Welcome to Nation Beat. I am Janelle Norville bringing you this brief on the pearls of our nation and highlights around the heart of St Lucia. Government to reduce transportation expenses with the transitioning of its fleet of vehicles to electric. Two new programs designed to improve quality in the education sector have been rolled out. The fight against cancer intensifies with the launch of breast cancer awareness month. And the Republic of China, Taiwan celebrates its 107th national day anniversary. The government of St Lucia is moving full steam ahead on its commitment to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and drawing renewable energy in the mainstream of St Lucia living. In keeping with the recent Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the government is transitioning its fleet of vehicles from fossil fuel to electric. Alicia Ali explains that monetary savings on the government's transportation expenses are expected to be realized in the near future. In 2015, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean produced a report on transitioning the public sector fleet. Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Department of Infrastructure, Ports and Energy Barry Moff Belicia said that the report informed the recent National Energy Transition Strategy, under which a pilot project involving electric vehicles will be used to assess what portion of the fleet can be converted to cleaner energy. The free vehicles we have procured so far are actually going to be used for testing and monitoring, testing to see how they perform in the terrain, St Lucia's terrain and the topography. And against that we juxtapose that data and we use it to make informed decisions about which vehicles are the best and what technology is best suited for St Lucia and the fleet in general. And we hope that once this is successful we can take it as a signal, we show the private sector that we are serious about success, serious about our transportation system because transportation is now actually used the most amount of fossil fuel. So they have overtaken electricity production. So the government is concerned about this and we are taking steps to remedy this. Public Utilities Officer Kurt Inglis noted that undoubtedly the electric vehicles are easier to maintain than vehicles with traditional engines. The question this pilot seeks to answer is whether electric cars can be efficiently used for regular government duties. For this pilot project we're starting off with three vehicles, two passenger vehicles and one panel van. The reason why we chose to go with two passenger vehicles and one panel van is that we want to get the experience of having different kinds of electric vehicles. Traditionally the types of vehicles that you would find in the government fleet are on the larger side, regardless of the purpose of that vehicle. So we want to do something different. We want to have a vehicle fleet that suits the purpose for what it is being used for. The move away from fossil fuel began in 1992 with the establishment of an international environment treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 1997 saw the first legally binding agreement on climate change called the Kyoto Protocol. In this agreement developed countries agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 2008 and 2012. Since that agreement global attempts have been made to transition away from fossil fuel. As a small island developing state, St Lucia's carbon footprint is minuscule. However efforts are being made to ensure that the island becomes as environmentally friendly as is possible. The transportation sector accounts for a large part of the island's carbon footprint. From the Government Information Service, I am Alicia Ali. Two new programs aimed at improving the quality, equity, efficiency and effectiveness of the education system and the youth of the country got their official start this week. Chris Sartney reports the equip and EAP projects have been funded by the Caribbean Development Bank to a combined amount of almost 19 million US dollars. The Education Quality Improvement Equip project is taking on a proactive preventative and rehabilitative posture that promotes the empowerment of at-risk children, youth in general and their families. The project seeks to foster a learning environment that addresses the needs of the students while at the same time ensuring the physical spaces in which they learn are safe and that education leaders are well equipped to deliver a quality of teaching in a manner that reaches all children of this modern age. On the other hand, the Youth Empowerment Project, through an integrated approach, works towards alleviating tension risk factors that can nurture antisocial behaviors at the individual family, community and societal levels. Portfolio Manager of the CDB, Dr Ideme Denny says the two projects are important interventions and are critical to enhancing St Lucia's human and social capital that are vital to supporting the achievement of the country's sustainable development agenda. These projects are also consistent with the eighth cycle of CDB's special development fund. They are also aligned to CDB's strategic objective of supporting inclusive and sustainable growth and development. Our corporate priority of improving the quality of and access to education, training and citizen security and our cross-cutting theme of gender equality. Under the EQUIP project, five pilot schools will benefit initially, including the Gordon and Walcott Memorial Methodist School, Fitbutai Primary, Laguerre Combine and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, Honorable Dr Gail Rigabet says the EQUIP project speaks to the commitment by the education sector to ensure that no child or school is left behind, including special needs institutions. For quite some time, these four project schools appear to have been given the rough end of the stick, so to speak. But the Education Quality Improvement Project, however, provides the assurance that the Department of Education remains attentive and committed to addressing the needs of all our learning institutions. Under this initiative, instructional effectiveness will be actively pursued via the provision of short-term and degree-level continuing professional development training programs for teachers at all levels of this island's education system. Meantime, Minister with Responsibility for Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment, Honorable Leonard Montaud says within YEP, special emphasis has been placed on young men and vulnerable groups, particularly children, at-risk youth and women. The challenges that afflict our youth are not of their making, but they have an opportunity through initiatives like these to ensure that they are not destroyed or marginalized by such circumstances. We must therefore ensure that these projects succeed. Our collective rule is to partner with them to provide support where required. The Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations is partnering with the Department of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment, mainly on the school suspension program of YEP. The launch of the Equip and YEP projects preceded launch workshops being used to familiarize key stakeholders of the implementation process of both projects as well as CDB's policies and procedures. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, I am Chris Satney reporting. The Ministry of Health and Wellness held a media launch on October 4, 2018 in recognition of breast cancer awareness month in St. Lucia. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, WHO, 41 million persons die each year from non-communicable diseases which is equivalent to 70% of all deaths worldwide. Cancer accounts for 9 million of these deaths. Non-communicable diseases, NCDs such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancers are referred to as the silent killers. They aren't transferable from person to person, but are mainly due to lifestyle choices. During the month of October, the issue of breast cancer awareness, education and prevention will be highlighted. During the media launch for breast cancer awareness month, Family Life Educator with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Genelle Alexander Dupree stressed on the importance of breast self-examination to sport early changes in one's body. And this year we have decided to target women in their productive years, women between the ages of 25 to 50 years, but not forgetting also younger women because they too can get breast cancer. And earlier that we get accustomed to our bodies, our breasts, the better the chances of survival. The theme for this year's observance is Be a Breast Friend, early detection for your protection. According to family nurse practitioner Sharon Teng-Nobal, early detection of breast cancer will reduce morbidity and mortality and screening services are available at all public health care facilities on Ireland. Breast cancer screening is performed to detect any changes in the structure of the breast, such as breast lumps, any breast pain, discomfort, dimpling, discharge or any abnormality in the lymph nodes, in the surrounding lymph nodes. All women are encouraged to visit the health centre in the community to get their breast examined by the nurse. They will also at the health centre, they will also be taught how to examine the breast, they will receive information as to referrals. NCDs contribute significantly to losses in productivity, increased economic burdens to individuals, families, communities and the nation. Acting national epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Fonsois said cancer is the second leading cause of death with breast and cervical cancers being responsible for most cancer related deaths among Caribbean women. In 2015 we had stroke, prostate cancer and diabetes being the leading causes of death in our men and a similar trend was noticed in the women with stroke, diabetes and breast cancer being the main cause of death. The leading site of cancer death among females in St. Lucia is the breast. Breast cancer is ranked as the number one cause of cancer deaths among women in St. Lucia since 2006 and the trend shows that the numbers continue to increase. Dr. Fonsois added that studies show the risk of breast cancer increases with age and most cases are diagnosed beyond the age of 50. However, cases have been recorded with women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. She said many of the cancers are preventable through modification in one's lifestyle such as decreasing in alcohol consumption, stop smoking, regular screening, early detection and effective treatment.  For the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Glenn Simon reporting. This is Nation Beat. When we come back, St. Lucia Distillers launches the island's first art coal project and the erection of a nine foot bronze statue of Darren Sami. And the Republic of China, Taiwan celebrates its 107th national day anniversary. Everyone is at risk for getting a foodborne illness. While most foodborne illness cases are mild and go unreported. Long-term health complications and even deaths can occur from a foodborne illness. Foodborne illnesses are caused by contamination of food at any stage of preparation. If you are a food handler involved in home-based food production, meat, fish, chicken or a big shop, as a food vendor, how you prepare food can put your customers at risk. Do you know the risks and how to avoid them? The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards can help you. For more information, contact the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards at 456-0546 or email SLBS at candw.lc or visit the website at www.slbs.org.lc St. Lucia Bureau of Standards, making quality and standards our way of life. Welcome back. St. Lucia Distillers and its parent company GBH of Martinique have announced an exciting arts project spearheaded by preeminent visual artist Llewelyn Zavier. It involves the release of a limited edition of Chairman's Reserve featuring the artwork of Llewelyn Zavier, the launch of the island's first art poll project and the erection of a nine-foot bronze statue of Darren Sami. Fittingly, two of the island's premier saxophonists welcomed specially-invited guests to the unveiling of an arts project celebrating Caribbean art and the region's finest rum. St. Lucia artists Llewelyn Zavier and Bernard Hayot, the chairman of GBH, the parent company of St. Lucia Distillers, unveiled a limited edition of Chairman's Reserve rum wrapped in artwork designed by the world-renowned Zavier. This creative undertaking was initiated two years ago when Mr. Hayot decided to invest more deeply in St. Lucia art and culture. It starts with the realization of an art poll project, a lifelong passion and dream of Llewelyn Zavier. Bearing the good news was the general manager of the GBH Agricultural Division. Tonight, I am proved to announce that the St. Lucia Distillery site in Roso will be the first home of this artistic installation. I hope that many other sites around the island will soon follow and so bring to life the full potential of this inspiring project. Mr. Llewelyn Zavier, lamenting the lack of monuments celebrating St. Lucia's culture and history, described this as a most exceptional enterprise and thanked the GBH chairman Bernard Hayot for sparking what he called a quiet revolution. For the first time in the history of art, artists from the Caribbean are discussed within a global context. The grounds of St. Lucia Distillers in the Roso Valley will host the island's first art poll project, forming part of a major touristic attraction being developed there over the next 24 months. The manager for the art poll project commended the investment of GBH and St. Lucia Distillers. Art reaches into us and far beyond the obvious to stimulate the imagination and this is what is vitally needed and most definitely missing in our country today. The art poll project also includes the erection of a number of sculptures around the island. The first will be a nine-foot statue of Darren Sami, former West Indies cricket captain. It will be located at the Darren Sami Cricket Ground. Hopefully this whole event is something that will drive our country forward, continue to bring more visitors to our lands than all in all St. Lucia benefits. The Darren Sami statue will be partly funded by the St. Lucia Distillers. Sami is a global ambassador for Chairman's Resolve. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. The operations of the Computer Services Department of the Central Library received a boost this week as a result of a gift facilitated by a local firm. The 20 brand new computers and 5 filing cabinets were handed over to the Director of Library Services by PKF Corporate Services Managing Director Wendell Skeet. It follows an inquiry done by the accountant and business firm last year about the needs of the public library on behalf of one of its clients. PKF St. Lucia provides an integrated range of audit, tax and finance and business advisory services to private and corporate clients. The actual money for the 20 computers in the 5 cabinets actually came from one of my clients. This is a client who is a client owner of one of St. Lucia's offshore companies and wanted to make this donation of computer equipment to the Central Library. So I'm just in the middle, I'm just doing it on behalf of a client. Director of Library Services Cynthia McFarlane says the acquisition of the equipment pieces will put the library in a better position to improve its services offered to the general public. In the past, persons waited in line to use the computers. With this donation, access to computers and Wi-Fi will become much easier. The final cabinets will contribute to the enhancement of the record keeping efforts of the administrative department of the public library. The public library needs external assistance in order to thrive. Therefore, I would like to make an appeal to profitable organizations and the general public to assist and support the public library in whatever way they can. Ms. McFarlane also informed the general public that despite ongoing works through the library's structure, the institution remains partially open. She advised members of the public that they can now access the reading room, reference department and the adult department. The computer services department and the mobile unit she advised will resume services next week. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, I am Chris Satney reporting. The Embassy of the Republic of China Taiwan in St. Lucia celebrated its 107th National Day Observance with a night of festivities Thursday 5th October at the Sanders Grand Resort. 2017 marked a 10-year since the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between St. Lucia and the Republic of China Taiwan. This year's celebration took a reflective tone as both parties reminisced on the relationship between the two islands. Acting Prime Minister of St. Lucia, the Honourable Leonard Montute, commended the Taiwan partnership, saying the monetary and technical assistance given over the years continues to be an integral part of building a resilient St. Lucia. You have touched the lives of so many St. Lucia's through projects big and small. In this new era, where small island developing countries like St. Lucia are struggling to access much needed aid, Taiwan has stepped up to the plate in not just providing us with monetary assistance, but as the saying goes, teaching us how to fish. The Charger d'Affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of China Taiwan in St. Lucia, Bill Shi Shang-Wan, spoke on behalf of the mission. He noted that the similarities between St. Lucia and Taiwan creates a solid foundation for a relationship based on mutual trust and respect. St. Lucia and Taiwan are not just diplomatic allies, but also kindred spirits sharing common values and mutual interests. We may be oceans apart. Nevertheless, we share many similarities. When one takes a look at the map, one would be marveled at how identical those two islands are. Graphically, we are both mountainous island states with scarcely any natural resources. Historically, we have both suffered the tyrannies of great power rivalries. Even our economies used to depend heavily on banana exports. What's more, Taiwan and St. Lucia are both democracies attaching great importance to the values of freedom, human rights, and the rule of law. The acting Prime Minister cataloged some of the projects and programs that has developed St. Lucia's human and infrastructural resources over the last decade. The value of the transfer of knowledge and expertise to our people is immeasurable. St. Lucia has benefited from cooperation arrangements which include the Taiwan Scholarship Program, emergency development program, fruit and vegetable demonstration and extension cooperation project, aquaculture, ICT technical cooperation projects, Black Sikotoka disease treatment and prevention projects, and St. Lucia Taiwan Partnership Trade Exhibition. The government of the Republic of China and Taiwan has also agreed to provide visa-free treatment for nationals of St. Lucia and Taiwan effective July 12, 2017. Prime Minister of St. Lucia, the Honorable Alan M. Shasne is currently out of state with the Ambassador of the Republic of China, Taiwan to St. Lucia, His Excellency Douglas Shen. They are traveling to Taiwan for its national day celebrations which is held annually on the 10th of October. From the Government Information Service, I am Alicia Ali. Join us next time as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am General Norville.


I want to show you something disturbing. In 2016, when the GTX 1080 Ti released, it went for $700. Two years later, when the RTX 2080 Ti released, it went for $1,000. Two more years after that, when the 3090 released, it went for $1,500. And this year, with the RTX 4090 releasing, it is going for an MSRP of $1,600. However, if you've actually tried to buy it, then you know that it is impossible to find it for anything less than $2,000. Now, why would I tell you this? It's not like I'm trying to make you aware that the newest model graphics card has gone up in price every two years for the last decade and inflation is on the rise, making gaming an incredibly expensive hobby, or am I? I'll get to the point. If you're a gamer, trying to buy the newest model graphics card every time one comes out gets ridiculously expensive. If you're someone that upgrades your graphics card every time a new one releases, in the last decade alone, you've spent $5,000. What I'm trying to say is that your money is valuable and you deserve to be made aware of options that could save you more of it. Before we continue, I just wanna let you know that the sponsor of this video is ASUS and we're gonna be featuring their ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip as something that you should consider buying, but it will also help us demonstrate a point. So allow me to reintroduce a topic you may have heard of before, cloud gaming. In 2019, this idea was pushed out there for gamers who wanted to be smarter with their money. The way it works is that you sign up for a cloud gaming service and that service will have a remote data center with all of the hardware needed to play games, which you get to use from the comfort of your own personal computer. So instead of paying thousands of dollars to build your own computer, which you will inevitably need to upgrade, you can essentially rent someone else's for a fraction of the cost. Now there are arguments against cloud gaming, the main one being a lack of control because the hardware is out of your hands. However, ultimately I believe it's up to you to decide how much that control is worth. Is it worth thousands of dollars and the upkeep that you will need to be in charge of? Are you a college student? Are you employed? Do you move around? Having a larger physical desktop computer might not make the most sense for you. The thing is, no matter what your solution is, you probably play video games and I have a solution for you. The Asus Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip. Now, before you click out of here, hear me out. I'm gonna do the math for you. I'm gonna weigh an average gaming setup versus the Asus Chromebook and the cost of the cloud gaming service so that you can determine for yourself just how much this physical desktop might not be worth it anymore. Before I do that, let me show you what we're working with. The Asus Chromebook goes for $729. At first, you might think, well, I'm gonna be doing cloud gaming so why wouldn't I just get a cheaper option? Well, this Chromebook actually has a 144 Hertz monitor which can also be doubled as a touchscreen if you choose to use it that way. This is huge because if you weren't already aware, it doesn't really matter how many frames your system can output in the video game because if you don't have a monitor to support it, you'll never actually be able to see those frames. Besides, $729 is cheaper than most gaming laptops go for anyways and assuming you do stick to cloud gaming, this is a very small price to pay considering you will never actually have to physically upgrade your system. So here's the math. Let's say you buy or build a gaming PC that could cost you anywhere from $1,000 to $1,000 for something fairly decent. So I'll put it in the middle at 1,500. Then you're gonna need to buy a mouse, a keyboard and a monitor and if you get something decent in the middle, you're probably gonna add another $300 to that cost. That's a little higher than what I was going for. This on average is probably gonna cost somebody $1,800, give or take. Now let's say you buy yourself the Asus Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip. You're gonna be looking at $730. Plus whatever cloud gaming service you go for, I'm just gonna go ahead and say safely it would cost you $20 a month.  So in total, you are spending roughly $1,500. Now you might think to yourself, oh okay, well I'm only getting a savings of around 350 bucks. No. Once those three years pass, you're probably gonna look to upgrade something in your system because of the advancements that will be made in hardware at that point. I'm not saying you're gonna have to upgrade the entire computer that you would have built but you will probably at least get one or two parts changed. My point being this physical gaming setup is gonna cost you more and more money whereas the Asus Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip is going to cost you the same thing and it's only gonna cost you whatever you pay for your subscription. Now that you're aware of the money reasons, here are a few more details about the product. The Asus Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip has a gaming design and color blocked WASD keys. It also has an anti-ghosting keyboard with Wi-Fi 6 installed for better stability. That being said, Ethernet is still recommended for a better online gaming experience. Now if you do choose to get this Chromebook through Amazon or Best Buy, you will be able to get a three month free subscription to one of many cloud gaming services.  Now, here's the big question. What does it actually feel like when it comes to gaming? Now I'm not gonna lie, I haven't touched cloud gaming since 2019 and back then I was not very impressed. It had its moments but even with the Ethernet connection the experience wasn't the greatest. So I definitely went into testing this time expecting much of the same but this is where it got interesting. Asus actually set me up so I didn't have to go in testing alone. Datto from who I'm told is the best Destiny 2 content creator on the internet was actually forced to play with me so we could see what the experience was like together. Now from what I've seen from my own personal benchmarks as well as those online, Destiny 2 is actually a fairly difficult game to run in terms of hardware. Now when you combine that with the potential latency issues when it comes to gaming from a server, you would think that this would make for a bad experience when it comes to gaming on a Chromebook. But before I could actually look closely at those benchmarks, we had to get Datto's content first. Respawn restricted. What? Why is respawning restricted? Oh, did you want to start from like the beginning? You're good, you're good, you're good, you're good. Door's open. What do we do? Jump over here as well with it. All right, or I'm going to come right back. All right, let's try it again. All right, great jumps. Oh, I slayed down. Here, here, here, hang on, hang on. Let's hug it out.  Oh, there's no tricks here. You got it. There's no tricks here. Oh, make some room for you. I just saw the holes in the hallway. Really, it just kills people outright. That's one of the first times I've ever seen the barrel. That's great, I'm so glad that this game keeps giving you new opportunity. So after pulling out the rest of my hair, Datto and I were able to make it to the final boss of this raid, which involved some intense fighting. Throughout the fight, there were multiple instances where there were many enemies on screen with tons of particle effects. I would say this qualifies as a pretty intense test to see if the Chromebook could hold up with our cloud gaming service, and it did. Over the course of the dungeon, the average frame rate for the hour it took us was just over 100 FPS throughout, and in the most intense moments of team fights, we would see it drop to as low as 80 regularly. This is not counting the 1% lows, which of course every gaming experience has. In the end, it's up to you to decide if this is a playable option for you. But again, for the money that is spent on this type of performance, it is definitely a viable option. So what's the conclusion? Destiny 2 is definitely one of my favorite video games. And secondly, honestly, there were times that I forgot that I was gaming on a Chromebook.  There were some moments you could tell that there was an issue server-wise, but I would say that the experience was so immersive that it actually took moments like those to remind myself that I was gaming on a Chromebook. If you're used to gaming on a PC, operating system-wise, it's gonna take a little bit of getting used to, but when you think about the money you're saving and the money that you're spending, financially, this Chromebook is a really good option. Look, it's up to you what you wanna do with your money. But with the savings that you will have by going through this option if you choose to, that's extra money for bills, vacations, gifts, whatever you want it to be. It is something that you should consider. Anyways, if you wanna get one of these for yourself, I will have links to it down below in the description. I hope that you did find this interesting, entertaining, or informative in any way, shape, or form. And as always, have a great day.


5 things narcissists do when you are sick. When you are sick, it shows you who is really there for you. It shows you who is really with you. The well-known Christian wedding vows includes a promise to having to hold in sickness and in health, which means that you agree to stay together and support each other, whether one of you is healthy or ill, but if you are dealing with a narcissist, you probably already know that they are not going to be there for you when you are sick, but that doesn't always mean they are going to leave you, because they know that would make them look bad, but they are not going to take care of you. They are not going to give you the support that you need. They will be out doing their own thing. They will be enjoying their own lives while you are stuck trying to improve things for yourself on your own, which is why when you are with a narcissist, you are taking a very big risk. You are putting your life in danger because they are not going to be there for you when you need them. Instead, they are going to do these 5 things.  This is something that almost every narcissist will do if you are sick. If you are not feeling well or something has gone wrong for you, you may want someone to help you. You may not need it, but it's healthy to have someone who is there for you, but if you are with a narcissist, it doesn't matter how ill you are, because they will still expect you to take care of them. They will act like they are affected by an illness, as though they are not well or healthy, as though something has gone wrong for them.  Two, they will make you feel bad. They will say that you are weak.  They will make you feel inadequate, as though you are insufficient for a purpose, as though you are unable to deal with this situation or with life, when you may have been taking care of them the entire time, and they may have been the cause of why things went bad for you, but they will still kick you when you are down. They will behave unfairly and attack you even after you have already suffered a setback, even when you are already in a vulnerable position. They will say it's your fault. They will blame you for everything.  If it doesn't fit in with that activity's interest, they will just ignore it.   Even if you can no longer take care of yourself, you may be suffering from a physical injury, but they won't pay any attention to it. They won't think of it as strange or important, because they're very selfish. They only care about themselves.  They won't care about what you're going to do or what you're going to eat, as long as they get what they want, because they lack empathy. They lack the ability to share your feelings and experiences, which is why they're often unable to see things from your point of view. It's why they display a complete lack of feeling and consideration. They're only thinking about themselves.  They will act like your sickness is causing them inconvenience and annoyance, as though it's a problem for them, which should reveal to you that something is wrong with this relationship, and that something is wrong with them and how they think about you because they're supposed to be the closest person to you, so they shouldn't be thinking that way about you. But this is how they think. Five, they will disappear. If you get sick a lot of times they will just disappear, because they can't be bothered to deal with it, and they might believe that it has nothing to do with them, so they will just leave you to deal with it on your own, but they may come back when you recover, so that they don't have to deal with your problems, because then you will have more time, energy or money to give to them again. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up, share your thoughts in the comment section, hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel, you can donate at paypal.amyslashnaxviver. You can book a one-on-one with me on my website. It's Naksa Viva the Cuddy UK. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hi everybody, Joe for jazby's case rakes.com coming at you with random number block number seven Which represents one spot in the NFL mixer. So works just like our number block break Right, so if R&B seven right if that gets randomized That'll be randomized a team So for example, you could get randomized the Broncos and then it'll work just like our number block break But just for that one team there are non numbered cards We'll take care of that in a separate list one person will win those is one lot There's non numbered hits relics autos auto relics I don't think is gonna be too common, but if that does happen we'll separate those out and then You know we'll randomize them separately to the group in a different list And if this spot wins a wax party promo spot, then we'll take all ten of those names and re-randomize them Top name will get a promo entry as well. So that'll also be a new list So lot going on there big thanks to Carl Steve and David for getting in on it. There are the numbers here Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a six nine times one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time So we got Carl down to a few Davids there after nine three and a six nine times for the numbers one two three four five six seven Eight and good luck ninth and final time After nine we got five down to four All right So Carl with five and seven David with six Steve with two David with nine Steve with three Carl with eight David with zero and one So you've got that covered zero gets gets you Any redemptions for the team that gets randomized including one of ones what I would usually say But you've also have one so you've got your bases covered there and you have four. All right. Thanks everybody for getting in on this I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


The appropriate and the most rich way to think about mobility is to think of the interactions between family-specific influences and social influences. What I want to put on the table is something I have named the Memberships Theory of Inequality. Now the Memberships Theory has three distinct components. First is the idea that when we think about an individual's beliefs, their preferences, their opportunities, they're all conditioned by group memberships. And what I mean by that is we think of individuals making choices, they're constrained by the opportunities that they face. When individuals make choices, they have preferences over different outcomes that can be associated with the choices. And similarly, people have to have beliefs about the effects of their choices, about the world in which these choices are going to manifest themselves. And so the proposition is really very simple. If you describe my preferences, describe my beliefs, you describe my opportunities, knowing the groups I'm a membership of matter. Now some of those memberships can be ethnic, some of them can be gender, some of them can be religious. And those in some sense we think of as predetermined with reference to socioeconomic outcomes. In contrast, other memberships are determined by the society and that would be things like schools and neighborhoods. But the key feature is this mapping, this relationship between the location and the social milieu and the way that an individual makes decisions. Now within economic theory, and I should say social science theory, it is typically assumed that there's complementarities. If my friends are going to do something, for example, I'm more likely to do it because I find it relatively more attractive. So the complementarity idea is important because it explains something about correlatedness in behaviors within similar types in a population. But the key idea for proposition one is that the way that individuals make decisions is socially conditioned. And so in that sense it moves beyond methodological individualism, a hallmark of many economic models, to try and in a good faith way to introduce sociological ideas. The second proposition is that the group memberships in some cases evolve in response to the fact that these interdependences matter for individuals and how they think about the world and how they make choices. Now obviously when saying that I'm focusing on certain types of memberships. And so the obvious ones would be things such as neighborhoods, schools, friendship networks, and of course the organizations in which people work at adults. The key implication of those models is that incentives exist for people to make choices that can lead to types of socioeconomic segregation. One type of socioeconomic segregation is the income segregation of neighborhoods. A fundamentally distinct one can be ethnic segregation. This stratification affirms by the skill levels of their employees. But in each case the key idea is that the social influences that was proposition one have consequences for thinking about the degree of segregation in a society. When you put propositions one and two together that leads to proposition three. The interdependences of individuals combined with the forces that lead towards segregation actually provide a theory of persistent inequality and intergenerational immobility. To put it very simply, if there are incentives for rich families to isolate themselves from less rich families and collectively more affluent individuals have incentives to isolate themselves from the poor. What is happening over generations is that the segregation between rich and poor creates very different environments in which the children of the rich and poor develop and hence relative affluence, relative deprivation are translated across generations. And so when you put the three propositions together you end up with a vision of intergenerational mobility and persistent inequality in which the fundamental determinant is segregation. And so you can have segregation and phenomena leading from marriage patterns in which the children of the rich marry each other so to speak. In which highly educated people tend to marry each other to neighborhoods in which you get socioeconomic and racial segregation, to occupations, to even within firms the stratification of firms by skill levels and the like. So what sort of evidence exists that this perspective speaks to persistent inequality, speaks to immobility across generations? Well there I think I would want to divide the evidence into different categories, one of them would be racial segregation. Now for racial segregation the evidence is very long standing that there are adverse consequences for African Americans so in some sense that's not a surprising thing to even raise. David Card and Jesse Rothstein showed for example strong negative correlations between the degree of segregation in school districts and the black-white test score gap. And so the issue in thinking about racial segregation is that it is generating persistent disparities in education and for reasons I've talked about in the previous lectures that has long term consequences for future education as well as for labor market outcomes. In thinking about racial segregation it's not just a matter of asking whether school quality is different or asking whether or not the tax bases are different. At a fundamental level one can find very deep differences in the natures of the neighborhoods that blacks and whites live in. And so Robert Manduka and Robert Samson have most effectively demonstrated that looking across Chicago neighborhoods. And these are histograms that basically tell you the empirical densities of the levels of the harshness for majority black and majority white neighborhoods. Levels of crime and levels of incarceration of the community. And what you see here is they scarcely overlap. And so when one hears a terrible story such as what happened in Flint, Michigan that's the extreme form of a more general relationship between racial segregation and exposure to environmental hazards. It's merely another piece or another side of this multi-dimensional set of adverse influences as segregation generates. Second thing I want to say is that in thinking about segregation part of what generates it is economic inequality because it changes the ability of less affluent families to live in more affluent neighborhoods, ones that have better schools and the like. There's a strong negative correlation between the levels of inequality parents experience and the likelihood of upward mobility of their children. So in other words the more inequality parents experience greater the adverse effect on their children. Another example of this calculation and this is due to Carney and Levine was that you take different U.S. states and you look at measures of inequality within the states and ask what's the association of the inequality in those states with high school graduation. And what you find is perhaps unsurprisingly the states with greater inequality are associated with lower rates of high school completion. Now for every one of these bivariate relationships I've shown you the bivariate empirical relationship is not demonstrate causality of course. But they're the sorts of stylized facts for which we have theories to explain them that suggests that the correlation in fact has a substantive interpretation. Another statistic that Carney and Levine calculated is very interesting that asks the question what's the rate of return of additional year of education conditional on a mother's level of education and conditional on the level of inequality that's one experiences in the state. And what they found is once again conditioning on the mother's education the value of that additional year is sensitive to the degree of inequality that exists in the state. And notice that's a fundamentally social mechanisms a statement about the entire income distribution providing explanatory power for individual level inequality. Let me finish this discussion about segregation is just to emphasize the fact that you have extreme segregation at very micro levels. In other words this is the city of Chicago and just as I showed that the majority black neighborhoods had substantially greater levels of social ills than the majority white neighborhoods you can see the concentrations of African Americans versus whites in the population. And so these levels of segregation are powerful and extreme and they are empirically important. What I've done in thinking about these social influences I wanted to identify got a facts about racial segregation and its association with adverse consequences facts about income inequality and adverse consequences. And now I want to talk a bit more about the the micro mechanisms. So one example would be school finance. This is California Texas in New York in which you can ask the question how much heterogeneity is there in per pupil expenditures. New York has extremely little. California and Texas have very high levels. And the point of a picture like this is to demonstrate the basic fact that local public finance of education has meaningful consequences for the resources available per student. That's a very basic idea in thinking about the consequences of socially economic segregation. And that is that economic segregation begets differences in school expenditures. Now what about interactions between these? One perspective in thinking about adult outcomes is to understand the family background the family incomes. That's what I talked about in the previous lecture in giving you this very high level overview of the membership theory of inequality. That's a suggestion that neighborhoods matter. And so measures of neighborhood quality in terms of unemployment in terms of income etc should have distinct influences there. What Watke Harding and Elworth did is they said that we want to think about both of them affecting individual outcomes. The example in this picture is understanding the probabilities of high school graduation. What their paper does is it establishes that for very poor families neighborhood quality and neighborhood disadvantage have particularly adverse consequences on their children. Furthermore in their paper they found evidence of some change in the strength of family influences versus neighborhood influences as children move from childhood to adolescence. That won't surprise any parent. Substantly and seriously for this matter it gives this a vision in which there's a complementarity between family income and neighborhood quality. So that when they interact in particular ways if you have both disadvantage of the family level and disadvantage of the neighborhood level that's a bottleneck. Those are the cases where much harder much less likely to graduate from high school so on and so forth. And furthermore what the paper establishes is we have to think dynamically about how different influences intergenerationally within the life course of childhood and adolescence affect children and teenagers. My own view is that this speaks to the idea that if you think about what family income does for children we have direct purchases of things direct investments as it were in early childhood. But income becomes the mechanism that identify school and neighborhood quality in adolescence and that's consistent with that intergeneration mobility curve that I showed you in an earlier lecture. So that's really what I wanted to say about the memberships theory just to repeat the key ideas. Our outcomes are socially determined because of their effects on our preferences the way we think about the world the opportunities we face. The fact that those influences exist actually creates incentives for socioeconomic segregation. And once you interact the importance of social influences with the incentives for socioeconomic segregation those provide a theory of intergenerational and intergenerational persistence.


As a state trooper in the cold darkness of Alaska, sometimes I have to go on what we grimly call popsicle patrol. It's a common myth that alcohol makes you warmer. In reality, it just makes you feel warmer but doesn't prevent you from slowly freezing to death. Sometimes folks too drunk to drive home from the bar will end up walking home completely unaware of the effects of the elements. One night, I came across an old man frozen blue and laying on the sidewalk, disturbing as that may be, it's not the eeriest thing I've come across while on patrol in this frozen hellscape. That prize goes to what I experienced just a month ago that still has me up at night. There I was in the barren darkness, driving my usual route along the icy roads and checking for drunkards along the thick snow covered environment. It was especially difficult to see since there was a bit of a snowstorm that night. I didn't really expect many people out wandering in this weather. I was just about to head back when I suddenly saw a woman in a large coat walking alone along the side of the road. The snow was coming down in a blinding flurry and the temperature was much too cold to be walking even with a winter coat. I immediately pulled my vehicle over to check on her. When I opened my car door and stepped out into the snow, a harsh gust of wind hit me. It was then that I heard it. The haunting, far away sound of a flute playing was being carried by the arctic winds. I approached the woman who was still walking forward away from my vehicle. Miss, you alright? I called out to her, but she didn't turn around or respond. I ran to catch up with her, asking again if she was okay, but she just kept walking. I stood in her path to block her, but she just diverted her course slightly to the left and went around me like a faulty roadblock. It was then that I first got a good look at her face, glimpsed only through the falling snow. She was incredibly pale from the cold. Her lips were very badly chapped and had turned a shade of bluish-purple. It looked as if at any moment she could pass out or succumb to the weather. Though, like a zombie, she marched onward. Three more people then emerged from the blinding storm, a man and two women. They two were walking in the direction of the strange woman. I watched as they fell in line behind her, like ducklings in a row. I heard the flute sound again, but louder this time, and a chill went down my spine. Suddenly, the snow stopped falling completely and my visibility cleared. I saw that more people had now joined this odd parade. This time, two men and three women. One of the men was a very elderly man. The rest seemed to range in age from about mid-twenties to early forties. They all wore only a single layer of winter clothing. They looked like any normal people you'd see in a crowd. The only thing off about them was their bizarre delirious behavior. I put my hand on the shoulder of the guy at the back of the line. Sir, I said forcefully, what's going on? He managed to break free from me and follow the group. I watched in amazement and horror as yet more people emerged from the seemingly empty black night and began following this peculiar line of people walking along the side of the road in the snow. With all of them ignoring my verbal commands, I half-heartedly attempted to handcuff one of them, but they resisted mightily, shaking me off and continuing to move forward like a machine. Nothing stopped the endless march forward. I didn't want to be aggressive or hurt any of these people. I was trying to help them and look out for their safety, but they remained zombified and unconcerned for their own well-being. Looking back, I wish I tackled them to the ground or done more to stop their reckless parade. In the moment, however, I didn't. And that haunts me. At that point, there were five men and seven women strolling aimlessly in a row through the snow. At a complete loss for what I should do, I phoned for backup. I'm not sure what the hell's going on, but I got a dozen people here in real danger of freezing to death. They're not complying and I need backup, I said over the radio. I watched as the group veered off onto the icy road. The situation was definitely becoming more dangerous. Now the distant flute playing sounded close and I could hear it clearly and continuously.  When they were all standing stark naked, they began to march once more off in the direction of the woods, their bare feet stepping across the ice-covered pavement. I stood bewildered by the deranged display with a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach. They walked directly into the pathway of any potentially oncoming traffic as they made their way towards the treeline of the wilderness. Only then did I see where the people were heading and where the sound was coming from. The procession of freezing ghouls moved across the slippery road into the dark snowy woods just beyond it. There within the dark woods stood a small grotesque creature I can only describe as an elf. In its hands, it held a carved wooden flute. It looked like something straight out of an old folklore story or fairy tale. Around the being was an aura of purple light. All I could do was stare at this cartoonish abomination as it played its entrancing music.  I lifted my weapon. It had dark hypnotic eyes, like looking down a deep well. The elf-like being remained unmoved, its lips still pressed to the wooden flute. In that moment I no longer felt like a police officer aiming a firearm but like a small child pretending with a plastic toy gun. It was like I had been taken back to my childhood. The disturbing form began to perform a mocking dance grinning eerily as it played on. For some odd reason, I was physically unable to squeeze the trigger. The signals from my brain just wouldn't move my hand. Suddenly, a blindingly bright flash of light came from the wilderness and I dropped my handgun. I watched as the line of people disappeared into the woods and no matter how much I yelled or protested, they faded from sight into the strange purple glow. Consumed forever into the light, the elf offered only a small chuckle before running off into the woods. When backup arrived, I didn't know what to tell them. There was no trace of any of these people ever being there so I made up a lie. I said the pale group of people out there walking had phoned for a friend of theirs to give them a ride home and that I saw them safely drive away. If only things were so simple, consider this the police report I should have written that night.


In this video we're going to talk about the top four penny stocks to buy now if you can leave a like on the video That'd be fantastic if you're a regular viewer or if you're new to the channel Welcome me many cover many penny stocks will go through top four penny stocks at the moment I'm going to go through today in this video with some information behind them again This is just a list some to put on your radar. We're not going to go into full on depth in each one We've got separate videos for those Okay, but we'll get right into the information to respect your time if you appreciate that approach then do like the video We'll get right into it The first one we're going to talk about is bridge line digital and of course I've got to say the another financial advisor and a business teacher I'm going to buy no means an expert on the stock market. Right. Okay bridge line digital So what are they ticker symbol blin? So these are a marketing company But they're involved in all sorts of different types of marketing in terms of helping people helping businesses Build digitally in terms of the re-commerce store in terms of digital marketing So they've got market marketing automation so they can set up sophisticated workflows and campaigns attract and engage customers managing segment contact personalized message base on geography Referral sources audience segment and more you've got content management So they can actually manage the content big one here in terms of search engine optimization Actually producing a website that's got the content on it that's going to help increase in the rankings on google So very interesting stuff indeed And one of the keys to actually building a successful website Then you've got the e-commerce side, which is manage products Merchandising customer and orders shipping and payments cross sell and upsell And you've got the the ideas in terms of e-commerce there So it's a marketing company that's about making businesses good digital and of of course We are living in a world where more people are shopping online And you know a lot of these marketing companies that have this packaged solution Which help businesses go digital could do very well This is called bridge line digital to example blin Now the current price is set at four dollars. It may dip a little bit on this current price point Okay, because it did have a bit of a run up. So what I want what I'm doing here is and what I would have Was what this is what I'm doing you do what you want to do right? I'm not a financial advisor But what I'm doing is I'm putting it on the watch list And what I'm saying is if I can get this at a dip I'm buying in but I'm also very interested in this company So I'm going to do favor research into the company so that when it does dip I do actually buy in And you know, it's not something that I put on the watch list to buy in but they let never actually follow through with it So I'm doing favor research in this company. I think it's a really really good one I think it's a good one for the medium to long term. I think this could reach over 10 dollars in the long term It's got a lot of potential It's got only a 21.57 million market cap But again, I'm looking for a bit of a dip because it did have a bit of a run up And then maybe I will then buy in at that price and that's what I am looking to do anyways So that's the ticker symbol blin The next one we're going to be talking about is of course click scream Take a symbol clis this could be absolutely massive massive in terms of a stock return on this It already is we covered this at 0.10 today the last time I saw it Or what is it at the last time I saw it 0.23 We covered it at 0.10. Okay, so this has moved up massively But this has got a lot of potential to move up in the medium to long term And I want you to put on the watch list to buy at the dips But then also start a position potentially up to you what you want to do. I'm not a financial advisor Again click scream ticker symbol clis So what do they have so they've got a basically an app called hey pal And and what that that app does is it's a social media sort of dating site which can be used On a global scale and it's where people can learn languages from each other's Countries and people can interact around the world with other people in other countries and Learn their language. So for example, they've got language boards And you can post content on any language board and interact with users who can help you on your language learning journey So this is to help each other learn languages. It's a very interesting one. That is the cat in the background Moving but moving on to this clis So the recent news you've also got february 16th. This is very very recent today, right 50,369 messages exchanged during the first week of the soft launch in 10 countries So they've launched this as a soft launch. They haven't even launched it everywhere, right? They're just launching it soft launch sort of a beta test to see how it goes See if there's any bugs with the app see if there's anything they need to do And they've already got massive massive results in all of these countries 50 000 messages Many people actually downloading the the the app. It's got a lot of potential going forward What does the ceo said about this though? So you can see on here on average unique Paypal is 34 messages to other 34 messages to other languages members We anticipate the message count per user to increase a user retention increases Okay, this is important if they can retain the users where they use the app on a regular basis That's going to have a really good impact on the actual stock itself because that shows There's people using the website again and again or the app again and again This is what the what's what one of the main individuals in the company has actually said So we're learning a lot more about the dynamics of this social language concept These 10 markets are responding extremely well to our marketing and advertising And i'm particularly excited to see how the us and other countries will react internally as a company We feel that the party hasn't even started yet We're excited to introduce hey pal to the global market and we will do so when we feel the app is ready for the steady release The online line language learning market is valued at Look at this 12.49 billion in 2019 and is projected to grow at 10.2 per cent per year There is a huge market for this area in terms of the language learning sector And they're coming at this with a unique proposition and again, they haven't fully launched the app They've only beta tested it in certain countries to see how it goes and they're already getting massive results So you can only imagine as they Launch it fully how much massive results that's going to get and even though it's had a run-up This price is you know, going to seem like pocket change if if they launch Globally goes incredibly well. Okay. This to me is a hidden gem this particular stock This is one to have on your watch list It's one to buy in a dip because it's volatile But it's it's one to step start start positioning again. I'm going to financial advisor So also, I want to mention to join the stock club as well We've set up this youtube membership program and I talked about this stock at 0.10 before the market actually opened Okay, I talked about this one clis Before the market opened. So if you was to have put, you know, maybe $50 on when I talked about it You know, you would be up nearly Nearly a hundred percent well over a hundred percent, right? So, you know, you would have paid for the full membership for like the full year, right? So even by so you get your return back essentially and you know, we share It was a bit of a community we share our picks we share different stuff. So do join the stock club On youtube here today now moving on 0.23 again, it's volatile It's moving up a lot, but it will pull back a little bit But this is a medium to long-term hold Okay. So you've got to think about that and get this at the price that you feel that you want to get it at Right. The next one we've got is in uva. So who are they? So they're a marketing company again There is a market leader In ai driven e-commerce solutions in uva ai solutions align brand messaging with appropriate content and consumer intent Are unique and patented ai technologies and partnership enable a sophisticated mix of marketing at e-commerce solutions So this is an uva is at 156. It's had a bit of a dip. Okay. It's dipped down a little bit And this is presenting a buying opportunity again. I've said to this I talked about this at 0.65 I said even back then this is a long-term stock for me medium to long I'm still holding my shares in this particular company and I'm buying at dip So I may buy more if it dips a bit further and then hold this long up towards the three to five dollar range Okay, this one is going to do really well in my opinion in uva The next one we've got is galaxy next generation ticker symbol g a x y It's having its earnings call just today, right? And we're going to see the results of that I think we're going to see some decent earnings and you know a stock's not necessarily going to go up just based on its earnings Or go down based on its earnings a very very unpredictable situation But I think what it's going to do is give people that comfort That a long-term investors a medium to long-term investors like myself in this company a bit of comfort knowing that they're growing their revenues So I'll be looking in keen interest into the earnings report. And again, this is one To buy and hold medium to long in my opinion and not a financial advisor Those are the top penny stocks that I've got for you today. Remember to Like the video and what I would say is check out my full video on clickstream Clickstream clis. I made a dedicated video. It's just my previous video from this one.  I'll also link it at the top somewhere click stream. This one is in my opinion going to be quite big Okay, clickstream So it's got a lot of potential again This is one that could go to zero But this is also one that could absolutely explode on and this could be a hidden gem And we're talking huge amounts of gains. I mean, I can't put a tag on it There's that could be that huge in terms of gains Okay, and remember join the stock club as well. I'll see everybody later Like the video subscribe if you're new welcome. We cover penny stocks So make sure you subscribe and I'll see everybody in the next one