It started off a good thing where it's having a community that it never was the gangs that never helped the community. That's the life. That's a narrative. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. I mean, when I look at it, like I said, you, you being in California, man, with the way they portrayed the, the, the gangs and the way they, they look at it as if, you know, it started off a good thing where it's having a community that it's never was the gangs that never helped the community. That's the life. That's a narrative. So, okay. So that's that's something to talk about. Right. That's about the gangs. When they started in 69, 70, how many white folks, how many times in Hollywood did they disrupt when they started gang before doing Christmas time, about this time on a 92nd and Avalon between Avalon and central, they had an array of every house had Christmas declarations on it. And it was just amazing. Mothers would walk their children up and down the street to see these different ornaments. When gang started, they start terrorizing the people's houses, breaking the ornaments, still in light bulbs, and they ended Christmas. Wow. Not that Christmas is great, but it's a foundation for families to go on, whether you believe it or not, you know, it's something that the black community that cherished. We had watch stacks. We had to watch summer festival. All that was eliminated through gang activity. So what good did they do to community? What was they protecting? They were still in leather coats. Then they start still in t-shirt. They could have took the same leather coat from Sears or Macy's, but they took it off another kid that his mother had to work for. So what good did the gang do the community? I hear the lie. Yeah, we started protecting them. What did you protect?  How many police murders do gangs of you in California added up our way? So no, it was not to protect the community. It was an assassination of the community. And we haven't vibrated back from that gen. You know, it's still Compton is in the worst condition now today in two thousand twenty two than it was in 1970. We had black businesses today.  You cannot go to a black store. It's nothing in Compton. We'll have every major city has a main street named Martin Luther King, but Compton, the first black city west of the Mississippi's. Well, how can we make a change? Kill everybody and start over again. How can we make a? Because that's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. So we're in a position now. So you say it will never change. It'll never change. You know, it's not we will never change. In Islam, it says that God will never change a man until he changes his own heart and until we change the heart of the people. And it says if the generation does not change, a lot will destroy that whole generation and make a new one. So our end game is over. It's on how you can save yourself. You know, the famous gangster Al Capone said one time at a meeting, he says life is like baseball. When you get up to hit, if you hit a home run, it's good for the team. But if it's if you strike out, it's just you. That's true. You know what I'm saying? So we've come into baseball right now. It's what you can do for yourself and how you can make a change. Like Park said, it don't take but one. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one.


from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE covering AWS re-invent 2018.  And welcome back to our continuing coverage here on theCUBE of AWS re-invent. We're on day three of three days of wall-to-wall coverage that we brought to you here from the Sands Expo along with Dave Vellante. I'm John Walls, glad you're with us here. And we're joined now by David Flynn from Hammer Space, and David, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Been quite a year for you, right? Yeah. This has been something else. Set us up a little bit about where you've been, the journey you're on right now with Hammer Space, and maybe for folks at home who aren't familiar, a little bit about what you do. So Hammer Space is all about data agility. We believe that data should be like the air you breathe, where you need it, when you need it, without having to think about it. Today, data is managed by copying it between the sundry different types of storage. And that's because we're managing data through the storage system itself. What we want is for data to simply be there when you need it. So it's all about data agility. I need to know more. So let's talk about some of your past endeavours. The history, yes. Fusion IO, we watched you grow that company from just an idea. You solved the block storage problem, you solved performance problems, amazing what you guys did with that company. My understanding is you're focused on file. That's right. Which is a much larger- Unstructured data in general, file and option. So a much larger proportion of the data that's out there. Yes. So what's the problem that you guys are going after? You know, at Fusion IO, and this was pre-flash. Now, flash, everybody takes it for granted. We started, it didn't really exist in the data center, right? And it was there, if you're using SAN, most likely it's for performance. And there's a better way to get performance with flash down in the server. Very successful with that. Now the problem is people want the ease of manageability of having a global namespace, a file and object namespace. And that's what we're tackling now because file is not native in the cloud. It's kind of an afterthought. And all of these different forms of storage represent silos into which you copy data from on-prem into cloud, between the different types of storage from one site to another. This is what we're addressing with virtualizing the data, putting powerful metadata in control of how that data is realized across multiple data centers across the different types of storage so that you see it as a single piece of data regardless of where it lives. Okay, so file's not a first class citizen. You're making copies, moving data all over the place. You got copy creep going on.  When you manage data by copying it, you're just making more of it. And that's because the metadata is down with the data. Every time you make a copy, it's a new piece of data that needs to be managed. So talk more about the metadata structure, architecture, what you guys are envisioning. Fundamentally, the technology is a separate metadata control plane that is powerful enough to present data as both file and object and takes that powerful metadata and puts it in control of where the data is realized, both in terms of what data center it's in as well as what type of storage it's on, allowing you to tap into the full dynamic range of the performance of server attached flash. Of course, Fusion IO, very near and dear to my heart, getting tens of millions of IOPS and tens of gigabytes per second. You can't do that across the network. You have to have the data be very agile and be able to be promoted into the server and then be able to manage it all the way to global scale between whole different data centers. So that's the magic of being able to cover the full dynamic range performance to capacity, scale, and distance and have it be that same piece of data that's simply instantiated where you need it, when you need it, based on the power of the metadata. So when you talk about object, you talk about a simplified means of interacting, it's a get put paradigm, right? That's right. So that's something that you're checking out. That's right. That's great, but ultimately, you need to also have random read and write semantics and very high performance. And today, the standard model is you put your data in object storage and then you have your application rewritten to pull it down, store it on some local storage to work with it and then put it back. And that's great for very large scale applications where you can invest the effort to rewrite them. But what about the world where they want the convenience of the data is simply there in something that you can mount as a file system or access as object and it can be at the highest performance of random IO against local flash all the way to cold and in the cloud where it's cheap. I got it. So it's like great for Shutterfly because we've got the resources to rewrite the application but for everybody else. That's right. And that's why, you know, the web scaler has kind of pioneered the notion of object storage and we help them with the local block to get very, very high performance, right? So that bifurcated world because the spectrum got stretched so wide that a single size fits all no longer works. So you have to kind of take object on the capacity, distance and scale side and block local on the performance side. But what I realized early on all the way back to Fusion IO is that it is possible to have a shared namespace, both file system and object that can span that whole spectrum. But to do that, you have to provide really powerful metadata as a separate service that has the competency to actually manage the realization of the data across the infrastructure. You know, David, you talk about data agility. So that's what we're all about, right? We're all about being agile. Just conceptually today, a lot more data than you've ever had to deal with before. You know, a lot more. It's a veritable torrent with a lot more demands. So just fundamentally, how do you secure that agility? How can you provide that kind of reliability and agility in that environment, like the challenge for you? Oh yeah. Well, you know, the challenge really goes back to the fact that the network storage protocols haven't had innovation for like 20 years because of the world of NAS being so dominant by a few players, well one, there really hasn't been a lot of innovation. You know, NFS version three, it's been around for like decade, right? NFS four didn't really happen.  I mean, at the heart of the storage networking protocols for presenting a file system, it hadn't even been enhanced to be able to communicate across hostile networks. So how are you going to use that at the kind of scale and distance of cloud, right? So what I did after leaving Fusion I own was I went and teamed up with the world's top experts. We're talking here about Trond Mikkelbis, the Linux kernel author and maintainer of the storage networking stack. And we have spent the last five plus years fixing the fundamental plumbing that makes it possible to bring the shared file semantic into something that becomes cloud native. And that really is two things. One is about the ability to scale both performance, capacity in the metadata and the data. And you couldn't do that before because NAS systems fundamentally have the metadata and data together. Splitting the two allows you to scale them both. So scale is one. Also the ability to secure it over large distances and networks. The ability to operate in an eventually consistent to work across multiple data centers. NAS had never made the multi-data center leap, right? Or the securing it across other networks. It just hadn't gotten there. But that is actually secondary compared to the fact that the world of NAS is very focused on the infrastructure guys in the storage admin. And what you have to do is elevate the discussion to be about the data user and empower them with powerful metadata to do self-service and as a service so that they can completely automate all of the concerns about the infrastructure. Because if there's anything that's cloud, it's the being able to delegate and hand off the infrastructure concerns. And you simply can't do that when you're focused at it from a storage administration and data janitorial kind of model. So I want to pause for a second. Just talk to our audience and just stress how important it is to pay attention to this man. So there's no such thing as a sure thing in business, but there is one sure thing that if David Flynn's involved, you're going to disrupt something. So you disrupted SCSI, right? The horrible storage stack. So when you hear things today like NVME and CAPI and atomic rights and storage class memory, you got it all started. That's right. And that was your vision that really got that started. When I used to talk to people about that, they would say, I'm crazy. And you educated myself and Floyer and now you see it coming to fruition today. So you're taking aim at decades old infrastructure and protocols called NAS and trying to do the same thing at cloud scale, which is obviously something that you know a lot about. I mean, if you think about it, the spectrum of data goes from performance on the one hand to ease of manageability, distance and scale, cost capacity versus cost performance. And that's inherent to our physical universe because it takes time to propagate information to a distance and to get ease of manageability to encode things very, very tight, to get capacity efficiency takes time, which works against performance. And as technology advances, this spectrum only gets wider. And that's why we're stuck to the point of having to bifurcate it that performance is locally attached flash. And that's what I pioneered with flash in the server and NVME, right?  If you want performance, put flash in the server. Now we're saying if you want ease of use and manageability, there's a better way to do that than NAS and even object storage, it's to separate the metadata as a distinct control plane that is put in charge of managing data through very rich and powerful metadata. And that puts the data owner in control of their data, not just across the different types of storage in the performance capacity spectrum, but also across on-prem and in the cloud and across multi-cloud. Because the cloud, after all, is just another big storage silo.  I'm sorry, I know I'm at AWS, but I said, yeah, okay, so they can't censor us, all right. So just like the storage vendors of yesteryear would charge you an arm and a leg when their arrays were out of service, right? To get out of your service, because they knew that if you were trying to extend the service life of that, that that's because it was really hard for you to get the data off of it because you had to suffer application downtime and all of that, right? So in the same fashion, when you have your data in the cloud, the egress costs are so expensive. And so this is all about putting the data owner in control of the data by giving them a rich, powerful metadata platform to do that. And you always want to have strategies that give you flexibility, exit strategies if things don't work out. So that's really fascinating. Give us the lowdown, I know we got a wrap, but give us the lowdown in the company, the funding, what can you share with us? Go to market, et cetera. So it's a tightly held company. I was very successful financially. And so from that point of view, it's, you know, we're Self-funded. Self-funded, funded for angels. Yeah, you know, I have some friends, I made some friends with Fusion IO, right? So from that point of view, yeah, it is the highest power team you can get. I mean, these are great guys, the Linux kernel maintainer on the storage networking stack. This was a heavy lift because you have to fix the fundamental plumbing in the way storage networking works so that you can, it's like a directory service for data and then all the management service. And that was, so this has been a while in the making, but it's that foundational of engineering. You love heavy lifts. I love hard profit. I feel like I misintroduce the great disruptor is what I should have done. Well, we'll see. I think disrupting the performance side was a pure play and very easy. Disrupting the ease of use side of the data spectrum. That's the fun one that's actually so transformative because it touches the people that use the data. Well, best of luck. Thank you so much. Thanks for joining us, Dave. Appreciate the time. David Flynn joining us for Hammer Space and back with more here on theCUBE at AWS re-invent.


Man, let me tell you something. We know R. Kelly. Why would they give him a Rico charge? R. Kelly? But I'm praying for one young brother when he get out young thug. I've been working with him. He's getting ready to get out. I've been going to jail to see him. I've been flying back and forth. Back and forth. As a minister, of him staying with him when he go on the court. I've been there for young thug. But I know he's going to get out because the judge said on the 16th, if y'all don't bring that evidence, he going to be out. How long, okay, how did you end up building, even having a relationship to even help him? Young thug. Yeah. Well, I have a beauty shop. And my daughter Shade and Shay, you know, I've got Reverend Toby, he got a barber shop and Vic run the, I have a luxury rental Rolls Royce's company. So my kids, when people come to Chicago, we have a rental, luxury rental or USA. We pick up all of the celebrities, their age. So my daughter, she go pick them up and my daughter, Shade, she make wigs for the girls and sisters. So my daughters, they know a lot of people, you know, in the young generation. So when he came to the beauty shop, he knew me. I didn't know him. He knew you. He knew who I was.  Man, let me tell you something. We know our Kelly. Why would they give him a Rico charge? Our Kelly, I'll tell you again, he came around us coming to the playoffs ball. Yes. They all want to be Bishop Don Magic One. Not me. They want to be him. Our Kelly, we used to go visit him. Know what they do? He'll clap his hand. His girls are going in the back. But our Kelly is not no film. He's not no player.  I don't know. But what I'm saying, he wanted to be like Bishop. And why would they give him the Rico charges? Why would they get the other Rico charges? It's a new law. They want to bury young brothers now. Young brothers, man, I don't want to part that they have bring trucks come and throw money all off the roof. Bring trucks of money, 20s and 50s and 100s. Man, you know what we came from? We couldn't afford to throw a dollar away. I couldn't throw a nickel away. That's real. And man, the shifty young brothers down, they came up with a Rico law. Right. Do you think our Kelly will ever come out? Yeah, I believe so because you know why? They just slow. Sometimes we get hardheaded sometimes.  And they marriage and stuff like that. Then, you know, and people don't understand that some of the best, the beautiful women, they like to sleep on the couch. Don't like to sleep in the bed with their husband. They want to sleep in the bed with their blue jeans on. So they get hardheaded. Oh, you know, it goes up and down. And you got to be ready for the game because the game is cold, but it's fair. So we know our Kelly didn't do that. But back again, like I said, on our boy Snoop Dogg, I love the dog. The dog is a gentleman. And he can go on anybody's show and do it right. And that's true. Any commercial you see Snoop Dogg do, he did it right.


Hey guys, Shaber1000 here. I got a clip for you. I want you to check out and it's kind of messed up and You'll see why here in just a minute. Okay, but first check this clip out if you would Okay guys here it is look at this Okay, pretty cool, right? Look at the details in that thing It's a sponge holder for sale on Facebook marketplace for $28 and Ocala, Florida It was listed last year Okay, you know somebody's selling something for 20 bucks, you know on What is it Facebook marketplace or whatever no no big deal, right? but to some of you guys that thing might look familiar but Some of you won't and to the ones it doesn't or to the ones that don't remember Check this clip out and it'll refresh your memory Hey everyone, I have finished my sponge container and There's your end product. You can put how many sponges you like in it. You can use it as a soap dish You could as a soap dish beside in the bathroom or you can do it here. I'm not much for soap dishes I don't use bars of soap So anyways That is my end result It did take me longer than I thought it would but with all the work.  Oh, look at this. Look how look how I made this isn't this cool That's in Ocala, Florida. So and she had shared that video on Facebook So Someone has seen it and They stole that idea from her. So, you know, I mean she got the idea off of off of YouTube But she said that you know, she said she wanted to try it. She saw it and she wanted to make her own She's not, you know It's her idea, you know what I mean, but still it's been on there a year and it hasn't sold for 20 bucks so ha ha but Yeah, she messaged me a little while ago in and it's just I can't believe it It's just like somebody's trying to sell my sponge holder for 20 bucks. I'm like Excuse me. I said what? She said yeah, check it out. She sent me the link so You know, here it is again and then here's monkey's clip and I'll I'll show monkey's clip to You know some a little bit more monkey's clip so you know, it's her making her clip in 2018 and this was only Put on a year ago. So they saw it made it thought they was gonna make a bunch of money on it. So Here's the clips again. Enjoy guys Hope you enjoy the rest of your week y'all be safe and I should bear the myth the man alleged. I'm gone for now Takes all kinds down it. Bye. Bye guys and take care Okay, guys. Here it is. Look at this Okay, pretty cool, right? Look at the details in that thing It's a sponge holder for sale on Facebook marketplace for $20 Primer in this And you notice how Shae bear has Helped me out a little bit here. It has imperfections, but you know what that makes it character. So anyways, hope you enjoyed my video and You know, you can be creative and we use it for many things So that's it for now monkeys out


The saying is an entrepreneur's job is to do the things, let me think, do the things now that nobody wants to do so that you can live the life later that nobody can, nobody else can or something like that. That's where I'm at, I'm in the trenches and it's okay and it's hard and it's supposed to be hard. If it weren't hard, everybody would be doing it, right? So I'm okay with hard work, that's just who I am, that's what I've been trained. My dad and my grandpa, everybody around me has been hardworking people and so I think that plays out in this scenario as well.


Okay, we're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fidel. It's the 3 o'clock block here on a given Wednesday, Energy Wednesday. We have a number of energy shows on Wednesday. And today I'm delighted, as always, to be in touch with Lou Pulirisi. He's the CEO of E-PRINC, an energy think tank in Washington, D.C., with a global view. Welcome back to the show, Lou. Nice to always see you. And it's an hour earlier this time for us. Of course, it doesn't change in Honolulu, but it does here. Yeah, the time doesn't change, and the seasons don't change either. That can really get on your nerves. Anyway, we've had an interesting week. The president, number 45, he came through here, spent one day jamming traffic in every direction, went on to Asia, and did a whole bunch of things in Asia that were reported back and then returned here for refueling yesterday, and I presume he's back in Washington now after that trip is over, having to deal with whatever's going on with him in Congress. But anyway, you know, I would like to talk with you today about the trip and about the global implications of what he said and did on the trip as far as the U.S. is concerned about the economy and about our diplomatic position in the world. So what are your impressions of the trip, the countries he visited, the conversations he had in Asia? So I think if you think of the visit in a kind of strategic context, I think the main purpose of his visit, although with Trump, he always gets sidelined with whatever comes up, and a lot of the trade issues did get featured. But I think his fundamental purpose of the trip was to reinforce his view and that there is no daylight between the U.S. and Japan on the strategic threat of North Korea. I mean, and that there is a strong cooperative effort with South Korea, both to kind of confront long-term Chinese power in the region, but also help push a resolution and or bolster the defense against any threat from North Korea. However, you know, these are kind of strategic concerns and we can talk to we can talk about them. I have some views about them, but I thought was interesting is that many of your listeners might not know some of the more concrete things that came out of the visit, particularly with Japan on the energy side. And in the visit with Japan, there was a sort of general agreement and an outline of four areas that will be managed by Vice President Pence and the minister of economics, trade and industry are called media in Japan, Minister Seiko. And these two gentlemen after the meeting with President Trump and Prime Minister Abe agreed to do four things cooperatively that I think for us in the energy sector, so to speak, found very, very interesting. The first was they were going to engage in a very extensive cooperation on high efficiency coal-fired technology and power plants, so high efficiency coal, with even some opportunity of exports of coal from the US. The second item they agreed to work on together is a systematic program to build out the Asian LNG market to expand opportunities for demand, to look at measures that they could undertake together, the US and Japan, the US to supply higher volumes of natural gas in the region, for the Asian consumers, particularly outside of the traditional big consumers of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. But you know, Vietnam, Indonesia, the archipelago countries, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, what could they do India and China, by the way? What could they do with their power production and infrastructure to improve local air pollution? This was a big feature. They didn't talk about climate so much, but they did talk about cleaning up the environment with more use of natural gas. It's a very complicated problem, but it is something that both countries agreed they would pursue together. We might get into some of the specifics. A third area is nuclear power. As you know, the Japanese had this terrible accident with Fukushima. More sound analysis shows us that Fukushima was really not a nuclear problem. It was a problem of devastation from a tidal wave. The actual radiation exposure from Fukushima is not substantial.  All of the deaths from Fukushima really were from the national calamity of the tragedy of the tidal wave. It was caused by an earthquake, not climate, like many people in Washington did. Then the fourth area, which is very interesting, was the cooperative measures between the US and Japan to build out energy infrastructure in Asia, including transportation, which isn't, if you think about it, a counterweight to China's one road, one belt that they have been offering other countries. I would like to point out one thing that people don't talk about. If you've read the press reports this week, in India, the local air pollution, I'm not talking about climate. I'm just talking about particulates or smog, which, you know, a combination of what people used to think was smog, I mean, smoke and fog, you know, smog, which is mostly particulate from automobiles and power plants and bad management of their whole airship has made it impossible. Some airlines like United announced that it was not flying to Delhi for a few days because it's too dangerous to land. In terms of the aircraft experience or the breathing experience? It's because of the visibility. Interesting. It's too risky. And breathing is also bad. Many people have been required to stay indoors. They've banned all kinds of industrial and transportation activities. So I might emphasize again that if you go to the climate talks, people keep talking about the massive advances that are happening in India and China. And, you know, from just here at the ground level, if you can't clean the air up in your capital city, you're not a leader in anything having to do with the environment. People need to get that out of their heads. I mean, I just think that it's a ridiculous notion that, you know, you can maybe be really good at making solar panels. There's a lot more to cleaning the atmosphere up than making solar panels. You're heard it here on ThinkTech. Well, you know, some things you've mentioned. These things are part of the and we can go to more detail some of them. Some things you mentioned really, you know, get me to think about the general purposes of his trip. I mean, on the one hand, I thought going forward in an expectation that he would try to sell things on the trip. I thought, for example, he would want to sell weapons on the trip. And indeed, he did. He sold hundreds of millions of dollars, did I say millions, hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to North Korea in order to deal with the North Korean issue. And so that was good for the balance of payments. That was good for business. That was good for, you know, the defense suppliers from the US. The other thing that he, you know, and this clicks on what you were saying is building out infrastructure, energy infrastructure around Asia. That's also business. And that helps the balance of payments as well. I think it's important to point out there that that initiative has quite a bit in it for the Japanese. Because the Japanese bring to the table, actually, they bring a quite, Japan hasn't, it's hard for people to understand this, but Japan has given their history and the war. They have growing influence and respect in some parts of South Asia. And it's, and you can see it when you, when you attend meetings and things. They earn a very advanced economy. They have modern advanced technology. They have a huge amount of experience, even to the point of these floating storage, regas units and combined power plants that can be moved in. So I think it was a clever marriage, both for the US and Japan because the US as a major exporter of natural gas over the next few years. And by the way, we are now a major exporter of crude oil. A lot of it going to Asia. We're exporting over a million and a half barrels a day of crude oil to the world market. This has a strategic effect in Asia. Well, I recall you and I had a discussion just a few weeks ago about a conference that you had attended in Japan for LNG and that you suspected or you had reason to believe that the US and this administration was in favor of making deals with and through Japan to develop LNG as a market for American LNG at this conference. And I guess that's all coming true, isn't it? He was... It is coming true. It's a long road ahead. There's a lot of hard work. They're going to have to engage the international financial institutions like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, all these institutions, the overseas, the US Overseas, Private Investment Corporation, XIN Bank, the Trade Development Assistance, all these things, many of which were quite, let's say, many of these which were treated quite negatively during the campaign are now emerging as instruments of trade policy. I think what's really interesting, too, is his continuing focus on coal, clean coal, as you will, but he's pandering to the coal interests in this country, both in the south and in the west. And I guess he's talking coal in this trip to Asia. And the whole notion of coal really inconsistent with the environmental perception of things and the renewables perception of things. We have a local boy, Manny Menendez used to be in business development in the city and county of Honolulu, who is in China doing clean coal. And he's acting as a consultant and a partner in various deals around China to develop clean coal. And I guess, you know, Trump was was focusing on that because he likes coal in general. But but is that going to take traction? Because the Chinese are probably going to move off coal, aren't they? The Chinese are looking for renewables. Here's another thing. The Chinese have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. They're going to be cash, they're gonna begin to come down. And actually, today, there's some reports they think they can do it earlier than 2030. The US, which was recently pill read at the bond conference actually had even though world emissions rose in 2016 or 70 the last year they measured it. The US emissions continue to decline ours declined by about 2%. And in the US, of course, cheap natural gas. There might be some things the administration can do to prevent a huge collapse in the coal industry. But it's not likely to see a major growth. I just I would predict it will not grow substantially. It's ready to climb may be somewhat lower. And as long as natural gas remains cheap. I think it's a highly competitive. Now, in Asia, India and China are continuing to build coal plant. In addition, not so much Asia, but Africa, we have still in the world, we have 7.5 billion people in the world. We have 1.5 or 1.3 depends who use numbers years of people living on the planet who have no access to electricity. And these people cannot be they will not be served by wind power or solar power, which is both intermittent and unpredictable, right? They're going to have to have some kind of baseload, reliable, cheap power. Are you are you going to say that after we find out this technology, where you're going to have solar and a battery all connected in a in a very efficient little package, you can put on your roof in the third world?  But you know, they've been working on this battery since 1900. Watch for developments from Hawaii, Lou. Anyway, what I you know what I know, just remember, inexhaustible doesn't mean inexpensive. Truly, that's true. You heard it. You heard that also on ThinkTech. Been saying that for a while. But but let me let me let me go to the question of renewables, you know, when when, you know, the press reported on all his various statements, initiatives and suggestions. While he was in Asia, you didn't hear much about how the United States was going to be involved in renewables in Asia, or to incentivize develop trade in renewables. Matter of fact, what we have here now is a tariff against or, you know, solar panels and the like coming from China. So where where is he these days in terms of international dealings and policies and, you know, diplomatic connections on renewables going either way? You know, I think internationally, the best, and this came out in the bond conference a bit, but the best strategy between the US and the major powers in Asia and Europe is for combined research. We're not going to provide a production tax credit so China can put in more renewables again. And neither was Obama. So that's forget about that. It's very interesting in the tax bill, by the way, they right now, you know, we have a very big issue in the US. We have something called the production tax credit for the for the building of windmill, right? Wind valve. And when you use that the way that production tax credit works is it's, I think 2.3 cents a megawatt hour, something like that, whatever. And in the tax bill, they decide one of the writers of the text said, let's lower that from 2.3 cents to 1.5 cents, which by the way, over 10 years is worth $10 billion. Just that. So you can see how massive that subsidy is. And one of the distortions on the subsidy with wind, because everyone keeps saying it's very competitive. Of course, it's competitive that the government builds it, and then pays you to run it. But that's really not a long term strategy. And so what happens is when these independent systems operator, regional, you know, operators who combine power across big regions, when they when you bid for power, and you bid into the grid, you can bid a negative number. And so one of the issues we talked about this last week, I don't think it's going away is if you have a lot of renewables that are heavily subsidized something we call variable renewable energy, which is both unpredictable and intermittent. And you don't have a good system that addresses any potential problems to the grid, or to the resiliency of base power, you have, you know, you have a real kind of policy issue on how to fix that problem. Yeah, I'm yeah. And we talk about that in Hawaii all the time. Let me let me take a short break, Lou. We come back. I'd like to track on one thing you mentioned. That's that's the bond talks in Germany. And I'd like to see how that compares and maybe supports or conflicts with statements made in in his trip to Asia. And I'd like to also ask you when we come back, you know how the US looks these days, and given those statements and given the discussions in bond, that's Lou Cuirisi. He's the CEO of E prank and energy policy. Think Tank in Washington joins us by Skype will be right back after this break. This is think tech Hawaii raising public awareness. Sounds like scuba divers are the four man's astronaut. We believe that to be true. We say forget the moment. 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On behalf of the community enriched by think tech Hawaii's 30 plus weekly shows Mahalo for your generosity. Okay, we're back with Lou Puyriese. He's the CEO of E prank, which is an energy policy research organization in Washington DC joins us by Skype today and talking about some of the international experiences we've had in energy, including remarks and deals and suggestions that Trump made when he was in Asia. But also we've had some talk, you know, about the conference in Bonn, Germany. And so this all goes to the question of how the world sees us these days. I mean, I'm sure they're not particularly happy in Asia about our backing out of the TPP. They're not particularly happy in Europe about our failure to go along with the Paris Accord. And so people get a different impression, you know, perhaps they think we're dropping our position in global affairs and hegemony all around in not only in Asia, but in Europe. And I guess I'd like to know from you Lou, I mean, what happened in Bonn that might that might contribute to our perception of their feeling about the United States position in world energy. So one of the things that Trump administration did in Bob is they hosted a panel discussion on fossil fuels and on the importance of fossil fuels. Now you can imagine with the kind of, let's say, green tinge to all the participants at Bob. Sure. What a horrifying event this was for everybody. And to host the panel. Such a horrifying event. We actually created the panel. This was an expression of national policy. It created this panel. And they, you know, so the whole thing is it's pro-renewable. And then we held a panel, the US officials on and I've got it was led by White House guy, David Banks, who came from Edison Electric Institute as a system to the president and I think special assistant to the president, National Economic Council. And I think Trig Talley from the State Department, I have my notes here, so excuse me. And I think that the what was interesting about it is that I think one of the US, the US delegation wanted to show that even in any kind of scheme to go to 2%, I mean to 2 degrees, to halt at 2 degrees, whatever the number is now, that there's going to be a heavy reliance on fossil fuels and that we should have a lot of research and interaction to figure how to use them efficiently. Or how to use them in a more benign way of research.   The evidence is now coming forward that German electricity prices have risen to, you know, near Hawaii levels and their emissions have continued to increase and their use of coal has shot up to the and by the way, in Germany, they do this long wall mining. It's very close to the surface and it's lignite. It's a really junk coal. Okay. It's dirty. It's hard as low BTU value. And this is now so important in Germany to use more of this coal that they're moving a whole village. They bought everyone's house and they're going to re position everybody in a new village they've created in the rural valley so that they can dig up this coal. So it's easy to pick on the U. S. I get that because we, you know, we probably say a lot of things we shouldn't say, but it really is important at some point to compare performance. And as I said earlier, the U. S. Emissions in the last year have declined by 2%. Yes, it's not as much as people would like. But what do you attribute that to? I think our emissions are declining for two reasons. One is we're getting very efficient. Efficiency, our demographics, we're not growing as fast as we used to. The way we're growing is not quite requiring a massive increase in new power production. And cheap natural gas continues to drive up coal. All those features are driving down our emission.  Is whether we're driving them down fast enough. So, yes, it could be there's an irony there, you know, with Germany. And interesting what happens if you give up nuclear, then you know you wind up using more coal. But what I get out of this is that the U. S. Reputation, it's a matter of perception in the eye of the beholder, has diminished. It's diminished over energy, it's diminished over foreign policy in general. It's diminished over our world leadership in so many ways. I think, you know, I think you have to be careful to not see that from either a narrow climate lands or Eurocentric lands. For example, I would say in the Middle East, the, you know, the Sunni Shiite issue, which the U. S. has now really reinforced its relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.  I don't think if you went and talked to the Saudis or the Jordanians or the Israelis or all the Gulf Emirates that you would get that view. They are very much welcome. But it aside whether it's good policy or not for a second, I'm just saying, they very much welcome trans leadership in this thing.  Both sides have a lot of answers to on this issue. So I would say in the Middle East that's, that's not the case. That's interesting. I think what Prime Minister Abe, yeah, Trump presents him with lots of challenges. But I think he's, you know, Abe's an old line LDP politician. He's consolidated his power in Japan enormously now. And I think he feels he can deal with Trump. And that Trump will, you know, will step in and be an important, close and essential ally in confronting both China and North Korea. So I would say, yeah, in Europe, look, I have a friend who's at the Oxford Institute of Energy Study. And, you know, his view is if you're a politician in Europe and you just raise the question, you say, for example, well, maybe we should just examine our climate policy to see if we can do it more efficiently. Forget it. You're not going to get elected. If you just say that there should be any review of climate policy, or that maybe we should weigh some costs and some benefits, or that we should be nervous that our electricity prices are getting due high. If you say that you're, you're dead, you're out. And so I think for Trump, he doesn't really care what these people think of him. He thinks they're wrong. That seems, that seems clear.  I do think here's what, to sort of make your point, there used to be something called the major economies forum. And that was when the EU, Canada, China would get together periodically or on the sides. And the US delegation said that they wanted to start this up with looking at more advanced clean technologies, strategies. But I think, I think what the Europeans have said is that we already have that forum with China, the EU and Canada. So you don't really need to create leadership in that forum. You could just come to our forum. But so yeah, there is a problem on how to engage these folks. And that's part of the problem for pulling out of the Paris Accord. On the other hand, the Paris Accord, as agreed to, was going to have no effect on temperature, according to the IPC. So you had to believe that the Paris Accord was going to lead to something more stringent. And there is a view among some analysts that well, you know, this is a kind of nice shindig. We get to go around the world and do all this stuff. But we're not really doing anything serious. I think it's somewhere in between. I think the biggest payoff is going to be from research and development, not from these emission controls. Well, thank you, Lou. I mean, we're at a time. Gee, this is such an interesting conversation. I would like to plan to continue it two weeks hence. And whatever happens, whatever else happens in the interim with this administration or with energy in the world, you know, we named the show Energy in America. Maybe we should call it something about energy in America and beyond America. I promise you we'll have something interesting in two weeks. I know you will. Thank you so much, Lou Pugirisi, the CEO of Eprig, a think tank in Energy in Washington. Aloha. We'll see you soon. Take care. Thanks.


Good evening and important announcement. Shankar IAS Academy is starting third pre-storming batch from Jan 8th. Pre-storming is Shankar's prelims test series program. Let us move on to today's Hindu news analysis. The list of topics chosen for today's discussion along with the page numbers is given here for your reference. Let us take up this lead article from today's editorial page which talks about the new marriage laws enacted or introduced by different states like UP, MP, etc. So author argues that these laws violate the basic structure of constitution. Author also says that these legislations are writing hate into the law. So in today's discussion, let us see the arguments put forward by author for justifying these remarks. The relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. See generally we have a perception that these kind of controversial questions won't appear in UPSC. But if you see in the 2019 Main's paper that in GS1, questions have been asked from these topics. For example, we had a question called, what are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism? And one more question, are we losing our local identity for the global identity? And there was even a question like this. What can France learn from India's approach to secularism? So these kind of questions have been asked in the UPSC exam. So we should be knowing at least something regarding these aspects to write few points in the exam. So the legislations being criticized by the author are UP's prohibition of unlawful conversion of religion ordinance and MP freedom of religion Bill 2020. First author is surprised that a state which endorsed intercaste marriages once upon a time is now enacting laws banning religious conversions on certain grounds. Author is talking about Uttar Pradesh year. See in 1950s when Nehru was the Prime Minister of India, former Prime Minister Charan Singh was a minister in the UP government. Then Charan Singh proposed to Prime Minister of India about enacting a law to encourage intercaste marriages. So he proposed a law which will allow individuals to become visited officers only who marry outside their caste. But the proposal was declined by Nehru saying that it affects the freedom of choice of individuals to choose their life partner. But today we can see a totally contrasting view where UP government itself enacted an ordinance that criminalizes inter-religious marriages. So author put forward few points stating why these legislations are fundamentally wrong. First reason, these laws restrict individual right to exercise the rights under our constitution. It is the individual citizen who has rights and obligations and exercises it. But the legislation treats religious communities as basic entities. So in short, we can say that constitution of India wants to uphold individual rights by giving more ground to individualism. But the new laws brought in by UP MP consider entire religion as a basic entity. So these legislations are sidelining from the constitutional morality or constitutional ideology. Second reason is that these proposed legislations openly violate the right to privacy. Why? Because these legislations are affecting the privacy of choice. If you remember, right to privacy has been declared as a fundamental right under article 21 in Putta Swami case of 2017. So these new marriage legislations are violating the fundamental rights and that to basic structure of Indian constitution. See according to Indian legal structure, marriage is a civil union depending on their freedom of choice. If government of the day is interfering into the choice of the individuals, it is nothing but breaching the freedom and dignity of the individual, which is a component of basic structure. The next reason is commonly said one, which is targeting Muslims. See author argues that under the pretext of regulating religious conversions, these legislations focus on restricting Hindu women from marrying Muslim men in the name of protecting them. So the assumptions for these legislations are limited to splitting the Hindus and Muslims creating religious disharmony. So this is why author said that hate has been written into these laws. Then author talks about the basis of these new laws is deeply patriarchal. Because these legislations are still treating the adult women as property of the head of family. Because men in the family, not just men, even women in the family or head of the family wants their daughters or sons to marry according to the wishes of parents who belong to same caste, community or religion. So generally parents will be supporting same caste, same religion marriages. And now these legislations of MP UP are paving way for it by supporting the parents. For this reason, author calls these new laws as deeply patriarchal. So these are the different criticisms put forward by the author. On one extent, the author even compares these laws with the laws brought in during Hitler's regime of Germany. In 1935, Hitler enacted a law called Nuremberg race laws, which prohibit the interracial marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans, that is Jewish people here in the name of protecting the German blood and honor. So author is saying that by not allowing inter-religious marriages, the UP and MP governments are replicating what Hitler did in Germany. Yes, this is a little extreme statement. So then author greatly criticizes the laws as they are promoting majoritarian communal biases like in case of Germany as we discussed just now. So these majoritarian communal biases are empowering the regressive social customs governing marriage. So author calls to safeguard the high principles set out by Indian constitution, that is all citizens are equal and the ideals of freedom and fraternity apply to everyone in the country. So as a conclusion, author notes that Supreme Court should take Suomoto action and strike down these laws to preserve the basic structure of Indian constitution. So this is all about the discussion of this news article wherein we had a very critical approach towards the religious conversion laws brought by UP and MP governments. Let us move on to next news article discussion. Let us now take up this data point which talks about bad loans. So when loan accounts, that is loan and interest, if either of it is overdue for more than 90 days, we call it as NPE. So the data point says that the ratio of gross non-performing assets in Indian banks decreased in financial year 20 and as well as financial year 21. This is despite the impact of COVID-19 and the economic downturn preceding the COVID-19. So this data point gives three reasons why there has been a decrease in NPAs. First one, banks wrote off relatively more NPAs in financial year 1920 to clean their balance sheets. As you can see in this picture, after achieving the peak in financial year 17-18, the gross NPAs have reduced for both PSBs and private banks. So as we said before, the first reason is relatively more writing off of loans. So what is this writing off of loans? See whenever a bank gives a loan, it has to set aside a certain amount of money. For example, if a bank gives loan of rupees 1 lakh, say 10 percent or 12 percent as decided by RBI, banks have to keep say 10 percent. So that is 10,000 rupees aside. So even if the borrower did not default, the banks have to set aside some amount as a buffer for potential losses. So when loans are written off, this buffer amount will be released and this buffer amount can be used by banks for further lending. For example, if 1 crore rupees is written off, say 10 percent is provisional amount, that is 10 lakhs. As this 1 crore is written off, this 10 lakhs which was set aside by the bank from its profits can be used for further lending. And second reason for the decrease of gross NPAs is some large NPA accounts got resolved through debt recovery channels. As you can see in this picture, the red line that is first one is about total recoveries. And the green one is about insolvency and bankruptcy code. Yellow one is with reference to surface act and this blue one is with reference to local adults. As you can see, the IBC that is insolvency and bankruptcy code has led to resolution of many gross NPAs. Also because of this, the NPAs have reduced in the recent years. And the third factor is, as of now it is not known what share of loan accounts which were under COVID-19 moratorium will turn into NPAs in the immediate future. As we all know, government and RBI has put a moratorium on loan payments due to COVID-19. Three to six months was given to customers to pay the interest as well as loan amount. So as of August 2020, around 41% and 34% in government banks and private banks opted for this loan moratorium. But it is still not known what share of these loan accounts which took moratorium will be turned into NPAs. So RBI has a designation mechanism called, if a loan is overdue for 30 to 60 days, such loan accounts will be classified as SMA-1 that is special mentioned accounts-1. If loan is overdue for more than 60 and less than 90 days, it is classified as SMA-2. If it is more than 90 days, it will be classified as NPA. And if the loan overdue is less than for 30 days, we call it as SMA-0. So the initial reports reflect a sharp rise in SMA-0 accounts in September 2020. So the moratorium was lifted on 31st August. So within 30 days that is by September 30, there was a sharp rise in SMA-0 accounts. So this shows the signs of stress after the lifting of moratorium. So it is expected that in the future there may be an increase in the gross NPAs due to COVID-19 related economic slowdown. So these are the takeaways from this data point. We have seen that NPAs have decreased in the recent years. One major reason for that is writing off of NPAs. Second reason is increased recoveries due to insolvency bankruptcy code as well as surface air. Let us move on to next news article discussion. Let us take up this news column from editorial page which talks about the form loss. Yes, we are covering form loss mostly on a daily basis because there is a very high possibility of questions appearing from this aspect in the exam. One reason is for many days, farmers are protesting near Delhi. So we are trying to give you a 360 degree analysis of the issues in our news analysis. So today the author of this article analyzes or forecasts the problems which will occur when the new form loss come into force. So let us have a brief discussion on these issues. The relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. First let us see the issues mentioned by the author with respect to the three form loss. The first law is farmers produce trade and commerce act of 2020. According to this act, farmers are now free to sell their produce anywhere and to anyone beyond the physical premises of APMC markets. For this reason, this act is also called as APMC bypass act. So the author is of the opinion that already existing law on MSP Mundi system is a known devil. It means we already know the problems but the new markets will be an unknown ghost. So what author is saying here is while maltractices in Mundis are known to us, we do not know what kind of problems will be formed when the new law comes into force. The main reason here is while Mundis are regulated through law, the other areas that is outside Mundis is unregulated area. So farmers will be vulnerable or they become prey to the traders as well as corporate buyers. But government is also saying that the Mundi system and MSP system will continue simultaneously or parallely with the new form loss as well. But in this case, if farmers find better prices outside the Mundis, they will go there. One more reason is in Mundis there is a levy that is 2 percent, 3 percent depending on the crop and the value of the crop. So farmers may find attractive to sell their produce outside the Mundis because there is no levy. So this can weaken Mundis system and sooner they may begin to shut down due to lack of business. This in turn will make it impossible for farmers to choose Mundis when price outside the Mundis is not remunerative or attractive. See this can happen due to many reasons. So just before we said that the prices outside the Mundis may be attractive and now we are saying that what if prices are not remunerative. See for example, traders could reduce the prices saying that there are faults or poor quality in the produce or even they can default on the payments because the outside area is not regulated. There is no one for farmers to go to their rescue. So this is the problem with APMC bypass act. Coming to second act that is contract forming act or farmers agreement on price assurance and farm services act. In this act, the corporate buyers can exploit farmers through delayed or less remuneration and as we all know corporates are far more powerful compared to poor and uneducated farmers. So farmers cannot fight against these powerful corporates. So author opines that the problem in this contract is the agreement is being made between unequals.  On the other side of the agreement, there will be a very big group like Adhanese, Ambanes, whoever it is. So this small marginal farmer cannot fight with a powerful company. And third important formula that is ECA amendment act or essential commodities amendment act. This act permits unlimited hoarding of food except in special circumstances and farmers are protesting against this as this can manipulate the prices. See already farmers are not getting good prices. Middlemen are benefiting more compared to farmers and consumers. If hoarding or stockpiling of grains is allowed, the traders will store the grains in the harvest season by getting the grains at a cheaper price. But they will not release the grains into markets. Only in the lean season when supply is less, they will raise the prices and release the grains. So both consumers as well as farmers will be losing because of this amendment act. So these are the three major issues we have been discussing for a very long time. Author talks about another issue regarding different regions and crops. See we know that India is a diverse country with several agro-climatic zones and different food cultures. For this reason many proponents of the new laws are saying that farmers from outside the wheat rice belts are not protesting. Currently we are seeing farmers protest only in the Haryana Punjab UP belt which are mostly rice and wheat belts. Here we should not forget that farmers have protested against the policies in areas where they hail from. For example in eastern India in 1860s farmers revolted against indigo farming. Mappolas revolted in 1921 in Kerala or even Warli Adivasi revolt of 1945. And very recently in 1970s to 2010s Sharad Joshi led agitations for farming sector mainly in Maharashtra. So it means that farmers across the country are not homogeneous or not belonging to same kind of ideology. So farmers protest against problems only if they affect them. So other is saying that India being a diverse country there are different demands and different aspirations for farmers belonging to different areas. So if a new policy is being brought in 2020 that is new formulas why is it uniformed for all farmers all land and all crops. When we are agreeing that India is a diverse country even in agriculture why do we need a uniform law that to from central government in state list. So this needs more deliberations. So instead of going with one size fits all approach we should be going for different sizes for different areas. Then author talks about the three main solutions which were put forth by farmers. First one the prices of produce should be cost of production plus a reasonable markup price. So a reasonable profit should be there. Second fluctuations in prices should be minimal. So in this context a stabilization fund will be helpful. Third there should be little or no interface between legal or administrative officials. Farmers are complaining against the interference of sahibs and police. And next farmers are opining that even the government is aiming for crop diversification that is moving from wheat to vegetables, horticulture, other things etc. The new laws do not have any provisions to address problems faced by farmers when they go for crop diversification. So author is saying that all the concerns of farmers have been ignored in the new laws. So here what we can do is the neglected problem of stagnation and high input prices in agriculture can be addressed through a systematic approach proposed by MS Vaminathan commission or Ashok Dalwai committee etc. So author concludes that shock treatments like new form laws do not work anywhere whether it is in agriculture, industry or the economy. So the government should rework the policy to meet the demands of farmers by not threatening the food security of the country and economic security of rural areas. So these are the different issues talked by the author. First we had a brief on issues with the new formulas. Then we talked about the diversity in the country with respect to agriculture and what are the demands raised by the farmers and what can be done that is Ashok Dalwai committee or Swaminathan commission. Let us move on to next news article discussion. Let us take up these two news articles with reference to Central Vista redevelopment project. The news article says that Supreme Court has approved the multi-crore Central Vista redevelopment project. So in this light let us see about the Central Vista project, the Supreme Court's opinion regarding it and is there a need for intense judicial review before going further the relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. So what is this Central Vista redevelopment project? Say it is a multi-crore project that aims to modify the use of 86 acres of parliamentary space. So the new project proposes to build a new parliament that is three times bigger than existing 93 years old heritage building and the new parliamentary building is also expected to accommodate around 1200 MPs and in the current Central Vista of New Delhi houses Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House, North and South Block that is where Prime Minister works, India Gate, National Archives etc. So all these iconic buildings were constructed before 1931. See 1931 is the year when the new capital that is Delhi was inaugurated. If we look back into history that is in the coronation Darbar of 1911, King George V announced the shifting of British capital from Calcutta to Delhi. This decision of shifting capital was mainly due to two major reasons. First one is Indian Councils Act of 1909, second one the ongoing crisis caused by the Bengal Partition. So in order to fulfill this purpose the Delhi Town Planning Commission was set up. Edward Lutens and Herbert Baker were employed as the principal architects and general architectural advisors. The current parliament house building was designed by Lutens and Baker. The Rashtrapati Bhavan was designed by Edwin Lutens. The secretariat which includes both North and South Block were designed by Baker. So for this reason we also listen the name Lutens more in Delhi. The work of capital city was substantially completed by 1929 and the first resident of Weissraus house or the later Rashtrapati Bhavan was Lord Irwin. So the new imperial city which is spanning across 6000 acres was finally inaugurated in 1931 and it is today known as Lutens Delhi. And coming to today's news article that is Central Weissra redevelopment project it is a plan to construct new parliament building close to existing one. So this project was proposed by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2019 envisaging the construction of triangular parliament building common central secretariat and revamping the three kilometers long Rajpath. So the objectives of this project also include upgrading parliament space facilities consolidating rationalizing synergizing government functioning refurbishing and better equipping central vista avenue etc. So simply put government is spending money in fact lot of money on redeveloping or giving more aesthetic appearance to parliament houses secretariat etc. And the chronology of this project is given here just go through it we'll have a brief idea on what happened since 2019 to till yesterday. So as we said before it is a multi crore project there was a very high criticism saying that why India needs such a posh or very high aesthetic building when many people are still in poverty. There are even criticisms that there is a lack of transparency land clearance issues and there were even allegations like fall play on carving out the parliament project from the central vista project in an illegal manner. So because of these issues many petitions were filed in supreme court and as we said before yesterday supreme court said that there is nothing to do from supreme court in stopping the project. Judiciary also gave appropriate reasons first one court cannot order the government to desist from spending money on one project and use it for something else. Why because there is something called separation of power. Legislature executive judiciary judiciary should not interfere into functioning of government that is executive's rule. And according to supreme court right to development is a part of basic human right. So no organ of the state be it legislature or judiciary is expected to become an obstruction in the process of development as long as government is working in accordance with the constitution and legal procedures. And the second news article talks about intense judicial review into these aspects supreme court clearly said no to intense judicial review. It is of opinion that government is entitled to commit errors or achieve success in policy matters without the interference of court because public has given power to government and also it is not court's concern to inquire into priorities of elected government. Moreover and very importantly judicial review is never meant to venture into mind of government and thereby to examine validity of the decision. So as long as decision is abiding laws and constitution supreme court has nothing to say with daily functioning of the government. So court said that it cannot act as a multiplier of regulations or obstruction to the development projects which are taken up by the governments which received support from the public. So this is all about the discussion of these news articles. We had a brief discussion on central vista redevelopment project as well as what supreme court said with respect to separation of powers. Suppose if you are writing an answer for separation of powers you can use this example wherein supreme court clearly said that it has nothing to do with functioning of a government as long as the governance is within the constitution and legal procedures. So this is all about the discussion of these news articles. Let us move on to next news article discussion. Let us now take this news article which talks about the two-day Asian Waterbird Census 2020. The news is that the census has commenced in Andhra Pradesh under the support of exports from Bombay Natural History Society. The census is covering two dozen sites in Andhra Pradesh including Koringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Kolaire Lake, Krishna Sanctuary, even in other parts of India also these kind of census will be carried out. So this Asian Waterbird Census is a part of International Waterbird Census which is coordinated by Wetlands International. It also runs in parallel with other regional programs of International Waterbird Census in Africa, Europe, West Asia, Neotropics, Caribbean etc. So this Asian Waterbird Census was initiated in 1987 in the Indian subcontinent and since has grown rapidly to cover major areas of Asia from Afghanistan to Japan and from Southeast Asia to Australasia. So the census thus covers entire East Asian Australasian flyway and the large part of Central Asian flyway. So what is a flyway? See flyway is the entire range of migratory bird species through which it moves on an annual basis from the breeding grounds to non-breeding areas including intermediate resting and feeding places as well. The important flyways are given here for your reference and as you can see here is the Central Asian flyway and here is East Asian Australasian flyway. Don't confuse Australasia with Australia. Say Australasia includes Australia, New Zealand, Malay Archipelago, Philippines and other islands as well. So Australasia is a geographical term defining a specific region surrounding Australia. So coming back to Asian Waterbird Census, the census is aimed at obtaining information on an annual basis of water bird populations at wetlands to monitor on an annual basis the status and condition of wetlands to encourage greater interest in water birds and wetlands among citizens. So these are the major objectives of conducting Asian Waterbird Census and as we said before the technical support for this program is being received from Bombay Natural History Society. So this Bombay Natural History Society is one of the largest non-governmental organizations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. This body was founded in 1883 that is even before Congress. So one of the world's bodies in the world and very importantly the society is partner of BirdLife International in India. So what is this BirdLife International? So it is one another non-governmental organization and a global partnership of conservation organizations which strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. So in India the BirdLife International is represented through Bombay Natural History Society and talking about BirdLife International it identifies and designates certain areas as important bird and biodiversity areas. So these are the places of international significance for the conservation of birds and other biodiversity. So these are the different aspects discussed in the news article and also remember that Koringa Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Andhra Pradesh. Further the news article also talks about Indian schema. See Indian schema is a water bird species which is generally found in the coastal estuaries of western and eastern India. So these species can be sighted near Chambal river in Odisha and in Andhra Pradesh. Coming to its conservation status it is listed in endangered category of IUCN Red List. So this is all about the discussion of this news article. We had a very comprehensive discussion on what is Asian water bird census and then we talked about East Asian and Central Asian flyways and we also talked about Bombay Natural History Society and we ended with BirdLife International and Indian schema. So let us move on to next news article discussion. So this news article mentions that Prime Minister has inaugurated the Kochi Mangaluru Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline that is LNG Pipeline. So in this context let us have a brief discussion on LNG and what is National Gas Grid and what are the existing gas pipelines in the country. See as we all know natural gas is one of the cleanest fossil fields available in the world. When we say liquefied a natural gas it means natural gas in its liquid form. So coming to its users see it is used as feedstock in manufacturing of fertilizers plastics etc. It can be also used as fuel for current generation heating purpose as well as cooking in domestic households and also as transportation fuel for vehicles. So for all these users government is committed to make India a natural gas based economy and also to increase the share of natural gas in country's primary energy mix. Further India also committed to increase the share of natural gas from present 6 percent to 15 percent by 2030. So by increasing the share of natural gas on one side it reduces the import bill on the other side it also promotes climate change mitigation measures. So to achieve this target government is taking the steps like enhancing domestic gas production expeditious development of gas infrastructure including pipelines. As today's news says Prime Minister has inaugurated Kochi Mangaluru gas pipeline. Further city gas distribution networks and regasified liquefied natural gas. So regasified LNG means we are turning LNG back into gas and development of gas market by providing open access to gas infrastructure. So these are the different steps being taken by government to increase the share of natural gas in the energy mix of the country. And as said before our today's focus is on development of gas infrastructure of natural gas pipelines. See gas pipeline infrastructure is an economical and safe mode of transporting the natural gas by connecting gas sources to gas consuming markets. For example Krishna Godavari basin is known for natural gas. So from there we will connect the source to consumer areas like Mumbai, Delhi etc. So therefore an interconnected national gas grid has been envisaged by the government to ensure the adequate availability and equitable distribution of natural gas in all parts of the country. So now government is developing additional 14,000 kilometers of gas pipelines and some of these pipelines are at various states of development as shown in the figure. So by developing these gas lines these would ensure easy availability of natural gas across all regions and also potentially help to achieve uniform economic and social progress. As part of this grid only the 450 kilometers Kochi Mangaluru stretch was inaugurated by the prime minister. And coming to existing major gas pipelines in the country here is the first one Jagadishpur Haldia Bokaro Damra Pipeline Project and Marauni Gauhati Pipeline Project. So this BGPL is being implemented as an integral part of Jagadishpur Haldia project to connect northeast region with the national gas grid and there is this northeast region gas grid Indra Danush gas grid limiter which is a joint venture of five oil and gas central public sector enterprises. And there is also this Kochi Kuttanad Bangalore Mangalore Pipeline Project which was inaugurated yesterday and there is one more Enor Thirvaluvar Bangalore Nagapatinam Madurai Tutikorin Natural Gas Pipeline Project. So these are some of the important gas pipeline projects either constructed or under construction currently. So this is all about the discussion of this news article have a brief idea on what is liquefied natural gas, what are its uses and what government is doing to improve the share of liquefied natural gas in the country. Let us take up this prelims question. This question is framed based on these two news articles. Before going through the question let us have a brief discussion on what these news articles are going to say. So the news article says that according to global economic prospects report released by World Bank the global economic output is projected to grow at four percent in 2021 by assuming that a widespread rollout of covid-19 vaccine will be carried out this year. But even then the projection is found to be five percent lower when compared to pre-pandemic levels. With respect to India after an expected contraction of around nine percent in current fiscal year that is 2020-2021 India is expected to grow at 5.4 percent in the coming year and 5.2 percent in the next year that is 2022-23. So why this contraction happened in India? See India's contraction in the current year is mainly because of sharp decline in household spending and private investment and also due to severe loss in informal sector due to lockdowns and covid-19. So India's growth with its persistent improvement in its economic indicators is showing a v-shaped recovery that is sharp fall and sharp rise and is therefore believed to be successfully going against the covid-19 waves. See in many of the countries because of second waves and reimposing of lockdowns economic indicators have been suffering severely. But in India even against the covid-19 the economy is in a booming phase. So what is the primary reason for this booming economic growth? The answer is agricultural sector. It has grown at 3.4 percent in first two quarters of current fiscal year. So because of good agricultural growth there is a rise in rural income which is also caused by factors like rise in MSP accompanied by high procurement from the government, accelerated wages, employment generation etc. So this rise in rural income has also been reflected in the improved sales of vehicles, tractors and a rebound in the registration of vehicles for the first time after March 2020. So thereby it is also indicating a momentum gain in the manufacturing and services sector. So coming back to the question consider the following pairs. Three reports are given here and their publishing agencies are also given here. We have to find out whether the given pairs are correctly matched or not. If you see the second one that is global economic prospects as we said before it is released by World Bank and not IMF. So second pair is incorrect. So two should not be in the answers therefore we can arrive at the answer that is option C 1 and 3 only. See this global economic prospects is a World Bank's flagship report which examines global economic developments and prospects with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies. It is a biennial report meaning it will be issued twice a year that is Jan and June. And also note that ease of doing business, world development report, human capital index are also published by the World Bank Group. And coming to global innovation index yes it is published by INSEAD along with Cornell University and World Intellectual Property Organization that is VEPO. And coming to third one global competitive index yes it is released by World Economic Forum. So the correct answer is option C 1 and 3 only. Let us now take a practice questions discussion session. See this question with reference to bird life international which of the following statements are correct. It is a global partnership of conservation organizations statement two. The concept of biodiversity hotspots originated from this organization statement three. It identifies the sites known as important bird and biodiversity areas. If you see the statement two is incorrect because the concept of biodiversity hotspots was propounded by Norman Mayors. So statement two is incorrect therefore the correct answer is option C 1 and 3 only. So statements 1 and 3 are correct. Next consider the following statements. Statement one. India is committed to increase the share of natural gas to 50 percent by 2030. This statement is incorrect from the face of statement itself we can see 50 percent is a very ambitious target. It is from 6 percent at present to 15 percent by 2030. Statement two. Barowni-Gahati pipeline project is being implemented to connect northeast region with national gas grid. Yes the statement is correct. So statement one is incorrect and statement two is correct. So the correct answer is option B 2 only. Next see this question. Central Vista project often seen in news is related to option A new parliament complex. Option B express ways connecting all the metro cities in the country. Option C development of freight corridors connecting central India with major cities. Option D developing basic communities in neighboring countries as part of neighborhood first policy. As we all know the correct answer is option A new parliament complex which is said to be constructed in the new daily and is expected to be complete by 2022 that is 75th year of independence. Let us take up one main question based on today's news analysis. Recent state legislations regarding conversion of religion are against the ethos of Indian constitution. Comment. With this we conclude today's news analysis. If you find this session resourceful click on the like button show your appreciation in the comment section and do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.


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Disclaimer, if you can relate to any of these signs, please do not take this feedback as an attack on your character. This article was meant to be a self-improvement guide for those of you who have been feeling a little stuck. Emotional instability is characterised by fluctuating mood, explains consultant psychiatrist Dr Sylvia Tang. One moment you are feeling happy and energetic, the next you may suddenly suffer an unexpected decline. Gaia and colleagues published an article in the Neuroscience Biobehavioural Reviews Scientific Journal, which noted that teens have an elevated degree of emotionality, with more regular, strong and explosive emotions. This is linked to the surge of hormones, testosterone in boys and estradiol in girls. Clinical researcher Dr Rashmi Patal and colleagues stated that apart from mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional instability can be caused by medication, recreational drugs, low blood sugar and pregnancy. With that said, below are five signs of emotional instability, emotional rollercoaster. Emotional instability may cause you to experience a whirlwind of emotions. It's challenging to get off that emotional rollercoaster when you're delighted one minute and sorrowful the next. Your emotions appear uncontrolled and intense and swing back and forth for no apparent reason, known as extreme mood swing in psychology. According to an article written by Silva, published in 2019, you are generally perceived as emotionally healthy as long as your mood changes do not significantly impact your life. However, if you have significant and regular mood swings, this might indicate emotional instability. Acting impulsively, have you been forced to move out of your house unexpectedly or end your long-term relationship in the spur of a moment without any apparent reason? In a Bustle magazine interview in 2018, psychologist and bereavement trauma specialist Cherry Cormier, PhD, explained that emotional instability often results in impulsive, unpredictable and erratic behavior. Eventually, most young adults improve their coping problem-solving skills and abilities to grow out of impulsive and emotionally unstable behavior. For others, however, emotional instability and impulsivity continue and worsen throughout adulthood because of traumatic events, illness, abuse or loss, unexpected reactions. You reach home after a long commute and you can't seem to find your keys.  This disproportionately huge reaction to an apparently trivial circumstance is one of the signs of emotional instability. Psychologist Dr. Ashley B. Hampton told Bustle magazine in 2018 that an emotionally unstable person has unpredictable reactions to events. It could be as simple as someone laughing when encountering a distressing situation, difficulty calming down. Consider a time you experience overwhelming emotion. For example, you and your brother were supposed to ride the school bus together, but he woke up late and now you are running late for school. You feel a sudden burst of anger and start screaming at your brother. Psychotherapist Cherry van Dijk in her article How to Calm Your Inner Storm explained that emotions give us valuable information, affect our judgments and drive our behavior. When emotions occur, we attempt to control them through a process called emotion regulation. People who are emotionally unstable struggle to reach emotional equilibrium. Regulating the emotions is difficult, trouble maintaining relationships. It may be an indication of emotional instability if someone close to you always burns bridges with family members or close friends. In a research article titled Public Health Significance of Neuroticism, psychologist Benjamin Leahy reveals that individuals with emotional instability often experience impairment in their romantic relationships. When these people become irritable, they will choose to express their irritability towards those most accessible to them, their partner or spouse. Moreover, psychologist Dr. Hampton in a Bustle magazine article says that emotionally unstable people may encounter problems with people from many spheres of life, including friendships and relationships with coworkers. There's no doubt that we experience a wide range of emotions in life. Admittedly, they are ups and downs. Still, there's a distinction between reacting to every event in an extreme manner and experiencing a broad range of feelings. Having a wide range of emotions doesn't make someone emotionally unstable, but there are some tall-tailed signs when someone lacks control of their feelings and may require professional assistance. Can you relate to any of these signs? Let us know in the comments. Until next time, bye friends.


And so I want to talk about a particular use case that we used. We are trying to build as many Z degrees as we can, trying to infuse OER through our online courses and programs. And so in that process, I helped develop a theater history textbook last summer with the help of a faculty member. We pulled materials from the public domain and put that up there. Unfortunately, when you're pulling those kind of like bare minimum texts, you don't have access to the annotations that make the text make more sense. That's the kind of thing that you might see in a Norton or an anthology. And so as we launch this book, part of the work of integrating is OER is making sure that there is supportive content available for students to help understand. And hypothesis is kind of this great tool to add to the book while also helping students unpack and understand it. So in the in the semester that this was implemented, students were able to ask questions in line and have the faculty add more context to these like historic plays that they're reading. They were able to have conversations about how it was staged and share clips, video clips of the scenes as they've been interpreted by various modern play companies. And so all of those things kind of compounded together to make this really interactive experience and really leverage the OER. And so we find it to be a really complimentary tool for OER. And it can be helpful in identifying those kind of pedagogical gaps as well. So the faculty member also wrote little introductions to each section of the book. And in those introductions, she kind of explains what's the philosophy behind why we're choosing these plays. Well, oftentimes it's just based on the canon. It's the way we've always done it and that prioritizes certain viewpoints and perspectives over others. And it limits the scope. And so she also seeded the book with questions to have students think through why are these decisions being made and then have conversation in the actual introductions to the plays about how how these decisions are being made and how we can expand the canon to be more inclusive. So we're not just getting this really limited worldview, even though the scope of the course was still limited, right, with only being seven weeks and things like that. So we were really excited to see it work really well. The faculty member reported finding it to be way more engaging than the discussion boards. As a part of implementing it, she didn't want to go entirely away from discussion boards. What was really cool was to see the contrast between the weeks and she's like there was no, there's just, it was just so obvious like the discussion boards were less engaging less interest less student writing less replies as opposed to the annotation weeks where they were just talking together in the play itself.