Welcome to Nation Beat. I am General Norville bringing you this brief on the pulse of our nation and highlights around the heart of St. Lucia. St. Lucia may not be in the direct path of Tropical Storm Isaac, but it is not all clear. Education officials are satisfied that a suitable solution has been found to the being filled comprehensive school dilemma. The government of St. Lucia has rallied with the citizenry in supporting the family of both of them, Shem Jean, and showcasing the world of opportunity under the sea. St. Lucia may not be in the direct path of the fifth storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, but it is not all clear. Both global and regional models are in agreement that the center of Tropical Storm Isaac will pass well north of St. Lucia on Thursday. However, the intensity of Tropical Storm Isaac will be felt. For this reason, the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations in consultation with Met Services and NEMO have decided to take precautionary measures to close all schools Thursday, 13 September 2018. An announcement will be made as it relates to the reopening of schools on Friday and persons are asked to listen for official announcements on the media. The ministry urges the public to stay informed and remain safe as we prepare for heavy rains associated with the weather system. More now on those expected rains. A rain ban associated with the Tropical Storm has begun affecting the lesser Antilles including St. Lucia. Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 50 to 100 mm on St. Lucia from Wednesday evening into early morning Friday, September 14, 2018. Tropical Storm force winds are not expected to affect St. Lucia during the passage of Isaac and it has not been deemed necessary to issue a Tropical Storm watch or warning for St. Lucia. This does not mean that residents should relax preparedness and mitigation measures as storms and hurricanes are unpredictable. Isaac, the status right now it is still at Tropical Storm intensity. Reconnaissance aircraft visited the system today and found that the system is getting a little less organized but it is still at Tropical Storm strength. They find that it is weakening. They expect that when it crosses the island chain it will still be at Tropical Storm intensity. Very early Wednesday morning a rain ban crossed associated with Isaac across the island chain and it did affect St. Lucia. During the day, the early morning into midday, conditions were partly cloudy to cloudy. There were showers in some areas. This conditions, partly cloudy conditions will persist until tonight. Tonight from about 8 o'clock, cloudiness will increase and rainfall we expect rainfall from the system. The peak rainfall we expect from about 2 am on Thursday to say about before midday on Friday. That is when we expect the peak rainfall from the system. We expect intermittent rain mixed with moderate to heavy showers. Therefore we are asking people to take all necessary precautions against flooding and landslides. The system as it moves will continue to weaken. By the time it reaches the longitude of the less Angeles it will be further, it will continue to lose strength. So by tomorrow the maximum sustained winds will be brought down from about 50 knots to about 45 knots. And the system will continue westward over the Caribbean Sea. Some coastal flooding is possible and sea swells between 3 and 4 meters generated by Isaac are expected along the west coast of St. Lucia on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Residents in areas prone to flooding and landslides advise to take the necessary precautions to safeguard livelihoods. You need to remain vigilant. You need to ensure that you have activated your plans. You need to ensure that you have what is required should there be any eventuality associated with the system. We also want to emphasize the point that these systems are unpredictable. We know that it's not a tropical storm, but there is no telling whether it will increase in speed or whether it will change direction. And so the important thing as we've always said is to make sure that you are prepared at all times. We do expect rainfall, as I said, from the system and so we ask persons who are in flood prone areas and also persons in landslide prone areas because we know that we have been fairly dry in the recent past to be extremely cautious, to be extremely vigilant and to make sure that all the systems, all the readiness systems, the preparedness actions are in place in advance of the passage of the system. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Martinique, Dominica and Guadalupe. Tropical storm watches are in effect for Montrath, St. Kitts and Nevis and Tigger, Sabre and St. Eustatius. As Isaac approaches, the Caribbean remembers well the devastation dealt by Hurricane Maria. In fact, Dominica, which fell the brunt of the Category 5 monster storm, is still recovering. Now less than a week to the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Dominica is on high alert. Maria struck on September 18, 2017. I have been advised and we have taken the decision and we have accepted the advice to suspend work for the public service on Thursday, 13 September. So there will be no work for public officers. And again, we would like to call on the private sector to follow in that same manner to have their employees stay home. I understand that there are essential services and those essential services will be at work. So people like myself will be at work. But the rest of us in the public service will ask to stay home and to ensure that we can secure ourselves, secure families and our properties. And we would like for the private sector to do the same. And this is why I think going forward, you know, we have to implement legislation that will authorize the NIPO and the cabinet to that one issue, one of the decisions I'm taking in regards to work, it would apply to every employee in the country. So these are things that we need to do in terms of disaster management going forward. And it's a recommendation we open that we can fulfill before the end of this year. According to Prime Minister Scarrett, a safety and security plan has been implemented in conjunction with the police force and the national emergency planning organization NIPO. Citizens are urged to follow the directives given by the security entities. Dominica's acting chief med officer, Marshall Alexander, provides some insight as to what is to be expected. Total rainfall accumulations of 4 to 6 inches with isolated higher monks in higher elevations across Dominica. This rainfall may cause life threatening flash flooding and landslides almost slides. Fiddle bands from the system has already begun affecting the island. Tropical storm conditions are expected on Dominica by early first day. Some coastal flooding is possible in areas of onshore winds. Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large waves up to 12 to 16 feet. Swells generated by Isaac will begin to affect the area by this afternoon. These swells are likely to cause life threatening surf and rip current conditions. A small craft warning, a high surf advisory and a flood warning will be in effect for Dominica as of 6 p.m. today. A World Bank assessment estimated damages and losses caused by Hurricane Maria at US$1.3 billion or 224% of Dominica's GDP. Back here at home, education officials are expressing satisfaction with a solution found to house incoming students of the Beanfield Comprehensive Secondary School. Chris Satney reports the institution had run into some difficulty in accommodating the new students and a compromise had to be reached to find a solution. The Beanfield Comprehensive had over the last year grown incapable of enrolling any new students, making parents of students who had chosen the school at the common entrance level very uncomfortable. Following much consultation, it was decided that an unused block of the V4 primary would be renovated to accommodate the students for the new academic year. Now refurbished, the once derelict block presently houses two Form I classes and one Form II class of the Beanfield Comprehensive. Though the block is being shared with classes of the V4 primary, Minister with Responsibility for Education, Honourable Dr. Gail Brigabat, is nonetheless happy for the cooperation of the two schools to help resolve the issue of space at the Beanfield Comprehensive. The extent to which stakeholders are willing to go to ensure that their children attend that school tells me that it is a school of choice, tells me that they have distinguished themselves as a secondary school in the south and clearly children aspire, children dream of attending that school, children wish to attend that school and that speaks volume. Principal of the Beanfield Comprehensive Stephen O'Geese In time, thanked parents and guardians for the level of interest, patience and the confidence they have shown in the institution and thanked the ministry for working with it to find a suitable solution to the issue. We've tried to do a very good job in terms of delivering quality education at the Beanfield Comprehensive secondary school and our parents would like us to continue the work. That is why they were very pleased that the ministry found a solution to the situation of the lack of space so that we can continue the work that we are doing at the Beanfield Comprehensive secondary school. And it was no easy task at all for the Re-Instituted Buildings Maintenance Unit headed by Alden Louis-Fernand as director of works. He says his team was up to the huge challenge of preparing this and other school structure ahead of the new academic year. In the Viewford Primary School, we have a brand new roof. The external walls have been touched up with paint, all plumbing works have been fixed, electrical installation, new ceilings in classrooms. We were able to accomplish renovations on 80 percent of schools island wide and though it was a late start with the renovation works, we were able to meet our goal. The Beanfield Comprehensive secondary school housed at the old TechVoc building in Viewford was opened in 2015 and was born out of a need to combine the two campuses of the Viewford Comprehensive into one institution. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, I am Chris Satney reporting. The government of St. Lucia has rallied with the citizenry in supporting the family of Botham-Chem-Ger. The 26-year-old was shot and killed in his apartment in Dallas, Texas by a white female police officer. The officer had entered Ger's apartment believing it was her own. According to an affidavit, the officer encountered Ger, thought him to be a burglar and fired her weapon. Botham-Chem-Ger was hit in the chest. The officer has been charged with manslaughter, however the district attorney has indicated that the charge can be revised upward upon completion of investigations. Ger's killing has shaken not just the nation of St. Lucia, but the wider Caribbean. Tuesday evening a vigil was held in his childhood community of Lacklery. More in this report. St. Lucia's unified in grief converged on the Lacklery Plainfield, an area frequented by Botham-Chem-Ger as child, to celebrate his life, his accomplishments and potential. Ger graduated from Hardin's College of Business Administration in Arkansas with a degree in finance in 2016, leading him to employment at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Dallas. By all accounts, Botham-Chem-Ger was well on his way to realizing his dreams when his life was cut short by an off-duty female police officer who shot him in his own apartment. This young man is part of all of us. He played here, he played rugby, he was involved in basketball, he did everything. You know, so... Thank you, St. Lucia, thank you so much. 26-year-old Botham-Ger was the son of Alison Ger, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, and Bertram-Ger, stall supervisor at the Water and Sewage Company, Wasco. The Ger family has described the circumstances of Botham's death as an awful nightmare. The tragic incident has attracted global media attention with matriarch Alison Ger commanding the respect of all. Permanent secretary in the Department of Commerce, Titus Preville, served alongside Ministry Ger in the public service and says he is amazed by the remarkable strength she has demonstrated. She's a consummate, professional, and you could see it coming out in her responses, but I know she must be hurting. And I'm so proud of her that in spite of the personal anguish that she's going through, she's able to carry a message throughout the world on this matter that is carried out in a manner that depicts poise, reason, professionalism, and that in itself challenges the others to act in that manner, to act professionally and respond professionally. I have asked too many questions and I've been told that there are no answers yet. I'm looking forward to all of the powers that be to come up with the answers to make me more satisfied that they're doing what is in the best interest of getting justice for Botham. The entire nation is hoping that justice will prevail in the matter. Describing Botham Ger as an exemplary St. Lucian, Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shastney, speaking during a press conference in Dallas with the Zhe family, said St. Lucia is wrought by grief and anger. Sadness, knowing how close Allison and their family were to Botham. The other motion is one of anger, to think that a young man would be in his apartment and the possibility could be that somebody could come to his door and he ends up being dead. Prime Minister Shastney indicated that the Embassy of St. Lucia to the United States of America will do all within its power to assist the family. The organization of Eastern Caribbean states is also lending support and monitoring the situation. This is a matter of concern, not only to the government of St. Lucia but also to the leadership of the entire OECS and I would venture Carycom as well. So I would expect that as things develop we will see increasing attention being paid to this matter by the governments of the OECS and Carycom and they will be watching and advocating and insisting that justice is done on behalf of the family. Botham Shemzhe would have celebrated his 27th birthday on September 29th, 2018. From the Government Information Service I am Anisia Antoine reporting. This is Nation Week. Stay with us. During a severe storm, not all danger is from Mother Nature. Remind your children beforehand to stay close to you. Play only in safe areas and make sure they tell you immediately if someone attempts to molest them. Plan for emergencies. Plan for your children. In an effort to showcase careers within the dive trade, a career showcase for students of secondary schools within District 1 and 2 is being held here as part of the 2018 edition of Dive Fest. The St. Lucia Divers Association and the St. Lucia Tourism Authority have endorsed the event. Dive Fest embraces dive enthusiasts of old-skill levels and highlights why exploring St. Lucia's underwater marine life is a must-do for visitors and locals. The diving industry is one of the many forces which drives the tourism market in St. Lucia. Dive St. Lucia, in collaboration with the St. Lucia Tourism Authority, organized a career tour for students of the Barbono Secondary School at the ongoing Dive Fest at the Windjammer Land in Villabitch Resort. Diving in St. Lucia is something we're encouraging more youngsters to get into. It's a fantastic career. It pays well. It allows them the opportunity to travel a lot. Right now I can list at least 20 solutions that I know were school instructors who started here and they're all over the world from England to Turks and Caicos. So what we're trying to say to these youngsters is you can be a lawyer, you can be a doctor, you can be all of these things. You can be a reporter or a cameraman. But diving can encompass all. So we're trying to encourage the youngsters to look at non-traditional stuff and especially now that there are so many hotels and tourism is a big thing in St. Lucia. We're trying to encourage more solutions to get into it. The Dive Fest is a week-long event full of boat and shore dives, party courses and photographic competitions. The 2016 winner of the Dive Fest was on hand and encouraged other students to seize every opportunity to learn about diving. I find St. Lucia one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean. It is an island and an industry that has nowhere else but to expand. It's got one of the most beautiful coral reef systems in the world. And the one thing I love about St. Lucia is that everybody is always so welcoming and all the dive operators, everybody do a great job at protecting the reefs. As part of the ongoing St. Lucia showcase, travel agents and journalists will get a chance to experience Dive Fest first hand. The Fest commenced on Monday, September 8th and will culminate on Saturday, September 15th. From the Government Information Service, I am Anise Antoine reporting. The Chinese Embassy has made a donation to the National Emergency Management Organization's Relief Supplies effort. The handing over was done Wednesday by the Embassy's property manager. Even though we are far from together, but we are connected by our heart. If you suffer something, we feel we also suffer because we are brothers. We are the same kind of situation in terms of development. The St. Lucia in the Caribbean islands is a very disastrous prone country. You have earthquake just now, just a previous day, several days ago. You have a hurricane. You have a flood. And also you have land slide, kind of that. So, it's very difficult for a single institution, even a single country, to deal with that. You should seek all, you should welcome support. You should encourage support from all sides so that you can facilitate your effort. The Department of Forestry is in the process of upgrading the island's mini zoo. Assistant Chief Forestry Officer Alwyn Donnelly said while those mini zoo aids Government's wildlife management efforts, the recent expansion will also help improve Forestry Officer's knowledge of native species. He spoke to the works on this week's Agriculture on the Move program. What we were seeking to do is to upscale our awareness, particularly our native species, with some of the animals that we could keep in that confined space, but to create a more open space for them and to upgrade the facilities that we have there. So, we came up with this nice term in terms of the Wildlife Conservation and Education Center. So, as part of that entire effort. So, we've had some construction to facilitate that going on and what you see there is really that effort to manage also the captive element of it. Pius Haynes, the Senior Wildlife Conservation Officer, said the new conservation center has a dual purpose. The two main focus of the upgraded zoo is conservation and education. When we live in an environment, in an ecosystem where you have all these different hierarchy of organisms and they all play the role, integrally in conditioning the environment and also performing specific functions that will enable this environment to be resilient and to help us cope and so on. So, I'd like to encourage our fellow Sen lotions to preserve our wildlife, to conserve them, to protect them and to seek to learn more about them. The Mini Zoo is part of a scenic tour that includes the Union Nature Trail or Forest Hike where visitors can view a numbered species native to St. Lucia in both wild and captive habitats. You can hear more of the discussion Thursday when agriculture on the move is on NTN. And as we leave you this important reminder, the St. Lucia Med Services and the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, have indicated that St. Lucia is expected to get some heavy rainfall on Thursday, September 13 into Friday, September 14, 2018. While St. Lucia is not under tropical storm watch or warning, the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations, in consultation with Met Services and NEMO, have decided to take precautionary measures and wished to inform that all schools will be closed on Thursday, September 13, 2018. An announcement will be made as it relates to the reopening of schools on Friday and persons are asked to listen for official announcements on the media. All persons are asked to stay informed and remain safe as we prepare for heavy rains associated with the weather system. That's Nation Beat. Join us next time as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. I am General Norvel.


We're going on maybe two or three weeks of the right-wing hysteria over Bud Light sponsoring trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney and Trump Jr. found out that Bud Light despite how woke they've gone They are a very prolific fundraiser or I should say donor to the Republican Party and he's like Maybe we shouldn't boycott them if they're giving us a lot of money and supporting Republican causes and other Republicans did not take kindly to that. So this is a reaction between Michael Knowles and Megan Kelly where they are I guess calling out Donald Trump Jr. Donald Trump enters as somewhat of an apologist for Bud Light and here's why listen Anheuser bus totally shit the bed with this did he just say Anheuser bus? He's got bussy on the brain Or is it it's Bush, right? It's not actually bus Either way, I need to like I'm literally like a few seconds in and I'm already pausing it. I'm terrible I'm so sorry. Yeah, he's so horny. I mean, he's coked out. So Dylan Mulvaney thing I'm not though for destroying an American an iconic company for something like this when I actually look into it I'm not gonna blame the whole company for the inactivity or the stupidity of someone in a marketing campaign that got Woke as hell and we looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser bush and guess what? They actually support Republicans in in woke corporate America I mean if you look at any of these woke corporations, they all donate to Republicans and Democrats They do So for him to just find this out in 2023 the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ It leads me to think that he is Dumb to put it politely and that is polite. I could be a lot more ruthless to this motherfucker here, but It just I feel like to not know this and to be a political commentator Who signed a six-figure deal? I believe if not seven figures with rumble It's just really embarrassing like it's just a it's it's obvious corporations donate to both parties So they can influence policies with regard to taxes all of this Wokeness this virtue signaling is them just doing what you expect these companies to do like Gen Z According to a recent poll. I can't remember who conducted it 20% of them Identifies LGBTQ plus. Do you think that these corporations don't want to get in on that and specifically target the LGBTQ plus demographic? Of course, they all they want that money, right?  They want Antifa to buy beer. They want Nazis to buy beer.  It is not an American company number two You blame me and I'm not gonna blame the entire company for the actions of one woke employee No, no, no, no, no, no the CEO runs the company the CEO is responsible for everything that happens on his watch And if the seat in in corporate I tried to pause it, but I fucked it up.  Do you think that if I reached out to her and emailed her she would send me the the raw file so I can green screen this into my videos I think that would be a much more effective Subscribe icon because I have like the generic little Bell and subscribe icon on my videos I'll put it right here so you could see what I'm talking about or somewhere on the screen if I turn this into a segment And it's boring, but I think that having Megan Kelly on would be much more Impactful in terms of getting people to subscribe, but I've gone on like 18 tangents and we're like a couple or no No, I was gonna say a couple of minutes.  So I've got a lot on my heart it happens on his watch and If the CEO were upset about what the marketing department did here There is zero evidence of that someone needs to get fired at a minimum if you're not gonna issue the Apologetic groveling email to your fan base at least fire somebody so they get that you understand their upset Go ahead fire someone because they Created a brand deal with an influencer That's a little bit extreme. Don't you think that's a very Karen thing Megan Kelly, but let's see what um Totally heterosexual Michael Knowles has to say about this Michael I don't know if Don is trying to play a little good cop to the rest of our bad cop here and try to keep those Republican donations from Bud Light coming on in especially obviously as his father is running for president again But the timing is really unfortunate here because whenever Don made that statement At the very least shortly thereafter or at the very most rather shortly thereafter the CEO makes this statement in which he Acknowledges and doesn't quite apologize, but recognizes that it's politically divisive and it's just really really weak So I agree with you now. It's not enough for the VP of marketing to get fired I think probably the CEO has to get fired at this point And it's a a misreading of the moment because while maybe Anheuser-Busch has donated some money I'm sorry. I got a positive again. They did one brand deal one sponsored post or two with One influencer and these motherfuckers are calling for the CEO to step down the audacity.      You don't have the moral high ground.   In fact There's this article here from the Rolling Stone Where they kind of lay it out, right? So companies that get woke aren't going broke. They're more profitable than ever and they kind of just go through and They talk about how you know Bud Light. Oh Jack Daniels is also woke And then they revisit some recent controversy with conservatives this one. I didn't even remember a Kearig So the Republican candidate named Roy Moore was running to represent Alabama in the Senate when multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct Fox news host Sean Hannity cast doubt on the allegations warning viewers not to rush to judgment. That was a hot take Which caused Kearig to pull ads for their coffee makers from his show This was right as the Me Too movement was taking off in response Hannity's fans called for a boycott and started smashing their Keurigs for social media Yeah, typical trend with conservatives. You also have United Airlines. They went woke. They're gone.  It's probably the biggest battle that we're seeing Nike Amazon yes, Amazon very very woke company Kellogg's I mean the list goes on and on and on and it's so bad that these motherfuckers now They are trying to Get ahead of these companies with this so conservatives plot text warnings on woke products Does this not sound like a trigger warning a? Conservative group is offering a new service that texts woke alerts straight to the phones of grocery shoppers Who want to know which brands are accused of taking political positions that are offensive to the right? so if a particular brand Had any sort of woke brand deal with Colin Kaepernick or Dylan Mulvaney Now you can have this app notify you or texture or whatever and let you know.   So I don't know what else to say about this, you know Bud Light is just one chapter in a very long book of Corporation supposedly going woke and subsequently getting cancelled by conservatives But this is not going to stop but what I will say is that I for one am exhausted by the woke nonsense It was amusing at first.


The international police have arrested a Nigerian accused of running a human trafficking ring from Ghana, Togo, Bonin and to Nigeria. These were as 286 human trafficking suspects were also arrested worldwide by the global agency in July. Now, officers in Ghana intercepted the Nigerian who had been placed under a red notice by Spain during an operation against cross-border crimes. The suspect, whose name was not as close, was nabbed when the agent conducted a check on the passenger manifest during an operation tagged smuggling training on operations program. According to a statement published on the Interpol website, operations STOP include that training provided to 20 frontline officers to optimize the use of Interpol's policing capabilities, including its criminal installing and lost travel document databases to better track the movements of criminals and identify potential victims. Ghana's Commissioner of Police Isaac Yabora was quoted as stating that the training and the operational use of Interpol's databases was crucial to enhancing the capacity of all officers, build a great network and exchange information quickly and effectively. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.


What's going on guys? Welcome back to the channel critical over here So we're talking about Chucky season 3 in this video here again today We'll be mostly talking about the fallout of what was cut in last night's episode Jennifer's body related to Gigi Since I did tell you guys you would get two references to Gigi Not just one like you got during the in sequence in the trial with Nika Which did happen, but there is another reference that Unfortunately got cut and I will give some context on that for those of you who do not follow me on Twitter But listen to my videos and know that I did mention that Chucky's plan for Gigi would be revealed in The season which it got cut and I'll again give context to that I'll also talk about Nika briefly. I'll talk about Tiffany and what you can expect for Tiffany next week And I'll talk about Chucky's Some more about Chucky and what's going on there with his recent motive being revealed and I'll talk about some of the Deaths you can prepare yourselves for now Gigi was intended to be on the people to kill list last night when Caroline and Chucky were being driven in the cat by Kenan Gigi was intended to be on that people to kill list But their name got removed in the final cut as you guys saw last night That's what Chucky's plan was to be revealed for related to Gigi to kill them And while we're on the topic of Gigi as cute is that scene with Caroline and Chucky might have appeared to be It's also shady since Chucky has a child and his remarks to Caroline make me think he's disappointed in his own kid More so we just know he's trying to manipulate Caroline even further So it's not really too shocking but just some some random thought I wanted to share That was like one of the scummiest thing I've seen from Chucky in the show today that shade towards Gigi Now why was Gigi removed? I don't know why but I'm curious if it's tied to Lachlan not being able to commit or be available to whatever Storyline plans they have in place for part two of season three if at all I mean Lachlan's return to the role would likely be in flashback capacity because Glen and Glinda Merged once more and we got Billy back So I'd expect Lachlan to appear in flashback form while Tiffany either looks back on her life raising Glen and Glinda giving Lachlan an opportunity to step back into both roles or Tiffany could imagine a life with Glen and Glinda still separated thus allowing Lachlan to appear in that type of Imagination in Tiffany's head it be a very limited capacity because again They creatively decided to put the two siblings back together again Granted like I mentioned Billy is also the Gigi star as well not just Lachlan So it could be an issue on Billy's in and perhaps Billy couldn't commit to something that they had planned for Gigi in part two and because So far Billy can't Billy isn't available Gigi's name got cut from the list of people to kill We'll just have to wait and see because Gigi was indeed cut from the people to kill list That was the initial reference that you were gonna get last night, but it got cut now Nika Nika She does not appear in next week's episode now again. I will say this granted that Gigi's name ended up being removed from the list of people to kill Perhaps they could add a scene in with Nika That's always a possibility But I doubt it from when I saw the episode Nika did not appear in next week's episode But Tiffany and those prison shenanigans will be on display in full effect for everyone to see what I was talking about in my review And yes, she seems to have received a crate of voodoo toys I'm not gonna say what she does with those toys But I'm sure some of you those of you who are dissecting it and have seen the first film numerous times Know exactly what Tiffany will be up to with those voodoo dolls There was supposed to be a Halloween ends clip in next week's episode during a Tiffany scene as well But apparently that's been replaced with a Frankenstein movie instead Which I guess is their attempt to not a bride of Chucky even further The likely reason that was cut is because of the new rights mirror max just obtained to the Halloween series and Universal's deal is is gonna be over as a result of that and no longer can show footage from Halloween in Separate Universal projects like Chucky, but whatever now as for the deaths I won't say there are no major ones because some folks do get attached quicker than others to characters But yes, two people will die next week Now if you listen to my other news videos, you know who is safe but I also know that some of you have Having caught on to the fact that I do yes lie only when it's worth lying about and This isn't something worth lying about So if you want to know again who is safe from next week Go revisit last week's news video to hear which characters are safe as for Chucky wanted to end it on the man himself You will see more of this aging and it is completely disgusting from what I saw. It was completely Disgusting now. I don't know if that was actually finalized, but this man. He's he's looking rough so you guys will see more of this aging process sped up for Chucky and Yes, I would say that the season as of now for part one does in on a cliffhanger of sorts But let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already, of course Make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notification that you never miss video in the description I'll have links on social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course Let me does any movies news or reviews let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


I just want to start out with a question which I have, which is, although obviously the data and the particular algorithms that you're using have been chosen for a specific application, to what degree do you find that the techniques and the applications that you've been using, could be transferable to other social or business issues, and have you given thought to if you were to take your particular work and expand it into other areas where that might be? Yeah I mean I think this is sort of a key issue. What is the issue? So the big data revolution around, but at least we're about 12 years behind where Google was, let's say, in terms of using big data like large-scale computing farms to assist with search. The style of work, the work load there, was such that it was amenable to this system of computing they invented called MapReduce. It's a style of paddle computation and it's very very good for things like searching, sorting, and some basic things that show up all over and over again in Google, like environments. And that world of information networks and subsequently social networks was able to absorb that. What we find in this new world of the transportation of grid, there are new kinds of computation that are required and so some of them are not just directly mappable to MapReduce like computations. So inventing these new things could actually just work across a new category of applications which I'm sure is saying for, some of it is going to be saying for transportation as with the grid type problem or even water networks whereas other things. So I think that's an interesting development. It's a category that's different. Just to add on what Balaji said, so in our domain there are two different things that we are trying to bring together. One is this big data processing machine learning but then there is this whole understanding of grid physics which is basically high performance numerical computation. How do you solve these partial differential equations very effectively do numerical computation which has never been done in the same framework before. But that happens over and over in many different industries. In fact, I think that's the sense of what we think is going to be the industrial Internet that you want to be able to analyze a very complex system along with the sensor data that is streaming in and see how this is going to evolve in short term so that you can take some control actions to run it more effectively and use your resources better. So I think fundamentally the ability to predict very large streams of sensor data and then use that to run a control system in real time is definitely something that I can see move to other industries. Of course, there are lots of issues in terms of bridging the last mile in terms of getting the connectors and everything into your system and tweaking your algorithms. But it's a paradigm shift in some ways. Just to add to these, during my PhD I worked on transportation on the sensing and data analysis and I saw a lot of those ideas transferred over to the grid because many performance metrics that you care about when you're operating a grid or transportation system or water system are very similar. There is consumers who are these individuals and you're starting to get more high resolution information about them. And I think because of these two things, the type of measurements as well as the performance metrics, of course the system itself may behave differently, but the algorithms and principles you come up with, many times you can transfer and in transportation there are many plots on reliability and so on that are rotated versions or just analogous to what I see for the power system, for example. So I think on the computation side there's a bunch of new challenges that need to be solved that will help across all of these domains. But in the understanding, science, modeling side, the principles you learn from one can be easily transferred in some cases, in some cases you need some more work. Great, thank you. So questions from the audience and we have a microphone in the very back. So question right over here first, very front and we'll go in the back. So my question is about data access when you talk about smart grid and big data. So you have a lot of independent power producers who would like to make their systems more efficient, especially if they have a retail and a wholesale power portfolio. So when you have utilities having more access to data, like at every 15 minute intervals and these independent power producers only having access probably at the end of the day. And they want to make their systems efficient. They want to inculcate both industrial internet at the wholesale level and get more customer data at the retail level. Where do you think what can solve the problem of data access so that they can make their systems more efficient? I can take a stab at it. Not that I have a good answer to this, but generally I think there are lots of so there is one one aspect of this is whether independent power producers are at a disadvantage compared to a utility that that might have this data. And I think there is a lot of regulation around it and deregulated markets so that you cannot unfairly provide access to this data to the competitive retail side or competitive wholesale side of the market. The other question which is what can be done to make this data more easily accessible? That's a tougher one. We hope more utilities and more regulators will push for that open access. And there are certainly some some states where the access to data is a lot easier than others. For example, in Texas, the retailers are getting access. It's not ideal, but it's still better than California, let's say. So, so hopefully the movement is in that direction. Recently, I was in the CPUC. I think it's called panel, where they were discussing access of data from utilities. And they asked for recommendation from everybody in the panel. And my recommendation was this private data, which is ours, which the utility also owns it, but but it's our data should be accessible to one to everybody be authorized, but also to academic researchers, you know, cooperatives want to analyze, at least in an anonymized way. One question that was raised during that panel was how about privacy. And I came back from that and I put a challenge for students in my class, where I said, Here's what I will do. I gathered a bunch of data from the web. And we had a data set where we have about 600 or 700 questions, everything about your smoke or not, your single or you have so many kids. And the question that I asked was, Can you improve on your ability to predict the answers for these questions by adding the smart meter data and the zip code beyond what I have? And I think by now we have had at least 20 different algorithms applied, maybe five students. And nobody could really improve more than two 3% on that. Then I discovered that in Europe, there is a at ETH, there's a faculty who has done research on this, and he also was not able to improve. So my contention was, to an extent, your smart meter data is much more private than you think. And the benefits you have for public availability of this information far outweigh the issues around data access and so on. Of course, this is not convincing out there, but one of the conclusions that we are seeing is I think in California, at least, utilities are going to have to release data for research purposes. And the thing that they said is they were going to average over 100 or 200 customers. And if you do that fast, then there is no point because all of it looks the same. So it's kind of a, I don't know, I'm very much about open data, open access and really the challenges in global warming and all of these things. It's such a small price to pay to get this data. Okay, now the question in the back of the room. Thank you all for the great talks. My question was inspired by the last one and it has to do with transmission. So it's kind of twofold. One is, are there any beneficial effects from this reduction in peak loads that you're showing to have at the utility level at a larger transmission scale? And as I follow on other, are you seeing the same opportunities for using big data, smart grid analytics at the transmission scale to solve these like major challenges of if we have all these wind farms in one location, how can we provide this renewable energy to places where wind or solar or whatever else isn't very accessible? Yeah, so the answer is yes. If you look at the demand response programs that are happening in the US, by and large, they are driven by transmission and wholesale needs at this point. And I think Ram showed in his presentation how 20% of the demand really causes a very big spike in the prices. And that's exactly where having more generation, which is lower cost, helps bring these prices down. So if you look at the PJM market, most of the demand response is helping bring these prices down in the wholesale market and not at the retail level. Now with big data, actually you have, you can take that one step further where you can instead of just looking at these wholesale nodes, you can do very precise optimization of the grid and start looking at local congestions caused by EVs or other new type of things that are coming into the grid. And so I think the answer is that traditionally, this is actually applied to the wholesale level first anyway. And then the second thing around wind balancing is the same thing. I mean, there could be a local congestion at a particular sink like LA may have a lot of congestion, but the solar may happen in a desert nearby and you have to bring that back in. And so one of the big use cases for demand response is actually to be able to relieve transmission congestion and provide local generation, which is at the source of consumption itself. And there was a question right down here on the front row, Steve. Question for Ahmet on the actual instrumentation that you need in order to deploy the demand response technology, which I know you're doing great with and congratulations on that. But I'm still not clear on what you actually what household, for example, would have to have in terms of instrumentation for the control side of it. I assume you need a smart meter to collect. But what do you need to send that that control signal out to turn something off? So again, the answer to that is whatever the home owner wants, you can design a whole spectrum of programs starting from behavioral or community programs where you just send an email. And if they do something great, if they don't do something, it's fine. You will just measure it on the other end by using the smart meter data and give them appropriate incentives. On the other end of the spectrum, they may have a full home gateway with switches to control their pool pumps and nest to move their thermostat up and set point up and down. And if they do that, then they don't have to worry about what to do when the price signal comes, and they can potentially get a lot more reduction and more predictable reduction in their consumption. And so instrumentation set in Oklahoma data was really impressive. Yeah, in the Oklahoma case, the utility actually ended up putting smart meters, which was part of their rollout. And they also gave a full thermostat, which was pre programmed to a set of customers. They gave to us another set of customers, they only gave an in home display. A third set of customers, they gave only a web portal. And so they did a very scientific sort of rollout. And you could measure how much reduction you would get for each subset of these customers. And clearly the more automation you had, the more reduction you were able to see. So, Steve, there's a question right there. And then sort of question back there. Okay. Why don't we go with the back and then we'll go with the side. I would like to know, with respect to the Singapore train station, what was difficult about integrating data from the actual train? It seems like it would be incredibly useful to know that train number 265 was delayed because the door was sticking or a wheel was bearing was failing. And that was the root cause. Why didn't you have that data too to integrate with your other data? I think this is available, but not easy to get a hold of. And the reason is that the way the system is set up usually there's an operator who runs a concession. And it's a question of, did you get the, are they also the ones running the smart card system? So this is all running on just a smart card tap in tap out, right? And it's a question of who, you know, you're working with to be in with. So for example, in the Bay Area, the train operator BART and the clipper card entity are not the same. Okay. The one that runs the clipper card is a separate entity. Cubic is a system. And this is all very telling because what's happened in transportation is the ones that run the trains are not the same as the ones that run the buses. It's not trivial to know, you can't have a single company on both. The expertise required is different. Okay. And the electronic overlay that comes on top of this, usually there's some vendors and then there's system integrator and then there's a system. And then the card fare collection and stuff is just done by somebody else typically. This is true in Seoul. This is true in every pretty much most big cities that you can think of. Just a quick follow up observation. I think that's, you've captured the key opportunity that a group like this has that these systems are always going to be heterogeneous in the optimizations that we can benefit from or at the next level up above whatever you were working from. Yeah. And right now it's a difficult problem as you just elaborated. But I think it's a solvable one that would be worth exploring. So this is a good point. I'd like to elaborate on just one aspect of it. If you just think of how the computer networks world was in late 80s and early 90s. If you just open a random research paper you'll see seamless interoperability. Okay. This is a phrase that every paper had to have in it to be relevant to the big topic of that day. Because the problem was we didn't know at the time how to get the wireless and the Wi-Fi system guys to talk to the telephone guys to talk to the data networks guys to talk to the ATM forum. They're all different standards bodies. Okay. They couldn't even agree on packet formats. And the big revolution that has happened which is the sort of opening out of the internet is there's only one global internet and there's a pretty much only one local network which is Ethernet. All the other guys just like went away. Okay. And still the question of seamless interoperability is you know you have Wi-Fi system and then soon you're in a wired network in the building and then you go to this suite hall which is where our router is and you take the wired internet and then you may take a satellite somewhere else and as far as the internet as far as your session is concerned it doesn't even care. Right. Commuting is multimodal. A person takes a bus and then takes a train and then takes a bus. Okay. Either the first or the last mile is usually a bus trip in many metros. The what's happened at the level of information there's a uniformity. It's the same smart card that they use for for paying the bus fare as well as the train fare. Like in the barrier now you can do part and muni the same clipper card. So it's an information layer where the commonality is emerging. Okay. And which is why that's a good place to sort of build your system around. And this is a well-known idea in like distributor systems you just find the common interface that is common to lots of systems. Finally maybe transparent systems are emerging with one. Stay close to the money. You will always find a commonality there. So this will probably be the last question. So I have a quick question for everybody. Both in terms of the energy industry and the transportation industry weather comes into play and affects load patterns or transportation patterns. And we talked about accuracy being very important forecasting accuracy. Is weather forecasting accuracy good enough at this point or is it a road block for accurately predicting transportation and energy load patterns? I'm not the most recommended person to talk about weather forecasting accuracy and how it impacts forecasting but talking to this team from Sailor's Energy who does a weather engine. One of the things that they mentioned is in their day ahead if they can predict the temperature within one or two degrees that doesn't affect the wind forecast anymore. From the load forecasting perspective what I learned doing these things by myself just based on time series was even some simple time series predictions were enough because the part that's tied to the weather on these residential and commercial loads there's still another layer of variability coming from your behavior that you add to that. So it's hard to say but this person from Sailor's also mentioned that for example that going in these models there is a bunch of layers and being able to model better all of those layers is a challenge and if you can do those type of things you can do better. There's something interesting at a contrasting view from transportation. It's all outdoor weather for transportation pretty much. I mean not how you what you feel at home is actually what will you make a decision to drive or take the bus off. I stand for people bike except when it rains and they remember that such thing as a car and it takes them about two months to abandon the car and get back on the bike. Two months after the rains have stopped. But the thing is that it's slightly more severe weather that seems to have an effect on transportation except the funny thing we found about light rain causing people to do these things and it looks like it could be a phenomenon of central business district type work. You know people working there not wanting to get their business clothes looking you know wet or something. But something interesting as well as transportation is very heavily affected by severe weather events of course as is the grid. And what tends to happen is the proper gation effect which I'm sure is the same in the grid. And that is actually what learning from this emergency response systems and stuff rely on the very network which is now snout. So after Hurricane Sandy there was a really bad problem of just getting gas. You remember all this like people running out of gas. And that for example is a kind of dependence that's worth understanding because there are more of those happening now. I mean I have a slightly different perspective on this and that I think that's an opportunity for big data to also come in. So whether forecasts are obviously improving and they're not as bad as they were like 20 years ago but there's still a lot of inaccuracy especially unless you put a specialized sensor or something at your site. But that's where I think the power of big data comes in. The fact that you can update your forecast as you get new input at a very massive scale allows you to react much more accurately to these weather changes which are somewhat inherently unpredictable. And so I mean we in our systems we can we can basically take any weather input and as soon as it changes we will recalibrate and reforcast. And then obviously the closer you are in terms of time horizon the more accurate you are and over time you can get pretty I mean you can get very inaccurate. But typically between 24 hours to 8 hours you can cut your errors down by half to two-thirds and then within eight hours you start getting pretty good accuracy. Okay if you could join me in thanking colleagues. I'm wrong for their presentations.