What's up everybody, Jason here from jazzybiscasebrakes.com 2019-20, Panini, Donner's, Vastaville, Hanger, 1 box break, random teams number 11 just sold out. So this gives away the last three spots in the encased 18 team R&B which was about a $400 spot. So you can win one spot here for 42 bucks. First we do the break, we'll randomize the customer names, teams distribute the hits out of the hanger. I just don't remember no veteran commonship out of there. But then we'll come back, randomize only the customer names again and a separate dice will randomize it and the top three customers will win a spot each in the break. So let's roll the dice and do the break first. Hanger box. One and a two three times, good luck, one, two, three, and that was it. David, down a call, alright three times, one, two, three. Hanger Kings, down to the Memphis Grizzlies. And just stick with what you got guys, so many, you got the Pelicans. This is 19-20 right, yes, Grizzlies down here, Kyle, Lakers, Matt, and I mean he eats so many as well. So again, stick with what you got, it's a quick little hanger box break. Alright, here you go. Guys, we still have at least two more breaks or three more breaks I'd like to do tonight still. The two box Mosaic hobby break is down to six left, two left, Dolphins and Bengals in the four box gold standard football case break or four box one third case break. And the 20 box Mosaic blasters down to like 12 left now. Still let's do at least all those three tonight. Diallo, Alfonso, Marcus Aldridge. There's Garland, Matisse Dival, Talonor and Tucker, Cycle Dumboya, Cam Reddish, Ignace Prestaikis, Deondre Hunter, Daniel Gaffer and a little Zion, Williamson. There you go, some men, very nice. There is Bayesley, there's the hanger. Alright guys, switch scenes, remember, three, top three, get a spot in the round number block randomizer. Roll it to two and a six or two and a four six times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, boom. Top three, get in, fouled, so men, wow and so men, congrats. Top three, congrats, there you go. So the two of you are now in the break and coming up next now is the randomizer for the R&B 18 team high end break and then case break itself, appreciate it.


Item number SCP-671 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-671 must be kept at sector 1 in a clear plastic terrarium, no less than 10 meters by 1 meter by 1 meter. The terrarium is to be assembled by heat merging only. It should contain at least 400 kilograms of sandy soil, with humidity at least 1%. Appropriate food is provided via a hatch every week. The room is to be monitored by four cameras at all times. Entry and exit is via an airlock, which must be flooded with an insecticide, harmless to humans, each time it cycles. No piece of the door beyond the innermost panel itself may be accessible from inside the containment room, and all fixtures inside the room must either be sealed or built into the walls. As long as any SCP-671 individuals are outside the terrarium, personnel entering the room must either wear only clothes that will not trigger SCP-671, use strong insect repellent, or wear a sealed single-piece suit over all other clothing. All but the simplest items must be kept within a sealed transparent plastic bag, or similarly protected by insecticide or repellent. Should SCP-671 individuals escape the terrarium outside of experimental procedure, the room is to be flooded with insecticide. No SCP which can potentially be disassembled is to be kept at sector 1, and SCP-671 may never enter a facility where such SCPs are kept. Description SCP-671 is a large colony of Spanish carpenter ants, Camponotus cruentatus, comprising approximately 30,000 individuals. When SCP-671 is faced with a complex artificial device, its constituent individuals will attempt to reduce it to its simplest components. Organisms, living or dead, do not trigger this behavior. The ants appear attracted to artificial devices as to food sources. Screws will be unscrewed, staples and nails extracted, etc. In the process, even a single SCP-671 individual is able to exert forces several hundred times greater than a normal sea cruentatus. When large numbers of ants collaborate, they are capable of surprising feats. The only type of artificial joint that appears not to trigger SCP-671's disassembly behavior is that in which two items of the same or similar material are merged, using adhesive of another similar material. Examples include the rocks and cement in concrete, paper glued together, unless the glue is so thick as to represent a separate part, such as in book bindings, soldered metal, and material completely encased in another material. The ants take great care to avoid damaging an object's parts during disassembly. However, material serving as a joint, e.g. glue, mortar, or rivets, is likely to be destroyed in the process. SCP-671 reduces objects to their smallest natural constituents. Fabric is frayed into constituent threads, as are textile-like objects such as rope. 15,000 SCP-671 individuals working in concert can disassemble a sedan in 48 hours or attend story steel frame building in one month. They show little intelligence beyond that strictly necessary for disassembly and will mindlessly attempt to take apart running machinery or containers of poison at great risk to themselves and the colony. At Alcanar, Spain, a group of SCP-671 individuals proceeded to disassemble the motor of a running tanker truck, resulting in data expunged. As such, if necessary, it may be possible to re-establish containment by leaving large multi-part containers of insecticides or corrosive substances near the colony. Addendum. Following incident 671A, personnel are reminded that any appropriate sealed single-piece suit over all other clothing must also cover the feet. Suits which include separate foot covers, such as used on some other SCPs, are not appropriate for interaction with SCP-671. Dr. Ziegler. Incident 671A. Agent Thornton, having just left an experiment with SCP- assumed that his airtight suit would be sufficient for subsequent work with SCP-671. Almost as soon as he entered the colony's containment, however, the ants began to disassemble his military-type boots. As he prepared to leave, he tripped over the shoelaces that had been undone and partly frayed and fell to the ground, suffering a sprained knee and dislocated shoulder. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-670, Family of Cotton, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


I'm Deborah Borchart and this is your Marijuana Money Minute. It was a big week in Washington for the industry and I don't mean the impeachment hearings. The House Judiciary Committee passed the Moor Act, which is legislation to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and it will decriminalize it. They also put in language to remove prior impending marijuana convictions. The next step is for this legislation to go to a full House vote and then on to the Senate. After that it would still need to be signed by the President. It still is the most comprehensive cannabis legislation introduced in Congress. Well we started the week absorbing news that was released after the market closed on Friday last week and that was that men men were slashing its ranks and scaling back on its expansion plans. 190 employees got pink slips and the company said it was selling off some of its assets. It was another big week for earnings. We're just going to hit the high notes here. Trueleave announced Q3 revenue of $70 million that beat estimates and they reported a nice net income of 57 million. Green Thumb Industries reported third quarter revenue of $68 million and they trimmed their net loss down to 17 million. Harvest Health delivered revenue of $33 million for the third quarter but their net loss came in higher at 39 million. The Ligertilt Holdings turned a quarter and delivered net income for the quarter of $26 million on revenue of 46 million. Ianthus reported 22 million in revenue but they also had a net loss of 15 million. Not a good week for a war or a cannabis. They reported a drop in revenue and said that they suspended construction on two of their largest greenhouses. In other news Hexo reported that it was growing plants and unlicensed rooms but unlike Cantrust, Health Canada said they were okay with the actions that the company was taking. And then finally, Cineva took a big hit as the company's president resigned and it was just one week after the CFO quit. And that's it for this week. I'm Deborah Borchard reporting for the Green Marker Report from Times Square.


Welcome to NTIA Nightly, I am General Norville, this edition's top story. The Prime Minister shows that the state of emergency does not hinder upcoming general elections. The Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports Energy and Labour is mobilising its response mechanism as the hurricane season approaches. And the spotlight is placed on football as the football task force is soon to be re-established. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Chastney has made it categorically clear that the state of emergency extension to October 16, 2021 will not hinder the nation's general election. During a sitting of parliament on May 4, 2021, the House of Assembly approved a five-month extension beginning 17 May, running into the final quarter of the year. With elections constitutionally due by October, the Prime Minister maintained that the state of emergency does not impede processes for this national exercise. He says, however, that he looks forward to the national exercise being conducted safely with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. How is the state of emergency going to stop the election from taking place, Mr Speaker? Since when a state of emergency affects it? When instant kids, they had a state of emergency. Did it affect them in having an election? When Jamaica had a state of emergency, did it affect them having an election? When Trinidad and Tobago had elections with a state of emergency, did it affect them having an election, Mr Speaker? The answer is no. Categorically. Okay, Mr Speaker, it does not impede the ability to have an election. One of the critical decisions that has been, and I have been saying it repeatedly, to bring some relief to the members on the opposite side. That is going to guide the decision as to when we're going to have elections is certainly, Mr Speaker, when we believe that we can have elections in the safest way possible. But, I have said repeatedly, we are not in any way going to go contrary to the Constitution of Solution. According to the Constitution of St. Lucia, the state of emergency may be revoked during the five-month period and the discretion of the Governor-General that could allow for a general election. The government intends to come to an agreement with the opposition on COVID-19 protocols for the impending national exercise. It's certainly my government's intention to make sure that we will work with the members on the opposite side, with arbitrary, independent people, to make sure that we can have a very clear idea that once we are going to have elections, what the protocols would be and that hopefully both sides will fulfill their obligation and commitment to adhering to them. Prime Minister, the Honourable Alan Chastney is speaking during a sitting of the House of Assembly on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. During a sitting of the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and the Public Service Honourable Alan Chastney explained that the COVID-19 situation in St. Lucia remains fluid and managing the virus continues to prove challenging. Adding to the challenges are the increasing variants of the virus and other changes locally, regionally and internationally. This he noted contributes to the complexity in the management of the virus. Honourable Chastney added that with this reality, the country cannot become complacent and the necessary steps must be taken to ensure health and safety. As part of efforts to combat the spread of the virus, the Prime Minister sought the extension of the state of emergency for an additional period of five months from 17 May 2021 to 16 October 2021. Speaker, you remember that I've often made reference to a dimmer switch rather than to an on-off switch and that practice continues. As we see COVID numbers decreasing, then we can increase the activities. As we see the COVID cases reducing, then we can increase the number of activities. I want to remember that we passed the COVID Act, Mr. Speaker, in order to incorporate most of the protocols that we are using under legislation. The only aspect of the COVID protocols that cannot be done under the COVID Act, Mr. Speaker, is in fact the curfew. Curfew can only be instituted through a state of emergency. Those that I said, vaccination offers great hope and I am optimistic that we will effectively turn the corner and the page on the pandemic this year. We cannot yet let our guard down, not until Salusha and indeed most other countries from which we receive tourists are much closer to achieving herd immunity. Through the contact tracing process, we know that the transmission of COVID-19 is greater during social activities. The state of emergency facilitates the imposition of the curfew, which curbs the nighttime socialization documented to effectively control COVID-19 escalation. Undoubtedly, the current situation in Anguilla and India serve as a stark reminder of how quickly the situation can change and become dire. Honourable Shasni explained that while the vaccine brings some level of hope to the grim reality of COVID-19, the country remains at risk to the virus and its negative effects. That is until herd immunity can be achieved. It is therefore necessary that individuals get vaccinated and all precautions are taken to protect the citizenry. In an effort to ensure the safety of the citizenry, the state of emergency needs to be extended to allow for and to provide for any change in the dynamics of the spread of the virus. Mr. Speaker, until we reach herd immunity, we will remain exposed to an outbreak. It does not take much to turn the corner. There remains a continuing threat to the health of the population. This will allow action to be taken with immediate dispatch on the advice of the chief medical officer where there is a need to take essential and urgent measures. The Prime Minister added that the state of emergency has thus far proven effective as the island recorded a significant reduction in active COVID-19 cases. While I am sure that many persons have grown somewhat fatigued, just as I have, with the curb that this state of affairs brought by the pandemic has imposed on regular social life and movement, I am pleased to note that we have over the past two months seen a gradual decline in the number of active cases. As a consequence, we have begun the phase relaxation of restrictions. Further, I have on many occasions reiterated the importance of St. Lucia reopening our economy and getting our people back to work. Indeed, the interconnected nature of our economy with the international trade and travel makes this not only inevitable, but vital. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Chastney is speaking there at Tuesday's sitting of the House of Assembly. The Ministry of Health and Wellness encourages members of the public to get vaccinated and its vaccination campaign continues. The public is informed that during the week of Monday, May 3, 2021 to Saturday, May 8, 2021, the COVID-19 vaccination drive will cater to the general population for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as those receiving the second dose of the vaccine. Individuals who received the first dose of the vaccine during the week of March 8, 2021 to March 13, 2021 are encouraged to visit the vaccination site nearest to them during the upcoming week to receive the second dose. Individuals receiving the second dose of the vaccine should also walk with the vaccination card which was given when the first dose of the vaccine was administered. People are asked to walk with a form of identification to facilitate the registration process. It is also recommended to come with a light snack and water given the possibility of awaiting time to get vaccinated. The vaccination sites will be operational from 9am to 4pm. The vaccination sites for the week are as follows. First day, May 6, 2021, Miku Multipurpose Center, Darren-Sami Cricket Grounds, Entrypo Human Resource Center, Ansari Parish Center. Friday, May 7, 2021, Philip Masler Grounds, Darren-Sami Cricket Grounds, VG Sports Complex, Barbano Multipurpose Center, Canrys Wellness Center, Souffray Hospital Grounds, Jack Melweller Center. Saturday, May 8, 2021, VG Sports Complex. For more information, please contact the Community Nursing Service at 468-5321 or 468-5381. With the Atlantic hurricane season approaching, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Port Energy and Labor is mobilizing its response mechanism. The hurricane season is the period from June to November, during which hurricanes are usually forming the Atlantic Ocean. Shannon Labone is the Communications Officer in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Quartz, Energy and Labor. So our various zonal engineers, they have been doing various studies of river courses. And the disilting program should be engaged very soon. We've begun to do some overhanging. That is our responsibility annually. We have engaged that plan. What we want to do is appeal to members of the public who also have a very important responsibility as well.  Please be appealing to you right now ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season. To do the necessary in preparing your property for the showers which will come. So now is the perfect time to begin clearing of your dreams, cutting off the overhangs and doing the necessary preparations for the Atlantic hurricane season. On our end, we are doing our part, but the shared responsibility that we want citizens to be very conscious of as we move very closer to the start of the hurricane season. That was Communications Officer in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Quartz, Energy and Labor, Shannon Labone. The Government of St. Lucia has announced the re-establishment of a football task force to aid with the development of the sport. The announcement was made by Minister for Youth Development and Sports, Hon. Edmund Estefan and the City of the House of Assembly on Tuesday. The decision was made after fruitful discussions with the St. Lucia Football Association Inc. SLFA through the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. Hon. Estefan noted that the Government is aware that FIFA's statutes of operations restrict third-party influence and does not want to contravene. However, the Minister indicated that the Government understands that it plays a pivotal role in creating an enabling environment for the sport. It was agreed that the relationship between the Government of St. Lucia through the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports and the SNFA Inc. will be strengthened through the re-establishment of the football task force which was organised a couple of years ago. Comprising the Government, the Ministry of Sports, the SNFA Inc., business partners, private sector and independent individuals, the task force will be chaired with the responsibility of suggesting ways in which the relationship between the SNFA Inc., the footballers and the general public can be strengthened through the ultimate goal of restoring confidence and making football a more exciting and beautiful game. The focus of the task force will be to implement more football matches using a two-tier system including the relegation and promotion of teams. It is anticipated that with this new shift football in St. Lucia can move towards a semi-professional league system in accordance with international norms. The Government of St. Lucia fully embraces this global idea and has pledged to continue its infrastructure development programme on some of our playing fields around the island. This would create the conducive environment to host local, regional and international games on world-class facilities. Honourable Estefan expressed confidence that the improvement of playing facilities will solidify St. Lucia as a lucrative sports tourism destination. A prize-giving ceremony was held last week at Alias Process to reward participants of the Francophonie poetry and poster competitions. The competitions form part of activities held to commemorate Francophonie Month, held in March annually to celebrate the shared linguistic heritage based on the French language. Honourable Marc has the details. St. Lucia's linguistic heritage based on the French language is celebrated annually during Francophonie Month. Students are encouraged to not only learn the French language but also participate in Francophonie competitions to help sharpen and display their linguistic abilities. 2021 was no exception. During the month of March, l'agronisation internationale de la Francophonie, OIF, hosted a calendar of activities including the Francophonie poetry competition. The Francophonie awards ceremony was held on April 30 at the Alias Francaise to reward participants of the Francophonie poetry and poster competitions. Marcia Synthurian-Laurent, national correspondent to the OIF, spoke on the theme under which this year's celebrations were held. As you know, the theme chosen for this year's observance was femme francophone, femme résiliente. And this theme was chosen in order to highlight the challenges faced by women and to celebrate their strength and resilience in the face of crisis. The theme is quite fitting for today's activity because you two students have demonstrated great resilience in the face of the pandemic. You have had to deal with the impact of COVID-19 on your education, you have had to transition to online learning, physical school, back to online learning, back to physical school, and you have done all of this with so much grace. And in the midst of all of this turmoil, you took up the challenge to participate in the Francophonie competitions that were held this year. Christelle Autrément, regional councillor of cooperation at the French Embassy, stressed on the importance of Francophonie celebrations. But Francophonie is just not one day, it's not just one week, it's not just one month, it's every day. It's learning a new language, becoming better in the language, and also learning about another culture and the values associated with this language. So today, I want to give a special thanks to all the teachers and also the teachers association who are on board every day to have the young Saint Lucien, the young Caribbean, learn a modern language and learn French in particular. A certificate of participation was given to each student who participated in the competitions. The winners of the poetry competitions were as followers. Fourth place, teacher Dovel. Third place was awarded to Maya Fossois. In second place, Kiana Charles. And the winner of the Francophonie competition was Carnegie Paul of the Leonheves Comprehensive Secondary School. Participants of the 2020 poster competition were also awarded, given the OIF's inability to do so last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the Government Information Service, I'm Humedy Mark. This is NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers-Hudgingston with the NTN Nouvelle. If you are in receipt of an abnormally high bill, it is highly possible that you have a leak. That leak may not always be visible. Before you contact WASCO, conduct a do-it-yourself test. One, record your meter reading. Two, do not use water for 30 minutes to one hour. Three, take another meter reading. If the reading changes, you have a leak. Contact a plumber to identify and fix the leak at the earliest. A message brought to you by the Water and Sewage Company Incorporated, WASCO. Welcome back. We join Primers-Hudgingston for the NTN Nouvelle. Thank you so much, General. Mr. Madam, the Department of Investorability, information, a government like this, G.I.S., a national television channel for NTN, and for the Nouvelle in Cuyol, for Primers-Hudgingston. The Government has considered to establish a system to publicize tax and property, which is most likely to address various necessities. Property, from the US, a budgetary budget from 2021 to 2021, for the Minister of Finance, Mr. Alain Chastney. We know that a new tax system that has been implemented will enable us to encourage more significant suppliers and help them benefit the Government by reducing the debt that has been divided for the Pepe. Minister Chastney declared that when the Government is concerned, The government is very concerned about the implementation of this new system. With all of this, the situation here is very serious. It has been done for three years. I have done it for three years. The government has added another year to this new system. The government has been working on this since 2017 or 2021. This is a consideration of the government that has been working on this for three years. The government has proposed to send a new tax system to the first employees of 2020. For the government to provide public information to the journalists in the United Nations that provide training for the journalists who have the capacity to engage in public information to connect more to equity, security, and justice, particularly under the coronavirus situation. For the government to help the journalists to use the information that is available to the world that is very important, that the media can play a role in the ways that the government has been working on. This has been done for several reasons. For example, the new information that has come out has been made public so that it can increase the number of people. Among other problems, it is a very difficult number of people that are generally involved because it is so technical. Therefore, I have come to train for the journalists who want to provide training that can be placed in their own positions to pass this information in a way that is easier for the public to understand. For this reason, a lot of people who serve the social media in a way that is very important, and also that has brought a lot of opportunities for the journalists to be able to serve information that should have a great capacity to pass information that is more difficult to understand with the suffering of the pandemic that I have caused so much damage to this public. The United Nations is very concerned that it is not good with the criminals in these countries that do not have the advantage of having a bad salary to try to destroy the government and to replace the citizens with a whistle. Among other problems, it is not good to learn how to use the criminal salary that is being made in a way that can be used to protect the public. Among other problems, it is also not good to learn how to serve information effectively so that people can protect the information that has come out. So, the United Nations is looking for criminal justice for the citizens that have a bad salary. Before the fourth day of May 2020, the Ministry of Health registered 12 cases of COVID-19, including the total of 475 cases, which were made at the end of May 2020. To solve this problem, you have to examine a new clinic. You will see it at your quarantine for the results. First, I would like to place the Champakoyo Yon to help the officials and ministers who are looking for a way to contact them. The Ministry of Health has also confirmed that there are 8 cases of COVID-19 that I have found that support COVID-19 that are active for your health. Especially, the Yon who is critical of the treatment at the hospital, supports the number of COVID-19 patients here for 4,646. Since the third day of May 2020, a total of 24,412 people have received the vaccine due to COVID-19, and 4,942 people have received the vaccine. To help the vaccine continue to be a very complex sport, also a wellness center in Belvie, also a wellness center in the Etenger, and also at Denry Medical School to help the people, to receive the second dose of the vaccine. As a resident, the Ministry of Health has encouraged everyone to always wash their hands and to serve as a health care service to keep them safe. We are very grateful that we have received the vaccine, and we are very happy that we have received the vaccine. I would like to thank the Ministry of Health for the invitation. I am very happy that we have received the vaccine. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.


Hello, and welcome to this introduction to QGIS, which is part of the DHIS2 GIS Academy. In this first video, I will show you how to download gridded population data from the WorldPop Research Group website for use within QGIS. Firstly, we need to open a web browser and access the internet. Secondly, we need to navigate to www.worldpop.org by either typing this in the address bar or searching for it within your preferred search engine. Once you have done this, you will come to the home screen of the WorldPop Research Group's website. On the home screen, you will need to go to the menu bar in the top right of the website. Hover over data, and in the drop-down menu that appears, scroll down to population counts and click the link. This loads the website that contains all of the relevant data products that WorldPop produces on population. In our case, we're interested in downloading the constrained individual country's 2020 UN adjusted data sets at 100m resolution. If we click this link, all of the data sets for each country are listed alphabetically in a table. Download the data for your country. If it's easier, search for your country in the search bar and then click on data and resources. In my case, I'm interested in downloading the data for Sierra Leone, so I've searched for Sierra Leone and I'll now press the data and resources button which will take me to the Sierra Leone Population 2020 website. This has all of the information on the methods and metadata for the data, as well as the appropriate citations and links to the DOI. However, in our case, we want to download the data set. To do this, press the big green button here which says download entire data set. As you can see, this has downloaded a copy of the Sierra Leone Population 2020 UN adjusted constrained data set. It is recommended that you now save this in an appropriate folder for use within the training videos. For the upcoming exercises, I'm going to move this data into a DHIS2 underscore training folder that I created earlier. And there we have it. The Population data set has now been downloaded for use in the videos.


over de gebruik van fertiliseren die niet effectueel zijn door de kroppen niet efficiënt gebruikt zijn, polluten, waterbouwen en dit is een voorbeeld in China waar veel fertiliseren gebruikt zijn, waarschijnlijk te veel fertiliseren is gebruikt om environmentale issues te maken. Een ander probleem over de environmentale issues is dat, zoals alle landhuisers, de productie van risie ook heeft een impact op het klimaat, we weten dat risie een van de substentieën geïnteresseerd is voor de immuziek van meteen. Dus de onderdeel van deze exemplen laten zien is dat we denken dat increase in geluid, grapig kwaliteit en risooslijke efficiëntie zijn heel veel de solutie voor deze problemen. We weten ook dat beseitige ressourcen minder available worden, de environment in die we werken is getting increasingly stressed and climate change is contributing to this we will face more droughts, more flooding, more salinity, more extreme temperatures so resource use efficiency needs to be increased under these increasingly adverse conditions. We have of course a whole arsenal of research delivered response options that we are working on, that we have worked on and that we need to work on in the future ranging from management technologies. An example here is a management technology to help cope with irrigation water scarcity. We have variety technologies. Here is an example of the very successful discovery of the sub one gene that confirms tolerance to prolonged flooding in the field and we have more ecological based solutions in the bottom at the landscape level where we try to modify how the landscape looks like to increase its resilience and by control functions again. So coming now back to our strategic exercise, our methodology is first we try to set out to identify, map and quantify these constraints to rise production both in terms of the abiotic constraints such as drought and salinity and biotic constraints, pests and diseases. We want to identify opportunities to increase yield, the quality of it and the resource use efficiency, so the efficiency of fertilizers of water with which we produce the yield and to alleviate these constraints en we want to identify then and analyze real farmer adoptable solutions. That's what we're talking about in this strategic exercise. So we are focusing on actual products that are research delivered and can be adopted by the farmers and realize some of these constraint alleviation, increased yield and reduced costs. This is our methodological framework and it's a different look at what David presented. Potential yield is the highest yield, potential yield means there are no biotic or abiotic constraints limiting yield. It's really the expression of the genetic potential of a certain variety in terms of top hectare. In practice yield will be limited because there are constraints and unavailability of water of fertilizers and drought etc. And then yield can be further reduced. It might be a limited yield that could be produced in practice but when you have a swarm of brown planthoppers coming in that yield might be reduced. So yield potential, a variety property mainly grain quality, a variety property mainly, although we all know that there is G by E interaction and like we discussed yesterday afternoon in this very same room G by E by technology, by culture, by social, by political conditions but we want to focus here on the variety characteristics and implicit in realizing a high yield is the efficiency of the resources to do that. Water nutrients labor is the ones we focus on. The limiting yield are then the abiotic constraints. We are looking at droughts, limited flooding, extreme temperatures and reducing yields are pest diseases, weeds, pests include insects, pests, but also rodents and we may have to look into golden apple snail into birds when we talk about Africa etc. So these are then the main working groups that looked at these constraints and opportunities. So we have a working group, a multi-discipline working group on increased yield potential, mainly genetics and reading, increasing the quality of rice, using resources, water, nutrients, labor more efficiently specifically targeting these abiotic constraints and the biotic constraints. These working groups, multi-disciplinary use expert knowledge, knowledge that these people have gained by working in the field for so long and that comes back to the question at this stage, did you involve farmers in the process? Yes, in the sense that the people who are looking into this have a wide experience on the ground working with farmers and our stakeholders to develop solutions, but they are not explicitly asked at this stage, what do you think about the methodology or the data? We look at literature, all kind of data and try to involve external context as much as possible at this stage. But I have to say at this stage it is mainly an eerie internal process. Spatial units, Andy Nelson, explained that we basically divided Asia into 220 units, which is obviously too much detail to go through each of these 220 units. So we basically have a bird's eye view of East Asia, of Southeast Asia and South Asia en within them we look at these new eight rice ecologies that Andy explained. So these are four irrigated lowland ecologies for rain-fat based ecologies and one upland ecology. We look at single cropping of rice, double triple and explicitly cropping of rice, non-rice crops. So we look at all these cropping systems, which we at Eerie like to call rice-based, but I guess if you work at Sinnet you could equally well call them mace-based or wheat-based. So that is what we are looking at here. Just to recall, these are then the spatial maps that we have available of these ecologies in South Asia, East Asia and South East Asia. So I want to give you a flavor of the preliminary results, show you some of the numbers, but especially draw attention to how we went about getting these numbers in here. So first are just a spatial extent of some of the constraints and it would be so nice if we just could pull out from internet or a GS lab the data itself. This is drought and how it affects rice. This is our spread of diseases in terms of hectares and damage, et cetera. These data simply do not exist. And even I think for a relatively big player in the rice world like Eerie, it's beyond our capacity to get all these data sets complete. So this is what we had to work with. On the top right side is an example of spatial mapping of outbreaks of planthoppers and associated spread of viral diseases. So we get reports where it happens. So we have these dots on the map. We know that there are outbreaks there. In some cases we even have area extent, but it's far from complete. Here on the left hand side is water scarcity. Now there are dozens of global water scarcity maps out there, which are all kind of qualitative. They use some index of water scarcity, the related amount of water availability to the amount of people living in a basin or in a country. And they talk about, like in these maps, economic water scarcity, physical water scarcity. But at least we have maps that geographically delineate the hot spot and give an indication of the severity of water availability. Then here is something that we did inhouse. And he explained that, I guess demonstrated that there are quite a number of climate data out there. And I think for temperature they are much more reliable than for prediction of rainfall. So what we did inhouse, for example, is look at high temperatures where they currently occur, where they are predicted to occur, overlay that with where currently rise is being grown, and looking even at the most sensitive crop stage. We know that high temperatures are damaging to rise when they occur around flowering. So here we have a very precise map, where in the black circles you can see temperatures at flowering under current cropping patterns. We have some very patchy things. We have some global things like the water scarcity and some inhouse, more detailed work specialized. So we take our ecology maps and we overlay that roughly so we get an idea of the aerial extent of some of these constraints. Then we need to put numbers to that. So knowing that northeast of Thailand falls in the economic water scarcity domain of the enemy map. What does that mean for rise production? What does that mean for irrigation water available to farmers who grow rise in that particular area?  I give here an example of East Asia. So first what we see is that only three of the eight ecologies have numbers in them. Irrigation water scarcity is not a relevant issue in rain-fed agriculture. Drought this and we work on drought there. In most of the wet seasons there is enough water and again irrigation water scarcity is not a big deal. So there are three ecologies here. It is in the main rice irrigated wet season in East Asia. It's in the dry season of double irrigated crops where there is an issue and double irrigated irrigated with another rice crop. Very intensive, but again primarily in the dry season part of that cropping system only. So these are then numbers that come out of survey of literature of data availability, water availability, water use efficiencies etc. in surface irrigation systems of rice. We basically see that in many systems in these areas about 25% of the command area is fallowed in the dry season because of lack of water. Here in the wet season that is estimated to be 15%. Beside area not irrigated, these are the numbers that we came up with. 15% of the irrigated area does not get enough water. So that experiences water scarcity. So the total area affected here is 40% and here it's 22%. Frequency of that, most of these systems were designed for supplementary irrigation in the wet season. They are now used for irrigation in the dry season and basically that is a chronic state of affairs. So at least one in two years 50% of the area will not be irrigated. In the area that surface water scarcity, the 15% here, that results in about 30% yield loss. So that is how we try to go about it. There are technologies to alleviate this water scarcity en alleviate the impact on yield, but they won't be 100%. We won't be able to reduce the 30% yield loss to 0% yield loss. So technologies that are adoptable by farmers, don't forget about, we talk about adoptable farmer technologies and their impact when they are adopted in the field, not when they are adopted at Eris Experimental Research Station. We estimate that half of that yield loss can indeed be reduced. How did we come up with these numbers? A lot of expert knowledge, a lot of literature data, practical experience of having worked in a few sites on that map. One of the immediate concerns that all our scientists raised is, oh, but I only worked 20 jaar in this field and I worked mainly in China and Indonesia and three sites in the Philippines. And I have very accurate data there. But how do you expect me to extrapolate that to all of Asia? And that's, I guess, one of the main challenges in our ambition to be comprehensive. We need to find mechanisms that allow plausible extrapolation and


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