Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast. I'm your host Richard DeSousa and we are got a busy show today. We're gonna talk about hot stocks. We're gonna talk about the CPI report which came in. We're gonna talk about inflation, which came in hot for the second month in a row. Inflation is going up. It's not good news. That means that the Fed is most likely gonna have to hike rates even higher. Not something we really like to see, but that's what's going on and we're gonna talk about the biggest breaking news of the day. So let's get right into it, right here, right now, exclusively on Rich TV Live. All right, here we go. Let's do this, all right. So hope you're having a great day. First and foremost, happy Wednesday, happy hump day to you all. All right, so this is the big news which we're gonna share right off the bat here. Here it is. Inflation rises for the second straight month in August on higher gas costs. Now they're blaming gas costs. I don't know if gas costs are the only thing to blame. I think there's a lot of different things to blame here, but the reality is they are blaming gas costs. Obviously they have to blame somebody. They have to blame something. So obviously they're blaming gas, right? And the only thing that the Fed knows how to do in Canada and the United States to bring down inflation is to hike rates higher. So this is not good news. This is not good news. I wanna make it very clue. Very clue. I wanna make it very clear. This is not good news. Yo, what's up? How you doing? Welcome. If you have any questions, please put it in the chat. I'll do my best to go over your questions, but this is affecting the entire market. I'm gonna show you what's happening the entire market. Look at this. The whole market is red today. I haven't made any trades today. I told everyone I wasn't gonna make any trades today because I knew that the market was gonna be coming in hot. I knew inflation probably wasn't gonna be good and I had a bad feeling about it. So I just decided I ain't making any trades. Told everybody in our community, I'm not making any trades because I had a bad feeling about inflation and there it is. Markets all red, oil's down, gold's down, the VIX is down, NASDAQ is slightly green, S&P 500's down and the Dow Jones is down. Now the reality is the market's been up all year, crypto's have been up all year, Bitcoin's been up all year and inflation has been going down but interest rates keep going up and that's why it's becoming very, very dangerous for investors. There's a lot of divergence in this market because when rates keep going up that means you pay more for your gas, your food, your housing, everything's going up. When rates are going up you're paying more for everything.  That's not good for people. So despite that the market's been up all year, Bitcoin and crypto's have been up all year so that creates a lot of divergence which is creating mixed messages for investors and I think it's a time that everyone needs to be really, really cautious, okay? I think right now everybody needs to be really, really cautious, okay? So I'm gonna talk about what's going on in the market now, let's get right into it and we're gonna start with Bitcoin.  Bitcoin right now at 26,151, actually doing pretty good and you can see over the last year Bitcoin's going up. I ain't lying about this, Bitcoin's going up, I ain't making this up, right? Bitcoin has been going up all year and that makes me happy. Despite the fact that inflation's up, despite the fact that everything keeps going up, Bitcoin is also up. So what does that tell you? That tells you that Bitcoin is extremely healthy and Bitcoin is extremely strong and with the Bitcoin halving coming, I believe that's gonna be a massive catalyst for the price of Bitcoin to go up even further. And like I said, full disclosure, I'm a holder of Bitcoin and investor in Bitcoin, it is my number one crypto by far and I think anyone that wants to invest in crypto should start with Bitcoin.  Remember that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes, please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about and discuss here on Rich TV Live. Past performance is not always an indication of future results and I do not stand up and hold Bitcoin up for investors to make money. I wanna make sure you guys understand that.  What I do is educate the market, educate the public, I educate my community and I'm an investor just like you guys. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, sometimes I draw.  I do believe that I do have sometimes better results than others because I've been doing it for a very long time. However, I have a very disciplined approach to investing. I also am very diversified. I'm invested in oil and gas, I'm invested in Bitcoin, I'm invested in Ethereum, I'm invested in gold, I'm invested in electric vehicles, I'm invested in trending topics, I'm invested in what's hot. So I try to get my kind of my investing dollars in whatever hot right now. So as an investor in Bitcoin, it's doing well. The charts don't lie, look at it, we're at 26,000, we started the year at 16,000, we're now at 26,000. So at the end of the day, Bitcoin's done really well this year and I believe that this is just a start for Bitcoin. I believe, and I've told you guys this before, I believe that Bitcoin goes up this year, which it has, goes up next year with the Bitcoin having and about 10 different Bitcoin spot ETFs looking to get approved. I think those will be huge catalysts for Bitcoin and obviously with the Bitcoin having coming, I think those are huge catalysts for Bitcoin next year and then historically, Bitcoin goes down one year, up three years in a bull market, we're in the first year of a bull cycle and that means we go up next year and then 2025. And if you've been watching us, I've been predicting that Bitcoin is going to go to $100,000 per coin and I believe that that happens in November of 2025. That's my prediction. My prediction is that Bitcoin hits an all-time high in November of 2025. So we are approaching about 26 months until November 2025. So I feel like we're going into like a golden period for investing into Bitcoin right now and that's why I think everyone should be thinking about investing in Bitcoin. Now, don't take my word for it. Remember, everything we talk about is strictly for information and education purposes. Do it because you love it. Do it because you like it. Do it because you've done the research and the due diligence and you believe the price of Bitcoin is going to go higher. Don't do it because I said so, all right? Let's make that very, very clear. Do not buy anything because I said so. You buy it because you want to.  You did the research and you believe it's an asset that you want to hold, okay? I want to make the very, very clear. Have I made myself clear?  That's just silliness. That's craziness. That's not smart. It's not smart, okay? It's not how you do it, all right? Do it because you love it. Do it because you understand it. Do it because you want to hold and invest in Bitcoin. And I'm going to tell you right now. My plan is that when Bitcoin explodes in 2025, I'm going to sell full disclosure. When Bitcoin explodes in 2025, I'm selling. I ain't telling, I'm selling. I'm selling my Bitcoin and selling my Ethereum in November of 2025. I'm telling you guys right now, I'm selling my Bitcoin and selling my Ethereum in November of 2025. If Bitcoin goes to 100,000, I'm going to be thinking about selling. If it goes to 150, I'm thinking of selling. If it goes to 200,000, I'm thinking of selling. If it goes to 250,000, I'm selling. So straight up, I'm going to be thinking about a selling, okay? All right. All right. Now let's take a look at the hot stocks of the day. Shall we? We shall. Here we go. All right. All right. Let's do this right here and right now. All right. So we got a hottie right here. We got a hottie and she likes the potty. Let's go. All right. AVTX. Now take a look at this. I made a bunch of group chats. This thing exploded pre-market AVTX and then it came down and look at this. My indicator gave us the buy and buy it did. AVTX up 116% and absolutely on fire. AVTX put on your radar, put on your watchlist. Absolutely on fire and I missed it. It's hurting my soul. AVTX absolutely on fire. It's hurting my soul. It is up 120%. Did you take advantage of AVTX? If you took advantage of AVTX, put it in the chat. Let me know if you got into AVTX, one of the hottest stocks of the day and it's absolutely on fire. Let me know what you guys think about AVTX. Love to know what you guys think about AVTX. The hottest mover of the day up 125% and going up as we speak. Look at this. This is absolutely crazy. Zoom in here. So we're watching this go up live right now. It's up 125% on the day. That's a move, folks. And look, our indicator, see that blue line, that blue arrow? The blue arrow saying buy, which means it could go higher right now. So we'll just watch it for a second. How about we just watch it? All right. Let me know what you guys think. Did anybody get into AVTX now up 114% of the day, one of the biggest movers and hottest movers of the day? All right. So we'll take a look at AVTX a little bit later, but let's take a look at IMPL, another mover today, up 46% IMPL. Now, what I always like to do is I like to see the daily chart and look what happened. It went up pre-market, came down, went up again, down, up, down, up, down, up and very choppy, right? Up and down, up and down, up and down. So I really don't like to buy anything pre-market and I really don't like to buy something after it's already exploded unless there's some crazy news or my indicators are saying it's going higher. But this is interesting because the RSI is actually not that high, which kind of means it could go higher and my indicator just gave the buy signal. So I'm not telling you to buy it, but my indicators are saying this could go higher. I'm not saying it will, but my indicators are saying it might, okay? What do you guys think about IMPL, one of the hottest stocks of the day? I think it's important as an investor that you diversify. I don't think it's good for you to only be into penny stocks. I'm a very big holder of dividends. A large portion of my portfolio right now is in dividends because they pay me a guaranteed rate of return. So I really like dividends. I've talked about it a lot. I do like penny stocks too. Don't get me wrong. I bought Canobie Growth Corp this week, made a quick day trade, got in and got out, made a quick 3,500 bucks for the day in a couple hours in and out and I was happy. What's the wrong with that, right? Sometimes you got to do the in and out actions. Sometimes you got to day trade a little bit, but you got to be willing to get in and get out. Can't fall asleep with stocks, can't fall asleep with crypto, can't fall in love with stocks, can't fall in love with crypto, especially in this market. I think you have to have a plan and you got to stick to your plan. If you're going to day trade and you're getting in, you got to be ready to get out. If you're looking long-term in something and you believe it's going to go up and you believe long-term it's going to go higher like I do with Bitcoin, then you can take a position and hold. If you're holding a dividend stock long-term, so you can collect your dividend, nothing wrong with buying and holding, but stick to your plan. Remember, people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. So we're going to go over some of the top stocks of the day and hopefully I can help you guys find some winners, but we are 22 minutes left in the market and it's CPI day, inflation day. And to be quite frank with inflation going up, I'm not really excited about buying anything today. I'm just being honest with you, right? And it shows you how strong Bitcoin is when the market goes down and everything is red and Bitcoin goes up on the day where inflation also goes up, shows you that Bitcoin is a very strong inflationary asset, meaning when everything else is going down, people are buying Bitcoin because it's a hedge against inflation.  Take a look at AVTX again, now up 125%. I told you guys, it looks like it might go higher and it seems like it is, it's crazy. So one of the hot players of the day, AVTX. Now here's BNMV, BNMV up 43%. But look, there was the signal, the blue arrow gave us the signal, exploded and now it's kind of trading sideways.  This is why I don't like to chase something after it's already gone up. But hey, put it on your radar, put on your watch list, get to know the news, get to know the company and I'll be watching it closely. And if I like the news and I like the company, maybe I take it for a ride. Who knows? I'll keep you updated on that as well. All right, let's take a look at ZVSA up 54%. Look at the daily chart, another one that went up pre-market, there was the buy signal, beautiful indicators, gave us the buy signal, shot up and then retraced and then went back up and then down and up and down, giving us buy signals, giving us sell signals. So we're all over the map here. It's at 19 cents, super risky. I'm not going to tell you to buy this stock, but definitely one that you should put on your radar, put on your watch list, only at 19 cents of 54% of the day and it's hot. It's hot like fire. All right, ZVSA. All right, yo, Romeo, what's up? Scalp like a thief. Bro, I got into Canobie Growth Corp and I was watching it like a hawk. As soon as it hit like the high of the day, I got out, make a quick 3,500 bucks and I'm out. Hey man, most people don't even make 3,500 bucks in a week. I made 3,500 bucks in a couple hours. So nothing wrong with that, especially in this market. If you can win on a trade, nothing wrong with taking your profits and running, and that's exactly what I did on Canobie Growth Corp. It's the only trade I've made this week. Now, I have a lot of investments that I've made that I've been holding, but as a trade this week, I've made one trade, one winning trade, made $3,500 on that trade and I'm happy with that. Does it mean that I'm not going to make any more trades this week? I don't know. I want to see what the market does due to inflation and with inflation going up, I'm not really feeling that good about investing this second, but that could change. If things change tomorrow and the market gets hot again, maybe I make a trade tomorrow. But I'm kind of thinking about coasting this week and seeing how the week finishes off before I start thinking about jumping in for a day trade, because I just want to see how the market reacts to inflation, how it digests all this information and where we go from here. So it's kind of my idea. We'll see where we go from here. Here's another one that's up today, RCKT. Big day for them. Up 38%, this is not a penny stock. But look, another one that went up pre-market, large cap stock that went up pre-market and then kind of went up a little more and then down, so kind of choppy, up and down after it went up pre-market. So if you're not buying this pre-market and you're chasing it after it's already up 30 to 40%, probably not making any money. So you got to really think about your strategy here and ask yourself, what are you really doing as an investor and how are you going to make money in this market? If you're chasing stuff that's already up and then it goes down, you're not making any money. So please proceed with caution, the markets are very volatile, they're very risky and I don't want to see anybody losing money. I really don't want to see anybody risking anything or losing any money. 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We like to do weekly shows where we have lots of engaging guests from all over the world, a lot of them in America, some in Canada, some international, where we're going to just talk stocks, talk crypto, talk NFT, talk trending topics, news, sports, politics, you name it, we talk about it and our whole goal here is to be entertaining, educational and talk about what's happening in the market, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can follow us all over social media and I'd love for you guys to also join our community absolutely free. You can also upgrade and become a VIP member and get access to all of my trade ideas first at RichTV.io, an ecosystem built by investors, foreign investors. Love to have you guys join us where we can navigate the markets together, conquer market labyrinths, savvy insights and dynamic chats. You can see here, Amazon actually up. I knew 52 week high on Amazon and I called the buy for you on Amazon, told you guys it was a buy, told you it was one of my top picks of the year. Meta keeps going higher, Bitcoin also in the green, Tesla, another one that I bought and sold this year and took profits on Amazon, took profits on Tesla, took profits on Apple, Google buying some and Shopify, some of the biggest companies in the world that I told you guys I was buying and I did and I've already sold and took profits on all of them this year. You can see the US dollar also green, NVIDIA, one of my top stocks all year, one of my top AI picks as well. One of the top, the top chip maker in the world AI chips guys in the video, they're in the green as well. You can see the spy is in the red and the theorem is in the green. Full disclosure, Ethereum is my second largest crypto holding. I absolutely love theory. You can see all of our featured videos right at richtv.io.  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Okay, you can see here that they've been really climbing very hot. Look at the trend here. So one of the hot stocks of the day, WETG, currently up 34% on the day. We got 13 minutes left in the market today. Here's another one that's trending today, F-F-I-E. Look at this, got the buy signal here, shot up and is now at $5.08 but been a big mover on the day, up 30% on the day. Now, if you've been watching Rich TV Live, I called the buy on Sigma Lithium Corporation at $10, $10. Look at this. This thing's been an absolute rocket. Sigma Lithium was one of my top 10 stocks. I think it was two years ago when it was at $10. This thing has been an absolute rocket. It's also having a big day today, up 14%. This has been one of the hottest Lithium stocks in the world. Literally it was at $1 in June of 2020. Three years ago, this stock was at $1. It's now at $36. It's up over 3,000%. If you're looking for Lithium stocks, take a look at SGML. I'm going to show you one that could be the next SGML pretty soon here. Another company that I brought you guys first that's up over 100% this year. I'm going to talk about it soon but don't sleep on SGML. One of the hottest Lithium stocks over the last three years in the world, SGML end up another 14% today. Put on your radar and put it on your watch list. Now, cannabis stocks have started to heat up because the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, is considering making cannabis in America a schedule three drug instead of a schedule one drug. Now, if they do that, that's going to be very bullish for cannabis stocks and cannabis stocks have been heating up. I'm not telling you to buy and hold these things. I'm just telling you as a short little day trade, this might be one of the places to be because look at these charts. These things have been killed. They've been killed. Literally, Kron has gone from $14 to $1. It's been killed and now it's got this little trend reversal pattern where it's starting to go up again, but slightly. I'm not saying it's going to go up to the moon, but it's starting to turn around. If this trend continues, I think you should definitely be looking at cannabis stocks. Put Kron on your radar, on your watch list, starting to do a little trend reversal. Take a look in the last month. You can see Krono's group up a lot. This thing is really trending up from $1.65 to now where it is at $2.44. Put on your radar, put on your watches. I don't love cannabis stocks. I'm not telling you guys you should be buying cannabis stocks, but for a day trade, if they do get moved to a schedule three drug from a schedule one drug, that's going to be very bullish for them and I could see them going way higher. So definitely put them on your radar and put them on your watch list. Tony, what's up, bro? Netflix tumbling on down today. How you doing, my friend? Hope you're having a great day. Kron, definitely want to put on your radar and put on your watch list. Here's TNON. They've been pretty hot this week. You can see they had this big move, then a retrace. Now they're up 9% of the day. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. Here's a new company that I'm literally just making a new video for right now. Stay tuned to Secure Private Data Limited. SKUR in Canada and their symbol in America is SWISF. Nice trend on them. They're climbing up and they are all about securing your data. So SWISF in America starting to make a big move and SKUR in Canada. You can see I got the fibs on it and you can see they've been moving nicely here from 9 cents to where they are now at 18 cents. Brand new company, full disclosure. It's a client of ours. So full disclosure, not telling you to buy it, put on your radar, put on your watch list. I'm doing a review on the company. I'll be interviewing the CEO soon, keeping an update on their news, but I'm a big fan of cybersecurity and privacy protection. In a world where hacking is happening way too much, this is a company that I think everyone should be aware of. Everyone should put it on their radar and everyone should put it on their watch list. Secure Private Data Limited, SKUR in Canada and SWISF in America. In fact, here it is right here. Look at this. There it is right here. So I think everyone should put it on their radar and put it on their watch list. Secure Private Data company that I think everyone should be aware of and I'm literally doing my research and looking into them right now as we speak. All right. All right. All right. All right. Here we go. All right. Okay. Now you can see here Secure's chart and you can see how they've literally doubled in a very short period of time. Another one of the companies that I've been talking about a lot and it is our client, full disclosure is NBM, Neo Battery Materials. I'm a big fan of this company. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. They have tons of potential and they're up over 200% this year. I told you guys here at Rich TV Live, we love to bring you the winners and we love to bring them to you first. NBM in Canada, NBM, FF in America. I think they have huge potential. Don't sleep on Neo Battery Materials. Here's Zedge, one of my top 10 stocks for September 2023. They're having a nice day up another 5%. They're starting to really gain some steam, gaining momentum. I think you need to put them on your radar and put them on your watch list. And look at this. My indicator has called the buy on Zedge. See the blue arrow? That is the buy signal. RSI is starting to climb here, but still room to run on the RSI. So a big fan of Zedge. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. Currently at $2.25, now up 3.94% on the day. Here's Tesla. I'm a big fan of Tesla. I have been forever and I've been talking about Tesla for years. I did buy them at 100 bucks, sold them later this year, made profits and now they've continued to go even higher. I'm waiting for a pullback to buy Tesla. I'm a big fan of this company and I think they have huge potential. Love to know what you guys think about Tesla. All right. So not going to buy it at $271. They did get a $500 price upgrade. So very interesting there. Interested in Tesla, obviously, but a $500 price target seems a little bit rich. So I don't know, but hey, if they go to $500, they're literally going to double from here. So definitely keep your eye on Tesla. I'm a big fan and I think that they have tons of potential. Tons of potential for Tesla, in my opinion. And of course they've got Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world running the show. So why not be aware of what's going on with Tesla? Here's Ethereum. I'm a big fan of Ethereum. It's full disclosure. It's my second largest crypto holding. Ethereum has been as high as 4,800 US. I believe we're going to see them go back to those levels. Probably not this year, but I think we'll see it happen in maybe next year. And I really believe it'll happen in 2025. So I believe everyone should be aware of Ethereum. If you want to get into crypto, in my opinion, you need to look into Ethereum, a company with so much potential. And my second largest crypto holding, I also like their tokenomics. Only about 130 million Ethereum. Only about 21 million Bitcoin. Love the tokenomics for Bitcoin. Love the tokenomics for Ethereum. And I think we could see Ethereum at between 5,000 to 10,000 by November of 2025. So love to know what you think about Ethereum, but I'm a big fan, and I think they have huge potential. All right, let's just quickly update some of the hottest picks of the day. Right now, AVTX up 96%. So it did go up and now it's retracing. This is why I don't like to chase green, because if you chased it, you could be down right now. So you've got to be careful with these things. Remember, market makers make markets, okay? They determine the price of the stock. They determine the price of crypto. They determine the price of everything. They're market makers. They make the markets. So when you chase something, they know that and their job is to short it to take your money. So be really careful chasing anything. And if you do, make sure you have stop losses to protect you against downward pressure and make sure you know exactly what your take profit is.  Okay? The only way to protect your profits is when you sell. So AVTX, one of the biggest movers of the day, up 96% right now. Here's IMPL up 49% of the day. One of the biggest movers of the day. Here's VNMV up 49% of the day. Another one of the big movers of the day. Here's ZVSA up 46% of the day. Another one of the big movers of the day. Here's RCKT up 39% of the day. Another one of the big movers of the day. We've got two minutes left in the market. Here's WETG up 33% of the day. Another big mover on the day. Here's FFE up 31% of the day. Another one of the big movers of the day. Here's SGML Sigma Lithium up 13% of the day. Another big mover on the day. And Chronos Group up 8%, cannabis stock starting to heat up. And TNON up 10% on the day. I was showing you guys SKUR, another one of the picks that I'm just now starting to get involved with that I'm researching. So stay tuned to my video and stay tuned to the CO interview coming soon on SKUR in Canada and SWISF. All right, guys. Hope you guys are having a great day. I wish everyone the best of luck. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live. Past performance is not always an indication of future results.   Don't go down until Johnny sells. I love to be able to do that maybe one day, but at this point, I'm not there yet. So it's up to you as the investor to make smart decisions and to know what to buy, what to sell, and when. And what we're going to do here at Rich TV Live is we're going to educate you. We're going to make sure you learn how to look at charts. We're going to make sure you learn what is a debt-to-equity ratio. We're going to make sure you understand share supply, tokenomics. That's really important. If a company has tons of shares, there's always a chance it can go down. If a crypto has tons of coins, there's always a chance it can go down. If a stock has a very tight stock and share supply, those are called tight floaters. Those are the ones we love. They can explode. If a crypto like Bitcoin has a very tight tokenomics, there's always a good chance it can explode. So I love to understand the tokenomics. I love to understand the product the company has. 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Be careful out there. CPI came in hot, which means inflation is going up, which means the Fed will most likely have to hike rates again in Canada, the United States, not good news. So I'm a little bit cautious about this marker right now. Don't think I'll be doing any more trades this week, to be honest with you.  I promise you that. And if you go to our website at RichTV.io, you'll get an opportunity to know what's going on second. Thank you guys. Have a great day. It's your boy Rich from Rich TV Live saying, have a nice day. We'll see you soon. Peace and be careful out there. Inflation is coming in hot, which means prices for your credit cards, lines of credit, student loans, mortgages, debts, gas, food, everything. Most likely you're going to keep going up, which is not really good news. So we need something to change. So I'll keep you guys updated. Hopefully something changes soon. And when it does, I'll let you guys know first. Have a nice day, everybody. I'm out. Peace.


Hey, this is Alex with the military version of the commando Padlock or claims to be the military version says us on it probably have a little intro that I'll put in Just trying to pick this open and hand was getting tired and Need some water and camera was about ready to stop so We can give this around to now before what I was getting Maybe somebody can help me Lord knows I need it. I Was getting that's a little false set an enormous false set on one of these guys and We've been four or five I think but that's a And then No feedback anywhere. I think that was for I'm Just not really experienced before lunch work I'm also getting the feeling of serrated bands even though I haven't actually seen any in here But they Certainly act serrated. It's supposed to the drivers could be serrated. I would make it Or to tell Like tension will set you free. There you are picked open So this is the second one of these where when I've gotten a false set the lock will not open When I didn't get a false set the lock did open So riddle me that I Have no idea But anyway, this is the So I didn't take too long. I'm just gonna refilm this so I don't have to edit. This is the commando lock company Part two It's a little thank-you note. I got from ordering from them and what I was surprised by is when I open the box And it was it did in the previous video, but I didn't really look very carefully I'd ordered two locks and it turns out I got four because I got a two-for-one deal from keypicking.com So if you go to keypicking.com click on the banner ad for CLC commando lock company It'll take you to their website commando lock comm and no I'm not getting compensated for this in any way and You can have yourself a couple of these locks Among the I'll just show you the features there, but 44 millimeter shackle interlocked riveted for strength Rivet holes blah blah blah five-pin commando design cylinder with captive key Which we know is not really true and two keys the part I like the best was the Military version is zinc plated with yellow trivalent chromate And it is cadmium free So and then finally For those of you particularly my friend dice man These products have been pre-liberated with WD-40 So this company commando lock company. I don't want to mess with them really They use WD-40 out of the factory So how about that? I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I think that is a good thing And just to show you the the my complaint about the key retention. So if I put the If I put the lock back in there if I unlock it open the shackle at this point. Yeah key retaining, okay? Keys retained a lot of focus Thank you can see the US very prominently there or if I turn the shackle here Not key retaining Now the shackle is stuck like this I'm not gonna be able to lock it again without breaking something But I can take I can't unlock the lock Take the key out of walk away Without locking it again. So I Would say that's probably not key retaining and again this one has a little ball bearing in there Little ball bearing action there so not a huge ball bearing, but it is a ball bearing It does look like it would be impossible to Shim So there's the lock. This is with the zinc-plated Yellow trivalent chromate military version again fit and finish very good. No sharp edges and you know decent lock they I think on the website they were $7.99 $8.99 something like that You can also get a boron shackle for a few extra dollars And if you get them from keypicking.com apparently you get two for one at least You did three days ago. So from the banner out on keypicking.com. Thank you there. It's my wife correcting my Details are so anyhow commando lock company new for me maybe new for you Anyway, this is Alex, but thanks for watching have fun and Keep it legal. Cheers You


So if it's not the case that science and religion are in principle in conflict or in principle can't conflict the conclusion we're left with is that science and religion are potentially conflicting. That is, there are some cases where science can make a certain affirmations that contradict claims that people believe on the basis of religious revelation or religious experience and vice versa. So how do we address apparent tensions between science and religion in those cases? And the answer is we just have to look at them on a case-by-case basis. We have to balance the strength of the evidence in favor of certain scientific beliefs against the strength of the evidence in favor of a conflicting religious belief, whether that belief emerges from a purported religious experience or from a revelation. So when you're in the process of doing, engaging in this sort of balancing act, a religious believer when there is tension with a certain scientific claim really faces four options, to reject their religious belief, to reject their interpretation of the religious data, to reinterpret how they understand an experience or a text, to reject the evidence of their senses, or to reject an interpretation of the sense data and reject the claim that science has understood the data correctly. And you might wonder, well, is there one right answer to that question? Is there some default that we should hold as a religious believer? Should you always default to the science or should you always default to the religious revelation and actually, some people think yes, but it looks like the best answer is probably no. That is, in each case, what we've got is a body of data that we're interpreting in certain ways, and we always have to ask ourselves, where is the strongest evidence? Is it, is the strongest evidence my interpretation of the text is clearly correct? And if I have reason to think the text is correct, that gives me reason to reject the scientific belief. And if I think the evidence in favor of a certain scientific claim is just undeniable, based on the sense data, that will lead me to affirm that claim, perhaps in contrast to my interpretation of the religious text. So, on this view, science and religion potentially conflict. Now, the interesting question is, do they actually conflict? And there are many purported cases of actual conflict between science and religion as well. So perhaps the one about which we hear the most is claims about human origins or cosmological origins, but there are many others. In many religious traditions, it's believed that the human mind is in some sense immaterial and capable of surviving bodily death. That view is not held in very high esteem by those in neuroscience and psychology, for example. So that's another case where we have to ask, how do we reconcile these two different sorts of beliefs? Of course, the classic example, as I mentioned, is one that concerns origins for Muslims, Christians, and many others. The claim that the universe is very old, the claim that human beings are not separately created, but descended from common ancestors, this assumes certain things. It assumes that the revelation that they appeal to is accurate, and it also assumes that their interpretation of the text is accurate. But when you see that, you see also that provides us with a recipe for resolving these sorts of challenges. And in order to resolve it, we first have to look at how these questions about origins are understood more specifically. And to do that, I'll turn to a taxonomy that was provided by the philosopher Alvin Plantinga. And Plantinga describes this potential conflict in terms of five distinct theses. And they are the ancient earth thesis. The thesis of the universe and the earth are billions of years old, which is a claim that has apparently, or according to some, contradicted by certain religious texts. The progress thesis that life has moved from simple unicellular organisms to complex multicellular organisms over time, the common ancestry thesis that all terrestrial life shares a common ancestor, what Plantinga calls the Darwinist thesis, according to which the mechanisms that account for the diversity and complexity of life are those identified by evolutionary scientists, variation in selection, genetic drift, and so on. And fifth, the naturalistic origins of life thesis, the idea that life on earth arose through purely naturalistic processes as opposed to a divine action or divine miracle. So, critics of the evolutionary scheme of origins take issue with one or in some cases with all of these theses. And these critics argue that the scientists have just misunderstood the data or mishandled it, or perhaps that there's an agenda behind their interpretation of the data that lead them to endorse those five theses. And as a result, they've fallen into error. But these critics have to also acknowledge that in the same way that our scientists have to interpret empirical data, they have to interpret the evidence of revelation in order to come to their religious convictions and perhaps those interpretations are wrong. So again, in the same way, scientists are charged with the task of interpreting empirical data to come to conclusions, religious believers are charged with the task of interpreting a text. And the question then is, well, are there ever cases where the evidence shifts and we have some reason to believe that we should give more credence to one side or the other? And the answer is, yes, on both sides. As religious believers engage in this balancing act, they need to realize that the evidence can change on both sides, so that over time we can come to have a greater degree of confidence in a certain scientific claim. If you look at that list of five theses, you'll see that probably going from bottom to top, we have more evidence. So the evidence in favor of the claim that life arose by purely naturalistic means, it would actually be difficult to come up with evidence to show that. And we certainly don't have evidence of that now. So should the religious believer, if they think that their religious text teaches that life arose by some sort of non-natural process, should they give that up in the face of the scientific evidence? At this point, maybe not. But when it comes to the claim that the universe is six or 10,000 years old, in that case, it looks like the scientific evidence is really very strong. And that should encourage religious believers to go back to the text and see if perhaps there's an alternative reading that's still consistent with what the text is trying to affirm. And that's, in fact, what's happened in recent years. Biblical scholars have returned to the biblical text and ask, can, in fact, we understand this text differently? And many think that, in fact, if we understand ancient Near Eastern literature and the creation myth that were present at the time, then, in fact, it should not be understood in a literal way that perhaps it has in the past. So when we understand that science and religion are in potential conflict, it puts us in this place of having to balance the evidence of one against the other, and our conclusions about which we ought to take most seriously at any given time is likely to change.


Live from the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering OpenStack Silicon Valley 2016. Brought to you by Morantis. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Lisa Martin. Welcome back, everyone. We are live here in Silicon Valley. This is Silicon Angle, Media's, The Cube's, our flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host Lisa Martin, our next guest is Hirshan Diner, Executive Vice President, Strategic Alliances at Gigaspaces. Last year, we had the founder on, he's in Israel. He's watching, say hello. Probably sleeping, time zone. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So I remember that conversation we had last year. It actually got me really excited. I'm getting a geek out on orchestration because it really is the hardest problem that people are working on right now, the smartest tech geeks. But before that, there's always a management problem. So you got to manage before you can orchestrate and automate, right? Managing multiple clouds has become one of the main, kind of, I will say public secrets in the tech community. Clouds are great, but when you start dealing with different clouds, there's some nuances. So can you share your thoughts on that particular problem area? Yeah, I think it's very good. First of all, thank you for inviting us, inviting me. So it's first of all, it's management. It's also orchestration. There is many, many tools these days which are talking about orchestration. It's a bit confusing in terms of the audience and the customers. So I'm from Geekerspaces, the company behind Cloudify. Cloudify is an open source product. And what we are trying to pitch basically since day one of OpenStack, and I've been here in Austin and the rest of the conferences since day one is that it's not about yet another cloud. It's not just about the infrastructure. It's not just about which cloud we should choose, but it's the entire stack. We are set on top of the application layer, and we are looking for ways to basically do, allow the users to have some cloud portability, which means you have various clouds, various technologies like containers. In the end of the day, somebody needs to manage it. Somebody needs to orchestrate it. And nobody knows what it should be the next docker, the next Kubernetes in six months from now. So you need to have the future proof ready for. So cloud mobility and that's important. I want to dig into that. Portability. But you also said mobility? Portability. Portability, okay, portability. And you guys sit where in the stack? We are basically on top of the infrastructure. We are agnostic to whatever infrastructure. Below the container layer or above? We can integrate, we can take the Kubernetes and deploy it and manage it on any cloud. But I think the challenge is right now you have many, many silos. So you have the Azure and obviously the Amazon, you have the vSphere with their tools, you have the Kubernetes and docker with their tools of management and orchestration, and OpenStack as well. So at the end, if OpenStack wants to go to the next level and be mature even more, you just need to have something which break all these silos, something that connect all this mass. A common tool set. Yeah, because right now it's really a chaos. If I'm a customer and we see customers every day, they are very confused because they want to have OpenStack, but the reality they also have Kubernetes and native clouds. And I think the last survey that I saw, almost 74% of the enterprises use at least two cloud vendors and at least six clouds. So try to imagine if you're a customer, you need to manage all of that, you need to orchestrate a lot of that. So that's your challenge. In terms of challenges, one of the themes today has been about collaboration. You kind of mentioned that not just from the number of cloud services that enterprises are using, but also collaboration in the OpenStack community. They talked about that as well as a sign of the maturation. What is your recommendation for enterprises that are driven by the need to standardize so that they can not only operationalize what they're doing, but also deliver a customer-centric focus? What's your advice for those customers that need it to standardize? So it's a very good question and comment. We are dealing with OpenSource. Gigaspace for the last 16 years was closed for many years and Cloudify been opened and OpenSource to Apache for the last four years. And we took it even thirdly. We put it as an open governance. So we took part of the product, we put it on Apache and Linux Foundation, and the idea is to collaborate and allow the big guys to put code inside to extend it. And I think you heard in OpenStack Austin and today Jonathan mentioned OpenStack Plus without the collaboration with the big guys, the intels and even HP and the rest of the guys that would contribute code, but also maintain it. It will be very hard to the guys to break the silos. So we basically integrate with guys from VMware, like VRealize and the guys from HP and so on. So our advice, it's not just about just going by OpenSource and it's not going to be free. No free lunch, but the thing is that if it's OpenSource, you'll be able to extend it, you'll be able to collaborate and get advice from other even competitors. And we collaborate with our competitors every day. Are you happy with the decision to OpenSource four years ago? Yeah, definitely. And we are continuing doing it and we're continuing pushing it into the OpenSource. Right now there are too many OpenSource products and solutions. It's again, from a customer perspective, it confuses. You need to do some ordering of what you... So what will not confuse the customer? What do you see has to happen for the customer to see a clear path to some reality to a solution? Some template, some use cases, some real kind of blueprints that you can actually take, successful use case which works and just replicate it. So one of the things that we did is contributed some of Cloudify, some portion of Cloudify into OpenO organization in the telco NFE space. And basically, the idea is to push the code there and allow the guys to modify and improve it. But it's not yet another standard. It's about reference implementation, about use case that large telcos like China Mobile and Huawei and others, which create real meaningful stuff with OpenO and basically contribute it back. So if we can create something meaningful and then replicate it and allow other users to use it, that's the way to go. Not yet another standard, because we have enough standards. And that was one of the things actually that Jonathan Bryce did talk about today was being able to replicate the successes that companies are having in this open community. One of the things that they launched at OpenStack Summit in April was their certification program and they're now delivering more content to enable customers to break through some of those challenges with implementation. Is GigaSpace working and collaborating in the OpenStack community to also help your consumers from an implementation perspective to get around some of those things that are confusing to be successful? Absolutely, and now in one hand we are contributing and doing OpenStack trainings and OpenStack, a lot of deliverables. We actually, I don't know if you're aware that we are running OpenStack Israel for the last couple of years. So the entire event with over 1,000 people, we are running it and the idea is again to collaborate, bring the people, talk to each other and get some certification. But again, it's not just about the stamp, it's about contributing back communities which brings value back, otherwise it's again the silo thing. Get a lot of traction on Twitter about your comment about portability. What is cloud portability and what's the problem? That's a good question. When you ask yourself what is cloud, hybrid cloud, it's not just about okay, there is public and hybrid. It's not just about we have several private clouds. It's about something similar to, you're using your mobile app and you want to install it on iOS or Android, mobile. Okay, so you want to be able to port it between one operating system to the other, easily. So people need to start thinking about the consumer and separate between the consumer and between the owner, cloud owner or application owner, application consumer. And once we start building it properly in that sense, we'll be able to port it from one cloud to the other. And then you can get to the use cases like cloud bursting, like cloud migration, like things which most of the vendors are talking about. But in order to get there, you need to take and enable the application to be cloud portable. So the problem is what? What's the core problem? I think people are more focused on API obstruction. So if you have several clouds, you're trying to use some common denominator and kind of use some API obstruction. But then you lose a lot of the features which every cloud has today or in the future. Because you have very subset of APIs that you can use. What we are trying to do is focus more on templating and blueprinting, which means the application owner will need to use specifically the features which every cloud provides. But then it will be able to replicate it without changing the code, without agnostic the infrastructure. I have a question for you. You talked about a term that like cloud can mean different things to different people, right? Future-proof. As a marketer, I understand that that can mean many different things. But what does future-proof mean to get spaces? How are you enabling companies to achieve that? Is it achievable? It is. So every customer today, and we're talking about two cloud vendors at least which enterprises have today. So they're using OpenStack, that's fine. They have at least one or two others. And they want to have a checkbox. They want to make sure that they are not locked with yet another vendor for the next couple of years. And this is something that, again, you can achieve only if you prepare yourself with the application, with cloud portability. It's not just, it's not a marketing thing. You really need to have future-proof. You don't, you see every three or six months you see things are changing in terms of, in terms of cloud, in terms of native clouds and cloud in general. Nobody knew what is Docker or Kubernetes two years ago. And suddenly it's- It's everywhere. Everywhere. So what will happen in 12 months from now? So you need to, that's part of the future-proofing. You need to make sure that you're ready for the future. Within a heterogeneous environment and being able to enable that to be sustainable? You need to get to there. We're not there yet. And especially because there is really a lot of chaos right now. I'm not trying to be very realistic. The thing is that there are a lot of noise. You've got to bake it out. It has to be proven. You can't just throw new code in there. Right, right. And you've got orchestration. It has to work. Yeah, it has to work. It has to work. Especially dealing with mission critical systems. Yeah. So do some R&D, play with some code. But when you actually want to have future-proofing, it's got to be bulletproof. It's got to be protected and certified, if you will. Yeah, I can maybe touch without too many details, but we are focusing on two areas. One is enterprise and the other one is telecom NFV. In the telecom NFV, the cycle is very long. The reason it's long, these carriers like the NTA-T and Sprint and Deutsche Telecom. Complex, old infrastructure, and they're slow moving. And they're trying to save money at the end of the day. So for them, A lot of decision points to go up for a big decision. Many decisions they are dealing with us. They know that we as consumers have very kind of high-end expectations. And they will not release anything into the production without making bulletproof. Herschan, thank you for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. And say hello to your cohort, your founder. Tell him we miss him. He's in Israel. I'll give you the final word. What's next for Gigaspaces? What's going on for you guys this year? What are you going to do next? Oh, we have an H2 to complete. We are very busy. Both business units, we just released today, the XAP, the memory computing product into the Apache as an open source. Love that. That's a good move. We covered on SiliconANGLE today. So we wrote that up in Memories Hot. Oh, yeah. Real time. Yeah. And so after 15 years, we are there in the open source. And also in terms of Cloudify, we are very demanding customers. We love to hear their feedback and we are trying to be agile and change as much as possible. How's the tech scene in Israel these days? Booming, isn't it? As always, very similar to the Silicon Valley. It is Silicon Valley. It's like Silicon Valley. And you can see a lot of acquisitions there. We have a lot of... But Jeff Frick and I are talking. We want to bring theCUBE to Israel. So... You're more than welcome. OpenStack Tel Aviv will happen. We will be there. 2017, you're more than welcome. Hirshan, thanks so much for sharing your insight. Congratulations on your big memory announcement and orchestration. Big problem, big problem that everyone wants to solve. You guys are doing it in open source. Congratulations. It was all best. Thank you so much. I'm John Furrier with Lisa Mart. We'll be right back with more live coverage here in Silicon Valley after this short break. You're watching theCUBE.


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For many young St. Lucian's access to higher education remains a dream beyond their reach as a result of several factors, mainly the high cost and difficulty in funding university offerings. It is for this reason, government mandated a program that would assist young St. Lucian financially to achieve their dreams and that of their families in pursuing studies that will definitely change their lives. For Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre, the first generation scholarship initiative, he raises all the financial headaches of the 50 recipients, stating that the achievement of the program is a promise made that has been kept by his administration. I really hope when I depart that scene, no one ever decides that they will change the theory or the philosophy of having one university graduate but also because you had first generation scourge holders means that most of you, you're the first person in your entire family, in your entire generation to go to university. Who will tell university? I don't think the motion has chopped you. The 50 recipients will each receive full tuition for a bachelor's degree in various areas with cost met jointly by the government of St. Lucia and Monroe College. Education Minister Hon. Sean Edward says this program tells students who perform well and do not have the means to undertake university education that they are indeed worthy of such self advancement. We will travel the globe in pursuit of scholarship opportunities and higher education opportunities for our citizens. The government I can assure you, we will do our part but you have a responsibility.  Unlike some of your counterparts and your compatriots who are at the University of the West Indies and elsewhere, they had to go to the banks. President of Monroe College Mark Jerome says participating in the initiative means a lot to Monroe College in helping correct a long-standing problem in St. Lucia. He says one of the most important things a government can do is to invest in its people. 90 years ago my great aunt and grandfather founded Monroe College with a vision to educate first-generation students so they and their families and their communities can move forward. It's such an honor for me to be here today. 90 years later, 15 years into our tenure in St. Lucia to be carrying out that same mission with the partnership with the government of St. Lucia. The first cohort of students under the program are expected to excel at their chosen fields of study and will have to maintain their grades in order to assure continuity of the full scholarship. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation Science Technology and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.


The Big Picture, an official television report of the United States Army, produced for the armed forces and the American people. Now, to show you part of The Big Picture, here is Master Sergeant Stuart Quain. In Northern Italy today stands an outpost of the new United States Army. It is a unique organization. The Southern European Task Force, called CETAF, whose job it is to support NATO's ground forces in the area. It is a tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men. More important, CETAF comprises the Army's only operative atomic missile command in Europe. CETAF makes its headquarters in Verona, the town made famous by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In few places in the world where our troops are stationed, is there more mutual respect and admiration between troops and the native population than here in Verona. Today's Big Picture is more than the story of CETAF and our Italian allies. To see CETAF in its proper perspective, we must also consider NATO and the threat of the Communist Empire. For more than a decade now, the nations of Western Europe have been enjoying the fruits of peace. Across farmlands where warring armies rage twice in the course of half a century, farmers are again raising crops to feed a population which for years existed on a substandard diet. This is the free Europe of today, its people's living better and more richly than ever before. But it is a Europe living not without a grave threat to peace. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to create a defensive barrier against further expansion by Soviet Russia. The Western anchor of NATO is the United States. The defensive chain stretches northward to neighboring Canada, always a staunch defender of freedom. From Canada, the NATO line arcs out across the North Atlantic to the island of Iceland. England and the United Kingdom form the next link in the defensive chain of NATO. From England across the North Sea to Norway, then south across the narrow Baltic Strait to Denmark. Next, the free and independent Republic of Western Germany, the most recent member of NATO. Now along the western rim of the continent, the small but independent nations of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, France, the largest free nation of the European continent, played a key role in organizing NATO. Then Portugal on the southwest tip of Europe and Italy in the heart of the Mediterranean. From Italy through Greece to Turkey, the anchor nation at the eastern end of the chain. Today, the European nations of NATO, revived by American aid but no longer dependent upon it, proudly stand on their own feet. In less than 10 years, West Europe lifted industrial production, a startling 76%. Advances have not been confined to industry alone. The havoc wrought by war created an unprecedented demand for homes as well as factories. Increased employment is a natural result. Many of the traditionally seafaring countries have more than doubled the size of their pre-war merchant and fishing fleets. And like most Americans, more and more West Europeans are enjoying increased leisure time. Are some dark spots. But compared to what life was like before, for many there has been an increase in hope, a decrease in fear. Largely responsible for this resurgence in free Europe has been the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed to protect and encourage that freedom to grow. The United States has joined with the military forces of the other NATO countries because we have come to realize that we cannot hope to maintain our own liberties if liberty elsewhere is wiped out. That is the primary stake we are pledged to defend in Europe and we are bending every effort to meet that play. In Verona, Italy is stationed one of NATO's unique military units. Famous for its historical landmarks, architecture and art, Verona is home base for the Southern European Task Force. The United States Army's only operative atomic missile command in Europe. CTAF fundamentally is a fire support unit. It is organized around weapons which have both conventional and atomic capabilities. CTAF is designed to support the regular forces of our NATO allies in Europe who might not have such a force of their own. CTAF's secondary mission is to provide logistical support for other American agencies located throughout Italy. CTAF's organization has the Army's new look. Each company or battalion is composed of a series of semi-independent units, each capable of operating without its parent unit. This means that if a situation demands a quick shift of forces, a CTAF commander can quickly and easily move his troops on an independent basis. Now here to explain CTAF's job is the man who knows it best, the commander of CTAF, Major General Harvey Fisher. The newest and probably the most unique overseas command in the United States Army today is the Southern European Task Force located here in Italy. Composed of compact mobile task groups possessing an atomic delivery capability, CTAF is especially organized to perform its primary mission of supporting our Italian NATO allies in the defense of northern Italy. CTAF is purely and simply a task force. Two of its task groups are artillery units with honest John Rockets and corporal guided missiles. Security for these weapons is provided by armored infantry battalions. These task groups are not designed to close with the enemy, nor are they designed to replace conventional infantry divisions or conventional divisions. Rather they support these divisions in their primary role of closing with and destroying the enemy. A third task group has assigned the mission of providing mobile logistical support. It supplies to the artillery unit's items ranging from radio tube to corporal missiles. A fourth group is our logistics command which operates our port, our supply depots, and our line of communications. A non-military but an equally important mission of CTAF is fostering a spirit of mutual understanding and mutual respect with our Italian ally as we work toward our common goals of peace and of freedom. We are convinced that a strength based on cooperation and fellowship is greater than any potential of nuclear weapons. Speaking for every member of CTAF, I wish to pay tribute to the spirit of comradeship, cooperation, and mutual respect that has been developed and that is being fostered by the Italian and the American people, military and civilian, and as they work in their common cause here in Italy. A basic and vital weapon in CTAF's arsenal is the honest John free flight rocket. Honest John is 21 feet long and weighs about three tons, but it has greater mobility than conventional artillery weapons. Honest John's launcher is a self-propelled unit which transports, erects, and fires the rocket. Final assembly of the weapon is made at the firing site. Transition from conventional artillery practice to the newer techniques of rocket artillery has been simplified chiefly because of the simplicity of the Honest John's weapon system. One of the characteristics of the Honest John is that it has no guidance or control after it has left the launcher. All the aiming is done by the launcher itself. Honest John's power plant is a solid propellant rocket charge. Speed, high maneuverability, atomic potential, and the small crew needed to launch it. All are virtues embodied in the Honest John. Big brother to the Honest John in the CTAF arsenal is the corporal surface-to-surface ballistic missile. Corporal differs from earlier ballistic missiles because it is guided after the motor is cut off as well as during the powered portion of its flight. Corporal also follows a preset trajectory but its flight path is corrected by signal from the ground radio. Its job is to provide guided missile artillery fire in support of the field army. It gives the army commander a mobile striking force with nuclear weapons capability. The nose section contains the warhead which can be varied to suit the tactical problem. Just behind the warhead is the guidance package which steers the corporal to its target. Fuel for the corporal's rocket motor is an aniline combined with an oxidizer. The combination of these two propellants is self-igniting. As soon as they meet in the combustion chamber, ignition takes place spontaneously. Because of the danger of a premature blast, every precaution is taken by the specialists as they go about the tickless job of fueling the missile. When the army felt the need to increase the range of surface artillery fire, many miles beyond known capabilities at the time, research and development brought together principles of aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, and electronic guidance to produce the corporal. The missile is supersonic and no means of interception are known. During its flight, corporal responds to orders from the ground commander. With a range of from 30 to 80 miles, the corporal is the armed force's first surface-to-surface guided missile. It combines a high degree of accuracy with tremendous destructive potential. In the hands of the CTAF specialists, corporal represents a formidable threat to any would be aggressor in the area of CTAF's operations. With only about 6,000 men, CTAF is a relatively small force in numbers. But what it lacks in size, it makes up in firepower. Supplying an army of any size is always a major problem. 250 miles southwest of CTAF headquarters lies Livorno, or Leghorn, CTAF's supply center. Because of the size of its main weapons, CTAF's supply requirements are enormous. In order to support task groups scattered throughout the mountains and plains of northern Italy, storage and supply facilities are used to their maximum. CTAF not only handles its own supplies, but is also responsible for supplying all the American agencies in Italy. The variety of goods flowing through the Livorno seaport is tremendous. A fleet of trucks is in constant movement, carrying the cargos to rail centers and airfields for shipment to dozens of locations throughout the Italian peninsula. The camp at Livorno is named in honor of Brigadier General William Darby, a hero of World War II. At Darby, as at Verona, American military personnel are on excellent terms with the civilian population, always aware that they are the invited guests of a foreign government. CTAF's mountain school, in the foothills of the Alps, is one such outpost supplied by the southern seaport of Livorno. Here CTAF troops receive instructions and training for operations in the snowy and dangerous alpine regions. When road conditions are impossible for driving or speed is essential, helicopters supply the units operating in the north. The use of helicopters for supply and transportation gives CTAF the added mobility needed in this age of possible nuclear warfare when speed and high maneuverability are so vital. Helicopters are put to additional use in this mountainous area. For well-coordinated mobility, either for attack or dispersion, top-notch communications are a must. Supply CTAF units for training and survival. At the same time, these units perform important jobs in improving CTAF's communications network. CTAF's signal school is designed to make the radio operator a mountaineer as well as a technician. Once a group has flown to a remote outpost, it will remain for days or even weeks. In protecting Italy's northern frontier, CTAF troops are prepared not only to survive here but to fight too. Supplies are also brought in by air, saving hours of dangerous climate. In many places, the Alps present serious obstacles to radio communications. Units such as this set up relay stations from peak to peak to supplement the normal telephone line circuits. Thanks to stations such as this, CTAF commanders and their staffs maintain effective control over the activities and deployment of their firing units throughout northern Italy. A knowledge of skiing is a must for many of the American troops stationed in the area. Friends work well together, and the ski school in the Dolomite Alps is a perfect example of Italian-American cooperation. The Italian Alpine soldiers teach young Americans of CTAF first the fundamentals of skiing, then later how to fight on skis. It's a tough school and demands great physical fitness of the students. Skiers from childhood, the Alpini are perfectionists and demand the same from their willing pupils. CTAF operates chiefly in the foothills of the Alps, where frequently the snow is deep and movement, except on skis or by plane, is all but impossible. The ski instruction is primarily for CTAF's infantry elements. These are the men who defend the launching sites of the honest jobs and corporals. Their job is to fight off guerrilla bands and to protect the missiles and lodgers from enemy paratroopers. The fact that many of these novice skiers had never been closer to skis than in a sporting goods store before coming to Italy doesn't present too much of a problem. Under expert guidance, the American infantrymen learn fast. A good showing by the fast-improving skiers brings a round of congratulations from the Italian command. Although there are strong centers of Italian communists in the area, the CTAF troops have won a place for themselves in the hearts of the Italian people, both because of their friendliness and for their willing assistance in time of local disaster. The Southern European Task Force can deliver atomic firepower, but successful military operations, even in the atomic age, still depend upon the infantrymen. He and he alone can seize and hold important terrain. Italian and American troops train together on small arms ranges. Respect and understanding between the soldiers of these two allied nations is fostered during the frequent military training exercises. South of Verona at Naples is NATO's headquarters for Southern Europe. To maintain combat effectiveness, combined field maneuvers are frequently ordered. The maneuver calls for the Italian troops to fight a delaying action against an invader from the northeast. Despite firm Italian resistance, the enemy continues his attack, advancing swiftly south. The Italian troops offer just enough resistance so that the invader is forced to show his hand, revealing his primary pattern of attack. Now, after taking the brunt of the enemy's first assault, the Italian commander sees how the enemy has committed himself. He relays his information to all NATO control centers, but counter-attack is ordered. Attack deep in the enemy homeland and to cripple his lines of supply, SeaTap is moving its rocket launches into strategic positions. Honest Johns will be used against the enemy's forward elements, the corporal against reserve concentrations, supply depots, and command headquarters in the rear. Previous training exercises, firing sites for the rocket launchers have been selected. Whatever route an enemy might take, SeaTap has pre-plotted just how best to reach him with its missiles. Meanwhile, NATO ships cruising in the Mediterranean lend their weight to the resistance. Seconds after the first news of the attack is received, NATO jets are airborne. Every phase of the exercise is closely examined and evaluated by NATO commanders, enforcing the enemy to concentrate. Simulated casualties are quickly moved from the combat zone to hospitals in the rear. The use of helicopters in rescue and medical aid has reduced military casualties enormously. In the exercise, every arm of NATO's forces plays a well-coordinated role to bunch up his troops, making them ideal targets for our guided missiles. Their pre-selected firing sites and are thrown against the enemy. It will later perform a secondary job. It's the invading hordes of the enemy from the east. The Navy too hurls its guided missile. Carrier-based planes return to pick up a second payload to rain on the aggressor's forces. Amphibious troops are landed to attack the enemy on his flank. Practicing vertical envelopment now complete the mopping up operation. Since its creation, NATO has come a long way in organization, manpower, and weapon. Where relatively little defense existed before, 15 free nations have built a modern air, sea, and ground organization. Through the addition of such forces as CTAF, NATO's strength continues to grow. This strength helps assure peace for the community of North Atlantic nations. But all Italians may understand the whys and wherefores of this futuristic army, which is stationed in their backyards. But most understand what dangers lie to the north. And CTAF, with all its push button and conventional arms, serves as a strong reminder that America is prepared to act firmly in the face of any threat to the free world. Now this is Sergeant Stewart Queen inviting you to be with us again next week for another look at your army on The Big Picture. The Big Picture is an official television report for the armed forces and the American people, produced by the Army Pictorial Center, presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station.


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