Live to go live here. We're live across all the platforms. This is our live the second day For the 10-day challenge and so day one hopefully was good I'm gonna ask for some feedback So if you're doing the challenge on our social platforms you on the zoom of course you are if you're doing the challenge on the social platforms What I'd love you all to do is just in the chats. What's one thing you learned today? What is one thing that you learn today? So each day we'll be able to take something away that we learned and it's gonna be a perspective We're gonna use those perspectives to help us grow and learn about ourselves how our body works in our health So I love to throw in the chat on the zoom you can go down and hit the screen put chat and go down and put down What you've learned today But what we're gonna do next is we're gonna talk about tomorrow What's day two look like and we have a really cool fun plan set up where we're gonna be it's good You're gonna see the challenges get greater But what I've learned in this is that everybody's at different places A good mentor I said one time he goes he was doesn't he goes I don't need to tell you to run More than five miles. He goes you'll do it anyway He goes but if I can challenge the rest of the team to run one to two miles He goes we carry the load and we help the team and we do better that way I was really a very big eye opener is that when it came to running I was willing to push myself no matter what I did no matter what anybody said I was gonna push myself so everybody's on here in a different place You you might push yourself in one area if I might say hey We're gonna meditate one of these days some for some of you're going like that's perfect That's what I love to do and then for some of you That like me that's the hardest thing to do Janet is to sit still and be quiet and let my mind calm down I'm working on it. No judging So here Pam let us and I learned that walking creates good endorphins and will make you feel better That's awesome. So Pam left we can build some momentum on that. That's great. Sarah learned I've done things the steps with Ten thousand steps when our heads hurting is not easy But Sarah I am proud of you that you did it. That's what's super awesome I actually my step meter broke today true story It's on my it was actually just batters of that mines here on my on my finger So I had to do the mile because I couldn't prove that I did the 10,000 steps So I had to go do the mile Which is neat because I'm in Breckenridge, California, Colorado right now and it was a mile It was a really beautiful beautiful mile Brought this filling nice Billy Joe, that's awesome.  Don't worry about it. If you bought your kids, we're gonna be talking about that on Sunday So we're gonna be getting to What fasting looks like and do some fasting walking removes hunger Jennifer that's pretty wise So have you ever thought this when is anybody ever done this? Well, I'll give you an idea so when we're hungry sometimes we don't know for hungry sometimes we don't know what's going on and What I always sure encourage people to do is go do something that you like to do So walking as soon as Jennifer started walking her hunger went away Well, why because her body started focusing on something else It may not even been true hunger that she had it may have been just that it was a habit She she she'd learn and then by walking and basically turn that off I've walked 17,500 steps the most I've ever done most I've done in a year That's pretty awesome Sandy. So Sandy pushed it, right? So I don't have to tell Sandy do more. She did more on her own But that's pretty awesome Well pay me that's great Peggy had a ride bike because you had to use an alternative because you had an injury. That's awesome Okay, so let's get into day two Once again, I want everybody to go back and revisit what the three things they're grateful for Revisit those really like put those in there in your head my gratitude I have to spend the weekend with my best friends from growing up. I've known in my entire life We are here in a beautiful cabin in Breckenridge, Colorado And I'm just super grateful that we stayed together as close knit friends. I'm very very grateful for honestly It was being out here in fresh air, you know I live in close to the cities and in areas and like this So that was a super big thing that I was grateful for and the last thing I was grateful for is that I could go Off that walk you've lied. You don't know my story, but I was pretty messed up. I was I lost use my leg I wasn't very healthy in my 20s And so the fact that I could go out and do the walk with my kids and my family and my friends is Something I just truly it was is really big on me. So that's what I posted about in my social media post today So last question did everybody do their little social posts who is nervous anybody get nervous about doing their social post Anybody go, I don't know what to say. I don't want to say anything. Listen. I'm gonna do these things to challenge you I'm doing these things to challenge you so do your post Hey for day one of the 10-day challenge the thing I want is boom Or if you haven't done it yet, you could say the thing I learned most was when I went for a walk I stopped thinking about food. This is wisdom. You're able to pass on to more people. So Made it it took me several trips, but she made it to 10,000 stuff sandy That's a bit great response Billy Joe did her post awesome So let's get into day two you all and really quick If you have somebody that you don't see on here, I know Schedules none regents on every live will be I'll be sending everything out again here shortly What's gonna happen is tag them message them somebody invite you to this let them know that where you're at keep them updated It makes them feel important when you tell them. Hey, thanks for giving me part of this challenge I'm excited about doing this. This is what I've learned. So here. Let's get into day 3 or day 2 day 2 Sorry day 2 is gonna start tomorrow, of course day 2 starts tomorrow on Tuesday if you're doing the reboot I want you to continue us that all the way through Wednesday morning And then we're gonna hand off I'll take over that next next phase if you're not we're gonna keep the eating exactly the same Keytones in the morning right within the first couple hours of waking up. I want you seven mile walk on day one. Wow That's pretty awesome day one.  I'm gonna make some of bok choy today I want you to do that. I want you to think that way. Okay?  I'm just curious Because what I want to do is I'm trying to drive a behavior I want to drive a different hormonal behavior later in the evening and so be weird through this challenge I'm gonna be I'm gonna be doing some things that you probably have never done before and the whole purpose of that is for you To learn and grow so awesome All right exercise did the one-mile walk or the 10,000 steps and then of course the three gratitudes That was the challenge for and then the post at social media. So here's tomorrow You all ready for tomorrow tomorrow is gonna be this whole tied to the exercise. I'm gonna show you against that wall What I want to do is if there's somebody important in your life somebody that's that's sacrificed something for you My wife who sacrificed a lot to take on the a lot of the weight of our finances for a few years for me To go figure out what I wanted to do, you know, that was very big part of me I want you to send him a personal text tomorrow now You at least one you can do five but at least one Somebody that has done something for you that really touched you it could be a gym teacher from third grade It could be it could be a stranger you met that you just got connected on social media with it doesn't matter It could be your wife. It could be your child It could be any a teacher that your child goes to school and did something amazing I want you to send him a message and just thank them. Thank them for whatever it is. I appreciate you Okay, that's the one thing one thing tomorrow. That's number one number two We're gonna have a hydration goal. So hydration goal is this 100 ounces of water tomorrow now. This is the this is the catch it that that that you add up everything That you consume so your kids if it's in your keto that counts if it's in your coffee that counts if it's in your vital plex That counts. I'm gonna encourage anything other than that But I want you to hit a hundred ounces of water But your keto will count your coffee will count one if you have tea that will count 100 ounces of water now if you decide that you're having something other than those things I'm gonna take that off that does not count. You still want a hundred ounces of water Okay, there should be no I pretty much know everybody on here There's an exception where that's gonna be a challenge The only tip I'm gonna give you is do not drink all your water like right before bed Make a plan to get most of it at least 50 ounce of it done before noon Because I don't want you waking up peeing all night y'all like just just saying don't want that happening So I want you to get majority And I saw it has to be sea salt I prefer Celtic and real salt or anything else but a pinch of sea salt Okay, we're good with that. So we got we got our foods the same We got our hydration and we got our appreciation we're gonna appreciate somebody that we care about some of this done something for us We're gonna send them a private message.  We should do that method Maybe we should write a letter, but it can't be it can't be it has to be personal has to be one-on-one and Directly personal and then here's the last one y'all.  Okay. I want you just to do a little bit more than well today I guess if you're watching the replay it might be yesterday on day one But here's the exercise and I want you to remember this way. It's gonna be two four six and it looks like this I Hope you guys can see me Hi Curtis, let me know. Can you see me right here good social media? So we're gonna do a wall sit I'm gonna do a little bit more return Not in my office. So it's a little different here.   Here's the two four six.  I'm trying to use different ways to create different different challenges for you now If you want to do ten thousand steps again do it. You don't have to stop you can keep going, right? You can do another mile tomorrow if it helps you with those cravings. You can do that.  I used to do it I was a wrestler back in the day. So that's your exercise for today. Okay, so we got our water hundred ounces We got our gratitude or our appreciation to somebody that we're gonna privately message and then we have our exercise Which is gonna be a wall set and then I'm working on Janet. Maybe Jan is gonna have an exercise for us Is gonna have an exercise for us that she's working through an ankle challenge So I'm gonna have her do an exercise for us So she's gonna serve us a really cool exercise either tomorrow or maybe the next few days but that's tomorrow that's setting up for day two of the challenge and And if anybody out there right now has something that they would like to do or they think they can teach Do you have an exercise you can teach or maybe a cool something cool that you think would be a challenge for somebody? Hit me a private message. Let's do it. I might bring you on and have you help coach My goal here is not for me to be the all the coaching as we come in Wednesday, Thursday, Friday through the week I'm gonna bring in other people to start doing some coaching with us. So we're gonna collaborate together Y'all excited for this? I gotta see a little little hands. Okay. Oh my giving ten minutes straight to try village I mean, that's fun, right? Planks are coming nurse petty way planks are coming and so nurse petty way if you want to do planks with me Hit me a private message and we'll do something and we'll get come on. We'll do a plank challenge I think that'd be fun, too. Okay.  Why am I asking you to think socially when you when you share what you're doing to the world? It holds that you give yourselves a higher accountability You're gonna inspire somebody to maybe do a little bit more and that's our mission is not just for us to get results It's ultimately to inspire other people as we get better as we improve our results and social media is a really cool way to do that 18,000 steps, maybe she worked today at the hospital. That's that's kind of crazy 18,000 steps I didn't hit that yet today. I'm gonna have to go for a walk. I'm gonna have to go for another walk tonight But y'all I appreciate you. Thanks for all the feedback. Stay tuned. We'll be pushing the recording off here Just shortly so you'll get a text messaging from that if you're not in the text read You can hit me we can get you back into the text read most people I think are we have like 59 53 or 54 people committed to this journey I think that's really really fun But always hit me back with any feedback that you have any questions that you have and we'll go go go go go now figure out the phone and Selfies. Yes, you can turn it on put a little timer and make a funny face while you're doing a wall sit have fun with it You can do it on your on your feed on your stories, but do something to inspire other people you all that's what to the date That's what tomorrow is gonna represent. Mr. Skinner is in Mr. Skinner is in I like it So y'all challenge day two starts in the morning If you haven't finished your challenge you have plenty of time On Peggy, we're not doing email links or is everything sort of text messaging and lives Me and emails aren't working very well, but I'm maybe next challenge. I'll put an email system together But either way you guys have an unbelievable night. We're just I'm just answering any questions Are we just going to yes on when it comes to this challenge? It's really hard to track everything So everything I'm gonna do I just believe in people and I believe in honor people and so I'll have some questionnaires and you're gonna get some questionnaires and stuff and and And you can tell And doesn't mean I don't know some of your social media feeds I can tell what's going on out there And so my goal is is that when we go to the prizes I have a really cool way that we're gonna introduce the prizes to everybody and who's gonna run and so we're gonna have fun with That it's not gonna be like oh this person lost eight pounds and they won over this person because this is way more than weight loss It's way more than anything that you can see externally it has a lot to do with happen internally And so I can already see this just by people communicating on the chats I can already kind of tell what's happening. So so that's if we're talking about the honor system syrup Yes, and take care of that head by the way newbies here should I do a half a pack a.m. I would start with a full pack full pack in the morning Drink over 35 to 40 minutes eat when you're hungry You're gonna eat your first that first meal around 12 o'clock could be 11 could be one 12 o'clock ish 6 o'clock dinner protein and vegetables Do not eat after 7 p.m. Tip to that is that if you do get hungry go brush your teeth I learned that from Ethan Godwin. I thought he was crazy. I'm like, what are you talking about? That's just weird and then I got hungry and I brush my teeth and guess what I didn't eat after that So I was like hey it worked it worked.  It may not be live I'll be on an airplane exactly at this time tomorrow night now Who knows flights may change whatever else I still might be on if I am not on live What's gonna happen? I'm gonna do a recording and then I'm gonna send a text message to ever to all of you You can just watch the recording I'll keep it shorter because it'll be less interaction and then and then Wednesday Yeah, I'll be back live Wednesday night for for the next big hit the next big push Focus on what you want. That's the goal is for people to improve where they're at What's best for them and to learn about them? Hopefully Jennifer Mann has learned that when she gets hungry she goes for a walk and it changes state and that's a big shift And so I hope these are things are working Y'all have an unbelievable night. Thanks for participating. Thanks for all your feedback And I'm enjoying this already and we're only day one really day one in so this is day two live. Cheers. Good night y'all


We're back in America, energy in America. I'm Jay Fidel, and it's Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. Hawaii time, but it's not 3 p.m. Hawaii time in Washington. It's more like 9 p.m. in Hawaii time in Washington time in Washington. And we have Max Pizzer. He's one of the directors of Epring, the energy policy research organization in Washington. Welcome to the show, Max. Thanks for having me. It's nice to be here. Yeah, great to see you. You're welcome. Likewise. So, you know, we were trying to figure out what is going on as a consequence and an energy in the world today. And I had noticed it and you certainly have studied it, namely the pipeline between Russia and Germany. Now, more than one pipeline, about to have two pipelines from Russia to Germany. And there's all kinds of implications to that. Can you talk about it? Sure, absolutely. The context is a little deeper, it's a little broader, and I was trying to form a context for this. But let's go back to the mid-1970s. In the mid-1970s, the dominant fuel for all sectors in these sectors was crude oil. In the mid-1970s, you had a major crude oil crisis. Air Boyle and Bargo, and then the Iranian Revolution, which sparked crude oil prices considerably, imposed huge costs, economic burdens, things like that. So various constituencies in the world were looking for ways to move away from crude oil. One candidate was natural gas. At the same time, the Soviet Union realized that it had an abundance of natural resources and was in need of high currency. So the two things came together in the context of Europe. In 1980, a huge pipeline system moving natural gas from the Arctic regions of the Soviet Union and into, and in Siberia, moved gas through the various republics, including the Republic of Ukraine, Soviet Republic of Ukraine, through Czechoslovakia, which existed at the time, and into Austria to be distributed further throughout Europe. So that's the energy context, the pipeline system that we have. Well, suffice to say that Russia has an unending supply of natural gas, doesn't it, from various places around the country? Right. Currently, it has the largest conventional reserves, natural gas reserves in the world, something of over a trillion, you would keep, natural. But the United States, with its share of revolution, can certainly begin to compete. As more of that resource becomes reserves, economically proven reserves. The other aspect is that Western Europe needs natural gas. They're not getting anything of consequence from us. So the best source is from Russia, isn't it? Right. So back to what took place in 1982, so you had this huge pipeline system commission. Europe, your opinion wasn't quite dependent on natural gas as it was then, but if we move to the present, Europe, looking at my notes here, consumes about 50 billion cubic feet a day. It produces about 15, so you have a differential that needs to somehow be made up. The critical differential is made up of the gas that is now sourced in Russia and translated to countries like Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, into the industrial countries of France, Germany, Italy, places like that. What you had also is a lot of political contention. You had a major natural gas crisis in 2006, a major natural gas crisis in 2009. This is in Europe. This was brought on by disagreements between, what at that time was Ukraine and Russia, former shallower folks in the Soviet Union now becoming one more adversarial. And so given these problems that Russia had transiting in 2006 and 2009, and then also not being a reliable satellite country of Russia, Russia has started using it. It has decided to look for different ways of transiting its gas into its critical commercial region, to essentially Germany and Transnately. Well, that seems reasonable in the circumstances, doesn't it? I mean, Russia wants to sell the gas to Western Europe. Western Europe wants to buy the gas. The Ukraine kind of stands in the way, and the Ukraine is not at peace with Russia. And maybe Russia is legitimately concerned that the Ukraine could cut that pipeline, and thus hold it up. Well, that's what happened in 2006 and 2009. But since then, you have the existing pipeline system. It's reliable. It can ship 15 billion cubic feet per day, which, given the metrics that I mentioned before, 15-15, so European Union consumes 15, produces 15, it needs a differential of 35. So 20 of that can come from Russia, and 15 can be transited through Ukraine. But because there's all these points of contention, there's been an invasion of Ukraine by Russia and Russia's proxy, et cetera. The first pipeline, Nord Stream, bypassed, that was commissioned in 2011. Let me go back for one second, Max, and that is that when the gas crosses Ukraine, in the existing pipeline through Ukraine, does Ukraine get a piece of the action? Are they compensated for having it? Yeah. I mean, so the national gas and oil company, Nostahar, owns the transit system, and revenue that they derive from the transit system, which is shipping fees, that affects the budget of Ukraine. That affects the national budget of Ukraine. So if Russia bypasses Ukraine, which sounds like it's happening, then Ukraine makes less money from its own transit pipeline, right? Right, exactly. And the way the pipeline systems are set up is to move Russian gas. You can't source gas from other countries that have gas, such as Turkmenistan, which has a huge resource of natural gas. All those pipelines are directed towards the producing regions of Russia. But it's the geopolitics of the region. So Russia wants to cut off Ukraine in different ways, but still rely on its sources of hard currency, which are the industrial states of Europe, Germany, France, Italy, and so on. So the pipelines, the first one's already built, huh? That's not taking all the gas, though. Right. So you have the legacy system, which was commissioned in 1982, that moves gas through Ukraine through Belos, through Poland. You have the Nord Stream 1, which was, I don't recall exactly when it was started, but it was commissioned in 2011, and it's fully commissioned by the end of 2012. But it runs at about 30% capacity, 30% to 40% capacity. But what constituencies in Russia want is to build a parallel pipeline that runs through the Baltic, under the Baltic Sea, from Russia near St. Petersburg, to a port city in Germany. So they want to build yet another one. So effectively, you would challenge Ukraine or completely eliminate all the Russian gas that is transmitted through Ukraine. Well, I read about this in my initial reaction, maybe it's naive, is why would Germany do this? Germany wants the gas, but I guess Russia must have said something that if you don't cooperate with us and take this Nord Stream pipeline, you're not going to get gas, so you better cooperate and you better forget about trying to preserve the Ukraine connection, right? That's something to it. I don't know to what degree Germany explicitly wants or needs the gas, but Germany is a liberal democracy. There are many different constituencies. There are lobbying interests. There are certainly Russian lobbying interests. A former chancellor who preceded Angela Merkel is now, I think, on the Gas Problems Board, Russia's natural gas monopoly. So I think Gerhard Schroder, that's the first thing. So you have competing interests, lobbying for and against bringing in more natural gas via this Nord Stream system through Russia into Germany. There has been speculation. Maybe there are German interests that want to create a natural hub system, and thereby control natural gas prices throughout Germany, France, and Italy. And that will create certain frictions within the European Union with Germany having such a stronghold on natural gas prices. But that's speculation. I wonder how does it work from, say, Germany to France or Germany to Italy? So now there's going to be a pipeline across Germany going west into France. There's going to be a pipeline across Germany, coming down from the Baltic through Germany and into Italy. Does Germany make money on that? Sure. There's transit fees there. The pipelines are already in place. There's major storage in and around Vienna. There's other storage facilities throughout the whole of the EU. You have a weekly report that's very similar to the one that's generated here in the United States. You have a weekly report that's generated for the European Union telling you what the balances are, what the levels are. That system is very transparent. The system that's not particularly transparent is the German constituencies aligned with Russia, the contracts that Russia creates with member countries. There are a lot of bilateral agreements. To give you some context with the United States, the United States sells natural gas. It doesn't say, well, Japan will give you a special price. The Philippines will give you a special price. Taiwan will give you a special price. There aren't those kinds of bilateral agreements. You have a system that is... You have Henry Hub pricing. You price against that. You put the gas in the cargo and you ship it. So the receiver knows the system that's used for pricing the gas and then everything else is freight and a little bit of costing and a bit of profit. That system doesn't exist in the way Russia markets its gas throughout Europe. I'd be worried about monopolistic pricing because so far in this discussion we've only talked about gas that comes from Russia, which Russia controls. It is essentially, as far as that gas is concerned, it's a monopoly holding a sword over all of Western Europe's head. If you wanted to raise the price, what is Germany going to do? What is France and Italy? What are they going to do? We haven't talked about Spain or Holland or any of that or Switzerland or the soft underbelly either. We have Germany, France and Italy. Those are the key industrial countries of the European Union. I mean, already you source gas from North Africa. Not a lot, but say I think 5 billion cubic feet from that metric that I mentioned before, 15, 15. So 50 billion is what Europe needs to consume. 15 is what it can produce, and it needs to make up the difference in the middle. So you get some from North Africa, but that's one of the Mediterranean. You get from that from Algeria to Alaska, from Albania, coming in through Sicily, Tunisia, Sicily, on the Italy and up into the rest of Europe that way. USLNG, US liquefied natural gas, that's supposed to become import. Given what I described just a minute ago about how the United States interests market their LNG, liquefied natural gas, they put it in, but it's yours. You know the price you pay for it, you can do what you want with it. That act is a balancing system and is a buffer on Russia's pipeline stronghold. So, OK, go ahead, Pete.  No, I'm waiting for you. OK, well, let's wait together for a minute, Max. This is Max Pizzer. He's the director with APRNC. We're talking about the recent election in Ukraine and within the context of the Russian efforts to build not one, but two, possibly more gas pipelines that cut Ukraine out and how that affects Europe, the EO, and for that matter NATO. 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We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me because Security Matters, Aloha. Okay, we're back with Max Pescher. He's the director of E-Princk in Washington, D.C., joins us by remote connection. We're talking about the Ukraine today. We're talking about Russian gas through, or maybe not through, the Ukraine to Western Europe and how that affects the geopolitical mix in Europe. So I guess I would ask you, where is the EU on this? Is the EU part of the arrangement by which gas is transmitted through Europe? The EU is a complex authority. It has a cat-herding problem. Its member states have its own ideas as to how to proceed. You have a super authority and various delegations of ideas as to how to create a unified system. Some of these things came out of the crisis that you had before. Some of the things that I mentioned are the 2006 and the 2009 natural gas cut-offs that took place. The EU realized that it needed to have more robust integrated systems. So in those particular cases, that's where the crisis would. But other crises that the European Union had, it hasn't bolstered the unification. It's some sort of disunification. So the European project, as many people to me have described it, is failing in that sense. So it's being undermined. So you have a fragmentation. You have a fragmented interest. You have Germany going one way and within Germany itself you have constituency. You have some kind of Russia, a tighter relationship with Russia, or more EU-centric. So the whole Brexit phenomenon. This is so interesting. Vladimir Putin would like to undermine the EU. Likewise, he'd like to undermine even more. He'd like to undermine NATO. This is one way that he can do it. Tell us how that works and what effect is it having on the solidarity of the EU and the solidarity of NATO? Well, from how I understand it, the EU questioned the United States' effort in Iraq. That undermined the confidence of EU member states. And that began the political fragmentation of the EU from away from an integrating power to one that's fragmented. Russia has exploited that to a great degree. Russia, but still, Russia's natural resources have no strong internal market, so they need to market their natural resources into places like the European Union. Russia is a regiment. It wants to influence its neighbors. It wants to engage in geopolitical conflict. It wants to influence those things. NATO is an obvious threat to that. So by undermining the EU, the next step would be NATO. So you've had, quote-unquote, relative peace since 1945. It's not human input. That can be jeopardized, say, possibly within the next 10 years. There's been an awful lot of damage already within the last 15. I'll leave my thought there. Well, you know, it's saddest to me. Like, Vladimir Putin has a long-range, multifaceted plan undermined both the EU and NATO to improve, you know, the relative power of Russia. This is one terrific way to do that. I mean, the threat... He's a tactician. I don't know if he's got a strategic plan, but he's a tactician and he wants to survive. He doesn't want to end up like Muammar Gadot. He doesn't want to have an internal evolution to sort of chase them into some canal or whatever, and that'll be the end of it. And he's succeeded in the sense that he's preserved his power, he's expanded his power, and he's stabilized his name and consistency. And that gets to Ukraine, where Ukraine is... It has a very strong sense of its sovereignty. It has a very strong sense of its nationhood. It has a... It's a liberal democracy, and institutions are relatively young and not fully experienced. It's not something like the United States where we have the political situation that we have. Here, our institutions are still deliberate.  Well, you have this new election recently. Well, I guess if only a week or two ago. This time Zelensky... April 21st. Zelensky, a comedian, a one-year-old comedian, and that's not the old guard at all, except there's this word that Zelensky's connected with some oligarch in Russia, so he may have connections that affect his judgment. Well, actually, he's connected to Ukrainian oligarch, and they're very important. All these oligarchs, you know, which team do they play for? Yeah, right. In the case of the oligarch that Zelensky's connected with, it's a very much Ukrainian one, but this Ukrainian oligarch wants to preserve his wealth within Ukraine, and his wealth in Ukraine is being challenged, because the scuttlebutt is that there was a bank. He siphoned off billions of dollars. He's accused of siphoning off billions of dollars, and he's fled the country. He's fled prosecution, so he's living abroad. There's Kolomoisky, the name of the oligarch. People say he bankrolled Zelensky's election. Zelensky's careful to say yes and no, but what got Zelensky in the pot was that he had a TV show on this guy's television channel, and he played a Ukrainian president on the TV channel, so right away he had name recognition, and the people were so dissatisfied by the incumbency, you know, for a variety of reasons. Slow-moving on the zombie of the war, not enough fight against the corruption. I mean, you can say, well, corruption has improved. We've won by six percent. We've normalized the country by six percent, but how do you see that? You can't see that. So, this effect of electric goes and elects somebody other than Zelensky, which if we look back on our election of Donald Trump, it makes perfect sense. I mean, there were certain constituencies that were so grossly dissatisfied. You had a strong bureaucratic candidate, a candidate like Hillary Clinton. She would understand the bureaucracy, but she had her own problems. So, the same thing with the incumbency in Ukraine. Poroshenko, he had his own problems. He didn't divest himself into wealth, and so on and so on like that. So, that's what he brought Zelensky. Zelensky already in confrontation with, they're having a kitchen argument. He's not, he hasn't been inaugurated, but he's having kitchen arguments with Vladimir Putin. Putin said something, and Zelensky carried him right away. Well, that's the thing. He offered, go ahead. Yeah. Well, I mean, okay, I mean, I'm happy to hear he's resisting Putin, because Putin is the 800-pound gorilla in the neighborhood. But I wonder, how do you feel this election and Zelensky's, you know, Zelensky's success in the election will affect the pipeline issue and energy, either through Ukraine or in Western Europe, through these two additional pipelines, you know, north to Germany? I wasn't expecting that question. I honestly don't know. You know, I think the energy dilemma is that Ukraine having this asset, this resource, a pipeline transit system that could be utilized to efficiently move natural gas into new states without additional investment into a second pipeline underneath the Baltic that should be utilized. But I think Vladimir Putin wants and the constituency around them, they want to be able to control the countries around him. They want to control the, quote-unquote, the Arab blood. And Ukraine has proven that it's a liberal democracy. Successfully gone through three or four presidential elections. They were unencumbered. So, candidate to one, they displaced the other. You look at all the other countries around there, it's the same person in power to the last 20, 25 years. Maybe Vladimir Putin, okay, Putin's been involved in power almost 20 years. So, that challenges the orthodoxy in the neighborhood. And that's the trick. How it affects the resolution of natural gas? All things considered, Zelensky would not have been Putin's choice. And all things considered, Zelensky is not a predictable feature that a predictable government that Putin can easily manipulate. This is not what he wants. And I guess it actually leads Putin in favor of the pipelines to Germany rather than trying to reinstate a pipeline relationship or continue a pipeline relationship through the Ukraine. I want to ask you one other thing before we run out of time, Max. So, you have this odd arrangement with all this gas, a monopolistic kind of arrangement through Europe with Russian gas. That could be very problematic in case Russia wants to turn it off again. But query, is any of that gas going to the UK? That's my first question. Is any of this Russian gas going back across the channel to the UK? Or does the UK have other sources of energy? Well, the UK is sort of an outlier, but there's the pipeline system that exists between the UK and mainland Europe is known as an interconnector system, which means you can transit the gas either into the UK or from the UK into Europe, depending on who has the surface and who wants to move it. So, eventually that Russian gas can get into the UK. And speaking to the problematuring presenting the monopolistic situation, here in the United States we have pipeline systems, but the way the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates it, these pipeline systems are common carrier. What that means is they cannot show bias to where they get their supply. If a natural gas producer says, I can deliver gas to your terminal, your injection point at a certain price, and you have capacity, you have to buy it. It doesn't matter where you source the gas. In the context of what's going on in Europe specifically with Russia, Russia is biased towards its own resources of gas. It doesn't want to inject tremendous man gas, it doesn't want to bring in gas from Kazakhstan or some of the other countries in the region. It wants to control its own source of oil. Right, right, all about control. One last question before we go, and that is the US, and recently President Trump indicated he wanted to get a waiver for ships carrying LNG. I don't know if that's limited to ships carrying LNG from or rather to Asia, or whether it also includes American ships or rather foreign-hole ships, non-Jonesac ships carrying gas from our East Coast to Europe. Does that affect gas going to Europe? Does it affect US interests or US sales of LNG? Are we a player in all this? Oh, absolutely. I think we already have LNG going into Europe. If I didn't say before, that impacts the whole dynamic that Russia, with its heavy hand, can control the degree to which Russia can extract monopolies. As far as waivers, I think once boats in the water coming out of the US Gulf Coast with LNG or there are even East Coast facilities now, it can sail to wherever there's a market. There's certain provisions in the pre-trading that are controlled by Lighthizer. I don't remember the name of the agency that he runs, but I'm a trade rep for Lighthizer. There are certain, but these are formal agreements. They're tested. It's not something that's ad hoc or provisional. Something to watch for sure, Max. LNG is so important everywhere in the world and especially in Europe. I mean, it's good that we have the ability to export it. That's Max Pijer with E-Print. Thank you so much for joining us today and explaining this process to us at these events. Thank you very much, Max. Thank you very much, Dave. All the best. Let's follow you to the next town. Let's follow it.


Oh my god that guy just flew down and he was in a chair poor man. Oh my god. Hey look at Anita She's flying away. Oh no seems like we're about to take off, but the plane so this seems to be working What is going on man? Okay, let's just okay. I'm gonna get off and check it out.  How do we get up fire? Oh no, run.  Oh, no, we can't roll here.  Hopefully we survive this. Oh my god, and there we go Straight into the bottom at least there's water down here. Will we make it out? Oh, no We just oof before we could touch the floor. Oh, no, man poor tweeter, dude Okay, it's a let's see. Welcome the next plane to blocks land and rise in 40 seconds. Dude, that's a long time Oh, no, what are we gonna do for 40 seconds? Look at it. Oh, no, there's someone on fire. They should jump off the plane Okay, so it says it looks like there's a storm coming. Yeah, you can't tell me man That is one giant storm. Okay now is the plane actually taken off now. Okay now Just the wing itself is taken off Okay, man, whatever See you later alligator. Okay. Okay says survive a plane on fire. Okay. Well, we just can't wait till the plane comes They're just gonna keep jumping off over and over Black hole. Okay. Hopefully we can survive it this time. Oh, we don't have a parachute. Oh, we actually survived What I guess we didn't survive the other time because we were on fire Okay, let's reset real quick. Let's try to catch our plane. Yeah Okay, let's try to make it to the place about to take off. No wait for me Please don't leave me behind. I don't want to stay back here. This boring This boring whatever it is building. Okay, finally we made it back into oh look Anita's seems to be the pilot this time Okay, we'll be co-pilot this time. Go Anita. You better leave us to freedom. Please don't crash the plane this time Come on. Look at tweeters. Hey, he's tweeter and his brother. Oh my god. I can't just do it You just did he was flinging all over the cockpit. Oh, no Mayday Mayday We're going down somebody help. Oh No, please Anita you got this you can lead us to safe or whatever Hopefully we make it to the island this time Oh now the plane's flipped man. You can't see the plane, but it's flipping just by the looks of the camera Doesn't look like we're gonna land pretty fair Hello now it's going up. What is going on? It was going down now. It's flying back up. That makes no sense I'm out of here Anita. I'm gonna go to the island. I want to go to safety. Hopefully we can get out No, here goes nothing. What what? What is going on here, man What is this madness? Okay, so the island is nowhere to be seen and the plane is like I don't know if it's so high up Above the map There's like under it. I don't even know man You want oh lucky you've made it to the island dude. I don't know where we were at You're like nowhere to be found Okay, ten seconds to the next plane. We'll make for sure. We're gonna make that one We're gonna make it all the way to the island man Hey, what's up? Look, what is this here? Oh, I just realized he has no body Okay, this time we're gonna pilot this baby out of here. We're gonna fly it to paradise Come on man. Everybody take a seat Anita take a seat co-pilot this time because I'm gonna latest to paradise city this time Hopefully we will make it and the plane doesn't crash right off before taking off man because we have we have been having bad luck So hopefully it actually takes off flight Correctly. Okay, bye parachute. I thought I already had a parachute man Okay, so we're buying a parachute this time. We have three parachutes. Well like one isn't enough, but okay Look, it actually Okay, it's going correct this time seems like we're a hundred percent Navigating this plane out of here man Are we okay? Yep. Everything seems to be going fine How we doing back there co-pilot? Oh, we just saw somebody jump off the plane Okay, now seems like we have to jump out Anita if you want to make it a safety. I'm out of here I'm sorry Anita gotta get out. Oh Dude, okay now that's just going on hectic. Oh, no, we're falling Okay, nice open up the parachute. There you go. Oh my god. Look at the plane Dude, that thing is going like a hundred miles an hour It bounced off the map. Okay. That's how fast it was going. Oh, we made it safe and sound to the ground There you go. Finally, we get a survival man Finally, we made it. What does it say here? You survived the plane crash on fire. Yes, we did man Okay, we return to the terminal. What do we have here? Building tools. What's built building tools for what wait? We can build stuff here. Oh My god, this is epic, but I don't think this thing works at all man through that plane just blew up in the background Okay, what is this? Oh wait? Are these the materials we need? So you can build stuff here, but I don't know how this actually works I don't know man. Oh, no, let's go catch the plane. We don't want to miss it again We did not want to miss the plane come here guys. Oh what teleport is on top. Okay, whatever that works for me What is Anita doing? Don't do it Anita Geez Anita just jumped off What a savage man. Okay, so this time we're gonna go in the panic room and try to survive this plane crash Okay, you're ready. Yes. I'm right now around this. Okay. Let's just have a seat in here My god, it's so claustrophobic in here. It's so tiny man. It was set to 900 Okay, hopefully and I will see you next time. Yeah. Oh My god Okay, hopefully well, we don't know what's going on because there's no windows down here Come on. Why don't you put windows down here man? Okay, I think I think we're doing good so far. Let's go have a look outside. Let's go check out the plane Oh, no, okay. I don't think we're doing good because Okay, what okay? Oh, we're barely taking off. Okay. Have a seat have a seat man. No What we just flew out of the airplane with us on our seat upside down, okay? Parachute can we parachute with with the seat? No, we can because it's going crazy. Oh my god There's a boat right there. Can we make it to the boat? Oh Rest a piece of those people I know they didn't survive that man. Yeah Come on. Oh No, now we have to swim all the way to the island. Are you kidding me brother? Come on Somebody help me Unless I can get to that crazy boat. That's like going all over the place.  Can we? And now if we go oh we can Nice. No, we can't. Oh my god. This thing is crazy man How do you control this? Okay, how we still on fire though. It's been like a minute and we haven't died or anything Okay, you can't control this thing. It's had like a mind of its own man Come on, but oh great now the boats on fire. You got to be kidding me man So the boat caught on fire after we hopped on it isn't that great Just what we needed man. Let's just reset because that's a long swim to the island I mean we're halfway there, but I just want to catch the next flight Oh, well put it on the island man. Okay. No the plane just left. You got to be kidding me man Why we just missed our flight? Oh, Alyssa don't do it Alyssa. Do not do it. Oh, no, okay She's listening. No come back. Don't do it.  Oh, no, look at her She's looking off into the distance You're not wanting to do that Alyssa come back here. Okay. Oh That guy was okay that guy went for it. Wait what he's walking in the air Okay, maybe we should try it. Yeah, you got nothing man. Oh Okay, why we just going straight It seems like you don't fall if you go here. Okay. Now we're falling We're gonna make it to the island though Wow That's a nice drop. Okay, let's jump up Wait, there you go Man But it doesn't leave you near the island. That's the only downside about it But at least we made it I'm back. Sup Hayden Come on. Let's go. Let's go Where's that crazy boat or there it is. It's broken down now. I Think what's going crazy, man? Okay, let's see we can drive this boat Let's try to drive this boat. Oh man the plane just got there Okay, these things are definitely hard to control man. Oh, let's try to save Alyssa. I got you Alyssa Jumping this boat. I will take you to safety Go Can you make it? All right, there you go. It was some stoop Okay, now everybody's gonna hop on the boat. All right, man Well, we're gonna drive off into the sunset even though there is no sunset. Oh no, let's boat just live


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Well, it's the same old crummy joint.  You have to be at work in the morning. Sure I what's the matter? You're worried. Oh, no.  You set up all night to see your mother for one day And she tells you have to be at work in the morning. How do you like? Oh, well, I'm sorry. I didn't miss you So I just worry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Well, don't worry so much. It makes me nervous here Sit at the table. Dear. You must be stormed All right now. It's like coming home. Oh my baby. I'm so glad to see you You did come just to see me, didn't you? Well, Sadie Lamar. Well, of course you came to see me It's just that I always worry so about you. I get it. Forget it. Well, what's the I was just making a chop for my lunch That's all there seems to be in the house right now. We enough for me. It'll be ready in a minute Now tell me about yourself your job never mind about me How are you doing? Well, I try not to complain Walter things are not easy prices high rents going up all the time Even on this old house honest.  He left you Still got I'm trying to tell you Walter things haven't been easy always a poor mouth every time I see her She's putting on a poor. I'm just saying things aren't easy and for me. Do you think it's a picnic? I got enough trouble and for what for what all year I work like crazy for what a man must work Walter a man must work Walter Yes, that's true a man must work and live like a person and not be afraid so that he can sleep without worrying about About about what?   He saw you were really a good boy And he gave you another chance. He got you a nice job, and you promised to you must Oh, you're all right Walter.  Walter It's all right. I took another chance. I try to run it up. No dice. I got to make it good Tomorrow morning. I gotta make it good the books of the office will show it. I gotta make it good How much? 1500 $1500 by midnight tonight 1500 if I missed that 1220 for Pittsburgh. It's all up. I Might as well take gas 1500 By midnight tonight, where am I gonna get it? Bonds you got the bonds How do you think I got you out of the last trouble rives bail paying back every dime? Where do you think I got I'll get ten years you heard the judge last time Can I do what ten years and start ten years? I won't be no reform school this time Please ma, please get me the money. I'll get if me. I'll be good. I'll work hard I won't give you no more trouble, but help me now, please mama, please I don't care where you get it. It's your fault. You gotta help me I only wanted to help you It is my fault I've always protected you, but I can't protect you anymore I'll give you the few dollars. I have go away.   I hope I'm not intruding Who's this? Mr. Chalmers. This is mr. Chalmers water. He has the back bedroom This is my son Walter mr. Chalmers. How do you do mr. Bates?  How do you do mr. Bates?  Bates if you'd excuse me I'm just going to the corner for my paper. I think that little man with the tiny moustache You know who I mean the insurance agent. I think he might call again to collect Please tell him to go away. You will do that for me. Mrs. Bates. Yes, mr. Chalmers. Thank you, mr. Bates Tell him not to come back anymore.  Yes, mr. Chalmers. Well the poor young man passed away Yes, I was going to leave him a few dollars when I died But now well, I have no one left at all and well a dollar a week You tell that to the little man with the tiny moustache. Yes, mr. Chalmers. Thank you, Mrs. Bates Good day, mr. Bates Water I have forty dollars in the house for the rent you can take that Romney a card when you get settled someplace. Let me know where you are I'll thank you some more as soon as I can get it. Maybe later. I'll be able to straighten it out Maybe later. I'll be able to speak to your boss I'll promise to pay back every dime, but you must go away. You must Tell me something about mr. Chalmers. He interests me very strangely Walter. Hope we so nervous, ma We got plenty of time We got a midnight Tonight for suspense Roma wines bring you a stars Faye Bainter Ralph Morgan and Dane Clark You have heard them in the prologue to our suspense play this evening Robert Talman story life ends at midnight Before we return to the scene of our play Let us journey in fancy to Havana and sit at a table in the gay restaurant Paris At the next table we see perhaps a farewell party given for an American visitor The American is wondering how he'll be able to repay in his own country the hospitality shown him in Cuba Reassuringly his Cuban host might remark as we fast seal amigo Just be sure to serve wonderful Roma wine. 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I'll spell out the name for you R.O.M.A. Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Faye beta Ralph Morgan and Dane Clark in life Ends at midnight a tale. Well calculated to keep you in suspense Yes, I do think I'll have another cup if you don't mind mrs. Bates Now as a charmer suppose you look at it this way you've been paying one buck a week for how many years now Hmm, I'd say 20 years would be a conservative estimate. All right 20 years now. Let's see. That's 50 bucks a year say that's 1000 bucks you paid in no yes 1000 bucks This coffee cake mrs. Bates is excellent. You like it. I made it yesterday when I get the coffee cave now Let's figure percentage. How many more years you figure to live hold all that's all right, mrs. Bates After all, I'm an old man and at my age one rather Well comes to terms with death. It's like the end of a long busy day Life ends at midnight and a new day begins. Yes, Walter I I think you're on the verge of making a very profound observation. Are you seeing my policy is for $2,500 and in the days that are left to me I certainly will not be required to pay in as much as I have already That's the exact point and if you drop it now, will you get anything back? No You got a straight life with no cash in value if you drop the policy now the insurance company is the winner But say you live another couple years You pay a couple hundred more and you leave the 2,500 of somebody now Which is a smart thing I leave it to you. Yes, I should like to think that when I'm gone I've left something behind for someone mr. Chalmers. Oh, yes, I'll always remember him for this It's nice to live on in somebody's memory for a little while after we're dead But a I have no one in this world and B I must be very very frank and tell you that I can no longer afford to pay even the dollar a week You see I live on a that's a problem of the most minor importance for anybody who invests in you now a buck a week Would be guilt edged. I mean for instance Well take my mother here. I suppose you made her the beneficiary. I suppose she continued to pay the buck a week Who can lose on such a deal who can lose nobody you get the point? No, no, I couldn't buy why it's why not? It's simple, huh? Oh, no, mr. Chalmers. No, you mustn't let mr. Chalmers aside How's the challenge? It makes good sense. No, it's everybody happy. No, but we're practically strangers We just what do you mean strangers? Who's a stranger in this world? We're just little people trying to make each other happy How mr. Chalmers Now mr.  That's what he wants Now why shouldn't he have it in every man and type to at least live in somebody's memory? Yes, but mr. Chalmers doesn't have to do that I'll think about him anyway. I promise I will Let him say something you're always mounting Now what are you saying mr. Chalmers? Oh?  I'll tell him I'm keeping the policy and changing the beneficiary Oh, could you let me have the loan of a dollar mr. Bates? Hurry it up. Well, yeah, the old man's coming home in a minute or two. He takes a snap about this time I want this ready for no relax, sonny relax. I can't finish this job today. What are you giving me? It'll take a joint another length of pie fix it up.  You can fix it up for now Man the room's pretty small off. What do you want the heater so close to the bedroom like I told you He's got rheumatism. He needs plenty heat. Well, I can run a rubber extension, but with gas I don't like okay, so with gas you don't like it, but with gas we got to run this heater the old man's got rheumatics He can take plenty of gas Huh? Heat I mean he needs plenty What are you doing now? Tighten this job. Look it's tight enough. Here's your three bucks and okay Okay, you're the boss bring your tools the next time. I won't be any next time, sonny What do you give me now and get somebody else to do your dirty work after this? Salang skippy Skippy Come on skippy pull yourself together. We got work Hi a pop well, this is a pleasant surprise Yeah, this used to be my room the steam don't come up here so good So I talked the old lady into fixing this up for you. That was a very thoughtful of you Walter Thanks, I Stuffed up the cracks in the window to zero whether it gets plenty of drafty in this room You thought of everything didn't you Walter? Huh? Yeah, yeah, I don't work out just fine. It'll do the job. I think I I'm going to take a little nap before dinner. Do you think the heater? I just leave it on I'll look in after a bit to see if it's okay.  Chalmers When I do a thing I like to do it right Who's there? Is that you water?  I'm just turning the heater off It's getting stuffy in here.  I skip it Go on going back to sleep. Please don't walk so fast wall in my feet are hurting me again You'll combine those shoes tomorrow. I'd like to know what we're maybe you'll have dough tomorrow They will both have some dough if a miracle happened Maybe miracles do happen. Maybe if you're smart. Where are you taking me to water? No, we're particular. I thought we saw it on the old neighborhood. I like old-time. Oh, that's a nice idea Walter, but my Mrs. Beach good evening officer Flanagan. This is my son Walter. He's just here from Pittsburgh. Glad to know you How's business copper? Oh much the same Pagrancy petty larceny once in a while a suicide suicide. Yeah, that's what they start out to do But it's harder to get bumped off and most people think huh case just last week over in the next precinct They'm turned on the gas in a room and lay down on the bed. What happened? Nothing always bungled somewhere amateurs gas petered out forgot to put a quarter in the meter Seven o'clock I got a call in well good night. Good night officer. I'll meet you Walter Ma yes, Walter. When did you put a quarter in the meter at home? Why I don't remember goodness. I'd better get some change of a minor change come on Walter Why did you ask about the gas meter? What do you think? Well, you didn't that isn't why you put the heater in mr. Charlie. Oh, thank I don't think anything I just pray pray that quarter right now Of course if that didn't work, I'll try another way either that old clerk is dead before midnight Or I spent 10 years in stir. He's gonna be dead before midnight. See and if you try to make any trouble You'll be pushing days.  Oh, come on. Well, good evening, Walter and mrs. Bates. I was just on my way out. Mr. Chalmers, you're all right. You're all right. Of course. He's all right. What's eating you? I have a slight headache. It's true, but a brisk walk in the open air will cure that I'm sure What is it Walter? This hose on a heater Got unhitched No wonder you got a headache. I thought I smelled gas boy It's lucky for your mom forgot to put a quarter in a meter providence works in strange ways. Doesn't it water? Well, I must be getting on I'll be coming home rather late mrs. Bates, so I'll just let myself in uh, how late? Well, I I thought I'd stop at the neighborhood picture house for dinner That'll be around nine o'clock. So I imagine I won't be home much before 11 mr. Chalmers there's something I want to get mrs. Bates Walter's a good boy at heart, you know, but He's been in some trouble lately. And is there anything I can do to help water? Yeah, plenty I'll tell you all about it when you get up to get back. Come on. You better run along now mrs. Chalmers You don't want to be late for that picture. Yes. Yes, of course. Well, good night, mrs. Bates. Mr. Chalmers Good night, mr. Chalmers. Yes. Good night Oh, Walter Walter, no! No, no, my book! No!  You'd like to send me to the chair, wouldn't you?   It's your fault. I balled us up in the first place. Why didn't you remember to put a quote on that meter? Why didn't you? I'm glad I forgot. He wouldn't be a lie.  No, no, that's not true. You don't strike me again, Walt. Okay. Maybe now you'll cooperate. Now look, let's put it this way.  Are you listening? Okay now, like I said, I got very little time to get this thing done I ought to have done it neat and clean in the first place, like I said He's old and weak. You just push him over in a bed, hold a pillow over his face for a few minutes and the job's done Nobody'll ask any questions a guy that old Okay, make sure it's for the last time. Remember it's you or him, like I said, what are you going to do? Now look I'll be waiting in his room when he comes home I'm shot anyway, so I'll lay down and get 40 winks You wait up from tell him I left to catch a train That's in case he suspects anything When he comes to his room I'll take care of the rest of it. How do you know I won't warn him because it's him or you like I told you I don't think you'll warn mr. Chalmers And don't try to stall him when he comes in He's got to be dead by midnight Or else Evening Joe, I'll have the late edition of the daily news as usual. Oh, I saved one out for you, mr. Chalmers. Thank you Good night, Joe By the way, Joe, I I almost forgot. Can you give me the change of a dollar? Oh sure, mr. Chalmers 50 75 85 90 one dollar. Well, thank you I just happened to think of something I need change for a little good deed for a friend of mine Mr. Chalmers, well I didn't think you'd be up so late. Mrs. Bates. I waited up especially I wanted to talk to you About walter. Mrs. Bates your eye. It's all discolored. Yes, I The light burned out in the bathroom and When I went to replace it in the dark that is I bumped into the door now. I would have thought walter would have done that for you. No walter didn't I mean Walters left already He had to catch the 12 24 Pittsburgh, you know, but it's only 11 now the clock He had some things to do on the way. I mean, of course Well, I'm afraid I must be getting on to bed. No, not just yet I mean Won't you sit down for a minute and have a cup of tea with me? Well, I'd like to but tea keeps me awake, mrs. Bates I'd be getting long to my room now if you don't mind. No No, don't go into that room, mr. Chalmers. Why mrs. Bates, whatever's the trouble my son Walter There's something I must tell you forgive me mrs. Bates, but I'm an old man and I need my rest If it could possibly wait until morning. No, no, no it can't wait until morning It's got to be told Before midnight What was that Sounds like someone moving about in the back of the house one of the shutters. It's loose The wind oh you were saying this is base nothing I can't tell you after all I'm afraid I'm afraid to tell it I'm afraid There there mrs. Bates perhaps in the morning try to get some rest You're going in there Now I think that will be the best thing to do all the way around Don't you mrs. Bates? Good night. No No way mrs. Bates. I What is it mrs. Bates?  Bates?  I just went around to the back entry and dropped the coin I suppose I should have remembered about the connection being loose on the heater in my room But I wanted to surprise you with my good deed I didn't mean to do anything wrong mrs. Bates Truly, I didn't No You didn't do anything wrong, mr. 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Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Raheem and Asalaamu alaikum Pakistan, Sayyidu, San Heather with Corporate Governance again. We've been looking at the different dimensionalities of corporate governance and we've been looking at its structure and its framework. Now we're going to proceed and look at the general issues in corporate governance. So, ladies and gentlemen, when we are looking at the different issues of corporate governance, then one of the distinguishing features is the role of the board and its management. So when we look at the role of the board and the management, the constitution of more and more companies stress and underline that the business is to be managed by or under the direction of the board. So when we are talking about that, and this is a very, very important point, now the ceremonial role of the board has become a relic of the past. Now we talk about effective and performing boards. We talk about board performance. We talk about how the different members of the board should be constituted, what should be their background, what is their expertise, what is their experience and how they can substantively and meaningfully contribute to the betterment of the organization through a strategic input by giving a better direction and ensuring that there is more transparency, there is more merit, there is more accountability, there is more cross functionality and most important that the best human resource is hired by that particular organization. So we see that the role of the board has changed and it is not an intrusive context but it is a more facilitating context. It is a more context of giving more depth to the management and to ensure that there is an oversight also over the management. So we look at the next point and that is the responsibility for managing the business is delegated by the board to the CEO who in turn delegates the responsibility to other senior executives. So what are we seeing? We are basically seeing a three tiered hierarchy that we have the board on top, we have the chief executive officer with his chief officers and then we have the rest of the management and the senior executives. So with this three tiered top management hierarchy we ensure that there is more transparency, that there is more accountability and most importantly that there is optimization of management and performance and that is the crux of having an effective board. Going to the next point, the board occupies a key position between the shareholders and the company's management who are the day-to-day managers. So what we see is that there is this triangulated relationship which is created, so we have the board, we have the shareholders and we have the management as the key stakeholders of any organization, the key internal stakeholders. Naturally there are dozens of other stakeholders which we are going to be looking at and understanding in the coming sessions but these three are very critical and vital and the connection between the management and the shareholders is the board and the board has to play the role of a big brother and that is very very important which would ensure the better performance and the optimization and also better value practice by different organizations to lead towards an integrity-centric organization which is one of the key results of good governance and corporate governance in the 21st century and then ladies and gentlemen when we are looking at the composition of the board and its related issues, the composition of the board of directors refers to the number of directors of different kinds that participate in the work of the board. Now this is very important ladies and gentlemen because when we are talking about the diversity within the board then we are not only talking about having representation from different sectors or having professionals or experts from different disciplines or different domains but we are also talking about having a diversity in the board between the different genders and that means that now boards to try to have and include more female directors into boards and secondly also have representation from the minority shareholders so it should not only be majority shareholder dominated board but they should also be representation from the minority and then thirdly we look at the different domains and expertise level that they should be an HRM expert, they should be accounting experts, they can be legal experts, they can be production experts, they can be sector experts or domain experts, they could be IT experts in it and they could be human resource management experts so they could be different experts within the board to ensure that the efficacy of the board is at a far higher level and it would contribute to the better governance and better performance of the organization at the end of each year. So like we were mentioning that there is a lot of diversity so there are also executive directors and non-executive directors and executive director is one who is an executive of the company and also a member of the board so this executive director is participating in the management of the company and also as a member of the board while a non-executive director has no separate enrollment or employment relationship with the company and therefore he or she plays an overarching role within the confines of the board of that particular organization and has no direct relationship in its management so usually there is one executive director so that there is someone who is a part of the management and also a part of the board thirdly they can be independent directors they can be affiliated directors in the non-executive directors again context so this is the diversity which tends to emerge within the board and that also enhances the efficacy and the effectiveness of a board of any organization around the world. Ladies and gentlemen it is also very important sometimes to have separation of powers between the chief executive officer and its chairperson however in countries like the US and India we see that there are many organizations in which the CEO and the chairman can be in one particular position but it tends to compromise the transparency and the accountability of the organization and of the individual and the separation of powers between the different tiers so what happens is that we have seen in America especially that there have been huge scandals like the three comm scandal like the MCI scandal like the Enron scandal there have been so many scandals which have been taking place and one of the main reasons is is the dovetailing of those two positions and and doing away with the segregation of the different tiers and the segregation of power authority and responsibility and it can lead to unhealthy consequences just like I was mentioning now it is very important that the chairperson removes an important check on senior management activities so that is also very important that when we remove the chairman from the role of the CEO then he or she can start playing a very effective role of ensuring transparency accountability integrity and anti-corruption so these are very very important contexts in the domain of corporate governance and our issues of debate because in different countries there are different configurations there are different relationships and sometimes we see that they are being dovetailed so should board have committees well yes there should be different committees as you can see over here we are talking about nomination special committees remuneration committees auditing committees human resource management committees and these committees lessen the burden of the board and announce its effectiveness so again what happens is is that the board can be bifurcated into different committees and they can also have subcommittees and these committees would have their own chairperson and they would have different members who should be subject specialists in their particular areas and then they would be able to ensure better accountability and transparency and a very very important committee is the human resource management committee which ensures that there is proper proper analysis of jobs there are proper job specifications they are pragmatic job descriptions they are proper performance matrices and then there is a proper recruitment and selection process in the recruitment and selection process there has to be transparency there has to be merit and the best person or individual has to be selected without any favoritism without any nepotism without any bias without discrimination so that is very important and therefore the HR committee plays a very very important role because the HR committee also selects the the CEO of the organization the chief operating officer of the organization and all of the other chief officers including all the important positions within the hierarchy and organogram of that particular organization so these committees are very very important the the auditing a committee is a very important committee because again the annual audit is very important and they are the ones who are supervising it they are the ones who are coordinating it and they are the ones who tend to analyze it and analyze the results and endorse those final results and it becomes a very very important task for the for the board as a whole and the auditing committee specifically ladies and gentlemen so therefore to ensure the longevity of the board it is very important that the appointment to the board and directors is based upon reelection or election the shareholders elect directors to the board however shareholders are a legion in large organizations and also scattered and hence the practice is expensive and time consuming so we have a little bit of a paradox that how can we ensure the maximum participation for the election of the board and sometimes there can be problems also in it because getting all of the shareholders and getting all of the stakeholders together can itself be a very very challenging task but it is a very important task to ensure that the best directors are chosen they represent the broader community of stakeholders and shareholders they are diverse and have diverse backgrounds they are capable they themselves are individuals of high integrity and of a vast experience and exposure so all of these things become very important in the board the board plays a very very important role definitely we usually interface with the management of an organization but the board at the back end ensures that there is a check and balance on the management that there is merit that there is accountability that there is transparency that that decisions will be analyzed and that decisions have to be taken in a structured non-biased non-discriminatory approach based upon established frameworks and established value systems within the culture of the organization so the board is actually ladies and gentlemen the custodian of the organization the mentor of the organization and is the supra body which ensures that the organization runs in the best possible way thank you so much


my question is once I was when I was around six or seven I think that's how what I was I got baptized in Jesus name and eventually received the gift of the Holy Holy Ghost I would like to know what that what she means by that well as a teenager around 16 I backslid and lived a sinful life up until around 45 years old in which I returned to Christ I repented of my sins and began my walk with God again here's our question my question is do I need to do I need to get baptized again or is that time that I did as a child still okay with God okay I don't know what you did as a child I could say some people get baptized in water and all I did was get wet okay thankfully it's not that baptism that saves you it's a different baptism the baptism of the Holy Spirit that you receive once you profess your faith in Christ you receive the Holy Spirit immediately now with regards to being baptized in you've led this life you've come to Christ you and everything is a okay you're doing what's supposed to do and you want to be baptized before the people make a public declaration of what's happened on the inside what God has done for you there's no rule in the Bible says you can't get baptized a second time or third time or what have you if you're reasonable getting baptized is to make a public declaration and you want the pep of the public to know this is you no problem with that at all nope nope there is there is no prohibition of doing so so if you're feeling like that's what you want to do well then I would say go ahead do that go ahead do that isn't there's there's nothing wrong with that at all