I'll be preparing my wife for winter season. Sabine, what do you reckon of this? Is it big enough?  It's tiny.


The city of Belgorod in western Russia came under attack late Monday, said the governor of the region, which borders Ukraine.3 people were injured by Shrapnel, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his telegram channel, adding that some apartment windows were blown out in cars and trucks damaged.Russia's defense ministry said 10 rockets fired by Ukraine were shot down. The Russian state TV aired footage showing damaged houses with broken windows and cars hit by Shelling Gladkov, said the injured people have undergone surgery and are in stable condition.In the morning, we will conduct door-to-door inspections in those neighborhoods that were damaged by Shrapnel, he said in a video statement. in the morning, we will conduct door-to-door inspections in those neighborhoods that were damaged by Shrapnel, he said in a video statement.


The details of the battles with Kalirovites, Nerebakhmut and their losses are revealed. Our troops have had partial success on the southern flank Nerebakhmut and are entrenched on the lines. Serhii Cherovati, the speaker of the Eastern Group of Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this. In general, the initiative belongs to the Defence Forces of Ukraine. Daily combat work continues step by step while preserving our personnel as much as possible. We are moving towards occupying the dominant heights and ousting the enemy from its lines. He stressed. At the same time, he added that the enemy is putting up incredible resistance. According to him, 538 times over the past day, Russian invaders hit Ukrainian positions with different types of artillery and carried out two air raids. In general, five clashes took place in this direction in which 71 invaders were destroyed, 141 were injured and one was taken prisoner. Four enemy tanks, an airborne combat vehicle, two grad multiple launch rocket systems, three cannons, two Hyacinth S self-propelled artillery mounts, two anti-tank missile systems, one streller 10 air defense system, as well as a Morom M surveillance complex and five UAVs were destroyed. Cherovati said. He confirmed that Kadyrovites were seen in their operational zone, in the Kleshevka area and in the Svatovsky direction. According to Cherovati, the battles showed that their business is gendarmory and police and as soldiers they are of no value. Having suffered losses, they retreated. If they continue to go into battle with experienced Ukrainian soldiers, then they will face the same fate as the Wagnerites, he added. Russia is trying to keep Bakhmut with the hell of Kadyrovites.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here some time I'll scream six in this video here again today Talking about these recent comments that came out from Melissa Melissa Borreira in a recent interview and I'll leave a link to it in the description if you want to read it But she talked about Neve Campbell's presence lack thereof or lack lack of her not being in the movie went on to talk about Hayden Panthear's participation talked about Jermont Moroni Talked about how the directors seem to be taking a bit of a few swings going into this next outing So in putting their own touch into it, which was the most exciting thing I read here and just went on about how it seems like this one is going to be scarier So she talked about Sydney Prescott Neve Campbell first off She said of course Sydney is present now I find that to be very funny that she started it off with that because again until proven otherwise I still believe that Sydney Prescott will appear in this movie She said her essence is present in the movie. You can't just ignore that We were all heartbroken, but we totally understand and respect her decision Hopefully if we get get to make another one, we can have her back now again They're not gonna come out and just say that Sydney Prescott is in the movie If there is indeed some type of secrecy going on and this is supposed to be a surprise They are not gonna have the cast members including Neve herself outright confirm it to anyone Especially if there's been some NDA sign I'm not saying that's what's happening as if I actually have it a hundred percent confirmed But if that is actually what's going on, these are the behaviors you will expect from cast members They will not come out here and say that she is in it They're gonna continue to roll with this card as if she's not in it to build it up the Discredit anyone who's out here scooping stuff and and disclosing stuff They shouldn't be disclosed and you'll get a big surprise when you see the movie in screams See see the movie in March if it ends up being true So she went on to talk about Hayden Panthea She's a Hayden is a legacy character that we get to have back and that's exciting in itself and then Dermott Maroney Who I grew up watching I loved him so meeting him and knowing how much of a sweetheart he is and how funny He just came right in and fit into the group dynamic. It's been fun She also went on to say that we have the same team reprising their roles behind the scenes In the fifth movie. There was a lot of pressure the first without West And then they were still trying to honor him They were trying to make something that still felt similar but had their own touch Now they're putting a little milk a little bit of their their sauce a little more of their sauce into it and just it Just feels scarier. You also could she also went on to say they have us so tight-lipped around here All I can say is how it feels. I don't want to say the wrong word, but it feels scarier This sixth movie feels scarier and we're all on set shooting some of the scenes and we're like, oh my god This is insane. I think people are gonna be surprised now Going off of what she stated there at the tail in talking about how this feels scarier and how they're throwing a little bit They're more more of their own style into it That's what I'm the most excited for going into screen six to see what she means how it's executed and seeing what this is Looking like from radio silences Overall direction because yes while screen five again I would say is another effective solid entry to this great horror series that we've been getting movies from since 1996 They do played a bit safe It is something that's very much so a love letter to West Craven and not much So them doing their own thing as much as it is them showing us or to any of the doubters that hey We are able to do something with this IP. We are people who are fans of this IP We are also fans of what West created Before we got the chance to do this and we are gonna show you how much he means to us And we can show you how we are able to still give you a vibe of what he was able to bring to the table Along with West along with Kevin Williamson who we know wrote those original scripts for the original trilogy Minus the third one, I guess and the fourth one would be his trilogy and they did that Completely fine with screen five but again going into screen six less of that and now just show me what you want to do What do you want to do with screen?  They want to have the movies constantly playing it safe They want to see the same formulaic outcomes the same formulaic setups They want the legacy characters to be around for a very long time And I am in that boat as well that I would rather have legacy characters live as long as they can But I'm also in the boat of understanding that realistically you should not be having people continuously in certain scenarios where they almost have Countless bits of plot armor or an unlimited supply of plot armor where anything that they're ever facing when it retains the ghost face Raises no stakes raises no concerns for me. I don't even care because I know they're gonna make it out alive So if you're gonna play with that, that's what I'm most excited for going into scream 6 as far as what they could do to make it Scariest definitely more chase scenes. I know screen 5 was lacking in chasing for a lot of you I am on that boat now as well more chase scenes a lot of great tension building and just getting you Unnerved and being something that is constantly giving you this sense of dread. Maybe a little bit more gore And just some unique kills I know a lot of people would rather them take some take some dives with the kills that they have this time around and not Just have a lot of stabbing going on and As far as I what they could commentate on I mean, there's so many different things you could do the the the Requel sequel stuff Or you could just do a social commentary on a current trend if you want to They don't have to always do a commentary on the current trends of horror scream has also been a series that's known for social commentary Given this given the subject matter of screen 3 I think many of us can agree with that that it's able to do Social commentary as well It doesn't just have to commentate on trends in horror screen for did it as well Commentated on the remake trends while also commentating on the social trend going on with people seeking internet fame and Doing anything to get that fame in desperate in desperate acts or through desperate acts So if radio silence is gonna put more of their own style into scream 6 There's a chance that depending on how it's executed and what they do. This could be one of the greatest sequels ever Again either way Somebody's gonna be mad about something if a certain character dies. They're gonna be mad about that They're not gonna care if it was anything justifiable based on the vision that they have in mind They're not gonna care anything about that. They're not gonna be open to discuss anything They're just gonna be mad because a certain character died They're not even gonna be able to tell you probably why it was a bad decision And then they're gonna be others who again would say while I didn't want said character to die I understand why you did that and I do see the vision you have and I'm still on board with this It's just not the vision I would do and if it's still something that's well written They'll get commended for it But again, let me know what y'all think about Melissa Barrera's comments down in the comment section below if you have Of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post in case you're never miss a video in the description I have links to my social media accounts on my Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course limits any movies or reviews like me to cover in the future I also thought it was a nice thing that she referred to Hayden as a legacy character So let me know if you guys think Hayden Kirby as a legacy character with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


for member statements. I recognize the member for Renfrew Nipissing Pembroke. I wasn't expecting to be so early, but then again, I probably caused the problem. Speaker, it can't be done. Don't bother using those words when speaking to an O'Brien. When folks told Del O'Brien some 50 years ago that establishing an airline in Pembroke wouldn't work, he proved them wrong. Well, his son Jason has done it again. Against conventional thinking that you couldn't establish a vineyard in Renfrew County, he and his wife, Lucia, have done just that. On the 2nd of September, I had the honor of attending the official opening of Wow! Whitewater O'Brien Winery. Nestled on the shares of Lake Allimet, the vineyard stretches for a quarter of a kilometer and basks in the constant westerly breeze blowing off over 8 kilometers of open water. The westerlies ward off late spring and early fall frost and act as air conditioning in the summer. This enhances the moderating effect of cool nights and hot days, which is similar to many of the great vineyard locations around the world. The vineyard is part of the 700-acre O'Brien farm, which has been in the family since the 1830s and is one of the earliest and largest certified organic farms in the Ottawa Valley. Whitewater O'Brien Winery is currently producing four varieties. Two whites, one red and a rosé. And Speaker, I can tell you, they are all very, very good. I want to congratulate the O'Brien's on their grand opening and let everyone know that in addition to being available on-site and online delivery services under development. Speaker, Renfrew County's Whitewater O'Brien Winery is on the march and the O'Brien's are leading the charge. Member for Hamilton Mountain. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to amplify the voices of so many Ontarians who are struggling daily to make ends meet and are reaching out with nowhere to turn. Instead of hearing meaningful solutions to legislative poverty from this government, they are seeing headlines which are filled with scandal after scandal, scandals which are helping developers and certainly not them. Many calls to my office point out how life is getting harder, not better. Just over a year ago, some of my caucus colleagues and I shed the light on what small amount of money was left to buy food on the social service diet. You may recall I spent $57 for two weeks of food. This was the reality for so many on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program day in and day out. It was tough. It was physically and mentally draining. The lessons we learned in those two weeks opened up conversations with thousands of people struggling to get access to housing, much needed medications and food. Fast forward to today, I wonder what that same amount of money would buy off the shelves. What would I have to leave behind? The loaf of bread, the canotuna or the cucumber that was the only fresh item in my basket. As we continue to listen and learn, we hear the challenges. History doesn't have to repeat itself. We can make change. I will continue to call on this government to action and demand social service rates keep people safe, fed and hopeful for a better way forward. Thank you very much. The next member's statement, the member for Brampton West. Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had a very productive break from the House as I spent the summer connecting with the community and joining a wide variety of events. Speaker, one of the most remarkable aspects of our country and our province is the wide diversity of cultures. The social fabric of our province gives us as elected officials the opportunity to immerse ourselves in a wide variety of beautiful cultures and traditions. A couple of notable events that I have participated in over the summer included the Brampton Boat Race, Ride for Raja, Jalsa Salana and the Taste of India Festival. The Brampton Boat Race is a beautiful display of the Malayali culture that originates from the Kerala region in India organized by the Brampton Malayali Samajam. The Ride for Raja event is an event organized by the Sikh Motorcycle Club with all of the funds going towards helping children and youth in Peel region. The Jalsa Salana is an event organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat that promotes the religion of Islam through preaching peace and inclusivity. The Taste of India Festival is an amazing event that displays the unique cultures of India through food and music. Speaker, this summer provided an opportunity for me to immerse myself within the community enriching my knowledge about the various cultures that make up our society. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the member for Toronto, Dan Ford. Thank you, Speaker. Toronto Star this morning reported drops in housing starts with more drops expected, notwithstanding claims made by the government. This is dire news, Speaker. Bad for all. It's very bad for tenants of corporate landlords who are being mercilessly squeezed. A constituent wrote to me the other day about the 5.5% rent increase she and others in her building are facing. As she said, our salaries are not increasing. Many of the people in our building are on old-age security, CPP, or on social support. They can't afford an increase like that. She noted that two years ago in that building rented for $1,300 a month, they're now going for $2,000 a month. It is no wonder that tenants, people generally trying to deal with the housing crisis are facing those really difficult decisions about having a roof over their head or buying groceries regularly. It's no wonder that when I go to food banks in my riding, the invitation of those who are running them, that I see large numbers of people. Speaker, we need action on housing. We need restoration of rent control. With the end of that practice of having unlimited rent increases when a tenant moves out, we need a ban on above guideline increases, and we need direct government investment, substantial direct government investment in housing. People are hurting. We need the action now. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Cambridge. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I'm excited to share a heartwarming story from my riding of Cambridge. Jamie Colwell dedicated much of his spare time this past summer to assisting those with food insecurities. With the help of a team of volunteers, Jamie was able to collect 4,200 pounds of food and more than $6,000 for the Cambridge Food Bank. It's amazing. It's not the first summer he's done this. He spent weekends collecting donations outside of grocery stores. Last year, he did the same thing, raising $5,400 for the food bank to buy healthy snacks for kids heading back to school. The support Jamie has shown for the Cambridge Food Bank comes at a critical time. Diane McLeod, executive director of the agency, said the need for food assistance is increasing every month with the help of volunteers, like Jamie, to meet the ends of what these people are really requiring. Recently, Jamie was presented with a volunteer award of merit at the Food Bank's annual general meeting. I'd like to congratulate Jamie for his hard work and for being a citizen of Cambridge. Member for Humber River, Black Creek. Thank you, Speaker. It is said that two decades ago, beneath a historic cottage on the banks of the Humber River, here in Toronto, a miraculous healing occurred. And so at this special place, a shrine was built and people were welcome to come and gather and pray. It is called the Marion Shrine of Gratitude in honour of Holy Mother Mary whose name was invoked at that desperate time of need. So the people came, countless thousands, day after day, year after year, in rain and in shine, sometimes in the night with the stars above and the sounds of nature all around. They came in the coldest of months, in the winter too, because you see the iron rod gates of this special place would never close because only God knows a person's time of need. The people would come to bask in the feelings of peace and calm the spiritual aces provided. Many would come to pray for a miracle in their darkest hours and swear that doing so changed their lives forever. But this summer, the place was abruptly sold. Its gates now closed with guards casting people out with tears in their eyes, barriers erected to keep them away. Today the faithful are now called squatters because they still come to pray every night at eight. The welcomed are now called unwelcomed and mocked. The very same people who loved and maintained this special place for so many years. The great statue to Mother Mary torn down along with other religious artifacts, statues, monuments and more. This summer I called on the government to review the heritage significance of this special place and put an urgent stop to the damage. Over 20,000 have signed petitions to save this special place. I will be presenting many of their names to the government this afternoon, hoping they will be moved to step in and continue to do what they need. Thank you. Hello. Thank you, Speaker. Monday on the 25th of September, it was a special day for a number of my colleagues. It was a return to the house here at Queen's Park. But for me, it was an opportunity to celebrate with Franco-Ontarians in my writing and throughout the province. The 18th monument of the Francophonie was installed in a municipality of 10,000 people in the eastern part of Ontario. It was an honour for me to speak as a representative of the government for this ceremony in my village, in my writing. Many people participated in residence of Alfred and a number of teachers and students were there. I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the community of Alfred for their incredible work. There are 18 monuments for the Francophonie and seven of them are in my writing. And that's something I'm very proud of. Every year, 80,000 Francophones and Francophiles in my writing have the opportunity to participate in a number of flag-raising activities and to celebrate their pride of being Francophones. Congratulations to all Francophones and Francophiles that participated in this ceremony for the raising of the flag here in Queen's Park and throughout the province of Ontario. Thank you. Thank you. Member Statements, the Member for Guelph. Thank you, Speaker. This is Ontario Agricultural Week and I want to express my sincere gratitude to Ontario Farmers. As we gather with our families on Thanksgiving, I know many of us will be enjoying the incredible local food we grow in Ontario. Ontario has the best farmers in some of the best farm land in the entire world. But Ontario, unfortunately, is losing that farm land at an unsustainable rate of 319 acres per day. This threatens our food security and our $50 billion farming economy. Yet this government is planning on losing even more farm land by imposing expensive sprawl on Hamilton, Ottawa, Halton, Waterloo and so many other places. Speaker, it's Greenbelt 2.0. I want to say to the people of Ontario thank you for standing up to protect our Greenbelt. For all of us who enjoy local food and support Ontario Farmers, we say thank you.  I'm focused on solving the housing crisis by building homes that people can afford on land already approved for development. Not paving over farm land to enrich wealthy insiders. I encourage everyone to buy local Thanksgiving and to renew your commitment to supporting Ontario Farmers and protecting local farm land across Ontario. Thank you very much. Member's statements. Member for Peterborough, Co-Ortho. Thank you Speaker. When I've had the opportunity to rise in this chamber for a Member's statement, I've always tried to highlight some of the great people at great events in my riding. But today I'm going to deviate a little bit about the person or an event. I'm going to talk about a dog. Two dogs actually. Police service dog Griffin and police service dog Isaac. These two dogs are invaluable resources for our community. Just a couple of weeks ago Griffin during a single shift helped nab armed suspects in two separate incidences two hours apart and ensured that no officers were injured. This past winter, PSD Isaac tracked a man in his 70s who had taken his own dog for a walk in a wooded area when it started to snow. The man got lost during the snowstorm, but Isaac was able to track him and find him even though more than 15 centimetres of snow had fallen and covered his footprints. These two dogs are amazing. And Speaker, it's not just me who says that. I'm happy to back it up. This year, at the Canadian police dog championships, Isaac finished fourth in all of Canada in drug detection while Griffin finished fifth in drug detection as well as fourth in building searches. Well done, PSD Isaac and PSD Griffin. Everyone in Peterborough is proud of you. Member Statements. Member for Haliburton, Coorthal Lake Spraw. I'm happy to share some projects in my writing of Haliburton, Coorthal Lake Spraw that received recent Ontario Trillium Foundation grants from environmental stewardship to funding for high-tech machinery to investments with the Alzheimer's Society for their Minds in Motion program and the Coortha Victim Services to help those in crisis. The Trillium Foundation grants have been foundational in driving positive change. Existing facilities also benefited to help promote an active lifestyle. Whether it's new flooring at the Highland Squash Club, upgrading the decks and shelters at the Bob Cajun lawn bowling club, outdoor rinks in Harcourt and West Guilford, a new playground in Haliburton or expanding a natural horsemanship program. All new opportunities for people to get and stay active. Cultural initiatives like those offered at Abbey Gardens have been awarded grants to improve accessibility and increase economic and recreational opportunities as well as to increase their venue capacity for their community. The Grove Theatre in Fendland Falls expanded their local arts programs and lineup for the 2023 season and entertained us all. Thank you to all those that organizations that applied to the Ontario Trillium grants program and OTF staff for all their support and communities in my writing. Thank you Mr. Speaker. That concludes our member's statements for this morning. Before I invite


Hi, my name is Doug Lamblum. I'm a beef cattle specialist with North Dakota State University I'm located at the Dickinson Research Extension Center at Dickinson, North Dakota and We're here at the Lucas Hoth farm Lucas is one and his wife Jolene are cooperators in the Sarah project that we've been conducting for the last five years but basically what we did in the research was to What to take a five-year crop rotation that had a diverse representation of crops both cool season and warm season crops that were both broad leaf and grasses and Then the other thing that we did is an integrated system So we integrated beef cattle production into the cropping system The goal was to get a revenue stream for both cash crops, which would be our wheats and our Sunflowers and to get income from beef by grazing our cover crops our corn and our field P. Barley crops Very unconventional. We don't graze corn. We combine it. Well in our system We graze it and we take advantage of producing high quality beef from this cropping system another avenue that we added to it so we had another level of complexity and that was Frame score size of the steers that we use we used yearling steers in this particular project to go from conception to slaughter They never got marketed they stayed on the farm for their entire lives until they went to the feedlot for a very brief time We were able to graze these cattle for over 200 days of grazing from May to December then sent them to the feed yard These yearling steers after being in somewhat genetically held back from their ability to gain their maximum potential When they hit the feed yard with a lot of good corn type diets Corn based diets and supplements and protein gained four and a half five pounds a day So they explode when they hit the feed yard And so it's a very short period of time that they're in the feed yard and very economical the soil health improved dramatically a Dramatic improvement in soil health. So we got improvement in soil organic matter. We got an improvement in soil nitrogen Fertility increased and this of course was a driver behind increased crop production in the cropping system for all of the crops and Yet when we compared though the the spring wheat in that rotation system to continuously grown spring wheat We found that spring wheat continuously grown yields declined Whereas in our cropping system spring wheat yields increased to where we had a very remarkable Ending amount and very very good classic demonstration of what Integrated cropping system will do in terms of improving soil quality soil health and the ability to Produce crops we got to the point after the second year actually in the cropping system where we no longer applied fertilizer So no additional fertilizer. The soil was doing the work. So we asked the question. Are we more willing to? Be a situation where we work for the soil or will the soil work for us and indeed if we allow the soil to do What it's capable of doing in terms of microbial activity nutrient cycling? Those microbes will work for us instead of us working for the soil same key with a livestock the small frame steer Gives us a better net return at the end of the grazing period than does our large frame steers However, we have a flip side to that point when we put those large frame rapid growing steers in the feedlot they have a Better net return to labor and management than did the small frame steer So it depends what we're doing and how we want to use these cattle as we visit with our producers our farmer Cooperators that are actively involved in the SARE project We find that when they have taken some of the principles that we've been doing under research And they put those under a farm situation a farm scale Example like Lucas Hof did on his farm like Derek and Angie Ducart did on their farm and are doing on their farms They found that what we were telling actually worked and they were able to show increased net return to their enterprises by backgrounding calves grazing unharvested corn by grazing grain corn or a silage type corn and then sending some yearling Feedlot in the case of Lucas Hof He was able to return on some of his poorer quality calves that he didn't really want to sell It was his lower end of his calves. He netted $617 per steer by sending them through the feed yard and it worked To add to that when he put his corn crop on when he grew his corn crop He had a little more corn than he needed We had a bad winter it was tough. He couldn't come by so he waited until this spring to harvest the corn So I took six hundred and seventeen dollars per steer Net return on his low-end calves and then turned around and sold nine thousand dollars worth of corn That he didn't use because he sent the cattle the feed yard It's money money money and it's profit profit profit


So let's try this mechanism now. This is the synthesis of an aster from a carboxylic acid, okay? You notice there's a two, it's a two-step reaction. First step is going to deprotonate the carboxylic acid, of course, right? And then that's going to give you a nucleophile, okay? And then that nucleophile is going to perform an SN2 reaction on the methyl iodide, okay? So if you don't remember your SN2 reactions, backside attack, right, then you won't be able to do this mechanism, okay? So let's, so first step, sodium hydroxide, sodium, of course, there's the spectator ion, ain't doing anything, OH minus, that's going to deprotonate the carboxylic acid. If you wanted to push those arrows up there, that'd be fine too. The resonance structures of each other. Remember deprotonations, that's back and forth, but this case, it's going to be very far that way, okay? If you're wondering how I figured that out, I did that calculation that we learned the other day in my head, okay? Okay, so, what we're going to do, now we have what we call the carboxylate ion, and we also made water. That's not going to do anything by itself. So we're going to have to add something else to it. So, second step, now we're adding methyl iodide. So, methyl iodide comes in, tertiary, right, so SN2, right, good nucleophile, too. So, it's going to see the backside of this thing, and it's going to attack, okay? And the leading group off. So this is a nucleophilic substitution, bimolecular, right, so it all happens in one step. Bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, that's how you read this. Let's just finish the reaction here, and then plus your I minus. You'll actually see sodium iodide, because you're going to be doing this in organic media, you know? So, usually, ion compounds don't dissolve very well in organic media, you know? So you can actually see the sodium iodide coming out of solution. Is everybody cool with that? Very fast reaction, too. Once you add that methyl iodide, you know, you start adding it, adding it, you'll see that stuff drop out, really straightforward, I guess. No questions.


Anastasia Pavlochenkova versus Barbara Krajakova is the women's final for the French Open for 2021, and both players are about to fight their way to get to their first Grand Saint Final. Krajakova started the tournament unseeded, taking on Christina Plischkova. And after dropping the first set, she came back to win in three, five, seven, six, four, six, two. Her second round opponent was against the 32nd seed Alexandrova, and she was very impressive winning in straight sets, six, two, six, three. Her third round was against the fifth seed, Spitalina. And again, Krajakova, very impressive winning in straight sets, six, three, six, two. Her fourth round opponent was against former French Open finalist, Sloane Stevens. But she destroyed Stevens in straight sets, six, two, six, love. In the quarter finals, Krajakova would take on the number 24 seed, Coco Gough. And after a very tight first set, Krajakova would get through in straight sets, seven, six, six, three. In the semifinals, Krajakova would take on the 17th seed, Sakari. And after saving match points in the third set, Krajakova eventually prevailed in three tight, tight sets, seven, five, four, six, nine, seven to advance to the final. Pavlochenkova entered the tournament as the 31st seed and played Mikhail in the first round, getting through in straight sets, six, four, six, love. Her second round opponent, Tomjanovic, was another easy match. Pavlochenkova won in straight sets, six, two, six, three. Her third round opponent was number three seed, Sabalenka, and one of the favourites for the tournament. And after dropping the second set, Pavlochenkova finished real strong, getting through in three, six, four, two, six, six, love. In her fourth round, she'd take on another Belarusian, the number 15 seed, Azarenka. And after going down in the first set, Pavlochenkova rebounded, came back to win, five, seven, six, three, six, two. In the quarterfinals, she would take on her doubles partner for all the French Open and the 21 seed, Rabakina. And after going down in the first set, Pavlochenkova would rebound to win in an epic third, six, seven, six, two, nine, seven. In her semifinal, Pavlochenkova would take on Zedensek, who was an unseeded player making a dream run to the semifinals. Pavlochenkova was too strong in the end, winning in straight sets, seven, five, six, three, to advance to her first grand slam final. These two have never played before on the tour, so it's a first time meeting for both. And both of our different semifinals coming in to the final, with Pavlochenkova getting the easier road, and Krajakova having to play over three hours. So let's see if that actually affects her in the final. If Krajakova is going to win, she needs to have cleaned up her game. Her errors in the semifinals were way too many. She hit so many errors and yet somehow still made it through, which is going to have to clean up the errors and bring the variety that she does during her doubles matches, because she is a former world number one in the doubles. Pavlochenkova is going to win. She needs to get off to a fast start. In some of her matches, this tournament, she's lost the first set. She's had to fight from behind, but against Zedensek in the semifinals, she won the first set and that really gave her the confidence to win the second. So she needs to start off really strong if she's going to win this one. Both are playing in their first final of a Grand Slam, so there's going to be a lot of nerves, especially early on. But I'm going to go with Pavlochenkova to win her first major, another Russian winning the French Open. Seems to happen a lot on the women's side, but let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win the final?


I have a question to switch off mobile phones and other electronic devices completely. As you interfere with the broadcasting system even when they are switched asylum, no apologies have been received. Item 1 is consideration of four negative instruments, where the instruments are. I will take a deep breath because they are long. Right interpretation and translation is criminal proceeding, Scotland regulations 2014, SSI 2014 and 1995, and the Firmen's pension scheme, amendment number 2, Scotland Order SSI 2014-108, Firefighters' Conversations Scheme Scotland amendment in order 2014, SSI 2014-109 and Firefighters' Pensions Scheme Scotland amendment order number two order 2014 SSI 2014-110. The purpose of the first instrument is to give suspected or accused persons who require it, the statutory right to interpretation in police custody and during police questioning, and also in criminal proceedings before a court. The instrument comes into force on 19 May. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered this instrument at its meeting on 22 April 2014 and agreed that it did not need to draw the attention of the Parliament to the instrument on any grounds within its remit. Do members have any comments in relation to the statutory instrument? Are members content to make no recommendation in respect of this instrument? The purpose of the other three instruments is to provide retained firefighters with equal treatment and comparable rights as whole-time firefighters following new employment legislation in 2000. The instruments come into force on 23 May 2014. The DPLR committee considered SSI 2014 a Bleak 108 at its meeting on 13 May 2014 and agreed that it did not need to draw the attention of the Parliament to the instrument. Do members have any comments in relation to that instrument? Are you there? Thank you. Have you any comments? No? Thank you. Are members content to make no recommendation in relation to this instrument? The DPLR committee agreed to draw SSI 2014 one-on-nighth attention of the Parliament as it contains a minor drafting error—oh, that old one—namely that the word his was included in paragraph 11C of the schedule in error. Somebody must have been dreaming. The word should have been omitted, as otherwise the order is drafted in gender neutral terms. Here we say to that. Do members have any comments in relation to this instrument? John. Simply to say, convener, I think that we should welcome it. The bulk of the landmass of Scotland is covered by retained firefighters and the fact that they have parity with their full-time equivalents, I think, is to be welcomed. Could that apply in the highlands and islands by any chance? It could indeed. Indeed, good. I'm glad to hear that, and in the borders. Let's not all pitch in with our patches. We have no comments in relation to that other than that rather good comment by John. Members are content to make no recommendation in relation to this instrument. The DPLR committee agreed to draw SSI 2014 one-on-no to the attention of the Parliament as paragraph 1A4 of the schedule is defectively drafted. There are also other minor drafting errors. In responding to those issues, the Scottish Government accepted the points raised by the DPLR committee as agreed to lay an amending instrument that will correctly identify errors with the present instrument prior to its commencement on 23 May 2014. Do members have any comments in relation to that instrument? I don't know if you're still alive. I can't hear a thing. Thank you very much. Are members content to make no recommendation in relation to this instrument? Thank you very much. Item 2 is consideration of the act of sedent fitness for judicial office tribunal rules 2014 SSI 2014-99. This instrument is not subject to any parliamentary procedure. The DPLR committee considered the instrument 22 April 2014 and agreed to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament due to defective drafting. In three areas, and because the menu of rule 6-2A could be clearer, the need in my primary teacher, Ms Campbell, I tell you should never have allowed this. The Lord President's private office intends to lay a corrective instrument that rectifies those errors. The relevant extra DPLR committee's report is reproduced in page 2 of paper. Do members have any comments in relation to this instrument? Thank you. Are members content to note the instrument and address the conclusions of the DPLR committee report? Thank you very much. We now move on to our annual report covering our work during the parliamentary year from 11 May to 10 May 2014. Is available for members' consideration. Do you have any comments in relation to the draft annual report? I hope that I don't want minor drafting errors. No, they are not going to that. It could be shifted to another committee. There is no doubt about that. I wonder if, in relation to paragraph 20, when we talk about the legislative consent memorandum that we could make reference to our frustrations about the time frame within which we were expected to deliver it. Can we just put that in then? The committee would... I think we can get the gist. The committee would draw attention to the fact that they are not pleased, whatever the wording will be, in particular with some that are of extreme relevance. We did not have time to do much with them. To other minor ones, I wonder if, in paragraph 23, in relation to the EU engagement, we could just make a passing reference to the negative implications of the opting out, because that is what we heard from the Lord Advocate, Police Scotland and the Minister, and indeed I think the House of Lords. Are you happy with that, everybody? Yes? Okay, anything else, John? The very final one is on paragraph 31, where in the second sentence it says, the actor placed eight territorial police forces in Scotland with one national force. While it is not incorrect, I think that we need to see and this central services as well. Right. Well done, John. That bacon roll does not have work. Anybody else? The report covers work to the 10th of May. Just for general information, Karen Bradley's visit was cancelled last week. Have we got any update as to what is planned? No, we haven't. Are we following this up in any fashion? Is the carrier pigeon off, is it? Okay, so we are chasing that up, because that was a disappointment. It may not be her fault, of course, so anything else? We are content, right? So with these, are you content to agree the annual report for publication? Thank you very much. Now, we have no meeting next week. Our next meeting is 3 June. That meeting will take evidence on the Taylor review and consider petitions. And that's the end of today's business.


Thank you for coming. After around 25 poem city events, we are still getting audiences. It's amazing. You know, the AP wrote this up. I don't know if any of you saw the article, which was on the front page of the Weekend Arts section, or the Weekend Edition of the Times Argus and Rutland Herald. The day after that story went out, it had 10,000 views. It had gone nationwide and worldwide. They didn't know if this was the biggest, but they said they thought it was the biggest poetry event in the country. That's the best, the best. And the best. Thanks to Kellogg Hubbard Library and Michelle Singer, a phenomenal organizer of this event. At the end, we're going to have a raffle with you. Whoever, I'll tell you how it'll work once we draw the numbers, but prizes, including an antique Robert Frost and further range. Several other books and electronic device. Phones, please turn down the volume. You'd rather hear us than a telephone ringing. As much as you may like us, hold your applause until the end of the reading by each poet. Please help us put chairs back at the end. If you'd take your chair back there or ask someone to carry it for you, that saves the staff having to clean up for us. We'll read for about an hour total. And then the raffle, we definitely have to be out of here at 8. Or the staff have to go over time. And we don't want to make them do that. Even for Poem City. Giza Tetralier will be our first reader, followed by Trishinal. I know Giza most from his poetry. I first met him when he read with Peter Fox Smith over at the Humanities Council. Ended up doing a blurb for one of his books or review. Giza lives in Barnard with his wife, Marsha. Welcome. He's a citizen of Hungary and Canada. In fact, if you read his memoir For the Children, he'll tell you of his family leaving Hungary, escaping illegally in the night and crossing through woods and fields into Austria. And eventually they found asylum in Canada. He's the only poet, in fact, the only person I know who was an Olympic fencer. He says at one point in For the Children that he was, I don't remember how you put it, a lackadaisical student. I don't believe that. He got into Harvard. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. And went on to the London School of Economics. And today he works on finances for an alternative energy ventures. He's written 15 books. But the ones I know best are his poetry, particularly Extinction and Extinction Rebellion. And his novel Arctic Meltdown, all of his writings are about social conscience, and especially about the environment. So we'll start with Giza, but I want to welcome my daughter, Julia, son-in-law Tim and wife Cynthia here tonight. I don't play any favorites. Giza, welcome. Thank you, George, for that introduction. And thank you, everyone, for coming. And thank you to Michelle Singer for organizing this and the Kellogg Hubbard Library for hosting it. George told you a bit about my books, but I have five poetry collections that have been published. And I will be reading from several of them, starting with Extinction, which George was kind enough to mention. And I will read a few poems from there, starting with the very first one, which is called The Witching Hour. Can everybody hear me? OK. Witching Hour. Is this The Witching Hour, the turning point when the simmering seas boil spill across the cauldron's brim to flood this verdant earth? Corpses of frogs and fish, seals and birds are detritus, plastics and rotting hulls wash up with the silt to bury my feet. Is this The Witching Hour, the turning point when wildfire spread raging across the land and consume forests and fields, roads and towns, killing with burning heat and accurate smoke all life they find in homes or barns or nests or frantically fleeing the fate at end? Is this The Witching Hour, the turning point? We know damn well it is, but do nothing. We continue our hedonistic lies complicit in destroying our one earth. Next poem is also from Extinction, and it's the poem that actually gives it the title, Extinction.   I ask, when humankind is no longer, who or what will conceive this strange being that destroyed earth and all life, including itself, as if it had been preordained? Now, I've written quite a few poems about different species of life and how they interact with humanity. And so I'll read a few of these poems I call my Beastie poems, starting with the first one, Mosquito. I wanton Mosquito landed on the bare skin of my forearm, attacked my feeling flesh with glee. In a drunken stupor, it gorged through its proboscis on my blood. I swatted a little bugger with lightning, fury, and hate, and squashed it to oblivion. Unmindful of the perfection of a timeless evolved being, over the long torrid summer, my Mosquito's countless mates wreaked their revenge on humanity. Another Beastie poem called The Dragonfly. I found a dragonfly lazing on our screen door, a great blue skimmer spreading its filly gray wings, flaunting its dazzling long lapis abdomen, soaking up the warming rays of the noonday sun, oblivious to its Jurassic ancestry. I wonder, will my friend's descendants still be here 150 million years from now as we disrupt the equilibrium of Earth, insect outliving cocky homo sapiens, the destructive devil of the Anthropocene? Change volumes to my last volume, the abyss, and one little Beastie poem from there called The Spider's Web. A spider spins a spool of spit, that ever so fine filament into a tough filly gray web. A death trap for wayfaring flies, and other flying bugs and beasts that it will munch on with delight. Only the arachnid can scoot with its long legs along those threads to get at its perishing prey. Do not destroy its perfect mesh, this delicate but sturdy snare that both destroys and sustains life. The Beastie poem I haven't yet published, it's fairly new. And it's called The Kingfisher. A kingfisher perches atop a rocking chair down by the pond. He sits there, regally attired in his blue, gray, and white armor, surveying his Vermont empire. On the chair and the ground below, skeletal remains of crayfish. The king consumed our stoon around as he holds forth upon his throne with the occasional flutter of wings to pluck yet another crustacean from the dark waters. Torrential rain falls, thunderstorms. Yet the royal beast does not leave his post, drenched with compost. He stays to thrill us yet another day. Another little Beastie poem this time from Extinction Rebellion, my fourth volume. And this one is called A Rafter of Wild Turkeys. A rafter of wild turkeys frolics in the field, some toms and hens, young jakes and jennies. A few poles, the birds trot and prance, then go pecking and poking. They halt for a moment at the side of the road, and in the burst, vault out onto the macadam, hightailing and across the dangerous divide. Relief, they have made it even the smallest chick. Bravo, say I, rooting for the rafter to live. But in my gut, I, the glutton, think to myself, would that meaty hen not have made a tasty meal? The last Beastie poem I released is called The Bear.  I stop in my tracks, dare not move. A penetrating look, the wink. Ursus licks its lips, pairs its teeth at the cowering spectator, and with a wag of its buttocks, disappears into the forest. I spent almost a year in Japan when I was 20, 21, working at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 70, the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan. And there I became acquainted with the quintessential Japanese form of poetry haiku. And I fell in love with it, so I've been writing a lot of haiku. And I put some of them in each of my volumes, so I'll read a few of those. I always give them a title, even though haiku are not supposed to have titles, just to differentiate them from the other poems in the volume. So just a few from this. The Whale of the Wind. The Whale of the Wind wafting through wind-tree trees, the woodwinds weeping, angry clouds. Angry clouds tangle to the music of the frogs, those thundering gods, no stars. No stars cloudy night, a loon's tremolo portents, calamity loons. And I went from my very first volume, Cello Steers. This is called Wrinkles. The waveless water mirrors wrinkles wrought by the voyage of the sun. So that's probably enough haiku. And I'll turn to a slightly longer poem. It's still not too long. All my poetry is fairly short. It's called Karpuscular Shadows. Karpuscular Shadows cavored on the wall, pirueting in a ballet of wrought choreographed by Emperor Nero, Caligula, and leaders of their ilk, who fiddle as wildfires scorch mother earth, and floods and storms ravage our sustenance. These kings are self-centered, and like Midas, give all to get gold to add to their hordes, and pursue perverse illicit pleasures. While drought destroys our crops, our children starve, our trails and roads become raging rivers, and our homes and cities are washed away. What future is there for my grandchildren? What hope is there for human life on earth? The poem that gives this title, its name, is called The Abyss, of course. It's also a relatively short poem, so I'll read it. The Abyss. We wake from our wanton lifestyle, our consumptive ways. We poisoned the world around us, raised our primeval forests. Now gasp for clean air to breathe. Our reservoirs are dry, our lips parched. Rising seas wash away our towns. No food for our children, but our automatic weapons will kill them in their schools or homes. We stand not knowing what to do, and on the edge of the abyss, this self-wrought, válpurgis naht of humanity's extinction. Only want and suffering await, and then the eternal mehl. People say that my poems are downers and quite morbid. I apologize for that, but I'm actually going to read two that are morbid. This one's called The Cemetery, and there's a wonderful old cemetery, as many cemeteries are in Vermont near us, where we live on the north road between Barnard and Bethel, and it was inspired by that cemetery, the cemetery. The Methodist Cemetery on the north road has tombstones dating back to 1810. Jack Russo, Francis Du Bois, Ralph Rhodes, Ted Campbell, the dead long departed into oblivion. Its mossy grays are cracked or have corners missing, like those ancient books found in an antiquary, names and dates and epitaphs scarcely legible, the acid etching erased by wind and weather. Only a few new tombs in shiny gray marble, grave monuments to those whose extinction still pains, their still living friends, are graced by the stars and stripes, or dry bouquets, blown out candles, yellow ribbons. In the summer, the grass between the tombs is mowed by a large woman wearing shorts on a tractor, lovingly clipped around the stones by her husband. They too will soon lie there fertilizing the lawn. In the winter, lined in battle formation, only the headstones of the brave is there to raise their white shackled pates above the frozen snow line to see the living pass through this forbidding world, year in, year out, relentlessly, eternally. The cemetery gives only temporal stay to mortality, as death defeats all, safe time. And my last poem is actually also about dying, but it's also a love poem to my wife. It's called, When I Die. Sorry, it's great at the end. When I die, when I die, who will grieve for me? Who will shed tears when the bell tolls? When I'm no longer conscious, no longer feeling unloving, will you, dear, kiss me one last time, hold my ice-cold hand to your heart? And when my body burns to ashes or decays, devoured by maggots, how long, love, before you forget my face, my voice, my touch, my laugh? When you walk through the fall forests, swim in our pond below the falls, will you remember our delight sharing such sunny summer days? And when you lie alone at night or naked in another's arms, will you still evoke our great love, the ecstasy of our coupling? When our children come from afar over dinner and lots of wine, will you smile as your reminisce about my quirks, faults, and foibles? When you play with our grandchildren, sing them a song, kiss them goodnight, will you gently remind them, dear, that I love them with all my heart? And as you read these my poems, my cello's tears, soto voce, will you try hard to remember the joy of our life together? For there will be no more of me, only what is left in your heart. Cello's tears is my first collection, as you know. But thank you for listening to those poems, and I hope you've enjoyed them. And now I'm going to... You get to the floor. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Now I'm going to introduce the next poet, Patricia Noll. Some of you know, probably. I did not know her before today, but I'm very pleased and honored to make her acquaintance and to be reading with her here on this podium. A Williston resident, Patricia's a very accomplished poet, whose work has been published in journals and anthologies, and she also has seven published volumes, so that's very impressive. She will be reading from the most recent volume, one bent twig, which focuses on poems about trees. She loves trees and is worried about them, what climate change is doing to them. And she's also the contributing editor to the online journal, Verse Virtual, and has degrees in literature from Stanford and Yale. But please welcome, Patricia, thank you. Thank you. The question about our grandchildren is a very real one these days. Isn't it? Okay. One bent twig took me about three years to write, but I'm gonna give a little background to it. Oh, first I need to say I have a voice disability. It is not cancer and it doesn't hurt. So if you could just kind of let that float away, you don't have to worry about it. Anyway, 50 years ago, I moved to Oregon, which is a land of trees with a little bit of old growth and a lot of clear cutting and logging. And in 2018, I moved to Vermont to my several acres of land with a second growth forest and all of that comes into play in my book. Sometimes people ask us, why do you write the kind of poetry that you do? And I'm guessing that you get that question some days. But one of the poems in this book is called, I want to write. I want to write how quaking aspen memorize the end rhymes of creation myths, how dance classes for willow branches warm up by sleeping beside the mother. When the frail crown of a cedar senses when the crow grabs on, the size one maple in the sugar bush shares with its neighbor. I want to write the prayer wins that fan the kinko's gold, the sonorous eulogies of giant sequoias for each other, how the Bodhi tree knows that when it dies, another sprouts, how Joshua trees smell the Santa Ana winds. I want to write a diary of the bristle comb pine from the day humans invented script. I want to write my own life one bent twig among many. Second poem I'm going to read calls for a little audience participation. And I just need one brave person here to say two or three sentences about one of the first trees that you ever loved. Is anybody brave enough to do that? There, there, there's always someone. The giant elm tree in the yard north end though, I mean it's just one of, no other people remember the elms, but they came up and then they kind of branched out and were just astonishing. Thank you. That's. And there were aureol nests in it. And it didn't survive. Well, that from a woman who was planting native American chestnut trees on my property. So we'll see how that goes. You never forget the first trees you love. I hid in oak shade to practice air guitar to escape the divas aria over rehearsed in the dining room. I used branches to climb higher than authorities said I could for the silence of the ash confessional. When a tornado turned the air sick green, I warned lost limbs realized steadfastness has cost. I hoarded acorn skulls with straight faces and ruffled braze to throw at my brothers and made battle lines behind horse chestnuts and crab apples. I squatted on surface roots for rest. These friends are generous kin. Embrace the green where ever my forest clans. Somehow I've planted a lot of trees in my life. Really nice trees of native trees and flowering pear trees and all kinds of things. But when you plant a tree, I think there's a thought that it's gonna outlive you. And this poem is based on a real event that happened a couple of years ago on my property. It's called Funeral in the Forest.   I postponed this 10 times held vigil on the porch. I had to think about the words of eulogy, what song, what recognition. The forester pegged your age at 200 years. So I assumed you would outlive me, grand sugar maple with tapping scars, stumps of lost limbs and brown ridges. A bark twisted to find better rooting to respond to your home in this second growth forest of fox, black bear and the thick silence of the summer moon. 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson complained of a broken wrist while writing a letter to offer to sell some of his slaves to Finance University of Virginia. 200 years ago, the Missouri Compromised allowed Missouri to become a state with slaves. Darwin launched the HMS Beagle. Prospectors discovered gold in Georgia. You stood here through Abinaki land claims, cholera epidemics, Jim Crow, hurricane Irene, world warps, women and the boat, sap flowed to syrup. You crashed in that storm a week past. Wind got slashed through your crown of new leaves. I heard you funk down beside that ash that fell last fall. I don't bring music below the ledge. We hear coyotes howl, mourning doves and hawks. I speak my litany of loss. I praise that you knew no malice. You were the forest lungs, shamed for the sugar man, the owls post, the fine was Earl's leap, what I knew of standing stature in repose. I wear what seems fit for your last rites. Blue jeans, writhing boots, unable leaf in my hair to sit astride you as I put an ancient horse. Bear back on your open air, sleep in wild wood, waiting for night to light your art. Yarsight, fireflies, my voice at moonrise. I'll ring the temple bell hung on the younger maple and bow to the vibrations. Your lonely place of rest in peace and mine. This next poem is from the Oregonian that will always live in me. And so 50 years ago, I moved to Oregon and there was one locking truck after another with trees that you couldn't begin to hug. They were so big and would not left Oregon in 2018. The logs on those locking trucks were like this. And so this is called See the Forest. We cannot see trees in sunken ships, cheerio boxes, hammer handles, altars, rocking chairs, postcards, pickup sticks, ton of depressors, toothpicks, kindling, splinters, dreidels, butter churns, toilet seats, arrows, school desks, origami, cranes, birdhouses, crucifixes, wooden nickels, baby cribs, fence posts, Louisville sluggers, cellos, bowling alleys, checkers, jigsaw puzzles, gallows, playing cards, incense, white paper snowflakes on schoolhouse windows, chopsticks, totem poles, salad bowls, railroad ties, lobster pots, wine barrels, birth certificates, sleds, guillotines, walnut unstocks, railroad crossing gates, drumsticks, jewelry boxes, grandfather clocks, price tags, Christmas beans, picture frames, docks, decks, matchsticks, marble, raceways, pitchfork shafts, ping-pong paddles, harpsichords, postage steams, report cards, an obituary, the history of wildfires, wedding vows, scripts, the air we breathe, and millions of bored feet seized to rebuild after ruin. The logging truck chugs by, chugs by in the fast lane. Chains and tubes, frames secure, full-size furs to a flatbed. After the passing at noon of a stretch hearse with headlights on, I have one more to read. It's actually one of my favorites. I have a couple of birches on my property and Oregon didn't give me birches. I don't know why, but Vermont has made me familiar with birches and I collect birch bark and send notes on birch bark to people. It's not easy to write out birch bark, and birch bark. This is a quote from Henry David Throne. I have heard of a man in Maine who copied the whole Bible onto birch bark. Before I knew what Throne wrote, a sensual letter from the dogs written on birch bark that asked you to snippet to know where they had been, how they wished you were there. It must have been like that for that man distilling. Certain words, be kind. Keep in mind how hard that is, but relish the journey. Ignore what is false. Smell the birch to remember sweet. Bend it into a canoe when you must get away. So, one bent tweak. So I haven't been a poet in Vermont very long compared to us people who have been here forever, but since I moved here in 2018, every poet I know seems to know George Longenacker. And that's been really fun for me to be able to get together with him this evening. He's involved in so many things that have to do with poetry, past president of Vermont. Poetry society and still doing a lot of work with them. He's retired as a professor for Vermont Tech where he was chair of the departments of English Humanities and Social Studies. And his work roots in family and outdoors and reflects his long commitment to the Green Mountain Club. I believe he's going to primarily read tonight from his new book, Star Road, which is just out from Main Street Rag, a publisher that many of us would aspire to. So, thank you, George. Thank you, Trisha. Tents sag under snow, home for people who have nowhere else to go at a picnic area a mile out of town where they've camped since summer in a patch of woods next to the Winooski River which rushes by but says nothing. Morning traffic, school buses, commuters, skiers on their way to slopes or second homes, 300 feet from the tents, a brown house with river view, 10 rooms, three car garage, fireplaces, bright Christmas lights, winter night comes early for those who live in tents, snow blows, rattles pines, river rolls over icy stones, bones turn to ice. To say I'm bothered would be an understatement distressed is more like it to see people who live on the streets of this city. And I've seen the same thing when I've traveled to other places whether for work or for family vacations. Pizza in a snowstorm. Snow falls on their outstretched arms outside a convenience store. Finally someone gives enough for two slices and a large coffee. They share a park bench, one warms their hand in the other's pocket. Snow flakes alight on pepperoni and onion, crystalline stars which quickly melt away. They share their coffee, eat pizza with tattered gloves, fingers poke out of holes, two crows circle in caw hoping for a scrap of crust. The scraps of their lives reduced to one shopping cart, a ragged tent and what's left of their pizza. The next one is from my book and it's set in California. Raw crude. A harder time is coming, Paul Salam.  Beds of cardboard and shredded blankets by the off ramp a woman with a baby holds out her hat. Good day, two fives and a 10 before noon when she hides behind a hedge to nurse. On Refugio Highway, we've won the pipeline from an oil platform burst near the beach. Raw crude gushes onto sand and into Santa Barbara Channel. Some nights we'd lie there on a beach blanket after dark, people with nowhere else to go would sneak into the park to sleep. One night we gave away our wine and cheese but it's never enough to hand out scraps to mop up oil after the pipe has burst to toss a few coins and a hat to bathe the dying pelican and detergent. Maybe there's no apocalypse. Just the end of another empire fueled by raw crude. Toss another denarius in a mother's hat.  Some of you may remember when there was a redemption center in a convenience store down the street between the drawing board and Shaw's where there's no a part. Bottles and Victoria's Secret. Tim searches for five cent bottles and cans along the Manuski River, fills his sack, crosses the tracks to the redemption center. Lots more back there, who tells the clerk as she hands him $1.70. It's a good day. Look what I found. Tim shows her a damp Victoria's Secret catalog. Bronze model and purple-brown panties on its cover. My daughter would like this. Her name's Victoria too, but she left years ago with her mother after Tim's Vietnam memories returned like a grenade to the head. He pockets the money, leaves with his sack, and Victoria's Secret. Behind the store, Tim sleeps near the river under a railroad bridge near redemption. He says when people ask him where he lives, his mind floats driftwood on the Manuski. Kids walking home from school give him change and leftover lunch. One student wrote of Tim in a PTSD report. Pungent creosote stains the bridge, trains hauling granite rattle the tracks. Above his bed, rats on feather feet scurry by on their way to dumpsters. He sees Victoria with her alphabet blocks. TCDD, PTSD, 245T, CDEF. He hears bullets, smells defoliant, like oranges or old beer bottles, but it all blows away as red maple leaves and snowflakes drift onto his bed, Tim watches, ice, bones, and bottles in the river. Is it Alice, Amy, or Anne? Huddled with four other nameless people who sleep on cardboard and blankets in the entry of a garage alcove, just a block from Grand America Hotel, the finest place to stay in Salt Lake City. Soft beds in a chick's setting, the ad says. It's still Kua Dawn, but before long, pavement's too hot to touch. All day they rest on a narrow strip of lawn by a parking lot shaded by lindens, robins and sparrows nest in the trees, search for bugs or scraps. Behind a wall hotel guests rest on chaise lounges order drinks and lunch by the pool. All day people pass by. How sad, disgusting, lazy, addicts. Once in a while, somebody drops a few coins. By October, icy winds will slice down city streets. Who knows how many will be left after winter, though some will die in heat before them. Slow euthanasia for these castoffs who search for scraps and trash bins, hotel guests come and go from restaurants high above balcony lights come on. Together they huddle for another night. Maybe dreams will bring them a little peace. You may have seen this beautiful anthology of all of this year's poems, sitting poems, put up a rootstock publishing. You can buy it at the desk or at Bear Pond Books. I wanted to read one by another poet, Whit Dahl of Montpelier, Alfonzo. I catch him in the corner of my eye as I pull him to Shaw's in Montpelier. A big man stands at the exit. He has an American flag draped over his backpack. He's holding a cardboard sign. Cars roll by. Looks like slim pickings. It's cold out now. I hurry in to buy a few things. By the time I'm back out and in my car, it's too dark to read his sign as I pull up to him. He's carefully rolling up his flag. Rolling the window down, I hand him some money. I used to think this was encouraging bad behavior. But what evidence do I have to back up this theory? Thanking me, he mumbles something about the flag and politics. He's missing a few teeth and hard to understand. I ask him his name, Alfonzo. He says it clearly. I tell him mine. I reach out to offer a hand. He starts to fist bump. Then he grabs my hand for a shake. His hand is rough and worn.  I am a man. Good night, Alfonzo. I turn right to go home. What would I miss if I kept the doors locked and the window up with doll of Montpeger? Where animals lie down in the forest. Someday I will die, as all animals do. This is the only thing I know with certainty. Though there are other things I'm pretty certain of, like my love for you.  One day we walked in the forest, and there was a smell of death near a bend in the trail. Perhaps a dead deer or moose. You wondered why we don't see more dead animals. Another time in the woods I found a deer. Its bones exposed in death. Happy chickadees chirped as they picked flesh off the skull. It might be comforting to lie down and decay into the forest floor. But I'm not sure I'd want to go alone. If you were still here, I'd want you to walk with me into the woods and say goodbye. Then I could lie down with bones of deer and moose. Viral. It wasn't the first time there'd been a disease that took out flocks of humanity. A virus which couldn't be seen, for which we had no immunity, polio, bubonic plague, influenza. We couldn't believe it might kill us. A few screamed and resisted quarantine, carried large black guns, said they didn't believe in vaccine, but bullets wouldn't protect them from the virus. Day after day people coughed and died. Probably not the last time there'd be a disease. And this one would leave most of homo sapiens. Homo sapiens still alive, despite those who'd rather ranch, chant, pray, and pay no attention to science. Perhaps the next pandemic will be the one. The one that will spare nobody, neither righteousness, nor sycophant, neither prisoner nor priest. One by one each will be taken down until there are none left to care for the dying. And humans become extinct, like woe mammoth and archiopteryx. Everything we loved and created will be left behind. Elizabeth Bishop's complete poetry. Walt Whitman's song of myself. Frank Gaylord's bronze sculptures of soldiers. A pastel yellow 1958 Edsel. A Rolex watch. Still keeping time. It wasn't the first time there'd been a disease. Winter nap. I'd like to awaken and find its spring. Windows open, breeze through screens. Calls of chickadees and wood thrush. I'd like to awaken and find its spring. Climate calm again. Deadly storms ever over, though I love breezes. I'd like to awaken and find its spring 40 years ago when we were young, climbing a mountain. Though I love you just as much now as I did then, it would be good to have another 40 years. Calls of chickadees and wood thrush. It doesn't matter much on Jupiter. You wake me to see Jupiter so bright, aligned with four more planets, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. When the moon sets, those other worlds glow. All night, barred owls call back and forth from palms and pines.  Carries scent of mud from mangrove swamps. So far to Jupiter, yet the planets tonight are as close as our bodies on this blanket, where we lie three feet above sea level. Palm fronds tick in the wind. For a while owls still call as clouds turn pink. It doesn't matter much on Jupiter that Earth's polar ice melts, or Florida slips under sea. Planets and stars fall to the horizon. A storm blows on Jupiter older than all of our history. Love, I hope, we can survive for one more night. Thank you.


No lie. He said, listen, Andy, I haven't earned a bed. I want to sleep on the on the floor in the van. It's crazy how you know what you need. Here's the gold. You see this guy right here, right? You guys seen this guy? This guy right here. He's got a son. He's married. He works at Waxahatchee Nissan. I don't even know where that is. Okay? Right? I mean, it's in a small town and guess what? He comes out of the gate, right? And guess what? He's discouraged. I can see it on him. We work himself up to making himself a hundred grand. You know what he does? He thinks that he's hit it.  Am I right? Yeah, you know what?  All right. A hundred grand ain't nothing. You're worth way more than a hundred. That's a sin. And by the way, listen, I'm going to tell you this. I told them everybody's opted out of winning, which means they've opted into losing. And all you have to do is train hard and stay committed and stay with me. When I say stay with me, let me explain what I mean. Don't unplug. Okay? Training isn't something you did. It's something you do every day until you die. If you were at the last seminar, I did a breakdown of a board of all the money that I spent on training to get up to making 700 grand. I spent $3,000 a month for 18 months straight studying the same man who did the same training every time. And I changed mine, but he didn't. It was the same one. I wasn't better than him. So I showed back up. I showed up and I wanted to know how we talked that way, how he used his body language that way. Why did he believe that much? I wanted to understand him like the back of my hand. And guess what? 18 months later, I was better than that man. And guess what happened? My income was through the roof. It's called an investment. And the best investment you'll ever make in your life is you.  You invest in yourself, you're forever wealthy. You remember that. Never forget it. Nobody can take that away from you. You spent 30 grand on yourself. Who cares? It was on you. If it was for training, investing. Does that make sense?  Who cares? It's just a car. It's a piece of metal. Do you feel me? A guy that can turn a dollar or a man or a woman that can turn a dollar is forever wealthy, forever.  But this guy right here, right? I remember when he bought his first 2.99 course from me, started training. We got him to make it 100. And guess what I said? Remember what I said to you? I said, you're going to make a quarter of a million dollars in 2022. You remember that? Now, in 2021, I'm sorry. I think it's 2040 right now. I mean it. I mean, I really do. I mean, I've grown so fast. The guy that was last month is dead. The guy last year is dead. That guy doesn't even exist. And that's what I want from you guys. Every time I see you, I want to see you recreate every single time. But he's here tonight. And look, and I want to show you something. Can you get up here? This guy comes to our private masterminds every six months that we hold, that we only have 30 people that come to. It's private. So it's one-on-one. So we all talk about things that aren't during a seminar that because we're running so fast. And do you see what he's wearing? Do you see this? Now, listen, I didn't tell him to bring this. I didn't tell him to bring this. He brings it. He brings it on his own. He's in his own space. He's in his own zone. And he has his own beliefs. I remembered when he didn't have his own beliefs and he was discouraged. He is very clear on who he is now. Very clear. Am I right? He's delusional about who he can become. And no one in his company believed that he could become this person. And I told him he could. And I've stayed with him the whole way. I told him it was going to happen. But I told him along the way that everybody was going to try to talk him out of it. And guess what? As he sits here with all these lanyards around his neck. And he's been here hustling and grinding. He's spent a lot of his hard-earned money to get here. And he's stayed here. Every time I said, hey, if you're coming back, raise your hand now. Guess what? His hand goes up. He's back. This year he's going to make over 250 grand. We've got success stories all over the world that I don't talk about all the time. And there's some that like I could tell you about that wouldn't be big to you. Because you know how we rate stuff by money? I don't rate stuff by money. I rate stuff by lifestyle because it's your life, right? You know what I'm saying? It doesn't matter how much money you have. I see a lot of people that got money that hate their life. A guy that runs with them all the time is a guy named Sam Welley. Where's Sam Welley at? And Sam Welley is, we don't know really if he's 21 or 20, okay? Because we're not sure, right? He's got two driver's licenses. But we know he's about 20 years old. And he started training with me two years ago. First of all, he never made more than his draw. His managers disrespected him every day. Am I right? They told him that he was never going to make it. He was the worst salesman they'd ever seen.  That was their word. Am I right? And they told him they caught him watching it again. They're going to fire him.  Now Sam Welley is not a born salesperson. He doesn't have the gift to gab. He doesn't. Sam Welley was like the farthest thing from what you would think a salesperson would be, which is what we do in this game is we recreate. And guess what happened? We started him on a little David Goggins, right? We got him where he started working out. We got him where he started doing the training and coming to seminars. Listen, he was making his draw, spending $9.97 to drive down and do training with us. Well, the kid makes 15 grand, goes to a new dealership, works with Tyler. Tyler's taking him under his wing. The guy's life is totally recreated. When I see him walk in here today, I still remember, honey, you remember the first time we saw him walk in? I mean, listen to me. Listen to me. He would come down in a $100 van and he would sleep on the floor in the van outside. And we would ask him to come in. We'd say, man, come in, like come into our house, right? And he wouldn't come. He wanted no lie. He said, listen, Andy, I haven't earned a bed. I want to sleep on the floor in the van.  You do what's convenient. He bought him a hotel room. Guess what? He slept on the floor. Sometimes you have to push yourself and do some crazy stuff. And you guys are like, I don't understand where we're going here. Let me explain. He knows who he is. He knows himself. He knows that in order for him to go to another level in life, he is going to have to make himself very uncomfortable. He's not a born salesperson. He is making himself into being one of the best salespeople in the world. It will happen. It's going to happen. He'll make 100 grand this year, but here's the coolest thing, okay?  He's got his whole life ahead of him. We still don't know, but the deal is he's got his whole life ahead of him. I want you to think about this. What do you have? What's your special skill?  Like I'm dangerous, but I don't do anything with it. I literally just burn time and go through the motions. Enough.


Yo, we are back to life. Okay, so what are you trying now? To understand something of my life. Yeah, but specifically here? Specifically, I will make the same things, but on... What is this? GNOME. GNOME. You connected to the Wi-Fi already, now try connecting to Bluetooth. There's no... Ah, okay. I'm yet connected to Wi-Fi now, or not? Oh, okay. Bluetooth, Bluetooth. I read screen is being scared. I feel myself... ...off-phase. So, where are you?  Turn on to connect device and receive file transfers. So, turn on. There's a pallino. Yes, device... Where's the device? Where did you put the device? Yes. This is my device, please. I have an idea. Maybe if I put on my head... I am more similar to Nikolov, but it doesn't work. Keep them on. And press the button until you... There's a voice in my head, help me. Okay. What is she saying? Keep pressing the button until you hear Bluetooth pairing. He said Bluetooth pairing. Okay, now connect. What? There's no... Try turning it off and on again. Okay, Bluetooth is not... Okay, okay. Fine. I cannot listen my music. Download the PDF. You know how to do this. Oh, do you see? But... Where are... Up things... People... Oops. Do not disturb. Yes, thank you. It's a bit... Uncomfortable. But... Try it yourself. Change the layout. You need to change the layout. Of the keyboard. Yes. Keyboard layout. Keyboard layout. So, I study mathematics. I can do this. Maybe. History. History doesn't look so cool. Helper is my best word in this case. Quit all this. Passwords cannot shoot. Maybe settings? Oh, it's touching. My God. It's so strange. Oh! I connect to Bluetooth. Compose KD7. What is this? So, I will... How can I change this? If I click something, it's... English United States. Let's see. That's a good one. How can I change now? Move up. Let's see if I am a genius or not. How much are you still? I'm not a genius, but...  Maybe it's blow up. Whatever it is, blow up first. No, it doesn't... Maybe if I remove... I suppose that... I think... What is this? Oh, yes. I killed your... Nice. But... Before, I searched also PDF. So, I... I need a PDF... Yes, you are a PDF. Whoa. Seems more white on it. Why? 28%. This is so strange. The wind...  Sorry, sorry. Night mode of PDF. Well, it's... Intuitive. There's a pen. Please, it's my only... Chat it. No text. No... What? Interesting. I'll never use this. All of this. I'll count putting notes as a writing, so... I made it. Wait, wait, wait. A good note. He's so cool. Made. Try now again to download a PDF and install it. You know how to do this. Font or PDF? Front, front, sorry. We are trying to... You're embarrassing. If I... If I are better than you, accept it. How to... Where's the X? I want a new window. No, I want an X... Gigante. Giant X. Night mode, because it's... Night mode is so cool. Where's the X? I just want to exit from this. No, ask. Ask, ask. Genius. Now there's the X. Why there's the X now? Put the X in the middle of the course. Closer without saving.  That's so painful. Font. Breakfast. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I didn't have to unzip it, so... Interesting. Installing, well, yes. Nice, next. I can...  You can take off your hoodie, but I don't think you can. That's still unzipping. You need to zip. That still doesn't count, so... Next one. Where is the cartel? I don't even know this one. Oh, oh. This is... I'm speaking the language of God. No, no. So much desktops. You know what he means. I don't... doesn't talk to my ex. Stop it, open cosy. Here is cartel. No, the battery...  There's nothing here. But, but... Settings is always the answer. No. Online accounts. Power disposal. Accessibility. Maybe. Date and time is so wrong. It is. And compares. Yes, yes. Too easy, so... Okay, in order to zip files, you have to open the files. Yes, this... I was trying to do... Why there is an app called clocks and no files? How do I say it? This is taking longer. Yes, yes, I found. Documents. What? I don't know. Cosy? This is... I am this math. You are that math. Those are the notes, the mathematical notes, that we did together. Because we love each other. Don't out me like that. I out myself like that. Why does a file called obscenes...  We both have a girlfriend, by the way. Just to point that out. You are my girlfriend. Okay, stop. How can I zip this... Can I zip a single file? Maybe yes. I never zipped in my life, I think, except this. Let's think one second. Maybe more than one second.  Something, no. Open with phones. No, you are wrong. Please. Please. Yes, no. Move to... Did you run on my zip button file? Move to trash, but... Compress, compress. Activate the name. Bad. Bad after... Oh my God. It worked? Great. No, please. Yes. Yes, I saved it as bad after. Okay, so a bonus round, download from the internet an image of an anime, and crop it. Do you know what cropping means? It's when you cut an image, so it's smaller. On word or... I do it on paint. Okay. I'm not a guy, maybe I just... I searched Escanor, so... You know who is Escanor? Yes. You don't like Escanor? I'm beginning to think that Paula is just a cover-up for something more. She is so fortunate. Who is Escanor? Lucky. Yes. Now, now, now. So... This thing that I have to click on Activities is a little bit confusing. It's not intuitive. It's not? Intuitive. Okay, intuitive. Yes. With other application. Gatum. Interesting, Gatum.  Yes, I can. I want, I wrote... Tate. Crop, okay. Oh, oh, crop, amelo. Ah, please. I do it. You have to guess which icon is crop, I guess. I think not. Maybe this? Maybe... Yes, you. Center. Yes, I think. Conta questo. Doesn't count. Yes. Nice. Let me see if there's anything else I can... Switch to the dark theme. So, next theme, let's think. I also have a computer, but... No. No, I think... Displays. Resolution. Orientation scale. Nightlight. I doubt it is region and language. Color. Color. Laptop scale. What was his name in the last one? That's a good question. No. Not the tasking. Not a lot. And appearance, I don't see it. Nice, last one. Yes. Add an icon to the taskbar. What? Add an icon to the taskbar. Task? Okay. Now no, but I will find it. Yes, it's this. Okay. Show applications. I will add you to the... No, I don't want to open you. No, no. We are in Italy. Spoiler. About maps. No, this is not the way. What? If I take photos and make... I done maybe? Yes. Good job. What do you think of Linux? What I think of Linux. Okay. The first thing I tried was much better. Much better. Let's say it was more intuitive and similar to Windows, because you know, there are the little things below and the little things in the desktop. Here there was a huge empty space, that if you don't understand that Activities connects to a superior world, here, maybe. Okay, I had difficulty in this. And... No, but I admit that it's interesting, probably I haven't seen all the potentialities, potentialities, but surely there are many more cool differences compared to Windows. But I liked the experiment. But better the first, better the first, I think. I have to specify it. You also have to specify that you didn't pay for it. I didn't pay? I mean, a little, but it's not true. It's not true. That's not a corruption. Except, subscriber your channel. Okay, if you have anything to say before the video is over, I love you. I love you.


Hey everybody Lance Goyki here, and today I want to talk about a protein that floats around in your blood and carries oxygen to your exercising muscle. Now this protein is hemoglobin, and you may have heard of hemoglobin. It's comprised of four different subunits or well two by two different subunits. There's two alpha subunits and two beta subunits. Subunits are just they're polypeptides. They're like they're like tiny proteins. They could be proteins on their own kind of technically, but as they come together, they form this very specific hemoglobin shape that we know. And pro-tip for all you biochemistry students, shape determines function. So shape is really really important. Now interconnectivity between molecules is actually what determines shape. So that's where chemistry gets really complex and that's where you got to kind of stay on top of it. So we're gonna talk about that a little bit. Now, as we breathe in, oxygen comes into the blood, but the blood would be saturated with oxygen really really quickly. So this hemoglobin allows us to store more oxygen in our blood because it takes it out of the the liquid part of it and carries it to the tissues that we need. But the caveat is that if you have hemoglobin that's really really good at hanging on to oxygen and really really bad at letting go of it, you would die because you wouldn't have oxygen for your tissues. Your brain needs oxygen, your muscles need oxygen to work, all this stuff, right? So how does it work? Well in the lungs, the pH is relatively higher of your blood and the pH of your blood is relatively lower in exercise in muscle tissue, for example. pH. So muscle is more acidic, the lungs are more basic or more alkaline. Now, okay, so oxygen comes into the blood, hemoglobin picks it up because it's really good at picking it up in the lungs and it comes to this tissue and it gets to this exercising tissue that's really fatigued. There's a bunch of hydrogen ions as byproducts to exercise and pH is lower. So those hydrogen ions actually loosen the grip on oxygen. It's really really cool. Like chemistry is pretty sweet. It loosens the grip so it can release the the oxygen to your tissue and now you can use it at the end of your electron transport chain to produce more energy, more ATP, usable ATP. So that's the basic premise. There are other things that influence the shape of hemoglobin, one of them being temperature. So exercising muscle is also really warm. So not only does this pH play into it, but also the temperature that is increasing in the tissue also loosens that grip and there's one more basic one. So we've got pH, we've got temperature and now we've got BPG or bisphosphoglycerate. Now there are a couple different forms of bisphosphoglycerate but all you need to know is that it's a byproduct of glycolysis. Glycolysis helps us produce energy. So if I'm trying to run through glycolysis a lot, but my electron transport chain, my oxygen supply cannot keep up with it. It can't pull these byproducts along this energy systems pathway. So what happens is BPG builds up on the front end of these reactions and that will then circulate and change the shape of the hemoglobin so that it loosens its grip on oxygen. Really, really cool stuff. So that's the basics of we might call this the Bohr effect. There is probably a better name for it. I hate eponyms that name things because they don't describe anything at all, but I do know it as the Bohr effect. If you know the other name for it, leave that in the comments below and did I miss anything?  Also leave that in the comments below. I would love to hear from you. I would love to have a little discussion about this and as always don't forget to smash that like button.