The horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver. The Lone Ranger. The onion tato, with daring and resourceful mask rider of the plains, led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the Great Horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. The Lone Ranger was accompanied by his nephew Dan Reed and his Indian companion, Tato, when he rode into the patio of a Spanish mission. The Padre was on hand to welcome his three friends. Where's Dears Padre? Where's Dears Amigo? It is good to see all three of you. We met some Indians Padre who told us that you were hoping we would come here soon. You have come at just the right time. The teacher is inside at this very moment. Your teacher? He is in the mission school. Her name is Sally Denton. Oh? I know that you have many things to do. Things of great importance to the development of our country. I do not like to ask that you spend time with something you may consider unimportant. Oh, what is your problem Padre? The problem belongs to the school teacher. Teachers in the west are among the most important people. They are the custodians of our future leaders. Padre, this must be the man you told me about. Your friend who wears the mask. Yes. You are Miss Denton? Yes, that's right. I just started telling my friend about you. This is Tato. I'm glad to meet you, Tato. Oh, and my, and Dan Reed. How do you do, Miss Denton? Well, you're just a boy. Yes, I guess so. A boy to be traveling with the Lone Ranger and Tato. Oh, not always. Dan spends lots of his time in school. Why, you must be just about the age of Joe Fletcher. Fletcher. Do you know him, sir? I know of a man named Fletcher, Zachary Fletcher. He's the father of the boy in my school. I see. I know what you're thinking. Zachary Fletcher is a bad man. His friends are... Well, I don't like to speak against any man. Zachary Fletcher is generally supposed to be the leader of a gang of cooks. They remain out of jail only because they've killed everyone who might be a witness against them. I didn't know that Zachary had a son. The boy came from the east a short time ago after the death of his mother. He came to my school. At first he behaved very well and he was a good student, but lately he's been changing. Padre, may I speak frankly? Of course. Please do. Joe Fletcher has become bad. Miss Denton, in this country, there are a lot of bad men, but I've never known up a bad boy. Joe lies and cheats and steals. He brags and bullies the other children. Why, just the other day, he was boasting of the fact that his father was the leader of a gang. I... Well, I'm afraid of his effect on the other children. I'd like to tell him that he cannot come to school anymore. Oh, no. No, he must remain in school. It is he who needs it more than the others. Yes, I... I agree with the Padre. The Padre told me a lot about you. Perhaps... perhaps you can find a way to put Joe's father and the members of his gang in jail. Sheriff Walker would lose no time in jailing those men if he had any evidence against them. Yes, I suppose so. Frankly, I see no hope for Joe unless he can be taken from the influence of his home. Does Joe any friends, boys of his own age? No. Every boy should have a chum. But what boy would want to be a chum?  Why, of course. How about it, then? How about it? What do you mean, sir? Here's a chance for you to do a good turn. Go to the mission school for a few weeks and get acquainted with Joe Fletcher. Oh, but, golly, I've been to school. I'm just starting a vacation. Extra school not hurt, Dan. Oh, Dan. Dan, you often said you'd like to be a lawman or a secret service man. Well, here's your chance. The law would like to get some evidence against Fletcher's gang.  He might drop something to give us an inside track on the plans of the gang. See, he might have that. Maybe I can get some information to help to smash that gang. Maybe you can.  Well, that's the idea. Miss Denton, will you take Dan inside and make arrangements for him to start in your school tomorrow? Why, of course. Dan, I shall be pleased to have you in my school. Now, let's go talk about it. You must have a... that one way to get Dan in school. Do you, amigo, think your friend will have some influence through Dan? We'll learn a lot about Joe Fletcher. Then we may be able to take steps so a misguided boy will not become a bad man. Oh, I hope so. Padre, can you find a place for Dan to board somewhere in town? But, of course.  But what of you and Tondo? Oh, we'll find a place in the woods near town and make a camp. Dan can report to us each evening and let us know how he's progressing with Joe Fletcher. Dan enrolled in the school the following day. Each evening he rode to the Lone Ranger's camp, but there was little to report. He had been unable to establish any friendly acquaintance with Joe Fletcher. Joe had remained aloof and barely nodded to the new boy. It was the end of the session one week after Dan had started in the school. The students were filing past the teachers there. Now, don't forget to leave your examination papers on my desk. Place them right here. Thank you, Jimmy. Here's mine. Thank you. Where's your paper, Dan? I must have lost it. I had it finished before reset. Listen to him. No one had the papers done before reset. I did, but now I can't find it. Never mind, Dan. You may do it over tomorrow. Here's my paper, Miss Denton. It's all finished. Those questions were easy. Joe, you found those questions easy? A sure thing. I'm glad to hear it. Red faced and embarrassed, Dan Reed lacked the school building with Joe Fletcher close behind. Most of the students laughed and ran and shouted as they headed homeward. But not Joe Fletcher. Joe walked silently away from the school and Dan Reed followed until the two were well away from the other pupils. Hey there, Joe. Huh? Oh, you. What's the idea? You following me? I want to talk to you about that paper with my desk. What? You accuse me of stealing your paper? Got a good notion of smack in the mouth. Don't lie about it, Joe. I saw you. Just before recess was over, you went inside and took it out of my desk. It's the same as calling me a thief. Joe, I'll be glad to help you with your lessons. But don't go into my desk again. Understand? You can't talk to me like that. You've made one mistake today. Don't make another one now. Why, you? Well, I'll show you. Take that. All right. You started it. Here's one for you. I'll get you for that.  You'll miss. I'll get you this time. Joe Fletcher swung wild and desperately, but Dan Reed dodged your parries most of the blows. And those that landed were merely glancing. Dan had been trained by the Lone Ranger in the use of his fists and struck clean, sharp blows that landed accurately. Then Joe went down and grabbed one arm. Now, Joe. Now, let me go. I'll get you for this. Did you take the papers off my desk? Let go of me. I can put more pressure on your arm. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let me go now, will you? It's better. Sorry I had to be rough with you, Joe. You'll be sorry. Come on. I'll help you. I'll help you. Well, where'd you learn to fight like that?  I had a good teacher. Who is he? You wouldn't know his name. But he's one of the greatest fighting men who ever lived. I'll bet my dad could knock his ears off. He's been in more fights than anybody. And he's never lost one either. You... you think a lot of your dad, don't you, Joe? Are sure. Why shouldn't I? What's wrong with my dad? Don't get sorry at me, Joe. I didn't say anything was wrong with him. You had him better. Look here, Joe. Why don't you come over to my room at the sheriff's house? Well, let me show you some of my things. You're... you're bored with the sheriff? What's wrong with that? I've got to have some place to live. How about coming along and staying for supper? Well, gosh, I don't know. I'd like to show you the hunting knife and the leather jacket that an Indian chief gave me. An Indian chief? Hey, golly, no fooling? No fooling. And I'll show you my horse. Your own horse? Yes, sir. Did you swipe it? Of course not.  I call him Victor. Come on with me, Joe. I'll saddle him and let you ride him. Gosh, uh, I suppose I could. My pop generally stays awake in the shack till pretty late. No fun to eat alone. The only thing is that the sheriff's got no use for me and my dad. Well, where did you get that idea?  Don't worry about the sheriff. I know that any friend of mine will be welcome. It was the expectation of riding Dan's horse that accounted for Joe's decision to accompany Dan to the sheriff's home. In the meantime, Sally Denon, the school teacher, stopped as usual on her way home for a chat with John Ladoo, who worked at delivery stable. Sally didn't suspect that Ladoo was secretly a member of Zach Fletcher's gang. Well, hearty, Miss Denton. Good to see you. Thank you, Mr. Ladoo. Hey, you look sort of tired. Then have more trouble with the Fletcher boy? He got his comeuppance today. I saw it from the window of the schoolroom. Wow, you saw what? Joe met more than his match. He was not down. You don't say. Are one of the other boys? A boy named Dan Reed. Who's Dan Reed? I never heard of him. Well, can you keep a secret? Of course you can. The boy who whipped Joe Fletcher is a friend of the Lone Ranger. What? You don't say. What's he doing around here? The Lone Ranger himself is camped in the woods. For what? What's he doing here? That's all I can tell you. Well, let's Sally, the sheriff, has been downright anxious to get some evidence on Zach Fletcher. Joe's found it. Do you suppose that Lone Ranger is here to help him? What? Don't it sound like it? If that Reed boy is fighting with young Joe... I shouldn't tell you anymore. Perhaps I shouldn't have said so much. But you'll not tell anyone, will you? And don't you worry, Miss Sally. I know when to talk and when to keep still. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scene, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. To entertain the outlaw leader's son, Zach Fletcher himself was meeting his gang in a camp. Somebody's coming. And whoever it is isn't making no effort to sneak up on this. Maybe it's Ladoo. You will get everything, sit with him for tomorrow when we rob the bank. You sure? And the sheriff starts running around getting the posse together. Ladoo will see that there's lots of delay in getting the horses ready. That is Ladoo. Hi, Ladoo. News boy. Yeah, what is it? The sheriff has helped. He needs plenty of help. Well, he has plenty. He has helped name the Lone Ranger. How do you know you got the true facts? I got it straight from the school line. A kid named Dan Reed, a friend of the Lone Rangers, in her school. And he's staying at the sheriff's house. What are we doing now? Baker, saddle your horse and ride back to town with Ladoo. Well, what for? There's about one hour of daylight left. You'll get to the sheriff's house just about time it's getting dark. Sheriff's house, what? We're at a minute's act. What's on your mind? That kid friend of the Lone Rangers.  Ladoo had been hunting in the hills. They were on their way to camp as twilight was evening. I wonder if Dad will have news for us tonight. Oh, we're gone. Nothing happened yet. Maybe soon we'll find out. Wait, Ladoo, I hear hoof beats. The horse traveled plenty fast. There, horse, that way. Coming from town. And two fellow chasers. Ladoo, that's Dan Reed's horse. Must be Dan riding. Ladoo and back, fire guns. Let's go! He was slightly ahead of Ladoo, racing to meet the rider of the white horse and the two men who were firing at the boy. One of the bullets found a mark. The fleeing boy, reel in the saddle over his shoulder and pointed to the ground. Baker, him, Ladoo. I'm going after those two. He was a shoulder wound. We're tied and forced to ride to the place where Tato was bandaging a boy's arm. Then, for the first time, the lone ranger realized that the boy was not Dan Reed. Him, I've hurt bad. Just scratch him out. I'm all right. I'll get square with those dirty cooks. Who are you, son? I'm Joe Fletcher. Joe Fletcher? Where did you get that white horse? A friend loaned him to me. A friend? Dan Reed. You wouldn't know him. I do know him. I recognize the horse. I thought you were Dan Reed. I see here, mister. What about that mask? Who are you? I'll tell you after I hear how you got Dan Reed's horse. Did he really loan it to you? Oh, sure. I went to the sheriff's house with him. I had supper there. He showed me his things and then he let me ride his horse. When I got to the edge of town, they're doing another man jump me. I got away. Then they took after me and shot me. You'll be all right, Joe. I'll take you to a doctor. Follow. Take those two men to Sheriff Walker and tell him what happened. Oh, me do it. Joe, you'll find it hard to guide a horse with that hand. You'd better ride with me on silver. Huh? Victor will follow us to town. Silver? Yes, that's right. Any more? Gosh. Now that I know about that mask and that horse, Dan Reed told me he had a friend, a fighting man. You're his friend. You're the Lone Ranger. Joe, I want to be your friend, too. Now, let's get to town. The Lone Ranger left Joe with a doctor, then helped the sheriff question two captured men. It was later than usual when Zachary Fletcher returned to his shack in town that night. Striking a mask, she lighted the oil lamp that stood on the bare table. We should have kept it cleaned up around here. That shade's a blacky tint. Joe, you had been? Where'd you come from? Didn't you want to see me? Oh, nice to see you. I heard you were around. Yeah, sure. Always had a hankering to meet the Lone Ranger. Well, how are you going to draw that gun? Right now. It hurts when a gun comes out of your hand. You beat me to the trigger, all right? All right, I got no gun.  That's what you aim to do.   You think you're big enough to give it to me? I'm going to try. Just hold through that gun and see what I do to you. And it's hosted. Oh, you missed. Take a second. You'll pay for that? Well, Zach, Zach Fletcher found his brute strength, no match for the Lone Ranger skill. Oh, show it on his chin and hand. Hard jams caught him in the stomach. Until finally he grew weak. He could no longer defend himself. Then his knees buckled and he slumped to the floor. All right, head enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.  You deserve more than that for shooting a boy. I never shot a boy. You sent a dude and another man to capture Dan Reed. How do you do? I know. They knew Dan's horse better than they knew Dan. You and his partner didn't know that it was your son riding the white horse. Joe? My son? Joe, I... You mean I killed my boy? I did as you care. That kill he was all I had. I always wanted to get rich, so I... Go on. It's all my fault. Don't you wish you could have another chance to do the right thing for him? I'd give all I got, all I ever hoped to have if only Joe was alive. I'm sure you're going to get another chance. What?  You mean that? Yes, he's with the sheriff. I'll take you to him. Then you and I have something to talk about. It was the next morning. From several different directions, Fletcher's men, in accordance with the plan to rob the bank, rode into town and made their way to the cafe. When they were all on hand, Fletcher rose from his chair, his men followed him into the room and closed the door. Everything all set, boss. Everything is off, Denoban. What? The whole deal is off, that clean enough. Now, wait a minute. How come? What made you... Are you getting scared out in a kind of a lone ranger? Denoban, there's never been a man could question my courage. I said the deal is off. Forget it. Take your horses and clear that. You can't let us down like this. We count it on that bank. I don't care what you count it on. I've got someone more important than you boys to consider. Nobody's got anything new, fellas. Take my advice and travel, split up and travel far. Oh, no, you don't, Zack. We planned on this job and it's going through. If you won't leave the boys, then I will. We'll tackle that bank ourselves. Don't do it, Denoban. Because if you do, I'll be waiting for you when you get there. You go with us, Fletcher. Don't move. You better hold for that gun, Denoban. Not a chance.  We'll take him along so he can't tip off our plans. And one plan to move from him and now personally shoot him. You hear that, Fletcher? The boys are with me. Now you just walk right ahead of us. We'll go slow and careful into the bank. We'll be right in back of you. If there's any gunplay, you'll be the first one shot. Fletcher knew that the lone ranger and lawman were waiting in the bank. He had given his men a chance to leave town and go unpunished for all their past crimes. And now hatred filled his heart when he saw how quickly those men could switch their loyalty to Donovan. He'd given them no further warning, even though he knew that he would be the first man shot. His face was grim as he led the way through the doors of the bank. Keep your eyes peeled and shoot if you have. Watch it now, boys. I'm going to the cashier. All right, mister. Just stick up. Pass out the cash. You folks don't make a move. We're ready to shoot. Get to stick up. They're rovers. Keep your hands high. No one will get hurt. Come on in, men. They were waiting for you, coyotes. I tried to send you away. Thanks to that you didn't go. The ring fire from lawman hidden behind the counters in the bank quickly cut down the outlaws. Two were dead. The rest were wounded. The man seriously wounded lay dying. The sheriff came from the inner office with Joe Fletcher and approached the dying man. Dad, what happened?  But today I took on a new job. Carry it. Dad. Take it easy, Joe. Your dad became a good man. He said he had a new job. His new job was helping me. Helping the law. He wants you to do the same. I want to, Chef. Do my best. Good boy. Maybe you'd like to come and live with me. You can have the room that Dan read you. Dan read you. He's gone. He's waiting on the trail for that man mounting his horse outside. Chef, he's the lone ranger. Graded by George W. Trendall. Produced by Trendall Campbell Enterprises. And directed by Charles D. Livingston. Tonight's drama was written by Fran Stryker. The part of the loa...


Welcome in it to a Mustang sportsman at Paul Taylor joined by Mustangs head coach Tracy Johnson Coach so much about this game, but congrats on winning the longest regular season game in NCAA history at 23 hours and 50 minutes Yes, you had the delay and everything we talked before the the resumption of play your girls really handled it Well, and yeah, you know that they had the redo or the resumption yesterday But they really handled themselves well basically playing three games in three days. They did I teased them It only took two days to get the second win, but but we got it nevertheless and you know We really had the momentum last night So having to stop and resume today Obviously could could definitely take a toll But they they took it in stride and was pretty proud of the effort that they put forth today You also in addition to winning the longest regular season game in NCAA history had what I have to imagine It's probably the shortest power play in history at point four seconds They're the last second of the game there overall though, especially as the game wore on in that third period there I think the physical physicality rather and the speed of your girls really wore Lebanon Valley down agreed And they just kind of played through kind of the the rough bounces and and you know the rough physical play And I thought they did a great job doing that and you know Anna Anna did an awesome job I'm sure you're gonna ask about her, but did a great job between the pipes You know it's one nothing and she comes up with that huge save and that could have been Huge momentum change and so just great job back there. I'm sure she was your next question But she actually was it's like we've been doing this for four years we're at 67 shots and You know it was one nothing midway through the third period there and you had 50 shots on goal What's the message on the bench there when it is so maybe you know easy to be so frustrated with we're doing everything We can and just can't seem to find the back of the net just keep plugging away I mean I heard it several times on the bench like it'll come like that. Just just keep pushing keep going So again like that could be something that just really wears down on your play But they kept pushing through it Pretty proud of that effort as well now Nikki obviously with the two goals But I thought it was a lot of other people you had Lizzie get her first goal today And he had some other freshmen really overall between you yesterday's first period and the two today really I think probably had their best game of the year. Yeah, I'm pretty excited about the future of the program I mean they've really come a long way this season and I think just really seeing their effort and and their abilities in this past Weekend is is really exciting so they did a great job, too Manhattanville knocked off Newman today So everything is right in front of you guys play Newman this weekend Everything's on the line everything that you've wanted this whole year still in front of you guys Yep, we just got to focus on getting back to work tomorrow actually and you know attacking the week and being focused and really just Just really put an emphasis on the process and what we need to do to put together a full 60 minutes of play And the results will come after that But we're gonna try to really just play the game of hockey not put too much pressure on the implication of those games But know that if we put forth our effort and play like we can the results will come Hi coach go get them Friday night, and we'll see you Saturday night here in Reisterstown. Thank you so much for coach Tracy Johnson I'm Paul Taylor again the Mustangs Pete Lebanon Valley for nothing here on a Super Bowl Sunday We'll see you on Saturday when the Mustangs host Newman for a seven o'clock face-off


Good evening. First of all, thanks, Laszlo, for your presentation. I want to add that I'm going to give training, Laszlo, on LibreLogo really soon within November. I will have a short lesson on LibreLogo, so maybe I will catch up to you. So my presentation today is about comparison between Word and Writer. This is a disclaimer. It's 20 years. I don't use any more Word. I've been asked to do so. And this is the partial result of it. Partial because they told me to use it for a project, but then they told me I had to make another project which was more urgent. And so I had to park the first one and stop using Microsoft Word so it is not complete. Sometimes I finally understand all the issues that the people coming from Microsoft Office is having when migrating to LibreOffice. It's just like when you know someone having a pain in the backbone and they say, yes, understand, no. Something is to guess and something is to have that pain. And in this case, I had that pain. And I don't know if in other languages, but in Italian, Microsoft Word is really a mess with shortcuts so I had to really find all of them because all worldwide software has a common base of shortcuts, just like Control-S to save, Control-P to print, Control-All to open. No way. And Microsoft Word in Italian is no way that. Cross-references, I've noticed that they work. If you, in Writer, use cross-references among different documents because at the end, you will assemble them. At the end, they will work. But you can't check until you assemble all of them. And the reason to split them in separate documents is that you want to work with smaller ones. So the problem is that you are guessing that sooner or later we will do the assemble. And finally, you will discover if you have been right in inputting those cross-references because you have to do it manually, noting somewhere the name of the cross-reference. What happens in Word is that even if you cross-reference to something on another document and then you open just the second one, it keeps the text. So you can see it instead of seeing an error, which is what happens in Writer. But if you try, obviously, to insert a new cross-reference, it doesn't. It can't list cross-references of other documents unless they are all open together, which is sound sensible. Then it happens that in this case, cross-references, to us are special field. But what happens in Microsoft Word is that they are not highlighted at all. So you couldn't even notice that there is a cross-reference over there unless you go over it. And then it prompts you to, how to say, to control click to follow the link because at the end it is a bookmark for it. And you can also write within the recall of the cross-reference, which is something you can't do in Writer. For Writer, it is one block. So either you put it there or you delete it. You can't write inside. You can't modify it. It could be useful sometimes if you have some kind of exception now and then. Then the handling of sub-document is, well, I have to say it's really useful. Trust me, I lost days and days in learning again Microsoft Word because of the ribbon and because I think that the ribbon is meant and thought and designed for basic users.  By the way, the possibility to open all the documents and work within them is really useful. It's definitely, definitely useful, which is something you can't do in LibreOffice Writer because it prevents you to do it and ask you to open separately the sub-document and then save it and then update it in the master document. The layout and the scrolling of the document is really fast in Microsoft Word, but not that much. When you happen to insert many vector images, even Microsoft Word finds its, how to say, difficulties. And by the way, it uses a trick, this. Let's say that probably it has a kind of snapshot, screenshot of the pages. And so when you scroll real rapidly or you zoom in and out, it shows you this kind of ruffle image and then it defines with the new layout and new rendering, which is by the way really fast. And call outs, since all my previous documents were made with LibreOffice Writer, I used this kind of style for call outs and I wanted to, at least, even using a different software to keep the very same, how to say, look and feel of the document, to the finished document. So I created the very same kind of call out, but what happens is that maybe it's my fault when there is some kind of margin to set. I didn't find it, but as you can see, there is a lot of margin you can't use. So even if you have to write a call out with the number five, you have to create a huge call out because otherwise it doesn't fit the number itself. It's something. Have you used text at the moment? Text what? Text at the moment. No. It's a feature of all that. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I had the perception that it looks like, you know, LibreOffice creates a shape and then you can fit, sorry, put the text within that shape. I had the perception that word creates a shape and then creates a text box within that shape, but I may be wrong. It was my perception. Then the caption held in a different way because it creates a separate text box for the caption which is not the box containing the image which is something that doesn't happen in writer and this is sometimes a feature which leads to confusion to users and a pain in the ass if you, for example, want to resize that image after you have put the caption. So I think that this is a smart thing. And by the way, I recently used to, in LibreOffice too, not anymore use the caption feature but just put the text by myself using the numbering, you know, the variables and so on. Then the alignment, the RISD-8 in the alignment of images, it draws a green line. It helps you to align in your images but the final result is not that perfect, at least on the screen. I didn't check because I have not reached the stage to finish the document, to assemble and to produce the PDF so, you know, in the final version. Then it doesn't have, apparently, an explicit way to compress images just like LibreOffice has, you know, you're clicking on the right button and you say compress this image which is on one hand is really handy, it's really useful but on the other hand you have to do it for every single image of the document while Microsoft Word doesn't prompt you at all, doesn't have, apparently, this function but it does globally for the document in the settings of the program, I would say. I don't think it's related to the document but I'm not sure. But yes, it's on advanced functions, advanced properties, no, yes, settings, sorry, of the software. Sorry, it's in Italian because I have to use it in Italian because it's not mine, to be honest, but Microsoft Word, I refuse to buy it. Yes, really. So I told them, you give me the software and I use it, that's the best I could do for you. And I finished, it's to be continued because again, I didn't succeed to, I didn't finish the work, the job on that document, unfortunately, so I didn't reach all the stage which is the most tedious one when you have to assemble all the documents and produce a PDF because as I mentioned last year in my speech, it takes ages, especially if you have kind of 400 pages document with a lot of vectors and pictures and so on, it can take on an I5 also kind of 20 minutes, 15 minutes to generate the final PDF. I'm done. Thank you. One minute. I know that, yes, it's true, it's true. Yeah, no, it's different. I mean, what happens is that it's true that when you create PDF, you can do that, it does, but when you save the ODT file, unless you compress the image, the image stays there, the whole. So if you for some reason insert an image which is 20 megapixel and 20 megabytes, let's say. No, you do and then compress. No, no way. I do this, I'm part of my job. I have a professional camera. I take pictures of the items of the machinery. Now then I bring the pictures within the writer and then I say, I resize them as I need to be on the page and then I say, please, compress because it depends on the size of a page, you know, because it's physical. Other questions really quickly? Yes, please. Perhaps you can start at a wicking page where comparison of your phone are available. Oh, thank you. It's a good suggestion. You, I can point to it and say, look here. Indeed. And that is a trick to get it better. It's a good point. And it's not forgotten. And do you remind me also that if I'm not wrong, the core has made such kind of comparison in a wicking page. It's more a form of a table, but thank you. I will take into consideration and time permitting I will do it. Thank you so much. I want to take this tonight. Yeah. Good idea. Thank you all.


Okay, so let's start. This talk will be about the underreport of LibreOffice. And even if the focus of this talk will be about the core application, like the viewer or this basic editor, there is also this LibreOffice in-person remote. I'm controlling the presentation from this phone. And let's experiment with this. If it will be prior by the end of the presentation, I will have to hold here and press some keys so it will actually work, even if it's kind of a lack. So let's see what has been done up to today. The very first step in the history of the underreport was to get this huge code-based cross-compile that was mostly done back in the Susan times where Thor did spend quite some time on getting this to work. And one of the major problems was that underage is not Linux.  And if this reminds you of Windows, then you are metal.  So we have to link all this code to a single shared library. And because we are cross-compiling, we can't run any unit tasks, and we had to, or we had to solve a number problem still. There was a document of the prototype that was using the Uno Java binding, because initially the idea was that if Uno already has the Java binding and under it we found Java, then it might be a good idea to re-target that for this purpose. It didn't really work out. It looked like this that you could switch between the pages and have the document rendered at a fixed size. I guess you couldn't really zoom into it, or maybe there was some support for it, but it was quite limited in many ways. The purpose was just to be able to exercise the actual rendering. The rendering, the result was quite how the printing result looked like. So it wasn't something that could be later extended to be an editor as well. But it was a start. Another prototype next to this was our other approach, would be that the desktop rendering would be completely reused. Basically we rendered into background bitmap, and when the order bitmap was changed then we copied that to the Android screen. So it looked like this. You can notice the desktop menus and basically really the whole desktop was copied. The reason why we could do this was because at least on Uno's, there is no desktop information integration available. We fall back to this Roax11 background that really had no external dependency. It really wanted to paint on the pixels itself, so it could be something that would be re-proposed for the Android rendering as well. So we had this document loader prototype. It could load a document that was far coded by real time basically. So it was far from something that could be useful for a non-user. So that was a G Suite project which tried to build on top of this document loader and it tried to add this document browser. Actually this is the oldest part that's still part of the current Android viewer. You could say that it's some duplication because of how I tried to be a file manager when we were building a document viewer, a document editor. But again, one more under the stupidity is that it doesn't come with a file manager on most of the phones, so you have to provide some way for the user to choose a file. And even if you have a file manager, Android has some interesting idea about how to determine what application to use with a given file. Like it doesn't do any kind of deep file detection what we do on the library side, but it just does it based on the file extension. And it has a huge hash map about what file extension belongs to our mind type. For example, the ImpressTemplate type is missing from the hash map. So if you would like to open ImpressTemplate, then you still need this document browser because we know that it's an ImpressTemplate that Android doesn't own. So it's like this. There are some minor updates to this in the current version, but it's really similar, this part was physically unchanged. What was extended here later is that now you can also open a remote file. Yeah, I did some work on this so that you can load documents from on-cloud, you can save to-down, and there is an interface between the on-cloud and the document viewer, so you can add multiple backends and so on. So the next thing we say towards this current state where we have a viewer and we do have an additional basic editor is a type rendering. That's the core of the viewer that we have today. And by type, we mean these small bitmaps and we render into these small bitmaps so that when some changes, you don't have to rerun the whole screen, just the change bitmaps. The idea is from Mozilla, they invented this for Firefox, and I guess by today, mostly they use it everywhere. Maybe not on Linux, but I think on Windows and Mac, they use it even in the desktop version. So in one of the earlier talks, it was mentioned that in the long term it would be nice if LibreOffice would do this on the desktop, it might sound like a pipe dream, but actually Mozilla did this and it seems that it was, so it's not completely unfounded idea. So the big thing with this type rendering is that you have to implement it in the given applications. Initially, it was for writer. I think Candy prototyped it and then later, Candy and Thor did work around it. So actually we had a working type renderer for writer, but not for caulk and deep press. There was a full-on g-stock project so that the deep press type rendering got implemented and also there was a lot of time to do it for caulk, but it was done in a future branch and as far as I know, it didn't do good things for the caulk desktop rendering so that now we're running the master. A bit later, Kobai and Henry did most of the work around that so that we can have something that's type rendering for caulk and still not breaking the desktop rendering. So this is how it looked like in this GTK type view. It's a test-by-application. It's built by default. It's not part of the installation set so you have to run this with this VIN slash run shell script. But you can test all the C++ parts of this type rendering and later type editing features. So at the end, you will see how the editing part looks like and I did most of the work on the library side and Thomas Schweinger did most of the Java part. So actually, most of the time I didn't have the Android. I just made some work from this type view and once it was working, then Thomas took over and actually did the rework. That's a great way to always touching Android when you are supposed to do Android work. So Thomas integrated the existing type renderer with the Phanak front-end from Mozilla that's used for Firefox core Android. So we have the C++ core. We are using the whole interface. On the other hand, the output is just ties and some API between the C++ core and the Java application and what you see as a user is some native user interface that's written completely in Java and it's completely separated from the desktop user interface. That's quite a big contrast to the desktop prototype where we already used the machine. It sounds like this is more the way to go. So this is the first screen shot from this Phanak base viewer that already used the type rendering. You will see later that there is an additional toolbar and a few changes but it's basically like this. A major step towards the end-users was when this app was pushed to the Google Play Store that means that we had to fulfill all the requirements even if it's well known that the Play Store users are much more liberal compared to the Apple App Store requirements. We still have this problem with the size limit. The rule from Google is that the AP case, the comprised application can be more than 50 megabytes. That's still a problem today. If you search from LibreOffice in the Play Store, you will find two versions. One is the collaborative version that's still a viewer. It doesn't have the editing capabilities. On the other hand, it can open a few more files, most of them are the Microsoft formats. There is another flavor, just playing games without removing different services so that you can choose what features will be included and you are still not above this size limit. The version from TDF has these basic editing capabilities. On the other hand, it can only open ODF files. There is something to be solved so that if you build yourself and you just push the APK to your Android device, then you can have both at the same time. Once we had something in the Play Store for the viewer, the next big step was the editing. This is what was sponsored by the TDF. This is something that's new since, for example, FOSDOM. There was also a session about the Android port. By the time of this year, FOSDOM was physically the viewer. In case the document had blinking tags, then the rendering result on Android also was blinking. We had some kind of working invalidation, but that was all. The first problem we had to solve was that we saw that we had a working viewer, but the car was still lagging behind. The root of this problem was that by the writer works in logical units in Twitch and by the impress works also in logical units in 100 mm, CAC is switching between these units, even in this pixel sometimes. For the time rendering purpose, we are always working in Twitch. We are always working in logical units, and in case some part of the rendering result would like to work in pixel, then we have a problem. Related commons are in the right turn. The right turn commons are in pixel. That's why currently they are missing from the time rendering result because some additional work would be needed there. Again, if it would be all in logical units, then that would be much easier. But with time, we got something that's usable enough and we could claim that the time rendering in CAC is good enough so that we can go to the editing part. There was a session from our talk by Candy as part of the GSOC panel demonstrating that Christian Peter did this somewhere to improve the CAC situation further. So there is hope that one day CAC will be as clean as right turn and impressed from this logical unit rendering perspective. So, time editing, that's the next thing. So the major thing is that when we have only a viewer, then we render something once and we could assume that it never changes. If we were out of memory or something, then we could drop ties and render them later. But apart from that, once we got a tie, we could keep it as long as we wanted. This is no longer the case with editing. Before, it was possible that the user interface just pulled into the C++ and requested the ties as it wanted. We had to implement the communication in the other direction as well. So there is no callback at a liberal circuit level and that it can signal if something happens like you are supposed to drop ties intersecting with the legal logic or rectangle and stuff like this. The good thing is that the FANAC code base that we imported from Firefox is prepared for this because even if you use the bubbles most of the time as a viewer, as an HTML viewer, there is this strange JavaScript saying that allows you to modify the document content so they have to render things left and right already. So it's something that we can already use for our editing needs as well. I already mentioned the GTK type viewer. It allows a bit more productive development from two perspectives. One is that even if you have debug symbols, then linking this separate shared object isn't that much time. GTK type viewer can use these updated shared objects. So the hack, compile or test alteration can be relatively fast. On the other hand, if you would like to do the same on Android, either you don't have the debug symbols, but still it takes around one minute to do one of these cycles, or you have debug symbols and you have some limitations in the linker, which means that a fully debug GTK linking 400 takes around... If you have enough memory, so it actually finishes, it takes more than 10 minutes or something like this. So that's not far from ideal. What's very strange is that the same situation for iOS isn't that bad, so they do have a linker that can cope with a fully debug GTL large object files and linking them together to a single shared object or single executable in a reasonable time. So let's hope with time the two-chain way will actually catch up with our requirements. So what we need for an editor, we need some input handling from the soft keyboard and touch neurons, we need some cursor, we need selections, we need the invalidation, and then we will have something that allows basic editing from an end user perspective. So as mentioned, this is sponsored by the TDF and the good thing about this is that basically none of the companies or clients have enough budget to get this going, so it was realized that it's necessary to put out a standard that allows somebody to do all the grounding work to get this going and that actually happened. So we bought this part and we could dedicate a couple of months to implement this. So the first thing was this linking tax. It's a nice use case where the rendering result has to be updated but you don't have to have working input handling, so you don't have to solve two problems at the same time, which is exactly what you want and you have to work on this. And this is basically where the presentation at FOSDAW was finished. So what are the use case things done? LibreOffice has the keyboard and mouse handling. We mapped the Android soft keyboard to the keyboard handling of LibreOffice and we mapped the touch events from Android to mouse events. Interestingly, since then there was also some work in parallel with this from the GTK3 part or the GTK3 documents where the touch events are propagated to VCR as real touch events. We wanted to reuse as much as possible, so all the Android touch events are mapped to the mouse events. That's how we got a number of things for free, like if we map, for example, long press to double click, then long pressing on a guard will automatically do this handling so that double click on a guard creates a selection on the guard and features like this. If later the VCR touch support will be good enough, it could be a possibility to bring up the Android touch events to VCR touch events. So the next thing was some native overlay. We wanted to have the cursor and the selections not as part of the rendering result in the files so that if you just navigate with the cursor or you change the selection then we don't have to re-run them. If you ever looked into this, even on the desktop we have overlays for this so all we had to do was to disable these native overlays like from a LibreOffice perspective native or for the title rendering so that we can add these overlays from Java on the native Android UI. So by native I mean the Java native. So we have the cursor, we have many changes and the LibreOffice Kit callback informs the Java layer where the new cursor rectangle leaves and also the same for the selection rectangles. The cursor is easy, it's really just a rectangle but the selection can be more complicated. It's basically a list of rectangles and also in the mobile board it's quite common that you have selection handles so that you can adjust both the start and the end of the selection. This is something we implemented. This is something that LibreOffice coordinated and supported so if on the desktop you create a selection and you are still holding down the mouse button then you can adjust the end of the selection but not the start of it. So this is something that we had to implement. On the other hand for the various selection and various the cursor, that's something that the desktop version already knew and we had to just instrument this code with the necessary LibreOffice Kit callback so that this information is a variable for the Java layer. So this is the first demo. This is showing what's possible in a writer. So before you get this view viewer and then if you tap on it then you get an editor. You can tap as far and then the cursor is moved. You can type something and then the letters even the extended ones, the random unicorn values are supported. Of course if you are in the middle of a bullet list and in the new press center then the cursor jumps you can adjust the selection, the start and the end. You can also drag the cursor. I hope it will be part of one of these demo videos. If you had something selected and you typed something then of course it will be overwritten. If you have some selection inside the table forward then you can adjust the selection handles and between the first selection we turn into a table selection that's quite handy with this limited mobile input capabilities. If you don't press on a table side and it will also create a table selection you can tap on an image and it's possible to move around and resize them. In a writer the shape text is provided by the edit engine that's something completely different. You can also edit that. You can again resize the shapes as well. If you notice the images are resized keeping their aspect ratio as it happens on the desktop. If you resize shapes then this won't happen because it's what users are used to when they use the desktop version. You can create a selection and then use one of these buttons in the toolbar to dispatch all the commands on it so you can mark it as void or italic or strash through or what you prefer. It's really just up to adding more buttons to the toolbar or it's kind of an area of more for somebody who is more into the user experience part to decide exactly what buttons to put there. It's similar to the two bars on the desktop version where we just have an API for this unit commands and then it's up to some of us to define exactly how these two bars are organized and what buttons in what order appear and so on. It's similar here, it's quite configurable. This is for writer. But once we had something working for writer we wanted to make sure that it won't happen that impress and caulk can't catch up. We had this problem with the viewer that the caulk part was lagging behind. So once I'm not exactly sure what we were with the writer room but we weren't ready with this. We also switched to impress and caulk and brought it up to be on par with writer and switched back to writer and did something new again there and it was like this. So this is for writer. The next thing was impress. For the core part again that was mostly my fault to do the necessary instrumentation so that the Java layer is of what's happening on the core side. Again this is known as the tangent tax. You have the blinking cursor and you can track the cursor to some other position and the cursor will be adjusted. The cursor is not moved to some random place but we just send the information while it was dragged and then the core will decide where the cursor position that's the nearest point where it could be placed. And basically we added the same features to impress as well. So if you have a bullet list then you can add the new one. You can create a selection. If you notice this small bubble on the video that's presenting where I was with my finger so you can see how something is started and dragged away and so on. Other than that it's similar. So again we support this and that you select the word and type something that gets over it and just as you would expect from the desktop forum. Something that required a bit more work was this impress there was because again that's completely different code from the writer there was. This is mostly in S-reacts and we wanted to have the same behavior. As you could see you can switch between the slides and as you call them document parts so that can be a slider or a spreadsheet and you can click inside the shape text and there's something you can resize the shapes. Hopefully. What's important is that it should be very close to the desktop version except one. There was already some common behavior that was quite standard in the mobile world and we wanted to be consistent with that. So the last video will be about CAC and this is impressing the wrong button So the last demo video is about CAC we had a single larger sheet so in the video you will see how you can pan around with the document you can also zoom in in case the text is too small so that you could position the cursor precisely. If you notice here the selection is a bit off from the text. Even the cursor has this annoying one pixel difference maybe it's even a bit more that's because of these annoying inconsistencies in the car rendering and switching between the logical units and these rounding arrows can add up. The hope is that this will improve as the car rendering moves more and more to use logical units in the rendering. But other than that it's really the same. On the challenge we had to solve that when you load the document and just render it then the image is not yet dark because if we know where to paint the parts then we already showed that and the image is loaded later it's a bit more expansive operation and then we have some problems with the invalidation so that we wanted to show the document without the image and load the image and when the image was loaded invalidate the necessary files so that you can actually see them but other than that you can see even for car the same user features. So that's where we are and do I still have some time? Okay so I promise I won't use all the time but I don't want to talk to you even if he's not here. So basically that's really still not done but would be really easy to do on the Android user interface layer is the features part we did something we did some API at the Librofi speak level or Librofi sound line but the Android user interface didn't fill it out so what we are saying would be to find out what services are exactly necessary to support flat ODIF and then those documents could be loaded as well because of the size limitations by default all Uno services are excluded and you have to explicitly buy a place or the components or the constructors that are necessary to be included in the product or the APK So the next idea would be support for searching the Librofi speak API is there just the GNI and the Java part would be necessary to implement One more nice feature would be that once you have a selection you could copy it to the Android Kit Flipworn again the lock API is done One more thing to fix and it would not be too hard to implement to have some proper feedback about saving currently we just dispatched the Uno Q1 so that the save will be initiated and sooner or later it will end but it's unsynchronous we don't know when exactly it finished it would be better to handle it explicitly like we do it for the opening of the document we know exactly when it finished because we don't have some kind of progress bar for it and we know if it succeeded or failed it's quite misleading that currently there is no feedback about the saving result so that even if it failed you don't see anything you just close the document open it again and you see the old version so I guess that's it thanks for everyone from my colleagues who have most of the work done by Tom and me but as you can see a number of other people have also the sponsors and then Smooth was the company who founded all the work around the viewer and TDF sponsored the basic editing part and really without these sponsors we as a consulting company couldn't do this because we have to work on something that's paid by something so that's how this became possible so thanks for listening the impression doesn't crash so if you have any questions I may try to answer it yes the question was if there are any minimum system requirements yes there are different API levels that the application can declare and I guess we require under it for the Tomosh Iro here is that correct you require for the Tom right 401 401 I'm afraid it's quite possible this is not done but if you go from the Play Store then the Play Store will prevent you from installing it on one device most of these UIL amounts are something that's not available as is but hopefully for that there is not a huge requirement nowadays anything else any other questions one two three ok thanks for your attention


So there was a Ron DeSantis book event in Leesburg, Florida and some folks showed up who support Donald Trump I don't know if they planned to heckle Ron DeSantis, but either way they were rocking Trump gear and they were not allowed in the events Let's go ahead and let's listen to this exchange here That's pretty telling They told me To tell anyone who's wearing Trump gear that they have to go This is from DeSantis's team, right? Presumably Free speech there's nothing that warms my heart more than when fascist republicans Clash with one another I love that DeSantis is doing this because DeSantis is indeed an authoritarian So he's not going to change the ways in which he interacts with people just because it's donald trump He's gonna be as authoritarian But it could be that they had this rule because maybe they got wind That Trump supporters were gonna show up and heckle him. I'm not necessarily sure either way It's still pretty embarrassing and a very bad look, but I love how Trump supporters are now saying what those of us on the left have been saying for a very long time now So as the guardian reports here Ron DeSantis called a tyrant as trump supporters barred from book signing Oh, I'm gonna love to see it. Don't you folks? Far right activist laura lumar denounces florida governor who is expected to challenge x president for republican nomination When you have these insane dipshits Going up against each other and then it gets this ugly where trump supporters are banned from DeSantis events That's when you know this primary even though it's not technically Started yet or hasn't technically started between trump and de santis like it's gonna get really really nasty and i'm i'm here for it So ron de santis is a tyrant the far right activist laura lumar said After she and other trump supporters were barred from a book signing staged by the florida governor Now you know how everyone else feels now you understand what we've been saying. Yes, the mother f***er is a tyrant But they only can recognize bad things about republicans if it affects them personally They told me to say anybody wearing trump has to go right now a uniformed officer Said in a video posted online by lumar. Oh, okay. So lumar actually posted it. Let's see that real quick Let's see what her commentary is must watch. I'm oh, so oh this was lumars people. Okay. This interesting I'm at the leesburg florida mall outside of books a million for my pro trump rally With villagers for trump and ron de santis and his staff ordered the police to make anyone wearing a trump shirt or anyone with any trump gear Leave the santis is anti-free speech yeah You're late to the party on this one But I think that they probably got wind that laura lumar was gonna heckle them And that's why they did this so perhaps it's not as cut and dry as the video makes it seem It seems like they knew that they were going to be heckled and rather than having trump supporters disrupt the event Then they just Banned them. So it's interesting and I love that it's uh culminating in in this where now trump supporters Are decrying santis's anti-free speech behavior. Yeah, no s*** welcome to the f***ing party dipshits The santis people are in there telling me to come out to tell you guys Not to be here while he's here the officer said lumar said governor desantis He always talks about how he's in favor of free speech So do we have a first amendment right to be here to rally in support of president trump? Right you do said the officer but not now lumar asked desantis's people told you that we have to leave the officer said Yes, later lumar told the daily beast police showed up and they told us that we were going to be cited and arrested for trespassing If we didn't leave because desantis didn't want us out inside It shows that he's a tyrant I god to see laura lumar and a bunch of trump supporters get arrested at a desantis event that would honestly be One of the most beautiful things that I think a human being can ever experience like probably even more Profoundly life-changing than seeing your child born for the first time not that I have experienced there But like I would love to see that but I mean there's still time the g.o.p. Primary Hasn't really even officially begun yet. So we may see that cross my fingers here Later lumar told the daily beast and she's talking to liberal outlets too about this I fucking love this desantis has not declared a run for presidential nomination in 2024 But it remains the only close challenger to trump in polling pursuing hardline culture war policies Including banning books in schools and restricting the teaching of lgbtq plus issues in elementary schools He has carved out a formidable national profile um, okay, so this is just going to get into The general dynamics of the g.o.p. Primary, but um, yeah, they're right He is a tyrant trump's a tyrant too, but I think that desantis is absolutely much more effective at the way he's able to Get people to support his fascistic policies With trump there's like this visceral response by normies because he's just so in your face about how Ugly his ideas and beliefs are but with desantis He kind of cloaks it a little bit better.  This is a courtesy of uh, mike right from florida politics So there's a bill that would ban the democratic party Just that's it. No opposition parties allowed anymore Like this is quite literally what you see from authoritarian countries where they don't let opposition parties exist and that's not to say that there isn't suppression of political parties in the united states because Yeah, that is indeed the case duverger's law We have a two-party system and third parties do get suppressed But like what we're talking about here is the republican party banning their main opposition This is completely different. Like this is actually textbook authoritarianism This is what happens with actual dictatorships or if they don't ban political parties They kind of just defame them so that way they can exist Albeit in a powerless state and basically act as a rubber stamp for whoever the dictator is depending on the country but uh senator blaze in gov in goglia Is sponsoring the ultimate cancel act which would eliminate all political parties that once used slavery as part of its platform While democratic party isn't mentioned in the bill in in goglia I don't know why that name is like breaking my brain, but I just cannot pronounce it in goglia said that's his target He's he's just admitting it. See this is a this is about them banning racist political parties and in the united states there actually is no ban On political parties who preach hate as is the case in germany, although you have a lot of figures They're trying to change that But um, that's I guess the rationale here. See we're against racism here. Us florida republicans We're against racism. So we're trying to ban the democratic party on the ground that we are protecting people of color I love how he's just at least admitting it though, right? For years now leftist activists have been trying to cancel people in companies for things they have said or done in the past This includes the removal of statutes Statues and memorials and the renaming of buildings. He said using this standard It would be hypocritical not to cancel a democratic party for the same reason So what i'm curious is about um, whether or not this has Any support in the legislature? I mean It could never get passed, but there's so many batshit insane bills Uh that republican politicians in florida introduce that you can't not See the effect that the santus has had on this party there.  Like this party is sick. They're freaks and This is the desantis effect. So I mean to see the desantification of the National republican party. It's horrifying because as insane as they already are Um, I think that the santus would be much much worse. So What I want to see happen. I think the best outcome for the republican primary Is if the santus beats down all trump Even if I think that the santus is more dangerous than trump I want him to beat trump in this gop primary because we all know Trump will never accept that trump will run as a third party candidate or an independent And he will absolutely tank desantis because he will split the votes and play spoiler. So, um, I would love to see desantis beat down all trump. So i'm rooting for him in that limited sense But for opportunistic reasons obviously, but I love that trump supporters are getting a taste Of just how authoritarian desantis is. Yeah, you know, it's it's fine when he's banning lgbtq plus books and trying to do Um, don't ask don't tell albeit for teachers try to erase queer people out of public life But when he does it to us That's when uh, we have a problem and he's a real tyrant Yeah


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So after a dramatic armour all power stage yesterday, and of course the rally show in the centre of Coffs Harbour where all the locals and rally fans got to meet the world's best WRC drivers and of course our own East Coast Bullbars Australian Championship teams. Now today, leg one, we get down to business, we've got just under 100km to compete and we've made our way out into the forest to the end of the very first special stage just over 10km, very good chance for us to speak to the teams and see how their rally has started. We were going particularly fast, I don't think I've just got a bad bounce, usual story so... Was it a bit like what we saw in the power stage, like a bump like that that just nosed itself and then obviously it nearly speeded into the trees and tipped it over? Yep, and it was a corner right on it, right after it, and it was a really narrow little bit of road and we landed in the dip so it wasn't really good but I think the car is still handling alright? I think it was like a hug five left over crest and we were off the road, luckily there was an escaped road with a bit up, two wheels, stop, reverse back up like almost went over so... Was that just towards the end of this stage? Yeah, like five corners that way. I reckon that Mads Ausberg's done the same mate, so it must be a little corner for the Citroens possibly. Yeah, maybe, maybe, but we got out of it luckily so touch wood. I was looking forward to the stage but it was one of those things that I think we went a bit too hard over some of the humps and we landed on our nose there a couple of times but it's all good. Time looks good mate and obviously the car feels strong which is important for you guys isn't it? Yeah, yeah, now I'm really happy with the car, I'm just maybe going a bit too hard into the corners and just a little bit too late and breaking. No surprises, obviously a really nice road on the recce but you've got 20 big tractors in front of you, man they take some interesting lines and pull some interesting stuff out on the road but overall pretty good, we had a bit of a heavy landing over one of the big humps in there at the start but you know I think that'll be pretty good. Brando, very tricky opening stage as a comment from everyone but mate looks like you've done a very good time and it's quicker so far for our ARC guys. Oh that's good because yeah it didn't feel great, there's quite a bit of understeer, we're locking fronts, we've got new Wimmax brake pads and we haven't got the chance to do a long stage yet so I was dialing more rear in as we went trying to counteract from the understeer but a really good feeling in the car, probably changing gears a little bit too early trying to limitate the wheel spin but we'll crack on and see how we go. So you're basically adjusting the brake bias mid stage? Yeah absolutely, it's right here you can see on my right hand side so it's quite easy to change, it's in driver's reach so as we got more kilometres in I was just adjusting that along the way. It's hard to do that, opening stage, the nerves are going on, the pace notes, drivers like that, that's difficult to do. Yeah I just had a lot of fun, there's heaps of jumps there and it was great. Thanks mate.


Hello and welcome to the Hindu news analysis by Shankar A.S academy. The display news articles along with the page numbers from different editions of the Hindu are displayed here for your convenience. The PDF link of the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles is given in the description box and also in the comment section. Let's start with the first news article analysis. These news article demands for scaling up of M.Z.Narrega works. We know that COVID-19 and the lockdown has dealt a heavy blow on the informal sector of employment, particularly in rural areas. So there is a call for making some changes in M.Z. Narrega to improve the livelihood of the rural poor. So in this context, let us discuss in brief about M.Z.Narrega and the required changes or certain demands from the political parties like Trunamal Congress. The syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. Know that M.Z.Narrega stands for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and this act was passed in the year 2005 and came into enforcement in the year 2006 in about 200 backward districts in its first phase. It was extended subsequently and at present the act is under implementation in about 644 districts of the country with substantial rural population and know that the mandate of the M.Z.Narrega is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The key word is unskilled manual work and it is to be noted that the Ministry of Rural Development is monitoring the entire implementation of the scheme in association with the state governments. The act mandates that employment should be given within 15 days of application for work by an employment seeker and if the employment is not provided within 15 days then the employment seeker is entitled to get daily unemployment allowance. The liability of payment of unemployment allowance is on the state governments. The act also gives special attention to women workforce. It mandates that at least one third of persons to whom work is alerted have to be women. It also says that there shall be no discrimination on the grounds of gender and the pros and cons of the Equal Remuneration Act of 1976 shall be complied with. That is this ensures equal remuneration to women and men. So the significance of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act lies in the fact that it creates a right based framework for wage employment programs. It also makes governments legally accountable for providing employment to those who ask for the employment. So in this way the legislation goes beyond providing a social safety net towards guaranteeing the right to employment. Now we will see the core objectives of MG Narega. These include providing not less than 100 days of unskilled manual work then strengthening the livelihood resource base of the poor then proactively ensuring social inclusion and then strengthening panchayat raj institutions. The goals of MG Narega wants to achieve social protection for the most vulnerable people living in rural India by guaranteeing wage employment opportunities and to enhance livelihood security of the rural people to resonate the natural resources ways of rural areas to create a durable and productive rural assets ways empowerment of the socially disadvantaged groups especially women scheduled cast scheduled tribes through the process of a rights based legislation. This will also deepen democracy at the grassroots by strengthening panchayat raj institutions. With this information let's take up the news article it says that some political parties such as the Trinimal Congress have been demanding to raise employment days to about 200 days under the scheme and the other demands include to revise the current wages of MG Narega which is about 202 rupees per day and then to link the wages of MG Narega works to the rural consumer price index then another important demand is to link MG Narega works to the direct agricultural related works. This is all about this news article. This discussion is based on a recent order by Manipur High Court. In this order Manipur High Court has directed the Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly to restrain 7 MLA's from entering the Assembly. It is because these MLA's had won the 2017 Manipur State Assembly elections on Congress ticket but later they switched from Congress party to DJP. So this amounts to defection of these MLA's. Defection refers to if a member of parliament or a member of legislative assembly or a member of legislative council switching sides for example switching from one political party to another political party. As a result of such defictions the elected governments are not stable. So to bring stability to democratically elected governments the anti defection pros and were incited in Indian constitution as 10th schedule and this schedule lays down the process by which legislators may be disqualified on grounds of defection by the presiding officer of a legislature that is based on a petition by any other member of the House. That is why the schedule is popularly known as the anti defection law. Know that it was introduced by the constitution 52nd amendment act of 1985 and it was also amended by constitution 91st amendment act of 2003. Now let us see the grounds of disqualification due to defection as per the 10th schedule of Indian constitution. See a nominated member of parliament or a state legislature or an elected member of parliament or a state legislature who has been elected as a candidate set up by a political party would be disqualified on the grounds of defection if he or she voluntarily gives up membership of such political party. Then the next ground is that if such member votes or abstains from voting contrary to direction of such party shall be disqualified. Then a member will also be disqualified if she or he joins any political party after their election. So based on this ground only these seven MLA's were asked to be disqualified by the petitioners. Then a nominated member who is not a member of a political party at the time of nomination and who has not become a member of any political party before the expiry of six months from the date on which he takes the seat shall be disqualified if he joins any political party after the expiry of six months. So these are the certain grounds mentioned in the 10th schedule for disqualification. Now coming to today's case since the MLA's defected petitions were filed before the speaker of manipulative assembly for disqualification of these MLA's in the month of November 2018. Know that as per the 10th schedule the final decision on questions of disqualification is given by speaker of Lok Sabha or chairman of Raj Sabha as the case may be. Know that as per the 10th schedule of Indian constitution the final decision on questions of disqualification is given to presiding offices of parliament and state legislature. In this case the speaker did not take any final decision on the petitions filed though the petition was filed one and a half years before and he has reserved his decision till date. This is because though 10th schedule does not provide any time limit for speaker on deciding on petitions it is understood that within a reasonable time frame the petition should be disposed of. If you remember a similar case was dealt by Supreme court in the month of January 2020 that is regarding manipulative assembly. The case law is Kesham Meghi Chandra Singh versus the speaker manipulative assembly and others and we have discussed this case in detail in our 22nd January Hindu news analysis video. In this case that is with respect to deciding on petitions by speaker, Supreme court observed that the outer limit within which the disqualification petition filed before the speaker must be decided within a three months period. It means that when there is an exceptional circumstance then the speaker can take time to decide but in the absence of such exceptional circumstances the speaker must decide within a period of three months from the date of filing petition. Know that even after a direction given by Supreme court in another case law which involve the same legislative assembly and speaker, the speaker did not decide on petitions filed for disqualification of these seven MLAs. As a result these petitioners once again moved to high court and Manipura High Court noted that the speaker failed to act fairly and reasonably and issued direction that unless and until the petitions are decided and disposed of by the speaker these MLAs are restrained from entering the Manipura legislative assembly. So we can say that this direction does not prevent speaker from deciding on petition but it acts as aid for the speaker for arriving at a prompt decision with respect to disqualification of these members under the presence of 10th schedule. This is all about this news article. Let us proceed to the next news article analysis. We know that in the last week Moody's Investor Services downgraded the government of India's foreign currency and local currency long-term issuer ratings from the category BAA2 to BAA3 and this was the fastest downgrade by the rating agency for India in the last 22 years and this rating is just one notch above the junk category. The latest downgrade reduces India to the lowest investment grade of ratings. The rating agency also retained its negative outlook on India which suggests that a further downgrade is more likely than an upgrade rating. The rating agency stated that the rating is not driven by the impact of COVID-19 pandemic but because of weak Indian fundamentals even before the onset of pandemic. But the pandemic amplifies the vulnerabilities in India's credit profile. It has mentioned important reasons for its downgrading and these reasons include weak implementation of economic reforms since 2017, then relatively low economic growth over a sustained period, then inability to control government spending leading to rising deficits and debts and then rising stress in Indian financial sector. These are certain reasons given by rating agency to downgrade India's outlook. Now we will see why rating is so important. It is important because the institutional investors are largely bound by agreements that enable them to exit an economy that falls below certain investment grades. See if India is further downgraded foreign institutional investors that is FIIs will start to pull out their money from Indian markets and it can also affect the flow of foreign investments into India's equity and debt markets. See the stock markets and bond markets will be severely affected and as a result the Indian rupee will depreciate further. So we can say these are certain implications of this downgrade. Now we will see certain important points mentioned in the editorial. In this editorial the authors said that the rating agencies would understand that these are unusual times and he has suggested the government of India to go out and spend more money without worrying about the increase in public debt. So if the rating agencies do not understand and choose to downgrade India the government need not worry much about these ratings. The editorial also mentions about the projections of Indian economy for the current financial year. Even the Reserve Bank of India expect Indian economy to shrink in the current financial year because of COVID-19 pandemic and the combined fiscal deficit of center and states is expected to be around 12% of GDP. The modus rating agency also expects India's public debt to GDP ratio to rise further from 72% to 84% of GDP in the current financial year and the banking sector had non-performing assets of about 9% of advances even before the onset of pandemic and the weak growth and rising bankruptcies will increase the stress further. Now we will see what is meant by fiscal deficit which indicates that the total expenditure over the total receipts except the borrowings and other liabilities. So we can say that fiscal deficit indicates total borrowings and other liabilities. So deficit is the condition when your spending is greater than the money you earn. So in order to manage the fiscal deficit the government can do two things that is either it has to increase the revenues or to decrease its expenditure. The editorial mentions a term called discretionary fiscal stimulus. It states that the government has been trying to keep the discretionary fiscal stimulus down to 1% of GDP. Know that discretionary fiscal stimulus refers to government policy that increases the fiscal deficit. So the increase in fiscal deficit is driven by government policy rather than slowing growth in the economy itself. So in this case the discretionary fiscal stimulus of 1% means that the government can increase the fiscal deficit to about 1% more. So it gives the government a leverage to increase borrowings and can increase the expenditure. However the increasing fiscal stimulus increases the public debt to GDP ratio. Know that the public debt to GDP ratio is the ratio between the government's debt and its GDP that is gross domestic product. A low ratio indicates that the economy produces and sells goods and services sufficient to pay back its debt. And low ratio of public debt to GDP ratio is good for the economy. But in this case that is increasing the fiscal deficit by 1% means increase in borrowings. Therefore it can increase public debt to GDP ratio. However the author of this editorial mentions that the discretionary fiscal stimulus can be achieved without increasing public debt. But how? The answer is monetization of the deficit. That means the Reserve Bank of India will provide money to the government instead of government borrowing money from the market. So monetization by central banks usually involves printing lots of new currency or new money to fund the government. So this injection of more money into the economy could be inflationary which means that it may lead to inflation in the economy. Now we will see one more option that is how to fund the government without printing money. The author suggested that the Reserve Bank of India can directly fund the government by buying treasury bills. Or the Reserve Bank of India can indirectly fund by purchasing the government bonds in the secondary market under open market operations. So there will be more government spending and this can increase the money supply in the Indian economy. The question is that whether it is not inflationary or not. Know that monetization of deficit is more likely to rise actual output closer to potential output without any great increase in inflation. So considering the current pandemic situation that is where the aggregate demand has been falling and also there is an increase in unemployment rate in such a scenario monetization of deficit is likely rise actual output without much increase in the inflation in the economy. So as a final point the author suggests monetization of deficit is the best option in the current pandemic situation. And the rating agencies should be worrying not about monetization per se but about its impact on inflation. So as long as inflation is under control the economy need not worry about the ratings. With this we have come to the end of analysis of this editorial. Let us proceed to the next news article analysis. Now let's take up this news article which mentions that the Supreme Court of India has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to respond to a petition. Know that this petition challenges the house arrest or detention of a former union minister for the past 10 months. In this context a Hebbies-Karpus petition is filed in the Supreme Court to know his whereabouts. Know that Hebbies-Karpus is a writ petition that can be filed in the Supreme Court for the enforcement of fundamental rights under Article 32 of the Constitution. Article 32 of the Constitution deals with remedies for enforcement of fundamental rights including writ petitions. Under Article 32 an aggrieved person can directly go to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court can issue the rites of different types like Hebbies-Karpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorary and co-varrant to for the restoration of the fundamental rights. Now we will discuss these writ petitions in detail. First is Hebbies-Karpus which means that to have the body off. It is filed to seek relief from the unlawful detention of the person and the court examines the cause and legality of detention and this writ is considered as a garden of individual liberty against arbitrary detention and it can be issued against both the public authorities and private individuals. Now we will see the second writ that is known as a mandamus which means we command. It is a command issued by the court to a public official to perform the official duties. It can be issued against any public body or corporations or inferior court or tribunal or to the government. But remember that this writ cannot be issued against a private individual or a private body and also this writ cannot be issued against the president of India or the state governors. Then the third category of writ is known as prohibition which means to forbid. It is issued by a higher court to a lower court or tribunal to prevent the lower court or tribunal from exceeding its jurisdiction or taking over a jurisdiction that it does not possess. So mandamus directs activity whereas prohibition writ directs inactivity. The fourth type of writ is known as a tertiary which means to be certified or to be informed. It is issued by a higher court to a lower court or a tribunal either to transfer a pending case to higher court or to squash the order of the lower court or a tribunal. Know that it is issued on the grounds of excess of jurisdiction or lack of jurisdiction or error of law. So prohibition is only preventive whereas tertiary is considered as both preventive as well as curative. Now we will see the fifth type of writ which is known as co-varrant. It means by what authority or by what warrant. It is issued by the court to inquire into the legality of claim of a person to a public office. So we can say that it prevents illegal assertion of a public office by a person. With this information let's take up the given question. Here two statements are given and you have to choose correct statements. The writ of mandamus cannot be issued by supreme court against the president of India and governors of state. This statement is correct because it can be issued against any public body or corporation or inferior court or tribunal but it cannot be issued against a private individual or private body or the president of India or the state governors. Second statement is the writ of tertiary is issued by the supreme court to inquire into the legality of claim of a person to a public office. The second statement is incorrect because it is not the writ of tertiary but it is the writ of co-varrant which is issued to inquire into the legality of claim of a person to a public office. Therefore the correct answer for this question is option A1 only. This question is based on global economic prospects report. The report forecasted that Indian economy is expected to contract by about 3.2% in this financial year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated restrictions. The report highlights that the economy will contract to about 3.2% because of stringent measures or heavily curtailed economic activity in the country in order to restrict or contain the spread of pandemic but the report highlights that the Indian economy will recover to grow at 3.1% in the next financial year that is in the financial year 2021-2022. It also reports that the pandemic and shutdown measures will lead to a contraction of the global economy by about 5.2% in 2020 and the global economy will recover to about 4.2% in 2021. The report mentions that the economic activity of advanced economies is going to shrink by about 7% because domestic supply and demand have been badly disrupted and the countries more reliant on global trade, tourism or external financing and commodity exports are likely to be hit the hardest. The contraction in Indian economy will have a spillover impact in South Asia and the growth in this region is projected to register a contraction of 2.7% in the year 2020. The report said that the pandemic's impact would be particularly hard on emerging markets and developing countries with large informal sectors like India. See the vulnerabilities associated with the informality like widespread poverty, a deficient public health and medical resources and a weak social safety net have amplified the economic shock due to COVID-19 pandemic and the current estimates show that about 60 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in the year 2020. So in a nutshell the outlook for the global economy for 2020 has darkened amid the slowing economic activity and it is also heightened downside risk. These are certain important aspects mentioned in this global economic prospects but remember that for your prelims examination it is very important to know about global economic prospects which is a World Bank's flagship report that examines global economic developments and prospects with a special focus on emerging markets and developing economies. It is a bi annual or semi annual report released twice in a year that is in the month of January and the second report in the month of June every year. In this context also know that the other important reports like ease of doing business, human capital index as part of the world development report also published by the World Bank. With this information let's take up the given question. Here two statements are given with reference to global economic prospects. It is an annual report with a special focus on emerging markets and developing economies. It is released by World Economic Forum. Here both the given statements are incorrect because this report is released by World Bank and it is a bi annual or semi annual report with a special focus on emerging markets and developing economies. Know that this report examines global economic developments and prospects. So the correct answer for this question is option D neither one nor two. Now let's take up this question which is based on GST compensation and the background for this question is that Tamil Nadu gets about 3000 crores as GST compensation. So in this context know that the goods and services tax or GST tax which is a destination based indirect tax came into enforcement on 1st July 2017. And we know that before the enforcement of GST tax some of the states had expressed their concerns over loss of revenue on the account of new taxation system. So the goods and services tax compensation to states act of 2017 was enacted to levy compensation says for providing compensation to the states for the expected loss of revenue. So as per the section 7 of this act which says that the loss of revenue to the states on account of implementation of GST shall be payable for a transition period of 5 years or for such period as may be prescribed on the recommendations of the GST council. The compensation payable to a state shall be provisionally calculated and released at the end of every two months during the transition period. See the total compensation payable in any financial year is the difference between the projected revenue for any financial year and the actual revenue collected by the state. Know that as per section 4 of the act financial year 2015-16 has been taken as the base year for calculating compensation amount payable to the states and the projected nominal growth rate of revenue during the transition period shall be about 14% per annum. The loss of revenue to the states is met by collecting the compensation says and this says will be collected on the selected goods or services both till 1st July 2022. The proceeds of this says and such other amounts as recommended by the GST council shall be credited to a non-lapsable fund known as the GST compensation fund. It is constituted as part of the public account of India as per article 266 and the accounts related to the compensation fund shall be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General or any person appointed by CAG. Now with this information let's take up the given question with reference to goods and services tax compensation to states act of 2017. Here two statements are given and you need to choose incorrect statements. The total compensation payable to the states in any financial year is the difference between the projected revenue for any financial year and the actual revenue collected by a state. This statement is correct because as per section 7 of the GST compensation act of 2017 it defines compensation as loss of revenue that is the difference between the projected revenue and the actual revenue collected by a state. Know that financial year 2015-16 has been taken as the base year and the projected nominal growth rate of revenue during the transition period shall be about 14% per annum. The second statement says the compensation says collected will be credited to a non-lapsable GST compensation fund which shall be audited by the Comptroller Auditor General of India. This statement is also correct it is constituted as a non-lapsable GST compensation fund as a part of public account of India. Here both the statements are correct but you have to choose incorrect statements. Therefore the correct answer is option D neither one nor two. Let's start our practice questions discussion. This question is with reference to 10th schedule of Indian Constitution three statements are given and you have to choose incorrect statements. Statement one says it lays down the process by which legislators may be disqualified on grounds of defection. Then a member of a house belonging to any political party cannot be disqualified if the member has voluntarily given up membership of such political party. Then third statement says a nominated member shall not be disqualified on any grounds. So in this context know that to bring stability to democratically elected governments the anti-defection provisions were inserted in the Indian Constitution as a 10th schedule. These provisions were inserted as per 52nd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1985 and it was amended by 91st Amendment Act of 2003. Know that this 10th schedule provides grounds of disqualification due to defection. These grounds include if a member voluntarily relinquishes or gives up membership of political party from which he was elected. Then if such member votes or abstains from voting contrary to direction of such party shall also be disqualified. Then a member will also be disqualified if they join any political party after their election. Know that a nominated member of a house shall be disqualified for being a member of the house if he or she joins any political party after the expiry of six months from the date on which they take their seats in the house. And know that if they join before six months they will not be disqualified. So here first statement is correct and the second and third statements are incorrect. So the correct answer for this question is option D 2 and 3 only. Now let's take up practice main's questions. What is the term monetization of the deficit indicates? Do you think monetization is the viable solution to fund the government spending? This is a 10 marks question and you have to write in 150 words. Now let's take up one more practice main's question. What makes the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act so unique is it's a potential to empower the rural poor than any other social security scheme but it needs certain fundamental changes elaborate. It's a 15 marks question and you have to post in 250 words. With this we have come to the end of today's news analysis. If you like the video please do like, share, comment and subscribe. Shankara IS Academy YouTube channel for more updates. Thank you.


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