Day is Wednesday. Happy hump day. I wanted to show you this coffee that I got. I bought that little kettle that I showed you at the end of yesterday's video, right? For the first time in my life, I've been drinking instant coffee. And it's not actually as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it would be terrible. I got the Nescafe Rich Intense. It's actually not bad at all. I've got this little kettle where I heat up my water in the mornings now. I've got these cups with lids up here. I guess I should grab a lid too so that I can make my own coffees in the truck here. I'm trying to see how much food I can make in here instead of always going to, uh, all going into the truck stop to buy expensive truck stop food. This is hot water. Just heat it up. It's a very small little kettle just for the car or for the, just plug it into a cigarette lighter. I already got the instant coffee and my cream in there. Hard to pour it without making a mess. The spout is very small on there. The coffee is pretty much one whole thing of that. So not much left over. That's my coffee now. And the Nescafe was about $6.99 I think. Canadian in the store. I also got some oatmeal here. I got some chunky soup. This I have a, where is it? It's in here I think. I want a little stone or a portable, portable oven, right? And this heats your food up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. I can heat up some soup in there. I can make rice. I have a lot more options now anyways. And that's that. Let's get to trucking. We're in Rush City, Minnesota this morning. I stayed at this holiday truck stop. Seems to be one of those forgotten ones because there's a couple of quick trips down here and a love's travel plaza closer to Minneapolis, behind me south of me. And they were pretty full. All filled up. Those ones always fill up first. I like to come to these ones. Yeah, it's a gravel parking lot. My truck gets a little dusty. It doesn't make me happy. You know me. But I stopped late at night yesterday. Late. And I like coming to these kind of truck stops then because I know there's usually going to be parking. That was a very nice place to stop. Since I don't have diesel with me, this sort of turns into my table. I was thinking of maybe even leaving his platform here too, just so I have a little bit of a bigger table. I have my hats here. This needs a new fuse. I blew this fuse yesterday in here. See that? It did not like my kettle. So I need to get a new fuse for that eventually. Put that down there for now. Got my breakfast champions right here. Case for my glasses. Case for my sunglasses. Vest. I've already done my pre-trip. I'm ready to rock and roll. I don't know about you guys.  Didn't you? Okay, so I'm just going to roll forward. I checked my fifth wheel. It is attached. My trailer is attached to it. I'm just going to make double sure here now. I'm going to roll forward about a couple of feet. Spike the trailer. The trailer brakes weren't. The trailer is attached. I'm going to roll forward again. And the brakes release. Beautiful. Now we got to wait for this guy here. What are you doing, bud? What are you doing, bud? Nice freight shaker you got yourself there. Very nice. You're going to back in here, aren't you? The coffee's actually really good. Where did I put my phone though, is this it? What are you doing back there? No. I've got my headset right here just in case I get any phone calls. Okay, let's go. Let's go pick up our load. We're going to Duluth, Minnesota, which is about an hour and a half north of here where we're at.  I'm hoping they're going to have a drop and hook situation for me where I can get right back out on the road. A little bit of a slow start to the week this week. Didn't have anything to do on Monday. So I started on Tuesday, so I'd really like to keep busy, but we'll see what they got. Some weeks are busier than other weeks. My last couple of weeks have been very busy. So why am I going to know that? No, I'm not going to go that way. I'm going to go to the I-35. Where do you want me to go?  Karen doesn't know what she's talking about. Diesel price here in Rush City, Minnesota, is $5.40 per US gallon. Going for the high score. California, what are you at right now? I must be ridiculous out there. This is Exit 195. We're on Interstate 35, Northbound, North of Minneapolis. Being directed off the highway here by Karen, I checked her work. Looks legit. So we're going to follow her direction right now. For now anyways, right? The Askov. Looks like a little bit of a shortcut, and this road actually dips us through the Northwest tip of Wisconsin. Just barely. This is where I was hoping to make it to last night. The Banning Junction. I was going to park in here, but my e-log here didn't think it was a good idea. I thought it was a great idea. I had lost the energy. I could have kept going. I guess I should say the US government doesn't think it's a good idea. They told me I had to go to bed. High school that way. Do you see that sign? Just in case. Just in case the locals forget we're to bring their kids. Hey, bring your kids over here. Holy things, huge. Whoa. East central schools. That thing is massive. Wow. Well, I guess we have a pretty big high school in Steinbach too. It's ginormous. That is huge. Looks like we get some nice back road countryside views this morning though. Look at this. That's a nice treat. Some people fishing down here. Oh, you won't be able to see them. Well, look at this. Look at this. Can you just look at it? I recognize this place now. I have been here before. Metal pieces like that. Small pallets, but they look pretty heavy. I'm gonna get my vest on, my sweater and everything. It's a little chilly outside and go find the shipper. Get loaded, tie it down and book it on back home. At least I'm having the lights on over here. That's pretty nice out. Gonna have to move this and put it at the back of the trailer over here. Here's the driver's entrance though. Let's go see if we can find somebody. Didn't have time this last weekend to give all blue the bath she deserved. We had a talk though. She's okay with it. She forgave me. But I'm gonna have to do an extra good job next weekend, she says. Here's my load. Just steel casts. Not too heavy. They're about 6,000 pounds a pallet, I believe. I'm all tied down. I have strap protection over the sides there where it needs to be. Let's rock and roll. It's the theme of today, right? Rock and roll. I was a little disappointed this morning with my new little coffee heater upper thinger. I don't know what was going on, but I had it plugged in for an hour and it wouldn't heat up past lukewarm.  Because yesterday I got it pretty much to boiling, like it was like my coffee would hurt my tongue, right? Like coffee should. That's the way coffee is supposed to be. And today I could just barely get it to lukewarm. So I don't know if it wasn't connecting properly, maybe, or what in the world. I'm gonna try it again right now and see if I can get some hot water. Then I'm gonna make some oatmeal once that's heated up. Yesterday it only took about 15 minutes to get it up to a boiling point from cold. Like I took it out of my cooler cold. Today I put warm water in there that wasn't even in the cooler. So here, let's show you this. I'm gonna take warm water from down here. Oh, I have one right here. Perfect. Calm down, Karen. Calm down. Telling a story. Okay. I'm gonna put this whole thing in here. Nice clean water. I'm gonna unplug this one. Kenworth, why did you put your plugs in the middle behind the cup holders? I don't have a talk with the engineers. I mean, that's not cool. Not cool. So I'm gonna plug this one in here. Okay. You turn this on and then you see that light come on in there? That means that it's connecting properly. I think that's the way. It's not supposed to go the other way, right? No, it's definitely not supposed to go that way. It doesn't fit that way. Oops. Okay. Well, let's see what happens, right? If it doesn't heat this up properly, I'm gonna return it. I bought it at the Flying Jay in Santa Dolph. I think I'm gonna stop by there tonight anyways for a shower. And if that doesn't heat up, I'm gonna bring it back and say, hey, this thing's not working. Worked for one day. I have a seven day return policy on it. So I bought it the day before yesterday. Should be good. Kind of disappointing.  Yeah, maybe I should. I should put some food in there. Shouldn't I test this all out? Okay. You guys can hang out here with me while I do this. I'm just running out of plugs. That's all. I'll have to do the water first and then we'll make supper with this later. This is supposed to heat up my food to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. So we'll see what happens. Let's leave this here for now. I'm gonna heat up some of that soup for supper. For lunch, I'll have oatmeal with that hot water. I'm supposed to have the engine running while that's on, otherwise it could drain the battery. That's how much power it's supposed to use. That's how you think the water would just physically be boiling. Yeah, because that one's a little bit small for me anyways. But I mean, it's perfect for one person, right? Make one cup of coffee in the morning. Make one bowl of oatmeal or whatever for lunch and blah, blah, blah. If it's not going to heat it up properly, I'm going to bring it back and get a bigger one, one that works properly. Way too many wires here. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get a Bluetooth auxiliary cable. One of you guys said it in your comments and I appreciate that for the heads up. I have this auxiliary cable because this stereo isn't Bluetooth. I have to connect it to my phone through this. I can listen to my music. I can get a Bluetooth auxiliary plug eventually. I mean, I don't want to spend money on that right now because this is working. It's just a little annoying, but it works. You heat my water up there little buddy. Like I said, this morning, I had it heating for an hour. Just got to lukewarm. Very disappointing. All right, ladies and jelly beans. Let's roll out. I've sent in all my paperwork already for the border. It should be ready to clear as soon as possible. Oh, we got an army of cobra chickens down here. I didn't know our Air Force had a base here. Oh, don't you dare. Don't you dare. Stare me down like that. I wanted to fight. Looks like we'll be taking US Highway 2 westbound. We're going to cross through from Pemba to North Dakota into Emerson, Manitoba. The problem was it did heat, but it wasn't connecting properly at the base, right? Where it connects to the power supply, what actually heats it. And you had to hold it, sit there and hold it a specific way. And it takes about 15-20 minutes for the water to get somewhat hot. You'd have to sit there and hold it or I could jam a little piece of rubber or something in there just to hold it in place for about half an hour. And then I had hot water. But as soon as I started going down the road or as soon as I bumped it or the truck shakes, it would stop heating again. So it wasn't connecting properly. So I stopped by here where I bought this at the Flying J and St. Agath. We're back here in Canada and exchanged it. So I got a new one. I hope this one works better. I'm going to keep my receipt again just in case. This was the last one they had on their shelf though. So if I want to return it here, I'm going to have to wait for them to restock it. But hopefully this one works. It worked great. Like if you can hold it just right, heats the water up right to a boil. Works great. But if I'm paying money for a product, I just want it to work right. I'll exchange it for one home. Right? You pay the money for a working product. I don't want to sit there and like Jerry Riggett or like hold it every single time. I want one that works proper. This one works much better. Look at that. It's got the water to a boil. The other one didn't do that. Nice. Good. I'm glad I exchanged that then. I'm going to make some soup. I walked around this whole block here just making sure that we're allowed to park here and we absolutely are. We're not allowed to park on that side though. Big signs there. No parking either way there. There's a sign back here that I saw. It said no parking. I was like oh. Oh. But it's no parking. I don't know if you can read it. From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday. This way. That's so that it doesn't block. You don't block this intersection. So big trucks can get around here swing around nice and wide. So I can park that direction of this sign. And the other sign says I can park in this direction of the other sign. So you can still fit like two or three cars behind me here yet. So that was my day today everybody. If you're new here welcome. Don't forget to subscribe before you go. There will be another video tomorrow. Make videos almost every day.  Pretty much every day documenting my life as a truck driver based in Canada. Drive across Canada in the United States. And we've been everywhere. We took that Johnny Cash song quite literally. I've been everywhere man. The only place in North America of Canada in the U.S. that I haven't been to. Well in Canada I haven't been to the territory of Nunavut because there's literally no roads that lead there. I can't drive there. Been everywhere else. The U.S. I haven't been to Alaska and I haven't been to Hawaii. Hawaii same reason as Nunavut. It's hard to drive there. Alaska we do go there. My dad's been there a few times. Maybe one day I will go there. But I haven't been to Alaska yet. Other than that I'm pretty sure I've been everywhere. 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Welcome to NTN Lightly, I am Genelle Norville, this edition's top stories. Government launches a new initiative to ignite and sustain the Caricum identity. Regional travellers to St Lucia to pay less in departure tax as the island announces a Caribbean travel bubble and tourism transportation operators better equipped to deliver services amid COVID-19. St Lucia joined the rest of the Caricum community Monday in celebrating Caricum Day with the launch of a new initiative to ignite and sustain the Caricum identity. Caribbean community Caricum Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chagaramas, establishing the Caribbean community on the 4th of July 1973. Some 47 years later, Caricum continues to evolve, achieving new feats as it gets stronger. Ambassador to Caricum and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States OECS, her Excellency Elmer Jean Isaac, explained that citizens in every member state have a role to play in molding Caricum's future. Like most 50-year-olds, the Caribbean community boasts sufficient youthful vigor to continue to imbue life and energy into our project. While tempering exuberance with the kind of wisdom that is born of trials, hard knocks and varied experience, there is no doubt that as a community of sovereign states, we sometimes have to manage a tug of war between national and regional interests. That is inevitable. But what is most important is that we never lose sight of why we have embarked upon this journey and ultimately the kind of heritage that we wish to create for future generations. The Regional Integration Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister in collaboration with the Caricum Secretariat will launch the IAM Caricum Communications Campaign in St. Lucia. Her Excellency Isaac explained that the campaign is aimed at increasing visibility and understanding of Caricum among citizens of the community. It seeks to engage and assist citizens of the community to locate themselves within the Caricum construct, institutions, governance structure, policies and plans, and to take ownership and participate fully in the Regional Integration Development Agenda. To launch the IAM Caricum Campaign and in celebration of Caricum Day 2020, the Unit has planned a number of activities, including the unveiling of the IAM Caricum Photo Frame, marking today as Caricum Colours Day, interviews, online games and the proper booth where persons can obtain information on Caricum's role, contributions, activities, strategies and the development of the Community Strategic Plan. In designing the 2015-2019 Strategic Plan, the community made a significant effort to include as broad a cross-section of citizens as possible. A similar participatory approach is being used in crafting the Strategic Plan that will govern the movement post-2020. Minister of Responsibility for External Affairs Honourable Sarah Flood-Bowbre highlighted strides made by Caricum. We have taken strides in fulfilling the mandate of Caricum to promote economic integration and cooperation amongst members with actions such as the implementation of the common external tariff and the widening of the categories eligible for free movement of skills and labour. Together we have tackled imbalanced and unfair global systems analogous to the parable of David and Goliath, whether it be through our well-orchestrated advocacy on relaxing the criteria to international funding to reflect the cognizance of the economic and physical vulnerabilities of small island developing states or strategically lobbying the removal of member states from black lists by entities, even after commitments have been made to alter domestic legislation or when current practices are consistent with internationally approved recommendations. To commemorate Caricum Day 2020, the Government of St Lucia launched Caricum Colours Day, an initiative geared towards promoting the Caricum identity and increasing public awareness of the organisation, its institutions and their work. And as the Caribbean region celebrates Caricum Day, the heads of government and the peoples are facing the single largest threat to member states in recent history, the novel coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the lockdown of the islands and the closing of their borders to each other and the world. But as the with Caricum states having flattened the curve, travel is resuming. The Government of St Lucia has introduced new and updated protocols for arrivals from July 9 2020. Travelers will be required to obtain a negative PCR test within seven days of travel. However, a travel bubble comprising Caricum territories that have zero or low instance of COVID-19 cases are exempt from the seven-day pre-testing requirement and quarantine. The Government of St Lucia has also announced a reduction of the 54 EC dollar departure tax for regional travelers. Minister of Responsibility for External Affairs Honourable Sarah-Flood Pobre made the announcement at the flag raising ceremony in honour of Caricum Day. The most recently confronted challenge has been access to equitable and affordable regional travel and in that regard I am pleased to announce that in response to the current pandemic and to contribute to the regional efforts to bolster intra-regional travel, Cabinet of Ministers of St Lucia intends to approve the reduction of the departure tax on regional travel to 35 dollars. Minister of Responsibility for External Affairs Honourable Sarah-Flood Pobre There is good news for travelers from St Lucia to the United Kingdom as the island is among countries on the travel corridor list released by the UK Government meaning visitors from St Lucia do not have to self isolate on arrival in the UK. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Chasne says this is testimony to the success the nation has had in managing COVID-19. The director of the Pan American Health Organization has also commended the island's handling of the pandemic. Dr. Caricia Etienne has cautioned though that the reopening of the economy here and in the wider region be guided by data. The personal, social and economic toll of stay at home orders has strained our region and the political pressure to ease restrictions is palpable. However, the virus cannot be left unchecked. As we are seeing countries, states and cities that do not embrace preventive measures or relax restrictions too soon can be flooded with new cases. This forces us to face a hard truth. We must not abandon what works because of fatigue or political pressure. This virus does not work that way. We need to double down on measures that save lives early on and to deploy them with more precision than ever before. We must let data not passion guide our actions. The power director advises that countries open gradually taking a phased approach that relies on robust surveillance, expanding testing and contact tracing capacity. Reopening is not merely suspending travel restrictions and stay at home orders. It requires implementing a set of public health measures to track new cases and build sufficient capacity to detect and control new outbreaks. These steps include the ample access to timely testing for every suspected case and their contacts. We need tests, but we also need test results to be reported quickly to paint an accurate picture. The isolation of cases. Anyone with symptoms should have the guidance and support needed to reduce the chance of transmitting the disease to others. Contact tracing. This should be in place wherever possible, anchored to a strong primary healthcare system that can help reduce the risk of transmission among vulnerable communities. Tracking health systems capacity. We must ensure that the number of hospital and ICU beds remains sufficient to provide care to severe cases. The ample access to information and PPEs. This includes access to PPEs for health workers and the training to help them reduce their personal risk. And as air travel to St Lucia resumes, the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, in collaboration with the St Lucia Tourism Authority, NAT Med and the Ministry of Health made a donation of personal protective equipment to PPE to tourism transportation operators. More from Lisa Joseph. The equipment includes 20,000 gloves, 1,020 cloth masks and 840 hand sanitizers, some of which are locally made in keeping with the ongoing by-local campaign. Officials say with the level of vulnerability of the operators that include taxi and rideshare operators on island, the overall aim is to mitigate any possible spread of COVID-19 into communities. Donald Envite, a permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Information, Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries explains that the Ministry has been working feverishly with the various stakeholders to ensure all precautionary measures are taken. In preparation for the resumption of tourism and travel coming in the next week, we are here to present a gift we consider. We consider it also an investment as a measure of getting the taxi sector prepared for the road ahead. One of the things we have to ensure is that we adhere to all of the protocols as designated by the Ministry of Health and as part of that is the PPEs. So these play a fundamental part in terms of the preparation for you who are here today represented by so many taxi operators and associations. Minister for Tourism, Information, Broadcasting, Culture and Creative Industries, Honourable Dominic Fede, explains the importance of putting these protective measures in place. We have to prepare ourselves because if anything we can see with COVID, it is a pandemic of glorious uncertainties. What obtains today doesn't obtain tomorrow. So there could be a vaccine found tomorrow and then this will all be over. So what we have to ensure is that whenever that time comes, whenever the world is ready to have tourism in a meaningful way again that we are prepared and that's what today is all about. It's just ensuring that you or taxi drivers are ready to compete, that you have the standards in place, that you are not left out of the equation but you are rather included in what we are trying to do to get our country and our tourism sector ready for that eventual reopening. It's only a matter of time. No one can tell when. Matthew Hutchinson, Vice President of Southern Taxi Association, expressed gratitude on behalf of the operators for the donation of the PPEs. And we have to give credit to the government and the ministry for the way this whole COVID-19 situation has been handled. I must say that when you consider the fact that all taxi drivers are in waiting, not receiving a salary, I think with Southern Taxi in particular. I think our members are ready. We know that they are going to be risks but life must go on. I must also say that we as Southern Taxis in the center of the process operating at UNR airport, we have had a number of meetings and that is another reason why we should commend the government officials and in particular the Ministry of Tourism for keeping us engaged and collaborating with us in this effort. The hand in over ceremony of the PPEs took place Monday, July 6, 2020 from the Government Information Service. Lisa Joseph reporting. The Cuban team of medical practitioners who are on island assistance inclusions fight against COVID-19, have successfully completed an English language course facilitated by the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College held a ceremony in recognition of the Cuban medical personnel who successfully completed the first phase of the English as a second language ESL course. The English as a second language program was designed to help the Cuban doctors and nurses communicate with local medical personnel, patients and the community at large while they assisted St. Lucia in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 80 Cubans completed the program which spanned over a period of five weeks from June 1 to July 2, 2020. Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, John Calyxt commended the brigade on completing the ESL course and expressed gratitude to the team for their assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board should be unified in fighting against this global pandemic caused by the global coronavirus COVID-19 and in this regard we cannot underscore the importance of the Cuban medical brigade in their attempts at international cooperation and solidarity, especially in small and urban states like ours, where we have limited resources. Therefore, as a good work gesture, the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, in recognition of the contribution that the Cuban doctors and nurses have made to control the spread of the coronavirus in St. Lucia, offered to conduct an English instruction that would enable more effective communication with local medical personnel, patients and the community at large. Ambassador of Cuba to St. Lucia, his Excellency Alejandro Semancas Mare, expressed gratitude to the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College for the opportunity given to the medical brigade despite the challenging conditions. There were many people also with little time available and who needed a differentiated attention because they had different levels of English. But our friends at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College demonstrated that there are no obstacles when there is a determination and perseverance. Then, when I visited our collaborators, they were always busy. I was told, don't bother them who are studying English. Don't bother them because otherwise the teachers will scold them. Don't bother them they are doing the homework. Our doctors, nurses and biomedical engineers became your Cuban students and were able to enrich their heritage thanks to you. The Chief Education Officer at the Ministry of Education, Fiona Meyer, stressed on the importance of the mutually beneficial relationship between St. Lucia and Cuba. We embrace the different cultures what Cuba has to offer and what St. Lucia has to offer and where best, most appropriate in the medical field. Can you imagine why you're not feeling well? It's not a time you want to socialize, it's not a time you want to try and translate. And we must applaud Sir Arthur. We must applaud it because as much as we see this as giving to our Cuban counterparts, it is giving back to our St. Lucia's. Sessions continue in July 2020 with a second batch of new learners, as well as continuing participants. The presentation of certificates of completion took place at the Golden Palm Event Center on Saturday, July 4th, 2020. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. This is NTN Nightly, up next, Primers Hutchinson with the NTN Neufel, okay all. COVID-19 is a new pandemic disease as declared by the World Health Organization. It is transmitted directly by respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes or indirectly through rubbing the face with contaminated hands. There is still no specific treatment or vaccine against COVID-19 and as such, the farming community should adhere to some special recommendations. Reduce your farm labor to only essential workers. Ensure regular hand washing with soap and water or use 60% to 95% alcohol-based hand sanitizer until soap and water are available. Clean all work surfaces and farm tools such as cut glasses, forks and sprayers with a 10% bleach solution. Ensure that toilets are cleaned thoroughly after each use and sanitize daily. Prohibit visitors to the farms. Limit contact among farm workers and promote social distances, ensuring six feet between each worker and promote a no-hand shaking or unnecessary touch policy. More than ever before, your important role as the gatekeepers of St. Lucius Nutritional Health and Food Security should be taken seriously. When you exercise these precautions, you not only safeguard your health but also continue to allow all St. Lucian's access to freshly grown fruits, vegetables and other local crops. Remember, it is our responsibility to ensure our nation eats fresh St. Lucius Best. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchingson for the NTIA Nouvelle Aquial. Assume puis télévision national pays à NTIA Nouvelle Aquial, Primes Hutchingson. Departement les pompiers, c'est le signe où s'il vous est détruc, haudions, services charitables les pompiers, haudes Toronto, un pays Canada, pour aider, faciliter et faire bataille contre défaits. Ça c'était le 23 juillet 2002. J'ai mené après coup en établissement les pompiers, un vieux fort, éclené par des subventions de département les étrangers en St. Lucie. Positration salaire a venu possible par Effort conseil général, St. Lucie, pour Canada, Charles Francis, qui travaille près et puis c'est le premier Canada pour faciliter le voyage de Troc Salaire pour St. Lucie. Ambassador de Bonne Volunté pour St. Lucie, Ken Cittoli, service business, pour transporter de Troc Salaire à Péya. Deuxième grand chef, le pompier, Monsieur George Victrim, déclaré qu'il posaitation des Troc-là, qu'il fait tout plus facile pour les pompiers faire bataille défaits en St. Lucie. Ça conserve équipement pour gomminer défaits bien chers. Gouvernement, c'est un des nous, bien qu'il possible, mais c'est pas tout de bas, il faut ça faire en St. Lucie. So, let no one aid from lot organization, we can be apreciated because we have a truck to go medifit, but we have a truck to go to a lodge. Yes, assistant will join, because he can be a vendor. Selon Victrim, the Troc Salaire capable of forming a more advanced degui, which is the truck that we presently have. Yon, on a l'échelle, he can extend, we have a hope for a sapier, so sa s'enchaïs au pièce, a building on the kibbehu, so sa goumeni fea adeik, so sa usi an sinonipu meni amundi, sa rescue amundi, as we on se building sa kibbehu, and we can do it optimally. A parmi les officiers qui a doissé sa harmoniancité, chef le pompier, Monsieur Joseph Joseph, mnisez a fae security, as sa s'enchaïs au nom de Helmengl Francis, mnisez la kibbehu, sa scosabilité, sa fae les étrangers, sa si honnouave, saura flotte-bobre, et que posatif le pompier, sa si le pompier, sauit a par Canada, Craig Darkeray. Dibutement à l'éducation, c'est le si, commencez pour Guam, pour assister les étudiants, et puis live ou suivre l'éducation, pour l'année 2020, sa si pour les étudiants, qui cantouent à l'école les enfants, et les colles premiers. Le conseil est pour moi, que toutes les livres qui ont été étonnés, n'est pas un beau condition, et que les livres qui apportent pour assurer la performance et la caractérisation, généralement, pour étudier, supposent, une information nouveau. Le pour moi, c'est pour aussi, pour les étudiants, et qu'ils ne pourront pas m'entraîner, contre toi, pour étudier, de planer par si, c'est pour les étudiants qui ont continué pour Guam. Si, c'est un lot moun, qui carrément, c'est étudiant, c'est étudiant, qui carrément, pour les étudiants, on let the authorization, d'avoir tant de power à ça là, que pour exemple, à ces différents plus des distributions, ça là, qui carrément, pour porter masse à suffisage, à eux, et pour sanitiser les meilleurs, et pour obéder à l'état social. Distribution pour PowerSlimo 8, qui a fait un bioéducation, comme on sait, les six, pour les 10 droits, pour PowerSlimo 7, c'est les 12, pour les 10 droits, à bioéducation, pour PowerSlimo 6, c'est les 20, pour 24 juillet, à bioéducation. PowerSlimo 6, c'est les 27, pour les 31 juillet, à l'école secadère MIKO, en PowerSlimo 4, c'est les 3e à O, pour les 20 2020, en Tizafan, les calls RC, pour PowerSlimo 3, c'est les 3e, en Madao, pour les 7, à les calls Tizafan RC, en PowerSlimo 2, c'est les 10, pour les 14, à O, à l'école Tizafan RC, à PowerSlimo 4, c'est les 7, pour les 20, à O, à l'école Tizafan RC. Colleagues, fellow citizens, for the qualification, for the medical officers, for the public, who have finished the first IIT, this Langash Angli, for the government to the specific organization for the initiative, for the good volunteers, for the medical officers, and for the citizens, to be certified, to be approved, to be certified, to be approved, in Golden Palm Events Center, in Rodney Bay, Samedheli, Kachui, Atelier Addiway, for six months, started the first year, for the second July, for the English state program, to assist the medical officers for the public, to communicate first, and for the medical officers to be certified, because they are sick, but here, they can fight because they are sick, because they are sick, the officers, for the medical officers, for the medical officers, for the good volunteers, to be certified, to be certified, to be approved, to be certified, for the session, to continue, in July, for the second group, to participate, and that's it, we will talk about this, thank you very much, for watching, I have an invitation, to come and consider, what is life, and what is the news, and what is life, and what is life, and what is life, in general. Merci à Pearl Primus, and that brings us, to the end of NTN Nightly, join us next time, at 7pm, with a repeat, at 7am. You can also catch up with us, anytime, on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page, or YouTube channel. I am Channel Norvel.


Salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, has been used for thousands of years as an anti-inflammatory painkiller in the form of willow tree bark extract, which Hippocrates use to treat fever and to alleviate pain during childbirth. It became trademarked as a drug in 1899 and remains to this day probably the most commonly used drug in the world. One of the reasons it remains so popular, despite the fact that we have better painkillers now, is that it also acts as a blood thinner. Millions of people now take aspirin on a daily basis to treat or prevent heart disease. It all started back in 1953, with the publication of this landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine, Length of Life and Cause of Death in Rheumatoid Arthritis. A paper started out with the sense it has often been said that the way to live a long life is to acquire rheumatism. They found fewer deaths than expected from accidents, which could be explained by the fact that people with arthritis probably aren't out going skiing, but also significantly fewer deaths from heart attacks. Maybe it was all the aspirin they were taking for their joints that was thinning their blood and preventing clots forming in their coronary arteries in their heart. And so in the 1960s there were calls to study whether aspirin would help those at risk for blood clots. In the 1970s we got our WERSH study suggesting regular aspirin intake protects against heart attacks. Today, the official recommendation is that low dose aspirin is recommended for all patients with heart disease. But in the general population, for those without a known history of heart disease or stroke, daily aspirin is only recommended when the heart disease benefits outweigh the risks of bleeding. The bleeding complications associated with aspirin use may be considered an underestimated hazard in clinical medical practice. For those who've already had a heart attack, the risk-benefit analysis is clear. If you took 10,000 patients, daily low dose aspirin use would be expected to prevent approximately 250 major vascular events, such as heart attacks, strokes, or the most major event of all, death. But that same aspirin would be expected to cause approximately 40 major extracranial bleeding events, meaning bleeding so bad you have to be hospitalized. Thus, the net benefit of aspirin for secondary prevention, meaning like preventing your second heart attack, would substantially exceed the bleeding hazard. For every six major vascular events prevented, only about one major bleeding event would occur, so the value of aspirin for secondary prevention is not disputed. But if you instead took 10,000 patients who had never had a heart attack or stroke yet, and tried to use aspirin to prevent clots in the first place, so-called primary prevention, daily low dose aspirin would only be expected to prevent seven major vascular events at the cost of causing a hemorrhagic stroke, bleeding within the brain, along with three other major bleeding events. So then the benefits are only like two to one, which is a little too close for comfort, which is why the New European guidelines do not recommend aspirin for the general population, especially given the additional risk of aspirin causing smaller bleeds within the brain as well. If only there were a safe, simple side-effect-free solution, and there is. Ornish and Esselstyn proved that even advanced, crippling heart disease could not like just be prevented and treated, but reversed with a plant-based diet, centered around grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, with nuts and seeds treated as condiments, and no oils, dairy, meat, poultry, or fish. Bill Castelli, long-time director of the longest-running epidemiological study in the world, the famous Framingham Heart Study, was once asked what he would do to reverse the coronary artery disease epidemic if he were omnipotent. His answer? Have the public eat the diet described by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. In other words, he told PBS if Americans ate healthy enough the whole heart disease epidemic would disappear. Though Esselstyn clarifies, we're not just talking about vegetarianism. This new paradigm of heart disease reversal means exclusively plant-based nutrition.


Ssssssssssssssssssssss. Ness-drunk? Every week I get a few comments here and there saying, boy you must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point. Nope, there's still lots of good stuff to cover, including games like Mondania. This one was made by a combination of the folks behind Harvest Moon, as well as Bits Laboratory, in 1996. It never left Japan, but there is an English patch available at romhacking.net courtesy of the kind and patient folks at Aeon Genesis. As you can see, this game looks pretty dang good, with the sprites and environments looking similar to games like Energybreaker and of course Super Mario RPG. And like those games, Mondstania is an RPG, kinda sorta, while it falls into a bit of a gray area on the RPG spectrum, as SuperDirect calls it. Mondstania is actually the name of the island where the game takes place, and you play as Fran, who with the help of his friend Tia, is searching for a fairy. They were thought to be extinct on the island, but the game opens up with Fran seeing what is clearly a fairy-like light, although this one doesn't stop to shout at you to LISTEN! LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! Ugh, sorry about that. But yeah, Fran's obsession with finding a real fairy takes him and Tia across the island where of course things are not quite what they seem. And before you know it, you're smack dab right in the middle of a big adventure. Like I always say in videos about games like this, don't go into this one expecting Shakespeare, but one thing that makes Mondstania stand out is the colorful light-hearted nature of the presentation, and the story holds up its end of the bargain as well. Despite appearances, however, this game is almost entirely linear, with only a few points here and there where you can choose where you can go next by selecting a certain answer. Once you've entered a location, you can't leave until you complete all the available objectives there, at which point you're shuffled off to the next location. The objectives you'll run into are usually just, uh, kill or be killed, really. But there are some puzzles here and there that you'll have to figure out, but it's nothing too complex. I mean, at one point you're cleaning floors. The structure really boils down to just clear the screen, same as games like Soul Blazer or Illusion of Gaia, and you automatically level up just like in those games as well. Unfortunately though, in the case of Mondstania, there's no item shops, and all the items are predetermined, you learn new abilities at set times. So yeah, like I said, pretty dang linear for a role-playing game. The combat, however, is a bit weird.  You can move your party either one character at a time or together as a pair, and you take out enemies with either your default attack or by using a special ability which requires action points. What's weird here is that enemies only move when you do, and they attack right after you attack, so it can be a bit awkward to get used to. Similarly to grid-based games of this nature, you always want to get behind or to the side of enemies, if you can, to get the most out of your attacks, and there can be as many as 18 enemies in a location that you got to take out before you can move on. The combat here is really what's going to make or break this game for anyone that tries it. It's a very simplified version of what you might recognize from games like Final Fantasy Tactics or even something like Treasure Hunter G, but I think the closest comparison is probably something like Azure Dreams for PlayStation. So if you've played that game, you can kind of understand the way this game plays. Mondstania does offer all sorts of different weapons and spells, both melee attacks and ranged attacks, so that's cool. But still, your movement corresponding with enemy movement can feel kind of awkward at times. I already mentioned the presentation here and the graphics are great throughout the entire game. One highlight is the sheer number of unique settings and environments you get to see, and it's clear this game really does have that square soft level of polish when it comes to the visuals and the music as well, especially the music. The soundtrack here might be the best part of this game, composed by Noriyuki Iwadare, the same guy who did the music for Lunar and Grandia, and nearly every single track here is something that you want to hear again. This is one of those games where I had no problem taking my time because I was enjoying the music so much. Now, the one big flaw of this game is that it is way, way too short. This is barely a four-hour playthrough, which is pretty disappointing considering the amount of great stuff they managed to pack into this one. Yeah, this game is fun while it lasts, but when you finish it, it's almost impossible not to feel like that's it. Like, come on, did I miss something? Are there at least alternate paths I can take or something? Nope, this game really is that short. I'm not asking for any kind of 40-hour epic story or anything like that, but this game really felt like it needed more meat on the bone. So yeah, Monstania is well worth checking out. It's a fun story with a lot of polish, the visuals are great, and the soundtrack is fantastic from start to finish. The combat system is a bit unusual, but it's still fun.  I mean, that's not going to be a reason to not play it. It's just a bit disappointing is all. Still, for what's here, Monstania is a good time, and since this game never got any kind of release or re-release outside of Japan, this is another game you got to play any way you can. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


and welcome to Figments, The Power of Imagination. I'm Dan Leif, as you know, I hope, I go by Fig. And in this show, we examine ideas and dreams that are brought to fruition. At least that's the concept. Today's show is going to be a little bit different because as I envisioned this show, this is going to be a human interest story about the partners and enablers we left behind in Afghanistan and the chaotic evacuation. And we know they're very much at risk and the concerns. All of us certainly have worked with partners and enablers throughout our career. And after the withdrawal, much has been written and said about them, the idea for the show came from a connection with a fighter pilot, buddy of mine whose son-in-law is an Army soldier, has been an Army soldier, enlisted and officer, retired Lieutenant Colonel now. And he taught me a lot about this and made me think more broadly about the importance of how the United States interacts with and respects our partners and enablers. So I'd like to welcome Lieutenant Colonel or retired Jeff Chase Aloha, Jeff, how are you? I'm doing well, Dan, thanks. How are you? Great, hey, thanks for joining me on this. As I said, you've taught me a lot and I know this will be a detailed discussion, but before we get to that, I think viewers always like to know a little bit about who they're hearing from and they know plenty about me. So tell me a bit about your career or your life, your roots, and I'll ask you about your career then. So where are you from, son? Well, I born and raised Tex and Dan. So grew up here and was really thankful to be able to return here after retirement. So yeah, just finished up a 23 years career with the US Army and really unique experience. We got a lot of interesting things along the way. Obviously we're finishing up a very interesting time in our nation's history. And unfortunately or unfortunately, however you prefer to look at it, it was all in the front row seat there to some really historical events that our nation's been in. So yeah, just now transitioning and trying to figure out what's next. And back to Texas, are you a Cowboys fan? I am, Die Hard. I'm a Green Bay native that probably makes you mad, but who knows what this season's going to be like. So you grew up in Texas working on your grandpa's farm. I think you told me and your grandfather was a big influence. I've got a photo here of him, your mom, and one of her three sisters. Tell me why your grandfather influenced you to have a life of service to our country. Yeah, so I grew up working some of the summers spent there on his farm that he had out in the Hill Country of Texas. And it was just a lot of quality time working on various projects with him when we just get to talking about a lot of things. And one thing that just always really came through to me was his sense of service. And I used to ask him from a really young age, what got him in the military, why that happened. And of course he was coming in on the tail of the greatest generation in the World War II and had siblings that fought in World War II. But his sense of service, I was really drawn to that. And so he was just always a positive influence. I always looked up to him and his experience and wondered if I would have a chance at that one day. And your chance came when you were attending school after high school and pounded about as inspiring as I did, not very. And you decided to enlist as a soldier in the Army, right? I did. Think things were going nowhere fast and I was lacking a little bit of direction and it just occurred to me that if there was ever a time where I've got nothing else on the schedule right now and I'd like to explore this further and see what this is about and if it's for me, that time is now. And so I did, I enlisted and man, I was just so much better for it. I have never once regretted that. It was a really great informative time in my life. Yeah, I can't imagine what my life would have been like without the direction that the Air Force gave me and I'm a polypsi major so I shouldn't speculate about what an object in motion without direction is, but I had lots of motion and no direction. So I'm sure somebody can explain that concept in scientific terms. I've got a great picture of you here with your 113 armored vehicle. And where was that taken, that picture? Oh, I think that was a training exercise probably at the National Training Center in Southern California. So it looked pretty desert-like and of course, soldiers spend a lot of time out at NTC and it's pretty dusty. And that's what I remember from all my time with the Army as a Ford air controller and early as an officer and later on going into Iraq is dust and dirt and dust and dirt. It's a gritty life.  How were you chosen? If you were without direction, what made you somebody the Army would choose to send to school and make an officer? That happened. Well, I'm not sure exactly what all they saw, but I was stationed there at Fort Hood and I was in a recon unit. That was my job at the time. And my squad leader and platoon sergeant and platoon leader, the entire platoon leadership, they just brought me in one day and said, hey, we think you've got future potential, but we're basically split right down the middle on whether you'd make a better NCO or a better officer. So we're going to throw that over to you and let that be more of your decision. So what do you think? And at that point, it's probably one of the first times I thought that I actually thought about the future in those types of terms. And I definitely wasn't some strategic visionary that was plotting and planning right over the time. I was trying to be the best Mark 19 gunner I could be and all the time, you know, those things. So I did, I put some thought into it. And honestly, I think the choice is drawn as I was to the unbelievable quality of NCOs that I had at the time. I felt like I might be able to do more good and impact more people from the vantage point of an officer. So it really wasn't a vertical, I guess it. Right. I think for me as much as it was just a level or span of influence. And just based on the things I had seen, I thought I might be able to impact more. That's a really interesting point. And when you first said that your leadership was debating your suitability to be a non-commissioned officer, a sergeant or an officer, a commission officer, I by mind immediately went to the notion that that is not a vertical choice and it's not a qualitative choice as some might think who haven't served in the military. Some people are ideally suited to NCO leadership not because they're lesser in any way but because they're ideally suited to that situation and that mode of leadership. So interesting. So they sent you to Texas Tech, right? Yes. So I was accepted to tech at their ROTC department and so I went there and finished out the remainder of my schooling. I had that one quality year, if you remember right out of high school. So I had to add a little bit more. And so I finished up the schooling there and I commissioned in August of 2000. Well, Jeff, frankly in my education I don't remember a quality year. I remember getting by but if you had a quality year good for you. You got more than a degree at Texas Tech. Yeah, that's where I met my lovely bride, Lauren. And so yeah, it ended up being just one of the most positive experiences I think of my life. And you got commissioned. That had to be quite a feeling. That I do remember when the gold bars were pinned down.  What was that moment like? I tell you the, so I, you know I commissioned into the intelligence business but I was branch detailed into the infantry. So my first few years would be spent in the infantry. And so I went from Texas Tech. I started a little bit of time as a gold bar recruiter waiting for my school slot to come up, right? There you go and helping out around there. And then I went to Fort Benning, Georgia and started the litany of schools that you go through to prep you for a career as an infantry officer and airborne is just one of several. And my grandfather was airborne and he and my mom actually drove down and were there when I made my final two jumps. And oh wow, and his wings on me. And that was a really, really special time that they got to actually watch me jump. And you know, you could tell he always missed it. And there were some aspects that he was super happy to leave behind and some aspects that he really missed. And I think he's always enjoyed being connected through me back to Kanai. So how, how is it now that, you know, it's been so long since I left it. And that was just one of those occasions where he got to go reconnect with the place that he was stationed with a school that he had been through and whatnot. And it was pretty special. And partially your shoot up in both times that would have been miserable. But for those who don't have military roots or haven't served with the infantry in the field, like I have, we get a lot of thank you for your service. Never really know how to answer that other than to say I got more than I gave. But let me just say to the viewers who haven't lived it, the infantry life is a hard life. It is. Even in peace, Dr. Mayworth. Yeah, and hopefully as an airborne guy your knees are in good shape and all that, but that's not the topic of the discussion today. But thanks for all he did for our country and for the world. So you're commissioned, you're branch detailed. If we had three or four hours, I might be able to explain the intricacies of army professional utilization, how you go back and forth that we don't, I won't. But in your commission career, you serve infantry, then focused on intelligence, but also got into the special operations role. How did the transition to special ops go? Well, my first duty station was at Fort Carson, Colorado. And that's where I did my infantry platoon leading time and whatnot. And after when it was time to transition to the MI world, military intelligence, I just went up to brigade and so some of my higher headquarters and that was my first iteration.  And then, you know, took over a fairly substantial leadership spot up at the brigade S2. S2 intelligence. Yeah, sorry, the staff section, right. And then after doing that, I was in a kind of a counseling session with the division senior intelligence officer on post. And he said, hey, you've had a pretty interesting goal already. Is there anything else you'd like to do? And I said, I'd really like to go across the street there on the other side of post and see if the 10th special forces group would have me. And he goes, you know what, if they'll have you and they'll say yes, then you've got my blessing. So I did, I walked over there and it turns out they were ramping up. I didn't know it at the time for the Iraq invasion. And so a series of conversations led to them saying yes. And so I walked over there. So that was my first exposure to the special operations world. Still a first lieutenant at the time, which was quite the anomaly. I think their task organization has changed a lot over the past 20 years. And I think it's not such a weird thing, but at the time I was the only one. And they made that known. Yeah, you were a kid, though you were a kid who'd had, unless time that had to help a little bit in terms of not being too wet behind the ears, not to typically wet. It got me through the door, not to worry about it. Yeah. Yep. So you served during the Iraq invasion, I was, as I told you with General McCarron as his senior Air Force representative on his staff during the invasion. I'm pretty sure I still have dust somewhere in me from that man that was unique dust. You simply couldn't keep it out of anything. And then onto special ops. And what all did you, within the limits of classification, what all did you do as a special ops intelligence officer? Well, really the first, you know, couple of deployments with 10th Special Forces group actually was, you know, it was part of the broader task force Viking that held the north. So that was our area of responsibility was to watch the northern half of Iraq. And so obviously that was, had to have a lot of partner engagement in that and the Kurds up just north of the green zone, the KDP, those, you might remember some of those partners who really got a front row seat to partner engagement. And, hey, there's a lot more people on a battlefield than I've just read in books and whatnot. And so that really was my first exposure to not only how many players you find on a battlefield and what the competing agendas and whatnot lead to, but more the value that they bring and how, I guess, unbelievably impactful deliberate relationships can be for good or bad. And in northern Iraq, there wasn't a large U.S. force presence up there early in the war, right? Oh, they ended up calling as a Joint Special Operations Task Force or just sort of north. And so it was us against, when we first got in there was, we were facing three Iraqi corps, I believe. And I was roughly, It was a big unit, folks. It was about, it was about 1,500 versus 35,000, I believe was the numbers I remember. Yeah, wow. And so you're kind of on your own and absolutely on your own without partners and enablers. And we're gonna talk about the partners and enablers in a minute, but first let me take a break to talk about pigments on reality coming up on September 13th at 10 o'clock Hawaii Standard Time. And it will be available on YouTube afterwards. So I'm going to talk, continue to talk national security to go with my three episodes directly related to Afghanistan. I'm going to talk national security, the Washington problem. It will still be non-political as I always am, but I think we've got a problem with the Washington national security community that can be addressed. So hopefully I'll offer a solution. So Jeff, back to our topic partners and enablers and friends and colleagues eventually they become at times. First of all, I've never flown a combat mission without partners because my combat missions were over Iraq, kind of limited. And then over Serbia, Kosovo, less limited, but always with not just U.S. Army or Air Force and Army, Navy, Marine aviation units involved, but also NATO or other coalition partners. So I didn't go to war without them. And in my work in the Pacific, I know that across this vast expanse, we don't do anything without attempting to build our partnerships. And right now, as a matter of fact, there are significant efforts to expand both the quantity and quality of our partnerships. And in my experience, we don't always fully respect our partners. We kind of treat them as add-ons. We have the typical American hubris, which is very dangerous. In your case, what did your partners and enablers do? Talk about what that means to be a partner or enabler to American forces in peace and war.  And that can be on a training standpoint. That NTC rotation, there were partners there that young private Chase was seeing. There are partners in every activity period. And whether you realize it or not, and sometimes they're unilateral within the U.S. apparatus, but partner nations are just such a big part of what it is that we do. And I think one of the biggest values that they bring is a local or regional perspective. And it's just a lens that we're not familiar with. And the idea that we could go into a location and understand the nuances, whether or not you understand a language or not. I mean, if you think about nuances of slang and dialects and cultural isms across various subregions, we can point to things like the Middle East. It's like, well, there's so many sub-regions. Asia. The Leeds. Yeah, exactly. And so those things, you don't have a full appreciation until you get up close and personal. And then as you start to build those bonds, build those relationships with partners on the ground, you quickly see how important their opinion and their insight is. And so yeah, I don't know of anything that I ever did that wasn't enabled by a partner in some director-endric way. So if you're getting that insight, and I had an interesting career with a, or conversation with an active duty four-star a couple of weeks ago talking about Afghanistan. And he said that one of the mistakes we've made in Afghanistan was not understanding what the Afghans want. And that's one of the nuances of, of partner engagement. And if you simply treat it as what you get from your partners as data, you get maybe half the value. If you take it as insight and perspective that you don't share, but have to appreciate respect, then you might get some value from, more value from it. Would you agree with that assessment? I would.  So you obviously as you grow up and you, and you get further along in the ranks and whatnot, there's a lot of people coming behind you that you want to instill some of these lessons that you've learned. And junior officers, junior NCOs, yeah, it didn't matter. Everybody that was ever sent to work with me, that's one of the first things you, you have to get through and make sure they have a better understanding for us. This is that the partner perspective is not something that you have to put up with. It's not something that you remember. It's something that you have to appreciate and you have to put yourself in their shoes. Or else what you find yourself doing is you're talking past competing definitions of success or competing definitions of time and competing risk tolerances. And if you, if you don't take the time to deliberately understand that lens and ask the questions, they, I have never yet met a partner that did not want to have a meaningful discussion on how they could get closer aligned in terms of, hey, this is the plan. How are we gonna do this thing that we've been called to do? They all want to do that. And they can sense it when you feel like you're having to put up with them rather than fully appreciate their perspective. And it's easy to do at times because we tend to be the most technologically sophisticated. Sometimes we're taking a bit more risk a story from the Serbia operated air campaign over Serbia was we had Afghan partners at my, or I'm sorry, NATO partners at my base and their national leadership who wouldn't let them fly offensive sorties or would only let them fly patrol sorties, combat air patrol and not engage targets directly. They were still an important contribution because those are combat air patrols we didn't have to fill. And it was easy, it could have been easy to disrespect them because they weren't getting shot at, frankly, which is a big discriminator in combat who's getting shot at and who's not, wasn't their fault. And even if they had chosen at the squadron level to do it, they're still contributing and it is what it is. And frankly, one of the best perspectives they had was that they were Europeans and we were fighting in Europe. And I don't know if you noticed, but I'm not a European. So it can be easy to default to sort of a condescending view of others who aren't doing the same things you're doing. And that's at your own peril, it seems to me. How important are partners and enablers to our missions? You said they're always there. On a 10 scale, where would you rate partner enablement, engagement? Easily, nine and a half. You can't do things without them. So everywhere that you go, everything that we're going to do, you have to have somebody's permission, you have to have somebody's concurrence. And if it's a location that you don't have that or you don't need it, that means really bad things are about to happen.  So if you think about, hey, I'm going to go to a different geographic place on earth and do this thing, there's a lot of phone calls that are gonna need to be made to make sure that people understand, number one, that we can protect our own forces. Force protection is absolutely, and security is the number one priority when you go anywhere and do anything. And we can't keep our troops safe if we don't have the partners that are involved and spirited. The biggest thing though, is, you know, I envision this, the idea that we're going and we have a thing and it's way down the road. There's so many bins in that road before we get to what our definition of success is. And really, our partners just provide a, that critical look around the next bin when we don't even realize there's a bin in the road coming up. It's like, for more, we can only see with our technology or our defense budgets or whatnot, there's only so much that we can see without the enablement of a no kidding local perspective. And they help us see around those corners and they help us anticipate problems that we would have never realized that we were about to have. And you can't understand, you can't make a good determination of success as you said earlier, if you don't understand what their notion of success was. And as we got ready for this, we spoke about time and our presence, especially in combat operations, but folks, let me tell you that the same concepts we're talking about are just as true for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief or any other in military endeavor around the world. That it doesn't have to be when the bullets are flying, but that notion of time, we're temporary, we see an end. Our Afghan friends right now don't have an end and what's ahead doesn't look good for our partners and enablers. They're going to be stuck with whatever we leave and if our definition of success is stops on date certain, that's not their success, even if they're compatible. Agree? I do and we have to remember that we aren't all of the vote. We get one vote of many and you know this all too well, and it's the idea that what we do and that decision, the decisions that we make within our perspective and our agendas and our definitions, the idea that it doesn't affect the partners and the ripples in the pond go in all directions, that it doesn't affect other people, it's just wrong. And it does affect our partners and we have to make sure that that's the collaborative nature of the discussions that got us to the event and made us successful to whatever varying degree. We have to remember that same level of collaboration is absolutely critical when we're going to figure out how to end it, terminate it, stall it, change its name and reclassify it, whatever it is, the dismount. How do we get off this bull after eight seconds? It's a group discussion, it's a team sport and I'm just seeing a concerning trend that we're not necessarily respecting the team's sportness at those final stages and it's really gonna affect us long term if we don't watch that. Because it is because partnering is something that we typically have done better than other nations and we can't do everything ourselves. We ought not seek to do everything ourselves because it's impossible. So that would be a fool's errand. But when we compare ourselves to other powers like China and Russia, we have generally been good at partnerships and if we lose that advantage, we'll have a more difficult time being a force for good which I really believe despite the difficult, the terrible events of the last few weeks we continue to seek to be. We don't always do it. Jeff, I'd like to talk about one other element of this partnership that you mentioned earlier and that's language. I speak one language. I can get by, I can be cordial in several others of places I've served generally. But I think there's a natural bias to be dismissive of people whose English isn't perfect when you're a native English speaker and it's hard work to communicate with partners and enablers when you don't share a common original language, first language. How important do you think it is to work through the difficulty of translation, understanding, truly understanding, not just translating, how key is language in all of this? I don't think it can be overstated the importance of it. I mean, some of those most critical early victories in the Iraq invasion, rather, they were decided on languages that we didn't realize that we had, but you get there and you think you're going to go in and hey, we need this type of linguist or this type of dialect and you get there and realize actually the guys we need to partner with, they actually speak a little something different, right? I figure out, okay, so between the two of us here, what do we have? And so I'll just say that that was a little surprising what languages ended up being used for planning a lot of those initial operations, but it can't be overstated. I mean, and that I think a lot of people have made that I was at a conference one time with Heckman Karzai and he was commenting on that exact thing and he was very underwhelmed at this conference. At that point in the war, this was probably 0809-ish with the lack of investment in language that he saw from his US counterparts from primarily the diplomatic level. But it's interesting, yeah. Yeah, it's important, it's time consuming and as you know in combat, there is nothing more precious than time. That's always compressed and you're on the clock, but you can't take a shortcut with language and understanding and in air combat, we used to have a cliche, take your time and get there faster and if you've got to do that with language and speaking of time, holy cow, this went by quick and I really appreciate your insight.  I think that's Washington Monument behind me if my landmark or behind you, if my landmark recognition is correct. So again, I wanna thank you for your insight. I wish we had more time, perhaps we'll talk again some other time, I'm sure we will, but it's been very helpful Jeff. So thanks for your service and thanks for teaching me. Thanks for having me, Dan, this has been a lot of fun. You bet, and note he's in the Army, so he calls me Dan, nobody in the Air Force calls me Fig, they're a little more formal than we are. So reminder folks, figments on reality, national security, the Washington problem coming up on September 13th at 10 o'clock, Hawaii Standard Time. 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The DuPont Cavalcade of America, starring Agnes Moorhead in party lines. On the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Here is a cool and refreshing suggestion for your home this summer. Paint those drab-faded walls with DuPont speed-easy wall finish. Although you thin speed-easy with water, it dries on your walls to a velvety oil-type finish. It's easy to apply with a large brush or roller, and it dries in less than one hour. You can use speed-easy on wallpaper, wood, plaster, or most any interior wall surface. It comes in 11 clear, beautiful colors. Speed-easy, its name tells the story. It goes on easily, and it dries quickly. It's speed-easy, and it's made by DuPont. Agnes Moorhead, winner of the Four Uncorrespondents Award, may soon be seen as one of the stars in the Metro Golden Mayor picture. Our vines have tender grapes. The DuPont cavalcade presents Party Line, adapted from the book of the same title by Louise Baker, starring Agnes Moorhead as Miss Elmira, Mayfield's best-known, most quoted and consulted citizen, the telephone operator. Is everybody on the line? Well, that's good. Well, friends, you will be delighted to hear that Mrs. Ned Branner gave birth to an eight-pound baby girl this morning at 5.20. Now isn't that lovely? I remember Miss Elmira. Operator of Mayfield's telephone exchange. My name's Louise Maxwell, and when I was a child, there was no such thing as the dial telephone. Every family in Mayfield, rich enough to have a phone, shared it with at least three other families on what was known as a Party Line. We Maxwells were on a Party Line, along with the Dexterous and the Myers and the Grandes. Mayfield's telephone exchange wasn't very large, but Miss Elmira ruled it like a queen rules an empire. I found that out when Kenneth Myers and I tried the season's most popular telephone sport once too often. You want to do this one, Louise? Hello! No, you do this one. I'll do Mr. Ben. Hello! Miss Elmira? Well, of course it's Miss Elmira. Who's this? It's me, Miss Elmira. Kenneth Myers. Oh, I thought I recognized your voice. What do you want, Kenneth? Can you connect me with Mrs. Hogg? Please, Miss Elmira. All right. What you have to say? Sure. Just see now, um, you got Prince Albert in the tin can? Well, you better let him out. Okay. We'll do it now. Still in the tin can. You may as well take a message for your mother. I know she ain't home otherwise you wouldn't be pulling these shenanigans. Yes, ma'am. Well, when she comes home, Louise, tell your mother I tried that pork roast recipe she gave me with a tomato and it came out fine. Come in and see me. I want to talk to you. Yes, ma'am. Of course it's Miss Elmira. Who else would it be? The greengrocers? Oh, just a minute. Just a minute. Yes! Saw your husband go into Jake's barber shop, Miss Cardride. But honestly, I don't think he needed a haircut. Oh, sure. Sure, I'll call you when I see him coming back into his office. Hello, Miss Elmira. Oh, hello there, Louise. Come to pay a call. Yes, ma'am. Well, that's real nice of you, honey. How's your ma'am? She's fine, Miss Elmira. Her strawberry rash is all gone. Well, now I'm real glad to hear that. Oh, just a minute, dear. Yes! Hello, Miss Dexter. You sound worried. Dr. Sims, which one... Well, which one of the boys is sick? Oh, oh, Mary, love all your border. Oh, well, these spinsters are always ailing, aren't they? Well, now listen. The doctor's out at the Granger Farm right now, so I'll catch him there and send him on. Oh, now don't you worry a bit. He'll be there all right. Miss Elmira. What is it, honey? How long have you been our telephone operator? Oh, long before you were born, child. When I grew up, can I get to be one?  Oh, I don't, Miss Elmira. You stand a good chance. Now, you just play with your jacks a while, honey. Miss Elmira has to make an important announcement about a little stranger that came into the world. Who are you going to tell? Oh, everybody. So, Myra. What is it, child? Did you call until everybody when I was born? Naturally. How do you think they would have known about it otherwise? Well, if you tell all the news, what's the newspaper for? The men. They print it for the men. All but the personal column. The women read that. So they don't have time to read anything else. Why? Well, they're too busy listening. Easier than reading, too. All they have to do is pick up the receiver and eavesdrop. Oh. Now, run along. Run along so I can make this announcement. Well, that's something important to tell me. I had. You know, you said for me to drop in the next time. Yes. Oh, yes, indeed I did. Young lady, the telephone is a scientific instrument into which the best brains of the country have been poured.  It is? Yes, it is. How do you think your mother would get the news if it wasn't for the telephone? Then she'd have to read the courier, wouldn't she? You're evading the issue. The telephone is for business. So your mother can call Dr. Thins when somebody's sick. Mrs. Carr tried to call the greengrocers and complained that the lettuce was welded. Well, it's a long distance. What's long distance? Well, it's long distance. It's far away. Long distance is a telephone call from out of town. Did you ever have a long distance call? Did I? Clear from Washington one. Gee. From a senator of the United States. A real one? And did he talk to you on it? Well, a call was naturally for me. It was for the judge, but it had to go right through this switchboard. Matter of fact, if you want to be real particular, it was the senator's secretary that did the call. But there's no use quibbling about trifles. Now, run along so I can make this announcement before the baby gets too old. We never got a long distance call in our life. Hello? Anna, this is Geraldine Dexter. Did you hear the news? Mary Lover has a bow. No. More scandalous than that. Mr. Cordair. No. Why?  Why? Nobody knows, but they say he left a note on the pincushion. That's what I'm saying, Geraldine. I just got on there. I'm no deedeth. What did it say, Geraldine? Well, now, that sure as no knows decide that you won't say a word. I hear you, Geraldine Dexter. That's my profession. We know, Elmira, we know. Are as noble as those of a surgeon, and wild horses couldn't brag from you the contents of a conversation that passed over your wire. Indeed not. If Mr. Cordair wants to leave his wife for another woman, I say it's nobody's business but his own. Louise, you stay here a minute, honey. I'm going next door. I'll be right back. Mrs. Dexter right now. She got here fast. Where's your mother? Here I am, Geraldine. Oh, I just have to talk to you, Anna. Did you hear that Mr. Elmira said before she hung up? I certainly did. And I've always thought the Cordairs were so deported. It gives you pause, doesn't it? But what do you mean? Anna, how do we know our own husbands aren't being subject to influences we know nothing about? Geraldine Dexter. Well, Clyde goes to market in San Francisco four times a year, and he's even been to Chicago three times. And everybody knows Chicago's a very bad place. Oh, well, that's just silly. Elmira wouldn't know if anything like that were going on, and she never tolerated. Hmm. Even Elmira doesn't know what goes on in San Francisco or Chicago, Anna. What about your own husband? My own husband? You mean Ed? Yes, Ed. He goes all over the county. How do you know some woman isn't trying to get him? Some rich widow or some country schoolman? I'm going to call Elmira. You're not going to let the whole town know our husbands are leaving us. I don't care. I'm going to put a stop to it before it's too late and my two innocent little girls are left fatherless. Yes. Miss Elmira, this is Anna Maxwell, and I've got something terribly important to ask you. The answer is an up-and-down no. I did your pardon. What did you say, Anna? What did you say, Miss Elmira? Twenty-three women have called us the same question, and I'll tell you the same thing I told them.  You understand what I mean by that, Miss Maxwell? Well, I'm not sure, Miss Elmira. Well, you just think it over and you will.  Are you sitting down? That's all right. I'm not tired. Well, listen close now. A good wife and strengths and endurance. A bad one is confusion, weakness, discomforture and despair. Keep up your spirits though the day be a dark one. We'll miss out. Oh, what did you say, Anna? Well, she inferred we're a couple of gossip-swallowing fools. Oh, and she's right, Geraldine. All through this thing, I've had something dreadful in the back of my mind. Something dreadful? Why, Anna? Well, I've been wishing I... Well, I've been wishing I was a spinster like Mary Lovell. Well, I'll admit I was, too. But that's all gone now. I realize how lucky I am. It's more than luck. It's a blessing to have a husband like mine. I wish Mary Lovell had one, too. Even half is good. Anna, I think you've got the beginning of an idea there. Well, I think we should make it our business and seriously this time to find a good husband for Mary. A really good husband. Poor thing. Well, it sounds like a good idea, Miss Dexter. But Mary Lovell is forever sane. She's very happy as she is.  She just can't be happy on Mary. Of course not, though. Well, you better be careful, Miss Dexter. Oh, no. She's upstairs reading her poetry. Poor thing. If there were only some man we could introduce her to... She's already met the three Matthew Bachelors 11 times. There's no use torturing them anymore.  The men could bring their unmarried business associates. I wouldn't do her any more good than giving her dead dog a bone. What's the matter with her? That means Mary Lovell's coming downstairs. Well, we'll think of something. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed.  By the way, how old is Mary Lovell? She's as old as I am.  Oh, excuse me, girls. Excuse me. A stranger's coming in. I've got to get off the line. Pardon me. I was told you might be able to help me find a room to rent. Oh, excuse me. My name is Benson. Charles Oglethorpe Benson. My card, madam. Yes, yes. New field salesman for Libby McNeil and Libby. Oh, are you engraving on the card? You must make very good money. Well... What sort of room do you desire, Mr. Benson? I mean, aren't you glad to help you find a room if you'll tell me your specifications? For instance, are you a married man, Mr. Benson? Well, unfortunately, no. It's not yet been my luck to find the lady of my dreams. I'm looking for bachelor quarters. Bachelors quarters? Bachelors quarters? Bachelors quarters. Well... You come back here in 15 minutes, Mr. Benson, and I'll have a fine room for you. You did say bachelor quarters, Mr. Benson. Well, yes, yes, I did. Of course, if it's too hard... Oh, no, no, no. Don't be sure and come back now. Are you here? 15 minutes. Before we bring you the second act of tonight's to plant cavalcade starring Agnes Moorhead and Party Line, here's another story about a different kind of telephoning. You know, the units of an army today are linked together with telephone lines. The first wire to go in while troops are still advancing is in the salt wire. Later, it's replaced by heavier wire that carries voices wider. 18 miles against the salt wires, 10. You've seen pictures of it knotted around fence posts and trees, stretched over the broken brick and stone of shattered buildings. We just gave Whitman to tell you more about it. Much of the telephone wire used by American forces is coated with DuPont polythene, a new plastic with outstanding insulating properties that help American wire to carry voices over unusually long distances. Further experiments are being made with a very thin coating of another DuPont plastic, nylon, as protective jacket around the polythene, all of which means that these new plastics, alone or in combination, are sure to find places in many fields after the war in the electrical industry for refrigerator parts for gaskets and tubing, and that's only beginning. Polythene, discovered in England by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited and further developed here, illustrates the teamwork of science and the teamwork of a company like DuPont, sold as nylon. For the manufacture of these two valuable plastics depends upon the chemists and the laboratories, the engineers who design and build plants to make them, the men and women working in the plants, and the technical service men who make them known to other manufacturers. All of these people work together to bring you the products of industrial chemistry We at DuPont speak of as better things or better living through chemistry. Now back to DuPont Cavalcade's presentation of Party Line, starring Agnes Moorhead as Miss Elmira, ruler of Mayfield's telephone exchange with the turn of the century. Louise Maxwell continues the story. During all the years of my childhood, Miss Elmira was one of Mayfield's most important people. She was ever willing to help, to listen and to scold whichever was needed. Nor did we expect any less from Miss Elmira than she gave during the time my mother and Mrs. Dexter were on their manhunt to find a suitable bachelor for Stinster Mary Lovell. It was Elmira who discovered Charles Oglethorpe Benson, learned he was looking for a room and promptly phoned our house. I don't understand you, Miss Elmira. You're shouting so I can't make out what you're talking about. I'm not shouting, Anna Maxwell. I'm just trying to tell you you just have to take him. Take whom for heaven's sake? Your rumour. But I have no rumour. Didn't you hear what I've just been telling you for goodness' sake? Mr. Benson, he has no wife. Who has no wife, Elmira? I just got on. Mr. Benson, Mrs. Dexter, a new traveling man. He just got into town. That's why Mrs. Maxwell just passed already my room. But why should I? I have a husband. Anna, you don't understand what Elmira's saying. Mary Lovell. Goodness, it says plain as the nose on your face. Mary Rose of Geraldine Dexter. Geraldine Dexter lives right next door to you. So Mr. Benson has to room with you. That's right, Anna. But I have no room. Louise can move upstairs into Bernice's room. I'll come over and help move her things. And I'll get Ply to bring over that good quarter-sized iron bed to Rodney's room. You can have the bureau that goes with it. But, you have no right to buy any bucks at a time like this, Anna Maxwell. This is Mary Lovell's one big chance to land herself a husband. And this man is perfect to tell him that I looked at him. How could you tell? He wears horn-rimmed spectacles. Then Mr. Benson moved into my old room. The campaign started. The strategy was developed over the telephone. It was Miss Elmira who decided on the first great move. What Mary needs is a past. A what? What does she need a past for? Well, my goodness. Do you want him to know no man's even looked at her for 15 years? Well, what kind of a past could she have? It has to be romantic. I know what? We'll make a productive young physician who got the call and went to China and died. That's all right. But we better make it more distinguished. Mr. Benson, the distinguished touch, you know. Let's see. Mary was engaged to the wealthy sign of a Boston family. A beautiful youth with the soul of a poet. Open to him. A floating ulcer. To his memory. That's how she never married. Oh, many young men, tell him all this. You are? Me. Oh, I hardly know the name. Well, he roams at your house, don't he? What more natural than you just glide into the conversation over a cup of coffee? Oh, oh, and you better add that the tragedy has left her haggard and aged, though she's still young in years. What's that for? You want to prepare them for the way she looks, don't you? I can still taste that roast chicken my mother prepared for Mr. Benson's first Sunday dinner. It was a strange and wonderful day. For once I was allowed to eat an entire meal without a single vegetable, and my pet didn't even scold when I put a gravy spot on Aunt Delia's and broadened tablecloth. We were all too busy watching Mr. Benson and Mary Lovell. Well, now, you know, that was the best dinner I've ever eaten in my life. Ever. Why, thank you, Mr. Benson. But you wouldn't say that if you ever tasted the roast chicken Mary made. Isn't that true, Mary? Oh, she's just flattering Mr. Benson. I'm not good at anything. Anything? Why, Mary Lovell, you know very well you make the best fan-buried cakes in Macy's. Oh, no. Don't believe her, Mr. Benson. Our Mary's inclined to be too modest. That's why she's the most popular member of our unmarried family. Mrs. Max, where are they? I can readily see why. Oh, Mr. Benson. Well, I guess I'll leave you two young folks to get acquainted while I see how my little girls are faring in the kitchen. They're just too quiet to see me. Have you? I beg your pardon. What were you going to say, Mr. Benson? Oh, no, no. You go ahead, Mrs. Lovell. Well, I was going to say, do you favor reading, Mr. Benson? Well, I've never been one much with books, Mrs. Lovell. I regret that now. It's never too late to learn, Mr. Benson. Now that a person has a good teacher, Mrs. Lovell? Uh, Mrs. Lovell. Yes, Mr. Benson. Would you... Would you, uh... lend me one of your books? Bye, Mr. Benson. I should love to. The first or the second? The seven o'clock show. Then they went into Bennett's pharmacy. That was at nine o'clock. They each got a cup of hot chocolate, and that's when he told her the blue of her dress matched the blue of her eyes. Well, for my military could have engaged. I wonder if my good black dress would do for the wedding. I've had it two years. Well, I'd like to ask Dad for a new print, but I know he'd raise the roof. What about you, Miss Elmira? I'm waiting for the invitation. Miss Elmira was right. Suddenly, a mysterious blight seemed to hit the blossoming romance. The women didn't know what to make of it. I simply can't understand it. He hasn't been over in a week, and Mary is simply hollow-eyed. He's acting pretty peculiar, too. Doesn't talk hardly to anybody anymore. Never so much as mentioned Mary. Although he used to love to get me on the subject of that poor dead Boston fellow. Hasn't she confided in any while at all? She's not the confiding source, Miss Elmira. She's lived here with us now for 11 years, and I swear she's never told me one intimate thing about herself. Although, frankly, I don't think there's ever been anything to tell more intimate than the color of her petticoats. Till now. What color are her? They're pink mostly. A few white ones, but not much lace until about three weeks ago. She got one of those 398 ones with eyelet embroidery. Hmm. That's when I knew things were getting serious. Oh, wait, wait. What's the matter? It's Mary.  I'll call you back. Why, I came to you, Miss Elmira, because I know that if anyone would know who started that awful rumor, it'd be you. You, well, you say someone told him you once had a sweetheart? I did. Well, I thought, I mean, I should think that that would make you more interesting, so to speak. Well, that's what she said. She said at first he was actually attracted because of my romantic past. Uh-huh. Then later it began to worsen. Oh, dear. Oh, man. Oh, who could have started that horrible rumor? I bet it was that Mrs. Cartwright. It sounds just like her. Well, I don't sound like her. Anyway, why don't you go home and let me see what I can find out? Oh, will you, Miss Elmira? Yes, I will. Oh, thank you ever so much. I don't know what Mayfield would ever do without you. Sometimes I wonder about that myself. So you'll just have to tell him, Mrs. Maxwell. You mean not to tell him I lied? Now, Elmira Jordan, that's not fair. After all, you made up that Boston fellow yourself. Oh, it's a shame to do away with him this way. He was such a nice boy. And so high-born. Boston best. Well, I guess I'll have to think of something to say to Mr. Benson. He'll probably never speak to me again as long as I live. Anyway, he did admit the story attracted him to Mary in the first place. So even if it's lost me a friend, it's gotten Mary a husband. And that's what we were after, weren't we? Well, there's the story of Mary Lovell, Kenneth Meyers, Mrs. Dexter, Charles Oglesaw Benson, and Miss Elmira. Mary Lovell is Mrs. Benson now, and Kenneth Meyers is a major in the Army. And Miss Elmira? Well, Miss Elmira is no longer the telephone exchange. But I can have a dial-a-may-sealed number without hearing Miss Elmira's voice. Good morning, friend. You will be delighted to hear that Mrs. Ned Branner gave birth to an eight-pound baby girl this morning at 5.20. Mm-hmm. Now isn't that just lovely? They've named her Beverly. Mr. Branner wanted her to call Genevieve after his mother, but Mrs. Branner's always liked the name Beverly ever since she read the grouse-dark books. Mrs. Branner didn't have a hard time of it at all. Her mother came down from Oakland to help out for a while. Mm-hmm. Well, goodbye now.  Next week, the Dupont Cavalcade is going to bring you a radio play about two American medical officers who sought out one of the most terrible scourges of history, Typhus, the feverish, hollow-eyed emperor of death, who, down through the centuries, had never met his master. But armed with nothing more than a dusting gun and some white powder, the American Army Medical Corps defeated him in the hectic days of 1944. Richard Worf will be on hand next week as our star in D.D.T. The music for tonight's Dupont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. Our Cavalcade play was written by Sylvia Berger and based upon Louise Baker's Party Line, which is to be filmed by 20th Century Fox. This is Frank Graham inviting you to listen next week to Richard Worf in D.D.T. On the Cavalcade of America brought to you by the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is the National Broadcasting Company.