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Good afternoon everyone. My name is Michael Donnelly Boylan and I am the Assistant Dean of Admissions here at the Law School. I would like to welcome all of you to Roger Williams University School of Law and to Orientation 2016. I am so glad to see the class of 2019 has finally arrived. You have no idea. We have been anxiously waiting for you. We in the admissions office have had the distinct pleasure of getting to know you throughout this process. Thank you for sharing your stories with us. The class of 2019 has had a wide range of experiences and I am here today to tell you a little bit about the folks you'll be calling your classmates for the next three years. Before I hand your class over to President Farrish, Dean Yelnosky and the faculty. Students in your class attended a wide variety of colleges and universities including Arizona State, Cornell, UConn, the University of Texas and Antonio, Colorado State and Florida International University. But some schools sent us a few more than others. Two schools are tied for fifth place on the list of largest feeder schools for your class. Those are Rutgers University in New Jersey and Stone Hill College in Massachusetts, which both sent us three students. St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire is in fourth place with five students. Rhode Island College in third with seven students. Our own Roger Williams University is second with eleven students. And this year the top feeder school to your class is the University of Rhode Island, which sent us twenty one students. A total of thirteen percent of your class. In your class you will find a high school teacher, a lobbyist, a freelance journalist, a union organizer, a concert promoter, an anti-bullying advocate. You will even find an actor who toured in the Broadway production of Shrek. Members of your class have worked to create change in their communities. One member of your class founded a non-profit in New Jersey to aid young girls who are the victims of sexual abuse. Another drafted and promoted a law passed in Rhode Island to help student athletes who receive concussions. And one here served as an advocate for homeless youth in the state of Montana. Someone in your class founded a fair trade organization to make their university free of sweatshop labor. Someone else taught ESL to refugees in Manchester, New Hampshire. And another worked in a sexual health clinic catering to the underserved in Syracuse, New York. Classmates have built homes for migrant workers in California, helped domestic violence victims in West Africa, worked with undocumented students in New Jersey in need of mental health care, and educated LGBT youth in Seattle about the perils of human trafficking. An unusually large number of students in your class have spent significant time working with and advocating for the disabled both locally and nationally. You have made the most of your college experiences. We have a quarterback of the football team from Gettysburg College, the student body vice president from our own Roger Williams University, and the president of a diversity organization at Stonehill College. You have had many interesting internships including with the DEA, the TV news in El Paso, Texas, the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights, and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Many of you have held legal internships. You have trained in law offices in Columbus, Mississippi, District Court in King, New Hampshire, the Bridgeport Connecticut Public Defender's Office, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court, just to name a few. Frankly, I lost track of how many of you interned at the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office. Apparently our alums there are our best advocates. At the law school that houses the highly regarded Marina Fairs Institute, it should not be shocking that a number of your classmates have done interesting things on and around the water.  They have also searched for the remains of a Dutch fleet shipwrecked in 1677 off the coast of Tobago, and have worked on educational research vessels conducting hands-on research on the marine ecosystem. I predict this will be a very interesting election year in this building as your class has been extremely politically active. One of you attended the Democratic National Convention in 2012, while another attended the CPAC Convention in 2013 and 2015. In your class, you will find the Campaign Manager of Frank Caprio's Campaign for Governor of Rhode Island, and a Staff Assistant from Senator Marco Rubio's Orlando office. You have interned for Governor Christie in New Jersey, Governor Baker in Massachusetts, Senator Shaheen of New Hampshire, Senator Reid of Rhode Island, and Senator Warner of Virginia. One of your classmates even spent two weeks last year visiting the Iowa caucuses and meeting with 14 different presidential candidates advocating for employment opportunities for people with disabilities. This may be the largest number of public safety officers we have seen in one class in quite some time. We have a number of current and former police officers. We also have a 9-1-1 dispatcher, a volunteer firefighter, an EMT, and a TSA agent. 6% of your class served in the United States military, representing the Army, Navy, and Marines. A number of you served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Someone here serves in the National Guard. One classmate was in the Coast Guard, and another was in the Coast Guard Reserves. We thank all of you for your service. 32% of your class is made up of Rhode Islanders, meaning two-thirds of you are relocating to the Ocean State. 26% of your class hails from the other New England states, and exactly the same percentage, 26, come from the rest of the Northeast. In fact, yours is the only class that I can think of in my memory where the second biggest state behind Rhode Island is New York. 9% of your class comes from the South, 5% from the West, and 2% from the Midwest. A large number of your classmates immigrated to the United States. Just some of the countries you were born in, Canada, Guatemala, India, Benin, Morocco, Paraguay, and the United Arab Emirates. Your class is evenly split between men and women. The average age of your class is 25. 9% of you are 30 years of age or older. A number of you are married, and some of you have children. And 4% of your class identifies as members of the LGBT community. As of tonight, we expect that 26% of your class comes from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the legal profession, making your class the second most diverse in this law school's history. With the addition of your class to the classes already here, Rudge Williams University School of Law is the most diverse it has ever been. I am also very pleased to say that while many law schools have continued to shrink, your class marks our law school's third year of steady enrollment growth. And I'm even more pleased to announce that that growth is not at the expense of quality. In fact, your class has the highest LSAT scores of any class currently in our building. Finally, I'm very pleased to welcome our inaugural class of the Masters of Studies in Law program. These students, mainly working professionals, will be taking classes alongside our JD students while they earn their MSL degree. I think you will value the perspective these new students will add to the classroom. In this group, you will find a reporter from the Providence Journal who covers the courts, a mediator, a longtime legal assistant at a law office, the assistant director of the Rhode Island Office of Veterans Affairs, and someone who assists the legal team at Health Source Rhode Island. It has been a pleasure getting to know all of you over the last year. Please don't be strangers to the admissions office. Stop by and say hello. And on behalf of all of us at RWU Law, welcome to law school. It is now my privilege to introduce someone who will be introducing someone else. Dean Michael Ilnowski will introduce our distinguished guest this evening. In the spirit of my earlier remarks, Dean Ilnowski is a native Pennsylvanian, taught high school social studies in Vermont before coming to law school, and is an avid runner completing the Boston, New York, and Philadelphia marathons. Before teaching, Dean Ilnowski clerked for a federal judge in practice with a major Philly law firm. He is a founding member of the RWU Law faculty having been here on the very first day, and has been a popular teacher of civil procedure, employment law, and employment discrimination ever since. He earned his bachelor's from the University of Vermont and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania. With that, I am very pleased to hand the class of 2019 over to Dean Michael Ilnowski.  Thank you, Michael, for bringing this talented and interesting group of people together. I want to say just a few words about your experience with Dean Donnelly Boylan and his staff. I'm sure you will agree with me that they are about as good as it gets. As you can see from his biographical materials in the orientation booklet, Michael is truly a national leader in the world of law school admissions, and he and his staff exemplify what we aim for in bringing together a staff and a faculty. We are looking for people who are really good at what they do and who are wonderful human beings. That's our mission, one of our missions at Roger Williams. The president of Roger Williams University, Dr. Donald Farish, is another example. He has had a remarkable career as an academic biologist. However, the PhD was not enough. He got a JD as well. And as an academic administrator and is a very deep and provocative thinker about higher education. But unlike a lot of academics, he doesn't just think and talk, he acts. While many university administrators talked and talked and talked about the cost and the content of higher education, he did something about it. One of those things was our 18% tuition cut two years ago. And we have frozen tuition since then. The tuition for your class is the same as it is for every student in the building. And it will stay the same for you during your time here. Dr. Farish has also been responsible for leading the university to focus as we have here at the law school on an educational model best described, I think, as engaged learning in service of society. It's my great pleasure to welcome Dr. Donald Farish. Thank you very much, Dean, for those kind words. It's a pleasure to be with you today and to welcome you to our university. I am the only unbiased person speaking today, so I'm going to tell you right at the very beginning that this is a wonderful law school and you're lucky to be here. I say lucky, we're lucky to have you, but you are lucky to be here. This is a wonderful law school. I think what I have seen in my five plus years here are a group of faculty and staff utterly devoted to your success. You're going to find them to be colleagues and friends in addition to instructors. When I was in law school many years ago, it was very much a sink or swim type of a process. And there was a certain amount of evil gloating that went on as occasionally a body disappeared beneath the waves. That was just what was supposed to happen to keep the process pure and to make sure only the best survived. But it's very unhelpful to the psychies of people that are actually in the law school. Many of you I know are anxious about getting started. You've been looking forward to this day for a long time, some of you since you were little children. And now the day has come and it probably seems a little bit overwhelming. And it's a challenging program. There's just no question about it. It's not the same as undergraduate school, but you're selected based on the caliber of persons that you are and you're all capable of doing the work. So don't start by assuming that some number of you will necessarily have to wash out in order for the law school to be successful. Our job is to make you into great lawyers and great people. And I want to pick up on a couple of things that the Dean said a moment ago. Long before I arrived, this law school had committed itself to being a public interest law school. We wanted very much, they wanted very much to underscore the importance that the legal community brings to the overall quality of life in our modern society. As the only law school in Rhode Island, we're number one by the way, but as the only law school in Rhode Island, there is a certain extra responsibility that comes with being that law school to ensure that we're doing everything we can to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of our state. And this manifests itself in many, many ways, but most profoundly I think as you get into your second and third years and you're doing work in clinics and in the public sector, you're doing work in law offices and in government offices. You're working under the supervision of fully practicing lawyers, but you're doing real law. It's a very different model from what I went through many years ago where you did doctrinal courses for three years and then they turned you loose on an unsuspecting populace. And there was that first client that you had. It was kind of like being your first surgical client. I've been studying surgery for all these years. I watched operations and now they've given me a scalpel and I'm going to go ahead and perform my first operation and lucky you, you're my first patient. Somehow this does not engender a lot of confidence in the process. And so our law graduates are all really experienced people by the time they graduate and that's really important to get you off on the right foot. And it's particularly interesting to me the number of people who find that work in its own very rewarding. We have people working in immigration clinics who end up practicing immigration law once they graduate. I had no intention of doing that when they came in, but they've been influenced by how important that work is to underserved populations in our state and elsewhere. One of the things that I want to underscore as well is that while many of you are, most of you are new to our campus, I urge you not to think of yourself as somehow walled off from the rest of the campus. It's a small campus, but it's quite pretty. You should get out of the building occasionally in, you know, late at night in the 15 minutes of spare time that you have daily programmed into your schedule. I know you don't have a lot of spare time, but get out of the building, walk around the campus and think of yourself not just as a student at Roger Williams Law, but as a student at Roger Williams University. We can integrate what we're thinking about with the law school into the rest of the campus, and we emulate the law school in our current practice of getting our undergraduates out into the community, working on real projects that come back from the community in interdisciplinary teams of students under the supervision of faculty for credit, where they learn how to apply the work that they've studied in the classroom in a real-world setting. It's very much akin to what happens in the law school. We've borrowed shamelessly from the law school. So we share this common sense of purpose. And as you are about to see, I think on Friday, our new building up in Providence, which doesn't formally open until the 8th of September, that's where a number of you are going to be spending your time in your second and particularly your third year as the base of operations and doing the work that I referred to earlier. But behind all of that, integrated in that same building is the work that we do at the undergraduate level as part of our mission to strengthen society. That's our mission, is to strengthen society through engaged teaching and learning. And we believe that the graduates that we have, law school and undergraduate alike, are people that are not only going to be individually successful, but are also going to be welcome members of a healthy and robust community. People whose skills and talents and passions are admired and respected by the entire community. So it's important for us to emulate our values by giving people the opportunity to do the kind of work that will underscore what it is that we believe we stand for. So welcome to Roger Williams and Roger Williams Law. I know you're going to have a wonderful time here and now very shortly begins the reign of terror as various people will come before you each trying to outdo the other by impressing on you how impossibly difficult law school is. But I'm the person to trust in this regard. You're all capable of doing the work. I know you'll be successful. Have a great time. So another way of saying that the reign of terror begins is to say that there will be lots of information coming at you during the next couple of days culminating with your trip to the experiential campus in Providence. Please do know that we have taken care to try to make it possible for you to take it all in. But with that said, lots of what will be coming at you is advice and some of it will be good. And I can't resist sharing with you three suggestions before I introduce the next person that I'm here to introduce. The first is engage in this. Be present. And as the president said, don't fear this. You can do this work. Studying law is hard work, but it's the best kind of hard work. It's meaningful. It's rewarding. It's interesting. And our objective is to help each one of you succeed. We respect you enough to give you the rigorous program that you need to achieve your goals and to help you get there, not despite us, but with our help. Second, don't believe we don't. That the best days of law practice are behind us in some idyllic bygone era. The practice will no doubt look different than it did 30 years ago. But we will get you ready for those changes. We do not have our heads in the sand, and your course of study will reflect that. Do not forget that law matters. Law is important, and it is perhaps as important today as it has ever been. Finally, this is a community, a large, diverse, and supportive community. You are not alone. One of our goals for tonight is to begin introducing you to your new home and to your new neighbors. The community extends well beyond this beautiful campus. It extends, for example, to Providence, where Armando Battistini is a partner in the Providence Office of Nixon Peabody, a law firm with over 600 lawyers in 16 offices around the world. He's also the president of the Rhode Island Bar Association, the first alumnus of this law school to hold that position. However, he's not here because he's a graduate of this law school. He's here for the same reason that his predecessors were here every year. Because the organization made up of all Rhode Island's lawyers embraces this law school and embraces each one of you. The members of that organization are available to educate, to help, and to otherwise guide you. But I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't a special pleasure to be welcoming Armando as one of our own, but not just because of his great success as a practicing lawyer. I recently read his president's message, which the Rhode Island Bar Association president writes upon taking the position. And in the message, he highlighted the need for members of the Bar Association to take part in pro bono and public service programs. And as you heard from the president, support for public interest lawyering is part of this law school's mission. So I am doubly delighted that the Bar Association will be led this year by Armando Battistini.  Good afternoon, everyone. So 21 years ago, I sat in the same place that you find yourselves today. And I have to tell you one of the best decisions I made in my life was to come to Roger Williams School of Law. It prepared me greatly for the practice of law. I had a great three years while I was here, great faculty, and made a number of great friends with whom I'm still close. I hope that all of you have the same experience that I had in attending Roger Williams. Now, I'm also here as president of the Bar Association. And as Danielle Nasky said, I'm the first Roger Williams graduate to be president, but definitely not the last and hopefully not the best. So I encourage all of you to join the Bar Association as students. There's information in your package as to how to do that. There's a reduced rate associated with that. I also encourage you that when you become lawyers to please participate in the Bar Association. Second to coming to Roger Williams, my participation in the Bar Association has been one of the most enriching experiences in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Hopefully you have a similar experience. Finally, if you have any questions you want to talk to a practicing lawyer. You have issues about your career. You have concerns. Please reach out to me. I'm happy to talk to any of you at any time at any point in your career. I look forward to it. I talk to a lot of Roger Williams grads now. I enjoy the conversations and I hope that some of you also reach out to me. So congratulations and good luck for your next three years. And I look forward to practicing love with all of you. Thank you. So we are also blessed at Roger Williams with a loyal and supportive Alumni Association there to help you while you are in school and thereafter. Jillian Jagling is the president of the Law Alumni Association. Like Armando, Jillian was a great student. Like Armando, Jillian is making a name for herself as a practicing lawyer in Providence. Like Armando, she served her country as a member of the United States military. She is smart. She is kind. She is civic minded. She is a great ambassador for and supporter of her law school. And I'm very pleased to welcome Jillian Jagling. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me here. I'm Jillian Jagling. I'm president of the board of directors of the Law Alumni Association. And similar to Armando, it was almost exactly 10 years ago that I was sitting in your seat. I started law school in 2006, so just about 10 years ago. It went by really fast. But I also remember what it was like to be in your seat. I remember being nervous and excited at the same time. I had decided before I moved to Bristol from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts that I was going to treat law school like a job. I had always worked part time through high school and undergrad and a couple of years full time before coming to law school. And so law school was the first time in a long time that I could focus on school and I didn't have a job outside of school. So that allowed me to put all of my time and energy into school. And I know that approach won't work for everyone. My sister also went to law school in Massachusetts and she worked full time with two kids while in law school. So she obviously approached it a little bit differently than I did. We both went to law school under different circumstances yet we both figured out how to make it work and how to succeed. Just like I'm sure each and every one of you will do regardless of what your circumstances are. And hopefully you're here because you want to be here and that you plan to put in as much as you hope to get out of your experience here. Because it is going to be hard work but it's well worth it. You have such a unique opportunity here at Roger Williams University School of Law. This school has an incredible relationship with the bench and bar in Rhode Island. And you'll see that if you haven't already right from the start. If your circumstances bring you to stay in Rhode Island after you graduate you will be constantly reminded of the role that Roger Williams University School of Law plays in the legal community in Rhode Island. And if you practice in another state I hope that you will stay connected to the law school. You'll likely see over the next three years that you're going to develop deep long lasting relationships with your classmates and the faculty and the staff here at the school. I urge you to nurture those relationships and stay connected even after graduation. Our professional and social networks are invaluable to our practice of law. I know that firsthand and you have an amazing network here. Not just with your classmates among you but also all of the Roger Williams University graduates before you and all of those that will come after you. Alumni from Roger Williams University are doing amazing things throughout the world. From public interest to government and private practice and senior positions at large organizations throughout the country and the world. I imagine that your thoughts are on your first torts or contracts assignment and not on what you're going to do when you graduate or where you'll be. And that's a good thing that means your mind is in the right spot. But I hope that while you're here you're able to acknowledge and appreciate how special this school is and how fortunate you are to be here. I think that if you do that then after graduation I'm sure that you'll be in a position to reflect on the opportunities that this school presents to you and recognize the value in that network of Roger Williams graduates and the benefit of staying connected. So good luck in your first year and the additional years. And similarly if you have any questions or suggestions or ideas feel free to reach out to me or the Alumni Association. There's a section of the school's website for the alumni and our contact information is on there and so please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you. Logan Pierce is the president of your Student Bar Association and in a word he is a charmer.  He's dressed kind of to maim generally. You'll know what I mean soon. He has a smile a mile wide he has a compelling southern accent that I know you're going to love and he has tremendous leadership skills. He is also deeply involved in one of our signature programs the Marine Affairs Institute particularly on the Admiralty Law side. I have enjoyed so much getting to know him during his first two years. And I'm really looking forward to working closely with him this year as the president of the SBA. So ladies and gentlemen Logan Pierce. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you. I'm not sure I deserve such a nice welcome. Well welcome welcome to law school. As he said I'm the SBA president. I am here to welcome you on behalf of the entire student body. I'm glad to be your president even though you didn't vote for me. So the Student Bar Association is a kind of an umbrella organization. We look over a lot of the other student organizations and we are basically the bridge between the students and the administration. But I'm not really here to speak about that. I'm sure you will learn about it enough. I'm just here as a fellow student to welcome you and not try to scare you away. And if I had to give two advice, two pieces of advice to you today. It would be one to echo what Daniel Naske said about getting involved. When I came here I sat in that corner of this room two years ago. And I thought you know I'm just going to come to law school and I'm going to put my head in the books and I'm not going to do it. You know get involved in anything I'm just going to get in and get out. That probably would have been awful for me. As he said I kind of like to lead things.  But I would encourage you to just get involved in class because that's definitely one way you learn the material better. And it opens you up to more points of views. And you know you get to meet a lot of people and I would encourage you to meet your professors. The second piece of advice I would say is don't be scared to be wrong. You will be wrong and your professors will tell you you are wrong. You will know what I mean in a couple of days. Especially those who are Professor Richie. But don't be scared to be wrong. Raise your hand, get involved. And if you need anything from me, if you have any questions, please stop by my office or stop me in the hallway. I am a charmer as he says. So please don't be scared and welcome to law school. So finally to administer an oath of professionalism to formally mark your entrance into the Roger Williams University law community and the broader community of law students and the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Paul Sattel. I could go on and on about the Chief, but like a broken record, I will instead simply tell you that he is not just a great judge and a great leader. He's a great human being. Like Armando's predecessors, Chief Justice Sattel is here not because he's a graduate of this law school, but because he believes in what we are doing here. I don't know this for sure, but I'm pretty certain that the administration of an oath like this by the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court does not occur at any other law school in the country. This is just one example of the many ways in which the Chief and his colleagues in the Rhode Island judiciary support this law school and our students. I want to thank him for all of that support and welcome warmly Chief Justice Paul Sattel. Thank you, Dean, for those very kind words. You could have said, however, that I dressed to kill. But I guess it's a little tough in a black robe all the time. On behalf of the men and women of the Rhode Island judiciary, I want to welcome you all to Roger Williams Law School and also to welcome you, for those of you that are not from Rhode Island, to the state of Rhode Island. Can you just show me by a show of hands how many are not from Rhode Island? Well, that's significant. Anybody from Wyoming or Montana? Well, I just yesterday, I just returned from two weeks hiking in Wyoming and Montana and the Tetons and Glacier National Park. And it reminded me how beautiful this country is and how every section of this country has its own unique beauty and history to it. And certainly Rhode Island has a natural beauty. We're a coastal state and we have a very rich history. And just within walking distance of this campus, it must be a quarter of a mile, not more than a half mile up the shoreline, is the seat of King Philip or Medicomit, the great Wampanoag Sachem. And across the Mount Hope Bridge, not more than a mile or two away, is Founders Brook Park where Anne Hutchinson founded the town of Portsmouth after she was banished by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, largely for her religious views and largely for holding meetings of too many people in her home, mostly of whom were women. For some reason, the Puritan leaders thought that was very disruptive to have too many women meeting. And also for the school's namesake, Roger Williams.  And if you do have a suggestion, Box Dean, I might suggest that you teach or offer a course on Roger Williams and the law because he, in my mind, is certainly one of the more unappreciated founding fathers of this country. He, as a young boy of only 12 or 13, he worked for Sir Edward Cook, who was one of the most famous English jurists of his day, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and Cook eventually wrote the English Declaration of Rights. So Roger Williams learned his law literally at the feet of Sir Edward Cook, and this chart as he secured for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, as it was then and is still now known. They granted a great amount of self-autonomy and religious freedom to the colony to the extent that I think it had to be the most democratic government in the world at the time. And in my view, I think that largely it was too democratic, quite frankly, and it somewhat led to the demise of the Articles of Confederation and to the adoption of the United States Constitution. I like to give Rhode Island a lot of credit for that, perhaps more than it deserves. But in any event, we were very pleased with the chart is that Roger Williams had secured for us and to the extent that we did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention, we were the last colony to adopt the original 13 to adopt the Constitution, and that was by a vote, I believe, of only two, the margin of two. And that's after it had been defeated the first time. So we do have a very rich history. We also have a great beauty. You know how beautiful this campus is. It's located in Bristol, which is a quintessential New England seaport town. A half hour to the south is Newport, which has many, many wonderful restaurants and bars. A half hour to the north is Providence. It also has great restaurants and a very thriving arts community. Boston is an hour and a half away in New York, only three and a half hours, an easy weekend trip. And the cruel reality is you will not have time this year to enjoy any of it. But know that it's there. And I do encourage you, you need to work hard. You've heard that, you know that law school, particularly the first year, it's a lot of the books and you do need to be prepared to work hard, but you also need to come up for air once in a while. And I encourage you to do that and enjoy what we do have in Rhode Island. And I can assure you, for those of you that are not from Rhode Island, my job over the next three years is to make sure that you do stay. And myself and all of my colleagues on the judiciary, in addition to the faculty and staff have been indicated, we're very much invested in you. We really do hope for your success and are willing to help you in that as much as we can. Now, I know this is a very significant day for you. You may not realize it at the time, and I'm sure some of you are thinking this is just a rude interruption to a very nice summer vacation. But it is very significant. This is the first step on your path to the profession of the law, which is a very interesting profession. It's a very noble profession. It starts right now with the oath of professionalism that I will administer very shortly. As the dean said, it's not every, I can't imagine any of the law school in the country where the Chief Justice administers the oath of office to the first year law students. And it's not the fact that it's me that's administering it to you.   I'm the Chief Justice, right? And it is. But I think it's emblematic of the relationship, the very close relationship between the law school and the judiciary in Rhode Island. We do have a very close and symbiotic relationship. Many of the adjunct professors at the law school are judges, both from the state and federal bench. Many of you will participate in externship programs where you'll be working. Some of you in the Supreme Court, others with trial court judges. Others will be doing externships with the Attorney General's office or public defenders or many other state agency. And it is a unique opportunity. I encourage you to take advantage of the opportunities that Roger Williams does offer to you. And there are many indeed. The traditional view is that law schools are very good at teaching the law and teaching you how to think like a lawyer. But they don't do a very good job of teaching you how to be a lawyer. Well, that's changing. And I can say with certainty that Roger Williams Law School has been leading the way in regard to clinical programs and experiential programs. I certainly encourage you to participate in those, both in the immigration law clinic and the pro bono collaborative or the defenders program. There are wonderful opportunities to represent real live clients and real life situations under the supervision of a professor and get that experience so that when you do graduate you've had that hands-on opportunity and feel certainly much more comfortable about practicing law at that time. The clinical programs, as I said, are a valuable experience, not only in representing clients, but in the fact that you represent clients and won't get paid for. And I think that's important because that is part of being a lawyer. It's public service. And I think the sooner you understand that, the better off you'll be. It's part of our culture. It's part of our DNA as lawyers to provide pro bono services. And I encourage you to do it throughout your careers, not only in law school, but whatever opportunity you do have. So with that, I will administer to you. Do you all have a copy of the oath of professionalism? I'd ask you all to stand. And if you would raise your right hand and then repeat after me, I, and then state your name, as I engage in the study of law, do solemnly swear to display integrity and civility to all with whom I come in contact, to respect the law and the legal system, to seek justice and to adhere to the Roger Williams University School of Law Code of Student Responsibility. This do I swear. Congratulations. You may be seated. Let me just give a very, very short cautionary tale to you because that oath of professionalism is something that you should take very seriously at this time. You are taking today the first step to becoming a lawyer. But as you, as you, I'm sure are well aware, there are other bridges that have to be crossed before you do enter the profession. And the most significant perhaps are called the bar examination as well as the committee on character and fitness. And I just mentioned that to you briefly because many people don't realize there, there is a committee on character and fitness that will look over your application and have to approve of you. Certainly one of the more difficult tasks that I have as a Supreme Court justice is to administer the disciplinary penalties for lawyers that have violated the Code of Judicial or Code of Professional Responsibility. And believe me, I would much rather keep somebody out of the profession before they have injured and harmed the public and the client than have to deal with it after the fact when there has been somebody injured. So we take it very seriously. And the committee on character and fitness, fitness, and we're not talking about the number of push-ups you can do or how fast you can run a mile. It talks about your fitness to practice law. And in that regard, the committee will have before it a lot of information including your bar application, including your law school application. And the most important thing that you can do from now on is to be honest, to be candid both with the law school, certainly with the courts and with the board of bar examiners when the time comes. We've all been young at one time. Even I was, I can remember when I was young at points. And certainly a lot of things that I did that I'm not too proud of, but youthful indiscretions are simply youthful indiscretions unless you don't tell the truth about it. It's very important. We have admitted, as the dean and president well know, we have admitted to the bar individuals that have served prison sentences for very major felonies. But they've turned their life around. They've turned their life around in prison and became very upstanding citizens and contributing citizens. And we've gladly welcomed them to the profession. We've also, we're very truthful about what they had done and indicated it on their application and to the bar examiners. And this also applies to your law school application. The board of bar examiners will have that available. And if you haven't been truthful on that or if there are things that you've left out, that could come back to haunt you. So I just suggest to you, if there's anything at all that you're concerned about now, I would make an appointment with the dean and let them know. As I said, as long as you're candid about it, as long as you're truthful about it, there's really very little reason to be concerned about it. But if you haven't been, that does come back to haunt you. So that's just my cautionary tale to you. I wish you well in your careers. I hope to see a lot of you or a few of you anyway in the Supreme Court. We all, not only do we have externships in courts, but we generally hire several clerks from the law school. I know the law school likes to tout the number of clerkships, a percentage of clerkships that you do have as behind only perhaps Harvard and Yale in terms of the percentage. I think that's a great statistic. But I will tell you, it's not because of what the law school has done, it's because the judiciary has hired your law clerks. And we hire the law clerks. It's not because it makes the law school look good. We hire them because it makes us look good. Because we know the work that they can do. We know how valuable they are to the operation of the courts. And we're very happy to have them. So I hope to see many of you clerking in the Supreme Court and with the trial courts. And I wish you all great success. Thank you. So I agree, of course, with everything that the Chief Justice of the State of Rhode Island just said, accept. And this is one of at least two things that's great about being the Dean. If you need to go to a confessional because you left something off of your application, please go see Dean Hassel or Dean Lally. You could come see me, but it's not my job. Feel free to come see me. Bad joke. Happens once in a blue moon. The other thing that's great about being the Dean is that you're often the master of ceremonies and it's my great pleasure to congratulate you once again and welcome you to refreshments in the atrium where you can spend some time getting to know each other a little bit more and meet some more faculty and staff. So congratulations. Give yourselves a round of applause.


You know She said to me, you know, she said to me I grew up in Lebanon as a little girl and there I watched TV And I saw cartoons and then a minute after a Hezbollah commercial Then I saw Tom and Jerry running one after the other And then I saw an Israeli soldier Being executed or kidnapped and that's how I grew up.  It can't be and now she's a fan meet Johanna Najla and Today she's much more than a fan. She actually performs with us on stage. She's our belly dancer Coming with us on stage enemies singing and dancing together Johanna was so proud of her country that she went with the Lebanese flag But her country didn't like that too much and they deprived her from coming back to her homeland and more over than that The Hezbollah apparently issued a deformed on her head and that's just the tip of the iceberg Ever since I made my first steps into this world. I Was surrounded with music my father comes from a family of ten brothers and sisters Grandpa come on and each of them are playing an instrument or singing something and Naturally, you would think it will happen to me and indeed I became an algorithm expert for Microsoft Working for ten years getting to executive positions, but I Sold my Ferrari for a mandolin and I began to take the guitar and that has changed my life I began to fuse Middle Eastern instruments traditional instruments with rock and heavy metal and Arabic music with modern Western rock and roll music and Million nothing prepared me for the fact that Millions of Arab fans Muslim fans will like this later on There was just one problem that you don't have and I have I was born in the wrong place Really wise career move to leave an executive job in Microsoft to play for fans that will never be able to come and see a show but They proved me wrong. They come thousands of them Millions more than million downloaded the music from our Arab countries and thousands comes to see me in Europe from Iran Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai Saudi all coming to share their joy for music to see a Jewish Israeli artists perform and Even one Egyptian fan got arrested and thrown to jail for six months Just for listening to the music he loves so you'd say a Deformant by his Bala organization thrown to jail for the music you love There has to be some end to this phenomena well Think again dozens of Muslim fans tattoo permanently on their bodies Jewish symbols logos and symbols of my band of my music group and In an age where bad news travel fast and everywhere we read about the Iranian nuclear threat and stuff like that Who gives an F About bridging between nations with music well millions and I don't think music can change the world But I do think that the single most powerful universal language of us all Music combined with social networks and what technology today enables us like we all spoke about I Know it's giving a chance for the first time in human history to rise to their greater part for a real chance of Coexistence between the nations and when one change agent does that you can overlook this and go back to your home and forget About this lecture, but when one hundred thousand do that this cannot be overlooked This is ladies and gentlemen enemies Singing and dancing together nations choosing what they want not what they're being told through the media. I Have many more to share with you But before I bid you farewell, I want to show you a short video of a song played in life both on the video and myself and When you see this video, I want you to remember that what you're seeing is Is an Israeli band Jewish artists with the Lebanese Muslim girl Singing dancing together in front of 100,000 people. It's an Egyptian song originally Samra. Yes, Samra and we took the lyrics and put them in Hebrew to an old Hebrew words and That's how it sounds like okay I


I see potential so when it gets to be here welcome to another video guys so into this video we are going to talk about ticker symbol MOD Moldin this is a company that I've been profiling for a while actually did a video here talking about it a while back so again I want to go in-depth and talk a little bit about this company because I see that this company is approaching some a point where they're going to be making some good moves and I want you guys to be aware of and hopefully getting early now that things are still where the company is at but before we get started guys if you're new to the channel we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth so that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content so MOD Moldin is a company that produces Tema cooling for different industries so the reason why I want to bring this up to you guys is because I see this company actually branching out and taking advantage of where we are today with electric vehicles if you guys know when if we first started with electric vehicles it looks like it was only Tesla that was doing it and now we see that a lot of other companies are starting to pick up the pace and coming up and trying to keep up you know with Tesla so what Moldin did with Tesla their model S was that Moldin provided the cooling system for the batteries for that model S so if you think about how does how massive the batteries are for these electric vehicles they need some sort of cooling system otherwise the thing will get hot and explode so Moldin I mean they pride themselves as the number one leader in no cooling system so you see they are in pretty much every industry HVAC commercial vehicles data centers of highways power and industrial refrigeration and so again I mean they're everywhere but the one area that I want to bring it to us because as we have this what I call the EV revolution is that Moldin can play a huge part in that space right now all the research I did is that they've only worked with Tesla I don't know if other companies other EV manufacturers are approaching them so that they can actually help them with cooling the batteries that is left to be seen but I want to make sure that you guys are in play for this and so when we were doing this video Moldin is currently trading somewhere at about $12 and 11 cents again this is just pulling back from their high of if you can see here just a week ago they have high of about $12 and 86 cents so again pull back that's usually a good place for us to get in so we miss if you miss this pullback here that was that was not a bad pullback so anticipate again for me I think anything under $12 would be ideal for you to get in for this particular stack and hopefully as we get into next year with all the momentum of clean energy electric vehicles Moldin might see a huge move in that space and start making some signing some big contracts again Tesla uses them to cool their mother s I don't know if Tesla has plans to expand them to the different different models that they have the why and the rest so if they can do that I think Moldin is sitting at a crossroad where they can definitely explode so again I wanted to bring this to your attention because it's a stock that I talked about here on the channel I mentioned it with other stocks that were I think were EV suppliers but I want to single out Moldin and really bring it make sure that you guys cover it because of all these sort of ones the key component of electric vehicles guys is the battery and if your battery is not secure if your battery is overheating if your battery doesn't have the proper cooling system I think you have an issue so Tesla using them has proven that this company is no reputable and they can actually do the job so they call themselves the battery chiller so they cool the batteries so I think it's a tremendous amount of opportunity again if not they are in other no industries like I mentioned so it's not just EV cars EV cars is probably going to be right now it's probably just a very tiny bit of their business but I think the future is that they're going to expand into that space because more and more manufacturers are going to start using them to cool the batteries as we expand into more electric vehicles so let me do the comment section what do you think about Moldin I mean again from my perspective here the way I see it is that the company has a very tiny business right now in the electric vehicle space because they work with Tesla and the Model S I think that more and more companies are going to start using them in the future to help them with the battery because the battery is the most critical component of electric vehicles it determines how far you can go and a lot of other features that operate in the car depends on the battery so if your battery is overheated definitely you cannot do anything so that's why I 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Glomerular filtration rate, we've already identified. It happens at essentially 180 liters per day. That's the rate at which filtration occurs in the glomerulus, between the glomerulus and Bowman's capsule.  You compare glomerular filtration rate, and let's throw in, you know, glomerular filtration rate of 180 liters. You can have a mean arterial pressure between 80. Now remember, that's just the difference between, actually that was that whole crazy number that we calculated, but it's an estimate of blood pressure. Your mean arterial pressure can be anywhere between 80 and 180. That's a huge difference.  Now, there's two primary mechanisms for this, and we're going to talk about these. If your mean arterial pressure drops below 80, then you're going to see a decrease. That's going to decrease hydrostatic pressure, and you'll actually see a decrease in GFR because of that. If you go above 180, dude, that's gigantic, you're going to see an increase in glomerular filtration rate. But other than that, holy range of blood pressures and no change in GFR, how? Well, there's one mechanism. It's a myogenic reflex. Myo should make you think, what? Muscle. It's a reflex that's, there's no integrator in this reflex. It's facilitated by smooth muscle in the afferent arterial. So here's what happens. Here's my afferent arterial heading into glomerulus. Arterials are surrounded by circular layers of smooth muscle. You already know that from our study of vessel anatomy. So the smooth muscle, in addition to layers of smooth muscle surrounding my arterial, we have special sensory receptors. So I'm just going to make a little sensory receptor so that you can see that. So these are sensory stretch receptors. So stimulus, blood pressure increases. Blood pressure increases. Pressure from the blood in the vessel increases. What's that going to do to the vessel? If you have increased pressure, that's going to stretch the blood vessel. That's going to activate these sensory receptors. When they stretch, we have a mechanism. Mechanical gated calcium channels open. And this actually initiates, number one, an action potential, number two, contraction of smooth muscle. Smooth muscle contracts. And what's the outcome? Vasoconstriction. Now think about this for a second. Afferent arterial vasoconstricts. The diameter of the afferent arterial decreases.  And that's going to decrease the number of people that can come into my house.  GFR will decrease. The myogenic reflex happens as a response to an increased GFR. And then the result is decreased. And think about how there's no sending the information to an integrator. There's no time, like, brain doesn't have to, I don't have to think about it. Oh, gee, I'm feeling like my blood pressure is a little... This is fast. This is instantaneous. I stretch my, in one afferent arterial, I stretch. And then I'm going to constrict just to manage that. I'm not going to let it change. That's a huge amount of power. That will keep me at a nice, steady GFR no matter what the blood pressure is around me. I can adjust. That's one mechanism. That mechanism is pretty straightforward. The next one is a little more complicated. Let's talk about what happens at the juxtaglomerular apparatus.


And so we're coming to the end of the three day marathon here, a couple of things I want to just review what we've done, what we've said today. As we've done in the past days, we've had, you know, someone summarise the comments that were made and I've got a recap of them. So if you just bear with me one moment, I will put that up. So the comments came today from Shubetcha Paul and a good job, a great job of summarising I think what we heard today. The first bullet there is about, you know, industrial heat is a cross-cutting challenge. I think a big theme, especially in the first panel today, was all about heat. You know, how can we, you know, what are the ways in which we can address heat management and so on and so forth and we heard about fuel switching, direct and indirect electrification of heat and energy storage and just generally heat management. And it's really obviously one of the big, big challenges, if not the big challenge of what we're talking about here in this workshop. I think probably I have to give credence to what Mark said, of course, scale. And what I once said as well, of course, scale is of course another big, big challenge, of course. We, you know, we heard about wind and solar, their potential solutions, but of course they are intermittent. And so we had both Antora Energy and Rondo Energy talk about their thermal storage approaches and using, with Rondo it was more refractory bricks, with Antora it was a graphite. They seem very, very exciting ways of trying to address the issue of trying to get heat for industry at high temperatures that you need. And they can provide that storage so that you can address that intermitency. So I think that was, I learned a lot from that. Then in academic research, you know, comments were made about the reliability of electricity supply and upscaling lab proven technologies with a system view. I think there was a, you know, we are, we can come up with technologies and lab, but can we get it to the pilot scale and move it on? I think it was one point that was made. And then the whole system view, you can't just look at this industrial processes just in isolation. You do need to see how they impact the rest of the system. And I think there was another point that was made here that resonated with me and that was actually the waste streams. There were some of the waste streams from these industrial processes. How can you look at them as a feedstock for another process? How can you work with a CO2 that comes out of one process? How can you use it somewhere else? And I think that was, that was a theme that I heard today as well. Some of the key areas that were identified, I think low loss transfer and storage of heat at high temperatures. We looked at, we heard about electrochemical options, decarbonization of the steel and cement industries. Obviously, how can we leverage some of the processes with electricity? And just actually, we even just heard about this now, you know, seasonal energy storage. How can we address things we need to think about seasonal energy storage? And so all of those, I think, were key areas. The last point here is it's not just technology. There's policy work, there's regulatory development that we need to address. These are very important if we want to come up with solutions for decarbonization, electrification of industry, modularization. We heard that this morning as well, development of disruptive technologies, of course. And yeah, the idea of retrofitting existing infrastructure. We shouldn't just think of just, you know, we've had that infrastructure. Some of these plants, they massive, they huge investments, they'll last 50 years or more. And so sometimes we need to think about retrofitting them rather than just replacing them. And of course, you know, everything that we're doing, we need to cater to societal needs. So those are some of the messages that we got out of today, our first quick snapshot. So what I would like to do now, actually, is to go to the closing session. I'd like to ask Yi Trey, the director of the Precord Institute to run this last session. He's going to be accompanied by Amy Herhold and Shafiq Jaffa. So Yi will make some closing comments and then we'll get some closing reflections from both Amy and Shafiq. So Yi, I'm going to pass it on to you.


Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and today I'm going to review the spy because we went to the dream target in the spy from the option call I made last week, which was the 280. I made it on Thursday based on the bullish gap up that we made last week I saw we go straight there. So we went boom, boom, boom We really were up a lot in the pre-market this morning who were we up a lot? In fact, we had touched 280 in the pre-market. Let's look at that Look at that Yep, there you have it Wow Amazing move in the market. Just just not just this year. I mean in the last three days I mean even in the last year, I mean the market is power trending up higher So you have some profit taking here today, but don't look for any big sell-off or any big drift down Why because the money that came in last week was new money So again, what do I do? I follow gaps. I trade gaps. I rate the gaps determine the directional bias of a gap I also qualify gaps to determine which ones can be played long or short not every gap up can be played long Not every gap down can be played short. I Will tell you though that this was the quality gap here on 111 Which is how I saw the market would go straight up, which is what it did If you did the option call last week, you had to be out at the target of the strike today Which was 280 we got to 280 9 look for the market to continue the strength So they're very interesting to see we closed today. No, we're near 4 o'clock It would also be very interesting to see where we gap tomorrow morning up or down However, this was new money that came into the market. So based on that I do not see some crazy sell-off here even though we're a little bit red today. I should we're not even that much red today, but Technically speaking we are red today, but I think we hold here. So we interesting to see Congratulations to everyone that did the call I gave it free everyone on my marketing list if you want to join my marketing list email me at Melissa the stocks wish comm and if you want to know how to read gaps and if you want to know where the Market's going in 2018 join my group. How do you do that? You sign up for the golden gap course, which is this weekend. You will learn my method how to rate gaps and It's really going to be a good year So good luck everyone and I will see you all at the webinar tonight at 4 30 any information any questions email me at Melissa the stocks wish comm


Welcome to the NTN Nightly, I'm Nisha Charles, this edition's top stories. The National Sports Academy is now fully functioning. The Ministry of Education moves with haste to address conditions at the Anthropo Secondary School. Key stakeholders applaud government's $42 million road improvement project, all that plus the NTN, Nouvelle, or Quayol. The National Sports Academy is now in full function, offering St. Lucia's best in sporting talent an opportunity for especially tailored education. The St. Lucia Sports Academy has become a home away from home for 37 students who have enrolled there. The School of Excellence for Sports is the first and only boarding school on Ireland, where students will concentrate on sporting disciplines including cricket, football, and track and field. Academics will also feature prominently within the curriculum. The School's principal, Delia Charles, the initiative by the Government of St. Lucia and the Ministry of Education is a welcomed one. One that she believes addresses the thinking that one size does not fit all when it comes to education. Too often we have spoken about one size fits all and we cannot meet the needs of the students and the talents of the students. So the Ministry of Education decided to create something new, something different and to give these children with the sporting abilities that facility where they can balance both academics and sports right there on one compound. Additionally, it's the gym of the Prime Minister and he was behind that project wholeheartedly. So I believe these are the two main reasons why we have this school here today. From dawn to dusk, the students are engaged both physically and mentally in activities that will prepare them to gain sports scholarships abroad. Victor Cornibird is a program director at the Sports Academy. In the morning we begin with what we call general conditioning which is we put them through some exercise routines. We have three sporting disciplines. However we bring all of them together and in the morning at 6.40 and we do general conditioning. That could include gym and running and exercises. After that they go for breakfast at 7.45, they shower and then they get ready for school at 9 o'clock which is the academic aspect and then they come back, we give them a snack at 3 o'clock and then we begin specific training according to the sports at 3.30, until 5.30. But it's not just about sports or academics. The program seeks to develop the students holistically. Well in the dorm life they have to learn to socialize, they have to learn to follow rules and obey rules, you know, we look at the discipline aspect of it. Also we're looking at how they give them that opportunity to kind of like improve on their specialized area which is either football cricket or track and field. And also the academic life, so we try to get them to marry the two together. We have at present we have what we call academic support that will be provided to them. We have some tutors coming in to do some work if those who are slow, those who need assistance. So we try to get a well-rounded holistic child through that program. The students are provided with all the necessary tools and support for the journey ahead including school supplies, uniforms and equipment. They are also grateful for the opportunity to bond with their peers. It helps if your social environment, like interacting with others, know how to deal with certain situations that you wouldn't just go out there and purge in and want to fight or so and so. It helps you to calm yourself, I must say, so that your peers will tell you okay you do something wrong, that's wrong, you listen to one another. What do you hope to gain from the experience being part of the first sports academy? For me, and I see for my peers, I see that getting our scholarships and going to the next country to further our education and the sport we do. The St. Lucia Sports Academy opened on September 11, 2019. The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development is moving with haste to address conditions at the Andre Post Secondary School. On Friday, 18th October, teachers complained of feeling unwell during the course of the work day and left. Chief Education Officer Fiona Meyer says the Ministry was surprised of poor air quality at the school. The school has been plagued with mold infestation, however the Ministry has begun remedial works. Our building officer is here, our quantity survey is also here. We've got our Education Officer for District 3 and various members of our team, our safety officer from the Ministry of Education has also accompanied me and we've spoken with the principal and vice principal of the school, the leadership of the school, ensuring that they know, as we have communicated in the past, as of last week and the week before that, that the health and safety of our entire school community, our staff and our students remains of the most significance to us and therefore the urgency with which we've dealt with this situation as soon as we got word of the mold. I need to contextualize this because from the time the air quality reports were received, we've had the testing done, this is within a matter of not even two weeks that the tests were done, procurement happened, referenced the various contractors to look at the situation, assessments have been done and I am pleased to note that throughout the weekend, starting on Friday evening, Friday evening, Saturday and on Sunday as well, both principals and the head of our safety unit were here with the contractors having observed what has happened, so throughout the weekend significant work happened. The chief education officer says deep cleaning of identified rooms have been done, however the problem has mushroomed. We have since then found out there may be other rooms that are impacted and so we are in a very similar fashion, moving to ensure that every single room at the N triple school is not only tested but that any deep cleaning that has to happen, any other mold remediation will be taken care of within the next couple days. Note that some situations may be more severe than others and so it is important to look at also costing, it has cost us about $50,000 over the weekend to do all of the work that has happened. Similar works have been undertaken at the Gordon and Walcott Memorial Methodist School where teachers also complained about being unwell due to mold infestation. Key stakeholders have applauded the government of St. Lucia for its comprehensive strategy at improving the national road network. Details in this report. With the commencement of a robust road reconstruction project rolled out by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labor, the ministry sought to engage stakeholders including minibus owners and operators. The road improvement and maintenance program called RIM 4 spans approximately 101 kilometers of roads to be completely reconstructed around the island. In an effort to promote greater public accountability and transparency, the Department of Infrastructure hosted the northern membership of the National Council on Public Transportation, NCOPT, along with non-affiliates at a special consultation on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing roads program. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure, I for Danielle, highlighting the importance of feedback and recommendations from the minibus owners and operators explained that once completed, the project will significantly improve the bus routes. So as we embark on this program, we do not only see the resurfacing of the road as being that impact where you could get the rideability a lot better, but we want to do in some instances a bit of realignment to improve the safety of the road. We want to reduce congestion and we want to make the overall road a little more attractive, particularly in the back road. A lot of people would want to get off the highway and very into those back roads. They don't know where they go in the first instance and in the second instance when you're there, you have to be stopping, you have to be there. So many near misses. I probably myself this morning on Armandale, I must have missed, I've had so many near misses. So these are some of the considerations that we come across as drivers. The consultation saw a number of recommendations from the minibus sector, many of which have received the green light from the ministry and will be implemented as part of the ring four. These include installation of labors, additional bus stops along the east coast, and improve road signage island wide. The ministry also engages in Lucia Chamber of Commerce, industry and agriculture. This often the business community an opportunity to not only receive an update on the project, but to also offer suggestions and experience while directing pertinent questions on matters which require clarification. Deputy Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Calvin Lee, expanded on some key areas of the project. The ministry is looking to move forward with improving how we move people and goods and services to and from different points on the island. So we are also considering, apart from alternative routes which do exist, we were looking at some others and some other concepts presently doing some feasibility assessments on them to see whether or not they make sense. And at the appropriate time we will also come back to you on those as well. We're looking also to modernize the way in which we do business in terms of collecting data that would suggest traffic volumes, traffic flow, origin destination surveys and so on. The whole concept of intelligent mobility. So are we moving in those directions? The road improvement and maintenance program is also expected to drive productivity levels by getting goods, services and people to the intended destinations with fewer delays. A number of concerns relating to project funding and procurement, timeliness, future scope, quality assurance and modes of communication to keep citizens informed were raised by chamber members and addressed by the ministry officials during the discussions. President of the chamber, Karen Peter, expressed gratitude for the inclusion in the process, adding that the improvements will hold great benefits for the business sector. Development is always welcomed and the road network has to be something of importance to the business community, how we navigate, how we move the logistics and the northbound, southbound traffic. I'm hoping in the coming, well, probably not too near distant future that we are talking about the road network from, I believe, the Babano Gara into Luvet Beach getting off on the Dennery Olio. So I think that's something with what we're doing here. We don't want to lose sight of this other road network, which bring great benefit in terms of logistics and where the trucks, because when you look at it, you see those 44 trailer trucks in castries. It's crazy. So when we have those other road networks, we find those, we can divert the traffic and have easier flow. The US $42 million road improvement and maintenance program, which was given the nod of approval by both the Chamber of Commerce and the NCOPT, has commenced with the Salty Bus and Katzaba roads. Further consultations are expected to be held with stakeholders in the southern part of the island. For the Government Information Service, I am Janelle Norville. And this is the NTN-Nightly Tuesday with us. Welcome back. Prime Minister of St. Lucia and Chairman of the Caribbean Community, Hon. Alan Shastney was the featured speaker at the Washington Times on Wednesday, October 16, 2019. The Washington Times is a US daily newspaper published in Washington, DC, reaching an average of 35 million viewers a week. Prime Minister Shastney led the discussion by focusing on issues relating to the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations in the region and the economic and security implications this has on the Caribbean region. The Prime Minister cautioned that the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations has the unintended consequence of excluding the region from the international trade and financial system. The Prime Minister also spoke to the issue of blacklisting by the EU, calling this a particularly detrimental trend that can only serve to damage the region's reputation and adversely impact its competitiveness. He pointedly noted that Caribbean countries have made and often exceeded various compliance rules and regulations while other larger countries have lagged behind. The Prime Minister called on the OECD to change its policies as it pertains to the classification of countries based solely on the GDP per capita index and to include a vulnerability index which more accurately reflects the economic realities for small island developing states or SIDS. He called for the US to work more closely with the region to further enhance the bilateral relationship. Plans for the inaugural hosting of the Peter Cup in December are well advanced as St. Lucia enters the lucrative equine industry. A number of industry players well known on the international equine stage have invested in the race with prize-winning Thoroughbred horses. More than 50 groomsmen and other employees of the Vuefort-based horse race track have welcomed the arrival of 40 of those Thoroughbred. Janelle Norville tells us more. For the first time ever, St. Lucia will debut an international race track located in Vuefort. The track which was constructed by the Desert Star Holdings Company thus far employed over 50 groomsmen not counting the number of individuals employed in the construction phase. The newly constructed track holds immense economic value including but not limited to the creation of a number of employment opportunities including farriers, veterinarians, barn, broodmare and stallion managers, jockies, horse race trainers and breeders to name a few. A survey commissioned by the American Horse Council Foundation revealed that the horse industry contributes approximately $39 billion in direct economic impact to the U.S. economy and supports 1.4 million jobs on a full-time basis. The American Horse Council Foundation noted that when indirect and induced spending are included, the industry's economic impact reaches $102 billion. Senior communications officer in the office of the Prime Minister, Nicole MacDonald, indicated that while the country is expected to benefit significantly from the development, the government has no financial investment in the project. Permit me to state some facts which should clear up any misconceptions Sen lutions have about the government's part in this project. The government of Sen lucha has not purchased or facilitated the purchase of any horses for the race meaning that no millions of dollars have been spent by the government of Sen lucha to purchase horses for this project. The construction of the racetrack has been fully funded by the investor. The government of Sen lucha has not funded the construction of the racetrack or any other aspect of this project. Let me repeat, no government funds have gone into the racetrack. The senior communications officer explained that the government's involvement in this project so far has been the relocation of the mid-processing facility. A new location has been identified and the investor has committed to rebuilding the facility at that new location. Additionally, the government is in discussions to potentially become a sponsor of the race where events in lucha will assist in the promotion of the event and the planning of a concert in Vufort and the Sen lucha tourism authority will be engaged with promoting Sen lucha's new offering as a destination that additionally offers sporting activities such as horse racing. As with any project the government is assisting by creating the ideal business environment so as to ensure a successful venture. In any project we want to see this become a success. We want to see all projects succeed in Sen lucha so we will work with the investor. I know that the investor is working directly with invest Sen lucha in order to facilitate ways to make doing business a little bit easier for them to guide them in terms of investment areas and maybe some of the things they have to go through the processes they have to go through to get to the point where they need to get. We support our investors both local regional and international you know and there are agencies involved in the process who would come forward and assist the investor at different levels. Sen lucha is expected to make its debut into the equine industry with the pito cup on national day friday 13th december for the government information service i am jenelle novell and stay with the ntn nightly up next primus hudginson is here with the ntn novell arqueo. Frankie you know i'm traveling to antiga this afternoon and i forgot my passport at home boy it's a good thing i have my driver's license i'll still be able to travel oh how can you travel to antiga without your passport under the oasis freedom of movement regime oasis citizens can travel to any of the seven protocol member states without a passport once they have an official and valid identification card with their picture and nationality on it really since when since the establishment of the eastern caribbean oasis economic union under the revised treaty of basté it entered into force in 2011 so you mean to tell me that i can leave sen lucha and go to another oasis country with just my driver's license or national id and customs and immigration won't stop me yes you can even use your photos registration card or social security card as a matter of fact as a citizen of an oasis protocol member state you are entitled to indefinite stay when you travel to another oasis protocol member state so you can live and work without a work permit or skilled national certificate as a construction worker here i could take my trade to grenada or any other oasis country yes frankie you're straight and what about my wife and children's schooling frankie oasis citizens and their children will be granted equal rights and privileges under the freedom of movement that includes access to social services labor market schemes health and education for your children and your wife this free movement thing sounds nice hassle free travel to any oasis country live and work for as long as you like the oasis economic union is the real deal for more information visit www.oasis.org welcome back we join premise hudgensen for the ntn nouvelle quay all missy otter nisha missy madame department kiri west coast ability reformation and government said let's see that's a gis and some of the television national pia ntn opposite to novella quay all is at all primus hudgensen we're positive and can't sit for powers aslaway a cannawi qcc minister's affair to a stick on your abdhamnik fede over official man your new book would be to a stick i would be power seller it up this one to a stick seller capote in our glittering sands and i got to be in too long a village aslaway facility to a stick seller say property set this year a caba conduit set this year sell man lani api people even one kia ploy api establishment sort in here aslaway and also cannawi bitch back there we see where premier secret étranger kitty sotia bob battle tourists who were who you're tony young jolita and the power of the seller for positive honor abdhamnik fede mama kiki satush here you don't mind yajute kiki saka mutui commitment government for agenda and development sustainable to establish a value for people and to the genesis the people go sit right in your location will advertise a lot me but kote yui asset lecy facility a capote divest amismar ecossi mangé a diverse fashion brah son divest attic de cadu i'm putting a lot of necessity on what fede declare kiki young kai wiki facility a batir a fashion for embracing the movement exterior go on manifestation a quality the effort that everyone is putting together to make Beach Park Salah a reality. Glidering Sands Beach Park will officially open on October 15, 2019. The students who are going to go to the university have started to attend the first institution of the university, St. Lucia Sports Academy, which was founded in the wake of the school's second-year gozilliava. They started operations in September at the pastoral center, but they officially started attending the first institution in Marotob. The first school, Delia Charles, was very excited. They started to study, and so did the government to push up the force of the first institution. The government has made a challenge in the school. The first institution was the sports and academics department. There was the manager, the parent, the sports director, the government, and also the whole community. The uniform, the uniform service, the school, and a lot of other things. Mrs. Charles also said that there is good security to protect the students. Also, the curriculum, as I said, all the guys, all the teachers, you can study, all the staff, all the places that we can realize. This is a good guy. The government has placed a notification for the public that the first school is going to be a national school. Here, the first school is the school of the first-year gozilliava. 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Hello there, it's Sandy Alma with Five Ways to Apply Ink Tense Pencils. I haven't had these out in a long time and I thought this cute little stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps would be a helpful one maybe to show you a couple different ways you can apply the pencil. And the stamp set has a lot of love type sentiments but I added the word friend from a different stamp set so that it could be a friend card and I picked out some swatches from my swatch book to use for my coloring and I'm starting off with traditional coloring. So this is when you've got watercolor pencils, most people just start to do the coloring and then add the water and that's kind of the most obvious way to use watercolor pencils and ink tense pencils are really strong in color. If you've ever used them before, there's a reason they're called ink tense because they're intense, they're more like an ink than they are like a watercolor because a watercolor pencil, once it's dry you could still lift it and you could still do things with it. This is more stable. It's not a hundred percent stable because believe me I have thought it was stable and tried painting over something and it bled the bottom layer quite a bit so they're not perfectly stable but they're more stable than your average watercolor pencil.  I got this at the grocery store and I take the top off and make powdered pencil and I'm mixing it with the wet pigment that's already on the card that's already there for two of the little otters and it's one way to adjust the color so I didn't put down as much color as I might have wanted in my first pass when I was doing the scribbling on the paper. Well I still have the option to add more while it's still wet just do some of this powdered pigment on top and then paint right into that same area. You can add a different color too so I'm gonna add a darker type of brown to one of them and see if I could change that color so it was a little more yellow than I was necessarily intending it to be. But notice there's all kinds of powdered pigment around on the paper at this point. Don't worry about that right now because as soon as you get your heat gun out it will blow away when you turn it on.  So this second technique we're gonna use the powdered pigment again but we're gonna use it just dropping it into water and this is a really forgiving way to work with watercolor pencils. A little bit of a problem started with the top water because I hadn't rinsed my brush out which is why it was a little bit yellow at first but the other one started with clean water that's generally how you would want to do it but here I could just paint with water and if I screw up if my brush goes out of the lines or something all you have to do is wait for it to dry or heat set it before putting any pigment there it'll disappear and then you can just repaint put more paint more water down and then add the pigment to it and not have to worry about it so when you're painting just with the water you have a lot of freedom to not move forward if you're not ready to. So I'm gonna add another color to it as well and as I'm adding this color it should not stick to the parts that are dry so the otters that I painted earlier should not change. There might be some of the dry pigment sitting across them that's just sitting on the paper that loose stuff but it should blow away and then you can be left with just the pigment sticking to the wet parts because that's that's what makes it stick on the paper is when it hits water. The fourth idea for adding color is traditional layering of color so I'm just adding some of the darker colors bark to the feet of the adults because the adults have dark feet and then putting some shadow areas into some of my my otters just to give them a little more darkness. When I was looking on the internet for pictures they were kind of a blackish brown so they were much darker than what I had going on here but when they're drier when they're sitting on land they can look more like a brown. So this next is going to be basically the same thing as I just did painting the water down first then putting down the pigment. This is the lighter of the two greens. I just painted a couple of swooshes so I'd have somewhere for the pigment to stick to but I'm spreading it out further than where the original brush strokes landed so I'm just gonna put a couple down just to hold some of that pigment in place because otherwise if you sneeze it'll all go away so it kind of helps to have some of that held in place and then painting almost a bell curve around each one of the otters because when they're swimming then they push the water away from them and they end up with kind of this you know this ripple thing that they have around them. Again I looked at pictures online to see what it looked like when otters were swimming across the surface of the water and so this is a really light color I made sure I softened that edge out to the left top corner so it would have a really soft color and that brings us to our final technique which is creating a palette of color and I'm gonna just scribble on a scratch piece of watercolor paper. I think you can do it on regular paper too but the watercolor paper scratches off more of the pencil pigment so you get a nice puddle of paper and then I can use that just to paint and if you're trying to match a color but you want to do some painting like this and you know you don't need to necessarily draw it in there but you want it to match that exact color then this is a great way to do that create yourself a little palette that you can pull color from and the amount of water that you put on that little puddle of color will determine how dark the pigment is that you're painting with so if you need more color then go to a thicker area of that little scrap piece of paper and pull color from it but if you want something really light just get a whole bunch of water on your brush and soften out one area of it and you'll see me do that in a minute and that will spread the pigment out so you'll have see down at the bottom here a much lighter color so I can start to get that gradation of color from the darker stuff at the center to lighter out towards the edges and it works the same as it would if you had a palette of watercolor but you're just dealing with the scribbling of the pigment on the paper itself and just working back and forth helps me to get kind of a flow across the whole thing of the water there's a video that I did recently of trying to do little critters making snow angels this is very very similar in terms of background technique of that so little bonus tip on using the t-strainer by the way clean it really well between colors especially if you're switching between brown and blue you want to use a baby white first to get the color out of that and then dry it really well if there's dampness in your grid of the little strainer it's not going to go through you're going to have all your pigment stay on the strainer and you want it to go through and hit the paper so little bonus tip so here's my cute little card I put a layer of brown cardstock and then popped both layers onto a teal card base and a little piece of this may arts twine around it which I just bought I love having just a generic craft-colored twine in my collection so links to all of the supplies are in the doobly-doo as always and I hope you will tag me if you use my techniques on your cards I will see you again very soon take care bye


Mark Bailey from FIG Securities joins us now live from Sydney. Mark, hello to you. Thank you so much for being with us. When it comes to that NFP jobs data, it does really seem to be all in the detail. Mark, it seems somewhat disappointing about the, somewhat disappointing about the one-tenth of a percent rise in earnings. Nonetheless, the figure still shot the lights out. Yeah. Good morning, Natalie. It was kind of a mixed bag in terms of the data from the non-forms parallel, as you kind of rightly summarized that the headline figure there was very strong at 227,000 jobs, created well above expectations there. Even though the unemployment rate did tick up slightly to 4.8%, that was largely driven by an increase in participation rates. So again, that was positive. But as you rightly point out, and this is one of the Fed's key measures that has given them a bit of comfort in terms of being able to dial back those future interest rate hikes. The actual wage growth was very, very disappointing, only at 0.1% month-on-month and 2.5% year-on-year. So that's the slowest since August last year. And I think again, it gives a Fed a bit of breathing space as to the next height. And you did see that in terms of what happened in the US Treasury. So after the non-form payrolls came out, there was a rally in the US Treasuries, for example, a 10-year yield did drop around about five basis points to 2.42%. And also, you saw the expectations change in terms of the percentage expected in a hike in March. That fell to 24% from 32%. So again, the market consensus was pushing that hike further out. Interestingly, later on in the day, the San Francisco regional president, John Williams, who's actually a non-voting member of the FOMC this year, and is actually known as kind of a quite a centralist centrist in terms of his views. Actually say, look, March is still live. Look, I still think it's reasonable to expect three hikes this year. And that kind of sent Treasuries back in reverse. And we actually closed unchanged on the day in the 10 years, for example, at 2.47%. So it reversed those earlier gains. Now, my read on the figures and what actually happened is look at the figures, look at the wage growth. That's what the Fed is going to be focused on. And John Williams' comments whilst interesting, he is a non-voting member. So I would be tempted to place less significance on those and more on the actual data. And I think we're looking probably out towards June for the next hike from the Fed. Certainly suggestions that there's little price pressures at present coming through to force the Federal Reserve to raise rates at that March meeting. Let's sort of shift our focus ever so slightly to Brexit. We're now seeing the Article 50 bill now progressing to the next stage. Certainly we are hearing more noise about banks moving headquarters offshore. I mean, realistically, however, what do you see sort of the next few months looking like? There's going to be a lot of uncertainty in the next few months with regard to Brexit. That's going to impact the Stirling bond market and the UK guilt market and also Stirling. And the next stage is that it's going to go to a committee and that's going to start later today in the UK. What that means is that the committee will go through the proposed bill line by line and propose amendments to that. Now, the Labor Party has already said that it's going to be around about 250 amendments to that proposed bill. And again, that process is on both sides of the parliament as well. So the Conservatives will go through that as well. And there's obviously quite a few pro-European Conservatives that are disgruntled that they're having to go through this process. And so they will be also adding amendments to that. So it's going to put a lot of pressure on Theresa May's self-imposed end of March deadline for triggering Article 50. There's also concern that the parliament may not be able to get a vote as to whether or not it is a bad deal. Remember, Theresa May in her famous speech said, look, no deal is better than a bad deal. And also there's concern about reciprocal arrangements between UK citizens or British citizens, I should say, in Europe and European citizens living in Britain as well. And they want to guarantee those rights there. But again, it's a very difficult cat and mouse situation that until she triggers Article 50, the European Union said, look, we're not going to negotiate anything until it's a formal process. So again, I think it's just uncertainty in the markets on a geopolitical scheme of things at the moment, both from Trump in the States, from Brexit and also later in the year. You've got some very significant European elections, obviously France in May and then Germany later on in the year. So I think politics is going to be a big driver of financial markets and sentiments in particular, whether we like it or not. And it's always important to keep a hand on, especially what Trump is talking about, what he's tweeting about and some of the policy implications of some of his more random comments and views and tweets that have impact in the market. And you've seen that in terms of the impact that we've seen on pharmaceutical companies, on health care, on defence companies as well. And that's going to continue as his thoughts become more publicly known through tweets and through his comments to the press as well. So whichever side of the Atlantic you're on, politics unfortunately are going to be driving or a key driver of the financial markets in 2017. And certainly interesting to note those comments that came through last week from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney saying that the 15 minutes of fame for the central bank was over and, in fact, seeming to welcome that attention is now moving back to government and policy side rather than that emphasis being placed on central bankers for economic prosperity. Mark, we are out of time. Thank you so much for your comments today. Thanks, Natalie. Have a good one. Just to take viewers across some breaking news coming through pertaining to Duet Group, the company establishing a $150 million debt facility.