He is the author of the Orde Oracle newsletter. This is orde-oracle.com Go give him a check out to Really gets into the nitty-gritty of these kind of different interactions between the indices and has Established a pretty good track record for himself Tim ord Tim, how are you doing today? Good. Good. Thanks for having me on again. Absolutely. Absolutely Well, let's take a look at what we got going on today. We had the looking at the XAU in gold Yeah, XAU Got a quite few questions from my clientele and they kind of so I'm gonna go through and we're gonna start from the bigger picture And we're gonna work backwards or down to the smaller picture. Okay, so the first chart The middle window is the monthly XAU gold ratio and it goes all the way back to 1986 This this chart works pretty well picking out the bigger time frames bigger bottoms and all those blue lines across there show the times when actually When that one of them when a bicycle is triggered a out the bottom window is a monthly slow stochastic Or the X for the monthly XAU gold ratio and when it gets below minus 10 Are actually be plus 10 and turns up usually you're setting at a major low and We had that happen back in August 2022 As I said I said on your show a lot of times Yeah, I think that August of 2022 was an important low and this is one of the reasons why I say that and I got some other Actually, I got about four or five different chart patterns to actually say this same thing that August 2022 was probably important low So anyhow, even though the market has made a low back in August We haven't really broke that low. We've been consoling here last couple of months, but Anyhow, that's on a buy signal Since August 2022 low and go to chart to So this is the the middle window is the weekly XAU gold chart and the same time the monthly gave a buy signal the weekly also gave a buy signal and How that's bicyclists triggered is when the RSI of the weekly XAU ratio gets below 30 And that happened back in, you know, I think July and September the two times kind of did a double buy there and And since then the market has rallied up Some over about six months and basically over the last six months is pretty much gone sideways as far as the XAU concern But those two signals are still on a buy signal and we can't go to chart number three, okay, and Here's another method. This is the the middle window is a silver-gold ratio And I usually use the gold-silver ratio I flipped it around as a silver-gold ratio just because it kind of goes up and down with the XAU way out the top window is the XAU Next window down is the RSI For the silver-gold ratio, which is the middle window window below that is the rate of change On a 12th period for the XA for the monthly a silver-gold ratio in the bottom window is a percent volume Percent Bollinger Band for the silver-gold ratio So this is a monthly chart again, and the chart goes back to look like about 1986 also But when they are psi or actually two of the three indicators That's either the RSI the rate of change and percent Bollinger Band at least two If not all three give a give a buy signal last time that got a buy signal was August 2022 So it currently is on a buy signal too So that's three different longer-term methods that all gave a buy signal around the August 2022 So in my opinion the bigger time frames are still up. We haven't broke the August 2022 low But we have consolidated For what since last September for about last nine months. We really haven't done a lot of anything So the bigger picture looks bullish. We do think we're at an important low But we really haven't done anything here over the Several month period. So I start looking at that the shorter term time frames which is Chart four chart for so chart four is the RSI for inflation deflation ratio Right, okay, and yeah, that's the weekly time frame so At the top window is the RSI For the weekly inflation deflation ratio when it gets below 30 and all those blue lines across your show times when that Bicycle was triggered and that was triggered. I Think in October of this year. We had a minor October low that triggered that low we ran up and We're kind of back down again what I want to point out oh as though is when the Weekly inflation deflation ratio Closes above the upper or lower Bollinger band It's usually at a bottom that happened at the October low and it's again happening right now Which is that far right to the window there? You can see that that ratio is closing below the lower Bollinger band And it's also bearish when it closes above the upper Bollinger band, which is noted in red across the graph So that's kind of on a bi-single right now The RSI is not giving a signal but the Bollinger band is So on a weekly time frame, that's that's also bullish. So let's flip to chart number five So we're getting down this now. We're getting down to the daily time frames. So the weekly inflation deflation Bollinger band penetration given a buy this Chart the top window is the RSI for the inflation deflation ratio next window down is a daily deep The daily inflation deflation ratio So when the RSI of the daily inflation deflation ratio gets below 30, which it did last week Then closes above 30 and stays above 30. It's a bi-single less happened last week I think I might have pointed that out in my chart last week. Can't remember but it's on a bi-single on the daily time frame So at least on a short term on your midterm or actually on a longer term scale I think the August 2022 low was an important low on a short term scale. We're giving a bi-single right now Where this bi-single will determine? What this short term bi-single would determine what happens next in the market will be just another Three or four week rally or will be a multi-month right now a multi-year rally And that's what's determined in the future here, and I know we're gonna come up on a Yeah, we're very close to the break right now. I'll save that for the next next update Yeah, and it would be nice happening, but it seems like it's just very slowly happening here Right so and that's what that's what we've been seeing just like as you said for for months now And just trying to get some action in the GDX You know you had some you know interesting movement the GDS kind of gap down a little bit a few days ago Then came right back up what you kind of expected it with the general like marking conditions But really getting something that's gonna spur it and have it run is gonna be phenomenal, uh, Tim Please stay right there. We'll be right back Welcome back folks. This is Jacob Schup filling in for Tom O'Brien. We're with Tim Ord of the Ord Oracle Tim, how are you doing? I think we left off on chart five or six Five actually perfect just a quick comment The daily inflation-deflation ratio RSI last week closed below 30 Right now we're 3190 so it's closing above 30. So probably over the last several days At a minimum or at least at a short term low. So here's it. So anyhow We're at a short term low. I think on on GDX and the next couple of charts Will determine what happens next how that how the potential current rally will last will last a couple of weeks If it does that then they'll probably stall the Longer-term uptrend is what I'm saying anyhow the chart number six okay, the middle window is the monthly HUI gold ratio and Normally when this ratio is rising gold stocks are outperforming gold That's what happens in uptrends in the gold market and gold stocks when that when that ratio is heading down It's usually a berry sign for gold and gold stocks If you notice gave a The red lines are when it closed below as mid-bollinger band the blue lines are Closes above the mid-bollinger band And it gave a sell signal back in 2021 it didn't come exactly at the top because it's this is not really designed To catch the exact tops and bottoms is designed to catch the trend of the market So even though the the bottom may have been August 2022 this ratio has not turned up yet But we're still close to the lows if it does far as the XAU is concerned or HUI, but to really get a confirmation That the gold stocks have started a started a multi-month If not a multi-year rally is when this ratio closes above the mid-bollinger band and so far It hasn't yet even though the market's up a little bit higher than August this ratio is more or less gone sideways since looks like about Mid well it's like about August 2022 it pretty much created sideways gone up a little bit gone down a little bit But it's pretty much unchanged as August 2022 The what's important here though? What what seems to be happening if you notice the bollinger bands are starting to squeeze on that ratio? Yes, so the ratio really hasn't moved at all Reveal speaking since August 2022 the bot or the second window up from the bottom is the as as that That that that determines The narrowness of the bollinger bands and so when this is at a low level Or when the bollinger bands squeeze together that That chart but right below it will become at a low level. We're pretty at a low level right now I see matching what happened back in pretty close to 2019 and There's another place to go in 22. So what that predicts is Usually when there's low volatility when the bollinger bands squeeze together It'll anticipate high volatility and that's what's probably coming in front of us When will it come we'll come in the next several months or maybe wait till next year. I don't know But it is saying that that ratio is it becoming more will become more volatile in the coming Month since it's the monthly chart so Well, we like to see the current Central rally that's giving a bicycle right now a short term on GDX HUI and XAU is for this For the rally to continue if that rally continues Most likely this ratio will go up and close above the mid bollinger band And but does that Then it predicts at a minimum will be at least a year rally because if you go back and measure the times between those Red lines and blue lines to the least a year Matter-of-fact the last time he gave a cell signal was August 2021, which is over three years ago So and it has been on a cell signal since so we get above the mid bollinger band that predict a multi Month it's not a multi-year rally. That's probably what's coming. It's the deal is it hasn't closed above the mid bollinger band yet You know So that's reason why the current rally needs to rally at least my opinion probably two months But does that that probably will close above the mid bollinger band or off to the races right on and put yeah so That's what I'm looking for for nine. Let's go to chart seven. Sure Here's another way another way to look at it the middle window is the monthly GDX The top window is a monthly cumulative up-down volume And so it it also gave a cell signal back in Looks like January 2021 and it's still below its mid bollinger band This is what the top windows the up-down volume and the bottom window is the advanced decline Keep them advanced decline. I did a bollinger band with those those two indicators Need to close above the mid bollinger band to give a multi month. It's not a multi-year rally So two different methods kind of saying the same thing here both of them are still below mid bollinger bands But most probably if one closes above it probably the whole thing will and I'll probably predict a rally That'd be at least similar to the 2016 low if not to 2019 low because would we break out of this? kind of a downtrend Consolidation that's what going on to that 21 so But we need a rally that lasts is at least a couple of months for those two type Indicators to close above the mid bollinger band. So I'm hoping the current right this current bicycle Look at last say into April Ideally May that would probably submit the idea that these would give a multi month signal It's going to happen It's not sooner or later, but it hasn't happened right now. So that's what we're kind of looking for So things are extremely cheap here. Sure, but Momentum needs to turn up and these are two type longer-term momentum indicators and once they turn up They usually stay up. They're not like go up and down Back and forth use these they start one direction and they go to direction at least a year, you know Sometimes two or three years. So that's what's sitting in front of us, you know The the deal is was August the 2022 a low a major low, which I think it was and they get that Momentum for all gold stocks to go up and said just a few we need these two type indicators And so far, you know You gotta you gotta say, you know when I don't know I I think I thought it would happen sooner than what it has but they got right back up the mid-bowl in Japan Both these two indicators I'm talking about right now back and I think in November or December of last year I'm thinking we're on our way. Well, it turned back down again So will this next rally get above it, you know, it could if it does then as it's probably a multi-year Rally and for all gold stocks and and prop is most likely silver stocks. So Absolutely, you know, that's the bigger picture of what's going on here. So yeah, and I'm gonna post these charts in the den I mean, I think six was really kind of insightful. I'm gonna post all these in the den and Tim I I know we only have a short time left here in the segment We did have a one of our listeners John Belaya. He asked a what your thoughts are on the TLT Veevix ratio currently, I don't know if you have anything at the moment if you address it Thursday or something like that, but Yeah, we actually let's take a look at it Thursday. Perfect. That sounds great. We'll do it We got that because we don't have a time to do it. Definitely. We'll talk to you about it. Wonderful. Well, Tim Thank you so much. That was phenomenal. Again. I really like chart six. All these were great. Thank you so much You bet. Talk to you then. Absolutely. And again, that was Tim Ord of the Ord hyphen oracle dot com go check him out Phenomenal stay right there


Part 4 of The Farmer's Boy by Clifton Johnson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read for you by Chiquito Crasto. Part 4, Autumn By September you begin to find dashes of color among the upland trees. It is some weakling bush perhaps so poorly nourished, or by chance injured, that it must shorten its year and burn out, thus early, its meagre foliage. But as soon as you see these pale flames among the greens, you feel that the year has passed its prime. Grown people may experience a touch of melancholy with the approach of autumn. The years fly fast, another of those allotted them is almost gone. The brightening foliage is a presage of bare twigs, of frost and frozen earth, and the gales and snows of winter. This is not the boy's view. He is not retrospective. His interests are bound up in the present and the future. There is a good deal of unconscious wisdom in this mental attitude. He looks forward, whatever the time of year, with unflagging enthusiasm to the days approaching, and he rejoices in what he sees in experiences, for what these things then are, and does not worry himself with allegories. The bright-leaved tree at the end of summer is a matter of interest, both for its brightness and its unexpectedness. The boy will pick a branch and take it home to show his mother, and the next day he will carry it to school and give it to the teacher. He would be glad to share all the good things of life that come to him with his teacher. Next to his mother, she is the best person he knows of. He never finds anything in his wanderings about home or in the fields or woods that is curious or beautiful or good to eat, but that the thought of the teacher flashes into his mind. His intentions are better than his ability to carry them out, for he often forgets himself and eats all the berries he picked on the way home, or he gets tired and throws away the treasures he has gathered. But what he does take to the teacher is sure of a welcome and an interest that makes him happy, and more her faithful follower than ever. Summer merges so gently into autumn that it is hard to tell where to draw the line of separation. September as a rule is a month of mild days mingled with some that have all the heat of mid-summer, but the nights are cooler, and the dew feels icy cold to the boy's bare feet at times on his morning trips to and from pasture. But if you notice the fields closely, you will see that many changes are coming in to mark the season. The meadows are being clipped of their second crop of grass. The potato tops have withered and lost themselves in the motley masses of green weeds that continue to flourish after they have ripened. The loaded apple trees droop their branches and sprinkle the earth with early fallen fruit. The coarse grasses and woody creepers along the fences turn rustic and crimson, and the garden becomes increasingly ragged and forlorn. The garden reached its fullness and began to go to pieces in July. First among its summer treasures came a green cucumber, then peas and sweet corn, and string beans and early potatoes. The boy had a great deal more to do with these things than he liked, for the gathering of them was among those small jobs it is so handy to call on the boy to do. However, he got not a little consolation out of it by eating of the things he gathered. Raw string beans were not at all bad, and a pod full of peas made a pleasant and juicy mouthful, while a small ear of sweet corn or a stalk of rhubarb or an onion, and even a green cucumber, could be used to vary the bill of fare. Along one side of the garden was a row of current bushes. He was supposed to let those mostly alone. As his mother had warned him, she wanted them for jelly. But he did not interpret her warning so literally, but that he allowed himself to rejoice his palate with an occasional full cluster. It was when the tomatoes ripened that the garden reached the top notch in its offering of raw delicacies. Those red, full-skinned trophies fairly melted in the boy's mouth. He liked them better than green apples. The potatoes were the hardest things to manage of all the garden vegetables he was sent out to gather for dinner. His folks had an idea that you could dig into the sides of the hills and pull out the big potatoes and then cover up and let the rest keep on growing. But when the boy tried this and had done with a hill, he had to acknowledge that it didn't look as if it would ever amount to much afterward. The sweet corn stalks from which the years were picked had to be cut from time to time and fed to the cows. It was distinning out of the corn as much as the withering of the pea and cucumber vines and irregular digging of the potatoes that gave the garden its early forlorness. By August, the pasture grass had been cropped short by the cows and the drier slopes had withered into brown. Henceforth it was deemed necessary to furnish the cows extra feed from other sources of supply. The farmer would mow with his scythe on many evenings in the nooks and corners about his buildings or along the roadside and in the lanes and the results of these small mowings were left for the boy to bring in on his wheelbarrow. Another source of fodder supply was the field of Indian corn. Around the bases of the hills there sprouted up many surplus shoots of a foot or two in length known as suckers. These were of no earthly use where they were and the boy on a small farm had often the privilege of an afternoon of cutting a load of these suckers for the cows. Among them he gathered a good many full grown stalks that had no years on them. Later there was a whole patch of fodder corn sown in furrows on some piece of laid plowed ground to gather from. He had to bring in as heavy a load as he could wheel every night and on Saturday an extra one to last over Sunday. The cows had to have attention one way or another the year through. They were most aggravating. Perhaps when in September the shortness of feed in the pasture made them covetous of the contents of the neighbouring fields. Sometimes the boy would cite them in the corn. His first great anxiety was not about the corn but as to whether they were his folks cows or some of the neighbours. He would much rather warn someone else than undertake the cow chasing himself.  He was wrathfully inclined when he started and he became much more so when he found out how much disposed the cows were to keep tearing around in the corn or to racing about the fields in as many different directions as there were animals. He and the rest of the school had lately become members of the band of mercy and on ordinary occasions he had a kindly feeling for his cows but now he was ready to throw all sentiment overboard and he would break his stick over the back of any one of these cows if she would give him the chance which she very unkindly would not. He had lost his temper and now he lost his breath and he just dripped with perspiration. He dragged himself along at a panting walk and he found after all that this did fully as well as all the racing and shouting he had been indulging in. Indeed he was not sure whether the cows had got the notion that he had come out to have a little caper over the farm with them for his personal enjoyment. All things have an end and in time the boy made the last cow leap the cap in the broken fence back into the pasture. They everyone went to browsing as if nothing had happened or looked at him mildly with an inquiring forward tilt of the ears as if they wanted to know what all this row was about anyway. The boy put back the knocked down rails, staked things up as well as he knew how, picked some peppermint by the brook to munch on and trudged off home. When he had drunk a quart or so of water and eaten three cookies he began to feel himself again. Besides all the extra forduring mentioned it is customary on the small farms to give the cows late in the year an hour or two's baiting each day. The cows are baited along the roadside at first but after the roving is cut they are allowed to roam about the grass fields. Of course it is the boy who has to watch them. There are unfenced crops and the apples that lie thick under the trees to be guarded not to mention the turnips in the newly seeded lot and the cabbages on the hill that will spoil the milk if the cows get them. The boundary line fences too are out of repair and the cows seem to have a great anxiety to get over on the neighbors premises even if the feed is much scantier than in the field where they are feeding. The boy brings out a book and he settles himself with his back against a fence post and plans for an easy time. The cows seem to understand the situation and they go exploring round as the boy says in the most sensible fashion he ever saw wouldn't keep nowhere nor anywhere else. He tries to make them stay within bounds by yelling at them while sitting where he is but they do not seem to care the least bit about his remarks unless he is right behind them with a stick in his hand. The cows do not allow the boy to suffer for lack of exercise and the hero in the book he is reading has continually to be deserted in the most desperate situations while he runs off to give those cows a training. There is one of the cows relations that the boy has a particular fondness for. I mean the calf. On small farms the lone summer calf is tethered handily about the premises somewhere out of those. Every day or two when it has nibbed and troddened the circuit of grass in its tether pretty thoroughly it is moved to a fresh spot. The boy does this and he feeds the calf its milk each night and morning. If the calf is very young it does not know enough to drink and the boy has to dip its fingers in the milk and let the calf suck them while he entices it by gradually lowering his hand to put its nose in the pale. When he gets his hand into the milk and the calf imagines it is getting lots of milk out of the boy's fingers he will gently withdraw them. The calf is inclined to resent this by giving a vigorous buck with his head. Very likely the boy gets slopped but he knows well enough what to expect not to allow himself to be sent sprawling. He repeats the finger process until in time the calf will drink alone but he never can get it to stop bucking. Indeed he does not try very hard except occasionally for he finds this butting rather entertaining and sometimes he does not object to butting his own head against the calves. He and the calf cut many a caper together before the summer is through. Things become most exciting when the calf gets loose. It will go galloping all about the premises. It has no regard for the garden or the flower plants or the linen laid out on the grass to dry. It makes the chickens squawk and scamper and the turkeys gobble and the geese gabble. Its heels go kicking through the air in all sorts of positions. Its tail is elevated like a flag ball and there is a rattling chain hitch to its neck that is jerking along in its company. The calf is liable to step on this chain and then it stands on its head with a marvellous suddenness. The women and girls all come out to save their linen and shoe the calf off when it approaches the flowers but it is the boy that takes on himself the task of capturing the crazy animal. The women folks seem much distressed by the calf's performance while the boy is so overcome with the funniness of his calf that he's only halfway effective in his chasing. At last the calf apparently sees something it never noted before for it comes down on its full legs stalks still and stretches its years forward as if in great amazement. Now is the boy's chance. He steals up and grabs the end of the chain but at that moment the calf concludes that it sees nothing worthy of astonishment and starts off again full-tailed trailing a small boy behind whose twinkling legs never spent so fast before and it is a question if things are not in a more desperate state than they were previously. By this time the boy's father and a few of the neighbor's boys appear on the scene and between them all the calf gets confused and allows himself to be tethered once more in the most docile subjection. You would not think the gentle little creature who is so mildly nibbling off the clover leaves was capable of such wild doings. On farms where oxen are the boy is allowed to bring up and train a pair of steers. While the training is going on you can hear the boy shouting out his threats and commands from one end of the town to the other. Even old Grandpa Smith who has been deaf as a stone these 10 years asked what the noise was about when our boy began training steers. By dint of his shouting and whacking it was no great time before the boy had the steers so that they were quite respectable. He got them so they would turn and twist according to his directions almost anyway and he could make them snake the clumsy old cart he hitched them into over any sort of country he pleased. He trained them so they would trot quite well too. Altogether he was proud of them and believed they would beat any steers in the county clean out of sight. He was going to take them to the cattle show sometime and see if they would not. Cattle show comes in the autumn usually about the time of the first frost. There is some very early rising among the farmers on the morning of the great day for they must get their flocks underweaved promptly or they will be late. Every kind of farm creature has its place on the grounds and in the big hall are displayed quantities of fruits and vegetables that are the biggest and best ever seen and samples of cooking and samples of sewing and a bed quilt that an old lady made after she was 90 years old that has about a million pieces in it and another one that Anne Maria Totkins made who is only 10 years old that has about 900,000 pieces in it and a picture in oils that the same Anne Maria Totkins painted and some other paintings and lots of fancy things and all sorts of remarkable work that women and girls can do and a boy isn't good for anything at. However the boy admires all this handiwork and is astonished at the big squash that grew in one summer and weighs twice as much as he does and surveys the fruits with watery mouth and exclaims when he gets to the potatoes any one of which would almost fill a quart measure. Jiminy wouldn't those be the fellas to pick up though? I don't think you use very nice language says Eddie's older sister who is nearly through the high school. Well you don't know much about picking up potatoes is Eddie's retort. There are more chances to spend money than you can shake a stick at on the cattle show grounds all sorts of men are walking around through the crowd with popcorn and candies and gay little balloons and whistles and such things to sell and there are boots where you can see how much you can pound and how much you can lift and how straight you can throw an egg at a nigger's head stuck through a canvas two rods away. There are shooting galleries and there is a phonograph where you tuck some little tubes into your ears and hear the famous baritone August William de Monk sing the latest songs and it is so funny you cannot help laughing. Of course the boy cannot invest in all the things he sees at the fair. He has to stop when his pocket money runs out but there is lots of free fun such as a chance to roam around and look on at everything and he has quantities of hand bills and brightly colored cards and pamphlets thrust upon him all of which he faithfully stores away in his gradually bulging pockets and takes home to consider at leisure. For a number of days afterward he squeaks about in his journeyings with his whistles and Jew harps and other noisemakers purchased at the fair with great persistency but these things soon get broken and the pamphlets and circulars he gathered get scattered and the occasion may be said to have been brought to an end by his finding two Sundays later a lone peanut in his jacket pocket. It was in church time and he was at great pains to crack it quietly so that he could eat it at once. He succeeded though he had to assume great innocence and a remarkably steadfast interest in the preacher when his mother glanced his way suspiciously as she heard the shucks crush. Autumn is a time of harvest. The potato field has first attention when the boy's father is otherwise busy he has to go out alone and do digging and all unless he can persuade his smaller brothers and sisters to bring along their little express wagon in assist. In such a case he spends about half his time showing them how and offering inducements to keep them at work. Usually it is the men folks who dig and the boy who has to do most of the picking up. After he has handled about five bushels of the dirty things he has had enough of it but he cannot desert. It is one of the great virtues of farm life that the boy must learn to do disagreeable tasks and to stick to them in the finish however irksome they are. It gives the right kind of boy a decided advantage in the battles of life that come later whatever his field of industry. He has the courage to undertake and persistence to carry out plans that boys of milder experience will never dare to cope with. Potato fields that have been neglected in the drive of other work in their ripening weeks flourish often at digging time with many weedy jungle. This made digging slow but the economical small farmer saw some gain in the fact for he could feed the weeds to the pigs. After the midday digging while the boy's father was carrying the bags of potatoes down cellar the boy wheeled in a few loads of the weeds. The pigs were very glad to come following up from the barnyard mire to the bars where the boy threw the weeds over. They grunted and crunched with great satisfaction. When the boy brought in the last load he had a little conversation with the pigs and he scratched the fattest ones back with a piece of board until the stout poker lay down on its side and curled up the corner of its mouth and grunted as if in the seventh heaven of bliss. A little later in the fall the onions have to be topped, the beets pulled, the carrots spaded out and the corn cut. Work at the corn in one shape or another hangs on until snow flies. The men do most of the cutting and binding though the boy often assists but what he is sure to do is to drop the straw and to hand up the bundles when they are ready for stacking and gather the scattered pumpkins and put them under the stacks to protect them from the frost. He likes to play that these stacks are Indian tents and he will crowd himself in among their slanting stalks tillies out of sight. He picks out one or two good sized green pumpkins that night from among those that they have brought home to feed to the cows and hollows them out and cuts awful faces on them for jack-o-lanterns. He fixes with considerable trouble a place in the bottom for a candle and gets the younger children to come out on the steps while he lights up. They are filled with delight and fright by the ghostly heads with their strangely glowing features and their grinning saw-toothed mouths. The boy goes sailing around the yard with them and puts them on fence posts and carries them up a ladder and cuts up all sorts of antics with them. Finally the younger children are called in and the boy gets lonesome and blows out his candle and puts the jack-o-lanterns away for another occasion. On days following there is much corn husking in the fields which the boy assists at though the breaking off of the tough cobs is often no easy matter and it makes his wrists and fingers ache. Towards sundown the farmer frequently brings home a load to husk in the evening and for the morrow's work should the day chance to be rainy. In the autumn it is quite common to do an hour or two's work in the barn of an evening though the boy does not fancy the arrangement much and begs off when he can think of a good excuse. In October the apples have to be picked. The pickers go to the orchard armed with baskets, ropes and ladders and the wagon brings out a load of barrels and scatters them about among the trees. It looks dangerous the way the boy will worm about among the branches and purse you the apples out to the tips of the smallest limbs. He never falls though he many times comes near it. The way he hangs on seems to confirm the truth of the theory that he was descended from monkey ancestors but the boy is on the ground much of the time emptying the baskets the men let down into battles and picking up the best of the windfalls and gathering the rest of the apples on the ground into heaps for cider. It is a treat to take the cider apples to mill. There is always something going on there always other teams and other boys and great bins of waiting apples and creaking machinery and an atmosphere full of cidery odors. The boy loses no time in hunting up a good straw and finding a newly filled battle with the bung out. He establishes prompt connections with the cider by means of the straw and fills himself up with sweetness. When he has enough and has wiped his mouth with the sleeve he remarks that he guesses he has lowered the cider some. When they brought their own cider home and propped up the barrels in the yard next to the shop the boy kept a bunch of straws conveniently stored and as long as he called the cider sweet he frequently drew on the barrel's contents. When the cider grew hard he took to visiting the apple bins more frequently and if you noticed him closely you would almost always see that he has bunches in his pockets that showed that he was well provided with these food stores. The great day of the fall for the boy was that on which he and a lot of other fellows went chestnutting. They had been planning it and talking it over for a week beforehand. The sun had not been long up when they started off across the frosty quiet of the pastures. Some had tin pales, some had bags, some had both. One boy had hopes so high that he carried three bags that would hold half a bushel each. Most of them had salt bags that would contain two or three quarts. Several carried clubs to knock off the chestnuts that still clung in the burrs. They were all in eager chatter as they tramped and skipped and climbed the fences and rolled stones down the hillside and whirled their pales about their heads and waited for the smallest boy who was getting left behind to catch up and did all those other things that boys do when they are off that way. How they raced to be first when they neared the chestnut trees. There was a scattering and a shouting over fines and a rustling among the fallen leaves. The nuts were not so numerous that it took them long to clear the ground. Then they threw their clubs but the limbs were too high for their strength to be effective and they soon gave up and went on to find more trees. The chestnuts rattled on the bottoms of their tin pales and the boys with bags twisted them up and exhibited to each other the knobs of nuts within. As the sun rose higher the grass became wet with melted frost and the wind began to blow in dashing little breezes that kept increasing in force till the whole wood was set to singing and fluttering. The boys enjoyed the bristness of the gale and agreed besides that it would bring down the chestnuts. They wandered on over knolls and through hollows sometimes in the brown pastures, sometimes in the ragged autumn forest patches. They clubbed and climbed and picked and bruised their shins and got chestnut burp prickles into their fingers and they had some squabbles among themselves and the smallest boy tumbled and got the nosebleed and shared tears and it took the whole company to comfort him. On the whole though they got on very well. At noon the biggest boy who had a watch told them it was 12 o'clock and they stopped on the sunny side of a pine grove where there was a brook that slipped down over some rocks nearby and at their dinner. The wind was whistling and swaying high up among the pine tops and now and then a tiny whirlwind caught up the leaves beyond the brook and dashed them into a white birch thicket. In the sheltered nook where the boys sat the wind barely touched them and they ate and drank from the brook and lounged about afterward in great comfort. They followed the little stream down a rough ravine where they again started and went through the same experiences as those of the morning. They saw two gray squirrels, they heard a hound baying on the mountain and there was a gun fired off somewhere in the woods. They found a gross nest only it was so high in a tree they could not get it and they picked up many pretty stones by the side of the brook that they put in with their chestnuts. They got under one tree that was inside of an orchard where a man was picking apples. The man hallowed to them to get out of there and after a little hesitation for the spot was a promising one they straggled off into the woods again. While they traveled they did a good deal of odd eating. They made way with an occasional chestnut and they found birch and mountain mint and dug some sassafras root which they ate after getting most of the dirt off. The biggest boy's name was Tom Cook and he would eat almost anything. He would eat acorns with the rest found too bitter and he would chew pine and hemlock needles and sweet firm leaves and all such things. He got out his knife while they were crossing a pasture and cut out a plug or bark from a pine tree and scraped out the pitch and juice next the wood and said it was sweet. The others tried it and it was sweet though they did not care much for it. In the late afternoon the squad of boys came out on a precipice of rocks that overhung a pond. The wind had gone down and the sun was getting low and it seemed best that they should start homeward. They were back among the scattered houses of the village just as the evening had begun to get dusky and frosty.  The day had been a great success but they felt as if they had trudged a thousand miles and were almost too tired to eat supper. However, when the boy began to tell his adventure and set forth in glowing terms his triumphs and trials and listed the wonderful things he had seen his spirits revived and in the evening he was able to super intend the boiling of a cup of the chestnuts he had gathered and to do his share of the eating. When the chestnut burrs opened, autumn was at its height. Now it began to decline. Every breeze set loose relays of the gaudy leaves and sent them fluttering to the earth in a many-tinted shower and the wet wigs and the increasing sharpness of the morning frost warned the farm dwellers that winter was fast approaching. End of part four, autumn, read for you by Chiquito Crasto, Birmingham, Alabama. Part five of The Farmer's Boy by Clifton Johnson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read for you by Chiquito Crasto. Part five, country children in general. In this final chapter, I propose to gather up some of the loose threads of my narrative that for one reason or another missed attention in the earlier chapters and to study the effect on his character of the life The Farmer's Boy leads. Besides, I wish to tell you something of The Farmer's Girls. They are an important part of the family life which this book attempts to portray and I have given them to scant attention. They are not so important as the boys to be sure, if we accept the latter's opinion. Though you might think after he gets to be sixteen or seventeen, he thought them more so from the amount of attention he gives them. The small girls likes and dislikes, her enthusiasm and pleasures are to a large degree identical with the boys. She will beat him half the time in the races that they run. If she has rubber boots, she is just as good a waiter. She can play ball, climb fences, slide downhill, skate, indeed do almost anything the boy can with just the same interest and enjoyment. The girl is often a leader in roaming and adventure and some girls make excellent outdoor workers too. A lively and capable girl often wishes, I fancy, that she was a boy and might have the boys' outdoor freedom and sometimes too she envies his opportunity to cope with vigorous work and win a name and place in the world. At any rate, she wishes she could slip away from the confining housework and more sober demeanor which she is expected to have. On farms where boys are lacking, the girls sometimes of necessity do the boys' work. They drive the cows to pasture, help in hoeing and weeding, load the hay and pick up potatoes. But usually, they only hover around the edges of the outdoor work. They take care of a corner in the garden and a strip of flower bed, feed the chickens, run on errands and help pick apples. The smallest girls, unless their forks are uncommonly particular, run around about as they please and dip into as many different kinds of work as they choose and they get just as smutty and dirty as any of the boys. When the girls get into long dresses, they become more and more particular as to what they are seen doing about the fields and they avoid anything but the lightest muscular exertion and not all of them even dare to make a spectacle of themselves by riding around on the horse rake and tether. The girl is early, taught to wash and wipe the dishes, to sweep, to mend wrents and so on buttons. The boy has to acknowledge that in these things his sister beats him. She can do everyone quicker and better than he can, though he claims that the buttons she sews on will come off and that, given time enough, he can sew a button on so that he can depend on that button staying where it was put to his last days. It is certain too that the girl is apt to be quicker with her mind than the boy. She has her lessons better in school and she is more docile in her behavior. Often she is the boy's helper and advisor in all sorts of difficulties and troubles and is a companion who is safer and better for him in almost every way than any of his mates. We all crave a sympathetic understanding and interest in our doings. It is the mothers and sisters who are more apt to have these qualities and it is to them that the boys go more freely with their woes and pleasures. They are far safe confidants than the rest of the world and the boy is likely to have reason for sorrow in later life because he did not follow their wishes and advised more closely. All kinds of boys are to be found on our New England farms, good and bad, handsome and homely, bright and dull, strong and weak, courageous and timid, generous and mean. I think the better qualities predominate. The typical boy is a sturdy, wholesome-looking little fellow with chubby cheeks that are well-tanned and freckled in summer and that in the winter takes a rosy glow from the keenness of the air. The same is more mildly true of the appearance of the little girls and with some advantages in their favor. You take a group of country girls some June morning on their way to school with their fresh faces and clean, starched aprons.  As the children grow up, they are apt to lose much of their simplicity and attraction. They become self-conscious and in many ways artificial, particularly in their manner and in their pleasures. This is not especially apparent in their work and there are those who continue to a large degree refreshingly earnest and natural in whatever they do and country life all through with its general habits of labor and economy and its competitive seclusion is less artificial than that of the cities. Yet there are the same tendencies in both places. The girl becomes increasingly anxious about the mode of address she wants to have all the latest puckers of the world of fashion. She twists and cuts off and curls and frizzes her hair and she braids it and rolls it and makes it stand on end in her effort to find the adjustment most becoming to her style of beauty. The result sometimes is that she has the appearance of having gone crazy. She wears toothpicked, toed, high-heeled shoes and declares publicly that they couldn't be more comfortable while privately she complains of corns. For society use she cultivates a culture tone of voice and some tosses of the head rolling up of the eyeballs, shrugging of the shoulders, etc. calculated to be killing. She has an idea that it is becoming in her to appear to take fright easily and she screeches at sudden noises and is in a panic at the appearance of the most scared and tiny of mice. A good deal of this is done for its effect on the boys. It seems to interest and entertain them and keep them hanging around. The girls sentimentalize a good deal about the boys when they get into their teens. They keep track of who is going with who and pick his looks and characteristics in their shallow way all to ravellings. What a fellow says how he curls his mustache, how he parts his hair, how horridly or how well he dances, how late it was when he got home from the last party, etc. are discussed at all kinds of times and places. Two girls who have come home from meeting together some cold autumn night will loiter and freeze to death at the gate where they are to part, talking for an hour or more over the fellows after this manner. The result is that their minds come into a state where subjects without a gossipy or sentimental turn have no interest. As a rule, the boys fall into the girls' ways and noting how the current runs encourage them. There is among the young people a good deal of flotation which I take to be a kind of aimless play, both of talk and manner that hangs around the borders of the sentimental and often gets a good way beyond it. The boy who avoids this sort of thing is said to be bashful. He is afraid of the girls, has no sentiment and all that. This may be a sufficient explanation in some cases, but in others the trouble is not in the girls, but in this kind of girls. It may be because the boy has more sentiment than the average that this sort of society is distasteful to him. Most boys are not as sentimental as our most girls. They are more worker-day and practical. Their life, in the matter of getting a living, has more responsibility than the girls. At the same time, the boy gains a coarseness of thought and feeling, often in his companionship with the men and boys he is thrown in with that the girl is almost altogether free from. It is a curious idea of manliness a boy sometimes has. He tries to express a grown-up competence to take care of himself by a rough manner and rude speech and ability to enter into the spirit of the worst kind of conversation and stories, not only without a blush but with sympathetic guffaws of laughter. He resents his parents' authority. He likes to resort to the loafing places where he has leisure. He aspires to smoke and chew and spit like the rest of the loafers there. This may be an extreme picture, but there are a vast number of boys it will fit to a degree. Most country boys admire the gentility of smoking and will be at great pains to acquire the habit after they get to be 15 or 16 years old. Perhaps the average boy never becomes a frequent smoker, but he likes the pleasurable feeling of independence it gives him when he starts off for a ride to have a cigar tilted neatly upwards from the corner of his mouth. It stamps him a gentleman to all beholders and the lookers on know from his manner and cigar that he is a person of vigorous and stoutly held opinions that it would be best not to attempt any fooling with. When you see a young man gaily riding by, sitting up very straight with his best clothes on and his five cent cigar, sending the air with its gentle aroma, you may know he is going to take his girl to ride. If he can by any manner of means find the money at this time of his career, the young man buys a fast horse and a shiny buggy carriage. He fairly dazzles your eyes as he flits swiftly past. Sometimes it takes more than one horse to finish his coating, for the first one may die of old age before he gets through. But whatever disappointment the young man suffers in his love affairs, and however his fancy or what not makes him change one girl for another, you cannot see when he starts on his journeys that he has ever lost ought of that first freshness of demeanour that characterised him, and the perfume of his cigar has the same old five cent fragrance. After all, these young fellows who go skirmishing around in this fashion are mostly hearty and good-natured. When such a one marries, his horse goes slower, the polish wears off from his carriage, he neglects his cigar, and the two settle down as a rule into a very stale and comfortable sort of folks. They might have been wiser, they might have got more from life, so could we all of us. Shakespeare said that all the world loves a lover, and people are fond of repeating the saying, but that was three hundred years ago. I don't know how it was then, nor how it is in other parts of the world now. I am very sure, however, that New England people do not love a lover.   We call him off and set him on and scare him and encourage him. We at least make that other saying come true, that faint heart, near one, fair lady. As for the girl, I imagine that among her friends, she gets a gentler and more cuddling treatment. Even the smallest children and some families have to endure a lot of talk from their elders about their girls and fellows. That is the most sickly sort of sentimentality. If let alone, the children's minds do not run much on these lines, though they occasionally, in their innocent way, build some very pretty castles in the air, that soon melt away harmlessly into nothing in the warmth of their other interests. Boys, when they begin to go to the largest schools of a town, are apt to learn a variety of rough tricks, exclamations, and slang that shock the folks at home, when the boys get to showing off within their sight and hearing. With the best of them, the largest part of this presently wears off. Others cultivate their accomplishments, and even make their conversation emphatic, with certain of the swear words. Such boys, the righteous of the community condemn us altogether bad, though it sometimes happens that even they have redeeming traits. I do not think that lying is a common fault of country boys, though most of them find themselves at times in circumstances that make it difficult to abstain from giving the truth a pretty severe straining, and perhaps most have two or three lies on their consciences that are undoubtedly black. But the boy has probably repented these in shame and sorrow, and hopes he never will be tempted again to tell one of the untruths he so despises. Really bad and unblushing, lying a boy is apt to learn, if ever, after he gets among the older and rougher boys, who hang around the post offices every evening at mail time, or who attend the center schools of the town. The farm, more than most places, tends to give children habits of thrift and singleness of purpose in the pursuit of education. There is seclusion enough on the majority of farms, so that the children are not confused by a multiplicity of amusements, and too much going on. This seclusion makes some dull, but to others it gives a concentrated energy, that makes them all through life, untiring workers and stout thinkers. Often from such a start, they become the world's leaders in many widely scattered fields of usefulness. Because you are a farm boy, it is not, however, certain, that you have only to seek the city to win fame and fortune. The city is already crowded with workers and with ability. It is a lonely, homesick place, and many years must pass before a person can win even a position of safety and comfort. The boys with good habits and health, and a strong will, have the best chance. The boy with loose habits and a lack of energy will find more temptations to a weak and purposeless career than in the country. Some boys and girls can live lives of wider usefulness in the large towns than in the country, and it is best for them to go there. But it is a serious question for most, whether they will gain anything by the change. It was my plan in this book to take the farmer's boy straight through the year. There still remains a final month that has not been treated. With Thanksgiving, autumn ends and winter begins. The trees have been bare for some time. The grasses withered brown, and the landscape white with frost every morning. They have been high winds whistling about the farm buildings and scurrying through the leaf litter of the fields. Snow squalls have whitened the air, and the roadway pools have frequently been glazed with ice. But the solid freezing and snows of winter are not looked for until after Thanksgiving. The boy gets out his old mittens and his cloth cap that he can pull down over his ears, and he keeps his coat collar turned up, and hugs himself and draws himself into a narrower compass as he does his outdoor work. On some cold morning, he gets out his sled, and if he finds a bank steep enough, he slides down on the frost very well. He tries such ice as comes in his way, and of course breaks through and gets his feet muddy. Then real winter comes. The world is all white, and the sleigh bells jingle along the road, and the ponds and rivers are bridged with solid ice. The boy, with some other boys and perhaps some of the girls too, is often out with his sled. They do a good deal of sliding down the steepest kind of hills, indeed, that is a sort that they search out. And if it has a few lively bumps in it, so much the better. They dash down the decline in the most reckless fashion, and then keep going up a little higher to make the descent still faster and more exciting.  You will think it would be the end of him, but he gets tipped, dazed, and powdered wide from head to foot, and his lip quivers, and some tears trickle from his eyes. He says in a shaky voice that he's going home. The other boys gather round and brush him off, and Willy Hooper lends him his handkerchief, when the boy can't find his own. And they tell him how he looked going over and over, and what he ought to have done, and that he's all right. And to come on now. There ain't no use of going in just for that. We'll have a lot of fun yet. The boy finds himself comforted, and in a few minutes he's as lively, careering down the hill with the others as ever. By the time a boy gets to be six or seven years old, he expects to find a pair of skates in his Christmas stocking. For some time after that, his head accumulates bumps of a kind that would be apt to puzzle a phrenologist. It is astonishing in what a sudden and unexpected man are the skates will slip from under you. There's not even a chance to throw out your hands to save yourself.   Then your skate straps are always loosening, or getting under your skates and tripping you up, and your feet become cold, and your middens get wet. But the boy keeps at it with a perseverance and difficulty and disaster that would accomplish wonders if applied to work. In time, he can skim around with any of them and play shinny and skate backward and in a circle, and cut a figure eight in the ice, and almost do a number of other remarkable things. The boy who skates much has to experience a few breakings through the ice. On the little ponds and near the show, this is often fun, and the boy who dares go nearest to the weak places and slides longest on a bender is a hero in his mate's estimation, and I might add, in his own. When he does break in, he very likely only gets his feet wet, and he does not mind that very much. When when he breaks through in some deep place and does not grip the ice until he is in up to his arms, it is no smiling matter. He usually scrambles out quickly enough, but the worst if it comes in getting home in his freezing clothing that conducts the chill of the frosty air clear to his bones. Yet it rarely happens that anything serious comes of these accidents. The year goes out with Christmas, the holiday that perhaps shines brightest of all the list in the boy's mind. A few days before its advent, he and his folks visit the town where all the stores are to make the necessary purchases. They do much mysterious advising together, but never as a family group. There always is at least one shut out. It takes a great deal of consideration and calculation to make 49 cents go around among all your friends, but the members of the family are usually considerate, and when the boy fishes for hints of their likes, they make it clear in suggesting the thing they most want, that he will not have to spend such a great deal. Then, while he is buying in the store, the others that happen to be with him are always good enough to stand by the door and look the other way, so that, of course, when they get their presents, they are a great surprise to them. Each of the children brings home various little packages which they are at great pains to hide away from the others, though they cannot forbear to talk about them darkly and make the others guess until they are almost telling themselves. Some of them, particularly the girls, are apt to be making things about this time, and you have to be careful how you notice what is left lying around or you discover secrets, and there is likely to be a sudden hustling of things out of sight when you come into the room and looks of such exaggerated innocence that you know something is going on. If you show an inclination to stop, your sister says, Come now, Tommy, to go along. What for? says Tommy. Oh, you've been in the house long enough, is a reply. Well, I guess I want to get warm. Tommy continues. It's pretty cold outdoors. Say, what is it you're sitting on, Nell, anyway? I didn't say I was sitting on anything, says Nelly. You just go along out or you shan't have it.  On Christmas Eve, the children hang up their stockings back of the stove and are hopeful of presence in spite of the disbelief they express in the possibility of Santa Claus coming down the stovepipe. Sure enough, in the morning, the stockings are all bunchy with the things in them and the children have a great celebration, pulling them out and getting the wraps off the packages. They do all this without stopping to get more than half dressed and breakfast has to wait for them. They are in no haste, for they have popcorn and candy to munch on that they found in their stockings and everyone has to show all his things to each of the rest and see all the others have and spring the babies jack in the box about half a dozen times till they get used to the fright of it. They have better things to eat that day than usual and more of them and with that and the sweet meats and extras some of the children are likely to get sick and quarrelsome before the day is out. In the evening, there is perhaps a Christmas tree at the schoolhouse. There has been a turmoil of preparation in the neighborhood for several days previous for the children have to be set learning pieces and practicing and fixing up costumes and cakes and cookies and all the good things to eat have to be made ready and someone has to collect the dimes and nickels and quarters to get candy and oranges and Christmas tree trimmings with. Then some two or three have to make a journey to the woods and chop a good branchy hemlock or spruce of the right size and get it set up in the corner of the schoolhouse. Finally, the green curtains have to be hung that will separate the audience from the stage where the small people do their acting and speak their pieces. The whole village turned out in the evening. They came on foot and they came in teams. Usually each group carried a lantern to light its way and these were set in the entry when their bearers went in. The schoolhouse windows were a glow with light and within things fairly glittered to the children's eyes. There were six lamps along the walls besides those back of the curtains and everyone was lighted and turned up almost to the smoking point. Everybody was there besides four boys from the next village who sat on a front seat and James Peterson's dog. Some of the big people got into some of the small seats and certain of the neighbors who didn't get along very well with certain others had to manage carefully not to run across each other's courses. The air was full of the hum of talk and the young people were running all about the open spaces and in and out the door and there were consultations and giggling and flurries over things forgotten or lost or something else without number. The curtain was drawn but you could see the top of the gaily loaded tree over it and the movement of feet under it and you could see queer shadows of figures within doing mysterious things on it. Sometimes a figure brushed against the curtain and it came bulging way out into the room and the four boys from the next town had the greatest work to keep from exploding over the funniness of this and as it was one of them tumbled off from the narrow seat he occupied. By and by there was a quieting in the flurry up in front and someone stood before the curtain with a paper in his hand and announced that the first exercise of the evening would be so and so. There was no astonishing genius shown in what followed but a person would have to be very dispeptic not to enjoy the simplicity and earnestness of it all. Each child had his or her individual way and some were so small they could only pipe and list the words and you didn't know what they said but when they made their little bows and hurried off to find their mothers you and the rest of the audience were delighted and applauded just the same. There was a melodian at one side of the room and the school sang some songs and one of the young ladies sang a solo all alone and they had a dialogue with Santa Claus in it who was so dressed up in a long beard and a fur coat and a deep voice that you wouldn't have any idea it was only Hiram Taylor. At length came the Christmas tree how handsome it looked with all the packages and bright things hung among its green twigs and the strings of popcorn looped all about and the oranges and candy bags dangling everywhere. Three or four of the young people took off the presents and called out names and kept everybody growing happier and happier. When the tree was bare and even the popcorn and candy bags and oranges had been distributed some of the women folk got lively in a corner where there was a table piled all over with baskets and boxes. Then plates began to circulate around and it was found that there was a pot boiling on the stove and a smell of coffee and chocolate in the air. About 19 different kinds of cakes started on their wanderings and there were biscuit and something to drink and nuts that were partly walnuts and partly stone nuts and you had a chance to talk with everybody and show your presence and altogether had so good a time that you felt as if it would last the whole year through. It would take many books to tell all there is to tell about the farmer's boy and what better place is there to leave him than this Christmas night with the rest of the family snucked up among the robes of the sleigh on the way home. The lantern on the dashboard flashes its light along the road ahead the horse's hoofs strike crisply on the frozen snow the bells jingle and the sky over hears glitters full of radiant stars in the gliding sleigh are the children holding their precious presents in their laps and still in animated conversation they reveal the events of the evening the sleigh moves on they are lost to sight the book is ended End of Part 5 Country Children in General End of The Farmer's Boy by Clifton Johnson Read for you by Chiquito Crasto Birmingham, Alabama


So guys I am back with another gaming video and today guys it's need for speed unbounds and I may bring a few more videos on this game I mean I'm loving at the minute why not but I've shared a few clips on my Twitter and the thing that seems to put well some people off is the car to knee south shaded effects while driving now I don't know yet this pro to me and to many other players is actually a welcomed addition to the game it's definitely unique it makes driving around it makes definitely makes it look a lot better in my opinion but I know it does put a lot of people off a lot of people want to be able to turn these driving effects off well guys you actually can't do this via any settings in the game I mean I've been through absolutely every one of them I mean there's just there's nothing here at all which allows you to take these I mean maybe the main update the game I'm not sure but at the moment right now there's nothing here but guys there's a way to actually minimize these to a point where you can barely notice them whatsoever and the only effects you get are basically gray smoky cartoon effects which are minimal and I'll show you so what you want to do guys is come to any garage or safe house on the map it doesn't matter pick anyone you want then simply as drive up to and enter the garage simple as that people simple as that then guys you want to go to your rides go down to or style go to uh driving effects and what you want to actually select guys we've got the tags first and you want to select and equip this one right here occult this is the one you want to use I mean you should have it when you first start the game I'm pretty sure I did uh but yeah besides you know all these ones are just wild I mean I think they look quite cool but the one here which is I've got equipped right now is minimal I mean that's as bad as it gets guys what you're seeing right there that smoke besides you don't get in the colors you don't get none the sparks coming off the car or anything like that uh or the little images that appear I didn't notice any of them anyway you simply just get smoke that's it that's it and that's the best we are going to get right now um well until if they do decide to uh I don't know add the addition to turn these off I don't know why they would I mean it's a big selling point in the game this game's kind of half south shaded half real I love it like I said and I mean I'll show you now I mean like I do a little bit of a burn out I do build up me build up me a thing you see that's it you're getting minimal minimal effects that's all you're getting that is all you're getting if you compare that to the others you'll know that it's way more subtle well yeah that guys I hope this helps you out like I said until they add the addition of being able to turn off car to an effects or whatever these car driving effects this is probably the best you're going to get and there you have it guys guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one


stakeholder way, and this is arguably the world's biggest multi-stakeholder accelerator event to advance action and scale innovation and collaboration for sustainable developments and also to combat climate change. So I really have felt that this has been really two consequential days. And we have seen real action also and impact. We had the launch of a major new public-private platform called Good Digital Identity, the launch of the Global Plastic Action Partnership, very touching and moving, and real action. And then the launch of the Tech Impact 2030 Initiative also been good. These are just three examples of very many. I think for the panel and also for Garner Brown, this is really what it is about, walking the talk, showing that we are not just participating in the conference. This has been a summit about real action. Garner, you had this Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, California. Very impactful. We've been very happy to have you here at our summit. So we will have the Garner doing some closing remarks. Then we will have the panel after that. And I know that the Garner has to live in four minutes. So that's the most effective way when we're dealing with governmental people, knowing that they have a plane or maybe a train to catch. Garner, floor is yours. Well, thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to be here at a sustainable conference, trying to make the state of the world better. And certainly our Climate Action Summit in San Francisco was a remarkable event. In the face of the abdication of Washington, we have the dedication of California and the Climate Action Summit, which brought together over 4,000 mayors, CEOs, governors, provincial leaders from all over the world, all the continents representing billions of people committed to the proposition that we can transform our economy, our culture, our way of life. The word we often hear, but it masks the complexity and the difficulty of living a sustainable life. With 7.3 billion people on the planet, with more than a billion automobiles, with more than 94 billion gallons of gasoline burned every day, we have a challenge. We are not on a sustainable path. The state of the world in many respects is getting better for many people, but it is also getting worse for many people. Species are being extinguished, habitat is being destroyed, and we live in the shadow of nuclear annihilation at every moment. We're not talking about that today, but if we're talking about a better state of the world, we can never forget the fact that Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons, more than a thousand of which can be set off in a matter of an hour, an hour and a half. America has the same. So both countries have weapons focused at each other, and both countries are committed to building even more flexible and usable weapons, real insanity. So I want to juxtapose sustainability with insanity. And we have eight other countries who are trying to emulate the superpowers, India and Pakistan. China's far behind, but they will catch up very quickly, and then we have the other nuclear powers. That's one problem, and it illustrates the dilemma of this wonderful thing called technology. If you look, if you graph it, think of a graph with the curve of technological power, it's going up with a very steep curve. Now graph the development of wisdom, restraint and insight. That's flat. The curve of power is up, the curve of insight, wisdom and restraint is flat, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and that's where we live. That's where we are. You want to be sustainable? You've got to close that gap. We have to either curb our power or we have to develop our wisdom and exercise it. Now when it comes to climate change, it's not 14,000 nuclear warheads, it's a billion automobiles, it's power plants, it's houses, it's waste, it's stuff, it's plastic circulating all over the ocean. So turning that around is very possible. Yes, we have the knowledge, we have the information, but do we have the will? Do we have the imagination?  Well, I beg to disagree. It's the ecology.  But the economy lives inside the ecology. The atmosphere above the soil below is not indestructible. It is subject to assault. And the most powerful assault in, I don't know how many, you'd have to go back to volcanic eruptions, meteor is landing on the planet. We are generating lots of impact. And so with all that power, now the leaders of the world have got to pull together, collaborate, honestly address, where are we? Where are we headed? And can we get to a direction, a set of understandings that lead to a set of agreements? We're not there yet. In terms of the Paris Agreement, many countries are stalling, are pulling back. Poland, which is the next stop on the conference of the parties, a real risk that it will be a setback, not an advance as we try to realize the lofty goals of Paris. Again, all the countries of the world all came together and said we're going to live within nature, within the ecology, and we will shape our economy accordingly. We heard today from President Trump all about sovereignty.  Climate change affects everybody. Big, small, rich, poor, Chinese, American, Russian, Europe, we're all in it together. We're in it together as one people. As President Kennedy said at the American University in 1963, we all breathe the same air. We all want the same thing for our grandchildren. And then he said America will stop nuclear testing and we will meet with the Russians to agree on a treaty to ban atmospheric testing. That was lofty rhetoric. That was a powerful example and we're right there today. Only it's not about atmospheric testing. It's about nuclear proliferation. It's about a trillion dollars in weaponry that the rich countries of the world are indulging in. All the while, we have a billion people in serious poverty. We have an economy directed toward unsustainability. So great, we're here, we want to improve the state of the world, but wow. It's tough. It's hard. So all hands on deck. Let's not be complacent. Let's not say we're great. We are faced with daunting challenges with great powers. Can we wrestle those powers to the ground? Can we seize with our insight and our wisdom the power that mankind has created? That is our challenge. That's the state of the world. Let's make it better. Thank you. That was a powerful appeal, huh? Really, I think this Garner was really appealing also to a bit of common sense, but one gets a feeling that common sense isn't always that common these days. Let's use the last minutes here to sum up these two days. And we have Fekke Subbas Mahair, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of Royal DSM, Ned Lenz. He also has seen Brukavit Tigabu, Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director for Viscid's workshop. We met both of you during the summit in different roles. So Fekke, let's start with you. Powerful voice from the business sector. What is your main experience during this summit and takeaways? Thank you, Boga. Thank you for being here at this summit. I think very important and compliments, first of all, to the World Economic Forum organizing this summit here during the UNGA, here during the New York Climate Week, and somewhat effort getting older people together and making a further step. And that during your birthday, if I'm well informed. So short applause for Boga. I appreciate your tremendous commitment, also from you personally. I think what we do here is we convene power. We come here together with the private sector, the public sector, NGO, scientists, et cetera, and that is all to the credits of the web, that's all to the credits of all of you. How I perceived it from the private sector strongly, purpose, sustainability, addressing those things is not the thing of giving back. It is the thing of responsibility. It builds further on what the governor said, those who have a lot of power, those who have a lot of impact, those who are obliged to have a strong feeling of responsibility. Impact of responsibility has to go together. And I think that is what you see here. And how I experienced it. We work all here for the next generation. We work all here for thinking that our children will also live happily. And if I look to the SDGs that I was involved in, especially in the last couple of days, everything which has to do with climate, how can we put a price on carbon, everything which has to do with addressing climate stronger from the business community to financial disclosure on what climate-related matters or all the things of setting targets and reducing emissions further. Even asking the public sector to enforce that strong on us or on food. On food, our food systems in the South, so-called, and in the West are broken. They are not good. And we ask ourselves, why are there indices? Why are there a cop and a clear plan for climate, but not a clear plan by countries and businesses to make the food systems who are broken good again? And we discussed those things and I think, I can give several examples, but I think we made tremendous progress on those things. In an era, I need to say also that on climate and on food, there's a lot to be done because we are not everywhere fully on track. And that was the hard reality also during those days that we are not on track with all those things. But I personally believe there is not any challenge. There's not any global challenge which is too big for us to address as long as we work together. And that's what we tried to do here. Wow. Thank you. You've been such a champion. First on the Millennium Development Goals, now on the Sustainable Development Goals and the MDGs first and then the SDGs, and also on climate, you're also on the price of carbon. For your company, of course, your chairman and CEO, but I was wondering, is there like full support of you taking this kind of global leadership? And have you seen a change there in the board? Is there no more understanding also for like a CEO taking this kind of leadership? And I guess that you attract, although a lot of young people may be based on this kind of enthusiasm. I appreciate your question very much. When I became CEO almost 12 years, 11 years ago, people said, what do you want to do to improve the world to make money? And I said, I will do both. And people knew me, and this is my narrative. And the financial community, but also my board and also my people said, so what is it now? Making money or improving the world? I said, I want to do both. No, no, no. But what is it now? I said, both. Okay. Good. Then it's improving the world so we can forget your stock. No, no, no, no, no. And I worked hard in the last 11 years to prove that that is not true. We tripled our share price financially. We did well, et cetera. So today I get the narrative of my board, of all the people, even of investors like, okay, those two things can go together. And my response is, good, be here in this summit in 10 years from now. Those two things have to go, must go, will go together. And those companies who let those things not going together, I believe the millennials won't work for them. Millennials won't buy their products. They will miss the price of carbon. It will hit the bottom line. They missed the license to operate, and they were under two problems. So we went in a journey the last 10 years, but also the 10 years I had, I think. Wow. I can already see here there's a lot of people that wants to work for you, huh? They're quite talented, some of them. How are your two days been here? You, yesterday you were here as one of the social entrepreneur awardees. And... Yeah. So it's been, to be honest, a bit overwhelming at the same time, exciting. Because we heard so many problems. The world is facing huge problems from environment to not having the right education that prepare our children for the future to the big gap between gender, pay, and all that. But at the same time, I also learned so many good, well-tasted models that if we are actually ready for change and can take action, there are many proven models. And that's very exciting to me. So for me, I have three takeaways that I gather in the last two days, and which is one, public-private partnership. And this is a very critical thing every country should apply. And the next one is incorporating local voice and believing in local solution. We can't really sit in the main city and design things. We have to go down to the ground and include local voice. And the third one is emerging technology with education. I feel like there are so many amazing technologies and innovations, but they're not integrated with education and I think bringing those together, especially for countries like us and emerging economies that will give us that leapfrogging to the future. So I feel like these three takeaways came strong to me. Thank you. Akim Stoner, administrator of UNDP, United Nations Development Program. And before the head of UNEP, United Nations Environmental Program, I think you come here with a lot of experience on sustainability, development, and environment. But if you look and the SDGs are very ambitious, do you feel that we have established a roadmap that will bring us towards meeting the SDGs currently? Do we have things in place to really achieve them as we did with the MDGs, but they were more narrow? No, we have like universal sustainable development goals, covering everything from climate to poverty eradication, to taking care of the oceans and biodiversity. Well, Borgo, thank you first of all for having me join you. I've been trying to get into Feige's company for many years, so obviously there are some talents that don't get employed by him. So I chose the United Nations instead, right, Feige? There's always a chance. Now, I say this out of the deepest respect because we have been friends and really comrades in arms for a decade.  Shades of yellow and green. But to answer your question, Borgo, I think coming from that other hall just now, what strikes me and often does when I step out of that, that when leaders come to the United Nations and we ourselves, when we look at the world, we have a tendency to describe the world in terms of challenges and risks and things that are going wrong. And therefore, you know, that proverbial, the glass is half empty. And then you step into a world of technology, of entrepreneurship, of opportunity, financial markets, and the world is full of, you know, startups and opportunities and success stories. You know, just a simple example of your own life story effect. I mean, how one can disprove the sort of intuitive prejudice that sometimes is there. And what is striking to me is that, you know, both realities are true. But what is actually happening, that's where the SDGs come in, is that we are entering to an age where actually it's not a glass half full or half empty. It's an entirely different glass that we're confronting just to use a slightly limping analogy. And the reason why I say this is that the SDGs are a framework to try and understand how we handle complexity. The century where with singular solutions you could solve an entire sort of developmental or economic pathway for a nation question is largely gone. And much of what is being discussed in that hall next door right now is about how things that are happening beyond our national jurisdiction might actually impact on what happens in our own communities and countries. Whether it is, you know, pandemics, whether it is migrants, whether it's economic and financial insecurity, wars, I could go on. And I think people are often tempted to look at the SDGs as some sort of magic formula. No, they are the most intelligent way of trying to create a framework that allows us all to look at the future and understand quite how complex the challenge of acting will be. And here comes an additional element that I think is increasingly entering into our horizons and that is the transformative nature of technology. We are living through a period of time where we are still unable to even comprehend quite what is going to happen by 2030, digital economy, automation, AI. And we are talking about dimensions of change that are difficult to comprehend. Nobody really knows right now exactly how they will unfold. They may turn out to be the great Nirvana or they may turn out to be the great divider. But in the UNDP context, or in the United Nations context looking at global development, what is also fascinating is that for the first time in history, that impact of technology will have a degree of simultaneity. It will happen everywhere at the same time. It doesn't matter whether you are the United States of America, you have the highest per GDP capital, a capital per GDP, or whether you're Rwanda or you are Somalia. You are embedded in a global world where this technology shift is going to create curves of this dimension. And into that, the SDGs are indeed at the moment our best bet to be able to work with one another in managing these extraordinary opportunities and challenges. Do you think that for IR, with everything from artificial intelligence to blockchain, precision medicine and all this, do you think these are also a key to leapfrog and solve some of the monumental challenges that we are faced with? Totally.  And it allows us to do things that we wouldn't have dreamt of being able to do sitting somewhere in Central Park or in the middle of, I don't know, the Sahel region. So technology is a great jumping board and allows us to leapfrog. But let's think for a moment. What's happening to us right now in the political sphere is that a lot of people have leapfrogged and then there is the other half, the other 10%, the other 90% who are left behind. And this notion of inequality, I think, is one that has to be understood alongside the opportunity of technology. I attended yesterday the Broadband Commission. I mean, we have passed the 50-50 moment of actually connecting people in the world 50%, which is extraordinary. I mean, we should really be, you know, playing drums and celebrating the success. But meanwhile, the 50% are charging ahead. There are 50% who haven't even got access to Broadband. Never mind in Africa, three-quarters of the population access to electricity. And here comes AI, here comes automation. Before we know it, we have a great dividing moment that we have to manage. And I think whether it's consultancy companies, whether it's the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Development Program, the Secretary General's task force on digital finance, we all have to learn to start working far more closely together, because it's the only way we can come to even begin to understand what is not 100 years from now, even 15 years from now. And that will define, I think, our capacity to not just function as a global economy, but actually function as a global community of maybe nine billion people. No, I think this is very relevant. And you know with the C4IR Center that World Economic Forum has set up in San Francisco. For example, Oceans is an important and integrated part of this. I think some of the ocean problems is so interlinked where we can also have these technologies supporting and solving some of those issues. Pekja, I saw you were eager to comment. Yeah, thanks Morgan. I would totally agree with my good friend, Achim, of obviously both. On the global challenges we have and the huge amount of opportunities we have entrepreneurship technologies. But I would like to add an angle. Globalization brought prosperity for billions of people in the world. Technologies and new green technologies brings prosperity for billions in the world. But if you work in the center of the United States in a coal mine, maybe then you perceive not the prosperity that globalization and new technologies brought for yourself. And for me, the answer is not to put a fence around those people and protect them. For me, the answer would be to transition also with them to the new era. And that means that we, I totally agree with Achim, but I add the angle that we need to make globalization, that we need to make the opportunities of new technologies more inclusive for all. And if we do not do that, we get political tensions and political distinction in a way that we don't like that. I'm not talking about the U.S. or the U.S. only. I'm talking about Europe and other countries as well, where we see the same. So this transition for me has to go together with inclusiveness for all. Thank you. Burktawit in Ethiopia, where you operate, you reach, I think, five million children every week. And that wouldn't have been possible without modern technology. How do you see technology that can influence education and giving children opportunities in the future? Because I think you can reach children also in remote areas that you could just dream about reaching with high quality education in a different way. Yeah, I mean, it's obvious that we benefit from technology, but just on the point just raised, when we are catching up with television and radio, if the world is handling AI and different high technology, then we still are doing that catch up, that we'll never actually catch up. So the question is, how do we think about this world becoming a one home? So that we have that deep empathy for each other, that we share those resources in a more mindful way. Because if we are just saying, yes, technology is helpful, but again, leaving most of the people in the world behind, I don't see it being that helpful. So I think it comes down to, again, humanity, connection and empathy, so that we actually build a more sustainable world. Akim, we are coming to a close. We are supposed to be on Swiss time here. So we are now 10 minutes almost over time. But I would like to just look at this in a little bit of a historic context. Akim, you had at the IUCN, then you were with UNAP and now you are with the UNDP. UNDP has a big role when it comes to the STGs. When you go to bed and reflect, I guess, on the STGs, because I think I know you feel very passionate about this. What are the main challenges now to make the STGs really take off? With the MDGs, we really saw a lot of momentum being created. These are more, it's more complex because they're universal. But are we on the way to really, are we moving in the right direction? Or are we just sugarcoating this? Because when the CO2 emissions should have gone down, they're going up. So there are some indicators that are not moving in the right direction. Are you optimistic about it? And are we really willing to take the necessary steps to make this happen? Well, let me just say, I think we have every reason to be fascinated by how quickly something that was negotiated by 193 countries. I just remember this, never mind a local council or the board of a company. We actually managed in two years to negotiate 17 sustainable development goals that brought a degree of integration between the economic, the social, and the environmental that we have never had before. And we agreed that they must be universal because what happens in America matters as much to the future of China or to Ethiopia or to Brazil as what happens in Germany or in South Africa. And I think that is an extraordinary statement. I don't think it's an accident. It happened in 2015, yes. We are now in 2018 and a lot of things have happened. But leaders understood at that moment that we needed a different paradigm under which the way we work together to address these issues would be better understood. And I think the SDGs are not something that the person in the street will come up to you and recite the 17 goals. This is not my yardstick, but it is empowering. And I often use the analogy that you need an operating system on which you can run your apps. The SDGs are the operating system. They are the stuff that the engineers put together. But go to Medellin where the mayor will tell you that he actually uses the SDGs to get local people involved in doing things that have never been done before in his town. So in that sense, I think I am fascinated by how quickly they're moving, how they're also attractive to the private sector and the financial sector. I think many companies initially are just really pleased to see that they can relate what they do to one or two or more of the goals. The most sophisticated ones and particularly the financial market players are increasingly using the SDGs as a way of looking and understanding future markets. And I think that is the interesting unifying element of it. I personally, and if my bosses were here, they would really kick me in the shin, I'm less worried about the reporting on the indicators and targets to the General Assembly. I think the SDGs are a tool, they're a powerful platform, an operating system that we need to learn to use. I end by saying I'm losing a little bit of my optimism, not because I think it can't be done. I'm just worried that we're running out of time. And time is our biggest enemy right now. And time is what we're losing. And we're seeing it right here again in New York. And it's tragic because it's actually an opportunity lost to act what you can act and to believe in the ability to act together before you begin to fight each other because the other side didn't act. That's actually the prospect that we are staring at when we listen to these General Assembly debates. And I think this is where the private sector is critical right now and has to step up. And my respect to all of those like Fike and others who actually take responsibility to say, look, we are part of that public dialogue and we can't let political opportunism and short-termism define what are in the sense of last resort options that we are actually dealing with right now. So optimism with a slight element of panic. Thank you. Thank you to a great panel. I also use this opportunity to thank my colleagues for all the hard work you put into making this sustainable development impact summit happening, especially to Dominique, Terri Herr, Lee, that is in charge of the programming. I feel, of course, I'm not objective, but I feel we had two amazing, very practical days. And we brought private sector together with governments and civil society. And it has been an accelerator. It has been 100 different projects being launched. It's very practical. And we come a bit closer to meet the sustainable development goals. And it has been so successful that we, I'm also happy to announce that we will meet the same place next year for two days to continue having this impact. And also we will continue to collaborate, hopefully, with Conrad Hilton Foundation. And their support has been so important for us. So thank you to panel. Thank you to all the distinguished participants. Thank you to my colleagues that have worked 24-7 to make this happen. So thank you.


In hopes of promoting tourism, Lake Bowen Baptist Church from South Carolina visited Pikeville during the Labor Day holiday. Monday we spoke with motor coach operator Bob Crocker about why maintaining tourism is important. I think it's important because what a lot of people don't feel like is the cost. You take a bus company with 12 to 20, but we even have bus companies with 40 bus buses that look at the overhead and that we can't afford to park those busses and things. So it just creates a lot of expense, a lot of overhead. But I think it's important that even though that we cannot go overseas or do a lot of traveling overseas is that there's so much of God's creation that's right in here within four and a half hours of our local community. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. And while Pikeville continues to invest itself into the motor coach industry we spoke with Pike County Tourism Executive Director Tony Tackett about Pike County's advancement into the tourism space. You know tourism is more important today than it has ever been. You can take me purchasing something in my own community and that dollar will go around one time. You take a visitor, a guest who is visiting their dollar will go around five to seven times so every dollar they spend will go around five to seven times. And that's the incredible part about tourism is enabling that economy and that region of an area especially ours that needs it so well. You know people from the South Carolina and North Carolina they're used to tourism and they come here and they find a totally different aspect of tourism. They find hospitality, they find great historic sites, great places to eat. It's a new adventure for them and although while they're having their experience they're spending dollars in our community so that makes tourism even more of a valuable component in any community. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Hodgell.


It means a lot of things. Like I said, influence comes in many ways and you can influence the world in many ways. It means a lot. It means making my parents proud. It means becoming more and more responsible because now you have to live up to the responsibility of being influential. And it also means it's overwhelming actually to be chosen by such a revered magazine. I think the biggest is that when a woman realizes her own strength, she realizes her biggest strength is to compartmentalize and multitask. I think that's an inherent quality women have, which a lot of men cannot fathom. I mean, we can do five things at one time. We can understand the power of being at five places at the same time because that's where we're brought up and I think that's the biggest advantage of women. For me, it's been an asset work-wise but an absolute disaster in my personal life. I can say it has advantages but it also has disadvantages. There are no mantras to success. There's only one thing. Do your passion with utmost sincerity and then leave it because the outcome is in our hands. Enjoy the journey.