In 2008, black beans beat out lentils by a hair and remained the reigning champ for most laudable legume in terms of antioxidants. But with regards to protein, iron, zinc, and folate, lentils actually triumph over black beans. The problem is you go to the store and there are three different kinds. Red lentils, green lentils, and French green lentils, which is healthiest. We didn't know until this year. Well, it's not green lentils spilling the beans. Red lentils are healthiest.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Normand from Quebec Precious Metals. How are you today? I'm well Tracy. Thank you I I saw some news this week that looked outstanding to me. I read a surface sampling at Elmer East with grabs up to 17.75 grams of gold per ton But I didn't see the the quote from you Normand that I would explain that I would expect would explain it for For the rest of us. Can you tell us what this means? Let me pass on our excitement. This is new It's an area where azimuth made a very significant discovery announced early this year We believe this result is the second best result in the area It's a result of hard work to identify a new target with the help of a company called Goldspot And we went to the field spent over a month there and this was uncovered By going to the target area sampling it to get it some good assays back. It's over 400 meters length which is significant and There are things obviously happening below surface before we go any further we're going to go and do some channel sampling and Get the results out probably late October and eventually drill So all very exciting news and in another part of James Bay, which again shows the promise of James Bay for Gold exploration And of course, there's a lot of people out there that are looking at gold exploration Investment opportunities and for those of you out there who may not be familiar with Quebec precious metals Normand, would you mind explaining some of the real? competitive advantages of QPM Well, we have Create a company which has a very good shareholder base with Newmont the largest gold mining company in the world as our key Shareholder the largest pension fund in Quebec case of the poor second largest We have a team that's been working in the area for many years. I know they are well We're working with partnership with the Cree community. We're efficient. We have a drilling cost slightly above $200 a meter We have good infrastructure with power lines roads. We can drill 12 months of the year and We have very significant ground in the area as well with our flagship project second me Flagship project second it also other project that we're actively exploring and this new discovery that we've just announced Well further to this discovery If I can take you back to this gold spot discoveries core, okay? It says here they were discovered by prospecting high-priority targets previously generated by gold spot discovery score Can you give us a little bit more information on this and that particular relationship? So there are shareholders and they've helped us to Compile and a very rigorous way all the information they've used machine learning and We also have the benefit of an airborne max survey that we did in the winter Combine all of that plus our own knowledge on where to look for you come up with those Prospectivity map if I can call them that and you rang the targets using some criteria which are Geological and more numerical and you go and chase those targets the other thing that we do also is use a high powered Images from satellites to design where you go go and walk so you minimize the walking and spend more time banging the rocks looking for good values good rocks So that's been their collaboration. They've also provided people working with us in the field throughout the field campaign and this summer And of course those of you out there that like to invest in Management I urge you to take a look at Quebec precious metals management team and your career in particular. No monitor very Focused and you've achieved a great deal in your career. So we know I'm not surprised to see these milestones being hit one after another and speaking of that We've had drill results two of them actually from the La Pointe exploration Discovery here in the last couple of months to actually And it looks like to me those are also outstanding. Can you tell us a little bit more about those? So La Pointe is a deposit and has multi million ounce potential Our goal is to demonstrate the potential of two million ounces of gold It was known and before and it was worked on by members of our team We've created a company to advance that to a resource estimation stage as quickly as possible We've been drilling their non-stop since the creation of the company. We are drilling now We've announced results that came from winter campaign and because of Pandemia we had to wait for the lab to process all that the latest results shows clearly a two kilometer long connection between this deposit that was known and this new discovery extension and we're drilling what's in between and extending that to prove up the multi million ounce potential as part of our Work on second me and of course investor Intel audience members familiar with Quebec precious metals We'll also be aware of the fact that you did change your trading symbol in the TSX venture to QPM Which is what I referenced to you earlier and I have received actually a phone call this week yesterday Asking me what should we expect from Quebec precious metals in this next quarter and I said I'm speaking with Normand I'm gonna ask him directly on your behalf. Can you give us an update? So you will continue to see very good news flow Both from second Kenny based on the drilling we're doing now You will see as well results from the new discovery after the channel sampling So that will happen over the next quarter we're also in the process and you'll see that from various disclosures of monetizing non-core assets that we had inherited the As part of the creation of the company and we've done one deal earlier this year other are in the works So stay tuned for that Well, Normand as always. Thank you so much for the update. Please update us regularly Thank you for joining us today. Good to speak with you this morning Tracy


Hello and welcome to the Caymanus Park Highlight Show. In this week's edition, we recap select races from Saturday, February 24th as well as Sunday, February 25th. 21 races were in offer over the two-day race carnival. Saturday's Champions Day race card had the coveted Chairman's Plate as a main event, while Sunday's featured race was the Allende E. Billy Williams Memorial Trophy. Let's begin with race two from Saturday. This was run in honor of the 2023 Champion Breeder Ham Stables, a made-in-special weight event for a native bread three-year-olds going six-and-a-half furlongs, a small field of six with two debitons in the lineup, King Pie from the Antony Nunes Barn and a Hickory Slim out of the Ian Prasad Camp. They're off on racing. King Pie steps a bit slowly and is left at the back of the field. Hickory Slim goes into an early lead, right on the inside of Hickory Slim. That is Don't Tell Lulu, so Don't Tell Lulu now assumes a lead from Hickory Slim's. Sprague attracts them in third, then comes Buzz Murray and King Pie, waited at the back of the field. They head toward the four furlong point and it is Don't Tell Lulu. Being hounded by Sprague on the outside right against the rail, that's Hickory Slim. Then comes Buzz Murray and recovering now that's King Pie. They've left the four and head toward the three furlong point and it is Don't Tell Lulu on a two-and-a-half length lead from Hickory Slim right there in second. Then comes Sprague behind those and hustled up for more. That's King Pie and racing at the back of the field. That's Buzz Murray, but Don't Tell Lulu has kicked away about four lengths in front of Hickory Slim, tiling in second right there on the outside and coming on now. That's King Pie, but Don't Tell Lulu is kicking clear at the furlong and a half pole. Don't Tell Lulu is still on that lead. King Pie wind up in hearts for more. It's Don't Tell Lulu. King Pie begins to come forward there at the furlong pole. Don't Tell Lulu is still in front. King Pie begins to come forward nicely. It's Don't Tell Lulu. I'm tying up a bit and now King Pie comes a calling, but Don't Tell Lulu is finding more. King Pie trying to fight back. Don't Tell Lulu. Don't Tell Lulu beats King Pie. Then comes Hickory Slim. Got tied for fourth between Sprague and Buzz Murray. So we have back-to-back upsets to start the Reggae 6 and we started off with 689 tickets and after leg 2 we're down to 47. I think that could be a record low of the life-thick down after the first two legs of the Reggae 6 and probably have the IT department to check that. But from leg 1 to leg 2 and we're down to 47 tickets, I don't recall ever seeing such a drastic reduction from the first two legs of the Reggae 6. So it could very well be in carryover mode for the Reggae 6 and it's been a while since I've had a carryover in the Reggae 6. So 13 to 1 race 1, 3 it is. 9 to 1 race 2. Don't Tell Lulu. Sixth time champion Jockey Oma Walker there for Trina Alfred Brown and as I said, preview time. This one was fourth. Actually was sixth, but beaten behind interesting times ahead. Who was third? Interesting times ahead got six and three quarter lengths and Don't Tell Lulu got 12 and three quarter lengths. So six lengths behind interesting times ahead. Who came back on one twice inclusive of the Jamaica 2U's take? So the four man's were freely encouraging for Don't Tell Lulu, blinkers on leg 6 for the first time, change of barn to Alfred Brown. Good job. All and sundry. Sixth time champion Jockey Omar Walker with the win aboard the Alfred Brown Conditioned Don't Tell Lulu, a three-year-old Philly who was bred and owned by Norris Anthony Finn. Our next recap race from the Saturday Card was the day's feature, the Chairman's Plate, which was a highly anticipated rematch between the 2023 Mutant Mile Winner Rough Entry and the Super Philly, successive reigning horse of the year, Atomica. A small field of fire was declared to go with a seven and a half furlong strip. This is the Chairman's Trophy, field in line. Seven and a half furlongs there off.  Atomica now rushes up to challenge early. Is that a fact racing just in behind them with Neostar and Rainsville as expected at the back of the field as they go down the far side? Atomica now goes on and takes that lead from Rough Entry, settle down in second, they leave the six. Is that a fact races in behind them? Neostar right alongside and at the moment, Rainsville needs help as they charge past the five. The Philly Atomica, there goes Rough Entry on the outside. Is that a fact gets to run against the rail and these three abreast as they charge toward the half mile? Neostar needs to find three or four lengths to get to them and Rainsville needs help as they leave the half mile and come spinning away now toward the 7th, 16th Rough Entry. And is that a fact now go on? Atomica the Philly has faded. Neostar is racing further back and forth and last of all remains Rainsville as they're about to arrive at the 5th, 16th and it is the Mute mile winner, Rough Entry who has taken charge. Is that a fact now trying to run him down but Rough Entry looks strong at the moment? Is that a fact with the lightweight now asked to close upon the rail? Atomica is trying to fight back but it is a Rough Entry and Shamari Muur who have that lead. Is that a fact now coming on the outside with a tremendous kick it is Rough Entry under a drive? Here is, is that a fact with the lightweight and is that a fact now snatches the lead in the chairman's trophy? Rough Entry can't answer the lead kick-up. Is that a fact? Is that a fact? Take the chairman's trophy Atomica may have snatched second from Rough Entry fading then Rainsville and Neostar. The chairman's trophy goes to the lightweight. Is that a fact? 46 kilos or 101 pounds with the like with apprentice Jordan Barton the son of a champion turner, Jason Acosta and the champion owner Carlton Watson. They get the victory in the chairman's trophy after that impressive victory at the mile. Atomica stayed in 139.1 prior to that on New Year's Day though. Atomica beat his artifact by some 5 planes or 8 and a half photons and is that a fact? Pounced on Atomica at the quarter pole there first by a head but then Atomica quickly no way to win by 5 planes. Today Atomica finishes in second. Now near the 3-4 point or 3 and a half photons out she got pinched back in between horses when is that a fact? And Rough Entry went on with it so she had a bit of a traffic there and she ran it strongly and came back and for the second beating the highlight of Rough Entry. So in the end Atomica that's what they call running two races basically. She tried to go to the lead with an intent to make all and then she was taken back and she came again and that's very difficult to do at this level of competition you don't run two races in one event and win. So she did very well to finish in second and in turn beating her recent conqueror Rough Entry so for all of those fans who were saying who comes my Talkin tip Atomica to beat Rough Entry? What I'm thinking about I don't understand well you have a thing called situational handicapping which is what I do for every race that I preview and I analyse and handicap so the situation that unfolded in the Mute mile was not in favour of Atomica today there was an favourable situation as well when she was pinched back for space near in the midway point of the contest nothing for sure the horse of the year will be back. A massive upset for the two favourites as Jason Acosta is that a fact with Jordan Barrett in the saddle puts on a showpiece performance in the final half of a furlong to beat Atomica in second place who got her revenge on Rough Entry who finished in third Reignsville was the other top four finisher Robert Darby spoke to trainer Jason Acosta and a jockey Jordan Barrett after landing their memorable victory over the highly tilted favourites. A brilliant trainer, Jason Acosta looking on the race, Jason your horse was easily the best coming in at the handicaps and at the work six furlong in one thirteen four there was no other horse working so well how confident were you seeing the handicaps and that brilliant work in preparation for this event well I thought I had a really good chat I'm running against two very good horses so you know there's always a doubt but I thought I had a really good chat at the handicaps and the way he's been training Alright, Rough Entry looked all over when we were turning for home but your horse made a big move at the half mile coming to the tree she took closer orders from there could you just take us through the race how confident were you from there and what are your thoughts on the big finish well I was very worried leaving the three because Rough Entry was moving much the best but I still had a little hope of returning for home because with the light weight I would start to finish up really well so what's next for Isdatafak with this big win and she looks like the most improved horse right now in the country so what's next for Isdatafak well we'll see how he comes out of the race and we'll pick his spots throughout the year because definitely the objective has got to be the multi-mal at the end of the year so we'll pick his spots and go from there Thank you very much Jason congratulations once again that's Jason the champion trainer and here we have Jordan Barat well-ridden by Jordan Barat Jordan the splits of the event was 23, 4, 4, 6, 3, 1, 11 and 2 finishing in 1, 32 and 1 leaving the half mile when Rough Entry looked very comfortable on that lead worried or you know you had this one in the back from there well not really worried just a little bit because I know Isdatafak was a very good horse you know so within myself I just as to say I worked with the trainer instruction and according to all the races running she worked he worked a brilliant 1, 13 and 4 were you the one who worked and how confident were you after winning after he saw that win by 8 and a half length beating system and company and now working 1, 13 and 4 how confident were you after seeing that work well it wasn't me working that time but yeah I'm very confident in it because I watched the races win the last time with Aladdin so I'm very confident at what point did you know he was a winner when I'm leaving the tree from Marker tree for Alan Marker and that made my move be an Rough Entry I feel he so you know with Rough Entry with the 57 I know I got him one last question at the two furlough marker heading to the furlough pole Rough Entry started to kick once again your horse joined him and he quick kicked again was full of fight were you worried at any point that you would have passed him yeah I was a little bit worried because he was like drifting over when he saw me coming so I was like I was going to back up but I continued sticking my left hand and continued riding race 8 from Saturday was a restricted allowance event going 5 furlong straight an 11 horse field reduced to 10 with the scratch of Don Pablo from the 8th draw 5 time champion Jockey Trevor Simpson OD was aboard the Patrick Smelly condition Spitzen Kan in gate number 1 ready for a start they're off on racing she's an aviated does everything wrong simply sensational though got a good start closest to us coalition is right there too Babla is also early and over on the far side that's and spitzen Kan way over on the far side it is simply sensational coalition and a babla this is where the action lies just behind them that is article as they're going to come out to the shoot that way there's spread right across the track though and it is Babla and coalition simply sensational right under the stand fence and could just be the overall leader Babla is traveling well too coalition left out of it a bit but Babla is really tearing up the course coming to the furlong pole it's Babla in front coalition and simply sensational this is where the race lies Babla looks to have the overall lead coalition is darting across on the far side and coming forward but Babla driven for road sheverted Babla in front and Babla beats Babla will beat it got tight on the second door looks like coalition in a photograph with dream warrior and a simply sensation steen is next upset winner on the champions day card in the form of Babla ridden by Javini for trade affidably making all the running and also 91 Babla graduate from none winners of two runner-up was coalition with exact appeal there two thousand one hundred and sixty seven dollars and the winner of us is a must one thousand one hundred and sixty six you have that six with over four point eight million dollars in that net pool so right now you are at one hundred thousand a piece if you keep a life for the next two legs of the twilight six Javini partisan aboard the ninety one bed Babla makes light work over the one thousand meter strip covering the distance in one minute and one fifth of a second with a win margin of two and a half lengths in front of runner-up coalition the ninth race on the saturday card was the twenty twenty three champion owner trophy event this was a restricted allowance event going six and a half furlongs are thirteen hundred meters three trainers fielded double entries from the ten horse lineup declared to start fielded nine for the carton Watson thirteen hundred meters six and a half furlongs they're off amazing force just misses it along with Chesney relegated to last on the back stretch they lead the six come home to me now dashes through gets that lead a run julie run allegiance in a tight grouping riches to rags is right there fast and furious links in between horses a pope's lady with that group just about five length separates them as they charge away now toward the half mile amazing force is a further four lengths back on the outside blue sensation running on the rail a break back to Lucy in the sky and the trailing the field it's a Chesney as they've left the half mile and run the turn for home seven sixteen through meaning come home to me press now by a run julie run these are the two main contenders as they slip past the three pope's lady needs to find three to get to them just on the inside riches to rags fast and furious links and amazing force team up in behind allegiance has more to do Lucy in the sky now making a wide run with blue sensation but come home to me continues to show them are back and it's come home to me with that lead and now responding to the left hand stick run julie run the gray in hot pursuit pope's lady let loose on the outside amazing force now gathers momentum down against the rail it's come home to me watch amazing force now closing with a scorching kick down against the fence and now amazing force grabs the lead close home on the terrific Devin faster he notches his double they win by three or more come home to me is second run julie run third riches to rags is next pope's lady is fifth amazing force delivers a victory second ever basket on debut ran into a bull saw phone can't done that one won by eight lengths in twelve and two for six four longs today nothing of the caliber of phone can done present and you get a victory from amazing force were the shareholders tried had to do it from up the base but finished very strongly and that was Devin foster second win for the day so he started off on 18 two clear of radish roman he's now on 20 but that makes him for clear of radish roman leading rider in the jockey championship race Devin foster adds another win to his tally with a skillful ride aboard the philip fiani conditioned amazing force they cover the trip in a minute twenty one and three first of a second with margin of a three half limbs the tenth and final race from saturday was an overnight allowance event for three-year-olds and up named after the champion three-year-old for 2023 Devin foster was looking for a natural double aboard the Richard is untrained and conditioned burlap they're often racing that's a good line as a power blast into an early lead how wide that is kp choice and kp choice now goes on from katal but burlap is right there too on the outside the good which as they go past the four for a long point on the course heading toward the three then comes me lost racing back there along with power reversing then comes on the big big daddy snowflakes come next then comes up get a pepsi behind get a pepsi brings and at the back of the field that's ring charmer there coming at the top of the lane and kp choice is in front but here comes on the outside the good which kp choice keeping on from the good which burlap is also coming on coming down the middle of the racetrack and coming to that's katal but right against the rail and also coming on that's me lost but it's kp choice they're all steering at the back end of kp choice coming to the half of for a long pole it's kp choice in front get up from the left and begins to pull away kp choice beats me lost the good which then comes brings and maybe power back in fifth trainer Richard thousands kp choice with a Robert hardball halloween in the saddle takes the final event on the saturday card beating the likes of me lost the good which brings and the trailing power who rounded off the high five it's now time for a break on the came on as how I show on the other side we recap select races from sunday February 25th race car we pick up from race one this was a made condition event for native grade three-year-olds and up Phillies only division one event an unpredictable field of nine was declared to start with six David Hans they're off for the first little Maggie misses it with another mission sipping in sunshine our place catch up Narissa's angel we're going to go to the next section sipping in sunshine our place catch up Narissa's angel goes for it hit and run right alongside just a head separates them can see a racing on the outside divine diva making ground on the rail another mission has now picked up and needs five links to get to those leaders as they leave the half mile and run toward the seven sixteenth a break back to sipping on sunshine rack them is there and at the back of the field it's a Roman princess they blast past the three they're on five sixteenth and Narissa's angel sets the fractions and leads up by some three lengths another mission with a purpose now begins to cut into that lead right there near the rail and making ground that's hit and run as they're into the top of the lane but can they catch Narissa's angel that's the question the stick comes out in the right hand and Narissa's angel and O'Shea Nugent are away from them here now is sipping on sunshine beginning a run on the outside but still Narissa's angel sipping on sunshine switch down again surreal it is Narissa's angel with that lead sipping on sunshine trying desperate to get to the leader but they won't catch Narissa's angel Narissa's angel wins it close between Roman princess sipping on sunshine then can see her rack them is there that's Narissa's angel at odds of ten to one winning on debut two times champion of the branches O'Shea Nugent right turn it out for Brown and Ona Garfield Brown three to one on the morning line and he goes she goes over ten to one makes all the running and upsets the up card now I always tell you about those first time starters that are busting the clock when they come to race time anything can happen and we just didn't see anything from hit and run at all it was another debutant who wasn't a blazing exercise track that made all the running quite convincing too in picture there was Narissa's angel Roman princess run on to be second at long odds the 12,008 73 the quintal plus is a must 24,000 plus in dividend zero super fact appeal 186,000 plus in a nine horse field and the high five was not spotted carry with the high five with the big favorite hit and run finishing off the board Trina Alfred Browns and Narissa's angel shakes her maiden tag on the first time of asking with an impressive display of speed while being carefully handled by the experienced Kevin Foster in the saddle the six event on Sunday was another major condition event this time for native bread four-year-olds and up a field of 12 declared to start with the 10 horse Benson showing a lot of stable confidence as of two to one favorite the Betty they were often racing knocked them dead they spinched out and left at the back of the field glittering Magnum rushes to for that lead Benson rushing up on the outside so Benson in front glittering Magnum settled right against the rail toots in the middle right on the outside of those that read my lips then comes Sir Wong done xylophonic steel comes next then comes cruising again roaring thunder you look okay not them dead recovering after that bad break then comes clowning around and left at the back of the field legally hers they're coming at the top of the lane and Benson skitters away about five six lens in front of this field turning into second that is toots right against the rail that's glittering Magnum Sir Wong done it wound up announced for more but it is Benson still in front xylophonic steel is coming forward nicely also coming on that toots it's Benson running out of gas but still in front xylophonic steel rushing up on the inside and xylophonic steel joins Benson and now goes on it's xylophonic steel in front Benson trying to hold a second Sir Wong done is also flying on but xylophonic steel will be Sir Wong it's got tight for third though between Benson the toots and Reggae 6 winner 765,000 actually the 75 dollars and that was a good day for Reggae 6 players 5.9 million plus in that carryover and we had a net pool of 15.25 million if you noticed your weights had on all six of the winners and your tips there two first choice winners one on the Reggae 6 one second choice winner one one third choice winner one and two fourth choice winners one so you had the Reggae 6 on your programs and that would have been a great guide for you to hit the jackpot today with that good payout in the Reggae 6 let's ignore it on the early pick 5 on manager period this time at 191 with 2.88 million plus in the net pool and we have 428 tickets started on the twilight 6 now the winner was at 14 to 1 and congratulations are in order to win his first career win and I told you at preview time music man teaming up with hard ball and that combination turned out to be a win in combination Xylophonic steel written to perfection coming from all the pins this time around and that indeed made a great difference there a first time win for a newly licensed trainer Kiri Tucker and a massive 14 to 1 upset win from his 4 year old Philly Xylophonic steel who responded to the calls from the whip of the hard riding jockey Robert Halladine his race on the Sunday card was a restricted allowance event for native grad 4 year olds and up non winners of 3 in porties 4 years old and up non winners of 2 and 8 horse views set to go the 6 furlongs or 1200 meters trip with the best backed horse royal ash breaking from gate number 8 they were often racing a very good line right on the inside that's a digital light joys golden rushing up also right there that's Mrs. Slinders behind them that's royal ash right beside royal ash that's hot stepper then comes huntsman recovering and racing at the back of the field she's my hedge fund joys golden on about a 2 length lead from digital light racing in second right against the rail and coming on that is a hot stepper also recovering and really coming down into it now that is a royal ash but it is making the runnings it is still joys golden in front about 3 lengths in front here comes on the outside huntsman right between horses that's royal ash right against the rail and coming on that is digital light but it's joys golden still with that lead huntsman begins to come forward nicely it's joys golden in front huntsman trying to get to joys golden also running on that's royal ash right against the rail digital light and now huntsman has joined joys golden this is where the race like also coming on fast death is digital light but now huntsman hits the front and chris mamdeen on 200 wins congratulations to chris mamdeen a milestone huntsman beats joys golden then comes royal ash and digital light good ride by chris mamdeen 2019 champion jockey getting his milestone 200th win aboard huntsman and huntsman ran on to the strongest at the finish joys golden tried to make all as expected but the final furlong there was a bit too taxing for joys golden however she held on to second and exact return 160 the current return 500 and 2 dollars left to get it on on the big 5 on mandatory period the standard 62 with 2.88 million in that net pool so you're on to some big dividends there already in your pick 5 and 206 down to 98 life tickets with 4.239 million plus in that net pool so you're on to big dividends there as well for the 206 an exceptional display of riding from the 2019 champion jockey christopher mamdeen aboard the fared huntsman lands a milestone victory the allen e billy williams memorial trophy running his honor he was named champion trainer in 1964 1968 and 1969 an overnight allowance event for 3 year olds and up with a modest field of 9 said to go a distance of 1400 meters are 7 furlongs now he's ready they're off for the allen billy williams memorial trophy gilbert blows the start left a long way back as the field now make the way toward the final 6 mamma mia as expected gets that lead captain calico on the outside in pursuit atlantic convoy running smoothly in third and watching the front 2 as they charge away toward the 5 further and beyond the further four lengths back in behind that one freedom street is a length and a half away the head corner stone a length back as they leave the 5 money monster asked to make progress on the outside a gap of 6 to gilbert and at the back of the field it's fly a messenger fly as they're arriving at the half mile running into the turn mamma mia continues to lead captain calico now chasing just needs to find 2 lengths to get to the leader atlantic convoys 4 and a half lengths back and running in third followed by further and beyond as they slip past the 3 4 more today head corner stone freedom street now making ground on the rail money monster in behind them then gilbert and forget fly messenger fly as the field come thundering into the top of the lane there at the quarter pole mamma mia drifting off a true line captain calico looks to have a bounce on the outside atlantic convoy is running on the rail freedom street it be rather further and beyond in between horses and now further and beyond begins to challenge mamma mia here is atlantic convoy charging upon the rail these three locked together as they drive inside the final 16 further and beyond mamma mia and atlantic convoy and a drive to the line further and beyond and gone by with atlantic convoy too close to call then mamma mia captain calico and freedom street what a finish to the addon e billy william memorial trophy quite fitting for the caliber trader and i tell you a timon foster and christopher mandine inseparable at the finish time there with atlantic convoy and further and beyond further and beyond for the horse of the year and atlantic convoy told about that one expected good things from that one for 2024 now four years old and he's really going to mature into a very nice cold inseparable at the finish there bringing the house down a fitting race result for the day's feature event with an almost picture perfect result literally a fine display of riding by both jockies and when the smoke cleared they were inseparable at the line resulting in a dead heat between the well-deserved three horse atlantic convoy and the seven horse further and beyond mamma mia captain calico and freedom street with the other top five finishers another thrilling weekend of racing highlighted by that scintillating finish for the day's race nine feature event with the performances from both jockies and horses were deemed perfect and inseparable resulting in a dead heat finish this has been another edition of the keman spark highlight show see you next time


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Picking up on collision, but also picking up on some of the questions that were discussed in the previous panel I'm going to make a kind of pitch for design because I think design is a very important part of resolving these collisions and You know, they say in today's world if you're confused It just means you're thinking clearly and so I'm going to try to contribute to your thinking more clearly So urban design and planning or architecture are clearly practices and disciplines I believe that I engage to the public planning, especially you can't talk about planning without the state I believe So what does this shift in the present culture of city development mean for these disciplines when acute? privatization in and off the city development that is becoming frighteningly evident and you know This was I think the topic of the last panel and in an interesting way I think because in fact privatization of city has always existed historically But the scale has increased dramatically from the single family building to now entire chunks of the city and Sometimes entire cities or more accurately what become gated communities And so I think I think privatization private capital all of that is not a bad thing Of course, we need that but its implication on form I think is increasingly becoming Disturbing because I think that's really the heart of the problem because today the obsession across the world of And especially in sort of the developing economies of building a global city and pandering to global capital Which is beginning to bully our cities by making its arrival on any terrain frictionless is the problem This is rather different from developing a city that is premised as many people here have sort of surfaced on nurturing civil society creating equity in terms of access to homes amenities and all of those good things Clearly the former or the global city Imaginary is propelled by what called impatience of capital and is articulated as the aspiration by private interests such as multinational corporations developers and Increasingly the state itself the latter which is about civil society is a voice that emanates from the academy the non-government sector foundations institutions labor unions and all other formations where Capital acquires patience to reside and grow in more inclusive ways this model and this image you see here is Amravati Which is a new city? Designed by Jurong, which is a consulting firm from Singapore and you can see the reference to Singapore Which is you know beginning to appear on our terrain So this model which I believe has been exported from the North American landscape of deep democracy to landscapes Now of severe tocracy finding themselves finding its way back to deep democracy So from China Singapore coming back to South Africa South Asia and Africa through large multinational urban design and planning corporations so What is interesting and this map which shows you two worlds? It shows you a world where the walls are being created where 73 percent of the economy resides with only what seven percent or 13 percent of the population and The other world which is where we are part of which is 86 percent of the population So the majority world with 27 percent of the economy now What's ironic is we are taking the paradigms from that world and trying to implant them in this world of the majority world Where the population is incredible and our economies are well take on a different form Let's say we've already discussed how the informal economy doesn't get mapped and can contribute I don't know what even registers on that official sort of Statistic so this approach and practice is pandering to capital in unprecedented ways again What I call the architecture and urban form of inpatient capital highly brittle naturally It has this operating logic as does capital which is intrinsically Impatient and assume some form of patience as I said when it resides in other forms Universities or enlightened governments. Thus they create the best forms of architecture in that situation. So even you know yesterday there was a reference to Unfilled or unused homes, etc on the outskirts of cities So if you look at Hudson Yards or even the center of London The problem is that the damage is done It was impatient capital that built a city form the fact that it's not being occupied. It doesn't even matter any longer That's not patient capital is just the impatience of capital has damaged the form of that city or that terrain now in this whole Argument, I think there's a great chism between planning and architecture and urban design and I think your urban design Or some formation of practice which bridges So what we need to resolve these collisions to create an inclusive city is a bridge practice Which I think we are all on the edge of but sort of teetering at the edge only because we have more than one foot in our Own disciplines and so this diagram shows you city as big architecture, which is how Modernism sort of defined it and then the city as socio-economic landscapes And how do you kind of resolve this and I think bridging the site specificity of architecture and the abstraction of planning? I think becomes a real challenge So urban design or some formation of practice that is a bridge practice one that's implies flows and is open It's an open practice that is plastic reconfigures itself depending on the problem the agents the actors the Constituencies it has to influence is the call of the moment plastic enough to even configure and reconfigure itself between Build form and the broader ecologies of the natural landscapes in which it is situated. So I think for me Inclusivity is like sustainability. It's a big basket. You can put everything into but so what I'm going to do really is Not use that rubric as much But share with you three thoughts that I think we should be cautious about as we sort of move on The word transition has been used a lot in the conversations And so I think what I want to point to is what is the design of transitions because even though we talk about transitions? Finally what we are coming up with is absolute solutions and these absolute solutions make compelling images But that's not the answer. So I think we have to decouple the phenomena of transition from absolute solutions and begin to think about how you design transitions and the design of Transitions can be clumsy It doesn't have the cohesion which compelling absolute sort of solutions have and I think that becomes an interesting Question and so for example our Prime Minister in India proposed gift city I mean every big we talk about made in India But every building there is photoshopped out of some other terrain But this is the kind of absolute image and we saw absolute images of housing projects Which Gautam Ban others showed those are complete pieces of city and the incomplete city I think resonates very deeply when you kind of see this So also I think when we talk about And we can have a discussion about this is you know letting slums just become part of the formal city overnight That also is an absolute solution however compelling it might be and I think we've got to manage this balance and I think we need other forms of discipline Inter-disciplines that can actually do that But in fact it is in this contradiction to the robustness of the appropriate and good practices of urban design where I think Without being an absolute it can have sufficient Specificity to operate on the ground in that sense this sort of urban practice Operates across scales from a piece of street furniture to large-scale Territorial operations, but with a humble approach to ground realities and I go back to Medin my friend Alejandro was Petrified what am I going to say about Medin again because he said it's can't be the only solution But I want to see something different here, which is the idea of the design of transition So I think this is a wonderful case not only of the alignment of the cultures of professional practice and patronage but the emphasis of drawing another part of the city into what we call the formal city through the Imagination of transportation of infrastructure to create the ground for the informal Let me just use that broadly to get into created into the city. So it's a kit of parts This is urban design. This is a bridge which makes a connection sets up new networks architecture comes last architecture is not the instrument by which Medin was sort of organized or reorganized it came last it was the end of The process which is I think very important and for me This is the emblematic image for the design of transitions where there's a coexistent There's a pluralism of some things that have morphed some have evolved But these adjacencies is what design has to evolve has to address and we can't accept this because this aesthetic question is a Problem and I think in an earlier discussion. I think what this was raised about the informal Transportation, it's actually formal. It just looks informal my friend mark Anjali who's not here I remember him telling me about how he came to others and with the ETH studio and they found a settlement because they wanted to They wanted to map informal cities and they found a settlement and they mapped it But like social sciences, they asked the questions last they first mapped it beautifully Drawings images and in the last day when they actually had the questionnaire They discovered in the first question that it was not an informal city It was a formal city. It was a government project It just looked like an informal city and so this question of aesthetic I think between the transition and how we designed for it And what is the aesthetic of transition and the absolute Absolute solution which has a completeness is I think a huge problem that we have to Address so in all this discussion, I think the one thing that seems to characterize The practice of urban design or any of this sort of formulation of new practices Is clearly the coupling of design and contestation conflict Contestation where designers have to interrogate and clarify the context in which they operate and to imagine a precise range of Potential interventions for urban design and planning for it is the space in which design Intersects with its broader social political and economic implications and the humanities more broadly is where I believe we will move closer to solutions So I think you know again, this was raised yesterday in the in the housing Panel, you know, what is a planning regime that might even accept this? that's a really interesting question because autocracies often are fixed on on Absolute solutions and democracies don't have the patience for Transitionary solutions because the time of an election cycle and so I think we have to be strategic How we we bring these ideas to bear into the political sphere, and I don't know what the answer is I just want to put that on the on the table The second question that I want to sort of bring up is flux of course representing flux is a massive challenge and How do we sort of do that? You know my current research in India? I think we are building a thesis that India is 40 percent urban for six months of the year and 60% urban for the remaining six months Which means it's 300 million people who are moving back and forth and the the connection with the hinterland and the internal Territories that sort of feed these cities is mind-blowing and so flux is something we have to grapple with We have to find ways of representing and discussing and I think flux occurs at many levels It's this flux of people moving its flux in the way the profession thinks and this is a diagram that shows you You know that the oscillations we as professionals have between outcome oriented and process oriented kind of impulses And I believe I'm optimistic that we are settling on a flatter kind of curve there because now the intersection of design of ecological thinking because of climate change which has become imminent but also the kind of nuanced readings and understandings of participation of Governance I mean Edgar articulated this very beautifully in his sort of Presentation is all coalescing and we have to seize this opportunity if we want to collapse between Outcome and planning and process oriented and I think that's where we have to head as a profession as a as a sets of professionals who can work together and I think this thinking about flux is Naturally propelled by two critical phenomena the first the massive scale of the informalization of our cities and in that urban space That is constructed outside the formal preview of the state and it I think here the temporal landscape can play a critical transitionary role in the process of Dealing with this flux that this planet is going to experience in more frequent occurrences because I think it implies the transitory rather than the transformative or absolute and I think given this overwhelming Evidence that cities are a complex overlay of buildings and activities in one way or the other In And temporary why have urbanists so been focused on permanence and I think we have taken permanence as a default condition in our Imagination which takes up to these absolute solutions and the last sort of issue. I want to talk about is the temporal This is a diagram which shows you how today There's a reversal between building and the urbanization process rather than what we had traditionally which is a whole totally different sort of paradigm And so I just sort of want to Just say in closing That I think urban design is about these spatial possible how these spatial possibilities play out and I think what I want to sort of You know talk about just you know, I'll take five seconds Is that it's about how these spatial possibilities play out to influence the quality of our lives Economy society evolving culture and the broader well-being of the planet I think the choice is between us collectively being thermometers which measure Temperature or being thermostats that can also alter this condition And I think finally we need both these and for design to be instrumental It has to be socially engaged elastic in its intellectual configuration, and I think that's what will make it relevant for the future Thank you very much


Paul Taylor here with our women's basketball player the game after the Mustangs take down 11 and Valley by a score of 60 to 53 Denea Campbell joins me. Denea had at 12 points one of three Mustangs in double figures. Denea you guys knew you had the tough assignment with 11 and Valley tonight and all the remaining games are critical What was the mindset for the team going into the game tonight? At practice before we talked a lot about what we see us doing the rest of the season So at practice we all went around circle said will we see our goals for the future? And a lot of us said that these last four games are going to be crucial for us So we all had the mindset to go in and work hard You guys had a lot of it was a total team effort tonight several different girls scored three or four and double figures there Just a good team win overall. Yes. Um, I think we all contributed I think that also goes hand-in-hand with how we were working in practice So I think this last couple practices last four games. We just been practicing to go really hard All right, Denea, congrats on the win. Good luck in the final three games as you make the push for the postseason. Thank you


What are your impressions been just playing behind Corey Kluber so far this spring? It looks like himself looks really good balls moving all over the place slider cutter Look really good. So, um, you know, he looks like like I remember facing him. That's for sure DJ they're experimenting a little bit in the minor leagues with some different rules for it And one of them is about the shift It doesn't seem to affect you much because teams literally don't shift on you But is there anything that you know that you've thought about the rules of keeping the infielders? It could affect you defensively keeping the infielders on the dirt things like that They might think about implementing in the majors You know, I don't really have much of opinion on that I think it'll be good to see how it goes with the minors Rather than just throwing it in the big leagues right away So I'll be interested to kind of hear how it goes down there Do you have even just fundamentally when they tell you you can't place somewhere on defense? Does that bother you? No, not really. I'd rather just play straight up all the time and kind of let my athleticism and defense kind of take over But at the same time you got to kind of listen to the numbers and if the numbers say to play one side of the field Has been official then then I'm gonna do it so But you know, I'd rather just play straight up and if you earn a hit up the middle you're in a hit but You know the way the game is right now I feel like it's taken away more hits than it's not so Aaron said yesterday or two days ago that that he still would not hesitate to use you at first base or third base Occasionally depending on what the what the needs were is your mindset still the same as it's always been Even though you're more comfortable probably at second that you're okay bouncing around the infield a little bit Yeah, yeah, I mean just talking to Booney and Mendy You know next couple weeks getting some work different spots in the infield and Yeah, my mindset is upright play a lot of second but I'm ready to play you know third or first whatever to so I think I'm playing third maybe once next week and Booney mentioned playing first at some point before we leave so Yeah, I mean I'll be ready and working at all three


Have you ever gone to a Linux chat room or a Linux form or a Linux subreddit or sometimes even social media postings about Linux, some kind of Linux online group? Have you ever seen the question posed, why does Ubuntu get so much hate? Or maybe you see, why does Linux Mint get so much hate or not just Linux distributions but maybe a popular free and open source program such as, why does SystemD get so much hate? You see these questions all the time. Why does this thing that's very popular receive so much hate? It doesn't make sense. Well, it makes perfect sense. The reason these very popular things receive a lot of hate from the public is because they're very popular things. And really, that's the case with everything. This is not just a Linux or tech related thing, anything that's popular. Talk about celebrities that are very popular that are always in the news. They typically receive a lot of hate. Talk about athletes that are very popular, like the ones that are really popular in their particular sport. Those are typically the ones that tend to receive the most hate online from people, right? They're the ones that typically tend to get the worst press as far as bad press. And this makes total sense. It's the ones that are popular. People are typically punching up at them, right? They're the ones on top. I'm trying to bring them down a little bit. So as human beings, we typically don't like doing the same thing over and over again repetitively. I can only say Ubuntu is a great distribution so many times. Eventually, I want to change the narrative. And how do I change that narrative? Well, start talking bad about it while everybody else is talking good about it, right? Because that's going to give a lot of attention on me, right? Especially if I'm a content creator or I'm a journalist or even I'm just a regular guy posting on a Linux form somewhere, if I really want to stir some shit up, right?  Pick some popular program or distribution or an athlete. LeBron James is horrible, right? Aaron Rodgers is horrible. You see that all the time, right?  The things that are the most popular are going to be the ones that receive by far the most criticism. And you really see it like in sports media, like when people are talking about great athletes like I was talking about LeBron James. LeBron James gets a lot of negative press for no real reason on his part because it's not like he's out there doing bad things, right? But people like to talk about how bad of a player LeBron James is, which obviously he's not a bad player, but he's been in the league in the NBA for 20 years, right? And you can't sit there for 20 straight years as a sports journalist and say LeBron James is the greatest basketball player ever year after year after year after year gets monotonous, right? You got to break it up. At some point, you got to take a shot at that guy and that's unfortunate. But once you know that this is the way the world works, you quit taking a lot of that stuff seriously.  I don't even use Abuntu these days. I haven't in many years. I used Abuntu in the past. I use Abuntu on servers sometimes. But regardless of what I think personally about Abuntu, the fact that so many people are trying to tear it down, I already know what that's about is because Abuntu is a very, very popular Linux distribution, probably the most popular, especially on the desktop, so people are going to try to tear it down. The same thing with those that criticize a popular Linux distribution like Linux Mint. The same with the SystemD haters.  People can legitimately criticize Canonical or Linux Mint or SystemD or whatever it happens to be. And they have real arguments, right? But their real arguments, that's not really the reason they're typically doing this, right? There's a lot of psychology involved. And typically, it's just that mindset, I see something on top and I want to punch up at it. I want to bring it down. And a lot of times, they're just wanting to put the spotlight on themselves because this fantastic piece of software everybody else seems to like. You know what? I'm going to stand out from the crowd.  And I can relate to this personally because I've got firsthand experience with this. As a video content creator, I remember when I first started my YouTube channel. In the early days of the channel, I put videos out there, didn't have very many subscribers, didn't get a lot of views on the videos, didn't get a lot of comments. But all of the comments, every single one of them, was a positive comment. Generally positive people that were excited about the content wanted more, that were encouraging messages for the most part. Then you start gaining a following, right? You become kind of popular. People are talking about you in the community, whatever niche you happen to be in. For me, obviously, it's about Linux and free and open source software, my videos. And once people kind of know who you are and are talking about you, all of a sudden, you get all kinds of negative comments, right? That's when you start receiving all of this hate. And that's okay. That's actually a good thing. It never really bothered me because I know how this works. It's okay to be attacked. When you're being attacked for this kind of stuff, that means you're one of the top dogs, right? Because if you had no popularity at all, nobody would care. And you would receive none of that hate. And the people out there spreading that hate or that negativity, that negative message about you, that's a good thing. That's a positive thing. It's like the old saying, bad press is good press. You know, any press is good press. Basically, bad press or not. As long as they're talking about you, at least they're talking about you, right? And that's the same in all of this.  If people are talking about you, that's a good thing. Now, where all of this becomes a problem is some people are not prepared to receive that kind of negativity or that vitriol, that hate that comes with popularity. It's one of those things that many people, I see it with YouTubers, Linux YouTubers or just YouTubers in general, where they receive a lot of negative criticism and you can tell it's wearing them down because they focus more on the haters than the positive people in their comment section, right?  They are mean-spirited and nasty on social media and they got to respond to these negative criticisms. No, no, no, that's the wrong way to go about it, right? You're going about all of this the wrong way. Just ignore the haters, right? The haters are a natural part of this kind of thing. And the problem with this is that a lot of these people that gain popularity, or that they be some sort of celebrity sports figure, a popular YouTuber, or maybe they created a really popular piece of software, really popular Linux distribution, whatever it happens to be. They gain some popularity, some notoriety, if you will. And they didn't realize what they signed up for. You signed up for this when you decided you were going to try to do something to gain a little popularity. So I think it's really unfortunate that you see some of these people that eventually they just wear down. They wear down mentally, physically, emotionally, you know, all the hate, the negativity kind of gets to them. And I think the only reason it gets to them is they just don't realize how the game has played, right? They take this way too personally. They take all the negative comments way too personally. Once you realize what it is, I don't take it personally. You shouldn't take it personally. And then all the questions, the weird questions you see online. Why does everybody hate Ubuntu? Or you see a lot of people actually hating on Ubuntu in Linux forms. You don't take any of that seriously. I don't even read that stuff because I know 99% of that stuff is just a waste of my time to even read because it's more about, hey, let me hate on this thing that's popular. You see it especially in recent years. A lot of people love hating on Manjaro. Because Manjaro is probably by far the most popular arch-based Linux distribution on the planet, right? So it's got a ton of users. And those users really love it. So a lot of people really, really love Manjaro, which naturally the haters have to come in. That's just the way it goes, right? And this has always been the way it is, and it will always be the way it is. Peace, guys.


Hello, welcome to this week's legislative update. I'm Jim Baumgarter host and my co-host is Nanette Bullabush. I'm honored to be here. From Elkhart Lake. Yes. Where the Kettle Marine is nice. It's got Elkhart Lake. It's got all kinds of trees, the forest, and the farm you got out there. We do. My husband's a farmer. Yes, and Chal Potter, a former state senator is the person to prioritize wisdom because what we want to talk about today is issues and topics that may be important and how we can solve those problems and sort of a discussion period. And the viewers can sit there and watch us and listen. Or take some of the advice and maybe get involved. One of the issues that as a county board supervisor I had in beginning of January, people made a point because they knew I was a county board supervisor. They said these roads stink. There's big rocks in them. They're terrible. And so it was. And I said well because the legislature in Madison is not willing to pay for the bill and they want to borrow to do it and there's a big conflict. And we're not getting the money and we're paying, doing only 17 miles of roads, of county roads, and we should be doing 30. We have trouble. We have trouble. And so they said, well, fix it. So we passed the African sales tax. And now we're doing 30 miles of payment a year as we're supposed to. And we're giving every town, city and village part of the nine and a half million dollars that we get from that African sales tax. And we solved the problem. But you got to have a problem and you got to be willing to solve it, but you can't sit back and just rumble about it. So a year later now, since that it started, you're happy with the vote. You're happy with the tax. It's doing what it's supposed to do. Well, I'm not sure I'm ever happy with the tax, but I'm happy what it's doing. It's paving 30 miles of the road that will keep our roads up so people can get to work. They can move product to market. And we're doing what we're supposed to do at the government. Yeah, unlike the state. The state borrows rather than raising the gas tax like they should at a time, particularly when the gas is low on price. And at the same time, the knucklehead that we have as governor has come out and she's really chucked away high speed rail. And if you look, this nation is going to be 450 million in about 30 years, up from 330 million, and you won't be able to continue to build highways. We can't afford the loss of farmland or any type of land or in cities you can't put a fourth and fifth lane on these freeways without massive disruption of people. So it isn't going to happen. And so cities like Milwaukee and other urban areas and people in the states in general are going to have to start looking at rail and high speed rail. And Wisconsin had a great opportunity to have not only the manufacturer of the cars. We were ready to go. We were ready to go. But the governor canceled because, oh, maybe we're going to have to subsidize it. Well, he doesn't want to subsidize anything. He obviously wants to borrow for roads, but everything is subsidized. Whether you were on an airport, there's a fuel tax involved there. Whether you drive a car, you subsidize roads. Well, rail is going to have to be subsidized, too. It's just the price of being in civilization. We could have done it in a much more cost effective way until we dropped it. Sure. And it's a shame because really the high speed rail system that was being proposed by the federal government was going to run from this area from Chicago to Minneapolis. Now, if you don't participate, what is it going to do? Take a right angle to Iowa and then up through Minnesota.  And this guy calls himself a thinking governor. I think he was dropped on his head at some time in his life because this is an absolutely stupid, unreasonable thing to do when we look towards the future. And as Jim has said, the county has picked up the ball on roads, but the state needs to follow suit. Well, what about, you have an issue there that you wanted to bring up? I do. I want to talk about AB 455, the Hunter in the Group. Oh, the baby bill. Well, what it does, as I understand it, and the governor, I think he signed it this morning, the last week. He calls it a sportsman law. It allows parents to decide when their child is old enough to shoot, to go hunting. Now, I know you're a big hunter, and I understand, as I understand it, since we have started allowing mentors to go into the woods with their children, or a guardian, someone who they're watching, and go in there and show them how to hunt, accidents have been reduced unbelievably since that program was started. Gun safety. That's often terrific. Gun safety classes. But now, you're going to allow a child of any age to go in with his or her own gun, and the adult can have his or her own gun. I don't think that's safe. Some people call it the Wisconsin kiddies can carry gun. I just think it's very ill-advised, and I wonder what you think. We have, I did an interview with veteran hunters, heroes for veterans, hunters, something like that in Wyoming. And two of them went there, and I did a little story in my column about the wonderful experience they had that they provided to these veterans. One of them is a mentor who's been mentoring a handicapped hunter for 15 years. He says, the guy's partly blind. I have to go out there, and I have to point out where the animal, they can see, but it's just limited. And he said, last year he got a bear. And he said, but he said, if they pass this bill, where the mentor and the hunter, mentee, both have guns, he says, I'm going to quit because you cannot do both safely. Take care of your person, your mentoring, and also hunting. It is an absolutely air. And the argument the legislators have made, well, 25 states do that. Well, in Wisconsin we have what's called Wisconsin Conservation Congress. All the citizens have a chance to meet every year to discuss issues, to discuss them, send them around to the DNR board, get them back, and then pass them. And hopefully the legislature will then take it up and provide some good legislation. This is a bunch of people who see that some states don't have it. They think Wisconsin should have it. Some discussion, but not very much. Not much. Who pushed for this bill? Well, just probably somebody who doesn't know enough about what the hazards are. People who are not fully capable of handling a rifle at that young age. Before we got on the air, we were talking about the fact that we have a lot of different ages that are scientifically based. You can't be president or run for president until you're 35. U.S. Senate is 30. House of Representatives is 25. And there's a reason for that, because experience, of course, but also brain development. The human brain does not fully develop until the mid-20s. And then, of course, there's a decline as you get older. But the pinnacle of full development is at that age. And so that's why we say you can't drive a car in most states until you're about age of 16. We raised it a number of years ago when I was known such as the drinking age from 18 to 21. All of these were based in the fact that some people just are not fully developed physically and mentally, socially, until certain ages. And to think that carrying a rifle that needs to be pointed in a certain direction when you're carrying it, that needs a safety on, that may shouldn't be loaded at some times, and you shouldn't be standing against a tree with a barrel up, these are all things that are hazards that you think a six- and seven-year-old kid is going to think about. Because our existing law already allowed you to go out if you were as young as 10, correct? Right.  I'm sorry. It defies good thinking and knowledge. And I think this is true of so many pieces of legislation. You know, even a health care debate, people who dump on Obamacare says, well, at one time, you know, we had 50 million people on health insurance. We cut that in half under Obamacare. And people who bought their own insurance were paying $1,000 a year more in premiums because you had 50 million people who aren't insured. Don't you want to have a better system? Why should you be paying more? Because these people don't.  Well, it was an attempt to solve a problem that was very worthy and ought to be improved and worked upon because of good reason. There's facts behind it. But so many pieces of legislation are just boneheaded ideas that come from people. In many cases, who shouldn't even be in the legislature? I often cite that Jim knows that a body of 99 in assembly and 33 in the Senate, there are some people there that, you know, for democracy's sake, they're there. But their horsepower between the ears is not anything they could be proud of and they don't contribute a heck of a lot because they just don't think very deeply into things or study things or come to conclusions that are really good solutions. And both you and you both served for many years in the legislature to state assemblymen and as senators. And isn't it true that some of that legislation is actually written by lobbying groups? Oh, sure. By Alec, by whatever, certain medical things. Well, my guess is the children's hunting thing was picked up by one of the legislators that saw another state didn't have it. They looked at their rules and he just had it drafted to our language. Well, they were in the bar one day and some guy says, well, my 70-year-old kid wants to go on. Why can't they? Why stop there? My son drove a tractor when he was 12.  Why not let my 12-year-old son drive a car? Let's let the parents decide any of that. Let's let him drink at 10. The hunter manual that we teach youths, 100 Safety says you shouldn't take a loaded rifle and lean it on a car or put it on top of a car or truck. And what did the legislature do about a year ago? They passed a bill to allow that. Why? Because some special interest, you know, been out west where you could put a loaded gun in back of your pickup truck where there's, you know, maybe 50,000 people in half the state probably reasonably safe. But in Wisconsin, we got 5.5 million people. You don't do that. But the legislature passed and the governor signed. Another one on chronic waste disease. DNR has a management plan to try to control the spread of chronic waste disease. And, you know, it's a 40-page manual, all kinds of inputs by veterinarians and others. And one of the things that says in there, the DNR wants the legislature not to pass feeding and baiting bills. What do they just do? And the governor just asked last year to review that and they gave the governor the same information about not passing bills. And the legislature passed it. No public input by the DNR. The governor signed it. And now we have a civilian county somewhat in danger because of the lifting of some changes of the chronic waste disease. So crazy kind of bill, that's why the check is balanced. Well, they're not science-based. I mean, whether it's be that or deep wells that are draining wetlands and rivers and lakes. It's a policy being made without the benefit of studying the science. And in fact, they laid off a whole lot of scientists from the DNR, correct? There's less oversight. And DNR staff aren't allowed to speak at a bill hearing unless the author of the bill asked them to come. Well, how can they get input? And reason, they just want a special interest in others to do that. So there are some dark moments in Wisconsin's legislative history and I think we're in it. There is no reason why we can't step back and say, what got us to this point? And one of the things was deep involvement of the academic community. If you go back to the early 1900s, the legislature would frequently be addressed by people from the University of Wisconsin. They would lecture the legislature on banking, on insurance. And so you look at the 1911 session of the legislature which passed all kinds of progressive legislation. A lot of that was due to the fact that there were academics saying, here's a better way of doing it. Here's how you should do it. And the legislature listened. They're not doing that now. And now we must end our program and hopefully they will see the light, become more check and balance. And more involved. Pay attention. Call your legislator. Thank you very much for coming until next week. This has been Legislative Update. Thank you, Jim. Thank you.


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Isaac Asimov's foundation stories are considered some of the most important in science fiction and deservedly so. The first book is actually a collection of five short stories, some of Asimov's earliest work, and the stories themselves are not great, but the ideas are great. The first three stories are very interesting and very important. The last two stories were so uninteresting I didn't even finish them. But this is important stuff. Any real fan of science fiction needs to be familiar with these stories.


Hello, and welcome to this Getting Started video for the STM32L475E Discovery Kit for IoT Node. This kit is designed to be the quickest way to develop IoT applications based on rich hardware, simple software, and easy support to connect intelligent nodes to cloud servers and build powerful services. Now let's discover the hardware components on this board. The board is based on an STM32L475E microcontroller with a 64-bit quad SPI NOR flash memory device, two MEMS microphones, and a user button that can be used as a digital input or as an alternate wake-up function. A reset button is also provided. It is also equipped with a set of sensors able to report humidity, temperature, three-axis magnetic data, 3D acceleration, 3D gyroscope data, atmospheric pressure, and proximity and gesture detection. It also embeds a wide range of peripherals enabling wired and wireless connectivity. Four RF interfaces are available on this STM32L4 board. A Bluetooth, the 4.1 compliant module, a low-power programmable RF module, a Wi-Fi module, and a dynamic NFC tag with its printed antenna. Two USB connectors are also provided. One is a full-speed OTG USB interface and the other is dedicated to the ST-Link connectivity to enable the control of the board via a virtual communication port on a PC. The support for Arduino Uno V3 and PMOD connectivity provides unlimited expansion capabilities with a large choice of specialized add-on boards. To operate the board, flip it over and ensure that the JP8 jumper is open, the JP5, JP6, and JP7 jumpers are closed, and the JP4 jumper is set to 5VST-Link. On the top of the board, connect a USB cable on the ST-Link CN7 connector to a PC. LED6 should light up red to indicate the activation of the ST-Link communication, and LED5 should light up green to confirm the 5V power on. Now let's see how to build an IoT application. The IoT concept enhances the existing networks through an intelligent cloud. It involves three main components, the IoT node, the IoT services located in the cloud, and the user of such services. Here, the BL475E IoT01 board is the IoT node running an application, and Amazon Web Services, AWS, is the platform providing the IoT services. AWS enables secure bi-directional communications between IoT nodes and a cloud server over MQTT protocol. At the other end, a user can connect to the server via a browser or an application running on a mobile and access the IoT node data in the cloud at any time and from any location. Each connected IoT node must have AWS credentials to access the IoT services on the server. The recommended way to create AWS IoT security credentials is to sign in at the AWS website and use the Identity and Access Management or IAM web service. All traffic between AWS IoT servers and other IoT nodes must be encrypted to protect data. In this demonstration, the IoT node communicates sensors values to a dedicated topic area on a cloud server using what Amazon calls the Thing Shadow Service. This service maintains a shadow mode for each Thing, that is a device, connected to AWS IoT. The user can then subscribe to this topic and get updated data by connecting to this server. Now, let's set up the board to make it an IoT node. Connect a PC to the board via a USB cable and open a virtual terminal to interact with the application running on this device. This connection will allow us to flash the board, set up the Wi-Fi parameters to connect to the internet network, store the AWS security credentials to get access to IoT services, subscribe to topics related to IoT nodes, and display the messages exchanged with the cloud server. Once the board is flashed, press the reset button. The terminal displays the banner for this cloud connectivity demonstration. Enter the SSID, the security mode, and password of the selected Wi-Fi access point. The board makes up to three attempts to connect to the Wi-Fi network. Once connected, the board sets its real-time clock from the network time. Then the terminal prompts for the AWS credentials. First, enter the root certificate that you built when you created your AWS account. This key is quite big. Then enter your device certificate, which is also part of the security keys forged through your AWS account. This certificate allows the device to be authenticated when connected to the server in the cloud. Enter the device private key, which is linked to the public key and the certificates sent to the AWS server. Enter the server name of the nearest AWS server in your region. Enter the device name. This will help to identify the device and ensure the right access to the data storage. In this demonstration, the name of the connected device is TestThing2GFA. The device then makes up to three attempts to connect to your AWS account. Once connected to AWS, the device is now considered an IoT node. The IoT node subscribes to the AWS ThingShadow service that acts as an intermediary, allowing devices and users to retrieve and update data on the dedicated ThingShadow. It then starts publishing sensor data every 10 seconds via messages to the slash shadow slash update topic. Now let's see how to interact with the IoT node. Connect to your AWS account. Enter the IoT services. This platform lets connected devices interact with cloud applications on user devices such as mobile phones or PCs. The dashboard reports the type of connection and the protocol used by the IoT node to publish messages. Here, MQTT protocol is the most used. Use the AWS MQTT client to subscribe to or publish messages to specific topics. The IoT node sends data in MQTT messages that are published on a topic named shadow slash update. Subscribe to this topic to view these messages. The first message appears in the window displaying the sensor's data. The sensor's values are published approximately every 10 seconds. The next message appears in the top window with an updated timestamp. Each MQTT message sent to the shadow slash update topic is checked by the ThingShadow service and forwarded as an augmented message with additional metadata like timestamps to the shadow slash update slash accepted topic. Subscribe to this topic to view the augmented messages. All sensor values are tagged with a timestamp. These augmented messages are updated every 10 seconds reflecting the original traffic from the IoT node. Timestamps are updated accordingly. Now let's see how to remotely switch on and off an LED on the IoT node directly from this MQTT client that can run on any user mobile phone. To change the LED state, press the blue button on the device. This action triggers the publication of a message for a desired LED state change on the shadow slash update topic. The ThingShadow service sends this message to the shadow slash update slash accepted topic on which the device subscribed. At subscription time, the device can define an action to do when a message is received on a topic. Here the callback displays the message on the local terminal and sets the LED in the desired state on the board. The device then reports the new LED state on the shadow slash update topic. On the AWS IoT platform, the MQTT client publishes the messages sent to the shadow slash update topic. The first message shows the desired state change for the LED resulting from the blue button pressed on the IoT node. The second message reports the new state for the LED resulting from the callback executed on the IoT node when the first message was sent to the shadow slash update slash accepted topic. Hence the LED toggles via the AWS IoT platform each time the user blue button is pressed. To learn more about this STM32-L475E discovery kit, go to st.com and search for BL475E IoT01A. Here you will find the STM32 Cube L4 comprehensive software tool, discovery board, schematics and Gerber files, data brief, user manual and other related materials that will help you speed up your development. To learn more about the STM32-L4 series, visit our website at www.st.com slash stm32-l4 and www.st.com slash stm32-l4-discovery. Thank you for watching this video.


dystopian time. Arctic scientists say we may have already passed climate tipping point. Now the implications of this are very, very vast, but let's just go through here for a minute and read what this has to say. After the largest expedition ever to the North Pole, researchers say Arctic ice is receding faster than ever before and that we may have already passed the point of no return on global heating. The expedition's leader Marcus Rex presented the team's findings on Tuesday and he says, there are several tipping points in the climate system which lead to irreversible sudden changes which are triggered when the planet reaches a certain temperature. We have seen that we are on the verge of that tipping point which will lead to the disappearance of the ice in the Arctic summer. Now if that wasn't horrifying enough, a couple of years ago we got the report from the IPCC which says we had about 12 years to act if we wanted to stop catastrophic levels of climate change. A couple of years have already passed and now, wrong video, now leaked IPCC draft climate report reads like a 4000 page indictment of humanity's failure. This is a warning of existential risk of survival of collapse set extinction rebellion. Now for more on this Andrea Germano staff writer of common dreams explains Agents France Press reported Monday on the contents of a leaked draft of a United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Panel report which warned that devastating effects of warming of a warming world are set to hit far sooner than previously thought with impacts including an additional tens of millions of people facing hunger by 2050.   So Dylan as a young man who in your golden years where you know you in theory should be retiring you know you're going to be seeing climate apocalypse.  Well as a young lad obviously it concerns me. I can't be one of the people who like well I'm 92 years old. I lived through these wonderful car manufacturing industries and having a wonderful union on my back. I'm not going to be able to live through that reality. I got to live through the reality I'm in which shows like me never being able to own a home maybe in apartments and we all know the current dystopia we live in. Yeah wonderful you know see I know how to host but the thing is it's it's really uh when you look at it like I can't whether or not it's going to happen or not I'd rather go down fighting you know I'd rather have that be humanity story let's say we're we're fucked let's just assume right now that we're fucked anyway right it would have been it'd be a shit movie if we ended it just be like eh right if we have even the sliver of a chance we should still struggle for it because even the thing is this person as said in the article there's multiple tipping points so it's like we passed the first tipping point oh god that's terrible the solution isn't well okay let's jump off all the tipping points it's like breaking one leg it's like well let's bring all three of our other limbs and like gut ourselves publicly in the times in the square so I would say that whether or not we've passed the timing point even though of course I hope we haven't we should of course do everything we can to avoid crossing the other tipping points sadly there's multiple economic and geopolitical advantages to multiple nations and politicians to not do it the russians of course want us to continue to be reliant on oil and natural gas because that props up the entirety of the economy that has uh kept in a backwater the united states has uh two parties which still take large amounts of donations from oil and gas companies which want to continue their reign in the united states and multiple politicians who still deny climate change our last president of the united states the most powerful person on the planet denied climate change was even real and then the chinese economy and the chinese nation still has a lot of growing to do in their eyes and the by the time they would go off of coal in their projections it would be like 2050 which we would still go past multiple more tipping points so every major geopolitical force has multiple incentives to literally do nothing because they can't see 20 30 40 years down the line uh the the biggest sadly the biggest motivation i see in the united states right now for us to actually address climate change is that we're seeing more reports every day on how this could actually affect our military effectiveness and um it's sad that it could take that to actually make us act yeah yeah and um whatever makes us act um is good but i like the thing that you said about basically you know if we're going to go down we should go down fighting um on that note denims what do you think ultimately um is going to happen like do you believe that we're going to see a green new deal within the next 10 years um give us your thoughts on this situation because i feel like i've kind of embraced the black pill or i've taken the black pill and i am a bit of a doomer uh what are your thoughts on this if you can give me some optimism that would be much appreciated so i really want to believe that we can push for policies that eventually you know maybe remove us from the hellscape that we are currently barreling towards and i know you prepared another segment with uh Dave Rubin and michael nulls and that's truly like the epitome of like intelligence online it it really sent me to watch and i think we'll do it despite all of the rightoid misinformation like the right wingers see articles like this and then immediately they think like oh this is like the 10th time they've said it's it's going to be over for us and they don't really understand what these reports actually mean and how there are like maybe multiple tipping points that like cause like irreversible damage and after that point you can't go any further um and so it's frustrating that that exists but i i'm i'm really like happy with the amount of leftists online that are making videos making content and like maybe pushing people away from these ideas and the more people we push away from these ideas the more people we get in favor of voting democrat voting people who actually support things like the green new deal so i have my fingers crossed i'm gonna believe because i'd rather believe than not believe hey i'll take it a little bit of copium no and um you know that's a great point i will say that the urgency like how bad the situation is and how we need to address it yesterday i do feel as if there has been a bit of a paradigm shift and really i started to notice this with the ipcc report um shark what are your thoughts on this situation do you actually think that um it's there's going to be this time where eventually we just elect enough millennials and progressives and they take action where is there going to be some sort of you know um worldwide uh groundswell um kind of like we saw over the last couple of years with the uh kids climate march the school walkouts uh what are your thoughts on this what do you think it's going to take in order to have any movement on this issue i think one of the really big things that it'll take is um people seeing it in their personal lives so when you can't walk outside in the summertime without like shoes on because the concrete is literally melting you when you can't grow anything really and you like miss a day of watering and all and like the little because like a lot of millennials they love their plants i personally love plants i have a whole rack of plants like house plants over here i show it on stream sometimes i i love i love growing things um when when those people when you plant like your little garden and it just like completely just like raises over like you're living out in the middle of nowhere like courage um i really feel like those sorts of things that start to impact people's lives a little bit more um are going to start to push them that way and i mean we've been seeing it where every single year is the hottest year ever i think you're really starting to get people to be like hey you know we really got a problem here and like like dylan said i mean just because we passed the first tipping point if we have um doesn't mean that it's over there's lots of problems and who knows maybe like sometime in the next like 100 200 years or something maybe if we like really uh get our act together your kids or your grandkids will start to see like us maybe pulling back from from some of that and the co2's um leaving a little bit or more more solutions getting um being brought up because science changes every single year and we're we're moving a lot faster um i don't like to take the black pill on like literally anything i really feel like there have been hundreds of generations all throughout human history that thought that this was going to be the end um and i feel like we're no different um but you know our our problems are now really a lot bigger than your local town um getting rated but for those sorts of people um you getting on the you getting on like the lords bad side and then just like slaughtering your entire town i mean that was that was a reality right um i feel like humans are um incredibly resilient and um i like to look at it in in the sense of um we're as climate is getting worse um more people are talking about it um and i think um and you know we can talk about capitalism and everything and i i do do believe that we won't really see like a real real fix to this we always want to like slip back into the easiest like lowest common denominator as long as we still have like capitalism around but if we have to work in the system that we do um i i really think that um we we're moving in a in a good direction now whether it's fast enough we can debate on that um but i i don't really like the idea of giving up and um i i really think that um we we can make a turnaround as long as we um uh make sure that we stay on it


In this lecture I want to introduce you to the iPython Notebook. Now you saw it in the lecture on the Sneak Preview. It's interactive Python. It runs right inside of your browser and it's a phenomenal tool. It really is fantastic for any kind of statistical analysis or scientific work. Have a look at this.