend of engagement with these questions of consumer kind of gluttony and trying to contain that those deals in order to send the right signal to our corporate overlords that we won't stand for their corrosion of our democratic institutions and their erosion of labor rights so with all that keep your eyes out we'll be rolling out make sure to sign up so you can stay in touch with the campaign as we announce new actions as we roll out actions from the streets to the parliaments around the world and and get involved whether that's getting in touch with members of the CC who are involved with the campaign or whether it's getting in touch with the PI directly we'd love to hear from you and there's so much work to do to either stand in solidarity or advance this campaign in all the different domains where Amazon is present which as you did will remind us is the entire internet and many of the most destructive industries that we've been talking about on this call from the military industrial complex to front texts that I'm sure uses Amazon web services to issues around you know air to one and the deployment of surveillance technologies so it's time for us to stand up and I think that this Black Friday mobilization will be really inspiring moments and it's incredibly exciting for us to have DM leading that fight across Europe so thanks for the chance to speak about it briefly here and like I said make Amazon pay.com is where we'll have a lot of the information and chance to sign up to the campaign so you can stay at the date and get involved ahead of Friday thanks for that intro David just a quick question I mean could you perhaps give us a sneak preview of what people will be asking people to do how they can get involved for this campaign yeah so we have a list of strikes and actions and protests in different countries that are already planned so one of the major things we want to do is invite people across Europe to get involved with those actions to increase their size and representivity and have DM have a real presence in the actions that are already planned but there's also room to be hosting your own event I mean this thing can go from the smallest social media campaign 3-4 people who are getting online and you know kind of writing to tweeting about and facebooking about the campaign and the various people who are complicit in Amazon's various destructive practices from the shop floor all the way to the state house so that can be the smallest action all the way to organizing a small protest in your town square and your piazza where we're welcoming people to come we have all those assets posters banners all the things you might need to kind of set make the message public in the physical sense in your place I understand that many parts of Europe are going through another lockdown so if you don't happen to be in Austria or any other places affected by that lockdown we would welcome those actions and could put it out into the map of actions that we have now up on the site so it can really stretch from the small to the more ambitious and we have a lot of exciting stunts that I can't announce here but that are planned in places like Netherlands like Brazil to kind of have some fun with this and to try to use stunts to make sure the message is getting out there but it's not an exaggeration to say that Black Friday is one of the most profitable days for the corporation Amazon and so it's so critical that we kind of reclaim the power on that day as citizens as consumers as workers to send that message to Jeff Bezos and beyond Thanks David and a comment from the chat here that Make Amazon Pay seems to be catching really well catching on really well in my circles even those who have no clue what DM and Progressive International are so that's good I'm very glad that it's gaining traction and once again the address is MakeAmazonPay.com to get involved in that and I think with that we're getting close to the top of the hour we're going to wrap it up we've talked about the crisis of desperate families from the border between EU and Belarus we've talked about our progressive alternative that we're building in Germany a new political party that we founded we've talked about of course how to MakeAmazonPay and we've collectively remembered our colleague Rosemary Beckler who sadly died last weekend so thank you for paying attention for your comments on the chat and for supporting us for your engagement and we will see you at the same time in two weeks from now same place for the next


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to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine North. Today we're going to discuss pathways in eSports career. My guest is eSports thought leader, Danny Martin, the CEO and co-founder of eSplosure. Welcome, Danny. Thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of this particular podcast, engaging to be able to talk to individuals about eSports. Fantastic. Okay, so what is eSplosure? So, eSplosure is a technology eSports company that focuses on providing a pipeline for talent, for careers, for corporate entities, institutions and individuals who are aspiring to be eSports pros. All right, let's show the video. This is your pathway to pro. Opportunities are there in eSports. Wow, that's a really, really awesome question. And the fact that is, there's five segments in eSports that we coined. There's marketing in eSports, management in eSports, production in eSports, technology in eSports and the competition element of eSports. And in each of those segments, there are so many career opportunities within them. So let's break it down from a management perspective. You have general managers of eSports organizations. You have founders. You have individuals who engage with building out technology companies in regards to that of the management sector. And when it comes down to marketing, you have CMOs and marketing strategies and social media directors when it comes down to, you have to have publicists and PR companies when it comes down to the actual technology aspect. You have ATEM directors and individuals who operate that of OBS and StreamLab and VMIX. The individuals who are creating the equipment that allows the actual events to take place. And when you break it down to the competitive standpoint, you have the athletes that are competing on a daily basis from a professional and a aspiring gaming perspective. And then all the way to that of the production perspective.  And then you also have when it comes down to like marketing, management, production, technician, and then also the competition element. So each segment has several career opportunities that are involved in it. And I've been really fortunate to have a lot of those people and people who are on my show. And so how does exposure help people get into a career in the sport? Yeah. So we really started from an organic standpoint. Like when I was in college, I was running tournaments.  So that's number one. That's the first organic way of, you know, helping individuals showcase their skills so they can be on the top of the leader charts and ultimately obtain a job as a competitive gamer. And then we quickly recognize that, you know, if more people know us as helping professional gamers, because at this point, we have over eight gamers that have turned pro. One of those gamers, Dave Fry, $1.4 million prize first winner along with his team.  And so when people ask us, it's like, okay, well, we can help you. But then we got to recognize like, okay, well, you need branding. You need to understand how to utilize your social media. You need to understand, you know, where to go in regards to traveling, your budget and accounting. You know, you need a lawyer. You know, you need someone to be able to look over your contracts. And so for us as an entity, we just naturally started doing that for competitors because we really want to see them in higher lights. And then we recognize that, you know, those career opportunities, those can be available amongst individuals who are tenured in their backgrounds or individuals who are coming out of high school or college. And so ultimately, we just went out and started to find individuals that can help us fulfill the needs and the goals of the competitive gamers, the individuals who are aspiring to turn pro. So we just organically done it. And to the point where we're just like, wow, this is a business model, right? We're ultimately being able to help the, you know, the companies find talent. We're also helping the actual competitive gamers brand themselves better while at the same time providing opportunities for the individuals who are looking to support those aspiring gamers by way of their services. Sure. And I'm a lawyer and an eSports mediator as well. So, you know, I definitely understand that. And, you know, it's interesting in this environment where there's such a need for employees. Have you found that eSports companies are seeking employees? Yeah, it's even a higher need, even at this point. Just kind of think about COVID. You know, COVID from the eSports and gaming industry was one of those things where it's like, it forced individuals to learn about eSports and gaming and technology due to the fact that everybody was at home. Now, when you look at it from a founder perspective or let me take that back, a BC perspective or an angel investor or someone is looking to start a company, they have to fulfill talent. You know, they got to, you can think, you can have an idea, but you actively need individuals to help you push that all the way through to the finish line. And so when you think about it, you know, if you don't have anywhere to go to find the talent, then it becomes this big bubble, which ultimately that bubble will burst to the point to where if you, if you can't find the people that can support you, you're literally like, okay, like, like I am, I don't want to do this anymore as I'm losing capital, is not fulfilling as I thought. And that's something that we just don't want to see. Right. So from our perspective, it's filling that pipeline of talent by allowing individuals to showcase what's on their skill sets, what's on their portfolio. So therefore it can help the individuals who have been interested in getting into this space because the fulfillment of talent is, is, is, is a hard thing within this industry because there's not a lot of resources out there to identify where is the talent. I know for, for a good minute, you know, when I as, you know, building a company, I would look at, you know, hit marker, right? Hit marker is our way to find that of eSports talent, but it's only hit marker. If you think of outside of the industry, you have Monster, you have Andy, you got, you got so many pipelines and pathways to find talent and the eSports gaming industry just didn't have that side. And ultimately now you're starting to see more companies that are developing that pipeline. And that's where we follow that because we've seen that it was an incredible need, right? It was a credible need that needed to be fulfilled. All right, let's talk about your program. Now you have a physical space in Dallas. Is that right? Yes, ma'am. Definitely. It's in, it's definitely in Dallas. We've had multiple spaces that we built that we're actively building out a brand new facility in the Duncanville, Texas, which is a southern sector of Dallas. And we're so anxious to be inside of this space because just like the space that you're seeing right now, it's where we did our educational eSports program. So tell us about your immersive experience. That sounds really valuable. Yeah, I think it's because, you know, after once COVID hit, you know, the need for actual space was like, wow, we can't, we can't do anything in this space. So we ultimately had to create a technology platform and utilize the space to create content. So we broke down all five segments, management, marketing, technology, competition and production and we created over 20 videos per that of topic, per that of segment and was like, okay, now we need somewhere to store it, you know, and if we have, if we're a tech company, let's build our own learning management system. And so what we did was we stored that content on there and provided that to institutions and schools to allow them to learn about eSports. And then we quickly recognize that once you learn, you're like, okay, what's next?  And so we were just like, we got to figure out how to make the experience more immersive for the students. And so we actively was like, okay, how do we actively allow the students who've learned to really start to apply? Right? That's the biggest day as a founder. I look for individuals who have done it. When people come to me, they're like, hey, I want to get an eSports and they're like, I'm passionate about eSports. The next question for me is like, okay, what have you done in eSports? Right? Because that helps me really identify how much time is going to take before you actually are able to acquire the skills to help us return revenue to sustain our business. So I naturally have those perspectives and I know many other companies would have that same type of thought process. And so given the students any immersive experience is very critical to the success of that student. So for our immersion program, we were just like, what are we going to do to be able to bring education and entertainment together? And we was just like, okay, the students have to learn. Then how will they apply? And as an eSports company to focus on competitive competition, like true live competition and have eSports players that are actively trying to go pro, we were just like, well, we got to give them a fan base while at the same time giving the students an opportunity to really apply their skill set. So we were just like, we have to create a program. So what we did was we build our technology platform solely focused in on our immersion program. We called it the eSports immersion program. And so what we ended up doing is allowing the students to facilitate a four week program. That first week, the students are utilizing our learning management system to actively go through that of the management marketing technology competition and production and take some assessments just so they can get acclimated to the industry. By that second week, the students are breaking up into groups of five. So we have 25 students per actual institution. You've got five groups. Each student pairs up into a role of a manager, general manager, a head coach, a marketing specialist, a production technician, and then also a software developer, right? Because those are just those are common jobs inside of the eSports industry. And then these students are able to collaborate and draft their real eSports athletes from our entertainment side. So we have a qualifiers and we do a league where we pick four teams, which is 20 individuals total, and the students get a chance to actually draft by way of the overall scores of each of the actual highly competitive gamers. And now they are in the driver's seats of saying, I want this person or I want this person on our team. So our goal for this program is to allow the students to actively build their own eSports organization, just like your team in these, just like your face cleanse, just like your luminosities of the world. And we want the students to feel what that feels like. While by then the third week, they're actively are assigning, they're doing their assignment. So let's say the head coach is picking, looking at the data of the players and picking their players that monitor in the data and the performance of each of the players that they pick. The marketing specialist is creating a marketing strategy in which they're utilizing our functionality on our platform, which we call the Ecolab. And it's like an internal social media. So they get to actively take their marketing strategy and apply it in a form of a social media. And ultimately when it comes down to the software developer in our technology platform, we created a functionality that's a micro website builder. So just like you will use GoDaddy or Squarespace in our technology platform, you can actively create your own website. So that's like a software developer. You don't actively as a student, you don't actively have to know how to code because that's just where the world is going. Software platforms are making it easier to build your own websites. So we want the students to actively feel like what it's like to build their own websites. And even when it comes down to the general manager, general manager, what do they do? They make sure that everything runs properly. So engaging with all the different roles from underneath or not even underneath, alongside of their team, just ensuring that if there are any questions that need to be answered, if there are any suggestions that need to make, if the organization that they've come in together is maintaining their mission and their values, like that's the job of the actual general manager. And every role has a specific assignment by way of the actual program. Let's even break it down to the production technician. Production technician will take clips from the actual players, from Twitch and give those clips to the software developer, while at the same time giving those clips to the actual marketing, marketing especially. So therefore they can post it on the social media internal. So these students are actively engaging with each other. So therefore they can, by that fourth week, they're looking back and saying, well, we got to present now, and they're presenting their eSports organization and how they've done as a team. So therefore they can be able to showcase their website. And guess what? By the end of this program, they can take that website and give it to their parents, their teachers, and most importantly, their prospective employers. So what is the general age of those who were involved in your program? 13 to 25. Like right now we're really focusing on the high schools because in this industry, high school students have two choices to make once they graduate. They go into the workforce or they go to college, right? We want to make sure that that option is viable on both ends. Everybody do not have the resources to spend a lot of money in college. While at the same time, some individuals may have the opportunities to obtain a scholarship in eSports or gaming or technology or any other field. So we want them to be equipped no matter what decision that they make. And that's one of the biggest focal points for us as high school students. Now you may have some Brainiac middle school students which we all love and you may have some individuals that are in college or even outside of college that are looking to engage in this industry by actively having something on their portfolio because that's all it takes. It's just what experience did you have whether it's a little experience or whether it's a lot of experience. We just want to give experience. And from there you can spread your rings and grow as fast or as slow as you want to. I would think that even people that might be older than 25 might be interested in it because there's so much interest in this area. So is the program presented in person or virtually or a combination? Yes, that's pretty awesome. It's all virtual. Now the cool thing is that students all across the actual world can participate in our program. We do it every month. So July 12th is our first public day and so it starts from July 12th for a whole month for four weeks and then we start a whole new cycle the next month. We're going to do this month after month after month throughout the whole year. Now the cool thing that we're experiencing is because we have a facility on that third week the students who are locally based they will get bused to our facility and go through our facility and look at an eSports organization as it's running while they'll be able to get to sit in the stands and see the players that they pick and real time. So it gives a perspective for a student to look like if they're a general manager in their box office like Jerry Jones and they get to watch how their team is performing in real time. So that's the benefit of being locally based for our ISDs in this area. They just get to come on that third week and see it. If you're not locally based then on that third week you're watching the production live via that of Twitch. So what's the cost of this program and are there any scholarships? Yeah, so there's two elements on the cost. So it's $300 for the program if you just want to go through the one month experience. It's $600 for the program if you want to go through the one month experience plus that of have 12 months of access to the technology platform after that meaning any updates any new content any new functionality that we build into the site you have access to that. So we really try to make it to where it's similar to that of a program like a summer program where the students were actively or the youth would actively enroll in a one month program or so whether it's basketball or football or soccer or any type of thing like we really wanted to make it comparable to that. And then also from a scholarship perspective we're engaging with that of corporate entities that actively want to engage and add value to that of the students and they are actively given scholarships from that perspective. I know for July 12th we're interacting with the entity by the name of Foro Cliff which is a non-profit organization that works with corporate entities and they've had several corporate entities provide them with funds in which they can give scholarships to that of the students to participate in our exposure immersion program. So we're definitely open to engage with any entities that want to be able to give back and just being able to provide a student with a scholarship to our program would mean the world to that student. So we're open up we open to it we're actively engaged with corporate entities as part of our exposure for all foundation like literally this is a great opportunity because everybody we all know 300, 600 some people may just not afford it right and so ultimately we know we just want to make sure that we still make that available to individuals but most importantly we want it to be a value we really wanted to make sure that when someone leaves this they have something tangible that they can go with a great it's a certificate it's great but when you actually are able to combine a certificate with an actual experience with something on your portfolio it's even better when it comes down it's just like icing on a cake and it makes it more attractive to that of employers when it comes down to hiring. So I think that this is really valuable for employers I would think employers would want to send people there for education. Yes for sure. So I do have a question from a viewer and this is kind of about burnout do you think burnout in eSports jobs is less equal or greater than with regular I mean other types of industry? Right now the industry and I want to make sure that I catch this right but right now the eSports and gaming industry well eSports industry the jobs are not as available as other industries and it's just because of the empathy of the industry but ultimately when you look at the stats and the data the actual jobs in eSports are growing double each year right? So if it's 6,000 jobs right now we need to guess what it's going to be 12,000 jobs and 24,000 jobs and then it's going to compound like that and even with COVID there's even more companies that are that are developing within this space because of the attractiveness of it and eSports is actively helping the gaming industry just as much and the gaming industry is really really massive when it comes down to it you know so ultimately when you think about that and you look at an eSports entity or industry being a 1.5 to 2 billion dollar industry and you're looking at you know a gaming industry being you know 200 to 300,000 300 billion dollar industry you know you're seeing that there are way more opportunities in the actual gaming space but the cool thing about gaming in eSports is that the skill sets that are developed in these industries are applicable to any industry right and that's what we like to talk to students and parents and you know stakeholders about is like you know you don't actively have to be in the industry of eSports and gaming if you don't want to but the skill set that you're building within here is fun and engaging but the skill sets that you're building are applicable to any industry so the jobs that are available now it opens you up to many because I can guarantee you employers they want to see skill sets and that's collaborative that's creative thinking that's you know socializing that's understanding the impact of personality that's understanding the concept of organization so the skill set that you or competition is really big so the skill sets that you are learning in gaming in eSports can still open you up to so many other career opportunities that are out there you're just not limited to gaming in eSports what advice do you have for people who want to try and break into the eSports industry? Get out there I can tell you from experience it's I know a lot of people say just get out there but really it's so true for me in the industry getting in there and being interested was like I would travel all around you know drive my truck or car miles and hundreds of miles and thousands of miles just to go to events and watch what's transpiring in these events from you know call the duties to the NBA 2Ks and I would just watch everything that's going on in these tournaments and I will see the tournament organizer I'll watch I'll see somebody monitoring the brackets I'll see the competitors gaming I'll see the sponsors I'll see the the vendors at the tournaments I will see the you know the ticket booth I'll see the venues and how they make capital and ultimately you just go around you ask like you know do you need some help you know like how can I help right and when you go and make those friendships and those partnerships then you start to build your portfolio where somebody's for the next tournament or next event they say hey I remember this guy he was a cool individual he helped me I have so I have a budget now you know would you mind helping me for this tournament and then you do that job and then it comes with another job so ultimately it's just about getting into the space and really adding you know whatever you can you know because everybody has something to offer and ultimately you may not get you know capital right off top but as you start to build your portfolio you will find that you are a value and someone will say hey I want to pay you for what's your value what's your worth because ultimately I want you to do it at the highest level because everybody in this industry is trying to grow and they're trying to get bigger and bigger and offer better and better and it takes resources to get to that point and when someone has resources if you've done a good job of showcasing your portfolio you can be a part of those resources so I would say just get out there and look at it and say what skill set that you have within yourself that you can add to the industry Okay before we wrap up I'd like to show that second video yes for sure everything overnight right like you have to really have a plan as far as whether it's equipment gathering or purchasing or just to Wayne's point reinvesting people after hearing you talk about exposure that it it draws people to your company how can people get in touch with you or or find out more yeah so you know we just try to be as open and you know organic and authentic as a company so we utilize as many channels as possible when it comes down to Facebook exposure Instagram exposure Gigi you know even Twitch when you go to exposure studios so ultimately we love to be able to utilize any channel when it comes down to what we do you know based off of just even looking at that video the people behind the scenes are students they're a part of our company and it just can show you how much opportunity that they've been able to provide on their portfolio could you imagine someone in high school working with the New York Giants right and able to put the New York Giants on their portfolio as a graphic designer or as you know a videographer this is the opportunities that we provide as an esports organization and we advise any entity out there to provide those exact same entities and opportunities and you know Catherine you're doing that exact same thing right now by providing a platform for individuals to be able to speak their truths their passion and it's amazingly awesome to be able to be on this podcast to talk with you well thank you so much Danny we've learned a lot and I can't wait to see your new space it's gonna be awesome all right anyway thank you to the viewer who has sent in the question and thank you for joining us today make sure to to the next week my guest will be Amanda Solomon the CEO of Iris TV a gaming talent management agency see you then


Top 5 Tips, How to Learn a New Language When Teaching English Abroad Teaching English abroad is an exciting adventure for many and it offers plenty of opportunities for traveling, exploring a new culture and making new friends from around the world. While you do not need to speak any language other than English to be a successful teacher, many people choose to embrace the opportunity to learn a foreign language while teaching English overseas. Being able to speak the language of the country you are choosing to live and work in not only makes your life there a lot easier, but it will also impress the local people at open doors to unlimited opportunities. These can often include a new or advanced career path, both in your host country and back home. Here are our Top 5 Tips on How to Learn a New Language When Teaching English Abroad 1. Take Language Classes The easiest way to get started learning a foreign language when teaching English abroad is to take language classes. Learning a new language with the help and guidance of a professional teacher can often lead to strong and quick results. On top of that, you have the chance to meet other like-minded individuals who are learning the language with you. This is especially helpful when you are new to the area and have yet to make a lot of friends. Most cities will have a local YMCA or other language schools specifically targeted at foreigners wanting to learn the local language. These types of language classes also tend to be quite affordable and some are even free for foreigners as a means to help integration. 2. Participate in Language Exchanges Besides learning a new language in a formal classroom setting, many people also turn to language exchanges. A lot of cities have language exchange groups in place, predominantly set up by locals and foreign students, particularly in university areas. These language groups tend to be free of charge and often take place at cozy cafes or restaurants. The aim is to speak in both the local language and most commonly English. There are also many apps out there that allow you to find language partners who want to learn your native language and teach you theirs in return. You can chat via the app and then set up a meeting and practice your languages together. This is another great way to make local friends and become more fluent in your new target language. 3. Learn Verbs It's no secret that the key to learning a language is a combination of vocabulary and grammar. If you think about the very basic stages of language learning, you will quickly realize that verbs are what make a sentence and conversation work. Even when referring to nouns as this and that, you will still be able to make yourself understood if you use the right verb. Verbs are definitely where you should focus your attention on in your initial vocabulary efforts. 4. Go Exploring On Your Own Once you have made local friends and spend time hanging out with them, they will inevitably begin to help you out in a multitude of situations, such as ordering food, asking for prices, or buying train tickets, etc. While this is certainly a friendly gesture, it isn't very helpful for your own language learning. Try to go out and explore your new city or country on your own so you can put your new learn language skills to use. Only when you actively use the language by ordering your own dishes, asking for prices by yourself and going to the train station to purchase your own tickets can you really learn and improve. Sure, it will take more time to get things done by yourself than when your local friends help you out, but the experience you gain will benefit your language learning immensely. This is probably the most important tip of all and somewhat of a golden rule of language learning. You have studied up on your grammar and vocabulary and met up with your language partners a couple of times, but you are still reluctant to use the language for fear of making errors. We have all been there and it is completely understandable, but in the long run this will only keep you from reaching your goal of fluency. Making mistakes when learning a new language is absolutely normal and nothing to be afraid of. Locals will be impressed that you are taking the time to learn the language and won't be too concerned about whether you are using the correct grammar or pronunciation. Once you let go of your fear of making mistakes, you will begin to see true results. Are you ready for your adventure abroad? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Well, you might alleviate yourself from the penalties and interest for just the filing. However, you'll still get hit with penalties and interest for paying late. So you just wanna keep those two things kind of separate in your mind.  I need to do the taxes before I know how much I owe. This is often the case for sole proprietors, for example, who haven't got their bookkeeping together to the point where they can do their taxes possibly, and therefore they don't know how much they owe. Well, what are you gonna do? You still wanna try to overpay the taxes a little bit so you can kind of shoot for a refund even though you have no idea how much tax you owe. Why? Because you're trying to avoid the penalties and interest of paying late. So caution, an automatic six month extension to file doesn't extend the time to pay your tax. So if you don't pay your tax by the original due date of your return, you will owe interest on the unpaid tax and may owe penalties. You can see form 4868 for instructions. Now, some of the software that's the free file software, if your income is below a certain threshold, which you could find on the IRS website may help you to determine whether or not you owe the tax. So you can kind of check that out. And I'm not sure if the free software will allow you to file the extension automatically as well. But the extension is like a one paper form. It's a pretty easy thing to file. And if you owe money, you might be able to basically file an extension by basically making the payment at the same time and assigning the payment to the extension. So if you are a US citizen or resident alien, you may qualify for an automatic extension of time to file without filing form 4868. You qualify if on the due date of your return, you meet one of the following conditions. You live outside the United States or Puerto Rico and your main place of business or post of duty is outside the United States and Puerto Rico. So you are in military or naval service on duty outside the United States and Puerto Rico. This extension gives you an extra two months to file and pay the tax, but interest will be charged from the original due date of the return on any unpaid tax. So you must include a statement showing that you meet the requirements. If you are still unable to file your return by the end of the two month period, you can get an additional four months if no later than June 17th, 2024, you filed the form 4868. So a little bit different on the timeline where you get that automatic two months. So this four month extension of time to file doesn't extend the time to pay your tax. So same kind of thing with the payment of the tax situation there as well. So that is the difference here. So the extension gives you an extra two months to file and pay the tax, but interest will be charged from the original due date of the return on any unpaid tax.


I then have to tilt forwards, take one leg off, yeah then try and find that balance point. You know what this frog stand looks like or feels like, even if we've never done it before, because if we've done a push-up before, so here's my push-up position, if I bring my legs in, my upper body's doing the same as a push-up. I then have to tilt forwards, take one leg off, yeah then try and find that balance point where our base of support, or our center of mass, sorry, is above our base of support. So if it's a starting point, the brain is actually relatively used to pushing the floor away, not just through my hand, but through my actual shoulder. I'm going to have a soft bend in the elbow that allows me to just find a position of strength through that joint. The straighter I am, the longer I'm making that lead, and the harder it's going to be, which is a progression.


Over the past weekend the Scottish Parliament hosted its unique annual summer event, the Festival of Politics. This year the theme was all about the upcoming referendum, giving the people of Scotland an opportunity to hear expert opinion and debate on the hot political issues surrounding the yes-no vote. This year's festival once again featured the vibrant Café Bar in the Parliament's garden lobby, now in its second year running, allowing festival visitors the chance to sit down, drink, eat and chat about the events. The Parliament's Presiding Officer Trisha Malwick also attended the weekend's activities and shared her thoughts on the festival. I think we're very fortunate that we are a fairly new Parliament. We've only been here since 1999. And from the very beginning of the Scottish Parliament we have tried to do things differently, whether it be technology or whether it be innovation. But we also have a Parliament building that lends itself to a variety of activities, whether it be exhibitions like The Great Tapestry and Andy Warhol and indeed the Festival of Politics. I think it would be difficult to replicate what we do in Scotland anywhere else and I think others have tried but I think they won't even come close. As this year's Festival of Politics draws to a close, the time approaches for the people to decide what's next for Scotland. Thank you very much.


Welcome back mechanically, did you know that almost all modern hybrid electric drivetrain vehicles make use of Atkinson Cycle to provide initial start and that the Brayton Cycle is what powers the jet engines? This makes us wonder, what are Atkinson and Brayton Cycles? Before we jump in, check out the previous part of this series to learn about what Stirling and Erection Cycles are. Now, the Brayton Cycle consists of four processes. This one is an isentropic process wherein ambient air is drawn into the compressor and pressurized. In process 2, the compressed air then runs through a combustion chamber where fuel is burned, heating that air, which is an isobaric process since the chamber is open to flow in and out. Process 3 is an isentropic process wherein the heated pressurized air then gives up its energy expanding through a turbine or a series of turbines. The final process is an isobaric process wherein heat is rejected to the atmosphere. Next is the Atkinson Cycle in which there are six processes. Process 1 is an isentropic compression. Process 2 is isochoric heating. Process 3 is isobaric heating. Process 4 is isentropic expansion. Process 5 is isochoric cooling and process 6 is isobaric cooling. Hence, we first saw what the Atkinson Cycle is and then went on to see what the Brayton Cycle is. Like, subscribe and comment with your feedback to help us make better videos. Thanks for watching. Also, thanks a lot for those constructive comments. You helped the channel grow. So, here are the top mechanical EIs of our last videos. In the next episode of Mechanical EI, find out what combustion is.