Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you including Hector Bones, Tim Ashman and Johnny Hernandez. Coming up on DTNS, Nicole Lee has great ideas on easy smart home gifts to get people even if they aren't that tech savvy. Plus Sony makes motion capture cheap and easy and the end of the year music streaming recaps are here and we will admit what tops our list. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Web and I'm Sarah Lane. From San Francisco, I'm Nicole Lee. And I'm the show's producer Roger Jen. Oh, Nicole, thank you for bringing us like an accessible, not accessible so much as like wide ranging gift guide today. I can't wait to talk. Very wide range. Yeah.  It's perfect for those folks who like they went through all the Black Friday sales and they're like, I still have a couple of people on my list and I have no idea. Nicole's going to take care of that for you. So just hang in there. Let's start with the quick hits. Twitter updated the COVID-19 section of its transparency pages to say that, quote, effective November 23rd, 2022 Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy. End quote. Now, starting in 2020, Twitter began labeling posts with disputed information about COVID and removed posts that were demonstrably false. Twitter's community notes program, formerly called Birdwatch, will continue to add contextual notes to post about COVID. Yeah. So it's up to the audience now. India Central Bank announced it will extend the test of its central bank digital currency, the E-Rupi, one of those CBDCs we've been telling you about forever. It's going to extend that test to retail starting December 1st. Four local banks, the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC, are going to participate in this retail phase of the pilot in four cities, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar and New Delhi. More banks, cities and customers will be added as the test goes on. The central bank began evaluating the digital currency for the wholesale market last month. So this is the expansion into retail. The UK's proposed online safety bill will be amended to remove the obligation for social platforms to take down legal, but harmful content. The government states the change affects platforms like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok is preserving free speech and giving people greater control over what they see online. UK cultural secretary Michelle Donilon says the amendment ensures no tech firms or future government could use the laws as licensed to censor legitimate views. The bill is due to return to parliament on Monday, December 5th. Yeah, thanks. Take it forever to get through. We'll see. Wall Street Journal reports around 4,000 shipping containers containing solar panels have been detained coming into US ports and more are being held up on the other end in the exporting ports in places like Vietnam and Malaysia. The delay is caused by US customs agents enforcing a new law that requires that no solar panels contain parts made in China's Xinjiang region. Most panel makers are sourcing parts elsewhere, but they still have to show documentation to prove it. Wall Street Journal estimates around 23 gigawatts of solar projects have been delayed in the US so far this year. Yesterday we told you about Open AI's algorithm that could play Minecraft. Today we have news of Nvidia's Mindojo. That's the algorithm that won the company an Outstanding Data Set and Benchmark Paper Award at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference. The user can write in natural language what it wants Mindojo to do, like build a portal and then enter it and Mindojo can execute it in a game. What kind of portal though?  All right, yeah. The AI's, they're just going to be playing all the games soon. All right, we will then become virtual avatars. We might, getting closer than ever.  The sensors are small. They're smart watch size devices. They fit on a charging case the size of a large smartphone case. The sensors connect to a smartphone running an app from Sony, which then records movement data in BVH format and can be exported as a recorded MP4 video. So you can use the app's avatars or you can use your own VRM avatars if you so desire. You kind of have the choice there. The app can also transfer motion data to a PC in real time using Unity, Autodesk's motion builder. Some of you are very familiar with both. It might be kind of exciting there. An SDK will come out December 15th to let developers integrate MoCopy data to apps. Reservations will begin in Japan in mid-December for an on sale date in late January. MoCopy will sell for, and this is actually I think a very important part of this if you're excited about it, for 49,500 yen, which is approximately 360 US dollars. Yeah. So under 500 dollars, you can do MoCap for an indie film.  I think this is probably a bigger deal than people are making it. It's a little bit of a beginning to look like CES kind of project, right? It's like, oh, it's only available in Japan. Oh, and it's not a PlayStation from Sony, so I can't hook it up to my games. But this is going to make motion capture accessible in a way that it hasn't been. And whenever we see things like audio recording, video recording, et cetera, graphics become more accessible, you start to see an explosion of new kinds of content. And I think the important thing that popped up to me as I was watching the video is that it also seems very user-friendly. It looks very attractive, easy enough to use. It looks like from the video. It's all kind of clearly laid out. This is for the head. This is for the ears. And this is for the arms and legs and so forth. And if it's easy to use and it's affordable, that's enough, I think. People are going to find all kinds of weird, unexpected things to do with this, right? Yeah. Yeah, my first reaction was like, okay, the avatar stuff I can get. Definitely get that. Like, ooh, metaverse tool. But then I was like, okay, but yeah, let's think about how this was, I don't know, how many years, it wasn't that many years ago, that people were like, this whole movie was shot on an iPhone, or a smartphone. I feel like this is, it's the next version of, hey, you can do this with pretty cheap software. If you compare this to going to some motion capture studio, not that long ago, like it's not going to be $360, guys. Yeah. And don't get me wrong. It's going to come out and people are immediately, as soon as they get over the excitement, critique how it's not as good as the professional things and start pushing for improvements to make it smoother. And those improvements are going to come. And eventually people are going to complain that I have to attach six things. I just want one thing. And then there's going to be a development. Like, that's just the way the stuff goes. But we're at a point where this is a thing you cannot do easily right now. And this implementation of the technology is probably going to democratize it a little. And I think that's significant. Yeah. And I will no longer be appearing on DTNS as me. I will be an avatar as soon as I go. This is not the weirdest idea. I know, right? I mean, at least just to give it a shot. I do it. Yeah, we might have to get one of these once they're out. What's their available? Well, if you're concerned about streaming music, a lot of people are like, ah, you know, I use streaming music. It's so convenient. But is it fair to the artists? Am I overpaying? Am I getting ripped off? We have some good news. The UK Competition and Markets Authority, the CMA, published its final report on its market study of music and streaming services. Now, the CMA's job is to find antitrust stuff. If they have a bias, it's towards finding something is wrong. And they didn't find anything wrong. The CMA found that music prices have fallen by 20% as a result of competition in the music market because you have multiple good services. While it did find that major artists got the most money, that seemed to be because of us. We're streaming 60% of our music from 0.4% of the top artists. The CMA found no evidence of excessive profits. Average royalty rates have actually risen for artists from 19.7% in 2012 to 23.3% in 2021 and for music writers from 8% in 2008 to 15% in 2021. So with that in mind, let's talk about the end of your music promotions coming from the three biggest streaming music providers. Yeah, so there's Apple, of course. Apple seems to be first out of the gates with Apple Music Replay. You can find it at replay.music.apple.com. You can sort of search for online or perhaps find it in your iOS app, although I couldn't. The company redesigned it this year to look a little better, gives you your top song, your top artist, top album, along with total minutes listened. If you're wondering how much you listen to music and some more kind of fun info, you got some chart views, you have some top playlists. You can also share your highlight reel and images with your stats, which is very much the point of all of this. It's an easy social media post type feature. YouTube also announced its 2022 recap feature. You get to that supposedly by searching 2022 recap either in YouTube Music or the main YouTube mobile app seems to be still rolling out. So you might have to wait for it to show up. It shows you your most watched or listened to artists, songs, videos and playlists, highlights, artists you may have discovered before they got big kind of make you feel like you're an insider and has a music personality feature, which tells you your music vibe. It can integrate with Google photos as well. So when you want to share your results, you can integrate your own photos into those shareable versions. If only somebody would tell me what my music vibe is, it would really help me out. Of course, the big one is Spotify's wrapped, which is still to come probably shortly after the first of December. It was just last year where I was like, what is wrapped today? What is everybody talking about? It's a big deal. In the meantime, developer Anshu and Sean Taboo created an app called InstaFest. If you authorize it to view your Spotify account, it'll take your listening data and create a kind of cool three-day Coachella-like festival poster with headliners based on your most played artists, which is very cute. I've seen it passed around quite a bit, maybe a little too much, Twitter and Instagram, but all that aside, time for everybody to spill. What are our top artists? Who's in our play fest? All right. You want me to go first? Yeah, go ahead. What would you like to know? You want top album, artist or song? Do you want to go like number three on one of those lists? What are you looking for? Well, Tom, what's your top album of the year? My top album is Anti-Fragile by Laceraphim. Okay. Okay. And you're using Apple Music. Yes, and I'm using, that's right. I'm using Apple Music Replay. And Nicole, you're also an Apple Music user as well. Yeah, you know, so a couple of things that I have to say, Spotify shows it all in the app, but Apple Music for some reason kicks you to this website. Even if you go through the app, it makes you go to the website. So, I mean, that's different. Also, I guess I don't listen to that much music. It's only like 3000 minutes versus all these other people that have like tens of thousands of minutes. But yeah, so the top song on my list is Taylor Swift, Midnights. I mean, yeah. Very of the moment. Yeah. Indeed. Current trend. Sarah, what about you? What's your top artist? Top artist is Kendrick Lamar. He had an album out this year. So, you know, that obviously helps, but like I would listen to him anyway. I'm trying to go back to something that shows me the minutes listening because, Nicole, I'm kind of with you because of podcasts. My music listening is sort of at an all-time low. And it's not because I don't like music, I really do. Mostly if I'm in my car, I'm like, oh, it's music time. Yes. In the car, in the car, which doesn't track. Exactly. Well, we're not using carplay, it would. Yeah, but otherwise, yeah, I feel like I'm like, wow, I would have been like way in like the 20,000 hours, you know, and like, yeah, I'm kind of listening to podcasts more. That would actually be a better metric for me. My minutes were like 13,000 or something. That's more than me. Yeah. Yeah, but I listen to a lot of podcasts as well. I think I would have listened to more. A lot of this is music that I play prior to it's a thing going live because I just put music on. You have to know. Just get you in the mood. Yeah. Just make sure people know that the Discord stream is working without me having to talk to them. This isn't really, you know, related to, you know, top artists of story or of songs and albums, per se. But a few years ago, I remember a friend saying, oh, Sarah, like, I can't even run to music anymore, you know, because he'd like to run jog. And I was like, I can't even imagine not running to music. I would just, you know, I wouldn't be able to like keep a pace. And now I can't listen to music while I'm running. Oh, you're there. Are you a podcast listener? Yeah, like, it's like, I need to like, I need to get into a story and then I have more fun. Welcome. Welcome. Now you understand. Yes, I do. I was not that friend. This way, she was not sub-tweeting me. No, no, I did. Certainly not. And, you know, I wouldn't be the only person to either. I'm the kind of person that will listen to the same podcast episode over and over and over again because I like it so much. Really? That's interesting. I don't know that I've ever done that. I am that person. That's kind of cool. But that sort of, you know, it's like that comfort movie that you watch every season. Same idea. So we highly encourage everyone to listen to this episode of Daily Deadly Go as many times as you want. And then tell us about it on social media. You can get in touch with the DTNS audience on Twitter at DTNS Show on TikTok at Daily Tech News Show and on Instagram at DTNSPIX. That's DTNSPIX. Well, Roger Chang has been doing yeoman's work putting together folks to tell us about gift guides this year. We've covered gift ideas for games with Trisha Hershberger, Home Theater with Patrick Norton, TVs with Robert Herron. But we're past Black Friday now and you may have a few people on your list that you're having a hard time figuring out. If they have a home, we may be able to help you. Nicole has been looking at options for people who might not even be that tech savvy, but would appreciate a few things to make their homes a little smarter. Nicole, how did you come about these picks? Yeah, so I wanted to make these picks based on a wide range of, I guess, people in your life. So I have a pick for the cook in your life. I have a pick for, for example, like, you know, I think everyone should have an air purifier these days because, you know, pollution and stuff like that. So I have a recommendation for like a smarter air purifier, for example. Okay. And I have a couple of other picks for just, I think, like you said, everyone has a home. Everyone has electricity. Well, most everyone has electricity and outlets and things like that.  Excellent. Well, what are we starting with? Yeah, so the first thing on my list here is a smart outlet. So the easiest way to smart up any home is to get one of these little smart outlets. And they're very inexpensive. I think you could get like $24 for fours and like that. So these little things, any appliance that you plug into it can instantly be like a smart appliance. You just, what all you have to do is just like connect the outlet to like your phone through an app.  Now you can program it to come on at a certain time in the morning, which is very cool. What I use it for, every Christmas, I plug my Christmas tree lights to a smart outlet. I do it with exactly this smart plug that you're showing here. I did it like this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. And it's super easy.  And then because it'll turn off, turn on the Christmas lights, turn off Christmas lights. It's so easy.  Can we turn off certain times a day? So it's super easy. And I definitely recommend it. For anybody I feel like who, you know, I'm kind of in the Hube hub, you know, ecosystem. But it's like, if you don't have that built out, this works the same way in a pinch. Yeah. Yeah. Especially like you said, like if someone doesn't have any smart anything in their home, can't one of these things, it's like super, you know, low stakes. All right. What if they, what if you want to get them into the Hube family? You mentioned you speaking of the Philips Hue is the other thing if you want to spend a little bit more money, like build it to really build out a whole like smart lighting system. I love the Philips Hue system. This was my favorite, like smart light, smart light bulb systems. I especially recommend the Philips LED smart bulb star kit, because it has like the multicolor bulbs. And you can get they can get just the white color, which is fine. But I love the multicolor ones because you can set like, you know, millions of colors to a room so you can like warm moody lighting for like a cozy night in or like rainbows for parties or whatever you want. The companion, unless you create timers, so that, for example, or routines as well. So for example, you can set it so that the lights will gradually turn on in the morning to wake you up. Like a sunrise alarm, for example, I do, I do this every night. Cause I'm a huge person from 11 to 11 20. Yeah. The lights start going down. Like, if you're not already asleep, sir, you better get ready. And it's really helpful. It's, it's, it's a good way to like sort of love you to sleep or wake you up and depending on how you want to routine. And I was really like, like turning it on when I'm on vacation, when we were both on vacation, I'll turn it on. And I mean, I don't know if it really helps per se, but it sort of simulates. Oh, someone in the house or something. Like, I don't know. I don't even, you know, Warren's robbers or something like that. But maybe it does, right? So, um, and I think the, also the addition of the, of the hub, the hub itself, you could have like 50 lights can connect up to like a single hue hub. So you can really outfit your entire house with like, and, and yes, matter is going to make that hub less necessary in the future. But for the time being, it's going to make it easier. And that's one of the things we're talking about. Uh, what about the thing that actually just showed up at my sister's house? Uh, I hope she's not watching as present, uh, minutes ago, because I definitely bought this for her. I took it. Okay. Sorry. I'm looking at the list here. Uh, yeah. So yes, robot vacuums. Um, will they be as efficient as like an actual vacuum? Probably not, but they do help out for like the occasional mid sort of like in between cleaning sessions kind of a kind of a test. So my favorite robot vacuum is the iRobot Roomba 694. And I like it because it's kind of fairly affordable for a robot vacuum and it works great.  And it's, um, the app is really good. The, it's really easy to use even, even if you don't really aren't super tech savvy, the app is really easy to use. You can program it to like certain parts of your house. Um, it's connected to the Wi-Fi network. You think we can create a cleaning schedule for such a day. So for example, like in the morning when you're when no one's in or at night. And, um, also the better life on this, uh, thing is actually pretty decent about 45 minutes to I think 90 minutes, depending on how hard you, you, it works it. So, um, yeah, I definitely recommend it. I don't have this latest Roomba version, but the Roomba has changed my life. Truly. You know, and it's exactly like you described, Nicole, it's, it doesn't replace a real deep clean. Yeah. But for kind of like every day, especially if people have kids or pets or I don't know, you just have a dusty house or something.  And you spend less time cleaning. I, I, I really do. You were like more time. It's like automated robots and warehouses. You spend more time doing the things that you were supposed to do in the first place. Now I, I have a Kowe air purifier, which I know Nicole, you at least used to have, but you're, you're recommending a smarter one than that. So I have both. I have the Kowe and also that doesn't call the Mila air purifier. This is like deluxe luxury air purifier, which, you know, depending on how you want to spend your money, but I really like it. And I think if you, if you have something like this, like really nerdy and into like statistics and like factual data about the air content in their house, like they will love this. It gives you all this data of like how much like particulate matter is in your air and like carbon and it's all these sensors too. It will tell you like what the level of carbon monoxide is in your home, which is very important by the way, the VOC level in your volatile organic compounds, the VOC level in your home, how humid your home is was also very important actually for like mold and mildew reasons. And I love this Mila air purifier because you have the option of picking out from several filter options. So the basic one is like the basic breather filters. These are the filters you sort of buy with the air purifier. There are other filters, for example, like there are filters for pet livers. So if you have a cat or a dog, you can get like special filters that will really filter out like stink and like odor, which is definitely a problem if you have pets. There's also a specific filter if you're, if you have someone in your home was really allergic, like very high allergic levels, for example. So they have filters like very strong filters for those specific use cases. I also really like to have tons and tons of customization options. So there's something called a housekeeping mode that will just turn on like 100% full blast. And it'd be very noisy. But that's assuming that no one's home. There's also a sleep mode, which will turn the lights that turn the speeds off super low. It will still continue running, but it's like sort of like, okay, everyone's sleeping. I'm going to be not as powerful at this time of night. Yes. There's even a white noise option that will just like turn on at a certain level, that it will turn out the white noise to help you sleep. Some people do white noise generators. So yeah, two birds with one stone.  But on an airplane, 100%. So I'm really into this air purifier. It is a little more and more expensive, but if you someone in your life who likes data and like tech and all this like information, I do like it a lot. All right. How much are we talking about? It's like 270. 270. All right. All right. So less than a Mocopi. Yes. Yeah. All right. We're going to talk more about this in good day internet, but just tell us the one for the cook real quickly. Oh, yeah. Sorry. This is the ANOVA Precision Cooker Nano. This is the Suvi Cooker everyone recommends.  You can make yogurt in it even. You use an app. You stick the Suvi Cooker in some water and you'll cook that food to perfection. Fantastic. Thank you, Nicole, for these. And of course, we'll have links to all of them in the show notes at DailyTechNewShow.com. Would you like to tell us about the advances in urinals, Sarah? Tom, I, you know, it's not every day I would say, indeed I do, but today is that day. Scientists at the University of Waterloo have taken on a very important research project. And I'm not, I'm not even being cheeky here. It's designing the optimal splash-free urinal. They call the not a loom. Waterloo's Xiaopan told new scientists, I think most of us have been a little inattentive at our post. Look down to find we were wearing speckled pants. Nobody likes having pee everywhere, so why not just create a urinal where splatter is extremely unlikely. And quote, to that I say, okay, the team presented this important research, which indeed is, because who wants to have pee on their shoes during last week's American Physical Society meeting on fluid dynamics in Indianapolis, Indiana. Pants design encourages the optimal angle to avoid splashback. Something he discovered with computer modeling, but also happens to match something you might be familiar with, that's that 30 degree angle that male dogs often achieve when they lift their legs to do their business. Pan and his team experimented, but died fluids, sprayed on jets, varying speeds, several distinct urinal designs made of dense, epoxy covered foam to achieve their findings. The curved Nautila shell structure of the Nautilu cut splashback almost to zero. Now, if you're saying, all right, well, what do they know? Pan is a former graduate student of Tad Truscott, a mechanical engineer who founded the Splash Lab at Utah State University. It was formerly at Brigham Young, that's where it is now. But back in 2018, the Splash Lab designed the orchid, an attachment designed to, I'm sorry, I just didn't want to get through this without laughing, designed to reduce spillage and sample collecting cups, which could lead to devices that would let perhaps people of all genders pee while standing up. Well, if you can't pee while standing up already, why are you dancing around it? Well, you know, just try it. If you can't pee while standing up already, then this would let you do that. I mean, I'm probably capable of it. I just have never tried. This would make it easier, I think. Yeah. So yeah, this is all good technology for all of us. Honestly, I mean, I know it's like, ha ha, we're talking about pee, but this is like really cool. It's like just the fact that there was an American physical society meeting on fluid dynamics recently, as of last week, where people talk about things like this, I think is really cool. It's important that someone is talking about it. That's what I like. That's what I say. And thank you, scientists at what I will now call the Lou, the University of Waterloo. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. All right, let's check out the bell bag. Let's do it. Bill wrote in, we had a conversation about Vinfast, a new EV company, Newish coming out of Vietnam and making some inroads in the US. Bill writes in the most interesting thing about Vinmas to me, besides the fact that they are already shipping, is the fact that they got the design firm Peninfarina on board. That's a big deal. It explains why they're quite attractive. He means, you know, to look at them. Can't wait to see the interiors. Peninfarina designed so many really amazing cars, says Bill Ferrari Testerosa, 550 Maranello, Alpha Spider, Vellace. It's a long and distinguished list of beautiful cars. I can't wait to see what they do next. Yeah, Bill, no, that makes sense. When you put it that way, like, oh, a Ferrari Testerosa was designed by the same people who designed the Vinfast electric vehicle. No wonder it looks pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. Well, thanks everybody who writes in feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com is where to send that email. And also thanks to you and Nicole Lee, great gift guide and just great to see you in general. Let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. Yeah. So with various, so you can go on twitter.com slash Nicole. You can see all my information there. I also have a link tree, the link tree slash Nicole nerd. You can see all my different links there. I do have a blog that I'm working on that will be coming soon. And I'll link them all in that little page. You'll see it when it's ready to go. Very cool. Well, we're glad to have you. We also have a brand new boss to think that boss's name is Robert. Robert just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Robert. Robert is part of the wave. 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The GammaPod is a radiation therapy device developed specifically for the treatment of women with early stage breast cancer. It consists of a couple components, including the treatment machine, which actually has a pod-like shape for it, as well as an immobilization device. An immobilization device is a way that we can actually keep the breast still throughout the whole course of the treatment, and that's something that's actually never been done before for breast cancer patients. When we deliver the GammaPod treatment, women have their breast placed in the immobilization device, which is generally pain-free for women. We then are able to do the treatment planning all in that same timeframe and deliver the radiation therapy that same day. The radiation therapy is delivered in a very precise fashion with what we call a very rapid dose fall-off, and as a result of that, there's very high precision, which we hope will result in fewer side effects down the line for women.


All right, so we have a minor construction update today. I decided to just do a construction update so I was filming for something else today, which should be out actually a little later today. If not, maybe tomorrow. I haven't decided when I'm gonna release a video. I'll probably release it today though. Regardless, there are 54 track pieces in the storage lot and it seems like support beams are coming in left, right, and center. And as soon as we go to the construction site, I'll explain what I'm seeing and what I think is going on in terms of construction. But guess the Canadian construction workers were still going full force, installing Yukon Striker despite the snowstorm and large amounts of snow that Canada or Ontario got yesterday. So if you look closely, I'm zoomed in but you'll see over near Timberwill Falls. I'm gonna point it out for you guys. They're installing support beams. It's not just one, it's two. So if I'm correct, and again, I will place up on the screen evidence to either counteract what I'm saying or prove what I'm saying. So I'm always going to try and make sure that even if I say something in this video, I'll put something out on the screen for you guys to make sure that what I'm telling you is true. It looks like they're going to install the mid-course brake run because it dives underneath the zero G roll. And they would probably need to do the drop in mid-course brake run before the zero G roll. That is just a prediction. I'm gonna go match up the support beams that I see there with the blueprints and the POV and all that. And I'll show you guys if it's true or not. But I definitely see that try support. That is definitely for the zero G roll. But right back there in Timberwill Falls, you'll see that other single standing support beam. That is definitely, I think, for the mid-course brake run. And it would make sense that they would have to get the mid-course brake run and drop in underneath the zero G roll because lifting track piece in place underneath already laid track could be difficult. So that's what I'm assuming is going on. So no track pieces were put in today. This was filmed at around 4.30 p.m. You can tell it's actually getting dark. So they were packing up for the day. You can actually see this little tiny cherry picker underneath the drop and lift of Yukon Strick or kind of like going into like park position. Not much going on. There's definitely some cool activity going on in the little ditch or trench for the vertical loop. Lots of support beams again coming in place. There's lots of digging for the queue line going underneath the pole out of the station. Again, yesterday I got super excited and thought it was the station building, but it's a queue line. I'm gonna be making my construction updates a little shorter now so you guys get a lot of information in a shorter video. So you're not there staring at the screen at just video. Anyways, hope you guys enjoy. Smash that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. And as always, thanks so much for watching guys and have an amazing weekend. Bye.


Well I know everyone here must have been bathed in nostalgia in this film that we've just taken and so magnificently narrated by David. I did say to him after the film went off that there were a couple of times there when I thought he could have sloughed over the word Republican better than he did. Gathered here as we are for a special occasion, I have to use a term right now that is reminiscent of a period really that had to do with that occasion and use a statement we interrupt the regularly scheduled program for a special bulletin. I won't say news flash because I'm sure that you've all heard the good news already but I would like to comment earlier this morning the Italian police rescued Brigadier General James Dozier. They rescued him from the terrorist hideaway in Padua where he had been held captive His 42-day-long ordeal has come to a happy ending and the prayers of millions of Americans have been answered. I've spoken with the general by telephone and I'm happy to relay his report that he's in fine shape and I can tell you that just hearing him, I told Nancy he sounded as if he'd just gone down to the corner for five minutes. The same courage and resolve that James Dozier demonstrated on the battlefield in wartime have seen him through this new test with flying colors. His country and our allies can be very proud of this gallant man. I've also talked with President Pratini of Italy and expressed America's appreciation for the dedicated and effective work of the Italian authorities in tracking down General Dozier's kidnappers and saving his life. They too have acquitted themselves with honor. This rescue is welcome news for all those who believe in the rule of law and the defense of our free institutions. We all share in the joy of his family at the return to freedom of a courageous soldier whose life has been dedicated to the defense of liberty. And now back to the regularly scheduled program. It's a pleasure to greet such a distinguished company in the White House on this very special occasion. For most of you, I know this is a return visit, the most recent of many. Each of your lives was intertwined with one of the most famous residents of this house.  So as the latest tenants in the people's house, Nancy and I welcome you back. We're all here today that mark the centennial of one of history's truly monumental figures, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We instill debate that he tales of his intentions, his policies and their impact. But all agree that like the founding fathers before him, FDR was an American giant, a leader who shaped, inspired and led our people through perilous times. He meant many different things to many different people. He could reach out to men and women of diverse races and backgrounds and inspire them with new hope and new confidence in war and peace. Franklin Roosevelt was the first president I ever saw. I remember the moment vividly. It was in 1936, a campaign parade into Moyne, Iowa. What a wave of affection and pride swept through that crowd as he passed by in an open car, which we haven't seen a president able to do for a long time. A familiar smile on his lips, jaunty and confident. Drawing from us reservoirs of confidence and enthusiasm some of us had forgotten we had during those hard years. Maybe that was FDR's greatest gift to us. He really did convince us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. One of our guests today, Senator Jennings Randolph, who served in the Congress during the New Deal, summed it up very well in a recent interview. Senator Randolph recalled of Franklin Roosevelt, he lifted us up with a sense of joy. But I think his greatest contribution was that we discovered ourselves as individuals. I count. That was his contribution. Each of us could say, I count. Well, of course, not quite everybody agreed at the time. Now, well, I recall the criticisms from FDR's first campaign for the nomination to the end of his last term. No less appundant than Walter Lippmann wrote Franklin Roosevelt off at the starting line, dismissing him as a pleasant man who without any important qualifications for the office would very much like to be president. Forgive me, but now and then I think I've been hearing an echo. FDR was denounced by some as a traitor to his class. The people who said that missed the whole point of what he believed in and what this country is all about. There's only one class and that's we the people. Woe unto those forerunner domestic who try to divide us. They've never succeeded yet. I think there's a basic reason for this, one that Franklin Roosevelt understood as well as anyone. The overwhelming majority of Americans, he said, are possessed of two great qualities, a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. This great nation of ours is a caring, loving land. Its people have a zest for life and laughter, and Franklin Roosevelt shared those qualities. But we're also a practical people with an inbound, born sense of proportion. We sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too. Every generation of Americans has faced problems and every generation has overcome them. Like Franklin Roosevelt we know that for free men, hope will always be a stronger force than fear, that we only fail when we allow ourselves to be boxed in by the limitations and errors of the past. This is not a political gathering. It's a celebration of a great man who led our nation through historic times. It's a celebration shared here today by many who knew and loved him well. Friends, colleagues, and relatives, and for my part, a young sportscaster who first felt the awe and majesty of this office when that familiar caped figure drove down the avenue in Des Moines, Iowa in 1936. The figure who proved to us all that happy days could and would come again. In that spirit I can think of no better way to conclude these brief remarks and to ask you all to join me in a toast, and I think he would join, a toast to happy days, now again and always, to happy days. I think we're going to hear it. Thank you all. Thank you very much.


Item Number- SCP-17 Object Class- Keter Special Containment Procedures- SCP-17 is contained in an acrylic glass cage 100 cm x 50 cm x 50 cm, centrally suspended in a concrete room measuring 6 m x 6 m x 4 m. Attached to the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room, our high-intensity arc lamp spotlights pointed directly at the acrylic cage to ensure that SCP-17 is constantly exposed to light from every angle. Personnel assigned to the SCP-17 control room are to monitor the functionality of the spotlights and the emergency generator system, and call for maintenance immediately upon knowledge of a burnt-out lamp or an issue with the generator. The only circumstance under which personnel are allowed entrances to replace lamps. Personnel entering the room are required to wear the designated full-body reflective suits and must be cautioned not to step in front of functional spotlights. Description- SCP-17 is a humanoid figure, approximately 80 cm in height, anatomically similar to a small child, but with no discernable identifying features. SCP-17 seems to be composed of a shadowy, smoke-like shroud. No attempt to find any object beneath the shroud has been successful, but the possibility has not been ruled out. SCP-17's reaction to shadows cast upon it is immediate and swift. SCP-17 leaps at the object casting the shadow and completely encloses it in its shroud, where upon it returns to its normal size, leaving no trace of the object behind. Item Number- SCP-122 Object Class- Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-122 is to be stored in a standard containment chamber containing a single electrical outlet. No personnel dormitories are to be constructed within 500 meters of the containment area. At no time should SCP-122 enter an unpowered state. Several redundant power systems are to be maintained and inspected regularly. In the event of SCP-122-1 manifestation, 35 members of site personnel assigned to enact containment are to be deployed outside the containment chamber. If it becomes hostile, Procedure 99 Renmar is to be enacted. Due to the potentially disastrous side effects in the event of cross-contamination, at no point are SCP-122 and instances of SCP-3060 to be stored at the same facility. To enact Procedure 99 Renmar, all subjects are to assume specific positions in and around the containment chamber in order to prevent a containment breach. Two subjects are to man a portable generator, with which the equipment used in Procedure 99 Renmar is powered. Three subjects are to be equipped with chemical irritants, created as a byproduct of SCP-1837, which has been found to have an inhibitory effect on SCP-122-1 instances. After all instances of SCP-122-1 have been reduced to the point where entry is safe, five subjects are to enter the containment chamber and use an electrical extension cord from the generator to return SCP-122 to a powered state. These personnel are to be considered irrecoverable after entering SCP-122's containment chamber due to its effect. The remaining personnel are redundant. They will take the place of any incapacitated personnel. The description SCP-122 is a children's nightlight in the design of a stylized shooting star. When it is in a powered state, SCP-122 lets off between 14 to 20 lux. No manufacturer's mark is present on or within SCP-122's components. When in an unpowered state, SCP-122 will affect all subjects within a 500 meter radius of its location. When the subjects enter REM's sleep, they will move into a comatose state in which they will remain until SCP-122 is resupplied with power. While comatose, humanoid figures appearing to be composed of a black, slightly translucent mass will appear from any shadows around the subject. These figures are hereafter known as instances of SCP-122-1. Instances of SCP-122-1 exhibit signs of sapience and sentience, with physical abilities roughly equivalent to the affected subjects. They will attempt to locate as many human subjects as possible and expose them to SCP-122's effect. As more subjects are affected by SCP-122, its radius of effect will expand, with the maximum range seen in testing being over 2.7 kilometers. The SCP-122-1 instances will attempt to gather all sleep aids within the area of effect and apply them to the subjects. These objects have included insomnia medication, traditional medicines known to be used as treatment with insomniacs, pillows, blankets, mattresses and bed frames, media such as lullabies. When in a powered state, SCP-122 will affect the sleep patterns of all subjects within its radius. If a subject awakens from a state of REM sleep while within SCP-122's radius, they will display signs of insomnia and will complain of unusual dreams. Proposals to determine SCP-2840's effects on these dreams are currently pending approval. SCP-122 was discovered within the Linnell Children's Hospital after several reports of SCP-122-1 manifestations reached locally embedded agents. When the area was investigated, it was found that all subjects within the building had been affected by SCP-122. Recovered documents indicate that a patient brought SCP-122 when being admitted. However, no record of the patient's identity has been found. Agents secured SCP-122 with a portable power source and it was transported to Site-19. In 122B, SCP-122 reclassified to Keter following incident 122-1, moved to Armed Reliquary Containment Area 2. Incident 122-1, on 11 instances of SCP-122-1 breached containment, causing the death of several members of Site personnel and numerous casualties. During recontainment operations, SCP-122's containment procedures were put under review. During this review, security footage of several maintenance personnel tampering with SCP-122's chamber lock was discovered. When questioned, the subjects claimed that they had done so under duress, saying that a canary was not allowing them to sleep until they released SCP-122. Subjects were given Class A amnestics and containment procedures were revised. Upgrade to Keter requested. Item number SCP-205 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-205-1 and SCP-205-2 are contained within Chamber 52 at Site-23 under regular observation via the adjoining observation room. SCP-205-1 and SCP-205-2 are to be supplied with power and face the white projection screen on the wall opposite the observation window at all times. Chamber 52 requires monthly maintenance to ensure the continued operation of both SCP objects, their power supply, and remote activation controls. Replacement parts and bulbs are kept on hand in the chamber. Maintenance is suspended during the final month of the SCP-205 cycle, occurring in April and October of each year. Should power to Chamber 52 fail, it is to remain dark and sealed for a period of 30 days, before local security enters to re-engage power for continued observation and containment. During maintenance, it is critical that only one of the SCP-205 pair is ever turned off at a time. Should both objects lose power or otherwise cease normal operation, the chamber must be sealed for a 30-day period before local security may enter to re-engage power and retrieve the remains of any personnel lost in the chamber. Pending-05 review, testing and observation is to continue before SCP-205 is to be moved to permanent storage. Description SCP-205 is a pair of flood lamps used in photography. The light emitted by each lamp behaves in a manner unique to SCP-205 and passes completely through any surface that is not colored white. Once the light contacts a white surface, it scatters and reflects as normal and loses any unnatural properties. If the light continues uninterrupted through any matter, otherwise casting no shadow, each lamp will display an unidentified young woman's shadow upon any flat white surface, such as the projection screen in Chamber 52. Whether or not this shadow corresponds to anyone living or dead has yet to be determined, although the shadow appears to re-enact a specific series of events, leading up to the woman's death. Even if the lamps are slightly moved, the shadow remains distinct and does not lose focus or move along with the one lamp or the other. Only one shadow is cast, although a physical person standing before two lamps would actually cast two shadows. When supplied with steady power and maintained, the SCP-205 pair will go through a six-month cycle that ends on April 30th and October 31st of each year. Neither the inclusion of an extra day during a leap year nor intermittent operation failures change these dates. Thus, SCP-205's cycle appears to be tied to the standard calendar rather than a set passage of time. SCP-205 will shut off at midnight on the final day of each cycle. Any persons entering or already inside Chamber 52 when the lamps are both turned off are violently assaulted by forces unseen in a manner consistent with the fate suffered by the shadow woman, regardless of any other light sources in the room. If the lamps are shut off at the end of a standard six-month cycle, they can be remotely activated to immediately end the danger and begin a new cycle. If the lamps cease operating for any other reason, Chamber 52 will remain dangerous and must remain sealed for at least 30 days, regardless of the status of SCP-205 itself. During a dangerous phase, any equipment in the room is often ransacked, but although SCP-205 itself has sometimes been moved, the lamps are never damaged. On two occasions, data expunged were carved into the walls. This strongly implies that data expunged displaying an awareness of current containment procedures. Overview of SCP-205's cycle. For the first month of operation, SCP-205 will display a still image of one woman in a provocative pose. Although variances have been noted in the pose and clothing of the woman, the individual displayed appears to be distinct and consistent through all cycles. During the last week of the first month, the shadow will begin to move slightly as if the individual is shifting her weight or becoming uncomfortable. Her hair and clothing will be observed to flutter in ways that do not correspond to any movement of the atmosphere within Chamber 52. By the end of the first calendar month, the shadow will break her pose and spend the next 8 hours moving through a series of poses that imply a photography session complete with clothing changes and short breaks, sometimes including a meal. After this session is over, the shadow will constantly be in motion for the next 5 months, displaying a pantomime of the last days of a young model's life before she is brutally murdered at the end of the cycle. The shadow of the woman never moves beyond the boundaries of the projection screen. The shadows of objects that the woman appears to be interacting with do not appear unless they are being picked up or carried and with the exception of the final month of the cycle, any other individuals that the shadow appears to be interacting with are not seen. Although the cycle is slightly different each time, certain consistencies are observed. The individual portrayed appears to have taken up photography as a hobby in addition to being a fashion model. Her behavior implies a great deal of social interaction, although with a lack of intimacy and behavior that indicates living alone rather than with family or partner. One implied sexual encounter with an unseen partner occurs in the second or third month of the cycle and exactly 66 explicit sexual encounters occur in the final month of the cycle. During the last month of the cycle in April and October, shadows distinct from the young woman are displayed. These shadows all have exaggerated nude male physiques and horns projecting from the cranium, although no phallus is ever observed, even during the sexual displays that take up the final days of the cycle. Only one shadow appears at first, interacting with the woman in a manner suggesting that they have met at a party or social gathering. The woman does not appear to notice the unusual nature of the other shadow and plays out a series of varying romantic interactions with it. The horned shadow will return to dine with the woman, engage in silent conversations, and accompany her on outings. One recurring event involves the horned shadow introducing the woman to at least two other identical horned figures. After the second week of the month, the woman will take photographs of one or more of the horned shadows during one of their outings, always with a non-digital camera that has been consistent through all observed viewings of the SCP-205 cycle. After this event, explicit sexual encounters will begin between the woman and one of the figures, increasing in intensity and frequency until the end of the third week. During the final week of the month, the woman appears to develop the film in her camera for the first time since photographing the horned shadows. Her reaction to the photographs is one of shock and horror, and her movements afterwards suggest that she attempts to flee and seek shelter behind a locked door, presumably in her home. There she is encountered by multiple instances of the horned shadow figure, which assaults her repeatedly for the remainder of the week. It is strongly implied that she is killed during this process, although the assaults will continue until the end of the cycle. On the last day of the cycle, one of the horned shadows begins to grow larger, in a manner suggesting that the figure casting it is approaching the SCP-205 lamps directly. It will eventually overcast all other shadows, and at this time, both lamps will be physically turned off, regardless of any modifications made to prevent a halt in operation. Addendum SCP-205-1 has been in the Foundation's possession since F***. SCP-205-2 is identical in every way, including the serial number. It was discovered in a ransacked motel room in F***. No sign of the identity or whereabouts of the occupant have been found, although a camera similar to the one displayed in the sixth month of the SCP-205 cycle was also recovered. Most of the contained film was ruined by exposure. Incident 205-76B On 1028, SCP-205-2's bulb burnt out. Researcher MN was sent into Chamber 52 to replace the bulb during one of the climactic assaults. Upon the opening of Chamber 52's door, all horned shadow figures within view ceased their activity and turned towards the door. Researcher N resealed the chamber and refused to enter to perform maintenance. Shadow figures did not resume their usual activity for approximately three hours. Incident 205-77A On 428, SCP-205-2's bulb exploded. Shadow figures all ceased activity and looked towards the chamber door. No staff were dispatched to replace the bulb. Chamber 52 sealed and abandoned for 30 days, according to procedure. Number 1 SCP-272 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-272 is to be contained in a small wooden box in a vault at Sector 25. Apart from this, no further containment is necessary, as the object is completely inert when not in use. Care is to be taken not to drop the item during transit. Description SCP-272 is an iron nail, approximately 11.5 cm long, resembling ancient designs. Covering every flat surface are engravings of unknown cultural origin. The engravings have been described as captivating, but scary, in a majority of staff interviewed. The nature of the object becomes apparent when it is dropped onto the shadow of an individual. The nail will bury itself exactly two-thirds of its length into the material the shadow is cast on. Following this, two effects should be noted. The person whom the shadow belongs to will not be able to remove the nail by any means, and they are limited to movements that keep their shadow cast on the nail. The nail, however, may be removed by conventional means by anyone else, although those requested to do so reported a mild aversion, citing claims that, quote, it feels fair. The object was discovered during a routine sweep embedded into an exposed rock face near an abandoned air force base in Afghanistan, with a human skeleton scattered around it. It was thought to be mundane, until a researcher dropped it at their feet, and was subsequently pinned to the spot for 20 minutes before being assisted. Human log 272A Test Subject 1D Class Personnel D2721 Surface Rock face at Discovery Site Lighting Midday Sun Directly Overhead Purpose Established Nature of SCP Procedure Subject was handed the nail and told to hammer it into his shadow at his feet. Subject complies. Once the nail had reached the two-third mark, subject could not continue. Subject attempts to move away, but is unable to. Subject soon becomes fatigued and succumbs to heat stroke. Object removed Subject given medical treatment Conclusions Nature of the object established 272B Test Subject 1D Class Personnel D2722 Surface as above Lighting Night Minimal Purpose Establish Effects at Night Procedure Nail was dropped at subject's feet and embedded itself exactly two-thirds of the way in. Subject then asked to move 10 meters away from the nail. Results Object embeds Subject complies showing no adverse effects. Subject then attempts to escape and is terminated. Object recovered Conclusions Subject is free to move when no shadow is cast. 272C Test Subject 1D Class Personnel D2723 Surface as above Lighting as above Two hours before sunrise Purpose Establish Effects of Lighting Changes Procedure Nail dropped as above Subject told to walk in a straight line away from the nail. Results Object embeds Subject shows no adverse effects. Sunrise occurs at 606 local time. Subject is data expunged. Three cleanup teams dispatched. Subject's torso recovered 106 meters from object showing signs of road rash and severe blunt trauma. Object recovered. Testing moved to Sector 25. Conclusions Data Expunged 272D Test Subject 1D Class Personnel D2724 Surface Concrete Floor of Test Facility 25H Lighting 1 Standard 60 Watt Lightbulb Directly overhead Purpose Establish Lighting Requirements Procedure Nail dropped on the shadow of test subject. Subject told to walk in a straight line away from the object. Results Object embeds Subject is free to move. Object recovered. Conclusions Insufficient lighting will cause no effect. 272E Test Subject 1D Class Personnel D2724 Surface as above Lighting 1 Standard 1500 Watt Stadium Light Directly overhead Purpose as above Procedure as above Results Object embeds Subject trapped Object recovered Conclusions Lighting requirements established 272F Test Subject 2D Class D2724 and D2725 Surface as above Lighting 2 Stadium Lights Position 90 degrees apart Purpose Determine if multiple subjects can be held. Procedure Subjects positioned so their shadows overlap. Object dropped onto both shadows. Subjects told to advance away from the nail. Results Object embeds Subject D2724 continues unhindered, but reports feeling a chill. D2725 is held by the object. Object recovered. Conclusions Object cannot hold more than one subject. Potential secondary effect observed. 272G Test Subject 8D Class D2724 through D27211 Surface as above Lighting 4 Stadium Lights Positioned in a ring around the subjects. Purpose Determine the selection mechanism for which subject is held. Procedure Subjects positioned so their shadows overlap. Nail dropped onto all 8 shadows. Results Object embeds Subject D2729 is held 18 years of age. Caucasian 1.8 meters 88 kilograms. All others free to move. Reports of a scream from all subjects accept D2729. All subjects accept D2729 seen to shiver. Object recovered. D2729 removed from study. Experiment repeated. Subject D2726 held 24 years of age. Hispanic 1.6 meters 102 kilograms. All others appear to shiver and report a scream, but remain free. Experiment repeated four additional times as per the above method. Discontinued after D2727 fell unconscious. Subject given treatment for severe hypothermia. Conclusions. Emerging patterns suggest that the youngest possible subject to be held will be. Additionally, secondary effect on larger groups observed. Further research pending acquisition of a larger sample group. Addendum. Subjects of equal gender distribution. Ages ranging from 18 to 59. Numerous physical traits represented. 272H. Test subject. 1D class. D2725. Surface. One outdoor field. Grassy. Lighting. Early morning sun. Approximately 9 a.m. Purpose. To determine if subject can escape by digging. Procedure. Object dropped onto subject's shadow. Subject then given a shovel and told to dig out the object. Results. Subject digs for 90 seconds. Then falls over screaming. Subject expires before medical intervention could be administered. Autopsy reveals subject died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Cause indeterminate. Object recovered. Field repaired. Repeated with D2727 and 8. Results identical. Conclusions. Subjects held by SCP-272 cannot dig the nail out. Attempting to do so is invariably fatal. 272I. Test subject. None. Surface. N.A. Lighting. N.A. Purpose. To determine the object's destructibility. Procedure. 1D class personnel. D2729 is given the object and a selection of tools and told to go to town in an attempt to destroy the object. Test area evacuated. Results. Subjects selected an angle grinder. Set the object in a vise and proceeded to bring the grinder upon the object. An instant later, subject is seen writhing on the ground clutching his temples. Audio recordings from inside the room record subjects speaking in... 30 seconds later, subject expires. Autopsy reveals the cause to be a cerebral hemorrhage. Examination of the object reveals some minor damage from the grinder. Conclusions. Object appears to be fully destructible but will resist actions against it with lethal force by an unknown method. Object tested to maintain its original functionality. 272J. Test subject. 1D class personnel. D27210. Surface. Concrete floor of test facility 25H. Lighting. One stadium light positioned on a computer-controlled track. Purpose. A. Determine the effects of rapid lighting shifts. And B. Determine if subject can be withheld from the object via restraints, barriers, et cetera. Procedure. Test one. Light position to cast a long shadow. Nail dropped into the head of the subject's shadow. Light slowly raised. Results. Test one. Subject dragged at a proportional rate towards the object. Subject has difficulty standing. Procedure. Test two. As above. Light raised very rapidly. Results. Test two. As above. But at a more rapid rate. Noted that subject was unable to remain standing and accelerated upon falling. Attributed to the decrease in shadow size relative to standing. Subject acquired minor road rash. Procedure. Test three. As above. Subject restraint with chains attached to their feet. Chicken wire screen placed between subject and object. Results. Test three. Data expunged. Subject expires. Subject recovered. Further testing with restrained subjects prohibited. Conclusions. Subjects seemed to be dragged by their shadow at a rate required to keep it cast upon the object. Intervening obstacles appear not to impede this function although will damage the subject or in the case of barriers like the chicken wire. Data expunged. Two seven two H. Test subject. One D-class personnel. D two seven two four. Surface. As above. Lighting. One stadium light in a fixed position. Roughly 45 degrees from horizontal. Purpose. Establish the effects of long term containment. Procedure. D two seven two four position central to the room. Object is dropped onto the subject's shadow. Results. Subject held. After the third day, subject becomes unresponsive to attempts to provide nourishment. After the first week, subject heard to only speak. By the 11th day, the subject having not eaten or drank in eight days seemed to become agitated rapidly shifting between mania and a comatose state. At the 14 day mark, the test is terminated. Object recovered. Subject noted to be severely malnourished but resumed speaking English once the object is removed and proceeded to recover rapidly before monthly termination. Conclusions. Extended containment has yielded that the subject will survive for prolonged periods without nourishment but will enter a degraded mental state. Addendum. Partial transcript of subject D two seven two four's manic speaking from day 14 translated sections and curly brackets. Begin transcript. Dr. Kimiro, for the record state your name. D two seven two four. Ashes burned at my tongue. I cannot taste the water boils at my sight. Dr. Kimiro, can you repeat that? D two seven two four. I cannot sleep to screams are heard. I am not the warm the shadow steals. Dr. Kimiro, right. How do you feel? D two seven two four. The chains they bind I cannot move the people. Data expunged. Dr. Kimiro, what is he saying? What is he speaking? Someone get me a translator. D two seven two four. Growing louder. Cut my flesh to ribbons that I might be free. Subject begins clawing at his skin. Data expunged. I am the prisoner of my own foolishness. Let the crows come and data expunged.  And transcript. Item number SCP-286. Object class Euclid. Special containment procedures. SCP-286 is to be kept in a secure containment cell at site 19 that allows an open secure perimeter of at least 50 meter radius around SCP-286. Only D-class personnel are permitted to have direct physical contact with SCP-286 and only as part of an approved experiment. Update. Oh, 719-2000 experiments with SCP-286 are hereby suspended until further notice. Oh, five surveillance cameras are to be positioned to allow 360 degree monitoring of SCP-286 during experimentation. Recordings shall be maintained and cataloged of all Sigma states exhibited by SCP-286. Update. Oh, 311-2000. As of incident I-2865, surveillance of SCP-286 is to be continuous and any initiation of a Sigma state is to be immediately reported to Overwatch Command. Outside the immediate project directorate, the SCP-286 Sigma state archives and associated material are to be restricted to level four access. Under no circumstances are identified instances of SCP-286-1 or SCP-286-2 to be prevented from having contact with SCP-286. Oh, five. Description. SCP-286 is a carved stone game board measuring 83 centimeters on a side. It bears markings consistent with the Chinese game of Lu Bo. Based on artifacts found with SCP-286 during recovery, SCP-286 has been dated to at least the Shang Dynasty, though all attempts to date the carvings directly have been inconclusive. Analysis of SCP-286's composition has shown high concentrations of iron and nickel and crystalline microstructures consistent with- If any higher order mammal touches SCP-286, it will initiate a Sigma state. A Sigma state is indicated by the appearance of 12 tokens on the surface of the game board. The tokens appear to be constructed of the same material as SCP-286. Six tokens are dark, absorbing 75% more ambient light than the board's surface, while six tokens are light, emitting 75% more ambient light than that which actually strikes them. Apparing with the tokens on the game surface are two 18-sided dice, apparently made of bronze. As with the game tokens, direct physical examination of the dice has proved to be impossible. The dice share the anomalous reflective and absorption properties shown by the game tokens, one light and one dark. Otherwise, the dice appear consistent with dice found in non-anomalous Lu Bo sets recovered from various Chinese archaeological sites. A Sigma state will also manifest SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 to play a game. SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 are higher-order mammals who have suffered temporary alterations in patterns of movement, cognition, behavior, and vocalization. SCP-286-1 will appear agitated. Movements will become jerky and imprecise. Vocalizations will be quick, stuttering, and aggressive. SCP-286-2 will appear sluggish. Movements halting and slow. Vocalizations will be low-pitched, throaty, and tend to be monosyllabic. Subjects capable of human speech will converse, but only to their opposite number during a Sigma event. Such conversations or monologues in the case of a subject facing a non-human opponent are conducted in a random sequence of human languages, sometimes shifting multiple times within a single statement. Only 45% of the recorded conversations between SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 have been successfully translated to date. The subject who initiated the Sigma state will become an instance of SCP-286-1 if they touched SCP-286 on an illuminated surface, or they will become an instance of SCP-286-2 if they touched SCP-286 on a surface that is in shadow. In either case, the subject will take a seated position to one side of the board. Instances of SCP-286-1 will take a position on the side nearest the light game tokens. Instances of SCP-286-2 will take a position on the opposing side, nearest the dark game tokens, and roll one of the two dice manifested by SCP-286. After the dice rolled, some other higher-order mammal will appear within 47 meters of SCP-286 and become the subject's opposition. SCP-286-2, in the case where the subject is SCP-286-1, or SCP-286-1, the case where the subject is SCP-286-2. This selection appears related to the results of the first die roll. After appearing, the subject's opposition will take a seated position facing the subject and will commence playing the first move. Gameplay then consists of SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 alternately rolling dice and moving pieces on the board in complex patterns. A game is won when the center square contains all of one side's tokens and only that side's tokens. A winning move concludes a Sigma State. During a Sigma State, SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 will show no reaction to any external stimuli that does not physically interfere with SCP-286-1, SCP-286-2, and their interaction with the game. If something disrupts an ongoing game, then either SCP-286-1 or SCP-286-2 will stand and vocalize a statement that most commonly translates as forfeit, less commonly as draw. This event will also conclude a Sigma State. When a Sigma State concludes, players cease being designated SCP-286-1 or SCP-286-2 and game tokens, dice, and the subjects opposing player all vanish. All observed subjects and those opposing players who have been identified and examined have shown no physical after effects from interaction with SCP-286. However, all cases have shown a marked increase in spirituality and interest in religious subjects, including, but not limited to, adoption of new belief systems, taking on a vows, speaking in tongues, and prophetic visions. For the winning player, this new spirituality will tend to take an optimistic messianic character. For the losing player, attitudes will tend toward the apocalyptic. Addendum 1, technical note, TN-286-55, SCP-286 is possible relationship to divination and or revelation. Historically, Lubo was not only a game, but also used as a method of divination, the various spots on the game board corresponding to the sex-aginary cycle used by Chinese to recount the passage of time, since the earliest written texts. Given the propensity of subjects to have prophetic visions subsequent to their participation in a Sigma event, it has been theorized by several researchers that the moves during a Sigma event may themselves be of some prophetic significance. While the possible significance of individual moves during recorded Sigma events is ongoing in so far inconclusive, it has been determined that the act of winning does appear to correspond to significant events beyond the game itself. In particular, every instance of SCP-286-1 winning has been tied to intensification of sunspots, solar flares, and generally increased solar activity. SCP-286-2 winning has been associated with significant tectonic events, including... Because it is not known if these events were predicted by one side winning or caused by one side winning, experimentation on SCP-286 has been suspended as an unacceptable risk. Addendum 2. Document TR-286-27E, excerpted translation of dialogue between SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 during Sigma event number 27. Forward. D-class test subject was a male Caucasian 44 years of age, identified as SCP-286-1 after initiation of a Sigma state. Opposition player, SCP-286-2, was an as-yet unidentified Hispanic female approximately 20 years of age. The Sigma state lasted for 68 minutes, at which time SCP-286-1 achieved the winning move. During the Sigma event, the players conversed in 25 known languages and approximately 15 unknown languages. 30% of their dialogue was undiscipherable or in an indeterminate language. Marking this episode, the most completely translated yet recorded. Begin transcript, 1300 hours, date undisclosed. SCP-286-1, you move rotate slowly and precisely as untranslatable matter earth universe. SCP-286-2, have possess patience my our brother and still quiet silence. Untranslatable mind thoughts brain. SCP-286-1, untranslatable. SCP-286-2, laughs. Distress, discomfort, displeasure. Untranslatable to you. SCP-286-1, why would I untranslatable? Your sins, perversions, abominations. SCP-286-2, laughs.  Untranslatable matter earth universe disgusts me. SCP-286-2, you untranslatable in that meat skin. This amuses me. SCP-286-1, untranslatable. SCP-286-2, move process sequence. SCP-286-1, every time, moment, eternity, my untranslatable closer. I must will shall illuminate enlighten this untranslatable. SCP-286-2, size, move process sequence.  Do you untranslatable? Love arousal, untranslatable. SCP-286-2, move process sequence or forfeit. SCP-286-1, untranslatable. SCP-286-2, untranslatable, exiled, banished. Me to matter earth universe, untranslatable. No, understand me more than you. SCP-286-1, untranslatable, will know, understand me and be consumed engulfed, destroyed by knowledge understanding. SCP-286-2, but brother, I am so much closer. End transcript, 1312, date undisclosed. Addendum three, incident report, I-286-5. SCPs involved, SCP-286, SCP-286-1, SCP-286-2, SCP-4351, date, 311, 2000. Location, SCP-286's containment area, site 19. Description, at 531 UTC, standard security monitoring SCP-286's containment area detected the unauthorized presence of Dr. SS, a foundation researcher temporarily assigned to site 19, most recently assigned to the study of SCP-435. All experimentation on SCP-286 had been suspended for the preceding eight months and no activity with the object had been approved. A security team was dispatched, reaching Dr. S as she entered SCP-286's containment area. Upon arrival, the security team discovered the presence of Dr. LW, a researcher assigned to SCP-286, already seated behind the dark side of SCP-286. SCP-286 showed the signs of already being in a Sigma state. Both researchers showed behavioral anomalies, consistent with SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2, believing an unauthorized experiment was underway. The security team restrained Dr. S before she could seat herself at SCP-286. In response, Dr. L stood and vocalized what has been identified as vulgar Latin words for grand forfeit. The Sigma state concluded at 545 UTC. Neither researcher could provide any explanation of how they were affected by SCP-286. Dr. S's last recollection was having a cup of coffee at a staff commissary on the other side of the Site-19 complex from SCP-286, while Dr. L reported that he had been reading emails in his office when he blacked out. Simultaneously, with the cessation of SCP-286's Sigma state, there was a sudden emergency and when SCP-4351 unexpectedly entered an active state, moving erratically and data expunged, impacting the ocean basin, causing and data expunged. Contingency 435-XK Alpha had been initiated, but she was canceled when SCP-4351 came to rest three minutes later. Note, SCP-286 classification is hereby upgraded to Euclid. 05... Item number, SCP-538. Object class, Euclid. Special containment procedures.  These lights are to be centered above a 1x2x0.5 meter block table stationed in the center of the containment area and shining at all times. One class D personnel in a chemically induced coma is to be kept medically stable upon the table and will serve as the feed source for all specimens of SCP-538. No source of shade should be present in the room other than that provided by the class D. If at any point, a light in SCP-538's containment area burns out, a crew of two security personnel are to be sent in through an adjacent airlock. Personnel are to be equipped with sealed hazardous materials suits, complete with independent oxygen tanks, and advised to move slowly and deliberately in order to avoid agitating SCP-538. They are to replace the burnt out bulb and, upon completion of their task, are to return to the airlock. Once personnel are isolated within the airlock, they are to be flushed with 300 watt white light in order to assure no instances of SCP-538 are clinging to their person. If at any time, all four lights are to go out simultaneously, the chamber is to be sealed along with all observation ports. Until means of relighting SCP-538's chamber are available, the containment area is to remain in lockdown. If at any time, personnel are bitten by SCP-538, the infected individual must be placed within SCP-538's chamber as soon as possible. Failure to do so could result in massive breach of containment and will result in termination of responsible individual. Note, security personnel are to be periodically screened for any unusual phobias. Any personnel found to exhibit any degree of arachnophobia is to be reassigned. Description, SCP-538 appears to be animate shadows of an unknown species of spiders. SCP-538 appears to feed off of the shadows of other living objects and will move to the nearest shadow cast by a living organism. To feed, SCP-538 does no more than attach itself to the shadow of its host in such a manner that its own shadow is not obscured. Through this manner, a single specimen of SCP-538 can grow up to approximately 15 square centimeters in size. Feeding after this point appears to simply maintain this size. The whole process has so far proven to be harmless to the host. While a specimen can attach itself to an inanimate object to feed, it will slowly atrophy and decrease in size over time. Only when connected to the shadow of a living organism can SCP-538 thrive. SCP-538 has shown itself capable of going short distances through open, well-lit areas, such as to reach a nearby host or to escape a source of agitation. However, it will rapidly decrease in size at a rate of nearly two square centimeters per second for the length of time it is not attached to a shadow. Should a specimen be stranded out in the open long enough, it will eventually decrease to nothing, at which point it can be considered deceased. Top land speed has been observed at approximately one meter per second when at maximum size. SCP-538 has shown itself to be capable of slipping through cracks greater than three millimeters in height. Spaces less than this distance appear impassable. While generally benign, SCP-538 can and will attack its host if frightened. Frightening SCP-538 generally involves a rapid movement by its host, at which point it will bite the organism's shadow before attempting to flee.  Clothing material consisting of cotton or anything sturdier will provide sufficient protection. Upon being bitten, an individual will go through five different stages within the space of an hour. Note that bitten individuals may attempt to hide their condition. Therefore, any individual exhibiting the following symptoms must be contained immediately. Stage one, upon agitation, SCP-538 will bite the shadow of its aggressor. Subject will report pain in relative area bitten on shadow. However, no puncture or wound will appear in this location. Subject will quickly become irritable, snapping at those around him. Stage two, 10 to 15 minutes after being bitten, subject will begin perspiring heavily, but may report feeling cold. Skin will become red and warm to the touch. Stage three, 25 to 30 minutes after being bitten, subject will become violent and aggressive, attempting to start conflict with those around him. Speech will be slurred and motor skills may be impaired. Subject will resort to violence, often attacking those closest to him. Stage four, 40 to 45 minutes after being bitten, subject's skin color will turn pale and paste colored and their core temperature will drop between five and eight degrees Celsius. Subject will be apologetic to those around him and may cite that he was not feeling well. Subject will attempt to excuse himself and retreat to a darker area. Stage five, 55 to 60 minutes after being bitten, subject will data expunged, resulting fluid will be completely translucent and harmless. Subject's shadow will have at this point completely disintegrated into smaller specimens of SCP-538, approximately four square centimeters in area and for the lack of a better term should be considered its offspring. There is currently no cure for being bitten by SCP-538. Death has proven to be ineffective at halting advancement of the condition, but rather skips the process directly to stage five. Addendum, 538A. As a result of incident I-538A, no fewer than two security personnel equipped with two 250 watt flashlights are to be sent into a company doctor examining class D. Incident report, I-538A, data expunged, site sector, containment chamber 538. Doctor enters containment chamber 538 for a routine checkup of D-7821 equipped with standard issue fully sealed hazardous materials suit. Two minutes and 23 seconds into examination, attack by the chaos insurgency cuts power to sectors through. As per protocol, chamber completely sealed and locked, trapping Doctor inside with SCP-538. Power remains cut off for an additional 23 minutes until backup generators are powered up and patched into the power grid. As per protocol, power was not routed to SCP-538's containment cell, but rather to sector containing at the time. Power subsequently routed through to the next highest level priority containment cells. As SCP-538 was sufficiently contained at the time, it was deemed minimum priority. No major containment breaches were reported. Attack repelled quickly and with minimum casualties. Site engineers worked to restore power. 18 hours after chaos insurgency attack, power finally reaches SCP-538 containment cell. A sobbing Doctor is escorted from the chamber, claiming he could quote, feel them crawling, end quote, all over him. Doctor undergoes psychological therapy for his new found arachnophobia. Containment protocol updated, Doctor was reassigned. Lesson complete. 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Today we are discussing the situation in Pakistan today. There have been several reports from Pakistan indicating that Pakistan is in a very serious situation at the moment. This is not the first time that Pakistan has been designated as a failed state. For various reasons there have been occasions when Pakistan was on the verge of collapse. But one way or the other the country was kept floating. First by the Americans, now by the Chinese. And there has been a continuous state of instability in that country. Although Pakistan became independent deep before India, it took them nine years to frame a constitution. Like that they have always been behind India in its development of the nation. And also it was never a democracy. Even when there were democratic leaders in power, the army was in control. So the joke about Pakistan was that while other nations have an army in Pakistan, the army has a nation in the sense that whoever was in power in Pakistan. It was the army which controlled everything. And in that way people were denied democracy. There have been changes in government by peaceful means by elections. But these were not very frequent. So one complete situation has never been free of military power. Whether military openly ruled the country or otherwise. So as a result there have been many occasions when Pakistan has been written off as a state. It used to be designated as a failed state. But it continued basically because people at large felt that Pakistan and India were alike in many ways. And that is because of the continuing conflicts and differences of situation between the two countries. And therefore there was a tendency in the world to consider India and Pakistan as some kind of equals. But in terms of power, in terms of population, in terms of any other factor if you take into account, India and Pakistan were very very very different. There have been wars between India and Pakistan. And every time India was able to win the war, then when both India and Pakistan became nuclear weapon states by various means, we, our own indigenous technology and Pakistan by using Chinese technology became nuclear weapon states. And that also created further stability in the situation. So now there is a complex situation in Pakistan where it is not only a matter of no democracy, but also a complete collapse of the administration on the one hand and also economically big serious troubles. More than that, also there have been several terrorist and extremist groups operating in Pakistan. Sometimes they were used by the government, but then sometimes the terrorists and others are confronting the government itself. There has been, there have been multiple sources of internal and external conflict in Pakistan. And extremism and the intolerance of diversity and dissent were very common in Pakistan. A narrow vision of Pakistan's identity was part of the, part of the problem. So it is threatening the country's prospects of social cohesion and stability. And part of the reason why this became rampant recently because of the inability of the state institutions to resolve grievances of the people. And this has led to violence as an alternative to negotiations. So peaceful political transition has taken place in 2013 and 2018. But as it reaches most towards election in 2023, there is a fragile economy and a deepening domestic polarization. On top of all that, Pakistan also had devastating floods. And it caused a lot of damage. Agriculture and health sector were more or less destroyed. And the governance and economic stability are in danger. So China's presence, of course, has been either positive for Pakistan or negative depending on China's own interest in the region. China openly supported Pakistan against India. It supported Pakistan's stance on Kashmir. But at the same time Pakistan, China had a very firm grip on Pakistan as a country. Then extremist groups along its border with Afghanistan. And there has been tension between the Pakistani forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Whom they themselves have installed. So with all this, the situation became worse and worse. And of course, Prime Minister Shahab Sharif came to power and Imran Khan was ousted. So internal stability was also a victim of all the situations. And recently, Jan Lassim Munir, a former head of the Pakistani intelligence, was appointed as the chief of army staff, which also created instability. And so the Pakistan's deepening political and economic crisis has fueled the instability in the country. As foreign exchange reserves have tumbled and they have to take out a bailout package from the international monetary firm to sustain itself. So there is internal conflict and it's suspected that one way or the other Pakistan might try and to distract attention point to an external enemy and it would be India. So short-term political pain with political fallout made Pakistan in a very difficult situation. The inflation has gone up to 24%, wheat and oil imports have suffered. And the economic corridor where China was supposed to build cooperation with Pakistan has also not been functioning because of terrorist attacks. High oil energy, high energy power, energy prices and fuel prices and rising unemployment and flight of investment. All these have contributed to the present pathetic situation in the country. So they are leveraging political positions to extract support from parties. And the army itself is a problem because army keeps its very tight control on the government and no reforms are working. So this is not a new situation. Earlier whenever Pakistan was in trouble, United States used to support it. And that is why people used to say there are three A's in Pakistan, the army, the Americans and Allah. So since Americans and the army have failed, now they have only resort to Allah they say. It is still continuing. It could have had a huge market in India. It could have made profits. If only they were willing to have trade with India, the situation would have improved. But all this was a result there is a 28% increase in terror attacks in 2022 alone. And so the situation is very grave in Pakistan. And now there are also several groups in Pakistan who are trying to create a breakup in the country. There are several groups. One of course is in the area of occupied Kashmir, which is under control of Pakistan. There have been a lot of unrest. And there are other groups, values groups and others are also trying to break up Pakistan. So on the one hand they have political instability. They have terrorism. They have economic instability, prices going up, inflation is high. And on top of all that, there are various groups within Pakistan trying to break it up. So we do not know where Pakistan is going. There is considerable concern that instability in Pakistan will also create instability in India. And India has always favored a strong and united Pakistan. Because whenever Pakistan fails or breaks up, it will not be favorable for India. Because you know that there was in 1971 Bangladesh was separated. That was the first time that Pakistan was broken up into two pieces. And now we do not know how many pieces Pakistan will become in the near future. So recently there was a power outage. Pakistan was completely in the dark. 220 million people were in the dark because of the failure of the grid. And also food and cash were not available. And a very big grave situation has developed. So it is difficult to predict what may happen to Pakistan. Pakistan is a Pakistani Taliban or Teri K Pakistan which was part of a spy agency. And Taliban terrorists are haunting Pakistan territory. So it may manage to get support from IMF. But at the same time that may mean that they have to reform the economy. And reforming the economy and bringing about peace is not easy when the political and economic situation is in such dire straits. India is watching, the whole world is watching to see what happens in Pakistan. But certainly it doesn't work well for Asia or South Asia. And everybody is waiting to see that somehow Pakistan is skewed by IMF or any other agency or China. Without which Pakistan cannot survive as a country for long. It is a nuclear power because the capacity for nuclear attacks. So if it becomes desperate, that will also add to the confusion in the situation. So there's a matter of concern. We do not know how it will go, but external assistance alone can support it. But external assistance can be utilized only if Pakistan is able to stabilize. So everybody is watching and we hope Pakistan remains peaceful, united and stable so that there is stability in the entire subcontinent. Well, that is the problem. If you look at this region after Japan towards the South Asia, you will find that there is not a single country which is democratic. India is the only democratic country which has continued to be a democracy all through its independence. So there is something fundamental about Pakistan. The army has always exercised power and therefore they did not allow any democratic government function. And therefore these continuous military dictatorships have changed Pakistan into a different country than India. So the reason is that the military is political and the constitution is not respected. And whoever comes to power falls into the hands of the army. Like Imran Khan had come to power through a democratic process, but when he contested on his own, he only got one seat. But it was when he worked with the Taliban and the military and other powerful agencies that Imran Khan would come to power. But they themselves abandoned him and therefore democracy failed again. So this is a situation which is very peculiar to Pakistan. And unless there is a fundamental change and new constitution may be difficult for Pakistan to return to the numbers. Yes, they are virtually begging for support. IMF will not deny money, but the point is IMF will have its own conditionalities, which will be difficult for an ineffective government in Pakistan to respect. So it is similar to Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka it was more of a debt crisis. Here it is more than that because instability has been rampant for a long time. Political parties are not able to meet the grievances of the people and therefore violence and terrorism are taking over. And the foreign minister, of course, the son of Mrs. Bhutto is now the foreign minister. And even though he is looking for help outside, he has been using very harsh language against India even at the United Nations. Sometimes they talk about peace with India, sometimes they talk with war with India. So there is really no clarity as to what they want. And since India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, that also adds to the concern in the rest of the world. Recently the former Secretary of State in his book reported that India and Pakistan had come very close to a nuclear war at some stage during the Trump administration. This has happened in the past also of near crisis, but what is holding it is the threat of annihilation because nuclear war nobody can win. And that is why there is no war at the moment, there is some kind of balance of terror there. But how Pakistan will come out of this, it is far from clear. Thank you.


WPP is very different to Omnicom or IPG or Pubesus in the sense that we started this thing from scratch. There's an entrepreneurial energy there that makes us very different and we're paranoid.  Started 23 years ago with two people in one room and I'm worried about going back to two people in one room. I'll only be satisfied when we're clearly the best at what we do.


G'day I'm Euron Ferguson, CFA Chief Officer. Happy Autumn. It's the 2nd of March and I'm here at the Traug and Incident Control Centre. I've just been down on a visit to the staging area, been down the mine. I visit the mine every couple of days just to assess from the ground how our firefighting techniques are going and assess performance. And also to meet with the incident patroller and the regional controller. A couple of things I just want to say at the outset and the first is that what's been occurring over the last six or seven weeks and it's really exemplified by this Hazelwood Mine fire has been that we've moved into a different level of interagency cooperation. Everywhere I go around the Hazelwood Mine, you see SES, you see MFB, CFA, Victoria Police, Deppie Parks, Victoria, all operating as one integrated team and coming up to the various members who I speak to, they're all really happy to be working together. I think we've set a new benchmark. So well done on that. The other thing about this fire at Hazelwood, we've called on resources from a number of interstate fire services, Tasmania Fire Service, ACT, Airport Rescue Firefighters, ADF Firefighters, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service. As I speak we still have 10 CFA fire stations which are being crewed by New South Wales Fire Rescue Service and that allows us to release CFA staff into the mine fire. The mine fire, this is week three today, Sunday and I've just come from public meeting and one of the things I wanted to reinforce to the community of Moorland and the Lutre Valley is that we will put this fire out. There's absolutely no doubt that we have the means to put this fire out but we do need to have the assistance of the weather. We know that we sometimes regress when there's strong winds and high temperatures. So as we record this next Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning are going to be tough but we are making exceptionally good progress. We have a well thought through method of firefighting using the airport fire tenders and traditional pumpers to cool the area down. We then have aerial pumpers with and without compressed air foam units that lay sloppy and then fluffy foam and then that's followed up by ground crews and the new heavy concept tankers. So we've got a really well proven method of firefighting and then what we do is we transition to the use of mechanical excavators and so on. We are also working very closely with the owner of the mine, GDF Sewers and their principal contractor RTL. They're providing a range of plant including cranes that they erect monitors on and they're very similar in effect to a Teleburn. We're also seeing 30,000 litre industrial tankers being used by the industry to quench those little hot spots and then dig them out. So it's a really concerted and cooperative effort. The last 10 days have seen a concerted effort on what we call the northern batters at the northern side of the mine. Over 50% of that is now extinguished and a substantial part of that which is not extinguished is very very cool. Over the next week or so there'll be a shift of resources onto the southeastern batters. We in adopting a prioritisation of the batters are very much guided by the amount of smoke which is coming off the fire and we're trying to minimise the amount of smoke which is blowing into particularly more south and other parts of the Latre Valley. We will have some challenges in the next couple of weeks. Next Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday night, Wednesday will present us some challenges. I just want to commend all of the people who are involved in this long-running firefight at the regional command, incident control and also at the staging area. Particularly for those crews who are on the fire ground, it's not an easy environment. It's hot, it's dirty, it's smelly. The atmosphere is very smoky. We've got a range of health monitoring systems which are very very important in ensuring that people aren't exposed to undue concentrations of carbon monoxide and smoke in particulates. Those procedures are very important. We're constantly reviewing them, having them peer reviewed. Could I say that we're also working very closely with the unions and association. The UFU have been exceptional in the way in which they've drawn matters to our attention first and allowed us time to implement a solution and also the VFBV have been very good in highlighting where they have concerns and allowing us time to try and resolve those. So great effort so far, very hectic three weeks. Notwithstanding the fact that three weeks ago we also had significant bushfires all over the state and that came on from the tail end of the fires we had in the Grampians and also those fires in Far East Kippsland some of which would have been burning now for about seven weeks. Everyone's getting tired, fatigue is a major issue. I close this with a plea to continue to think firstly about the safety of yourselves and your crew members and about the safety of the community. Think carefully about managing your fatigue levels.  Don't linger around. Keep observing what the risks are, talking it up with your crew members and come home safe.