Good evening and welcome back to Byline. This is a public affair show here at Amherst Media and it's co-sponsored by the Amherst League of Women Voters. And those of you who have been following the series know that this is our weekly visit to try to help you understand how our new town government is coming together and we bring people from the staff and people from the town council. But we also bring people from some of the committees that have been created by the council and some of the council committees are only members of the council. But today we have a special treat because we're going to do the first interview with a committee that was created by the council that is a majority of townspeople and only a couple of town counselors. And so this is a form of committee that is authorized by the charter. And as you know, the charter has a bunch of committees that are only committee members, town council members, but they also have the authority to create special committees. And today we're going to be speaking with the chair and the vice chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee. And the chair we're going to start with you is Laura... Drocker. See, we planned this. I've tried to figure out how to say this so I'd get it right and don't you know I got it wrong. Laura Drocker is the chair and Andrew Rose, which is also another interesting name. Andrew, where did Andrew come from? My mom had a student who had that name and we have no idea what the origin was. And so Andrew Rose is the vice chair of the committee. So let's start with you. And I like to start with a little bit of background so folks know where you came from. And so tell us a little bit about your background, how you got to town, and how you get on this committee. Sure. Thanks, Dan. So I moved to Amherst almost five years ago. It'll be five years on September 17th to take on the role as director of sustainability at Amherst College. I moved from the D.C. area where I was working for an NGO called the World Resources Institute. And I was working on greenhouse gas accounting standards and goal setting for corporations. Our team also did work with communities and other groups. Before that I was working at the EPA doing some energy system modeling. So I was really sort of excited to come to Amherst to take on a role in higher ed where I could work on both operational sustainability, but also work with students directly. I really see students as sort of a scaling impact of what we can do with them here. They can take out into the world. And we're seeing a lot of that right now with all of the youth action around climate change, which is really exciting. So you have a lot of background in energy and you're going to put that to work. Yes. Yeah. And so I'm happy to be able to sort of engage with the town in this way. Great. And Andrew, you have been involved in climate change and energy stuff for a while. I know you from a number of different places in that regard. And you have a pretty deep connection with not only the subject matter, but the effort to actually create this committee.  Sure. I've been in Amherst since 2002 and also moved from DC. And I've been involved in a lot of climate activism, helped start the mother's out front chapter here in Amherst. And we were instrumental in passing the 100% renewable resolution and the zero energy municipal building bylaw, which passed in 2017, 2018. And but I also work on energy efficiency promotion with energy save a nonprofit that does education and referrals and helps residents to reach their energy saving goals and move closer to our clean energy future that we want. And wasn't that started by Harold Grinspoon, the philanthropist from Hamden County? Yes. Yes, that's a Grinspoon funded project. Great. Well, and it's interesting that he took such a strong interest that he decided to help start this nonprofit and support it. Yeah, it is really great. So you folks are not in this alone. You've got let's see how many three other community members plus two counselors. So okay, so who who are the other community members who are part of this? So Jesse Selman, who's an architect in town whose work is is, you know, very close to our our mission, zero energy, highly efficient buildings. And Ashwin Ravi Kumar, who's a professor at Amherst College in environmental justice. Steve Roof, who's a professor at Hampshire College in the area of environmental studies and earth studies. Nikki Rob, who is a teacher and the farm program director at Hartzburg School. Dwayne Brueger, who's the director of the UMass clean energy extension. I remember working with him when he was in the state government. Yes, that's right. And then he came back to the university. Yeah, for 15 years, he was in the Department of Energy Resources working on clean energy. That's his thing. Good. Yeah. And and Oh, well, no, resident. Yeah. Yes. Two more residents or one. Okay, nine total. You'll remember. So and there are two town counselors. Yeah. We have Evan Ross and Darcy Duman. Yeah. So Darcy was the lead author of the enabling legislation for the committee to form. And Evan was the co author. Terrific. And you were part of those conversations as I remember as they were talking through what the mission and the charge and and all of that would be. Laura, why don't you tell us a little bit about the charge of the committee? Sure. The charge of the committee. I mean, really, what we're being asked to do is help develop and then help make sure we're implementing goals to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and to be resilient. And there's lots of really the charge is very comprehensive and it lays out some really important things that the committee needs to do, including but not limited to stakeholder engagement, focusing on particularly under usually typically underrepresented communities and communities that are most vulnerable to climate change either through not natural impacts or through cost increase and other things that will happen with energy costs and food costs and things of that nature. You know, I think we are have been tasked to work with other groups, both inside the government, town of Amherst government with other residents and businesses, as well as other towns and communities in the state government and, you know, help to enact some of the bylaws that that Anders mentioned, like the 100% renewable resolution. So, yeah, we are really, I think our committee is really great. We all have a focus on that larger goal. And I think we all have an ambitious interest in really seeing how Amherst can thrive as a low carbon to zero carbon community into the future. And we have really healthy debates on how we get there and how quickly we can get there. But it's really nice to be able to step back and say, OK, we're all sort of going towards this same same goal. So this is a brand new committee. How many meetings have you had? So we've been meeting since late May, twice a week. Of course, the summer was a little challenging with people being out. But we have been able to meet for about every meeting. And we have been meeting twice every two weeks.  And I think the committee in some ways, it's a bit of a unique committee because we don't I think only Nikki has been involved heavily in committees in the past. So we have a lot of people that are new to town committees. And we have a few people myself and Ashwin, in particular, that are relatively new to the new to town, to town. Yeah. And so the meetings and discussions so far have been trying to sort through what it is you all understand to be your responsibility. And then what steps, presumably, you're going to have to take in order to implement it. So one of the concerns in the charter is transparency and another is civic engagement. And so there's a big focus in town on making sure that efforts that are established by the town basically find ways to be as transparent as possible. So people know what you're working on and how the decisions are going to be made and then to also engage them in those processes so that they have a meaningful voice. Can you talk a little bit about what the committee is doing and how they see both of those aspects to ensure that the intent of the charter is being carried out through the work of the committee? Yeah, exactly. I can see, you know, specifically to stakeholder engagement and transparency with our community. I mean, I think that's a part of the charter. That's a part of the charge. And that's something that we all take to heart, particularly, I think, ensuring that we can reach these groups that otherwise aren't usually represented or don't typically come to some of the town forms and meetings that we have. One of the things we're doing that I think is a bit unique is we're hosting a table at the block party next week, where we're going to be trying to collect info from residents about their level of knowledge of climate change, introduce them to our committee, just get a sense of where they see barriers and opportunities to our transition away from a fossil fuel system. You know, what would they need to be able to cut their emissions from driving in half? What would they need to be able to cut their heating systems or transition them to a renewable source? So I think where the challenge lies a bit is that I think that intention is we also have to back that up with with funding to do to do some of this work. I think we actually, Stephanie Chickarella, who's the town coordinator, has done a really great job with the MVP program. So this is, I'm going to mess up on the acronym. Municipal vulnerability. Planning. Planning. Yeah. And so we've done the first phase. So this is about what, how is climate change affecting our community? So things like water, rivers, brooks, etc. that could overflow and create problems, flooding, insect-borne diseases, which we're seeing in the state. And so lots of things that are happening in nature as a result of climate change can impact our community. And so part of what you're trying to figure out is what are those vulnerabilities in our town? Exactly. And she was able to, through funding from that, host events that included childcare and food and translation and ways to reach a larger population. So we're thinking through that as well into the future. You know, how can we as a committee get other grants to support that sort of even deeper outreach into our community? And how I am a question I have is how the council will actually deal with that into the future, because I think that traditionally committees don't have funding to do outreach. But I think if we really are dedicated to that, then I think we need to think about how we make that happen. And so are there other things other than having a table at the block party, which, by the way, the date is? Yes, thank you. It's the 19th. The 19th of September. So we're not sure when the show will be broadcast, but if the show is broadcast before the 19th, you know there's a block party. If it's after, you know what you might have missed. And but they're going to be other opportunities. So what else might be happening in the nature of outreach? That the community should be watching for? Well, we're going to be doing outreach. We hope it never ends, really. But we're starting out with two two phases. And the first phase is just starting with the block party and with interviews that we're going to be doing with as diverse a group of people one on one or in small groups. And that something we'll be doing in the next month. And then we also have two forums scheduled and they are October 2nd at the Bang Center at 7 p.m. and October 5th at the Jones Library downstairs at 10 a.m. And the purpose of those forums is and the format will be? We don't know yet. But it will be very information gathering or the information giving. Definitely gathering. It will be very interactive. This is an opportunity to provide input to the committee. Yes, that's right. Exactly. And at the community block party, if folks can see this before then, that's more in the nature of making people aware of the committee. Yeah, some of your outreach will be making people aware and some of it will be capturing their ideas and their vision. We actually have a fun sort of pop quiz that's going to be electronic. Jesse Selman has set this up where people can answer, you know, five or six questions and then it'll be visualized. You know, how many people were in different, you know, answer the same way or different on a big screen on the table. So we'll actually be out there in the street with people testing your knowledge. It's not just, not just. Yeah, well, you're not going to get what you're interested in. Yeah, find out what you know. Yeah, great. And other things. So we've got some forums and some public exposure. And yeah, as Andra said, this is really just phase one. So what we're trying to find, we're trying to make ourselves known. We're trying to make it known that we want to be actively engaging in outreach and transparency with our community, as Andra said, throughout the process. You know, there's going to be, we kind of have a sense. You know, the science tells us what we need to know. So in some ways that our job is easy. We know what our large overarching goals have to be to be in line with science. What's going to be the challenge for us is figuring out what that, how does that translate into action in town? And how does that translate into what we can do as Amherst to lead? But also, how do we lead by engaging in collaboration and collective action with other towns with the state government? Like I think specifically about public transportation funding. Constantly a challenge. But that's going to be a huge part of any town in Massachusetts, particularly in Western Mass, to make progress on climate action goals. And climate does not stop at town boundaries. Exactly. These problems and these issues cross boundaries. It's their boundaries are irrelevant from the point of view of those kinds of problems. And the solutions will require a lot of collaboration. And that means cooperation and collaboration, not just from the government. So you're going to be trying to engage the citizenry. Yes. Businesses in town. Absolutely. We want to have developers and small business owners, realtors in on these discussions right from the beginning. That's clearly going to be an important part because Amherst town government has already reduced their emissions and their buildings a lot because we've been a green community for a long time. And those funds have in the past always gone to decreasing municipal energy use. And so now we not including the institutions. It's all the residences and businesses that we have to find solutions that are both just and financially feasible. And that's one of the reasons that the committee is interested in this other work that's been going on with community choice aggregation. It's sort of right now two parallel projects. For those who may not be familiar, give two sentences on choice aggregation. It's a state based program that allows us to combine our electric use and purchase the supply so we can choose our source locally. And the Amherst Northampton and Pellum have begun. I was a part of starting this. And there's a task force working on, can we do this together? And that will both influence and support the work that the committee is doing to come up with solutions. And in the nature of small world, I actually was the author of the provision in the utility deregulation bill that allowed communities to aggregate. Municipal aggregation. I'm so excited because I've been trying to, I had been when I was in office trying to encourage more communities to do it. And it was being done through our county government, which as you know has fallen on hard times and is in the process of going out of business. But that was one of the brilliant things that they did was they did some aggregation and it was going very well. But we needed more communities to engage at the community level. So thank you for doing that work. That's fantastic. So in the few minutes that we have left, let's focus on a couple of more ideas of the kinds of things just so that the people who are watching can understand the nature of what an individual community could do, either together or with their neighboring communities. You mentioned public transportation. There must be other areas that communities can do to make a difference so that they can reduce their carbon footprint. Well, one thing, we know that Amherst's actual emissions are dropping the bucket. What's important about this work is the potential to come up with innovative programs and solutions that can roll out to other municipalities can affect the state and as goes Massachusetts. So goes the nation. So we feel like it's our responsibility to can get out and be creative because we have these amazing resources in Amherst. So the community choice aggregation is an example that's already possibly feeding into the work. But we have research happening at UMass on storage, which is going to be a big piece in the future. So if you have your own power generation capacity, whether it be solar or windmill or anything that generates power, but you can't use it all, it's got to go somewhere. And right now, if you can connect up to the utility, you can feed your excess power into the utility grid. But storage is another option because you'll be able to keep it on site. Be able to keep it and use it later when you don't have enough coming in from your alternative energy source. Other examples? I mean, I think we're seeing the colleges and other community members and businesses look to heat pumps and ground source heating. I think heating is a real challenge. And so I think identifying and partnering with organizations that are providing the rebates and the opportunities for transition of heating systems. I think another area we flagged as being an area of challenge for us is landlords and renters and making sure that the renters are not being burdened, which many are, with high heating costs because landlords aren't motivated to necessarily keep buildings up to the best energy efficiency standards. So looking at ways that we could support that or help drive action there. So really thinking about, you know, there's globally what we need to do. And then there's things that are specific to Amherst, what makes Amherst unique, our student population, our location, our partner communities. And the energy and climate action committee. Our job is to recommend and to provide resources and ideas. And so, you know, I think that but also take ideas from the community. For instance, the high school students have already been promoting the idea of having solar canopies on the parking lot. You know, like we have at the UMass parking lots. And, you know, who doesn't like to have their car parked in the shade? We could integrate it with electric car chargers. And I think the idea of integrating systems. So that we have solar where it's being used when the sun is shining and can reduce our overall draw from the grid with clean energy instead of the, you know, pretty dirty energy that's on the grid right now.  Every parking lot in town, public colleges, churches, shopping set, every one of them having solar canopy and storage on site and using the power that's coming off those canopies to power the buildings next to the parking lots and storing the power for the times when the sun is not out to continue to power the buildings. So a lot of imagination. A lot of visions can come together through the work of the committee. Do you have some key milestones we should be watching for? Are there going to be like multiple reports on some schedule that you're working out? One big report by some date certain. I'm going to assume we're going to have some public policy debates at the town council at some point. So give us some thoughts about the milestones in the final minute and a half. Yeah, so I mean, I think, you know, we don't want to get to ahead of ourselves. Our first milestone is really, we are going to be going back to the council at some point in November or December to report on our first phase one of community outreach and to sort of kind of present our initial high level goals. And again, we're really thinking about these being based in science. So half 50% reduction by 2030, looking to carbon neutrality, but we have to be very flexible because you can just see in between the time the charge was created and our committee started was the Green New Deal. So we don't know what will happen. So I think that's an interesting challenge of our committee to stay on top of. But that's the biggest milestone to start. So these events, the block party and the forums on the second and the fifth of October, we will have those up to date on the town website and the Facebook and things like that. And then from there, yeah, we will need to set some specific goals and targets, which may come in the form of a report. They may be small policy briefs. We haven't gotten that far yet. Great. Well, and the good news is that the state is in the process, the state legislature and governor are working on legislation and they're looking at trying to put in excessive a billion dollars into play for helping communities set up their resiliency and adaptation implementation, not just the planning now, but now going to implementation. So the grant that Stephanie got that set the stage and created some baseline understanding of what's going on in town that we should be trying to impact. It will soon be money available from the state to help our community do that kind of work. And we'll be applying for that. I'm sure you will. And so we have a lot of people to thank for this. Darcy and Evan are two counselors who took the lead, the rest of the council that supported it. And you, Andra and you, Laura, who have taken the leadership of this nine member committee and all of the other committee members. Thank you for doing this work. And so those of you watching, keep keep your eye out for opportunities to participate in forums and hearings and discussions so that you can have your voice heard as this important work goes forward. And so thank you for being with us and thank you. And we'll see you again soon.


Okay, let's get started. Got the risk warning on the screen in front of us, and we're all done with that. So it was an interesting week last week. What a good finish to the week in terms of stock markets. Obviously, in the UK, pretty obvious reason. We had the general election result, which was a bit of a shock to markets. And the number of shares, even in the benchmark, up close to 10%. And obviously, the FTSE pushing back into, it's all-time eyes, and you can see that reflected in our UK 100 chart. So this is the rising wedge pattern that we've had going for a while. Now, there's been a few variations on it, depending on which lows you connect. But using just the connection of these two lows, you can see we've pushed through it, but spiked way back above it again on Thursday. So it created quite a large hammer pattern, and then that got a follow-through on Friday when we got the election result. So we're just shy of this 7-1-20-type all-time highs that we saw earlier, sorry, later in April. And so that's the major barrier in front of us. But looking at the strength of the action over the prior two days, you'd imagine in the course of this week, I would posit we could see at least a challenge of that high again. Because we have this as a kind of steady uptrend. You can see here we're making steadily higher highs and higher lows. So I think you can confidently call this an uptrend on the weekly chart. And so that's generally a cause for bias to the upside. And just talking about a hammer on the daily chart, I mean, look at the tails on these candlesticks here. From last week, that is a huge reversal. So one thing to talk about here is actually why was there such a bit of a shock going into Friday? Well, obviously on the UK front, an element of concern about the election. There's not really been that evident this year. I think one thing you could talk about perhaps is that the putsy has made new records this year. So hardly indicative of major fear in the market about the election. But you could maybe argue that the progress has not been as much as it could have been when you look at, for example, the German DAX or the Germany 30 as we trade it, that's in massive gains this year. The putsy's been a bit more stumbly. So maybe now the election's out of the way. Even though we're not direct beneficiaries of ECB QE, putsy could still tend to do a bit of a catch-up here, especially given that the Germany 30 has come off of it. So that's consideration. So that's the election. It was generally positive for markets. We've got a bit of a question coming up as to whether that positivity can follow through in the longer term. That's a UK-specific thing, but you'll see that there were some more global issues. This is a daily candlestick chart for the German fund. And you can see that not just last week, but really the sort of beginnings of the week before, you know, we've got a massive uptrend in bond markets basically pre-empting and following the announcement of ECB QE, in which the ECB obviously buy bonds, and everybody's front-running that in the market. And we've reached very close. So this is the bond price. We reached very close to 0% bond yield on the German bond. Almost went negative on the 10-year German bond, but it didn't quite get there, and we've seen a massive reversal since. And basically bond markets were collapsing last week. And that doesn't mean that equity markets have to collapse, but really, like we saw with oil prices, any time a market, which is a big major market, is collapsing, you know, that affects sentiment inequities, even if there's not a direct implication. And in this case there is. I mean, bond prices are going up because of QE, stocks are going up because of QE, very simply put. And so the fact that bonds dived like this wasn't just in bonds. Maybe come back to this chart in a second, but we can also see that it was in guilt. Less heavily so. This has maybe been a bit of a longer-term process happening, but we did break through that low, and this is something of a kind of failed higher high, and then basically a lower high, and then a lower low. So below the moving averages, below this rising trend line, in gilts, suggests that we could have higher interest rates to look forward to in the U.K., and similar thing in U.S. Treasuries, and trading them through the T-bond and the T-note ten year.  But if we look at the weekly chart, it's closed well back into the middle of the range, but still a few really bearish-looking candlesticks. There's obvious support here. You know, I had these lines drawn in, this 30-episode fibo, these lines down here, this peak from the week of the 12th of October. So there is support in this area. It's not surprising to see about how long it can hold is open to question, because this has been quite a long-running uptrend, and a major correction there. Maybe that's the end of it. Maybe we've just flushed out a few week-olders, and we can travel up to the highs again, that's possible. But I think people are going to be pretty hesitant, and the risk is that we fail to push below, you know, above this previous support-turned potential resistance here. And we maybe could track back down again towards the 153 area, as I sort of alluded to in the older chart forum here. Typically, you know, when you see a sharp tail like that, oftentimes the next candle will come and test the body of the candle, but not dip into the tail. But I think because this tail is so long, and because the sort of speed of the move declined, and declined before, it's possible that we could jump back again, go back lower before perhaps moving higher in some sort of bottoming pattern. Obviously below this low, and all bets are off, and that could be serious again. So a slight deviation into the bonds, which is not something I typically cover a lot in these webinars, but definitely been a big factor in what's moving markets. And I think it will be again this week, we're seeing that the price is drifting lower a bit here, and you know, could be setting up for another spike in yields, and that could worry equities. And I think it is part of the reason that we're seeing lower levels thereabouts in Europe, and sort of a fuzzy looking open for US markets. Looking ahead, data-wise we had quite a big one over the weekend, obviously China cut interest rates, and that's why we can see the China A50 is one of the sort of few risers. Obviously the UK 100 is to some extent tracking alongside that, just because the mining companies in the UK tend to follow the activity in China. And that's helping the FTSE outperform. But otherwise, the other global markets not reacting too strongly to the rate cut. And I think, again, it's because of some of this softness in, well firstly in bond markets, and then all prices perhaps have put in a little intermediate term top. We could maybe jump into that. Well, since I've covered the UK, let's just have a look at Germany since we did mention that before. So trend line is proving quite instrumental at the moment across a few different markets. This is a trend line connecting four different lows, and the Germany 30s are definitely something widely watched. And that just in combination with the lows here in the early part of March, good sort of combination of support, and it's worked quite well. And we've basically bounced back into this cluster of moving averages and this broken rising trend line here. So cluster a bit of resistance in this area could mean another test of the lows in the Germany 30. Basically, the trend is just not as strong as it was. And so we've had a decent correction. Is that an opportunity or is it a sign that this really strong trend needs a really strong correction? 38.2% is not necessarily a massive correction. It could dip to 50 or even 61.8%, which brings us closer to this longer-term 55-week moving average. That would be surprising given that the ECB are still fully engaged in quantitative easing. So that does still provide a bit of a general bias to the upside in equities. But you've got to be aware that this correction is looking a bit dicey at the moment. I'll move back through that declining trend line, I think. And through this resistance, it would obviously show some strength in the market. And I think that would be what's needed to get back up to the highs and then possibly new records again. While we're below this area, I still think there's a bit of a bias to the downside. We look at US markets in very sideways, but it was a bit of a turnaround late last week. And we mentioned the UK aspect of it with the elections. Last week, we had the non-farm payrolls, and the number was largely a non-event. It basically was almost exactly in line with expectations, just 1,000 below expectations, which is the closest I've seen to consensus for a while. So not a particularly interesting result, but there was a drop in average earnings growth. Some of the fundamentals are a bit weak within the report, but still the headline growth was over 200,000 jobs created. So it was quite a good Goldilocks report that's still showing some of the US economy's improving, growing, producing jobs at a pace that the market's comfortable with, but not such a strong pace that it means an imminent hike in interest rates. I think it probably all but ruled out June as a possibility for hiking interest rates. September possibly still on the cards, but I would suggest it's probably going to be later. Markets, if you look at Fed funds futures, are basically pricing in a rate hike in December. So that probably seems like the most more likely scenario at this point. Technically though, we're at the top of this range. If we're attempting looking at this price action to believe that we're about to see a breakout, and we have seen a breakout at this cluster of highs, which to me is a positive sign, but still we have not quite seen that breakout yet. And so if you are along the market here, you're going in before the breakout really, and so you're getting a better price. If prices do eventually break out to the top side, but you're risking the fact that the market just rolls around back into this range trading that we've seen. So it's found a minor bit of resistance up at this March 24 peak. My feeling is that perhaps we could get back up to the all-time record, perhaps push a little new record, and then reverse back into the range again. It's kind of the way it looks like it could happen. And then maybe from there we could push on to higher highs and higher lows again. Still a general upward bias in US stocks, I think, but it's been pretty choppy during the earnings season. But we're getting to the end of the earnings season. This week and next week is a lot of retail stocks. That'll be important for the general sense of how the US economy is doing. But I think probably earnings season's not been quite as bad as some had hoped. And my sense, given the direction of the trend and given some of the key earnings releases, that probably we can move higher past it. But we do need to break these highs first, obviously, to confirm that it's actually taking place. Now, let's go up to currencies because there are a few important economic events happening this week which tend to affect currencies a bit more than the stock markets that have the other kind of factors that we've been discussing already. It's quite a big week for the British pound. Industrial production on Tuesday. And we obviously already just had the Bank of England today unsurprisingly kept rates of current levels, didn't interfere with the amount of assets purchased under QE. So no big surprise there. That really hasn't affected the pound too much. But what will is the Bank of England inflation report on Wednesday because then we'll hear a bit more about the thinking of the Bank of England, particularly post the election. Because there's a lot of speculation, particularly at the end of last year, about whether the rate hike would take place, maybe a bit before the election, a bit after. And there's rumors that there was actually a secret agreement between George Osborne and Mark Carney to keep rate hikes post the election. So believe it or not, that is what's happening at the moment. But we obviously do have the factor of all prices having pushed inflation really low. And general consensus at the moment is no rate hikes this year. But we have seen a bit of a bounce in all prices recently. So maybe those two dissenters could come back and vote for a rate hike again. We won't know that for a couple of weeks until we get those Bank of England minutes, which will be more important. But before that, like I said, we've got this Bank of England report on Wednesday. Wednesday's quite a big one in general because we have Chinese industrial production and retail sales. There were all two bellwether reports in terms of how well the Chinese economies performing. We've got that terrible trade data last week, pretty poor inflation data. That's why they cut interest rates. And so this data is generally expected to improve a little bit over the previous month. This is April's data, so it's expected to be a bit better than March. But be fully prepared for a downsized shock because that would be more in line with what we've been seeing recently out of China. We've got GDP release from Germany, as well as another few European nations. And then we have the unemployment rate and the average earnings data for the UK. So a few things happening on Wednesday, and that's followed up in the U.S. session by retail sales. So Wednesday's quite a big one. Otherwise, it's a little bit slower than the rest of the week, nothing that I would particularly point to on Thursday. A lot of the Europe's in holiday for the Ascension Day. And producer prices, I mean, it's a secondary report, really, for the U.S. on Thursday. And then U.S. industrial production on Friday. So given that's the case, given all those discussions, let's have a look at the sterling. And we are at quite a tipping point in sterling in my mind. So it's the one-minute chart, so it's just following up to the Bank of England. Not too much happened. So this is the daily chart. Actually, I think better, actually, in Morning Structure. I think we've already looked at this, but Morning Structure's looked at this weekly chart. This is a huge reversal candlestick at this declining trend line, pushed above, reverse-backed lower. The fact that we've undone that reversal candlestick just the next week is, to me, a pretty strong sign of strength in the market. Not to mention the fact that we have now closed above that declining trend line, which did pretty much capture three, you know, a couple of minor peaks in it over the week there. We're above this, you know, you can see it better on the daily chart that we pushed through, held these moving averages, and now we've pushed them broken up to the upside. Now, potential for a double top here, but my suspicion is that maybe we get a bit of a dip or not even, because the market's looking pretty, the pound's looking quite strong against the dollar right now. We could be in for a bit of a sea change, but some of this data that we see this week alongside the Bank of England is going to determine whether this gets a follow-through and breaks out to a longer-term upside trend, or, you know, if it's a false breakout and we reverse-backed lower, and with a little double top here. Also interesting to watch the Euro pound, because that's sort of starting to imply some relative strength for the Euro, but that all kind of got undone on Friday when we had that huge move higher in the pound after the election.  But again, we'll have to see. You can sort of do a sort of sketchy trend line through the two lows there. That could be a bit of an occasional weakness. But the fact that we just... There's basically a false break and a sort of dark cloud-covered type pattern here. Not quite engulfing that whole week, because that was obviously a strong week, but pushing through these lows would probably drop in further in Euro pounds. That big boost to the Euro, not really taking place against the pound, still potentially whirling against the Euro, against the dollar, sorry. Yeah, a bit of a complicated looking chart on first glance, but not really. We've broken this declining trend line. We've broke above this, this high here, which is something of a neckline for a double bottom pattern. So after having closed above it, we ran into this 21-week moving average and a very indecisive doji-type candlestick last week doesn't really imply the market's about to fly to the upside, and we are just banging into this supply zone here where the price has broke down back in February. So to my mind, we're most likely moving back down to retest this low again, just beneath 110, sorry, 111. This kind of critical area that we were able to break through. Down to there, we could get a move back higher again, but this sort of double top-type pattern in the RSI means that we could maybe dip down to this sort of demand area which is not altogether conclusive, but built off of just where we broke through this weekly candlestick here. So that form is about 106, I believe. 109 today, 106, yeah, that would be a bit more drastic. Dolly Yen, to my mind, is barely worth pulling up the chart at the moment. It's just a total range of our market. Similarly, on that same theme, I guess one chart that I had actually mentioned previously, and this is just not bearing out too well, is there was a potential double bottom here in the New Zealand dollar. That's just had a couple of false breaks, and the risk of a rate cut in New Zealand is really pushing this lower. If there isn't a rate cut, that'd be quite a surprise, and that could be the catalyst for getting us back above the break line, and maybe this pattern eventually working out, it's not looking too good right now. Basically a false break, it is declining trend line. Maybe some opportunities down here for a triple bottom, but yeah, this double bottom looking pretty poor at the moment. But what I was going to say is that before we move into, well as we move into commodities, gold is just total chop zone right now. For those who trade just gold, on the shorter term, there's a lot of movement happening, so there are opportunities. For those who have a slightly longer time frame, typically a sort of four hour daily time frame that I cover a lot on these webinars, a time frame perhaps more suited to someone who's not trading all day, then there's really this very difficult market to trade at the moment gold. There was potentially a inverse head and shoulders here. She wasn't able to get through the neckline, and then this trend line here has kind of been acting as the support right around that sort of 1-1-80, which is our long-term level of support, which is basically through these lows back here, and it kind of corresponds with where we kind of broke from the lows a couple of times through that area. It's 1-1-80 to some extent. It's still containing gold, but it's below these moving averages for the most part, and it's still kind of within this declining trend line, within this sort of triangle type pattern, but really until we get out of this, conclusively out of this trading zone between 1-1-80 and 1-2-20, just as you can, with the benefit of hindsight, if you're selling a 1-1-20 buying a 1-1-80, you know, there's been a few opportunities with a bit of a draw down here, but not much trending action here. And same with Dolly, and I just, you know, unless you're forced to trade it, why would you trade it? Let's just find some currencies with some distinctive directional movement. Silver, maybe a slightly clearer picture. We have this similar sort of triangle type pattern you can see on the weekly chart with a base of these kind of lows. Clear from the fact that it's difficult to trade at the moment, but it's contained within this triangle pattern. So, again, a sort of range trading technique of buying oversold, selling overbought, according to the pattern, is working to some extent. But, you know, once we get more of a conclusive breakdown from either this support, which is about 1550, or this declining trend line, you know, that would be the key trigger to some bigger movements in these markets, in these metals markets. But at the moment, I think just the uncertainty of the US dollar, and when exactly the Fed are going to hike rates, is causing the dollar to correct, but these metal markets, people are still hesitant to really buy into them, because they still think a rate hike is coming sometime. It's just causing them to go sideways. A more interesting market for now. Well, I quickly mentioned copper. It's not the most heavily traded, I know, but it's still one of the most traded instruments. And had quite a major breakthrough, which I probably mentioned last week, and we're still waiting for some follow-through on that. We're basically stalled at this 55-week SMA, and so possibility of a correction down to this quite strong former resistance, possibly turning future support, and then maybe a move higher. Because, again, it's a good example of where there was quite a strong pattern of this weekly reversal, which we've now, within the space of a few weeks, with a couple of long tails, and holding this rising trend line have closed just about back above. So potential for a stronger reversal in copper here. Hard to really see why it's happening because of the slowdown in China. You can argue that these rate cuts are going to eventually feed through to strengthening in the Chinese economy. Maybe the Chinese government are bending a bit on their determination to slow down the property market over there. If the property bubble just sort of pick up again, that's where copper gets a load of its demand. So potentially that, the Crudo is one of the biggest moving interesting markets at the moment, and we did get that breakout higher basically in anticipation of the drawdown in inventories. So we had the first, last week, we had the first weekly drawdown in U.S. inventories, U.S. oil stockpiles, and so it means they actually used more than they produced for the first time in four months last week. But the market had been pricing in in advance, and basically on the day we got a reversal, and we've been sort of following through to the downside since, and produced on a daily chart this evening start, evening doji start, potentially pattern, at the top of the trend, and we've had a break on this RSA trend line. So trend is still just about up. I would call this a quite a significant low for determining where the highs and lows are. Through there I think, which we're only just above at the moment, which comes in about 63.30. That I think could be the trigger for a slight change in trending or perhaps down to the downside. And if we do get down to the test, the bottom of the trend line, this channel, it's not the strongest channel ever, but the bottom trend line is strong. There's no real confirmation at the top, but the fact that we haven't been able to get up there and stall down to the beginning of this supply zone, created by this low over here, to me it's a bit of a sign of weakness, and people could start be looking at oil again in terms of just the general oversupply and lower demand from the likes of China. So that's it. I think I've covered most of the major bases here. Haven't seen any questions coming through, so I think we'll call it a day at that. Thank you very much for attending. Good luck trading this week. It's Jasper all signing out. Cheers.


So, it's no secret in 2019 that a lot of the bad actors are targeting IT companies and managed service providers. The reason why is really simple. It scales better. The tools we have are very powerful. If they are able to compromise those tools, that gives them a very fast way to deploy tools. And, of course, the ultimate gain of ransomware and the fact that they're making money with this has been embolden them to do more and more. And I'll leave a link to this here. This is a little bit more in-depth discussion about the attacks over at Datto. And this particular gentleman here was breached. These are some people that go through what they see through the threat landscape. And they talk a lot about the details, how the breach happened.  He did stay in business, but cost him a ton out of pocket even though he had insurance. And I don't want to see this happen to anyone. This is not a ha-ha moment at all. This is a reminder it really can happen if you're not paying attention to security. Even myself. I have third-party auditing that I do, so I want to make sure we're doing things right. It doesn't mean no mistake was ever made, but you're always trying to make best effort, minimize what they refer to as your threat surface. But I wanted to dig into that part of it because I've heard people who say, no, your threat surface is exposed because you have a link to your remote support portal, your link to your connect-wise portal, et cetera, et cetera, link to your website. You should only give that directly to your clients. And I think people are mistaken about how these bad actors are finding and picking their targets. I don't think it's Googling what is a good MSP in the area and start their target to their research. The most likely scenario that's the most plausible scenario is they're using tools that are just scanning the internet. One of those tools that's really popular and works really well, and by the way, completely affordable for you to use as well, is Shodan. I'm a user. I have an account. I use Shodan to keep an eye on my network and clients networks to see if something's exposed. Obviously, I do my best to not expose anything that doesn't need to be exposed, but mistakes can be made. And this is why you have tools that can check you. It's not just about securing things. You're not secured until it's been audited and checked. But this is what's scary about Shodan is if you go here and we type in something like Screen Connect, which we know was a tool popularly used for companies that had lost control of their Screen Connect installations, we find 8,000 almost, 7,905, where just the header of Screen Connect comes up in this list. Now it didn't take long for me to dig a little further and my goal is not to dox or call out a company. So I took the time to put together a slideshow. And what the slideshow will show you real quick here, so we're going to go ahead and hit present. And I blurred all this out. And all I had to do is go click on a couple of these. And Shodan was nice enough to find both things with Screen Connect open and their whole connect-wise via RDP. It even took the time to list out all the vulnerabilities because they're running an old version of Apache on this. So what did we find? Like I said, I'm not trying to dox the company, but this is a company right here in the US, an MSP. And by the way, through their SSL cert, I was able to find their website and their website says they do cybersecurity and do all these things are super secure, blah, blah, blah, fancy website on numerous employees, even, and this is where it gets really bad. This is their exposed RDP server. We have the connect-wise admin administrator and both of these names I blurred out and I blurred them out up here as well, are the principles of the company, the people who run it. Go a step further. It took no time because the one person has a unique name. And of course he has a LinkedIn profile. Also, go a step further, took no time at all to find cell phone numbers, property records, a little bit of open source intelligence. So within five minutes of me typing screen connect a few clicks later, I had everything I need if I were a bad actor to target that person. Bad actors go after the low hanging fruit. If you're someone who doesn't have RDP exposed, you have a VPN, you've locked everything out, they're less likely to go after you because it's a bigger challenge. It is a more difficult. When you have someone who just leaves their connect-wise admin exposed, then they're an easy target. They have halfway there. They know the username. Only thing you know is the password. And with knowing the person's name, knowing their email address, knowing their cell phone number, all this was a publicly available information, it takes no time at all for them to go through this. And we're seeing that and this is something we learned. Watching these different breaches, going through this when we went through a data. They're not just guessing and spraying out passwords and hoping to get one. They know the password. They know it because they took their time to research and target and pick their victim. And I don't think they picked their victim by looking up their website. They started on the reverse. They go into somewhere like Shodan or many of the other tools that are out there like this or just scan it themselves and look for companies with a combination of connect-wise control or other things out there that are running flawed old servers that leave RDP exposed. And they just grabbed the low hanging fruit. And there are so many MSPs that were breached already this year. I have friends that work in the breach management and incident response community. And they are just seeing this happening and ramping up. And the reason why they say it is always the same. It's not that exciting. They're not using, and this is mentioned in the data, really advanced attacks. It's low hanging fruit. It was no two factor turned on. Sometimes RDP exposed to get in there. One of them in particular, they said, was a combination of RDP. And they had federated everything through the access of RDP and Microsoft Windows Server for a whole single sign on. So once they cracked the single sign on, it got them into everything else and no more 2FA on all of it. So a lot of it's really obvious things. And there's a ton of these companies out there. I just grabbed one that I seen had RDP open. It took me no time to find out. There's a lot more of them out there. I don't know what to do about these companies. Like the market's kind of figuring it out. And the bad actors are picking them up. But unfortunately, the bad actors are becoming more sophisticated due to the fact they're well, well funded. They are much more well funded as all these companies pay out due to having insurance due to the volume of attacks and these businesses have to get back up and running. It's tragic. It's bad. I'm hoping to put this out there. So some MSPs look at it and go, I wonder if I'm on that list.  They know more than everybody else and they're super good, blah, blah, blah. The reality is take the time, audit your stuff, figure out what you need to have access and know more. Think about the principles of lease privilege. You don't need anything exposed. If you can get away with not exposing it, put it behind a VPN, lock it down as much as possible, make sure all the patches are up to date and make sure two factors on. So just some simple things you can do. So hopefully you don't end up a statistic and take a look. If you find yourself on here, panic a lot, not a little panic a lot and start doing something about it. I'm hoping, you know, we start to see this go away. But right now it's the opposite. We're seeing it ramp up more. And we just have to stay secure. And I've said this before, security is a team sport. We're all in this together.  I'm trying to encourage the market to get better and encourage these companies to take some time, spend a few minutes on show Dan and literally it's 59 bucks a month to have a million requests and 5,000 IP monitored. I mean, come on, it's not like this, this shouldn't be a cost should not be a barrier for this bare minimum of just keeping yourself off these lists and double checking everything with show Dan. All right, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. 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Great, good afternoon, everyone. Simgaget Sigmanak, Gwyt Wilsuk. My name's Melanie Mark. My Nisqa name's Lahakwiskak. I'm very proud to be BC's Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport, the MLA for Vancouver Mount Pleasant, and the first and only First Nations woman to ever get elected in BC's history. I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge that we're meeting and joining today on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Slewa-Tooth nations. I'm here today with my colleague, Minister Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. As well, we are also joined by Leslie Varley, Executive Director of the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centers. With us virtually is Barb Ward Burkitt, Chair of the Ministries Advisory Council on Indigenous Women. And together, we are working towards two important goals. One, keeping Indigenous women, girls, and 2S LGBTQIA plus people safe from violence. And two, advancing reconciliation and gender equality. For more details, it is my pleasure to introduce Minister Mike Farnworth. Thank you, Minister Mark, and thank you everyone for being here today. And I'd also like to acknowledge by, and begin by acknowledging that we're speaking with you from the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Slewa-Tooth, and Squamish peoples. To begin, as many of you will know, a fire broke out today in Vancouver's Gastown neighborhood. Vancouver fire has been on the scene since the fire began and have completed several rescues from the upper floors of the building. We estimate that 70 people are affected and Vancouver Emergency Support Services is establishing a reception center for residents needing assistance. BC Housing is also in communication with the city of Vancouver to assist where needed. And our thoughts are with those affected. Our families and the firefighters on scene. Today I'm here to speak about the Path Forward Community Fund. Protecting communities and ensuring people feel safe is a crucial part of our government's work. Yet as we mark the prevention of violence against women weak, we know that too many indigenous women and girls and two spirit people continue to face disproportionate levels of violence. That's why I'm very pleased to announce $5.34 million in new grants. To increase safety planning capacity that is self-determined by indigenous survivors, family members and communities. In keeping with the idea of nothing about us without us. We are looking to the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centers to develop and administer the new Path Forward Community Fund. With 25 Friendship Centers across British Columbia and a 50-year track record of supporting indigenous communities, the BCAAFC brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this grant program. The fund will be accessible to support First Nation communities, urban and off reserve communities, Métis citizens, Inuit and two spirit communities. Indigenous safety advocates know best their communities safety priorities. And now they will have more resources to support them. The Community Fund is a key response to the final report of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. And a milestone in our shared journey towards meaningful reconciliation and gender equality. The Community Fund is the initial step our government made in the Path Forward. BC's plan to end violence against indigenous women, girls and two spirit people. The Path Forward is also reflected in action 3.8 of BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act action plan. We are dedicated to creating a province where indigenous women, girls and two spirit people have the required supports to prevent violence and heal from its devastating impacts. The Community Fund aligns with the work my ministry and the parliamentary secretary for gender equity are undertaking to develop an action plan to stop gender violence, including budget 2022's $22 million to support sexual assault centers over the next three years. Government funding and support is vital to addressing violence. However, it is only through the meaningful participation of indigenous communities and organizations that we can make the journey towards lasting reconciliation. Thank you. Thank you, minister. Now I'd like to welcome the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centers, Leslie Varley, to tell us more about how the Community Fund is going to support communities. Thank you. Thank you, ministers. BCAFC is very pleased to be selected to administer the Path Forward Community Funds.  Where there are industrial work camps, we see high rates of violence against indigenous women and girls. We see gangs targeting our young girls. We've lost many women and girls who should have been protected by Canadian society. We receive substandard service from the police and from the judicial system. We've long endured colonial mentality of Canadians whose unspoken belief is that we're not worth fighting for and not worth saving. After a federal inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and the provincial inquiry, this is a key opportunity for us as an indigenous woman led organization to be administering anti-violence funds to indigenous communities and organizations. Until now, we've had to go through mainstream organizations to protect and support our women and girls. And that clearly hasn't worked for us. BCAFC is collaborating with battered women support services to develop frontline training for indigenous women and girls to work in this field. This is a first step in developing our own province-wide capacity as indigenous women for indigenous women. BCAFC is collaborating with Aboriginal Housing Management Association, with BC Society for Transition Houses, and with battered women support services to develop a network of indigenous support from town to town throughout BC, including information counseling, discrete protections, and including safe houses, transition houses, and second stage housing, as well as prevention and intervention services and counseling services. Indigenous women who are interested in developing their culturally safe support skills should give us a call. I deeply thank the province for supporting indigenous women to serve and support indigenous women. This is an important first step towards reconciliation. Thank you. Thank you so much, Leslie. I'd now like to introduce Barb Ward Burkitt, a longtime advocate for urban Aboriginal families.  If all goes well with technology, nice to see you. Mr. Mark, Tensei Doutinak, Nia Wahia-Kwapdasko-Segaskoyan. Hello, everyone. I'm joining you today virtually from the unceded ancestral territory of the Claytley Tenei. As the collective work leading to this new funding announcement of 5.34 million was unfolding, four core scenes were identified as a path forward toward ending violence against women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA plus peoples. This initial work was led by Elaine Alec of Alder Hill Planning and Corporation in her planning sessions that were held in 2019 and 2021 and where there was identified need for safe spaces and safety plans for healing supports, for strengthening relationships with our partners and for access to resources. At that time, a number of challenges were identified through this process, such as funding and resources that were identified as the greatest barrier working in silos and cultural education burnout and engagement of ministers. It pleases me and I'm so happy today that these challenges are starting to be addressed by the BC Minister of Public Safety and through ongoing dialogue with our federal counterparts. Today, an urban indigenous organization, the BC Association of Friendship Centers has been selected to support indigenous community groups and organizations both on and off reserve to bring indigenous women and girls together in a safe environment to give voice to issues of gender-based violence and abuse within their lives, their families and communities, as well as to heal and learn from life experiences that build resilience and strength through a lens of reconciliation and trauma-informed practices. Today, the voices of indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA plus peoples will be heard in the province of BC as we align our priorities leading to safety, support, healing and decolonizing programs and practices. Thank you so much for the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centers for stepping up to the plate, as you always do, and for being in line to support this funding stream and also to the province of British Columbia. Thank you. Thank you. Fantastic, thank you so much. That ends our formal remarks, but I guess I would add as someone who's been a long-time advocate myself for missing women, indigenous women in the community as an indigenous woman myself. I just want to acknowledge the hard work Barb is doing up in Prince George, which a lot of that advocacy with a highway of tears has been central to your work and Leslie to really acknowledge the place of urban indigenous people in our province and being a safe haven for indigenous people across this province. I want to acknowledge Elaine Alec for her work. She really facilitated the voices of community and heard loud and clear what government needed to do to move forward, to create that path forward. And it's a lot to endure considering all the traumas that indigenous women have and continue to face. So I want to acknowledge Elaine, who can't be with us today, and to thank her for her leadership, to giving government, Minister Farnworth myself and the rest of our cabinet a roadmap to move forward, to mitigate and end the violence against indigenous women. And I know this fund was a call to action, so I especially want to thank the survivors, the family members, those that said to government, we need to see more action. And as Minister Farnworth said, nothing about us without us. So with that, thank you to everyone who made today possible, including the public service for facilitating this work. Hawa. And I will be passing it over to Minister Farnworth. Questions. Thank you, and now we're going to questions. Please press star one at any time and you will be placed in the queue. As a reminder, please unmute your phone as you will not be audible until your name is called. Our first question is from Binder Sajan, CTV. Given the number of issues that you've outlined so far. It's okay, it's binged, she asked for Leslie. Sorry, the first part was cut off. Can you repeat the question please? Yeah, hi Leslie. So I guess what I'm looking for is like, how will you know that moving forward with this funding is a success and results in less indigenous women and girls being impacted by violence? Ah, thanks for the question. Even the part where we get to administer funding to our own families and communities and projects to address violence and to do it in our way in acknowledging our experiences and our culture and working collaboratively is a success in and of itself. This is a societal problem. It's not a problem that indigenous women have created. So Canadian society is gonna have to work with us to address the violence against women and girls. Binder, do you have a follow-up? I do, and this one is for me on another topic. Just wanted to ask you about the fire again. Do you have an estimate of how many people may be impacted at this time? Can you talk a little bit more about the support available? I don't have a significant amount of information at this point. What I can tell you is obviously that Vancouver Fire Department is on the scene. The BC housing has been notified. There it is anticipated at this point that about 70 people have been impacted by the fire, but that's the latest information that I have. Our next question is from Amy Smart, Canadian Press. Amy, go ahead, please. Okay, could you repeat that question? It came in very, very quietly. I caught a bit about Amber Alert, but not much else. It's a system for missing Indigenous people similar to an Amber Alert. I'm wondering if BC is considering the same, and I'm also curious to hear whether some of the women leaders on this call would support that or would have any concerns about it. Certainly in terms of the Amber Alert that's used right now in British Columbia, it is our plan to have the broadcast intrusive alerting system as it's referred to in place for the fresh yet season and the wildfire season this year. The issue about an alert for missing Aboriginal and Indigenous women is something that certainly I would be willing to take a look at, and obviously would do that in consultation with First Nations. Do have a follow-up. Actually do have a follow-up relating to the fresh yet. I'm wondering, given that many of the communities, including First Nations communities, are still in recovery mode, I've spoken to some people who say they haven't even exiled enough to prepare for the spring saw. How ready are we for the possibility for another disaster? Well, I can tell you that prior to this press conference, I was just in a provincial, territorial, Indigenous Nations committee meeting that the province and the federal government set up to deal with these very issues in terms of recovery and flood mitigation and preparedness and disasters in general. I can also tell you that my ministry and other cross ministries have been preparing for the fresh yet. Right now we are waiting on the latest update from the weather centre in terms of the conditions around the snowpack. One of the things obviously that will have an impact is the rate of thaw that takes place while in many parts of the province, the snowpack is either at or slightly above normal. There are other parts of the province where snowpack is below normal. So, for example, in New Okanagan it is about 86%. It's about 109% in the coastal range and then up in the Peace River Leaird, it was at about 143%. But one of the critical factors of course is what temperature does and that's being monitored very closely. And I will receive updates on that on a regular basis. At the same time, the repairs that we're ongoing for or after the flood obviously continue. And so we are attempting to be as prepared as possible with local communities for the fresh yet system this spring. That's all the questions that we have and that concludes today's event. Thank you very much everyone.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can handle multiple exceptions in Java. Before starting, you can subscribe my YouTube channel by clicking on the link which is available at bottom right corner of this video. You can download my app Techimage that is available on Google Play. You can connect with me by following these details which are available in front of you. Now, coming on to the topic. In this example, I am going to demonstrate you how you can handle two exceptions using try and catch in Java. So, name of classes test which is containing main method. Inside main method, I have initialized an array with five values, one, two, three, four, five. Then I have declared some variables I and D and R and D are initialized with 150 respectively. Then I have implemented a try block. This is try block which is containing a message array contains so it will be displayed first. Then I have implemented a loop which is starting from zero and it is ending till I less than five. It will display elements of array on control. Then R equals to N by D. So here I am dividing N by D and the result will be stored inside R. That R value of R is displayed with the help of this system.out.print talent. So here in this try, I am performing two operations. First is printing of array and second is division of two elements and printing of the result. Just after the try block, I have implemented two catch blocks. First one is for arithmetic exception and second one is for array index out of bound exception. After implementation of these catch blocks, I have written system.out.print talent which will display end of program message on screen. It is not part of try and catch. So if any exception is available, then also this end of program will be displayed and if no exception is available, then also it will display. So now I am executing this code first. You can see that array contains one, two, three, four, five is printed properly and division result two is displayed here. It means right now no exception is generating and proper results are displayed here and at last end of program is displayed. Now first I am generating exception for array. So this condition is now i less than 15. So actual size of array is five. It means we can repeat loop five times but I am repeating it 15 times. Let's see what happens now. I am executing this code. You can see that array contains one, two, three, four, five is printed when it is trying to access sixth index that is not available because it is out of bound of that array. So array index out of bound message is printed and then end of program is displayed. So friends, exception is occurred in this loop. So after this loop, line number 14 and 15 are available which has not executed this time because exception has generated and control is transferred on this catch lock. Array index out of bounds exception. That's why array index out of bound is displayed and after completion of this catch lock remaining codes has been executed properly. Now, if I remove 15 and I write five here, it means no exception will be generated through this loop. This time I am assigning zero into D. I am executing this code. Let's see what happened. Array contains one, two, three, four, five is printed properly. This time division by zero exception is raised and catch block is worked as per this requirement and again end of program is displayed. So this time second exception has worked, which is arithmetic exception division by zero. So friends, I hope you have understood the working of multiple catch blocks for a single try block in this single try block. There are two exceptions. One is arithmetic exception division by zero and another one is array index out of bounds exception. So if you want to implement multiple catch blocks for a single try block, then it is possible because any try block can contain more than one errors. If you want to handle those errors, you can implement multiple catch blocks and the benefit of implementing try and catch is that if any error is available in the code, then that piece of code will be terminated and remaining code will be executed properly. So in this example, end of program, a message has been printed whether exception is available or not. If you type more instructions after this statement system.out.println end of program, then those statements will also be executed properly, whether exception is available or not. So do implement this example so that you can understand the concept of multiple exception handling using multiple catch blocks in Java. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can subscribe my YouTube channel. Thank you for watching this video.


That's a great question. So health affects animal welfare, but animal welfare is more than just health. So as an example, without good health, an animal can't have good welfare, but animal welfare goes beyond that. It also includes the conditions in which they're kept, if they're feeling pain, the social interactions that they have, and the opportunities or the choices that they have available to them as well. So animal welfare encompasses both animal health and animal care. Both are needed for animals to thrive. Having good welfare can lead to good productivity, and that then benefits the owners through better yields and less losses. We think about it in terms of one health. Good welfare reduces the risk that animals get ill, and then if they do get ill, good veterinary care gives them their best chance of recovery. Both benefit the owner and the animal. Focusing on animal welfare improves how an animal grows and produces. This in turn improves the livelihoods and the income for their owners. It increases the amount of available source food for their owners and their community. And there's also connections with the satisfaction of the people that care for those animals as well, when they have the opportunity to provide them with better care and better welfare. It also benefits the environment by reducing animal losses because animal losses represent a wastage of inputs and resources. So there are three immediate actions that can be taken to improve animal welfare and development changes. The first is ongoing and direct investment in veterinary services to make sure that quality and affordable health care and support are being provided to their animals and their farmers. Welfare secondly needs to be integrated into projects and activities, so there's a conscious awareness of the needs of animals, and that's going to lead on to the blow on benefits of people. And then thirdly investing in developing community and policy-led approaches to animal welfare is needed.


Today, I am going to make 30 minute meals and I'm making seven of them so you have something every single day of the week. Now, before we jump into anything, I have a question for you. What does family dinner look like at your house? I know that everyone's probably looks a little bit different. Is it like just you by yourself? Is it you with tons of kids? Tell for me. I'm usually sitting by myself in peace and quiet enjoying my dinner. Just kidding. That's not real. I don't know if that's ever happened before, but I try and have our own little family dinner with just the people that are there at the house. As sisters, we thought it would be fun to maybe do something with you guys. So we're going to do a little challenge. It's called our five day meal planning challenge. Now the goal of this challenge is to plan out five meals out of the week. I know that sounds like a lot and to eat together as a family, whatever your family consists of for five days. Now we're not going to leave you hanging. We're going to give you all the tools you need to complete this challenge. The first thing you're going to get is our themed night e-book dinners. That's a mouthful. And we give you a few different recipes with each theme. It is fun. Trust me on this. Next, we're going to give you an easy meal planning organization sheet.  It will make organizing your meals and planning your meals a lot easier. Next, you'll get a 14 day meal plan and recipe e-book just to give you some good ideas for dinner. And the last thing you'll get is five workshops with one of the sisters.  So the challenge starts tomorrow, January 24th. So make sure you register. I'll put a link down below for you so you can find it there. Now to be a part of this challenge, it only costs you five dollars. Now, usually when I join a challenge, I don't really succeed at it unless I have a little skin in the game. So that's why it's only five dollars, but you get all that fun stuff to go along with it. We really want to make this just a fun opportunity and maybe hopefully get some good habits in place. So you'll start planning your recipes and eating together as a family. Okay. So for this video, I'm actually going to use some of the themed recipes found in the e-book. So if you guys are ready, we have seven recipes, seven themes. I'm so excited. Okay. Our first theme is Meatless Monday. And today I'm making our veggie pasta salad. We're first going to start by chopping up all the vegetables.  Let's be honest with ourselves. Okay. We have one zucchini all chopped up. Now we're supposed to also have a yellow squash, but you guys, they're all gone at the store. So you can always get two zucchini or I'm just going to just skip that step. Next step is the red pepper. Now my secret with the red pepper is to cut down the sides. If you don't do this, you should.  But if you do it this way, no seeds.  Next step is the asparagus. Now this is a lot of asparagus. I love asparagus.  Now I rinsed all of this, but I left the rubber bands on because it helps me kind of keep it all together. So I'm a fan, fan of the rubber bands. There we go. So I am going to take it off in this step. Then we just kind of want to cut it into bite size pieces. Sorry, if you can hear us here in the background, she's just playing Barbie's up there. All right, that is a lot of asparagus and I am excited. Okay, we're going to set this to the side. We're going to pull out another one just make my life easier. If you haven't seen this yet, if you've missed it, I just like to get two or three perpetels and just soak them wet. Like you can see how wet it is. It's wet. Then I'm going to put it between me and the onions so I won't have watery eyes.  Now's the time. Chop up your onion. I'm actually only going to use half an onion here because it is pretty strong, but you do you. You can do large chunks, you can do little chunks. I'm just going to do some little chunks today. All right, now we have a cookie sheet and lined it with foil to make our lives a lot easier. We're going to dump in our onions all over the place and also the rest of the vegetables. I'm just going to mix these around a little bit just so you get a mixture of onion and all the other vegetables and we'll spread them out the best that we can. Now we're not going to add olive oil or anything. We're just going to actually season it with some salt. So put on some salt here. You're also going to put a little bit of pepper too. Okay, then we're going to take this bake it for 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Okay, while that's baking, we're going to cook up the ratoni. Now you can follow the instructions, cook on your stove top. I'm going to cook it in the Instant Pot. I'm actually going to cook the whole one pound of ratoni. Just dump it into the bottom of your instant. Now the secret is to have pour in as much water until every noodle is covered. I'm going to need a little bit more. There's a few noodles that aren't covered. One sec. I'm just going to add a little bit more in there. Here we go. We just want all the noodles to be covered because if they're not covered, then they'll get crunchy. All right, go ahead and put the lid on. This Instant Pot has a little knob, so we're going to make sure that is on ceiling, not venting. Then we're going to go to pressure cook and pasta only takes four minutes to cook. So we're going to set the timer and we can just walk away. So when the timer is done, you can go ahead and release all the pressure out. Sometimes it, what's the word? It explodes a little bit. So if that's the case, you can just let it calm down and slowly, slowly kind of let it out. But all the pressures out of here now, we're going to open it up. Now, if you just fill it right above the noodles, you actually won't need to drain any water. It will take all of the water to cook the noodles. So we're just going to dump this right into our bowl. Okay, now we're going to take the vegetables and yes, I am a lazy cook. So I'm going to just take them with the foil and just kind of just dump them in. It was a simple fire live here. So the recipe originally calls for balsamic vinaigrette, but my kids don't really like that. So you we're going to make it with Italian today. You could do either one. It's fine. Okay, we're just going to pour in about half the bottle right now and then mix it around. All right. And that is all it takes. It really takes about 20 minutes to start to finish. Hey, meet with Monday. You ready? Yeah. Okay, you're my pasta loving vegetable loving child. Ready? Now usually you'd serve this cold. It's still a little warm. That's interesting. Yeah, it's a little different. I'll give it a three and a half.  Yes. I know it's a meatless Monday, but I'd probably add some chicken. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll all the same. I'll give it a three and a half because I'm missing my chicken.  Now I chose this one because of how easy it is. So you need about three cups of chicken. I like to buy this pre shredded cooked chicken. It makes my life a lot easier to the chicken. We're going to add about eight ounces of softened cream cheese. Also your favorite salsa about a third of a cup. This is her days salsa. I love her days. Next, you have about one cup of Mexican shredded cheese. Some of you might know that I like to eyeball things that's close to a cup. And I forgot to trap up my onions. So you need about four green onions. This is like six, but I love green onions. So we're just going to cut up a few and throw it in there also. Now you can just mix it all together. Also appreciate the view of belly. Yes, it's giant right now. Two weeks, guys. Two weeks. Okay. Once it's all mixed pretty good together, we're going to add a little bit more stuff. So we're going to add about a teaspoon of garlic. I do use minced garlic out of the jar. I know some people are very offended by that. So I apologize if I offend you. And then we have garlic salt, another teaspoon of this. Then we have two tablespoons of your favorite taco seasoning or pretty much any taco seasoning. We're just going to eyeball this because I know pretty well what two tablespoons is. And then you can also add a little bit of salt and pepper to taste. So then we're done. We're going to mix it all together real quick. If you go to the link in the description, you'll notice that this also calls for avocados. Now the avocados at my store were really firm or really rotted. So I apologize. I'm not going to show you how to do avocados today. Now for the fun part. So we're going to take about four tortillas. So we'll split this mixture into about four different for even as close as even as you can get. And we're going to put it right into the middle and spread it all around. Now these tortillas are kind of small. I would suggest using a little bit bigger tortilla, but it'll work for now. Now we're going to take this little guy and just roll him up. Hence the name chicken roll-ups. Now you do not have to do this part, but my kids love eating them with toothpicks. So about every inch or so you're going to put a toothpick. If you choose not to do toothpicks, you're going to cut it about every inch or so. Wow, my inches are small. That's okay. It just makes it stay together a little bit easier too, especially if you're serving them for something. All right, good enough. Let's cut these babies.  So cut off the edge here and then try and cut evenly into the middle. These are little, little roll-ups. They're so cute. Now you can serve them like this with the toothpicks or you can serve them laying flat. Now there's no wrong or right way. They're both delicious. Okay, chicken roll-up. You ready for the taste test? What do you think? Thumbs up, thumbs down. So it's kind of in the middle, maybe like a three? A two. Thank you. All right, good choice. For Wednesday, it's called our Dump and Go Wednesday, which you guys know I love Dump and Go. I'm going to be making our sweet and tangy meatballs. Now you might have seen this one before, but it is one of my family's favorite. So we're making it as our Dump and Go. We're going to start with 32 ounces of meatballs. We have 12 ounces of chili sauce and you're just going to pour in the whole thing or shake it in, you know, whatever works. Save this. You're going to use this in a second. Then I used to add a whole container of grape jelly, but really you just need about 12 to 15 ounces. So about the same amount of chili sauce that you're using, you'll be using the grape jelly. Now because this is the Instant Pot, we need a little bit of liquid. If you're putting this in the slow cooker, you can just cook it like this. For the Instant Pot, I like to use my chili sauce container, fill it of about a half a cup of water and dump it in. Okay, go ahead and put your lid on. If you have a little knob that needs to be to ceiling, make sure you do that. You're going to put pressure cook and this only cooks for seven minutes. So once you set to seven, you can just walk away. All right. Once it's all done cooking, you can go ahead and release all the pressure. So you either have a little knob or a button. Oh, all the pressure is out. It's been sitting here a bit. Then we're going to open it up. Now we're just going to mix it all around. All right, Maly, sweet and tangy meatballs. It's kind of a big bite, huh? It's hot. Is it hot? All right, how do you rate this one? It was really good out. It was really hot. Yeah. I like four. At four? Because it was too hot, that's why it's at four? Yeah, it was really hot. Okay, perfect. Thursday is our 30 minute Thursday and it's our one pot cheesy chicken Alfredo. Okay, because this is our one pot meal, we're going to put everything into the pot. So we're going to start by adding a little bit of olive oil. Now, if you want to make this a lot easier, I love to buy this already grilled chicken. It makes my life so much easier. If not, you can get chicken breasts and just cut them up into little bite sized pieces. But we're just going to cook about, I don't know, two cups of diced chicken. Okay, to our chicken, especially if you have raw chicken, you want to add a little bit of seasoning. So we're going to add a little bit of salt and pepper and then half a teaspoon of Italian seasoning.  Or if you're using the chicken like I am, we're going to cook it until it's heated through. Okay, after about three minutes, we're going to add a teaspoon or two teaspoons, of garlic, and then we're going to cook this for about a minute. All right, chicken is looking good. Now we're going to add two cups of chicken broth into this. Next, we're going to make this creamy pasta, right? So we're going to add one and a half cups of whipping cream. And then about a fourth teaspoon of basil we'll just put in there. Okay, mix this around. Then we're going to add two cups of penne pasta. We're going to let it boil until it, I guess like simmers, right? Then we're going to turn it down a little bit. We're going to put the lid on and let it cook for about 15 minutes. Okay, here is our alfredo. I've been stirring it like every few minutes or so just to make sure all the noodles are covered and can be cooked through. So it looks good. Okay, we're going to add some cheese. So we have two cups of parmesan and then three fourths cup of mozzarella. Okay, then you're going to carefully, carefully mix this together. This is a large skillet. So make sure when you're cooking this you have a big skillet. Now the nice thing about this is if you want to freeze some of this after you're done cooking it, you could totally do that. All right, if you like cheese, you might just love this one. Okay, alfredo, you ready? Let's try a bite. Stab it girl, stab it. I liked it. What do you think? What is your rating? Three? Three out of five? Okay. I don't like too much cheese. Not too much cheese? Yeah. Notice how too much cheese. I don't really like noodles very much so I'm going to give it a four but I would eat that for dinner. Yeah, definitely. Friday is, you know, pizza day and I'm going to be making our homemade pizza pockets. Okay, for the pizza roll-ups we're going to start with some frozen dinner rolls. Now, here is my secret. Lots of times I don't think about dinner until like five o'clock and these are still frozen so I'm going to show you my trick. So you're going to put as many as you want on a plate. Now this recipe is great because it can feed one person. It could feed 20 people. It just really depends on what you need. So we're going to just make about, I don't know, 12 or so today just to show you. I'm going to put them on a plate. So now I'm going to microwave them for one to two minutes. I'm going to do a minute first, see how they are and then do another minute. They're still frozen. So I cook these for a minute. They are nice and soft. That's exactly how we want them. So this is my favorite part. So you're going to stretch out the roll and then, oh, try not to get holes. There we go. I always like put it on so it will stretch a little better. And we're going to add just one spoonful of pizza sauce, a little bit of cheese. I like cheese mozzarella cheese, but you can use your favorite if you want. And then you can put any of your favorite pizza toppings. My kids love pepperoni. So we're just going to do two little pepperonis. Then my trick is to grab two corners, put them together, grab another corner, grab another corner, and then kind of just pinch the top. We're just going to cook this for 350 degrees for about 15 to 20 minutes. I'm going to do it 15 first just so it won't burn. Don't be afraid of this. They kind of exploded a little bit, but this is what happens every time they're still, they're still delicious. All right, Sarah's going to taste test the pizzas. You ready? Oh, you don't want the pepperonis? Yeah. All right, admit pepperonis. Now try it. All right, what do you think? Thumbs up, thumbs up. So that means 10, 10. You love it? Yeah. We're calling Saturday our simple Saturday and we're making tomato tortellini soup. All right, we're going to start this one by cooking our tortellini first. So you just follow the instructions on the packet. So we, this one, we need to boil the water first. We're going to cook them for about three minutes. All right, while the tortellini is cooking, we're going to make the base of the soup. So we want a big stock pot. We're going to pour in two cans of tomato soup. Then we're going to add two cups of chicken broth. Okay, two cups of milk. I'm just using skim milk here, but you can use your favorite. And then just two cups of half and half. Now we need some seasoning. So we have one teaspoon of basil, one teaspoon of garlic powder, one teaspoon of onion powder, one teaspoon of garlic salt. And now these are sun-dried tomatoes. We want about a half a cup. And I drained a little bit of the oil because I don't like the oil, but I do love sun-dried tomatoes. Let's do about half this container here. And then we have about a half teaspoon of salt. All right, then we're just going to mix this all together and just let it simmer on low. Our tortellini should be done. Okay, tortellini is done. I'm just doing my little thing. I think these are like, I don't know, 12, 15 bucks on Amazon. My favorite thing in my kitchen is probably this. I'll, if I remember, I'll try and link it down below for you. Then we just need to drain it. Okay, it's all drained. Then we're just going to pour it right in. And the last thing is we just want a half cup of Parmesan cheese. Really, we need cheese in all things. It just makes it better. All right, and that's it. That's all you have to do. So simple, so easy, so good. Okay, tortellini soup. Ready? Sorry. What do you think, Sarah? One, two, three, four, or five? Double thumbs down? A zero? A zero. There we have it. This is actually one of my favorite soups. So I'm going to rate it five. So average, we're going to say three because I love the soup. And Sunday is our classic Sunday dinner. I'm going to be making the perfect pot roast. The recipe calls for slow cooker, but you guys know I'm going to be using the instant pot. So I'm going to start with the chuck roast in the instant pot. But as I dumped, I had a little accident. Dang it.  Okay, this is a huge chuck roast. And usually, I mean, the recipe calls for the tessera on both sides, but to be honest, it's so big and you really, you don't need to when you're cooking in the instant pot. So we're just going to put all the ingredients in right now. So we're going to start with some of the spices. So we're going to put about one teaspoon of salt, just put it all over this little chuck roast. Then I have about half a teaspoon of black pepper again, just all over. And you can do both sides, but this thing was so big, we're just going to let it, let it be. We're also just going to add a little bit of garlic salt in here too. All right, smelling good. On top of that is an onion. Now you can roughly chop an onion. My kids don't like roughly chopped. So we are just going to do very, very chopped onion. So they won't really know what's there. Next we have about one pound of baby carrots. I'm just going to kind of put them to the sides here. And then three celery stalks. Just, I just chopped them up into like bite sized pieces. Now one thing I love about the Instant Pot, like I said before, all the flavors kind of blend together. So we need about three cloves of garlic. So we're just doing a little bit of garlic here. And I do love to use canned garlic because I hate crushing it. I'm just lazy. I know. Then on the sides here, because we don't want to get rid of all the seasonings on the meat, we're going to do about two cups of beef broth. And that will be enough liquid to help it pressurize. Okay, next we're going to add three tablespoons of the W sauce. Then we have two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. And then just one tablespoon of soy sauce. So lots of different flavors going on here, but all together, it's going to taste so good. Then to top it all off, we have about one teaspoon of dried thyme. We're just going to sprinkle around and one teaspoon of dried rosemary. I'm going to put that on the top and then we are ready to cook. Okay, you're going to go ahead and put your Instant Pot lid on. If you have a little knob that says sealing or venting, make sure that's on sealing. So from here, we're going to push pressure cook. And because this roast is ginormous, I'm actually going to cook it for about 90 minutes. Now my secret, put it in in the morning, let it cook for an hour to an hour and a half, and then it will click on keep warm. Just leave it on keep warm for the whole rest of the day. And I'm telling you, that's how you get delicious roasts. Okay, the roast has been sitting here for a while. Oh my goodness. It's in there somewhere. Oh yeah, I can see it. Okay, we're going to pull this little guy out. I don't know if he's going to come. He might fall apart. Here we go. One, two, three. That is a giant roast. Okay, roast is done. Nice and tender, vegetables are done. Now we just got to cut into this thing. Okay, Ansley's here with the roast. Are you ready? Yes. I got a bite for you. Good? That's a good roast. It's not really good. Right. Okay, here's the other good thing. You can take like the drippings, and then make a really good gravy and make some mashed potatoes and gravy. What is your rating here? I'm out of five. I'm out of five. Now in case you didn't know, I'm actually having a baby in like two weeks. Yep, two weeks. So my sisters are going to be taking over the YouTube for about a month or so. So you'll be seeing them, make sure you watch their videos, tell them hi. They're so sweet to be doing that for me. All right, if you guys want more easy recipes, you know that's my jam. You can find more right up there. Okay, I'll see you guys next time. Bye.