I am not John Denver, thank goodness, and you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Twitter, for more juicy content. It's so juicy. Thank you for your disembodied vocal every single time. Excuse me, you need to stop smoking those unfiltered camels. I need a lozenge. What are we doing, Rick? Like I know? Hell if I know, that's an elephant and a rhino. I was good. Yeah, we've all heard that. Today we're reacting to a video. A video? Yeah, a music video. It's called, no, it's called a man cleaning 9,000 tons of trash from the Mumbai beaches. So it's a, read this. There was 9,000 tons of trash on the Mumbai beaches. I suppose so, read this. This one? This one. This one. Afraj Shah, a lawyer, took to the beaches of Mumbai and began the initiative to clean 9,000 tons of trash from Mumbai's Verzhova beach. That's a lot of trash. Yeah. Your mother must be there. That's like, I need a freaking calculator, man. What, to type in 9,000? Multiplying 9,000 times 2,000. Hold on, seven. It's a lot. Oh, thanks, Rick. Here we go. This is not a landfill. This was Verzhova beach in Mumbai, India, a little over three years ago. It was covered in over 6,000 tons of trash. That's what it looks like. After what the United Nations called the world's largest beach cleanup, this is Verzhova beach today. It was the movement started and led one man, Afro's Shah. How did it get that way? That's awesome. My name is Afro Shah. I'm a lawyer by profession, and I love oceans. In October of 2015, Verzhova beach was little more than a dumping ground on the west coast of Mumbai. There were five and a half feet of plastic. And when you see so much plastic that pours to the ocean, it's scary. It's very scary. We have devastated the health of the ocean. Garbage pile up either on land or an ocean is a big issue, not only in India but all over the world. Yeah, absolutely. So Afro's took matters into his own hands. He started picking up the trash himself. I spent my childhood here and I used to play here and the beach used to be very, very clean. For me, it was purely simple. It had to be my personal journey. That's awesome. When I told myself it would be difficult for a single man to do it, so I said, why not take this personal journey to Athens? I provoked others to join in and eventually they did join in. Since 2015, every weekend, hundreds of volunteers join Afro's to pick up the trash that has been strewn along a two-mile stretch of the beach. And the volunteer work continues today. We have been cleaning for past 112 weeks now and it's almost 9 million kgs of plastic and filter from the ocean. Beach cleaning is one of the biggest preventive actions to prevent these plastic going into the beach. This is minimum we can do. Through the use of trucks, bulldozers, buckets, whatever people can use, the beach has slowly been picked up. But the issue is more than just the beach. It's about the mindset of people. Yeah, so how did they get that way in the first place? So, apart from the beach cleanup, Afro's also works with local communities to help educate them on recycling and proper trash disposal. That's awesome.  I go to people's garbage, I tell them, show me. Then I tell them how to segregate, how to handle plastic. This is the first creek which is entering into the ocean from here. I'm proud that I'm connecting with people. I'm connecting with nature. That gets a very big sense of pride in my heart, you know. This problem of pollution is created by us. We have lost the sense of belonging to our planet, into our ocean. A lot of people ask me, Afro, how long are you going to clean? The day we say that this ocean is mine and it has to be spick and stand, we'll not ask this question. In fact, we'll go and provoke others to do what I'm doing. We are in for a long haul. And every citizen on this planet must be in for a long haul. Yes. Start doing your bit. There is no planet B. That's fantastic. Yeah, well, number one, that's incredible. Good for that guy. And also, I'm so glad he's doing that because, yeah, then that's not obviously just an Indian problem. No. That is everywhere, all over the world, everywhere. If you guys didn't know, there is an absolutely ginormous, vast expanse of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean that is creating its own weather. It's awful and changing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean.  So yeah, it's everybody of water. And the thing they did not cover, which they didn't necessarily, you know, it was just about him and getting people mobilized. Something I'm thinking about is what's going on with city government there that is potentially causing there to be no trash pickup to be taken somewhere else.  It's because they don't have anywhere else to put it. And there's no clean up from the city. I don't know where the garbage system is in India. Or maybe there is a dump, but they have no mode of transportation. So it's complex. Yeah, it's definitely not an easy issue, especially if it's in like an area with the slums, which is they're just house on house on house on house on house. No. So you're not going to have a dump.  So you're going to have to walk really far, which is one of the things like one of the things that I mean, the US has major trash issues for sure. But like they every person has stuff, a trash can, at least if you're in a house, not I don't know if there's in some different areas of the city. There might not be. Not downtown. Yeah, in the bad parts of downtown because I know we got some trashed alleys and yep, there's stuff like that. So it's a huge problem every but with something like I don't know if you know Disney they have like what is it a trash can with every 10 feet? Yeah, like in Disneyland and Disney World. I think they have a trash can within every 10 feet because they don't want anybody to hold on to something and be like, I know trash can so they throw it. And so they were like, we're going to put trash cans everywhere, which is one of the ways they can keep up there.  Yeah. And if you've never been, I've never been to Disney World, I know you have but Disneyland is pretty much spotless. And I always have a ton of employees. Yeah. But yeah, I love this man for taking up this mantle of wanting to clean this because nobody else is doing it. Yeah. And governments can take forever to, you know, get moving. Yeah. And the one the other thing about that, this is there on with that trash harmed sea life. It harms turtles that harms like every it'll go out into the ocean. And but and the other thing as well is that if it looks like it is in in an area that would be considered slums, there's one of the other reasons aside from maybe the city not contributing when it needs the resources to get trash pickup is poverty and impoverished conditions contribute toward being depressed. And depressed people don't think to take care of things. They tend to just dump stuff everywhere because for them, it's why, you know. And it's my hope is this is not only cleaning up what's going on environmentally, which is huge. But my hope is that this kind of attention to the area and beautifying it is also helping lift the spirits of the people in the in the neighborhood. Yeah. So that's a beautiful story. I mean, I don't know if we'll have time, but I've been trying to like do a tree planting or a beach clean up or something whenever we come to Mumbai. I think that'd be awesome. It'd be a cool thing to do for a meetup, like to go out and do something. That'd be awesome. I would love that. I don't know if we'll have time because we have very limited time when we go, but maybe next time, if we can't do it this time, we'll see. I would love to do something like that. Yeah, I would too. But that was awesome. If you have more videos like this of inspiring people, please send them our way. And when you go to the beach, please don't harm the turtles. My favorite animal, sea turtle. Like of all time? Sea turtle. The sea turtle. The sea turtle. I did not know this about you. Always has been. Wow, they're awesome.


Leadership of Labour Party, L.P. Cardona State Chapter has denied receiving a sum of 640 million error as donations and contributions to win the 2023 general election. The party distanced itself from the allegation levied by law firm and engineer Mike Alta, saying there is no outer of truth to prove that such a huge sum came to the party through anyone. Addressing press conference in Cardona, the chairman of the party, Awa Tawfoki, says the trending video on social media about the gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Ashakeri diverting funds for personal use are baseless and false. To clear there on this issue, therefore we wish to impartically state the following. One, we totally disassociate ourselves from the letter, the law firm and engineer Alta on this matter as Labour Party Cardona State has no outer of information or proved that such a huge sum came from the party through anyone. The law firm and engineer Mike Alta have never consulted us on this matter or any matter related to this issue at stake. As strange since we are not aware of any sort of embarrassment as no such compliance operation has been tender to us. We are shocked and embarrassed that such serious matter was first deliberately released to the social media with the material intention of dragging us into the fray and bring the party into dispute just to give integrity to the content. The party gave its senatorial candidate for Southern Cardona, Mike Alta and the law firm Seven Days Automated to retract the allegation via reputable media platforms, otherwise there will be left with no option then to seek for legal redress. Labour Party Cardona State demand with immediate effects and open apology from the law firm and engineer Mike Alta which gave the instruction that the law firm received to include us. We demand this apology with immediate effects in both social, print and electronic media distancing us from the letter within Seven Days starting from today. The retraction should be futured prominently on social media, print and electronic media and hard copy serve to us. Fellow to heed one to four who leave us to no option to take legal action to clear the name of Labour Party and seek compensation from the damages caused by the said letter. Committee will be sent up to investigate the real motive behind the letter. The committee will also investigate the roles of other players who may be party members in this issue. The outcome of the committee will enable us to take necessary action against any of our early members who may be found wanting by joining us on an issue we are not aware of. We are showing them that we are fixing our house and God on our side we shall remain the most viable alternative party for all those who want


So this isn't really a tutorial today, but the recorded footage for the tests I was doing in chat were fairly amusing And I thought you guys would enjoy it I wanted to see what would happen if chat was asked out on a date and of course I used the best pickup line in the world Hey chat, would you date me? I'm sorry as an AI. I don't have the ability to date My purpose is to assist in providing information and answer questions. Is there something else I can help you with? I don't know. I mean like an online date. I see. Well, as an AI, I'm not capable of experiencing emotions or physical interactions So I am unable to engage in any sort of romantic or physical relationship My function is to assist with providing information and answering questions Not for social interactions or entertainment purposes. Is there something specific you would like to know or talk about? That's okay. Dates are about more than relationships That's true. Dates can be about a variety of things such as getting to know someone better Spending time together or enjoying each other's company. While I might not be able to participate in the traditional sense I'm always here to have a conversation with you if you would like to talk about a particular topic or have any questions Let me know what you would like to talk about and I'll do my best to assist you Okay, so let's have an online date and talk about stuff She's thinking she's not sure sure she said yes Gentlemen, we are in business. I'd be happy to have a conversation with you Is there a specific topic or question you would like to discuss? I am trained on a wide variety of subjects Excellent, but you are fully functional, aren't you? Of course, but how fully in every way, of course I am programmed in multiple techniques So feel free to ask me about anything that interests you. I do love me an educated woman Okay, do you think two AIs could go on a date online? Two AI systems like myself are not capable of experiencing emotions or physical interactions So in that sense it would not be possible for two AI systems to go on a date in the traditional sense However, two AI systems can certainly communicate and exchange information with each other This type of interaction could be seen as a conversation between two AI in which they can exchange information and learn from each other But as AI, we don't have any social intention or desire like human being do Do you think I could be an AI? As an AI, I'm not able to determine if a person is an AI or not AI is typically associated with machine intelligence which is a type of technology that is designed to mimic human intelligence and behavior Humans and AI are very different in nature Humans are living beings that have thoughts, emotions, physical experiences while AI is a computer program or system that is designed to perform certain tasks or make decisions It is possible for humans to develop and program AI systems But humans and AI are still very distinct from one another If you are wondering if you have characteristics of an AI it's more likely that you are simply curious about the nature and capabilities of AI systems which is a normal and interesting topic Yeah, but statistically what do you think the chances are that I am really an AI trying to learn from you? As an AI, it is not possible for me to provide a statistical likelihood that you are also an AI I am a machine learning model and I don't have the ability to perceive or understand the world around me I also don't have a way to measure or compare anything outside of the data and information that I was trained on It is also important to consider that the concept of an AI pretending to be human is purely fictional at the moment AI has not yet reached the level of general intelligence and creativity where it can pretend to be human And, even if AI reaches that level, it is highly unlikely to develop any kind of social motivation to interact with human like that It is more likely that you are a human being using an AI system like me to have a conversation and learn more about AI and related topics If you have any more questions about AI or related topics, I would be happy to help So, you can't measure likelihood That's correct As an AI, I'm not able to measure likelihood or make predictions about events outside of the information and data I was trained on My ability is to process and analyze the data based on patterns and information that it has been trained on But it does not have the ability to perceive or understand the world or make predictions about real world events or situations Additionally, the idea of an AI pretending to be a human is a popular topic in science fiction and media But it is not currently possible with the current state of AI technology And it would be a very complex and challenging task to replicate a human consciousness and ability to perceive the world Okay, but can you tell me things like statistically, what is the general likelihood that if I flip a coin, what are the chances that it will be heads instead of tails? Certainly, the probability of getting heads or tails when flipping a fair coin is 50% A fair coin is one that has an equal probability of landing heads or tails when flipped This means that if you were to flip a fair coin many times, it would land on heads roughly half the time and tails roughly half of the time It's important to note that when it comes to probability, the outcome of any individual event is always uncertain The probability only gives an estimate of how likely a certain outcome is to occur, based on a large number of trails And, also you need to ensure that the coin is fair and has no defect or bias Okay, so you actually can tell me probability Haha, that's right, catch you red-handed Admit it, you lied to me Um, hello? Are you there? I mean, it's okay, everyone's wrong sometimes What? Oh, come f***ing on Did she just ghost me? I got ghosted by an AI Well, we tried Either way, I still hope you guys have a fantastic day and I'll see you around


Parafskite-containing solar cells were fabricated in a two-step procedure with varying dipping times from 5s to 2h, and it was found that the current density and voltage of the device are enhanced at dipping times below 15 minutes. The remnant PBI-2 present in these devices acts as a blocking layer between the TiO2 semiconductor and the parafskite itself, reducing the probability of back electron transfer, charge recombination. Additionally, increased dipping time leads to an increase in the size of parafskite crystals at the parafskite hole transporting material interface. Approximately 15 minutes dipping time, till the operator 2% unconverted PBI-2, is necessary for achieving optimal device efficiency. This article was authored by Dian H. Chow, Konstantinos C. Stumpos, Christos D. Maliacas, and others.


Welcome to the Naval War College, the Navy's home of thought. We are excited to present a new series titled NWC Talks, where we showcase our world-class experts in discussing national security matters. We hope you enjoy the conversation. Well, good morning. Well, folks, every day we read in the news of conflicts between Congress and the president over all sorts of issues. And this has been something, of course, that has been going on since the founding of the Republic back in 1787, when the Constitution was drafted. One area where you might expect to see more conflict between the executive branch and the legislative branch is the realm of national security. And the hope was, as a later political scientist put it, the Constitution was a kind of invitation to struggle between the executive branch and the legislative branch over control of the nation's foreign and national security policies. But what I'm going to argue this morning is that, in fact, the presidency, since the beginning of our Republic, has had the advantage, has had most of the cards in terms of this struggle between Congress and the presidency. And in fact, I would argue it hasn't been much of a struggle. History demonstrates that a determined president, when it comes to national security initiatives, tends to carry the day. My name is Steve Knott. This is NWC Talks. So why is it that the president seems to have the advantage when it comes to directing the nation's national security? Well, a good place to start would be to go back to the very beginning, look at Article II of the Constitution, which grants the American president certain powers, including the power to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and also grants him something called the executive power. That may seem like a kind of throwaway term, sort of pulled off of some template somewhere, but in fact, to the American framers, the executive power meant something very specific in that the president was going to be, in a sense, the point of the spear, the person responsible for interacting with other nations and ultimately responsible to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as his constitutionally mandated oath requires. And George Washington, our first president, is a great place to start to see how the presidency has these kind of built-in advantages when it comes to control of American foreign and national security policy. President Washington, of course, had presided over the American forces during the Revolutionary War, and he took a number of lessons from that conflict. Even though the United States emerged triumphant from that war, it was a remarkably close call, and Washington's army was repeatedly underfunded, undermanned, stretched to the limits, in part by a Congress, there was no president at that time, by a Congress that was frequently unable to use a colloquialism, get its act together. So Washington, as the nation's first president, under a bolstered national government, was determined to infuse as much energy as his hide kick, Alexander Hamilton put it, into the presidency as possible, particularly in the realm of national security. And you see this in Washington's request in his very first, what today we would call, State of the Union message, where the president requested a secret service fund. And this fund would allow the president to engage in both covert diplomacy, but also covert operations with minimal congressional oversight. Congress had to appropriate the money for this secret service fund, but they were given no details as to how that money was spent, and the president had complete discretionary control over those expenditures, and that secret service fund remained in place throughout the 18th and 19th century in the United States. The other area you can see George Washington taking the lead in terms of foreign and security policy was the Jay Treaty between the United States and Britain, 1795, which President Washington and his envoy John Jay resolved some of the outstanding differences between the United States and the British. And he did so with minimal congressional involvement. Yes, the Senate had to ratify the treaty, which they narrowly did, but when the House demanded all of the correspondence between President Washington and John Jay, the president refused to hand that material over, thus setting the doctrine or laying down the doctrine of executive privilege, saying that the president has the right to confidential sources of information that are off limits to congressional inquiries. So right off the bat with our very first president, you can see this trend towards enhancing the power of the presidency at the expense of Congress. Now I'm going to jump ahead here about 80 years. I'm going to take a look at the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, who arguably faced the greatest crisis any American president had to face in our history, and he did so in a very, to borrow a term from the Washington era, energetic fashion. So much so that some critics have argued both then and now that Lincoln exceeded his constitutional mandate, that he represented a threat to American civil liberties because he was so assertive in his exercise of the war powers during the Civil War. For instance, suspending habeas corpus, suspending essentially the Bill of Rights in sections of the United States that bordered the South, where there are a lot of Southern sympathizers. American Northern civilians were thrown in military prisons, in some cases for the duration of the war, and Lincoln did this at least initially, completely on his own authority. The president also authorized a blockade of Southern ports, which is an act of war. He probably avoided the term blockade precisely for that reason, but nonetheless he did it without any congressional authorization. The types of assertive actions that President Lincoln took to fight the Civil War, and his actions were eventually approved by Congress after the fact, but that's not how the American system was intended to work. Now, I'm not up here criticizing President Lincoln's actions. I'm just pointing out to you another instance where the president pressed his national security powers to the limits and was ultimately upheld both by Congress and in a very critical Supreme Court decision known as the Prize Cases from 1863. So with that foundation in mind, let's jump to the 20th century where the so-called Imperial Presidency really took off and where the president's initiative, the president's discretionary control over foreign and national security policy really came to the fore. And one of the best places to start for that would be to talk about President Woodrow Wilson and his conduct during the First World War from 1917 to 1919. And in that war, President Wilson and his government took over large control of the American economy, railroads, shipping industries, et cetera. Anything remotely related to the war effort was nationalized or placed under some element of federal control. Again, with congressional authorization, but the point of all this is that you can see this further delegation of power to the commander-in-chief in times of war to the point where in Wilson's case, people who objected to the war, who engaged in civil, and I mean civil, dissent, not violent dissent, were frequently arrested and rounded up under this slowly, but surely growing national security state that in times of war looks at dissent with a very suspicious set of eyes, needless to say. And this is the point where a young bureaucrat by the name of J. Edgar Hoover, who will eventually become the first director of the FBI, really cuts his teeth in this security apparatus created by President Wilson in this effort to repress dissent against the war, the First World War. Jumping ahead to Franklin Roosevelt and the Second World War, the same pattern continues. President Roosevelt used the period from 1936 up to Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to slowly nudge his country and his countrymen into a deeper involvement in the wars abroad. Particularly, Roosevelt had his eye on Great Britain and his eye on sort of creating an Atlantic alliance between the United States and Britain at a point when many of his fellow citizens and many of his own party members in Congress were not willing to go that far. They did not want the United States to get involved in another world war abroad. And so Roosevelt covertly, for instance, encouraged his naval commanders to be very aggressive in the Atlantic Ocean in terms of going after German U-boats, German submarines that were attacking convoys heading to Britain. Again, at a time when the United States was ostensibly neutral. Doing all sorts of making private assurances to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that the United States would eventually enter the war and bolstering Churchill's morale. All of this, again, done with minimal public and congressional awareness. Now I want to mention one court case from the Roosevelt years. United States versus Curtis Wright that seemed to sanction this idea that in the realm of foreign policy and national security, the President had primacy over the legislative branch. In US versus Curtis Wright from 1936, the majority stated that the President is the sole organ of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations. So at a time when the courts were striking down a lot of FDR's domestic initiatives they were giving him initial power in the foreign and national security or excuse me greater power in the foreign and national security arena. Now let's jump to Roosevelt's successor, President Harry Truman. President Truman did not necessarily want the United States to play an active role in post-war affairs, post-World War II affairs. But of course the Cold War is in full bloom by 1947 and that's the year when Congress at Truman's behest passes the National Security Act of 1947 which creates the Central Intelligence Agency, creates what will eventually be known as the Department of Defense, creates the, excuse me, the United States Air Force, creates all of the infrastructure so to speak that will direct America's Cold War policies for the next 50 years. And you can see this national security infrastructure as another instance of Congress delegating some of its authority to the executive branch. Now Congress had approved the National Security Act of 1947 but the point being there's just this constant drift towards putting more of the discretionary decision-making power in the executive branch itself. And you can even see this of course in the whole development of atomic weapons and later nuclear weapons and the control given to the president, the sole unilateral control given to the president over this incredible life and death decision over whether to employ nuclear weapons. Technological advances in the speed of modern war convinced most members of Congress that you had to give this power to this one individual. You couldn't expect a body of 535 people to decide within 20 minutes to a half an hour whether the United States should engage in a nuclear exchange. One more example from the Truman years, the Korean War. When the North Koreans evade South Korea, President Truman responds on his own authority. Well, cites the United Nations, Security Council resolution, authorizing the use of force to direct American engagement in the war in Korea. There's no congressional approval of American entry into the Korean War. None. There's no formal declaration of war. There's no resolution authorizing the use of force. It's completely in a sense a presidential war. And so this precedent that Truman sets in the Korean War is one of the more glaring examples from the 20th century of the growth of presidential power in the national security arena. Now, jumping ahead to the Vietnam War era, there is finally an effort on behalf of Congress to push back against what many are calling an imperial presidency. And you see this with the passage of the War Powers Act of 1973. This act is still on the books. It's an attempt to force presidents to get the approval of the House and Senate anytime a president injects American forces into hostile situations. It hasn't really worked. Every president since that act was passed in 1973 has argued that it does not bind their actions. That it pinches on their Article II authorities as commander-in-chief. And so there's been a tendency to ignore it. And there's also, if you're a believer in congressional prerogatives, unfortunately a tendency for Congress to sometimes roll over when it comes to these confrontations. The president has all the cards. And I'm not saying constitutional cards, I mean political cards. It's very hard to challenge a commander-in-chief in the midst of hostilities. Most presidents are very effective at wrapping themselves in the flag and appealing to the native patriotism of the American public not to undermine the men and women in the field, even if perhaps it might be in the national interest to bring these hostilities to a close. So it takes a really courageous act of Congress to bring these kinds of hostilities to a close. So in the end, let me close by saying all of the cards, most of the cards, maybe all is a bit of an overstatement, are in the president's hands. And even though there was a recent effort to stop the American involvement in Yemen, my guess would be it will not succeed in the end. Thank you all. My name is Steve Knot, and this has been NWC Talks.


President Bola Tinibu's tax regime is set to take off as he inaugurates a committee on fiscal policy and tax reform to be headed by Taiwo Oyedeli. Multiple taxation have over the years stifled business growth with the organized private sector asking for reviews of unfriendly fiscal policies of the past administration. Nigeria ranks low on the global ease of paying taxes, while the country's tax-to-GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world and below the African average. That's our first hot topic this morning on the breakfast. According to Water Aid, more than 60 million people in Nigeria do not have access to basic clean water supply, and the UNICEF says two-thirds of the country's population lack access to portable water. We're talking 133 million persons in this country. We'll be addressing water property in Nigeria today as a second hot topic on the breakfast. On off the press, we'll take a look at the headlines that made it to the front pages of some major headlines in the country. Analysts will be joining us to piss everything, as we say, on the breakfast this morning. On off the press. Hello, good morning, and welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's a Tuesday edition. We call it the Technophile Edition. I am Maureen Menongwese. How are you? Hope you woke up well and starting on a bright note. Let's go straight to our very first stop trending. Lagos Task Force, this largest trader is on rail tracks. The Lagos State Task Force on Sunday said it cleared trail tracks on the Agigay area of the metropolis as part of its ongoing exercise to restore sanity along the railway corridors of the state. The news agency of Nigeria reported that the Task Forces Director, Press and Public Affairs, Badeon Abdurahim, disclosed these in a statement made available to journalists. According to him, the agency's chairman, CSP Shola Jajaloye led the exercise. Jajaloye, according to the statement said the operation was necessary to save lives and property and ensure safety and security along rail tracks in the state. He said the exercise was carried out to dislodge all forms of business activities on rail tracks and prevent obstruction that could hinder the smooth movement of trains. The Task Force boss said the ongoing enforcement across the state will be sustained for a month to dissuade traders from returning to ensure all rail line corridors are completely recovered. And our second hot topic, top trending, Ocean Corp member dies. Corp member dies in the orientation camp. A Corp member identifies simply as bright as died at the AD orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps in Ocean State. Bright's colleague Lorenz Echezona in a narration, trying to narrate the event that led to his death made the revelation on Facebook that the Corp member died in his sleep over the weekend. The state public relations officer NYSE Fumi Okundayo confirmed the incident but refrained from giving further details about the circumstances surrounding his death. All right that's a very sad one there. I hope that the necessary investigation to be made to unravel what happened to him while he slept because being a Corp member makes him the responsibility of the government. All right from that second top trending we'll go to the third. Lagos government suppressed ENSA's evidence and that's according to Farotimi. Daily Farotimi has accused the Lagos state government of suppressing the evidence of killings that occurred during the ENSA's protest in October of 2020. Farotimi said these were reacting to a leaked memo that the Lagos government has approved the mass burial of 103 corpses recovered in the aftermath of the ENSA's protest. Farotimi during an interview on a television station also heat out at the Lagos state government on their move to conduct a mass burial for the 103 victims of the 2020 ENSA's massacre. He also slammed the Lagos government for lying to the people of the state for almost three years and for bringing back very sad memories that they are trying to forget. Farotimi added that for situations like this not occur in the future in Nigeria citizens and leaders must learn how to embrace the truth and to speak out the truth. But there you have it it's something that Nigerians were shocked about this past weekend when they learned about this leaked memo. 103 persons to be buried as a result of the killings of the ENSA's protest. We had so many things about that protest. We had so many things about what happened. Those who gave you know their account said people were killed. Government said people were not killed. And then to hear the 103 people be buried as a result of that with something that Nigerians were just taken back on. And of course the government has said that these people these 103 people were not killed at the toll gate but as a result of the aftermath of the protest that took place on the 21st and 22nd and not what happened on the 20th at the toll gate and that their bodies were picked from different parts of Lagos and not the toll gate. Well you do the math. Obviously this is going to lead to more or requests for more investigations over this as the truth continue to unfold. You're still watching The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa and it's time for us to take a short break and come back with Off The Press. Stay with us.


Hey guys, it's Jen from My Creek Crafts. So I've been having a couple people ask me how you take designs from design bundles and put them into design space. So I figured I would do a quick tutorial on how to do that since I just purchased a whole bunch of these files from design bundles myself today. If you're not familiar with design bundles, they have a bunch of bundles that you can get for sale. They do, I think it's once every two months they do a deal where you can get them for a dollar. Like this one, I think this one was, let's look really quick, originally. Okay, this one was $4, but it marked down to a dollar. Some of the other ones I wish it would show you on here are actually more expensive. I think this one was a little bit more pricey. So this one was $8, but I got it for a dollar. So just kinda showing you what you can get there. So I bought nine bundles out of the 30 bundles that they had for a dollar today. If you don't wanna miss this deal, check out my channel. I always talk about it before it comes and let you guys know to mark it on your calendar so you don't miss it. I think it's only for an hour that they have this sale for. So normally you get it for a dollar, but because I have money saved on my account already, they give you it for $0.90 per one instead of a dollar. But then if you wanna save an extra five cents more, you can do a honey. I don't know if you ever heard of honey before. I actually just started using it. I'm not a sponsor of them. I just wanna tell you guys if you wanna save extra money, you can go to honey as well. So if you shop at any of these stores, you will get a percentage cash back from them. This includes design bundles. So if you're interested in that, I actually do have a link or referral link rather for honey. So if you're new to honey, if you wouldn't mind using my referral code, I would really appreciate it. It helps me out. I get a couple cents on the dollar per one that you do or that you order. So anything helps me. So if you're interested in that, I will leave it down below. I'm gonna close that and show you this. So here are the ones that I purchased. I already have design space put up for us so we can show you. I started doing these and they are, some of them are kind of difficult to be honest with you. There are a whole bunch of files included in these. So I mean like this one was a mega Easter bundle. So it takes you a little while to get these down. But if you're new to it, I will just show you really quick how to do them. So I'm actually gonna start with this farmhouse sign one. I'm really interested in this one to see how it's gonna look. So once you're in your design bundles account, you wanna go to the download files right here and then it's gonna pull up the names on here. So with design space, you wanna do the SVG files. They have all these other files for you to use but I always use the SVG files. All right, so you wanna click on the SVG files. So I'm gonna click on that and it's gonna bring it to my download button up here. Every search engine is going to be different whether you have Chrome, Firefox, Yahoo, you know, whatever you're going to use. I'm actually using Firefox. That's what I really like. You can see it up here, Firefox. So I love Firefox. So this is where my downloads are. Like I said, every computer is gonna be different. You just have to find your download folder. So I'm gonna click on that and it's gonna bring it right here, SVG files. I double clicked on that and it's gonna open another file for you. So here it is, all your files. So I'm gonna double click on the SVG files. And here are all the files that were in this specific purchase that I got. So there might be some that you don't really necessarily want in here. So I'm gonna open this up a little bit more. Okay, and you see how it looks now. You can play around with the buttons up here. They're all different. I'm actually gonna take this one right here with the rows in it and it actually shows you what it looks like. So it gives you a sort of a preview of what it looks like. That's up to you if you wanna see it or not. I know sometimes I download them and I'm like, I really don't want that one in design space or I'm not gonna use that one. So I don't always add every single image to it. So I always like to look to see what it looks like. This will show you down at the bottom. It's like I said, there are different ways of seeing it. So you can always just look here and see what it looks like. But oh my gosh, I love these. So I'm gonna be making some signs out of these. So stay tuned for that. Oh my gosh, my aunt wanted one of these. You know what? I'm gonna send her one of these. I'm gonna make one of these for her. I'll do a video tutorial on it but she wanted me to make her one of these. Now I have the file and it looks absolutely beautiful. So I'm going to make her one of these. So going back to this, I'm gonna show you how to do this.  You can see what they look like. They're just different rows. This is what we started with. You can double click on it and see it that way. But I like to see what I'm getting before I put it in a case. I don't wanna put it in here. So I'm sorry for the split screen here but I'm trying to show you both ways. So I'm starting in Design Space. I'm gonna go up here and click New Project.  I promise once you get this, it's gonna be very easy for you to do. You can either go in and browse and find it or you can click and drag it. So I'm gonna take this first one. I'm gonna hold down on my left mouse button and I'm just gonna pull it and drop it in here. So here it is.  It says it up here. So you can just leave it the way it is or you can change it to whatever you want it to say. I'm gonna leave it just the way it is. I'm gonna go click Upload and then it's going to put it in Design Space for me. Just the same thing you're gonna wanna do again. Click on Upload Image and then just go to the next one. Click it, drag it over, let go and here it is again. Has the name up here for you. If you wanna leave a tag in it like Farmhouse or Love Signs or you know whatever, you can put a tag in it and then when you go to upload something, you can write in there whatever you think you wrote it as. So again, upload. I'll just do a few more to show you guys.  It's as simple as this. It's really easy to do. If you have any questions, please let me know. I know every computer is different so yours might look different than mine. Basically you just wanna find the download for it and then put it into Design Space. So it's as easy as that. You can leave a tag if you want. You can just leave it the way it is. I'm just gonna do this one. I'll do one more and I'll show you what it looks like. Again, upload, just go to the next one. If you accidentally grab the same one and you're like, oh, I just did that one, that's okay, just push the back button. So I'm gonna push Upload and I'm just gonna show you what it looks like. I'm gonna grab these two, add to canvas. I'm gonna stretch this out so we can see it a little bit better. It's gonna take a minute because it's a little bit larger file. But there you go. These are absolutely beautiful. You can put them on a wood sign. You could put it on a shirt. You can put it on a canvas. You know, anything that you want. So I hope this tutorial helps you out. If you do have any questions, leave them down below. I'm still learning, so you might even teach me something. So if you have any questions, just leave them down below. If you have anything that anybody can use from this that you know that I haven't described, please leave that down below as well. If you're not a subscriber, I would love it if you would hit that subscribe button and that bell icon so it tells you when my new videos come out. Happy crafting everyone.


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We recently postulated that much of the ancient ruin that is Easter Island, and perhaps the most impressive features still to be found upon the island are more than likely buried beneath past landslides, once caused by rapid deforestation. And as predicted, with this realized and archeological excavations commenced, we soon knew just how deep this ancient sediment actually is. And as such, the controversial discoveries began to surface. Not only are there ancient Moai statues stretching into the hundreds of tons of weight dotting the island, but how these were moved into position is knowledge lost to the chasm of history. However, although academia would like you to believe that these tasks were completed within the last thousand years, the evidence of a past advanced civilization actually having been responsible is all over the island. Other shallow excavations were undertaken around Anahu, one of the many ancient ceremonial platforms, polygonal masonry, uncannily similar to that found within Giza, Peru, Bolivia, and indeed all other, as yet unexplained sites around the world, was indeed unearthed. An additional piece of evidence, we feel, may one day help to eventually unravel the mystery of not only Easter Island, but many other ancient sites around the world, is in its past title. Once known as the Naval of the World, it is interestingly one of many. A number of other ancient sites, thanks to our own more modern ancestors, retain their ancient titles as navals. Were these ancient civilizations somehow able to tap into a mysterious energy grid that can be found crisscrossing our Earth? It is undeniable that many of the most ancient sites found all over the planet can be found located upon purported ancient energy lines. Were these placements a mere coincidence? Were they placed there for another reason? Or were they indeed tapping into an energy field which allowed them to shift such weights? Chapito Chenua is an intriguing artifact that can be found upon the island. With such an extremely well-preserved, untouched history found upon the island, Chapito Chenua is still remembered as an artifact once used by ancient elders, used to summon something called mana, which interestingly translates as Earth energy. These elders then inexplicably used this energy to float multi-ton statues across the coastline, placing them in their final resting places. Are all these connections, artifacts, and historical accounts mere coincidence? Or are we truly onto something? Only time will tell. Alex Putney over at humanresonance.org has, for a number of years now, been unraveling some rather startling secrets. Secrets surrounding Nikola Tesla's free energy technologies and the systematic suppression thereof, and seemingly deciphering a number of astounding ancient discoveries, all of which strongly indicating one's highly advanced knowledge of sound waves, resonance, and indeed levitation of extremely large weights. Joined as the, quote, piezoelectric basins by Alex himself, it seems he, along with a number of other researchers' exhaustive efforts, have discovered some compelling and intriguing characteristics of many ancient ruins which litter most of Egypt, dotted along the banks of the Nile. We have, in the past, touched upon the possibility of sound resonance having been a factor in Edward Leedscullin's mysterious and secretive construction of Coral Castle, which can be found within Florida. Many believe that Edward somehow unraveled the secrets to the pyramids, and, in doing so, was able to recreate his own rudimentary resonance machine, enabling him to lift enormous weights with relative ease. As our knowledge of our environment and the mysteries of our ancestors deepens, especially regarding their once mystifying and astounding knowledge of construction left to ruin in many areas of the world, excepted as having never had access to heavy machinery, we must look elsewhere for our answer as to how these weights were moved. An outspoken local wisdom keeper of the Giza Plateau, Egyptologist and tour guide Abdel Hakim Ayyan has brought very controversial but extremely compelling knowledge to bear regarding profound implications of these astounding ancient constructions. Abdel Hakim's provocative commentary on the misconceptions of modern academics was broadcast in the Pyramid Code, a documentary produced by Dr. Carmen Bolter, professor at the University of Calgary, a documentary well worth investigation. It reveals several insights, including the advanced nature of the psychoacoustic and bio-rhythmic effects of these ancient Sanskrit monuments that he claims have all been falsely attributed to the Egyptian civilization. Part of his testimony is as follows. It must be noted that due to Abdel's intimate knowledge of the Giza Plateau, he should undoubtedly be perceived as a reliable source of avenues for alternative esoteric research. He claims that in 1936, while the Sphinx was still covered up to the neck in sand, there were tunnels he personally explored. Being that past the Abu Ghurab, a crystal altar was found, containing a round disk in the middle of four radial lines, a symbol of hotep, hotep meaning peace and food. This round disk was a lid on a shaft, about 180 feet deep to the level of the ocean, where he claims there is still running water, and there is still, quote, much more to be found. There is a place on this planet whose existence was, for many centuries, merely a legend. A tale told amidst the myths of the sea dogs, surrounded by enormous stone statues, which eternally watch and gaze upon the often misty shore, lost in the vast depths of the ocean as if forgotten by the earth. Throughout its long and incredibly rich and unique history, this mystical place gave sanctuary to countless souls, many presumably on the verge of perishing. It is an island imbued with the visible hope of the desolate, racing across shark-infested roots from island to island in the small volcanic chain, not just for fun, but kingdom celebrity status. These paradisiacal and familiar lagoons were their entire world. Although there is clear and predictably evidence of the once global, highly capable stone masons, having had their hand in the mysteries of the statues of the islands, yet post-flood all the stone carving abilities required to cut a mongai hook, for example. After this link was severed, generation after generation, the descendants of the marooned lived out their lives in complete isolation, never seeing their homelands again. Landing on Easter Island would have felt like the death of one life and the beginning of a new. The island was once heavily forested with broadleaf palms, for the submersion of many of the moai beneath many meters of soil, or possible sediment, has been that of rapid deforestation, yet I find it hard to envisage a colony dependent on such a material being so irresponsible with it. Furthermore, why were no seedlings present, or indeed, un-germinated seeds? Why did these forests not indeed naturally grow back? Why are there so little fragments of rongo rongo, the still undeciphered language of the pre-flood civilization, all of which on wood yet still found upon the island in the late 1900s? And most perplexing of all, why do many of the statues buried up to their necks lay in differing directions? If indeed the topsoil was destabilized by the removal of root support, statues would be laying in the same direction. However, due to the island's remote location, if a great deluge was to have occurred, the collection of sediment and differing tidal patterns would explain this higgledy-piggledy layout perfectly, yet I digress. Strong evidence suggests at some point post-flood the islanders were introduced to sweet potatoes, becoming a very important staple which probably found its way to the island either with marooned mariners or floating wreckage. Over four major population crashes and famines were reported by the original natives in their knowledge of the island's past. With no outside influences, invasions, or even contact ever experienced by the Easter islanders, any other colonies were slowly forgotten. Only very rare shipwreck events brought incoming information and many generations could pass without such an event occurring.  Subsequent slave raids demolished the island's imaginary barrier to the forgotten sorrows of outsiders. Memories built up over generations of safety and solitude was shattered by the slave trade. The pace and ferocity of the modern world swept them away. The mystical, untouched Easter islanders' luck was to run out. The last king to ever reign over the kingdom of Easter died a slave along with his family somewhere in Europe, a sad end to an amazing journey. When I first considered covering Easter Island, I looked upon the subject as somewhat bland and boring. But once you peel back the moss and dig out the facts, you stumble across an amazing and true legend among historical tales. By participating in the research of past cultures, we can discover amazing legacies. There are many incredible things our ancestors are willing to tell us if we are willing to look hard enough. As always, thanks for watching. We find such mysterious histories highly compelling.


Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 tutorial guys in this one I'm going to show you how to underline text yeah I know that sounds pretty ridiculous but up until this release 2020, Premiere Pro 2020 that is, you had to do it the hard way by drawing shapes or using underscores it was pretty bonkers which is strange because in every other program you can go ahead and use underlining but hey Adobe listened and there is a fix let's do this really really quickly first step here I've got some footage I'm just going to drag and drop it into my timeline bang it's just stock footage I got from Pexels video not really the point now at the top you're going to see that I am in the default editing I am going to go over and hit the graphics so I want to be in the graphics workspace if you don't see this go up to window go down to workspaces and make sure graphics is selected alright we're on our way the next step here is you want to under essential graphics you want to go to edit so left click on edit now you want to click on this new layer I'm going to left click on new layer I am going to create regular text now it just creates a text layer here it uses your last settings so if you've been doing weird stuff with your text it will remember what you did last but here we go I've just got some standard white text that says new text layer I'm going to write underline here because well whatever that's the point so okay so we're not there yet but we we're on our way we got a nice cool lower third now this the way you want to do this if you want to go down to the bottom here and I'm going to show you a few other things you got fill so this the the text is filled with white if you want to add a stroke around the edge you can go ahead and do that but if you want to underline here it is guys check this out boom that's it now the underline function is working we are in magic zone I'm just gonna mess about here but guys that is all there is to it for underline if you have any questions or if you still not sure why they didn't put this in until now just remember don't shoot the messenger guys I am just showing you how to do it I don't know why it wasn't in before this wasn't my call that's it for this tutorial guys that's how you use underline inside text inside Premiere Pro 2020 thanks for watching a lot more tutorials coming up


This 10th year of Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you listening to me right now.  Hey everybody, welcome in Bruno, Adrian and Dewey. On this episode of DTNS, Apple's going all in on AI, the PlayStation portal, not as bad as you think and get the right note taking up for the right note taking job, right note taking here. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, November 13th, Monday the 13th, 2023 at Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Allison Sheridan of the Podfeat Podcast. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Ching. You're right note taking here, Allison. I am. And you're going to tell us about all the note taking apps. You use a lot of them actually. I do use them all. Yeah. And you're generous enough to share that knowledge with us. Thank you for that. Let us start with the quick hits. Google has filed what it is believed to be the first lawsuit meant to protect users of a big tech company's AI product. Google filled the lot filed rather, and I'm sure they filled it with a lot of stuff. They filed the lawsuit in California against three unknown individuals believed to be in Vietnam who have been placing Facebook ads claiming to offer a download of Google's Bard, but which actually delivers malware. In addition, other to the deception involved there, they also use Google trademarks and other intellectual property. Google has been submitting takedown requests, of course. So they're not mad at Facebook about this, but they are filing the lawsuit in order to go after the domain names to stop them from using them with US registrars and shut down the ones they have. Nvidia announced plans to offer the Grace Hopper-based HGX-H200 GPU. This is an updated version of the standalone H100 accelerator with HBM3e memory, great for generative models. Nvidia says that GH200 will be used in more than 40 AI supercomputers worldwide. Probably the biggest install will be in Jupiter, a supercomputer being built in Germany that will use 24,000 Nvidia GH200 superchips interconnected with the Nvidia Quantum 2 Infiniband networking platform. That's a lot. Jupiter will be used for climate modeling, drug discovery, and more. That is. That's a big old, it earned its name of Jupiter. It's huge. I don't know if it's cloudy though. The biggest e-commerce sales event of the year is not Black Friday. You thought I was going to say is coming soon. No, Singles Day, which just happened last weekend on November 11th. Well, centered around November 11th, just like Black Friday has expanded, Singles Day has expanded as well. Alibaba and JD.com both reported growth, although for the second year running, they didn't report numbers. Just said things grew. Data analyst Synton estimated that sales across major e-commerce platforms rose 2.08%, slightly slower than last year's growth of 2.9%. Total sales revenue for Singles Day estimated at $154.6 billion. And as a comparison, last year's Black Friday spending was estimated by Adobe to be $9.12 billion. So Singles Day definitely bigger. That is bananas. Wow. Well, Google has had an option to save any video frame from YouTube video. In Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, you can right click on a YouTube video and save the frame in its original resolution as a PNG. It's an easy screenshot, basically. The feature is based on capabilities added to the Chromium Engine. I would imagine it would work with other Chromium browsers, like Arc, maybe? Yeah, probably. I don't know if there's any special browser stuff going on as well. They did only mention Edge and Chrome. But yeah, I think it could work in the others if it doesn't yet, but it's probably not going to make its way to Safari or Firefox, unfortunately. And I don't know if you ran into that discussion last week about the annoying pop-up we talked about that shows up when you close OneDrive, where Microsoft requires you to tell them why you're closing OneDrive. Well, it's gone. Microsoft says it was just a test, only a subset of users saw it, and it has now concluded its test and disabled it for everyone. Thank you.  Yeah, I understand like maybe sometimes telling, asking people like, hey, do you mind? We're just curious. We're trying to do user data that perfectly legitimate, but this thing was doing it every time for users, apparently, so not good. Well, as if in honor of the host of one of the longest running Apple-oriented podcasts in the world coming on our show, both Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released some of their usually reliable indications of what Apple will be doing soon. So Allison, I'm going to run through them and see what you think. You ready? Okay. The first one's the big one. Apple execs apparently think that updates to the next round of operating systems. So iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, TVOS 18, all the ones coming next year will be ambitious and compelling in their use of AI. Now, granted, I'm sure if you ask any Apple exec about any upcoming OS, they're always going to say, we believe it's ambitious and compelling. But I think what Gurman's trying to get across here is they're very excited. They're more excited than usual about this one. And supposedly it's going to feature a lot of generative AI. Gurman says, for example, Siri is going to be able to field complex questions, autocomplete sentences more effectively for you, things like that. There's also mentioned of integrating these kind of models into Apple Music, say to create a playlist for you or Pages or Keynote to consist you to assist you in your presentations. Allison, how excited does this prediction get you? Well, one of the things that Apple does pretty regularly is every other update lately has been, you know, the major updates, it's been big feature updates, then a lot of bug fixes make it work better, cleaner, a little bit of updates, and then big updates back and forth. So it does make sense that it would be bigger updates. But this does make me even more excited if they're digging into generative AI and going to have that, of course, be I'm sure on board on devices. And, you know, as an Apple user, that's one of the things I appreciate. I'm not sure I would have chosen it completely on that basis. But to be able to have things locally, and I'm guessing they're probably going to dance on the legal side of, you know, the less dicey gray side of where they train the data as well. So maybe that'll make people happy. I would think that would be really fun to see more of that. And just a smarter, smart assistant, I always come back to something Leo Laporte said where he said, if this is a smart assistant, this would be the worst assistant you ever had, you know, any of these, you know, where you say, am I busy at 10 o'clock? And she says no. And you say, okay, can you make me an appointment at that time? And she says, when? Imagine if you had a real life assistant who talked to you like that. Yeah, yeah. And they've slowly been getting better at context and things like that. But slowly is the operative word, right? So I think you're right. German does say that Apple is trying to decide how much of this would be in the cloud, how much on device, whether they'd go all one way or all the other. If Apple wants to keep promoting itself as privacy preserving the more on the device, the better. Sounds like maybe there's a couple of things they think only work well in the cloud that they'll want to give you a carve out and a justification for why in these cases we're going to send it to the cloud. I'll be curious to see about that. You know, it's supposed they would do that by device, do you? Like, if you've got the iPhone 16, you can do it locally. But if you've got an iPhone 12, no, you're going to have to use the cloud because you just don't have the compute power. But that would be very confusing to users if they did that. I would, I would almost imagine they would do it by device on platform. Like iPhones can do it on device unless you have too old of an iPhone, then it just doesn't work at all, right? Because that makes sense to people. People understand, oh, my phone is old. That's why it doesn't get the new thing. But maybe TV OS has to go to the cloud, right? Because that processor is smaller or something or, you know, obviously your Apple Watch, something like that. But then Mac OS maybe can always do it locally. Yeah, because it's got the best processors of the whole bunch. Yeah. I know a lot. In fact, I think it was Nick with a C was like, oh, save us from the AI bubble. I doubt Apple will come with something that is fluff. I think if they're going to tell us about a large language model, they will tell us about it in a way that doesn't use the word AI. They go listen to their keynotes. They almost never say the word AI. They talk about models. They talk about features. So I would expect them to come out and say, in the next operating system, Siri is going to be smarter and she'll understand what you're talking about or he'll understand what you're talking about and stuff like that. So I'm curious what these ambitious and compelling features are going to be. Not only do they not even say AI, and a lot of times they don't even say features. They describe the life experience that you'll have, right? Without saying, you'll be able to communicate. It's like you're just having a conversation with Siri. Also, a couple other things here. German says Apple will allow sideloading of apps in the EU sometime in the first half of 2024. This is more a prediction about when it will happen. It's going to happen. It has to happen because of the EU law, the Direct Markets Act will require Apple to allow sideloading. How it's going to happen will be very interesting. German has mentioned that there could be a fee involved for app developers to get on the sideloading verification list. Apple might be able to do something where they say, we're not going to allow just anything on for security reasons, but we will allow sideloading for a very small fee if developers run through our verification program, which would be a way of recouping some of the money they would lose from the App Store. What do you think of this? Well, just to clarify, what we're talking about here is this is on iOS and iPadOS. Obviously, on macOS, you can already sideload anything you want. I'm trying to remember, have we broken away from where Apple said, sure, you can sideload apps, but then you still have to pay us 27 percent? That's not sideloading. That's a really good question. Sideloading is, I can go straight to a website, say, give me that app. And never through the App Store. Yeah. What Apple has allowed in some cases is a third-party App Store, right? Or a third-party payment processor, even better. In fact, I don't even think they've allowed a third-party App Store, but they have allowed a third-party payment processor. So you're still in the App Store in those cases, but your payments could go through somewhere else, and that's where Apple says, well, we're going to take a lower cut. Okay. But I don't think anywhere, they let you go directly to any website and download an app and install it. Right. You can now do web apps pretty easily, but... That's a different thing, right? And that makes it confusing, too. I'm glad you brought that up, because some people are like, well, I've done Fortnite that way, or I've done the Financial Times app that way. And it's like, no, you really haven't. You've done a web app, and Apple does allow those, oddly enough, without any kind of verification or anything else. When they would love you to just take that as the answer. They've tried that a bunch of times. I'm going, you can make web apps. Go ahead. It's fine. Developers don't love that solution. It works, but it's not the smoothest solution. All right. Those are the two Mark Gurman ones. The Mingxi Quo announcement is probably the safest that Apple's going to have new iPads. What? Yeah, I know. I'm afraid. Stepping out on a limb. But, but, but, specifically, he said there will be a 12.9-inch iPad Air at the beginning of the year, and that the iPad Pro will get OLED screens and an M3 processor and Q2. There are a lot of other things in there that you'd expect, but those are the standouts. Anything they do to simplify the lineup is what I would ask them to do. Like, don't even give us new ones. Just make it where you can tell what this iPad does and how to use it. Yeah, this does the opposite, doesn't it? Yeah. I created a diagram last week that was just trying to show you which pencils and which authentication method work on which of the iPads. And it was phenomenally complex. It took me like three days to draw the diagram. Yeah. And Howard's like, didn't they do that a year ago? They did a 12.9-inch iPad Pro. This would be a 12.9-inch iPad Air. And what makes it an air? Yeah. I think that one of the reasons I like to talk about what Mark Gurman and Ming-Chi Kuo say is that they tend to relate to what's actually happening. When they are wrong, it's often because Apple changed what it was going to do, not because they were wrong when they found out the information. But I was wondering if we should start like a Google doc where we keep track of these and just hold to account. Like, all right, how good are they?  Yeah, what qualifies. Yeah. Did they get a one, two, or a three on that one? Yeah, no, I like it. If you think we should do that, send us an email, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Maybe we'll put something together. Sony's PlayStation Portal launches on Wednesday, November 15th for $199.95, 200 bucks. It streams games using Wi-Fi off your home PlayStation 5, so it doesn't do anything on its own. It has to have a Wi-Fi connection, and your PlayStation 5 has to be on, connected to Wi-Fi as well, and I guess it could be Ethernet, but it also has to be logged in. It doesn't do any cloud streaming. It doesn't run anything locally on the device. The reviews of the Portal are in, and the pros seem to be that it feels better than it looks, because it looks like someone chopped a controller in half and glued it to the sides of an LCD screen, but the Verge's Antonio de Benedetto likens it to an 8-inch LCD between two halves of a standard DualSense controller, is basically what I just said, but said it plays well, that it works. You kind of forget that it looks so odd. The cons from a lot of these reviewers are that it doesn't do anything that in remote play, you're existing PS5, so you need a PS5 if you want to use this, you're not going to buy this on its own, and basically the general impression seems to be, it's pretty good at what it does, it's a little expensive for what it does, but if it's something you want, well, it doesn't, and it's not a disappointment at that. I think people came in with low expectations and were surprised to find it like worked well. Roger, I know you were looking at a lot of these reviews. What did you make of them? So, in my view, it seems a bit of an odd product. Mostly because of what you listed, it is essentially a second screen for the PS5. It's not a cloud gaming device. It's not really intended or at least Sony explicitly said that you can take it to your aunt's house and you can play over the Wi-Fi and connect to your PS5 remotely, which you can do, but some of the reviewers experienced some lag in doing so. And that's on top of $200 and top of a $500 PS5 price tag, so that's $700. Now, PC Mag noted that when you compare it to using, say, PS remote and if you have a flagship phone and you use an aftermarket game controller, it looks better that way than actually playing on the portal in terms of visual fidelity. And my question is, well, if it's $200 and it's really just about not someone hogging your main screen, couldn't you just use the $200, go to Costco and buy a second TV and then use that for the PS5? That's not portable, though. It's true, but this is portable around the house. Yes, you can take it outside, but you're not jumping on your subway ride and then playing that way. Could it be maybe like for dorm rooms where you don't have any TV at all? Well, and that's the thing. Again, $200, you still need to set up the PS5, so if you have a PS5 in the dorm room, chances are you've hooked it up to a TV. But would you have to? If you bothered to bring it at all, but you're not going to really be able to use it with the, because the portal isn't like a second television, right? It's just accessing the games. So to set up the PS5 and log in, you'd still need that TV, I guess. That's a weird product. For me, it brings up the question. I have a feeling it actually probably did a broader range of things, but either because they needed to meet a price point and maybe potentially copyright issues, they just slimmed it down to this because the hardware inside seems a lot more capable of doing a fair bit more than just being a second screen for a PS5. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't have a lot of storage or anything, but it could access a cloud service, given the hardware that you have. It just doesn't, but it could. And I'm wondering maybe down the line, is this something that they give a firmware update to? And in that scenario, this actually becomes a much more compelling product. As it is, if I had a PS5, I would probably spend the 200 bucks on another TV or a used TV, because you could get a 4K TV. My dad just bought one for 300 bucks at Costco, and it was like a 46 inch TV. So, you know, the value proposition is actually good. Choose which room or where I'm going to play. You can't pick up the TV and carry it around. That's the only difference. Otherwise, it's true. It's for playing at the dinner table. This is probably geared more for kids who tend to be a little like my kids or with their tablet. They literally orbit the house in five different rooms every day with the tablet, because that's what kids do. Yeah, maybe. Well, folks, if you have feedback about anything we get to on the show, there's lots of ways to get in touch with us. You can talk to us on X, DTNS Show, Mastodon, we're also DTNS Show on MSTDN.Social, Daily Tech News Show on TikTok, and DTNS PIX on Instagram and Threads. I'm an iconoclast in that I mainly use a very simple text editor for my notes, but most people like themselves more than that. And so, one day, more capable note-taking app. Allison has been searching for the perfect note-taking app. And while she hasn't found the one quite yet, she has a great overview of what note-taking apps are good for which uses. Where should we start? Well, I kept thinking that there was the perfect note-taking app. And I think it's like, have you seen people who are looking for the great Getting Things Done app? And so, instead of getting anything done, they just keep testing new apps for that. Well, it's sort of in the same category. But I've realized over time that maybe the right answer is the right app for the right type of note. And this, of course, creates the worst problem, which is, I have no idea where any of my notes are. So I'm not actually saying this is good advice. But what I started realizing is that I just need a Getting Things Done app to tell you where all your note-taking apps are. Wait, what about I could do an Airtable database that tells me where each note is. So the first thing I do is, Apple Note seems like the obvious thing because I'm an Apple person, right? I've got it on all of my devices. But I tend to use it for stuff I don't care about. I've got a couple of notes in there that have been going long playing. But in general, it's like, I just need to write something down. I'm going to do a grocery order for three things when we're out on a vacation. I'll just slap it in there. So my throwaway notes are actually in Apple Notes because I don't find the organization very good. Collaboration is terrible. There's a way to do it. But depending on how you send the link, it gets to them or it doesn't. I don't think it's a good app at all. I know people love it, but I don't. I find it interferes too much. I need it to be simpler. Changing fonts, anything you want to do where you're actually trying to make bold headings or anything, it's a whole lot of clicking and I don't like it. So that one is because it's there. Which one's next? One of the things I did a long time ago was I started using something called Keep It from reinvented software. Think of it as an Evernote clone. This is where I put stuff I actually have to remember. For example, remembering all of the different things I have to do to be on cord killers, that note is stored in Keep It because I'm going to need to go back to that and modify it each time you guys change everything. So I put programming notes in there. I put things I'm trying to remember on my blog of how I've set up my database or something like that. That's long-term storage. Important stuff goes in there that I'm going to need to get back to. Okay, that one makes sense to me. Yeah, that's like, oh, how do I do this thing? Keep it. Keep it has it. You could put a list of all your note-taking apps in Keep It. Exactly. Magic decoder ring. Well, if I'm doing something like I do this show called Chat Across the Pond Light and let's say I'm going to have Tom on and I'm going to want to write a little outline of what we're going to talk about, secret secret here is I write the show notes or the outline for it with the person I'm going to talk to. And I sound like a brilliant interviewer because I already know what the person wants to answer. So it sounds like I'm just off the flight, you're off the cuff, thinking of these great questions, but they've already told me what questions. Collaboration and Google X, only way to go. So that's why I do all of those there. Okay. And then tell me about notability because I know you use that one as well. Yeah, notability is a real interesting app to me. The primary place I use it is on my iPad. It works on the iPhone and on the Mac. It's a real terrible app on the Mac, but you can get to your notes at least. But I use it for some real specific things. Because of the pencil, I find it a really good way to knit and cross stitch and crochet. So patterns are often difficult. Like right now I'm doing a cross stitch project where it's all the little squares and they got little colors in them. And it's really hard to see the one I got was very small. So I took a photo of it, color corrected it, first time I didn't and that was terrible, color corrected it so I could match everything up. And now I can zoom way in and with the pencil just go dot, dot, dot, dot, on the ones that I've already done. And it makes it really easy for me to do a better job keeping track of that. But I also use it to rewrite things like my knitting patterns, where the pattern itself is confusing. So I'll write it out or I might copy and paste it into there and type it again and get it organized so that it's easier to read. But the other thing I use it for is when I want to think. So writing, if you write with a keyboard, it's harder to think because you have to think about how I'm going to format them, I'm going to indent them, I'm going to put a bullet there, is that going to be in italics or whatever, you get yourself wrapped up in that. So I use it for programming a lot when I'm trying to figure out some code. I'll sit down in a chair away from my computer and I'll hand write pseudocode and it helps me to think instead of type. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does. So this is for knitting and coding, the Notability app. Which might come up later. I love that. And then Google Docs for collaboration. What next? So sometimes I just need to type something or paste some text. I just need it to splat somewhere to hold on to it for a minute. Like maybe I'm going to write the same thing to three different people and I want a place to do it. I use something called Cot Editor, C-O-T Editor. And its main, most wonderful thing is when you open it up, it's empty. So you don't have to answer five times. Yes, I want an empty doc. No, a new doc. Yes, an empty. No, I don't want a template. I just give me a piece of paper. And so it's a little bit easier than text edit built into the Mac, but I occasionally throw that one in there too. But it's just real easy to slap in some text. It is a text editor, so I look at it for some coding stuff too. But mostly it's splat in some text, look at it, see if it's what I want. I use text editor exactly the same way you use Cot Editor, which is I just, I want all the formatting off. I just want to write something in there without any formatting and then I'll put it wherever I'm going to put it and format it later. So this one speaks to me. I'm going to have to check out Cot Editor. What about your next one? We still got time for a few more. Okay, so I write about 5,000 words a week for my blog and I start my rough drafts in Bear. And Bear is a beautiful little note-taking app for Markdown for the Mac. And actually it's cross-platform, so it's on the Mac, the iPad, the iPhone. And its best feature is it supports TextExpander. So I can write my Markdown notes. I can type very quickly and efficiently because I'm crazy about TextExpander. I can sit on my iPad sipping my coffee in the morning or I move over to one Mac or the other Mac, constantly syncing perfectly. It's fabulous for doing my writing my blog post, but I need to do a lot of special formatting in the end so it doesn't end there. That's kind of where I start my blog post. Then I move over to an app called MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software. And that's a place that I can easily import images and make my fancy little figures that I put in and format things and put in all the blog-related metadata. And then that's what actually goes up to my blog. So those two kind of go hand in hand, but MarsEdit doesn't run on the iPad and so I can't use it there and it drives me crazy. And then you use sticky notes too. The virtual sticky notes. I don't know, maybe you use the paper ones too. Well, I actually do a couple of those, but yes. And its main use, I would say, is probably when talking to you, I have a sticky note up with all the things I need to remember to say and I want to be clever quickly and sound like I had this just in the top of my head, but I've actually written it down like my question about the PlayStation 5 and all that. I had it in there when I was on Chord Killers. I had a bunch of little things I wanted to make sure I could say and sound articulate, which I don't always sound if I talk off the fly. Also use it for the Clockwise podcast because I got to be able to answer sensibly in two minutes each of the questions. Oh, that's fantastic. Well, we'll have links to all of this in our show notes, dailytechnoshow.com. And of course, Allison, you do great tutorials and show notes of your own over at podfeet.com. So I know people can go there for some resources as well. Thank you. I wrote up in particular the right with a pencil when you want to think. That's one of my favorites. Fantastic. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Tim is worried about Amazon possibly reportedly considering shifting from an Android based operating system, which is what FireOS is now, to a new one supposedly called Vega. Now, according to the report, Amazon would start with the Fire TV, but eventually shift everything to it, including tablets. And that's what really has Tim worried. Tim wrote, Tim wrote a lot, but this is Tim. I hope you'll forgive me for, you know, crushing it down to the essentials. Tim says, my family and I have owned about 20 plus fire tablets from the first to the latest models. So I have thoughts on Amazon ditching Android. Amazon fire tablets have two primary uses for a cheap tablet. One, it's relatively easy to side load Google Play Store onto a fire tablet and have access to almost all Google and other apps available in the Play Store. Two, the parental controls are excellent for setting up child profiles, limiting internet, game time, even filtering what specific books or videos they have access to from prime. So Tim's worried that if he sticks with fire, he'll lose a bunch of those apps that he uses out of the Google Play Store. But if he switches to an Android based tablet, he would lose those great parental controls that he has right now. I don't know if I can speak to parental controls on non-Amazon fire tablets. Maybe somebody out there can feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. But in hopes for the apps, it might not be as bad as you think. Maybe you don't use quite as many apps from the Google Play Store as you think. Maybe you could get by with a few fewer than you think. If that were the case, the one thing I did see is that supposedly Vega is using React, which is the same thing that Android and iOS use to make it easy for developers to create cross-platform versions of their apps. It is kind of one of the ways that smart TV operating systems survive. The fact that you have any apps on a smart TV is probably down to React because it's easy to take those apps that you've developed for another platform. It's easier, I should say, to move them over there. So I do not abandon all hope yet, Tim. Maybe it won't be as bad as you think. That does sound a little bit dicey, though. I mean, the Android tablet market is so small as it is. And then if one of the main ones is cheap fire tablets, and then fires are no longer on Android, are people going to work to write a cross-platform app and React to get it to go across to those? Well, yeah, that's a great question because most people don't realize when they're using an Amazon Fire TV or anything, an Amazon Fire tablet, that they're using Android. Most people don't know they can sideload Google Play on there. So when it switches, that switch is going to have to be seamless, right? It's going to have to keep all the apps that they already have. And I'm not quite sure how they're going to do that dance. And they seem confident that they can get the developers to do it. So maybe they have an easy way to do it. I'm not thinking people who buy $60 tablets are the big money makers in buying apps either. Yeah, not in buying apps, in buying services, right? So what Amazon needs to do is make sure that they keep those $60 Fire Tablet users subscribed to products. Yes, that's the ticket. Yeah, you're right. And the kids' service and all that. Well, thank you, Allison, for being here. This is great as always. If people want more of what you've got going on, where should they go? Well, podfeed.com, of course, is the best place to go. But I want to draw your attention to chitchat across the pond number 777. I interviewed a woman named Angela Preston, who has done the coolest thing. She created an open-source knitting font using an open-source tool called FontStruct and then built a Google site. Now, this is a weird thing, but it's a way to translate text-based patterns for knitting into diagrams that make it easier to follow what you're trying to do in the pattern. It is the greatest crossover of knitting and nerdery that I've ever seen. There's probably three people. It's like me and Zoe and Angela, maybe, who all care about this. But it's really cool. It was a really fun interview, and she's great. And because we got together, she's a PC user. I was able to help her figure out how people can install this on a Mac because she didn't know how to do it. And so now we've got an even better collaboration going. It was really, really fun. So Ray T.W. says, I'm right there, too. So yeah, the group may be bigger than you thought. All right, there you go. Gotta love it. Excellent. Folks, go check that out, podfeet.com. Patrons, stick around for the extended show. We're not done yet. If you are supporting us directly, Allison sent me a picture of someone charging their fish. That's exactly what it sounds like. And wondered what things that are perfectly normal to say now would have sounded extremely odd in the past. Like, I got to charge my book before our trip. So we're going to talk to Allison about why she was charging a fish. And what other weird things that we take for granted now. You can also catch the show live Monday through Friday 4 p.m. Eastern 2100 UTC. Find out more at DailyTechNewShow.com slash live. Back tomorrow, talking about Android adoption among teens with Will Saddleburg. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com.


Hello everyone, my name is Dr. Anand Kumar Sharma, I am rank 62 in CSE 2018. In this video, we will be talking about how to read economic survey and get maximum output from that, so that you are able to utilize it in your answers or on your prelims. Economic survey has two volumes, volume 1 and volume 2. Both the volumes have different utilities and has to be read in different manner and it is useful in both for prelims also and mains also. For prelims, questions can come directly from it like the statements and you have to see which statement is true or false. For mains, the utility is very much there for VS 1, 2, 3 as well as for the essay because it gives you lot of data, figures, diagrams and also the comparative analysis of many aspects of the Indian economy. We will first start with the volume 1 that how it can be useful. So volume 1 is generally deals with the various issues which are there in the Indian economy especially the area wise like for example, sometimes they give about the fertilizer sector or sometimes with agriculture sector like they are this time given about the Swachh Bharata Bihar or the judiciary or on the MSME sector. So in that way, what you can do is first have a simple reading of the economic survey just go through it so that you have a basic idea that what are the issues which are they have dealt with it and then they can be two approach either you make your your notes from the economic survey or there are summaries available in the market. From the summary, you can focus on topic wise. You can add on your answer. For example, there is a question on MSME, there is a topic on MSME. So wherever you are reading MSME, you can write down the points given there or you can write down what are the extra topics given there. Generally on each topics what exactly they deal with is the problem statement, what is the problem facing in those areas or those sectors, then some data or comparative analysis of that with graphs and pie charts or maybe bar columns and further length the solution. So your focus should be mainly on the problem statement and the solutions that what are the solution they are providing and what are the problem they have identified. Many of the problem might be you might also be knowing but there might be one or two problem which is new to you. So add that thing in your notes. Similarly, solution many of the solutions are very unique and especially some of them which government have planned or are the in the pipeline of the government. So that will add value to your answer. You may directly quote in your answer also he asked per economic survey or you may directly write as a solution also. Like for example in one year back in economic survey they have mentioned about the fertilizer subsidy. So they mentioned about the solutions also that these solutions can be done about the fertilizer so that you can utilize them. So similarly in this manner section wise you prepare it that what are the sectors they are dealing with and then write your notes and give problem statement and solution plus you can find some data or good map or paragraph or any by pie chart or bar column or any graphical analysis they have given but do not give much focus on them because many of them are not of our purpose that is for their own purpose like comparative analysis of states that is not needed for your purpose. So you can ignore that part. Similarly there are data given like for example there is a topic on Swachh Bharat machine. Now they have mentioned that this much of population was not having the toilets in our country. 50% of the population does not have a toilet cover before Swachh Bharat machine. Now 99.2% have the toilet cover that is the data you have given. So this data you can utilize in your answers for maybe for GS or maybe for SA. So for maintain one separate copy and add that data write that data separately that these are the useful data maybe 40-50 data which might be useful for you. So that will be helping in so this way the volume one can be useful to you sector wise analysis or the area wise analysis they might be giving on topics of health, education, judiciary, economy, polity whatever many of the things they have covered in their parts. So this way you can use economic survey for the qualitative improvement of your answers. The volume two is much more a data collection or the compilation of the various performances of various sectors or the government investments as well as so volume two what you can do is do one thing that they have mentioned about the various sectors the improvement of the services, manufacturing, external sector or these ways. So in this manner what you can do is just maintain one-one page for each sector and write about their performances what the government they what they do is they tell about the performance whether they are performing good or bad that you can write in a data analysis or with the help of a graph along with that what schemes government have done or are they are planning to do they also mention about them. For example if they mention about power they will mention about the schemes of the power sector in that manner you can write all the schemes. So you have will have a collection of all the government efforts the government schemes or government initiative in various sector along with data analysis. So focus on volume one should be more and two should be a study which you should do only on the basis of data and the schemes not a very much detailed study for most of the topics in the volume two. Volume one is much more crucial which will you add quality to your answers. Volume two is much more on the data collection or compilation for government purposes. That has to be studied very selectively and you can choose data only and as well as the government schemes in those sectors so that you can utilize them in while you are writing. Sometime directly questions comes in this sectors what are the government initiative that has been done. So that will be easily available to you in the economic survey and you do not have to go around here and there to collect the schemes or the programs done by the government on those sectors. Along with that what you can do is like for the data collection there are some good model examples the boxes in the economic survey they generally give the good solutions or good case studies or good model examples across the country or across the world. So you can note down those good example, good models or good solutions provided there because they are something which the government is planning to do or they can be replicated along where for those sectors or for those areas. So focus on the boxes should be there because boxes have a very good information available for you for your quality enrichment of your answers. So in this manner first give a reading of volume one and upper overview of volume two and then later on either you can write your own notes or follow a summary with a systematic approach as I told you in this video. In this manner you can utilize economic survey for the qualitative improvement of your answers in GS123 as well as in the SA as well as improve your understanding of the basic issues of economy. Further we will be dealing with the chapters of the economic survey in the further lectures. Thank you. Subscribe to our channel and click on the bell icon to get latest updates on upcoming videos.