On 14 August 1945, VJ Day, the second World War at last, is over. With the surrender of Japan comes the great moment of joyous relief. After years of the anxieties and grief and horrors of universal war, in all of the Allied lands, this was a time of rejoicing after great victories. At San Francisco there had been a momentous event. The people who lined the streets outside the Veterans Memorial building were symbols of all the anxious people everywhere, who after two great World Wars were waiting for their leaders to find the way to a lasting peace. And it seemed that the way had really been found when here in San Francisco the victorious countries met, designed the charter of the United Nations. Nationalist China was a member from the beginning. The signature of France symbolized Europe's longing to escape further ravaging by war. The presence of the Soviet Union's delegate justified the hope, a hope which later proved false, that from now on every nation would live peaceably within its own borders and respect the rights and sovereignty of other nations. The signing of the UN Charter by Great Britain and by the United States and by other founding nations until in all fifty had signed. This offered to mankind genuine hope for freedom from the scourge of war. It really seemed that a new era of peace and goodwill among men of all nations was about to begin. As always in America after a war, there arose great public clamor to bring the boys home. Soon after VJ Day, transport vessels loaded with returning troops were arriving at stateside ports. All demobilization records were broken. The army, which then included our air forces, was soon down to twenty percent of its wartime strength. The armed forces were like a boxer who wins and then quits training. Aircraft and air personnel of the army air forces were speedily demobilized in great numbers. Thousands of aircraft were cocooned for possible future use, while thousands of others were either sold or broken up for their metal. From a powerful wartime force of two million men, our air personnel dropped to about one seventh of that strength. Our recuperative powers remained, but our great strength in the air was suddenly hardly more than a memory. It had been the most destructive war in history. In large segments of the world, cities were in ruins. Business and industry were at a standstill. Countless people were homeless. Before long, the people of the stricken lands were at work on the long, long job of cleaning up the wreckage and rebuilding. As always, the farmers had a lot to do with getting the world back on the track. More victories in the war had been complete. Still, some of our leaders knew we had better look to the future. One of them was General Haft Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces. We must be sure that none of these victories is wasted and thrown away in the years to come. There will no longer be any spot on earth, and certainly not in America, that is safe from attack by air. For our protection, we must have an air force second to none. For this, we need a great aviation industry, a great air transport system, and a great body of trained personnel. But we need more than planes and pilots and mechanics. We'll need scientists and mathematicians, and we'll need the full inventive genius of the American people. With these, we can protect the future ourselves and our allies with the weapons of the future. After the war, small appropriations made it difficult to carry out the program that General Arnold called for. Although we knew that the modernization of our air forces by the development of jet aircraft was a most urgent requirement, the change from propeller-driven airplanes to jet airplanes had to be gradual, because of low budgets, and because it takes years to bring new aircraft from the drawing board to operational use. The P-80, one of the early jet fighters, made a spectacular claim to public notice when it flew from Long Beach, California to New York City in four hours and 13 minutes. While jet fighters were coming into operations, jet bombers were still in the development stage. But there came a day when a propeller-driven bomber proved the possibility of a global air force with strategic capability. Here's the Fakusan Dreamboat, a B-29. One day in October 1946, we towed around at Hickam Field, Honolulu. There were nine of us in the crew, and we had a fine commander, Colonel Clarence Irvine. We'd waited 34 days, partly because of weather conditions, partly because of mechanical difficulties. Everything had to be right. We were going to try to make one of the greatest flights in air history, non-stop from here in Hawaii over the North Pole and on to Egypt about 10,000 miles away, the first time ever for such a flight, and without refueling. We had a fuel load of more than 12,000 gallons, the heaviest ever carried by a super-forkress. Combat gear had been removed, and she had helium in her tires to lighten the load. We had a perfect takeoff after a run of 8,000 feet at 0-55-1 on a Friday. Our route took us across the coast of Alaska and then over the North Magnetic Pole. The Dreamboat took us over the top of the world. She was racing an Arctic storm and she had no de-icing equipment. She met every test. She had to. She was blazing an air trail over Greenland, Iceland, England, France and Italy, and then Egypt. Everybody's pretty tired. And why not? It's Sunday morning now, and we left Honolulu Friday morning. We've been in the air 39 and one-half hours. We've flown 9,500 miles non-stop, crossing two continents and landing on a third. Quite a flight. Quite a flight. In 1947, big decisions at the top level of command. World War II had proved the vital significance of air power. So now there is a logical reorganization of our military structure. And fourth, the Air Force will be a separate service. The Army Air Forces become the United States Air Force, a necessary move first proposed years previously by General Billy Mitchell. W. Stuart Simington becomes the first secretary of the Department of the Air Force. General Carl Spatz, veteran of the early aviation section of the Army's Signal Corps and distinguished for his record in both World Wars, becomes the first chief of staff of the United States Air Force. A year or so after World War II, there were more than 300,000 of us in the Air Force. And now we had a uniform of our own. We used to be in the Army. Now we had a new look. And there were about 4,000 of us WAFs, too. Some of us used to be WAFs in the Army Air Forces, and a lot of us joined up after the Air Force became a separate service. In October 1947, at Murock Desert Test Center in California, history is made by this aircraft, the XS-1, and its pilot, Captain Charles E. Jaeger. This airplane and this pilot are about to be the first ever to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight. A B-29 will take the XS-1 aloft and launcher at an altitude of about 35,000 feet. The XS-1 is not a military aircraft, but a flying research laboratory designed to test the effects of supersonic flight upon airplanes. It is powered by four rocket engines. Its weight, empty, is less than 5,000 pounds, but it carries 8,000 pounds of fuel. B-29s have done a lot of memorable things, but none of them ever before had a mission quite like this one. And no airplane ever did what the XS-1 is about to do. Tracking the sound barrier in level flight will be more than a spectacular feat. It will also give the Air Force valuable knowledge of the resources of new propulsive systems. Captain Jaeger gets aboard the XS-1. It can't be a long flight he's going to have in the little aircraft. At full power, the flight can't last more than two and a half minutes. And it's going to be a fast one. Ready. The radar crews are ready too to do the timing. The only possible method for timing aircraft at extremely high altitudes. There she goes. A big moment in a history-making flight. Now she's approaching the barrier. The speed of sound at 35,000 feet is 660 miles per hour. The really big moment. Through the sound barrier. The first time ever in level flight. For the first time, except in dives, a man has flown an airplane faster than the speed of sound. It earned Captain Jaeger many honors. And the historic plane, the XS-1, earned the resting place in the Smithsonian Institution. Captain Jaeger's feet was only one sign that the jet aid and the Air Force had caught up with each other. Despite low budgets and great technical problems, as rapidly as we could, we were developing modern aircraft like the F-86 Sabre jet, splendidly ready to prove themselves in battle. Ready to serve our country by giving new strength to the rising power of the United States Air Force.


Please note that Rey's story contains references to family trauma, substance abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, body image issues and maybe triggering to some people. In 2021, we released our first ever comic strip, Journeys Through Mental Health, illustrated by Sabah Khan and made in partnership with Richmond Fellowship. The following is an animated version of one of the three stories featured in the comic, based directly on real interviews with young people with lived experience. Mental health recovery and what that means is determined by you, not by other people, it's possible for anyone and you can find things that will help you in so many places. Rey found a way through the problems in a very particular kind of sport. When I was born, my mum and dad were together but they had a very turbulent relationship. My dad did a lot of substance abuse. He was always in and out of prison. I've seen him get arrested countless times. Mum and dad ended up separating when I was still young. When I was a bit older, I learned that my dad had gone on to have another child. I had a little baby brother that I only met when I was 12. My nan, who me and mum had moved in with, ended up having to take care of both of our children, which was really hard for me as my little bro was still seeing our dad. When I think about it now, I realise it had really affected me. I started acting up against my mother. I started bunking off school, getting into trouble, not doing my homework and I became really noisy because it was just me and my mum. We're both quite strong and stubborn characters. We're both loud. We're either the best of mates or we can't stand each other. It got to the point where my mum couldn't have me here anymore, so I went and stayed with my granddad. I was with my granddad for six months, during which I never really spoke to my mum. It wasn't too bad to start off with. Grandparents, you know what they're like. They like to baby you. Though he liked having me there, my granddad has bipolar disorder and he's an alcoholic. So he already had his own struggles. The social services were already involved by this point and after a failed attempt at moving back in with my mum, when she ended up being violent with me, I was sent to foster care. I was in foster care for six months. It was awful. I guess it could have been worse. I was with an old couple. The foster dad was really lovely, but the foster mother was really horrible and mean. I didn't understand why she'd always yell at me. I told my school how much I was struggling at home, so that when I went into foster care, my head of year was really able to support me. They had a separate room for people who were struggling, where you could go to if things were getting too much. They had two teachers in there and they were the loveliest. I don't think I would have bothered with school if I didn't have that room. A place that I knew I could just go. It got me through school. When it was my GCSEs, all my tutors helped with extra tutoring to help boost my grades. I guess I was really lucky. It was a small school and you couldn't really hide behind anything. Also, because they were so nice, you didn't want to take advantage of that. Finding accommodation for myself has also been challenging. I was in temporary accommodation which lasted five months when it should have only been two weeks, but then Richmond Fellowship's castle project got back to me and I moved in here. It's only four of us sharing. It doesn't feel like a hostel at all. It feels like a house, a home. My room is big and spacious and I have a TV, sofa, wardrobe. It's big. We get some key worker support too. Mental health support and even life skills like budgeting. It's a great place to build up from. The other thing that has kept me going is judo. It's my thing. Last year, I went to Belgium to compete and I got a gold medal. I also have helped coaching and refereeing in the sport. When I was younger, my mom was writing about a coach in a university who ran judo and she used to take me along. It was then that she suggested it. Do you want to try it? No. You get to throw people. Yeah, but I don't want to be thrown. I guess there is that. But then I went and I had a brilliant time, so I stuck with it. Judo was how I got through most of it. My judo has been the one constant, especially when I was in care. I wasn't seeing anyone and I missed my grandad a lot. And because we all fight in weight categories and I'm in the open, which means it's all over 78 kilos, seeing people who are the same weight as me but different shapes and sizes has been an eye opener. I used to self-harm and I'd get called names, which wasn't nice. Judo has given me the confidence to appreciate my body. I'd end up training with a lot of university students, which gave me lots of role models to look up to. That motivated me to do well. Even if I wasn't competing, I'd travel up and down the country with people, just to go and watch. But the best thing is hearing your name get called out for a win. It's the adrenaline of it all. I felt so proud because I'd struggled so much. I was doing it for myself, exploring what works for me, and tracking a few people over while I'm at it. If I were in charge, I'd like to get people to look at alternative ways to deal with things. I've been on 90 depressants. I've learned that it's not the case of trying to get over things, but more about understanding what isn't working and trying to work on that. Or if things are playing on your mind, finding ways to manage it. I like to put some music on and do my makeup, or get my coloring book out, or just go out and spend time with my friends. Those are the kind of things that have worked for me. I know it's different for everyone. We know that finding routes to mental health support is not easy, but there are still ways. Ray has found a lifeline in the most unexpected of places. The human condition in all of its diversity has so many shared overlaps. Getting support can help us see that. At the very least, it can be comforting to know we are not alone. This comic is based on interviews with young people with lived experience of mental health issues. Their names and physical appearance have been changed to protect their privacy. Journeys through mental health is each other's first comic strip, created out of conversations we've been having with young people with lived experience of mental health issues. If you or anyone you know are struggling with mental health issues, there are resources on our spotlight page on young people in mental health. The address is www.eachother.org.uk backslash young-people-and-mental-health


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with food inventory adventures in food And I am here today to share one of my favorite cookie recipes I have been making these cookies for over 15 years and they're always a hit And they just call for a few simple ingredients I'll make sure to link the recipe in the description box so that you'll have the exact measurements but you are going to need some cream cheese and Some butter and the cream cheese and butter are softened to room temperature You're going to need some sugar and some flour Now I wanted to point this out quickly because the amount of flour that you add Can affect the texture of these cookies and every other thing that you may happen to bake There's a big difference between a liquid measuring cup, which is right here and a dry measuring cup Which is right here Whenever you're measuring dry ingredients like flour You definitely want to use a dry measuring cup and you don't want to take the measuring cup and just scoop it into the flour You actually want to use a spoon and place the flour in the cup and then level it off with a knife Because if you take the dry measuring cup and just pack it or just stick it Into the container and pack the flour you could actually end up with too much flour Which will affect the texture of whatever you're baking so I just wanted to point that out If you want to see how these quick and easy cookies come together stay tuned So the first thing that I'm going to do is add in my cream cheese and I would definitely suggest using a full fat cream cheese here You don't want to use a light cream cheese because it may affect the texture and I'm going to add in my butter Definitely want to use butter here. Don't use margarine in this recipe. It just won't turn out the same So I am just going to cream this with my hand mixer until it's smooth So my cream cheese and butter are mixed together next thing I'm going to do is add in my sugar and Again, I'm going to mix it till it is nice and creamy so that is nice and creamy and light as a feather and Next I'm just going to add in my flour a little bit at a time guys So I have everything all mixed up. You'll notice that this dough is very very sticky This is not a cookie dough that you can roll out. Believe me. I've tried I've put this dough in the refrigerator and then I tried to roll it out. It just doesn't work It's also really Too sticky for a cookie press. These are true drop cookies. I've just wanted to let you know that it's a very very Sticky dough. All right, so I'm gonna quickly go wash my hands and I'm going to grab the cookie sheet and I will be right back So I have my cookie sheet right here I have my oven preheated to 350 degrees and all I'm going to do now is just take the cookie dough I have a tablespoon here and a teaspoon and I just filled up my spoon about half way I would say with some dough and Just gonna drop it off. All right. I've got all the dough in the pan You may have to go back like I did and add a little bit of dough to some or take some away You do want them to be even Like an even amount of dough so that they'll bake evenly So I am going to pop these in the oven for about 12 minutes or until they Start to get slightly brown around the edges and then of course I will bring you back and show you what they look like So I baked up the cookies and let me show you the difference in how I baked each batch So this is a very first batch that I baked and I forgot how much these cookies actually spread out So instead of putting them four across. I really should have put them three across So I ended up baking these for 15 minutes and my husband is here He's gonna break open one so you guys can see the inside And here it is It's a really light Cream cheesy cookie. It's very good and it's a break from the traditional sugar cookie So the other batches I baked for 13 minutes and he's gonna show you what those look like So we're actually a house divided here He prefers a softer cookie like this one that I baked for 13 minutes And I prefer the crunchier cookie that I baked for 15 minutes So anyway guys, I hope you all enjoyed this video If you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time


I'm happy to introduce the President. Mr. President. See, Karna, all of these cameras are on my bad side. Well, it is wonderful to have you all here today. And although I greatly enjoy the back and forth with the White House press correspondence, I do look forward to speaking with some of you who've managed to permanently escape the snares and traps of life in Washington. Being in the business you're in, I know that you're aware that after two years of back-to-back double-digit inflation, we brought it down to 3.9 percent for 1982. You might not know that for the last three months of 82, and this is significant, I think it certainly is in my mind, inflation was running at an annualized rate of 1.1 percent. Now, this has made an enormous impact on real wages. For the first time in three years, they increased by 1.8 percent in 1982 and in the last three months of the year at a 3.5 percent annual rate. Interest rates have dropped significantly from the prime rate was down nearly 50 percent. And in December, the economic indicators, the index, was a full 6.2 percent above last March's low point. Housing starts are also up by 45 percent during the last quarter. The new home sales have grown 75 percent since April of last year. Housing permits are up 61 percent, I'm sorry. And the inventories of unsold homes are now at the lowest levels in more than a decade. Auto production in this quarter is scheduled to increase 22 percent over last quarter, and General Motors alone is recalling some 21,400 workers. The sharp decline in unemployment last month, which is usually the last indicator to show any upturn out of a recession, was the most heartening sign of all. We still have a long way to go, but we've turned the corner and are moving forward. And I'm proud of one thing, we didn't panic when we hit the heavy weather and go for the fast bromides and quick fixes, the huge tax increases or wage or price controls that were recommended by a number of people. I think our stubbornness, if you want to call it that, will quite literally pay off for every American in the years ahead. The second issue I want to mention is defense spending. And I won't launch into another statistical report and tell you this year that defense spending is only 26.7 percent of the federal budget. I won't even tell you that the Soviets are still outspending us by devoting 13 to 14 percent of the gross national product to defense while we're devoting 6.7 percent of ours, only about half the rain. I could tell you about the strides we've made at the Pentagon under Cap Weinberger's superb leadership. During the six months ending September 30th, 1982, the end of the fiscal year, the Department of Defense Auditors had identified more than a billion dollars in potential savings on waste and fraud and from management efficiencies. Over the next five years, through multi-year procurement and other acquisition initiatives, we'll save over an additional 15 billion dollars. That's more than the entire budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 32 percent more of active duty units are combat-ready and re-enlistment rate is up at 68 percent. That's the highest since 1964. But you know our progress in that goes far beyond statistics, beyond bombs and rockets and budgets and bureaucrats. The real issue is the security of the United States and the American people, our willingness to bear the burden that comes with freedom. We have begun to correct a decade of neglecting America's defensive needs, but we've only begun. President Kennedy once said that there was no discount on defense. He was right. And I think the American people knew that he was right. The defense issue is one of the most potent in American politics. And time after time, the American people, when given the facts, have made it clear that they support a strong defense program. They've never had patients with politicians who want to have a fire sale on national security or a bargain basement military. But right now, they've had a drumbeat of criticism based on false charges. Defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems. And without it, we'd have no chance of negotiating on arms reductions and getting an agreement with the Soviet Union in that field. And that's all I'm going to talk about now because I know you'll have some questions. President, there's been a special congressional election involving one of the chief architects of your economic program down there Saturday. My question is, do you see that election as a referendum on Reaganomics and how do you view the outcome? How will it affect getting your budget proposal through Congress? Well, I think it would have an effect either way. I recognize, though, that it may be portrayed as being a referendum on some policy of government. On the other hand, there are some other issues in there. Here is a man who had the courage to... He could have just changed parties and stayed in the Congress. But he said no. He had run and won as a member of the Democrat Party and he felt that it was only fair that he go back and give them a chance now knowing that he has switched parties. I admire his courage very much, his principle. And I admire very much his mind because he was an outstanding help to us in getting our economic program started. So obviously, I've got a great interest in how he does down there and I'm going to watch him with great interest. Yes, I'm sure that it would be taken as a referendum in some way as by many people if he's turned away. John Mulfer to the Montclair Times, sir. Do you feel that the Windsor War is helping you keep the defense budget from being cut? You know, I asked somebody the other day having looked at a couple of installments of that myself. I said, do you suppose that this could be a help to us? Because it reminds us of how blind so much of the world was to the threat that many years ago. And of course, how much of it is? It's more than half the population of our country today. It was born after the World War II, so it's kind of like the Civil War must have been when I was born. Mr. President, you've had a great deal about that, but there are some problems in primarily agricultural and energy-producing states, Oklahoma being one of them, a combination of wheat farming and farmers going bankrupt and very concerned, and an oil industry that is staggering right now under not only windfall profits taxes, but new excise tax being composed of per barrel price of what I understand now is $7 a barrel. They're worried about incentives to produce. Why should they buy it? Well, we hope they'll keep on producing. I remember that when I first proposed decontrolling oil, getting rid of the government controls, voices were raised saying that the price of gasoline would go to $2. Well, I've always believed in the marketplace, I confirmed it because the price of oil has gone down. I think that maybe the marketplace is still going to take care of it. I never was in support of the windfall profits tax. This new proposal, I think if you look at it fairly, is a tax that I hope would never be put into effect, that or the sur-tax. What we did was propose a tax that would only be implemented under certain conditions and one of the primary considerations was only if the Congress had joined in continuing to reduce federal spending and get the cost of government down. And if they haven't adopted those proposals and done that, then this tax bill would never go into effect. There were some other things also that we still had. We had to be definitely out of recession and the deficit had to be a certain percentage above the gross national product. With regard to the farmer, we're doing a number of things and working on this very much. The farmer is truly a victim of the cost price squeeze. And the farmer is one who many times borrows to plant and through harvest and then pays back. And with the high interest rates, they have been really caught in a trap when their price of their product went down. So we're doing everything from working on promoting international markets more export for them to meeting some of their problems and some of the problems of soil conservation. We have a plan that we've proposed also and many farmers are most supportive of it and that is rather than cash helping in their problems, using that great surplus that the government owns and that is stored in government surplus which hanging over the market has a tendency to depress prices just psychologically by virtue of its being there. And we're talking about a trade in kind that a farmer who leaves idle some of his land in the interest of soil conservation will give him the amount of crop that he would have raised out of that surplus. Maybe we can get rid of that surplus. I'm going to have to move out there a ways. Well, I think that at first of all it is too early for anyone in this position to make a decision on that. So my answer has always been if you state too early one way you're a lame duck and if you state too early the other way then everything you try to do is viewed as being politically inspired and so my safest answer is I will let the people determine whether I should run again or not. Newsweek stations in Detroit. Some of our auto workers in West Germany have taken pity on the unemployed auto workers in Detroit and they're sending food parcels to them and they've discovered that it's not practical because the cost of transportation is worth more than the food. They have further proposed that U.S. military aircraft be used to airlift some of these supplies sort of a reverse Marshall plan. Would you be willing to authorize the shipment of these donated goods to Americans to Detroiters in particular or a military aircraft? And if you do accept that plan would it be a recognition that we need a Marshall plan? Well, I don't think we need a Marshall plan that we cannot provide. We provided the first Marshall plan. I think we can provide the second. I had heard about this situation and have not had an opportunity yet to speak to Secretary Weinberger about it. I think it would have to be if it were done and I would have no quarrel with that doing I think it would have to be in planes that were making regular runs because we could just simply add to our deficit at a greater cost than again the food would be worth if we were to set up a regular transportation line and planes don't fly for nothing. No, but something that we were speaking about here earlier and I would like to pass this on to any and all of you for your communities. We've had for a year a task force of citizen volunteers called the Private Initiative Task Force that was out finding out what the people can do at a volunteer level, at the people level to help with many of the problems that we have and they've concluded a year's work and we now have a computer, manning staff here in the White House, a computerized program that contains more than 2,500 programs that arrange everything from things of this kind providing food to the needy to intercepting and heading off dropouts in school every kind of program that you could imagine some of them totally volunteer some of them combination of volunteer in connection with public officials through grant programs 2,500 or more of them with the names, the communities where they're successful the names and the phone numbers of the people who manage them and for anyone in their communities and for you who are in the business you are in of communications to put people in touch with this to find out how someone else is solving a very real problem that you have in your community I highly recommend it because out of all of this problem that we have it is amazing the ingenuity the American people, the willingness and their ability to come together and solve many of these problems incidentally in connection with this need the Air Force could or not I want you all to know also that the problem another one that we happen to be talking around the table here of the people with no shelter that are on our streets now our military is already checking on military installations for barracks space that can be made available for shelter Mr. President, at Leashes from National New Hampshire we've been reading it in the union later in recent weeks and hearing from our senior senator Gordon Humphrey that they feel they're moving away from the policies and principles that got you elected how would you react to those statements by them? Well I had a fine conversation with Nackie Loeb recently we ran across each other when I was in Boston and I know that it can look that way I'm not retreating an inch from where I was but I also recognize this there are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don't get all that you've asked for from the legislature while you jump off the cliff with the flag flying I have always figured that a half a loaf is better than none and I know that in the democratic process you're not going to always get everything you want so I think what they've misread is times in which I have compromised for example our entire economic program I propose three ten percent a year cuts in the income tax retroactive to January 1st 1981 there was no way I could get that with the House of Representatives dominated by the other party so I settled for a five percent cut the first year not retroactive but on October 30 or October 1st the beginning of the fiscal year then two following ten percent cuts well I think twenty five percent a little delayed in starting was better than going down fighting not getting anything at all and I wish that I could get more people to to realize no I have not retreated from what was our original purpose I am very stubborn in that regard and I'm just going to have to try and communicate better and make people realize that you know I come back and I ask for more the next time around excuse me wait I'll take the lady and then come back to you for some type of jobs bill that goes beyond are you willing to compromise now when can we expect to hear a compromise well some of the things that have been proposed are the type of job bills that we've used in the seven other recessions that took place after World War II up until now they were make work job programs they were temporary and they increased the deficit spending they set back the economic recovery and no one had any attention to the people who lost jobs over here in the private sector as this money was moved over here to create jobs we disagree with that but what we do have in our budget already and we are working together for a bipartisan approach to this is that we are looking at all the agencies and departments of government that have already built into the budget programs of construction of maintenance upkeep and so forth that they need and with the idea of accelerating those and wherever they have them scheduled doing them now but we also have in the budget and we have passed job training and we have some approaches to working with the states in their own unemployment insurance to see if this cannot be utilized not just as insurance payments or benefit payments but utilized to further job training and even for relocation from people for where there are no jobs to other places where their skills might be desirable all told we've got 93 billion dollars in the proposed budget for the needy and for the help to the unemployed and we have a program that is several billion dollars already that I think when they have time to study it that it is dealing at work but it won't be make work legitimate work such as the highway program the five cent gas tax for that and to all of those of you who said that I had stood in a press conference and said I would only give in to a gas tax if there was a palace coup at that time I was talking the gas tax had been proposed as a contribution to general revenues but more than a year ago the secretary of transportation had brought us a report on the state of the highways and the bridges in our country and the very risk of it was almost an emergency situation and I asked him then if he would come back a year later with it because of our economic problems he did and that's why the present gas tax is devoted completely to the repair and the building of those bridges and so forth and is already taking an effect in employment in the various states for construction pretty hard for a president to say it's up on Capitol Hill but our people are in contact with them and talking about it Right Roger Sharpe with WNBC in New York earlier this week you voiced some criticism or at least frustration over the really attitude on the discussions with the pullout in Lebanon do you think the report now from the judicial commission on the massacres in Beirut will help speed up this process or do you think it will further complicate it? Well I'm really afraid to comment on that either way that's a strong democracy it's an internal matter and I think we stand back and keep hands off of an internal matter of that kind we have sent Phil Habib back with further recommendations in the plan that we had originally proposed we hope that we can accelerate the withdrawal not just of the Israelis but of all the foreign forces the Syrians and the remnants of the PLO that are still there because we believe that it is essential to the overall peace plan that I proposed must be the re-establishment of a government in Lebanon that will be sovereign over its own territory and that can't happen and we can't get the cooperation we need from all parties until everyone withdraws to their own borders and we're going to continue along that plan can I take just a couple more I can only tell you that the only cuts that we've proposed are cuts that are aimed at eligibility that ensures that what we're doing is going to people who require the help many of our programs the eligibility requirements that have gone on over the years have been weakened or loosened or administrative practices have been such that we found that we're helping people that really are not eligible for that help we are providing in the budget that we've submitted we will be providing 95 million meals a day in this country now some people I've seen have suddenly seized upon a figure that has to do with school lunches and they said ah there's a reduction in the number of school lunches yes there is because for one thing there's a number of children in school that is fluctuated maybe the baby boom is over but suddenly their enrollment has dropped so there isn't that need we also have eliminated from school food programs a number of rather exclusive high priced schools in which there's no question of the ability about the ability of the parents of the students in those schools to provide for them and between those two and between ensuring that the eligibility rule either reduces the food support for students from families with incomes that are above a level where they should not be getting help from their fellow taxpayers we haven't harmed anyone who has real need they'll all be provided for and as I say 95 million meals a day the I've noticed that in the criticism that we've with regard to food stamps there are more people provided for in our budget than have ever received food stamps before the amount of money being spent on food stamps is greater but what we have cut is a projected increase that was based again on standards and eligibility for example we have already uncovered over a billion dollars in error and fraud in food stamps and we don't think that the people that are paying for the food stamps should be helping those who are fraudulently using food stamps the safety net is intact and is providing for those people that have real need can I I've got to go one more I know I'm sorry we read so many studies about how tax dollars leave the Midwest and the Northeast and go to Washington and then the distributed to California, Florida, Texas for defense spending what can we do to make defense spending more equitable for the entire country and to turn off the outflow of dollars from the Midwest and the Northeast and just make it a little fairer for everybody well in this regard the government is a customer and the first requirement is to give the contracts where the product is being made and where you can get the best the best buy for the money invested so national defense has to be the first priority we have and do make efforts where there are items contracting that can be spread more in the civilian nature not particularly weaponry we have made efforts to aim at the economically distressed areas to spread that more evenly but for example if you're going to build warships you have to go where the shipyards are if you're going to build airplanes you have to go where the airplane companies are but since the target is the security of the entire nation it's only fair that the entire nation pays for it we could say the same thing couldn't we about private industry that certain states have almost a monopoly on a particular industry that services the whole country and so the people in all those other states but then by the same token the people in those other states make things and grow things that are sold nationwide and we've never had in our country a kind of making state border lines like national lines with tariffs and so forth I feel that what probably is more irritating than to some whether the money goes back for something the government must buy as any customer has to buy something and we go where it can be sold is the truth that in many of the government programs practically all of them it is true that there are a number of states in the union that are considered the rich states and the amount of tax money that they provide to Washington when it is redistributed in programs is redistributed to other states that are not paying proportionately the same share and it's based on the idea that some of those other states have greater need this is one though that I think should constantly be watched that a little cluster of states industrial states for example don't wind up supporting the people in others my criticism of many federal programs over the years has been and we're trying to correct this has been that when suddenly the federal program government says we're the only ones that can have a program of aid to rapid transit well then you find since 75% of the people live in cities the cities are where they have the rapid transit so that 75% of the people are paying the taxes and couldn't they do be much more efficient and do it better if they tax themselves at the local level because if the people in Chicago are being taxed to help metro Washington DC or rapid transit in New York but the people in New York are being taxed also for the rapid transit program to help the people in Washington and in Chicago and maybe if the federal government just get out of the way and say look we'll give up the tax source and you just do what you want to do for your own problem here at home because the federal government has a larger carrying charge than most local and state governments have and I think that there's a lot of room and these are some of the some of the controversial things we've been trying to do and we're sending our missionaries up on the hill as often as we can to convince them that it would make more sense if local governments and incidentally we haven't done enough to tell you how far we have gone with our federalism program and how much we have re-altered the whole structure of government in turning back to states and local communities functions they can perform better than the federal government can perform for them now I know that I have to go and I know there are thousands that's got to be the last one and then I'll go alright wait a minute you're talking about a second minimum wage a different minimum wage for them yes the figures that we have seen going back to its very beginning and then every increase that went on you can look back at that and the line on the chart of unemployment for teenagers or young people goes right along increasing with the increase in the minimum wage in other words young people basically do not have a job skill they're entering the job market for some job that they afford to hire an unskilled person for and teach them whatever needs to be taught but many of those jobs are jobs that if you make them too expensive the employer just does without the job being filled and I have believed for many years and my experience as governor and working with youth groups on this that the minimum wage which is really based in mind of the mature employee the person with some job skills and so forth this never should have been applied to young people that are going to school that are looking for summer jobs that are looking for after school jobs and so forth and I think that the best thing that we can do I know that it would be this again your question about my retreating I know to be hopeless to ask to eliminate that for such young people that would be the right thing to do to take you way back before there was such a thing when I got my first summer job was with a construction gang that was remodeling old homes and reselling them and before the summer was over I ended up laying hardwood floor shingling roof painting did everything but electrical and plumbing and there wasn't there weren't any government programs that made the employer have to hire an auditor and deduct from my paycheck or social security or other programs of that kind he could just reach in his pocket every week at the end of the week and count out what he owed me and hand it to me in cash and I wouldn't give up that experience I had for anything in the world and I think that young people today are in that same situation would like to do that but today it's not only the minimum wage but with all the many useful social reforms that we've put in of unemployment insurance and social security and other things of that kind we have made the wedge for the employer the difference between what the employee actually gets and what it costs the employer to hire him so big that he just can't afford to take those young people on with regard I know I mentioned the untouchable social security but I remember when I was doing the GE theater and they one day wanted our three year old daughter to be in a commercial now she wasn't starting to make television a career at three years of age I don't think she was ever going to have a job again for many many years but I thought she was cute and I thought if they want a photographer and put her on TV I'd like to see that too so I spent four hours downtown with my three year old getting her signed up for social security she was going to get the minimum the guild minimum for doing the commercial which I think then was $50 but she was signed up and that was all deducted so forth well I know that I've taken I can't get to all the hands that are here and it's very heartbreaking I wish I could I'll tell you those of you who didn't get your questions asked if you write them down and leave them with Karna in your name and address I guarantee you I will answer them in writing and send you the answers in writing and I thank you all very much again for being here it's been a wonderful experience and I hope we see each other again soon alright thank you


Hi and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question, find the nature of the rules of the following quadratic equation if the real roots exist, find them. 2x square minus 3x plus 5 is equal to 0. Now we know that the roots of the quadratic equation here plus bx plus c is equal to 0 are given by x is equal to minus b plus minus under root of b square minus 4ac upon 2a. Now since b square minus 4ac determines whether the quadratic equation ax square plus bx plus c is equal to 0 has real roots or not and b square minus 4ac is called the discriminant of the quadratic equation. Now a quadratic equation here plus bx plus c is equal to 0 has number one two distinct real roots if b square minus 4ac is greater than 0 that is discriminant is greater than 0. Number two quadratic equation ax square plus bx plus c is equal to 0 has two equal roots if b square minus 4ac is equal to 0 third no real roots exist if discriminant that is b square minus 4ac is less than 0. So this is the key idea behind our question we will take the help of this key idea to solve above question. So let's start the solution given quadratic equation is x square minus 3x plus 5 is equal to 0 on comparing with quadratic equation ax square plus bx plus c is equal to 0 we have is equal to 2 b is equal to minus 3 c is equal to 5 therefore the discriminant b square minus 4ac is equal to minus c square minus 4 into 2 into 5 and this is equal to 9 minus 40 and this is equal to minus 31. Since b square minus 4ac that is discriminant is less than 0 hence according to the key idea the given quadratic equation has no real roots the answer for the above question is real roots do not exist I hope the solution is clear to you buy and take care


In order to dig deeper and see how our architecture actually works, we're going to need to go look at our instruction formats. This is essentially the machine language, the format of the instructions that the machine can actually read. Our machine language is intrinsically tied to the architecture itself. We can make trade-offs one way or the other. Since we're working with the MIPS architecture, all of our instructions will actually be pretty simple. We have three different types of instructions, and they'll all be 32-bits long, and the upper six bits will always represent the operation code. These six bits are sufficient to tell the processor what operation we want it to do, so it knows how to configure its hardware so that it's processing the information correctly. The remaining 26 bits are used for operands for those commands, and the type of format that we choose is largely dependent on which operands do we have to use for this instruction. So, for example, our add instruction has lots of registers, so it will be a register format instruction. If we have an add immediate instruction, then that has an immediate, so it will be an immediate format. A jump instruction will pretty obviously have a jump format as well. So in this section, we're going to be digging deeper into what these formats look like, how we can convert our assembly language code into a machine code that our processors can actually use, and what all of the fields in our formats mean, so that we'll be able to see how the processor can take those pieces of information out of the instruction and use them to actually control what the machine is doing, where does it get its information from, how is the information processed, and where is it stored.


What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today. I'm gonna be ranking Marvel MCU movies from phase 2 Let's get right into this Okay, so once again, I'm really excited for today's video because in the previous video I did phase 1 and I ranked all the movies that were in Marvel MCU phase 1 today I'm gonna be focusing on phase 2 and there's a pretty good lineup of movies This is where I started to really go and watch The movies and started to really get into them and get into the story of how they're all Basically connecting in some points now It's mostly phase 3 that you get a lot more of the stories connecting But you do have to watch some of the movies from phase 1 and phase 2 to get all of the details for movies for phase 3 So starting off with Iron Man 3 This was an awesome movie especially after what happened with the first Avengers movie This was awesome to go back to an Iron Man solo movie and to have him basically take control once again So there's a lot of action in this the story was phenomenal to see how far Iron Man has advanced since the first movie Iron Man 3 was definitely a great movie because of the action in the story. I think it was phenomenal I'm gonna rank it 7 out of 10 next is one that I can Barely remember and it is Thor the dark worlds The reason for that is because back then at the time I was never really into Thor So I can't remember everything that happened. It was an action movie. It was awesome And again, I like the actor that plays Thor. He has a great sense of humor and he does great fight scenes So I'm gonna rank this one a 6.5 out of 10 because for me Ranking these I love doing that. I just can't remember all the details for this movie Next up is Captain America the winter soldier and again at the time I that this movie came out I didn't watch it. I waited a couple years to watch it. It was a really good movie. I really enjoyed it I'm gonna rank this one 7 out of 10 because I enjoyed the movie I thought it was a great movie and it had a great cast in it Next up is Guardians of the Galaxy when this movie was announced whenever I started watching the trailers They were phenomenal. I honestly absolutely love them It has number one Chris Pratt, which is one of my favorite actors currently because He just has a great sense of humor the comedy in the movies and what he brings to the big screen is amazing The fact that Dave Batista is in it. I'm a huge wrestling fan He was one of my favorite wrestlers back in the day And the fact that he's in acting now and he plays in Guardians of the Galaxy as well was awesome And a couple other actors are in it as well that I'm a huge fan of so Guardians of the Galaxy had a lot going for it for the cast the movie was awesome The fact that they defended the world and the fact that it gives a little bit of backstory of how they basically got together and banded together Was awesome. I loved everything about this movie. I rank it pretty high. I'm gonna rank it 8 out of 10 because Honestly Guardians of the Galaxy is one of my favorite movies in the Marvel MCU. So 8 out of 10 for me Next up is Avengers age of Ultron and I believe this is where they did a lot of destruction in The city I can't remember if that is age of Ultron or Captain America's civil civil war I can't remember which one. I think it's age of Ultron because basically the machines and everything that I Can't remember if that's that movie or not It ties into Spider-Man later on for phase three, but anyways age of Ultron was awesome basically once again the Avengers come together and Take down Ultron. So I Again, it's bugging me right now that I can't remember if it was Civil war that all the destruction happened or age of Ultron again I'm gonna rank this one pretty high 7.5 out of 10 because I really enjoyed the movie I'm just forgetting which part I'm thinking about was for this movie or which one was for Civil war. So we're worried about that for phase three The last movie for phase two is Ant-Man the first Ant-Man movie Paul Rudd is an amazing actor I didn't realize how old he was, but he's always been in great movies. He's always had this very comedic aspects to his roles where it just breaks the ice and it adds depth to his characters Whatever he plays in movies. So having him play as Ant-Man was awesome The things he says are amazing and they're just hilarious for me And I love everything about the gadgets that Ant-Man has where he can throw a disc and it can just just by touching an object With that disc it can either enlarge it or shrink that object The fact that Ant-Man himself can enlarge or shrink when need be Everything about that is awesome to me It is not a character that whenever I was into comic books that I was really into and really paid attention to But whenever I seen that it's Paul Rudd in the movies whenever I started watching the trailers I decided to give it a chance and Honestly, it's amazing. The story is amazing. Everything about Ant-Man movies are awesome So I'm gonna rank it higher than anything else for that I did for phase two I'm gonna rank it 8.5 out of 10 because it is awesome So for me for phase two my favorite movies, of course, because of how I ranked them are gonna be Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy just because I've always been into comedy I've shared that on the channel before and both Paul Rudd and Chris Pratt have a comedic aspect to any role They've played in any movies they've played So bringing that with Star-Lord for Chris Pratt and for Paul Rudd with Ant-Man was awesome And it was a great touch that Marvel did so this was me ranking phase two movies for the Marvel MCU I hope you guys did enjoy comment down below what you would rank each movie Honestly, I'm really excited to share my thoughts on phase three And I'm really excited in the future whenever phase four is finally on its way to finally rank phase four But honestly when it comes to phase four, I'm going to wait until phase four is almost complete Before I start ranking those movies because there's no point if they're still making movies for phase four to start ranking them So it's going to be a few years before I rank phase four, but I'm definitely going to do it I'm really excited and hopefully I'll share my thoughts on each movie in the meantime If that's something that interests you but the next movie for this series is going to be for phase three So stay tuned for that. I'm gonna leave this video here. Please take care. Peace


The chorus of international condemnation over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza mounts. UN agencies' rights organization and world leaders have expressed concern, although this does not seem to have any effect on Israel's impunity. A new report by the Food and Agricultural Organization says that famine is projected to occur any time between now and May 2024 in the northern parts of Gaza. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres termed the report an appalling indictment of the conditions on the ground for civilians. He said that this is an entirely man-made disaster. Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund has said that over 13,000 children had died in Gaza and many more don't even have the energy to cry. We go to Abdul for the latest from the ground. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. A host of reports now from the FAO for the United Nations Children's Fund. Could you tell us what all of these reports are talking about the humanitarian situation in Gaza right now? Well Prashant, most of the reports prepared by the UN agencies about the humanitarian situation in Gaza have similar things, by Allah, similar things to say and those are those things that there are common points in most of them. Of course they're saying that how around 2 million plus Palestinian people who are living in Gaza who are who are basically suffering because of the war, which has been which is ongoing for more than five months now are now has been have been systematically deprived of their basic humanitarian needs like food, medicine, water and other essential commodities, which basically has led to a situation where there now we see large-scale malnutrition among the Palestinian population as per for example as per the UNRA report around half of the people in Gaza are basically at a very acute level of malnutrition they are facing and they're on the verge of they're at the risk of kind of facing famine of some soon. In a similar way UNICEF for example is saying that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are deprived of nutrition which ultimately leads to stunted growth if they're surviving. Of course there are reports coming that a large number of Palestinian children have died because of the lack of nutrition, lack of food and that basically the number has is increasing every day. So UNICEF report is saying that there is a danger that majority of the Palestinian children will basically face a level of starvation which will ultimately lead to a generation which basically will be stunted if they survive the war that is of course there are also reports coming that which basically measuring the level of starvation across Gaza one of the reports indicate that though the entire Gaza is under a severe in a stage in which there is a severe malnutrition acute deficiency in terms of supply of basic food and nutrition nutrition to the large number of Palestinians but particularly in the northern Gaza which has which we all remember that ever since the war began that was the first region which was evac forcefully evacuated most of the houses there are destroyed very small population which now lives there despite all the bombings and so and so forth is primarily deprived of a humanity grenade which primarily reaches Gaza through the southern borders which are there in Rafa and other places so this aid is not able to reach and northern Gaza so though the overall aid availability of aid is less all across Gaza but particularly the northern in northern Gaza the situation is quite severe and as per the the reports claim by IPC today is March 19th it seems that the fifth stage of there are five stages according to their calculation of five levels of starvation and northern Gaza is already into the fifth stage which is the highest stage of malnutrition and lack of food which are equals to famine and that's what is happening all across Gaza right Abdul in this context could you also tell us a bit about what is happening on the ground in terms of the fighting we know that attacks are continuing in Gaza we know that they've been attacked around the Al Shia for hospital as well so could you give us an update well Prashant when we are talking about the state of war in Gaza of course one can say that after the point there is hardly anything new to add the fact is every day similar story is repeated for last five and a half months that Israel is bombing Rafa Israel is bombing Khan Yunus Israel is bombing different other parts of the besieged territory and there are ground offensives going on for example Al Shifa hospital is facing Israeli ground offensive for I think if I'm not correct the fifth or sixth time since the war began on October 7 and every time Al Shifa hospital is attacked Israeli forces indiscriminately bomb the hospital premises shoot inside the hospital premises kill innocent civilians which have gone there to get treatment because of the wounds that they have been suffering because of the Israeli bombings and another war activities carried out by Israel so similar things are happening in Rafa despite the warnings repeated warnings that Rafa since it is a home of more than 1.5 million Palestinians now who have been forced out of other parts of the besieged territory living there and this is very densely populated area so any kind of bombing will lead to large-scale casualties and but Israel never listens to all those warnings does not care about them in fact and repeatedly bombs for example in the latest bombing on Tuesday more than 14 people were killed including children in one of the houses which was the target of the attack so you can understand the amount of casualties which is basically created by Israel's indiscriminate bombing inside Rafa another for example attacks on Al Shifa hospital where more than 100 people were killed on on Monday and on Tuesday so apart from that as I said I was saying before the Israel has been preventing all kinds of humanitarian aid and support to reach the affected population of course they prevent medical care they prevent the aid agencies to reach the affected people effectively creating different kinds of hurdle but at the same time they also do not allow the aid to flow into Gaza the that as per the claims made by UN agencies there is enough aid which is there available but there that all of that aid is basically blocked out of Gaza hundreds of trucks are stationed at the Rafa border at the moment with the humanitarian aid inside but they are not allowed to go in inside Rafa by the Israeli forces citing different kinds of excuses once they claim that some of the humanitarian aid has scissors and which basically can be used as left-hand weapon and hence they basically since then they have started in inspecting all the boxes which basically carry such kind of aid to Gaza they have also used the excuse of large-scale gathering for the delivery of aid so therefore they want to slow down the movement of aid so that apparently that will prevent large-scale gathering but all these things we all know are tactics used to deliberately starve Palestinians to force them to leave and if they are not leaving to kind of kill them if that's what is required so it seems that Israel has completely decided to kind of kind of take out basically attack Palestinian population the way it wants and it has and no kind of it seems that there is hardly any effective pressure created by the international community to kind of to stop to make Israel stop these kind of both the access to aid to the Palestinians and at the same time to end the war in the region thank you so much Abdul but stay back we'll come back to you for the next story our next story is from West Africa where Niger has revoked a military accord that allows US personnel to be posted in the country this was allegedly after US delegation threatened retaliation against the largest country in West Africa for its ties with Iran and Russia now question mark hangs over the three strategically crucial US military bases in the country including the world's largest drone base in the central Nigerian city of Agades just a few months ago Niger's former colonizer France was forced to remove its troops after its post coup government demanded the same the latest decision by Niger's government is the latest twist in what has been a series of massive political developments in Saku in July 2023 we go back to Abdul for details welcome back Abdul a very momentous development it would seem first French troops are forced to withdraw and now a demand similar demand made of the US but could you first take us through what are the US facilities in the region and you know what this could mean for them and what were the reasons exactly cited well Prashant the government in Niger has declared the presence of US forces in the country as illegal of course that it is not clear whether this would mean that the US forces which are there in the country around 1100 of them will have to leave the three different bases which are there in the country or there will be some other arrangement made but so far one thing is clear that this came after US delegation are leased the Niger government CNSPC Niger government kind of threatening them to not have a relationship with Russia or any in fact Iran or any other country and kind of threatening them of any of some kind of retaliation again if Niger moves towards Russia or develops relationship with Iran and so and so forth of course the Niger government did not appreciate that this kind of dictation of what Niger should do or should not do we should remember that this is the same government which basically kind of pushed the French troops to move the country and has basically been very consistent in his position that the imperialist interventions in the country in the domestic affairs of the country and its independent foreign policy will not be tolerated so as far as then as I said before there are three different kinds of bases US has in the country one of course two of them are air bases one in based is based in Nimai another one is based in aga days and and both of them are quite large built with over 100 million dollars of expenditure cost and and and every year US spends millions of dollars to kind of maintain those bases given the fact that they they considered the presence of your troops in the country in nizer essential for their global empire in so one of the bases in aga days for example is world's largest drone base the air base in Nimai is one of the largest air bases in the on the african continent the third base which was operated by which has been operated by cia for a very long time as a secret base is now of course there is an expose that it has become a public knowledge that cia operates a smaller base as well in nizer for a very long time the the governments the previous governments in nizer have used those the US military presence in in their advantage to kind of suppress use them as a threat against the domestic descent against the forces which are basically trying to try to question them and therefore but we know that ever since this new government has come which has a pan african outlook which has an anti imperialist outlook which basically claims to kind of work for independence of the nizers and its foreign policy it of course this has a different approach and it there is also a very strong popular support for whatever steps it has taken against all kinds of intervention in the country external intervention in the country including the military presence of france the earlier colonial power right and how do you think abdul this development sort of what are the implications for the larger region as a whole we are on this show we've talked about how west africa has been drastically changing since the niger coup but even before that we have mali burkina faso etc so this latest development how do you think it plays into all of that well prashant as far as the possible implications of us withdrawal from nizer is concerned there are we can see it on two level of course one is at the domestic level the government nizer government there is a new government of course which has come to power through military intervention and it has been seeking legitimacy while taking taking up popular demands popular issues which have been primarily anti imperialistic and anti colonial for example the steps taken against the presence of france given the fact that france was involved in the economic exploitation and law has a long history had a long history of human aid violations through its military in the country us does not have a different history it has a similar history as france it has basically used its military forces to not only exploit facilitate the colonial exploitation of countries resources and in collaboration with the ruling classes in the country to pressurize and consistently violate the rights of the common people in the country in niger and therefore there is a strong popular sentiment against the presence of us troops so if the nizer government takes the decision ultimately to ask the us forces to move out of the country of course that there is a possibility that this will increase the popularity of the current government in power and that that will lead to as far as the reason is concerned will lead to a greater consolidation of the efforts which most of the countries have now started taking in the region as we saw as we saw during in the last in last year how the three different governments came together in the region and basically stood against the imperialist attempts to kind of intervene and and so and so forth so that will lead to strengthening of such powers which have been standing against the colonial operation colonial hegemony in the region and that would also mean that the us will lose a very strategic position on the african continent it will also affect its grover global presence because we know how us uses military bases hundreds of military bases all across the globe to maintain its hegemony its its global empire and if they are forced to withdraw from nizer that would mean that there is a strong dent in that capacity to their hegemony capacity so if the events turn out to be similar to what happened to the french troops in nizer of course this will lead to both domestic consolidation behind the current government in nizer will lead to strong emergence of stronger regional powers which will be able to stand against all kind of bullying and colonial interventions which the african most of the african countries have been subjected to for centuries and and and in a way we can say that this is if this happens that will be good for the for the democratic movement all across the globe thank you so much abdul for those updates and that's all we have time for in today's daily debrief we'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow meanwhile do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org follow us on all the social media platforms and if you're watching this on youtube please hit the subscribe button


Hi, I'm Matthew Coast, head dating coach and founder for CommitmentConnection.com. And in today's video, we're going to talk about five rules for a friend with benefits type relationship. And so if this is your first time to our channel, make sure that you go and hit the subscribe button to learn more about how to attract the man in the relationship that you've always wanted. So normally I don't typically talk about friend with benefits type situations because it's kind of something that I think that most women should avoid if they want something long term at all. And so but you know, if you are going to get into a friend with benefits situation, here are some of the rules that I think that you should follow. So the first rule is to treat this as like a one night stand type of thing and expect that that is what is going to come from it is some kind of situation like that. And so you know, with this rule, what I'm I'm really saying here is that if you're going to get into a casual relationship, don't do it with somebody that you see on a continual basis, right? Don't do it with a guy from work.  Do it with somebody that lives far enough away that you don't know that you don't run into that you don't see a lot because what tends on happening tends on tends to happen during these types of situations is that somebody ends up catching feelings and that it ends up turning awkward and that ends up having to get broken up. You end up having to break up with somebody has to break up with the other person. And if you have to see each other a lot, it ends up just getting awkward and weird and a painful.  What do I do now? Well, you shouldn't have gotten into this situation. So rule number two is that you should not try to analyze the relationship that you have together because in reality, there is no relationship there.  And like I said before, usually somebody ends up catching feelings. And my suggestion is instead of trying to analyze and figure things out and trying to take it to a real relationship, what you should probably do instead is just back out completely as soon as you start feeling anything for this person because you're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble when you start trying to figure out how to turn it into something real if your partner doesn't or the guy you're sleeping with doesn't feel like he wants something real, which there's a good chance that he doesn't. Rule number three is to avoid turning this into some kind of friend or a date. So with a casual relationship, you want to keep the emotions back because as soon as those emotions start getting in there or as soon as you start trying to put a kind of a courtship frame around the interaction that you're having, it usually goes downhill from there. And so it's better to, if you're just going to do like a casual thing with a guy, to keep it at just that and don't make it any deeper than that because there's a really good chance that you're going to end up getting hurt from it. And so it's just a bad idea to try to make it deeper. Rule number four is to avoid expectations when it comes to this person that you're hooking up with. And so a lot of times what ends up happening is that one person or the other will start creating these expectations or these ideas about how the other person should behave or start acting around them and that's going into relationship material again or relationship territory again and you don't want to go in that space, especially if you haven't created the foundation to have a relationship because what's more likely to end up happening here is the person that you're hooking up with is probably going to start getting resentful around this and then it's just going to go downhill from there. So you want to keep everything light, you want to keep everything on a casual level. You want to avoid trying to critique this person's etiquette or unloading your baggage on him or expecting him to connect with you on an emotional level and treat him less like he's a friend of yours and more like somebody that you're just hanging out with and want to hook up with. Rule number five is to be mature about how the relationship ends or the situation ends and it's going to end and it probably is going to end as soon as somebody starts acting weird, which is usually what ends up happening in these types of situations is one person starts acting weird and then the other person usually just disappears, goes, starts ignoring them or just pushes them away because it's going to happen and you can't get all hooked up into that and this is another reason why I said as soon as if you start catching feelings, my suggestion is just to pull out and away from it immediately that way you don't get super deep in next thing you know you're falling in love next thing you know you want something deeper next thing you know he's disappearing on you and next thing you know your heart broken. So expect that there's going to be an end to it and you know if you notice like courtship things starting to happen with him or yourself that's the time to end it.


I'm Allison Randall. I'm the president of the Open Source Initiative and I also work on OpenStack at Hewlett-Backard. Thank you for joining us today on SuperUserTV, Allison. Can you give me a little bit more background about the Open Source Initiative? So the Open Source Initiative is a non-profit 501c3 organization. It was founded right around the same time as the term Open Source, and its primary mission is around shepherding the term Open Source to make sure that it's used appropriately. And that includes the Open Source definition and also sort of figuring out which licenses are able to be called Open Source. The other thing we really do is a lot of work around community best practices, helping open source communities improve the way they interact and sort of improve development practices as well. Awesome. So how does the Open Source Initiative relate back to the OpenStack Foundation? So they're independent, but I would say they're related in the sense that the Open Source Initiative is interested in all Open Source projects across the board and how they relate to each other. And OpenStack is a really, really important example of an Open Source project, especially an example of some of the newer style of Open Source projects where there's a foundation in the center that's the collaboration point for hundreds of companies. This is more of a recent development in Open Source, but it's a really important one. So what are some of the examples of how Open Source is transforming in 2015? So it's an interesting thing. So in the early days of Open Source, it was like a little bit frenzy. It was like people saying, well, people don't understand free software, let's give it a name, and start trying to gauge with companies. And then over like 2005 to 2010, you see more and more companies really getting the concept of Open Source and how it can benefit them. The interesting thing about 2015 is we're hitting a point where pretty much all companies, about 78% of companies report that they're using Open Source, and like 88% report that they're planning to contribute more in the future. So we're really at this phase of Open Source where it's gone from being frenzy to being like adopted to now it's really the central way of doing business for a lot of companies. And a really important way that companies can collaborate together, whereas if they were just out in the commercial space, they would have to sign, you know, like 500 pages of contracts just to collaborate on a project. When it's Open Source, like OpenStack, they can collaborate, and it's no more complicated than signing a contributor agreement and joining the foundation. So it really is an important piece of driving innovation. Awesome. Well, thank you again for joining us today on SuperUserTV, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the OpenStack Summit Tokyo. Thank you. Really glad to be here.


We've had a wonderful couple of hours here and I'd like to, in addition to having had the presentation of the plaque, we have a couple of other small mementos here that I'd like to present you at this time. Well, thank you very much. I'll ask Jim Gibbons to come over. Okay. This is, as you can see, a replica of our administration building. Yes. The golden dome. And we'd like to give this to you at this time and I hope you will keep it. Well, thank you. I will keep it. I will treasure it. Thank you very much. And this is not available just anywhere. We don't even carry it in the Notre Dame bookstore. On the number one, that seems appropriate. And the giver. Thank you very much for all of this and of course the day itself has been a red letter day that I've been looking forward to for a long time. I was just saying in the other room to some of your people there that football was always a major part of my life. And then I wound up sports announcing. And as I said in my remarks, once I became the sports announcer at the station and there was an open date, I found that I was the one that could tell in the game we ought to cover. And so I would, every season, manage to get to South Bend almost and do a Notre Dame game or two. And so all the legends and everything and some of the things that I mentioned there in the, in my remarks were all, all true. And as I say to the younger people here, if only you could understand what a national figure rock was and how many millions of people just identified with him. And today they could tell you where they were the day they learned the twos of the terrible tragedy as I could. I was in a fraternity house at Eureka College over in Illinois and heard it. It was, it was a great tragedy for all. But it just, it was something, a legend that I think planted football so firmly. And rock, many times things have never been told about him. I believe that football was a really typical American sport and something that was peculiar to us in the whole action and everything of the game. And that you got more than just a game out of it by, by playing it. I know I should stand here and get talking to you again. You've heard me long enough for today. But if someone had one question or so that has been bothering them, they said to themselves, if I ever had a chance to ask him. Fire away. Fire away. I would like to add a few remarks in there about getting to play the part of the gibber. There was quite an experience there under contract of the studio and all. And as I did say in, in there, I had made a mistake. I just thought as long as I was under contract of the studio and had this good idea of what should be a picture that I ought to get it down on paper. And I asked people for help and questions and so forth. And as I say, all of a sudden found out it was a good idea when I read it in the papers that Warner Brothers are going to make the picture. And when I announced what all I had ever wanted was to play the gibber. And incidentally, I learned a great many stories about the gibber. The things that he did and some of them are probably not epic and shouldn't be told, but he always, he always came through. And that first scene, becoming acquainted with Rock, that was the scene that they used for the screen test. And Patrick Ryan very graciously, usually stars didn't participate in screen tests. They let somebody else just do that, read the lines with you. But he did the script with me knowing how much I felt about that. And I was told then a true story of when what happened then, you know, was that the gibber did take the ball and ran about 65 yards for a touchdown through the varsity playing for the scrubs. And the players up there in the line that were supposed to be the Notre Dame first and second team were a whole bunch of football players from USC and UCLA. And I was an actor in their eyes. And so when I went into the line that called for me, he's faking out here a little bit, cutting back in through the line and then reversing the field. And as I got to the line, suddenly I'm flat on my face. And someone didn't tackle me, knew he couldn't get away with that. But boom, you know, like on an ankle and so forth and down I went. Well, I came back and I lined up again thinking it was an accident and same thing happened down again.  The bit player who's playing an assistant coach back there where I was was the great Jim Thorpe. And as I came back again and now I'm boiling.    And I didn't attempt to go past him at all. I just ran over him. When I came back, old Jim said, you look like old Jim there. But also that I was told a Ropney thing that when that actually happened in the true Gip story, his first time in running the ball through the varsity. And he came back with the ball and handed the ball to Ropney. And he said, I guess the boys are just tired. Well, I won't bore you with any more. It's nice to see you all. Thank you very much. All of a sudden the ball came down right between us.