Is this lady making all Chinese people look bad by not wanting to repay back the climbers that helped save her life on Mount Everest? Let's talk about it. Yeah, man Is she making Chinese people look greedy and was that a pre-existing stereotype? Is it an internal stereotype? Is it a global stereotype? And we got to talk about it because this article about Liu getting saved by two Sherpas and finding shares going viral Andrew Not just in America But of course also China as well and we got to break down the comments our own takeaways about it because Andrew Even such a interesting almost like sports expedition topic has a lot of macro stereotypical takeaways from it All right, let's get into it David What exactly is the story just so everybody gets the facts right because I do think that there is some confusion about what's going on Yes, the Western version of the story is very different from the China internal more accurate story long story short There's a 50 year old woman named Leo Andrew. She works at a bank. She's got like saves up 40 50 60 thousand dollars Goes to Nepal to clown climb Mount Everest on the Nepal side She went up before her Hunan climbing team. She got stuck on the way down.  She lost a mitten But two people from her climbing group that kind of know or not really know her come up with their Sherpas And they see her dying and basically they're like all right, let's try to help her So they try to help her but one of the Sherpas is like hey, man. It's kind of dangerous for us I'm only paid to protect you share so share this guy offers him 10,000 USD to save her They bring her down safely and then they finally give the Sherpas the money right they pay out But then Leo the woman doesn't want to pay them back So that's the accurate version of the story Andrew But in the West it's going super viral because it looks like Leo the woman herself Didn't want to pay the Sherpa who carried her on his back all the way down the mountain Right the actual dispute is between the Chinese people It's between fun and sheer and Leo the Sherpas got paid right the two climbers who decided to front the rescue money And then now she's not paying them back fully. She only paid back $4,000 versus $10,000, right? But she did tip the Sherpas $1,800 each so she so by the way guys I think that that's the biggest point of dispute and in the Western version of the story The Sherpas didn't get paid and didn't get to thank you in the actuality It's fun and share that are missing it right a couple things come to mind before we get into the comments section David A lot of people are wondering will this affect Future Chinese climbers from getting help because they know that if you help a Chinese climber You're not gonna get paid back. Also. I do want to ask this that they didn't have to help her But it was the right thing to do that they helped her now What if they had just left her to die which they could have as people who hired Sherpas?  Yeah I think that to be honest it could go either way and that kind of goes on to this whole like negative press macro Down wave stream that a lot of Chinese things are getting micro to macro So make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications Andrew breaking and everything down This is so complicated, but you know Andrew hot pot boys. We get into the nitty gritty of it Somebody said so Chinese typical mainland Chinese logic. This is the most Chinese thing ever man My mom would probably do something like this ha ha ha and somebody said man There's some truth to Chinese being bad tourists But of course some Chinese people said this is on the Western version of the article Please this doesn't represent all of the Chinese people Leo. She is a bad person. She is on her own So basically the internal internet in China's roasting her because she makes Chinese look bad globally But on a global level people are saying all Chinese are like Liu damn is this greedy woman Well, whether you agree with her disagree with her clearly like They're not everybody's like Liu because the two guys did something good like a lot of people are not highlighting What fun and share did listen they fronted the money now Here's the thing those guys they did the right thing and I think that they're good guys for going through the trouble Sacrificing their climb up to the summit in order to save her you have to understand people train for months And they save up for years just to do this thing It costs 40 50 60 70 thousand dollars to make the climb so they never make it to the summit, right? They don't finish their mission. They don't finish their complete their mission But here's my one thing is like if you go out of your way to save somebody and do the right thing You should not expect and you cannot expect them to pay you back Exactly how much you expect like this just it just doesn't work that way you have to do it out the goodness of your heart I'm saying that she shouldn't be greedy and she should pay him back But also those guys, you know, they got a little money. It's almost like what it is You're saying when it comes to doing the right thing the math does not always equal out. Yeah, and here's the thing guys Nobody the Sherpas. They're all private security private contractors They're supposed to make sure that the person that they hire gets up there back down safely But they're not necessarily responsible for people outside of the group Yeah, so I mean I think that that is pretty much our summation of what happened on the mountain the Sherpas got paid You know, there was some stories Andrew of previous Stories where the Sherpas even saved a Malaysian guy without getting paid. Yeah, some of this not all the Sherpas are like money Motivated. I'm sure some are more than others. Yeah I'm sure there's stories of Sherpas trying to help out and then they end up dying while trying to give their life for free I get it. It's so I think there's it's not about the Sherpas wanting Isn't it just like any sort of civil service Andrew firefighters don't work for free police officers don't work for free even the surgeon in the ER Does not just save people for free all day No, no, no might do it on a medical mission overseas, right? They don't do it when they're in their job in America, right exactly somebody saying yeah bargaining as a competitive sport in China Maybe, you know fog and shield, you know, maybe She's just playing hardball with the bargaining.  So they were like man I would have yeeted her off the mountain after that Like we said, there's a lot of comments from around the world Andrew We're getting into the more macro negative China comments now Andrew that I think ultimately are the most interesting somebody said Chinese food is huge, but the people still don't respect the people that much What do you think of this this is actually to be honest if you made me say I think it's it's more nuanced than one sentence If you maybe say this is true or not, I almost want to say this is true Yeah, I think it's tough man because there is a lot of Chinese people in the world And I think there's a lot of good Chinese people, but we mostly hear about the bad ones And it's because and they fit the stereotype of the greediness, right? Because but also a lot of people don't talk about how like these restaurant owners who cook food for very cheap So that they make delicious Chinese food for you for like seven dollars one dollar margin, right? Do you think them for doing their job? Because they're not making that you just get mad at them for not wanting to give you extra duck sauce for free Yeah, exactly. So it's almost like you can't win unless until Chinese people start creating all this content That makes people feel better about themselves so that it can balance out the negative news that people consume with the positive Content that they consume about Chinese, but right now a lot of people they don't consume Chinese content So they're not so they only see the negative news for sure I would say that people in the West and Honestly if all the articles were written properly and talking about how the dispute is actually between Fanxia and the lady Liu. I don't think this article goes viral in the West I just don't think anybody cares people are just like oh, yeah It's just between two Chinese people arguing over money But because it looked like Leo stiffed the Sherpas, which are the poor Nepalese guys obviously Nepal's a third world country Then it turned into like the greedy Chinese just like the greedy government and the greedy citizens Um a lot of people were saying Andrew stories regarding China never get any nuanced Interpretation because people want to go off the media headlines the media headlines from the Western news sources Have an incentive to make the article go viral which is playing into the stereotypes Exactly. Basically if you can if you're typing an article and you can just kind of write it a certain way to invoke a frenzy Against a certain person. It's easy, bro, and it is easy. Yeah, it is easy But no one's talking about how you on and share saved her life, right? They gave up a bunch was that greedy for them? Yeah, and now so what's happening now is that there's a lot of comments on the internet who especially on the Chinese side Who are like oh this roast this girl track her down harass her?  She only paid us back $4,000. It's fine. Just don't worry about her. Don't bother her life I'm done dealing with this right. They just want to move on with their lives, too They don't want to be defined by this story for the rest of their lives What do you think about these really macro kind of harsh comments interesting Chinese make all Chinese looking people look bad whether they are Japanese or Koreans that would never act like this Chinese always make all of us look bad I Think Chinese have some work to do It's not that I think all Chinese people are bad Of course, I think a lot of Chinese people are great And I think the great ones don't get credit for trying to counterbalance this that stereotype Yeah, but perhaps what is it just because there's so many Chinese around the world Like you got to think our population or like the population of Chinese is Way, way many times ex Japan and Korea, you know what I mean? So and it's like economic development curve is slower. It's behind so you're getting like these hyperactive like Villagers or knowns are people who they're not bad people, but they have bad manners And they're sort of like coloring the perception of the entire pool. Yeah. Yeah. I just think that Yeah, no, I mean, it's unfortunate the way that it's playing out But I think there's a lot of incentive from the media and the news sources to spin stuff negatively towards China So I'm saying like whether it's picking up more on a viral negative story rather than a positive one There's a lot of incentive. Yeah, or people might see the positive one They're like, I'm not gonna click on that one positive story from China. Oh, there's negative green woman Well, you start to take the positive for granted because the positive is just supposed to happen Do you think that this went viral particularly in China amongst the younger internet crowd because they're like, oh my gosh She's gonna make us all look bad And when we go overseas people will think we are all like Liu and then they will be mean to us or not help Us if we're in trouble. Yeah, I mean definitely dude There's I think the younger generation does have a little bit of pressure to go out there and Help portray Chinese in a different way and it's not gonna all change just in one generation because things don't change that quickly But it will be like a step-by-step thing. Yeah, for sure Anyway guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below guys Like we said the comment sections on these articles that especially on the western side went all over the place I read actually some of the comments from the Chinese side that were translated They went all over the place to obviously having different discussions Let us know what you think in the comment section below from silly serious hop-hop boys always break it down until next time we out Peace


Welcome to the Sailor-Otatomy course, Business 210, Corporate Communication. The goal of this course is to enable you to understand and apply effective communication in business contexts. This introduction video will preview the contents of the course. For instruction on how to navigate through the course, including accessing the syllabus, textbook, learning resources and assessments, please refer to the written material on the course home page. The textbook for this course is Scott McClain's Business Communication for Success. It contains 15 units. For the purposes of this course, these units have been grouped into sections around four themes. These themes represent important aspects of business communication. The foundations of effective communication, business writing, public speaking and presentations, and business relationships. Each unit is divided into subunits. To help you absorb the material in this course, additional resources are provided in each subunit. These resources are usually videos that reinforce contents in the textbook, provide additional perspectives on important topics, or connect key points from the textbook to real-world situations. Instructions for the resources provide guidance about what to focus on in the resources, and often also suggest exercises, activities, or sailor forum posts that will enable you to practice applying the material to business scenarios or projects. You should use these additional resources as alternative ways to understand the material. The Sailor Academy recognizes that different people learn in different ways, and has produced these resources to encourage you to discover how you learn best. Finally, each unit ends with an assessment, a quiz that will enable you to check your understanding of the unit's contents and to practice answering the kind of questions that will be on the final exam. From the beginning of this course to its end, it is important that you recognize how the topics relate to each other, including across units and sections. It is especially important that you understand and remember information in the first section because it is expected that you will apply the communication principles and practices introduced in that section to the activities and assessments you complete in the other sections and also to questions on the final exam. The second half of this introductory presentation will look ahead to section one and provide examples of the important relationships between the units. Before you begin working on a unit, you should always read the learning objectives. They are accessed by clicking on the course outcomes link below the unit's introductory paragraph. The learning objectives are important tools for recognizing content in the unit, which will be part of the final exam. Other material in the unit may also be on the exam, but you can be assured that if it is listed in the learning objectives, there will be at least one question about it on the exam. In unit one, you will learn about how the communication process works, why businesses require effective communication, and how your traits and your audience's traits influence communication. When you are working on this unit, it is especially important that you focus on three concepts that play a role in every topic covered in this course. The process that is communication, the messages that represent communication, and the audiences that are targeted by communication. The key point in unit one is that you understand the process of communication. When business communicators do not understand this process, they may be unable to anticipate factors that can block effective communication. For example, culturally based misunderstandings in the audience that are discussed in unit 15. Another example of this problem is covered in unit 10. Nonverbal distractions in the environment can also block communication. By understanding the communication process, effective communicators are able to analyze a situation and control or compensate for factors they know can result in poor communication. It is also important that you learn how to present the message that is central to your communication. This is the topic of unit two, which examines the relationship between language, messages, and communication. You will learn in this unit that there are three types of messages based on whether they are communicated intentionally or unintentionally, primary, secondary, and auxiliary. You will also learn about the five parts of the message, the attention statement, the introduction, the body, the conclusion, and residual messages. Here are some key points from unit two and examples of how they are related to the content of other units. Unit two emphasizes how an effective communicator knows what options are available for producing messages and selects the best option based on the business context. This point is connected to information in unit 10, which discusses how an effective communicator chooses words and other techniques to produce messages that are clear and convincing. The communicator also knows that the business context usually dictates message traits and formats. For example, if an employee is being laid off or denied a promotion, this negative news, a topic covered in unit 12, may be delivered more effectively through interpersonal communication, which is covered in unit 13. For example, you could call the employee. Communicating by telephone is covered in unit 11. By doing so, you can use the conversation to communicate your compassion for the employee's situation. Unit three in this course focuses on audiences, the people you want to influence through communication. In this unit, you will learn why understanding your own traits will help you communicate with others more effectively. What perception is and how your perception and your audience's perception play a role in communication and why it is important to listen and read for understanding. The key point in unit three is that you must know your audience so that you can tailor messages to suit their needs and expectations. This is necessary because audiences are not uniform and yet the characteristics they possess are not random. Effective communicators research the characteristics of their audience to ensure that messages reach them, are understood, and produce the desired response. This may seem very abstract to you as you begin this course, but by the time you have examined the context of business writing, public speaking, and business relationships, you will be more confident and better prepared to produce communication that will contribute to your success in the business world.


Good morning from Vienna and welcome to our social media corner. My name is Diana and I'm the social media manager at IEA. 2021 marks 10 years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. Following the accident, the IEA, alongside the nuclear community, worked to promote and ensure that safety was further enhanced at nuclear facilities around the world. Now, a decade later, experts are gathering here in Vienna for a conference to look at lessons learned and actions taken and to identify ways to further strengthen nuclear safety. In this context, the IEA recently launched an essay competition directed at young people related to the current status and future of nuclear safety. And here with me, I have one of the finalists of that competition and also one of our talented youth moderations of the conference. RSA was on preventing regulatory failures to ensure institutional strength in depth. Hi Ilea Eva, thank you so much for joining us here today. Can you tell me more a little bit about yourself and about your professional and academic background? Yeah, first of all, thank you so much for having me here and for the opportunity to speak here. My name is Ilea Belisasti-Ariso. I'm a nuclear engineer, graduated in Cuba in the Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences in 2015. I'm actually at the moment doing my master's degree finishing my final dissertation of the thesis and also in the nuclear field. And I was working for five years in the Nuclear Regulatory Authority back in my country in Cuba. And recently I was doing an internship here in the agency in the Radiation Transport and Waste Safety Division for one year until last October. And also, sorry, I'm also representative of the Women in Nuclear Young Generation chapter and one of the IAEA representatives of this chapter also. Very impressive, thank you. In your opinion, why is nuclear safety important and why should young people care about it? Nuclear safety is about prevention, prevention of accidents like Fukushima. We have been here one week hearing all the lessons learned from this accident. But we are also learning, still learning from Chernobyl, for instance, that happened 30 years ago. And people care because safety is about protecting people on the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation. So it's related to their own safety. That's why people care. And I will answer this by giving you an example. Every time I'm going out there and I'm meeting with friends and they get to know that I'm a nuclear engineer, they're always asking this kind of questions, hard questions to answer related to safety because they know what happened. They know what was the thing that went wrong with the accident. So they care a lot. And if we are trying to involve, we are trying to include nuclear energy as part of the solution for the future, we must ensure that our industry is safe. They recently launched an essay competition directed at young people like you, related to the current status and future of nuclear safety. Do you believe the essay contest was successful? Absolutely. It was very successful. I'm very proud to say that we have 250 participants in this contest. It's amazing. Nuclear professionals, but also students. And from 60 countries and almost 50-50% regarding gender. So it's very, very good numbers, impressive numbers. And we are very proud of that. And also from the panel yesterday, we saw that young people are committed, young people are engaged. We want to talk about nuclear. We know about what happened in the past and we don't want that to happen again. That's why people are so committed and engaged nowadays. And I'm very proud to see that. So I think this essay competition was the demonstration of this kind of thing. Thank you. And also yesterday as part of the conference, there was an event on youth in the nuclear industry. What were some of the most impactful messages you heard during the panel discussion? Well, I was actually, I had the pleasure to moderate this panel yesterday with the six winners of the competition. It was amazing. They were talking about all the issues. They were speaking their minds, like talking about nuclear in the nuclear field. And also one thing that I forgot to say is that in the context, we have young professionals and students from the nuclear field. But we also have people with other backgrounds like journalism, medicine, law, and it's impressive. And they know about this and they were giving us this message. And after the panel, we had the opportunity to split our group into two and then we were discussing about topics that we want to highlight from this conference and it was really awesome. Of course, we talk about the importance of having nuclear as part of the solution. And we have seen young people doing that in Glasgow these two weeks. It's impressive. And we talk about the generational gap that we have. We know that we have this generational gap we want to feel it and we want to contribute with our work and we want to contribute to pushing people to pursue careers in the nuclear field because we know that for the future we will need that. We will need people to qualify. We will need people in this kind of careers and in the nuclear field. Very good. Thank you. And after participating in the conference and they say competition, has your perception or understanding of nuclear safety changed in any way? I won't say it changed, but I will say it improved. In my case, I have been working in the field for many years already. But every time you are attending one congress like this, one event, you are realizing how important is the work that you do. It's incredible and we are still learning and we are going to learn and I'm pretty sure not from accidents but from incidents or whatever it happens. This sharing, this networking that we are doing this is very amazing. For others, because we were talking in the group with other young people. And of course, if they are not in the nuclear field for them, it's amazing to hear and to see experts talking about... It's amazing how safe is our industry but we are still working for making it safer and for them it was a really good thing to learn. And also about communication and I want to emphasize this. Something that is very important and we highlighted in the panel is like we have the tools. We have the content that we want to share but we have to look for a way to share it in the way that young people consume this and we want to work on that and we want to contribute on that because it's our future and it's our... We are the one knowing how to use this technology so it's our duty. Thank you. Now a last question for you. How do you believe the youth community can best support the international community on issues like nuclear safety in the future? Well, I have mentioned already part of this answer. I think first we have to be given the opportunity to speak and this is demonstrating that we have the opportunity and the IAEA is always giving us the opportunity to speak, giving us like a seed and involving us in the decision-making process. It's not just hearing us but giving us a real opportunity to be part of the decision-making process and I'm very glad of that. We can contribute in many ways. We can contribute communication as I mentioned before because I think now we have tools that our parents and grandparents they didn't have so it's our future and it's our responsibility to use them for a better purpose and yeah, of course, events like that demonstrate that we can do it. We can do it and we can speak and we can go out there and try to convince people to pursue careers in nuclear and demonstrate that this is our future and it's part of our future if we want to reach our goals regarding climate change. Thank you so much, Elieva. It was really nice speaking to you today. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'll be back tomorrow, last day of the conference, for another live. This time with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. Until then, follow us on social media to learn more about this conference on lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants so we can further strengthen nuclear safety around the world. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you, Elieva.


What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chihua back to y'all again with another art tutorial man If you're new to the channel go ahead and hit that like button come in subscribe Make sure you hit post another for case they will be notified every time you put y'all some heat in today's video I will be teaching you guys how to draw a cartoon here using your mouse So without further ado, let's jump right into this video First thing you want to do Go ahead and make your picture Right size And I do this by holding the stretch the picture out without changing changing like the shape of it. Oh You hold shelf and all at the same time That's how you get like an even Stretch out for the picture. I'm gonna drop the opacity down Lock that layer and the size I'm drawing on is 18 by 18 inches. So that's my template size Okay, you want to create you a new layer and now we've been to create the brush So what you want to do you want to select the This circle tool right here and select that you want to bring it over here Now what you want to do is you want to try to make each corner Pointy and then make it kind of thick in the center.  Okay. You want to click okay again? and now Come to your brush And that go our line. We just created okay You want to double click this brush and bring your smoothness all the way to the top Okay, and now What you want to do is zoom as close as you can to the picture You know I'm saying and that'll help you Create some clean lines since you're using your mouse and it's kind of harder to control Okay, that's good We're just gonna keep going through The whole strategy is zoom as close as you can to your picture look like a whole lot of pixels You know I'm saying and It'll make it easier to make the line work with your mouse See I'm saying you can't even tell the difference. It looked like I'm drawing it with a tablet So you just got to be patient Come through Back Key of making some clean line work making sure you zoom in and close enough You can get it just right Another thing too. You see how I overshot this line. You can do that. I'm gonna show you how to fix it at the end So don't worry about like overshooting your lines if you need to if you mess up just hold control And press Z to go back make sure you get all you look some clean lines, you know I'm saying Looking so far Everything looking good. Don't come to our pencil tool Move this color right here to the top I'm zooming this out and we're gonna fill it in By tracing in the inside one outside that line a little bit Now you see these lines we overshot.  Let's make that Smiler at this Hold out keep out selected On your mouse, you just keep let dragging and letting go so far We just got a feeling this little area to cover that up. We're gonna come back grab some of this Turn it a little bit over this up longest we keep it Long as we keep it in this area. We could a clean looking eyebrow But you can't tell we did with the mouse You know I'm saying I've got to do the same thing on this side. So we're gonna get our brush the visual hairs Just enough to copy and paste We got some we're gonna Select that hold all Just keep dragging with our mouse and letting go.  We ain't got to start all the way over. You know I'm saying that's why it's good to Make some stopping points Okay, now that we finished with the line work what we finna do is we're gonna start the coloring process So first thing you want to do let everything Compete object expand the pants copy of your line work lock the top copy You want to pick a nice color to start out a base color? Over here to your red toggle tool Enjoy that color over the picture Now you want to Right click on to the color go to arrange And send to back then after you do that You want to select everything and click merge to make it one with the color Right click back on to it isolate select the group and now We can make changes to every area that's closed off for the teeth What we gonna do a copy of our color layer a Lot the bottom copy for right now off every layer, but Copy layer selection to the white selection to all this leg everything with the teeth and come to Wait, let's see effects. Yeah Film grain. We're gonna get the sponge.  So sample the skin tone.


I might very likely have not been your civically engaged type if you were to look at my parentage, but I had certain early influences that I think helped foster that, including people like my scout masters and people like that, who actually just got me into the situation where I realized there was something I cared about, which happened to be in the first instance Ross Lake, the lake on the Skagit River that powers the Seattle Hydro Dam, and we had been canoeing up there a bunch. Then Seattle City Light was going to raise it to make more power, 110 feet, and it would flood things that I knew about, like Devils Creek Canyon and Skymo Falls and big cedars up Beaver Creek. And I was upset about that, but I had no idea that there was something I might do, but one of my high school band mates was aware of things and said, well, there's going to be a city council hearing. Why don't you go testify at it if you care so much about it? And she kind of supported the idea. And so I actually did, and found myself up in front of a big room full of adults, maybe a little high schooler, and read my statement, and that seemed like what that was at. But it got me involved and realizing that there's a whole process out there of people who are civically engaged, collective decisions are being made, Seattle City Lights of Public Utility. It wasn't what stopped the dam from being raised, but it no doubt had some kind of effect. So later on in my life, I found myself at UW. I thought I wanted to do something outdoors, so I went into the geology program there, and that was good. But while I was doing geology, I learned about this place called Huxley College up at Western. I learned about that from a climbing friend, and so I decided, well, better learn about that. It sounded interesting. And so I ended up transferring to Western, and the students were from all over the country, better than 40% of Huxley students at that time were from other parts of the country, and many of them brought a deep level of civic engagement. So we got actively involved in influencing environmental decisions and reading environmental impact statements and writing letters and all sorts of things like that. So then also one of my professors, Ruth Weiner, set up an internship for me in Washington D.C. So I went to Washington D.C. thinking maybe this would be the thing for me. Might as well check it out in the highest level. So I had a summer working with the legislative office there, and discovered that actually it was great, but it was not exactly my kind of work. It was not personal enough. After my experience in Washington D.C., I decided that maybe education was the way that I would feel more personally engaged with people and maybe have a longer lasting impact than the next election cycle and things like that. So that's some of what led me here. Another important influence on my civic engagement has been my experience of living in co-op housing with other students primarily. All those experiences of working together, both outside of class and I'd have to say in class too, as a student both undergraduate and graduate, I realized that other students were one of the best things to learn from. We would divide up the work and study it up on it together with each other the stuff we'd learn. My own understanding of our abilities to accomplish things together goes back to both this broad civic engagement but also the civic engagement that you have with a small group of people who are managing their own affairs, making decisions, having conflicts, working them out, having fun, eating together, working together and just building community. So I think I've brought those influences into my teaching in various ways. My impression is that I teach different classes fairly differently. It's quite likely my students think I'm probably pretty much the same wherever I am. But in any case, for example, I used to teach the large introductory GR class. It's a social science perspective on environmental studies and in that class I would have guest speakers come in. I would ask students to analyze persuasive messages on the side of an environmental issue that they agreed with and break down how they were being persuaded. So as much as possible try to connect what's being taught in the class to the outside world, to real people, real issues, real places. In other classes, I've approached bringing that civic engagement into the class in much more thorough going ways. I'll assign students in groups to research an issue and report back to the class on it. In the environmental education class I teach at the introductory level many of the students are from other disciplines and don't have a background in environmental issues and environmental science. So I get the students to teach each other through investigating the issues, reporting on the natural science factors as well as all the social positions of the different actors in the issue and then the different kinds of solutions that are proposed and then give their assessment of what they think should be done after they've looked at that thoroughly. So they're teaching each other about this stuff that I could just lecture them about, but they learn it much better if they have to learn it than I know they've got one that they've really studied and quite likely they've learned from each other too.


I'm happy to introduce a terrific session now called Beginning to Understand Liverpool and Manchester Railway. And our speaker is Graham Mills. Mr. Mills is a semi-retired university academic with a long-standing interest in education-related applications of OpenSim. And welcome, Graham. I'm going to turn the mic over to you. Thanks very much. I hope everybody can hear me okay. And many thanks to Avocon for organizing the conference and for make, for introducing me and bringing everything together. I talked briefly on this subject last year. It's a subject that fascinates me clearly. It's very much a personal project and one that I'm interested in pursuing, basically because I live in Liverpool. The other end of the line in Manchester, there's a kind of symbiotic relationship between these two cities. And it goes back a long way now, back to 1830, when a railway line was built between them. Liverpool, if you know, is in the northwest of England and it's a major sea port. And it basically served as the point of import for things like cotton, for example, which were transported by the railway to Manchester. It was so much more effective than the sort of use of roads, which were very poor in those days, and canals, which were much slower. Manchester was the centre of the cotton manufacture weaving in those days. And the two lived very much, as I say, in symbiosis. And along the way, there were lots of collieries that opened. So the whole thing was being fuelled. It's a fascinating time politically, socially and economically. So what I'm trying to do is to develop a sort of topographical model of the railway. I talked last time about One Station, which we'll look at in a moment, but I'm basically extending this out along the line to Manchester. And the reason for being interested in this is also because a lot of people regard the Liverpool and Manchester railway as the first modern railway. It's the first time that all the elements of modern rail travel were bought together in one place. On the other hand, its lifespan was actually quite short. It was so successful that basically the whole thing mushroomed the railway, although it still exists. But it was merged into much larger organisations. So there's a very limited visual record simply because it lasted in its original form for such a short period of time. There are some maps, a few plans. And I'm going to be speaking mainly about artwork. And I will be taking you on a notional journey from Liverpool to Manchester in 1830 or thereabouts and introducing some of the places and events that took place and some of the structures that were built along the line. In particular, I'll be talking about the Rainhill Trials. These determined that locomotives were actually the way to go. They were held really close to the actual opening. Even at that stage, they weren't quite sure how they were actually going to move goods and passengers along the line. We're going to talk about something that they actually didn't think was terribly important. The evolution of stopping places, what we now regard as intermediate stations on the line. They were very interested just in Manchester and Liverpool, everywhere else in between, not so much. I have to say some caveats to start with. I'm neither an engineer nor a historian. I might sort of make claim to being a hobby historian now. And much of what I've done is basically scratch modeling. So using basic building and scripting skills. And what I would kind of say to you is that basically if I can do this, then it should be accessible perhaps on different topics to other people as well. So there's nothing earth-shattering about what I've done. In terms of the actual extent of the build at the moment, I guess there are about ten levels. So there's a ground-terrain aspect to it. And then some nine-sky platforms, which will take you all the way to Manchester. That's by no means complete, so there's quite a long way still to go. When it comes to interpreting the artwork, it's actually quite a complex problem because the railway as such was very much in flux around this time. When it opened, it wasn't finished. It was very much experimental. They didn't quite know how things were working. There was nothing to base their decisions on. When you actually look at the limitations, some artists doubtlessly used artistic license. Some images became reversed during the copying process. We know relatively little about the true colour of what we were looking at. This is ten years before there was any even black-and-white photography. We know nothing about the elevation of many of the buildings that we can see on maps. And we know very little detail about the terrain as it was then. So all I can say is that what we have is a working hypothesis. When I show you some of what I've built, you'll occasionally see things highlighted in red. These are anomalies that are shown in some artwork but not in others. I have tried to stay to as far as possible real-world dimensions. This becomes difficult when you're talking about buildings because the normal avatar size, and we so easily forget this, is way in advance of two metres. So as a consequence with buildings, it helps to be able to build the elevation is a little bit stretched. But when it comes to the actual railway and the locomotives and carriages, these are relatively built to scale. And I actually operate with a reduced size avatar. Oh sorry, one too many. I hope you're seeing now the Liverpool Crown Street Station. This was the terminus in Liverpool. And you can see a now and then view of the area. It's now a public park. You can see in the public park at the top there a large ventilation shaft. Okay. And if you go back to 1830, the building in the middle there is the actual station. And this is what the artists all drew and painted, this view looking at the station and the tunnel beyond that was the start of the line. But there were a whole lot of other buildings that we can see on maps. And some of them we can make guesses at as to their appearance based on other records. So for example, we now know that there is an entrance building. And it's quite likely that this in fact was where the train crews who had to overnight in Liverpool before going back to Manchester were put up. If we look at the extreme right, we can see that there's a windmill. And the windmill persisted for a good few years, despite the presence of this very busy station and works alongside. And it actually supplied water. It's acted as a pump source for water for the station. You've got to remember this station was right on the outskirts of the city. It was very poor infrastructure to start with. And this kind of aspect that I think opens them is really good for integration and making you think about the various aspects. So now if we look back at the park, we can see the ventilation shaft. This actually is for another tunnel which runs under the original station. It was added so that locomotives could work the tunnel subsequently, but much later. But we can also see to the left of the station area that there is a goods area. And beyond that, there is actually a works. And that is where they built the carriages and wagons for the railway. So there's a lot there that we don't really understand and need to study in more detail. But now moving on on our journey. Oh sorry, one last thing I forgot to say in the previous slide is that just beyond the station, the only other significant institution in the area was the Botanic Gardens. This had opened in 1803. It was just adjacent to the station. And of course as soon as the station moved there, the works and so forth, there was a lot of pollution and as a consequence the Botanic Gardens had to move on. But in terms of the build, it's a very interesting contrast with the station next door. So that's been a slight detail for me. So if we go about eight miles along the track towards Manchester, we arrive at a village called Rain Hill. And this was the location for the locomotive trials in 1829. And the big question they needed to answer was were they going to use locomotives at that stage or were they going to use fixed stationery engines and basically rope haul, there would be about 31 of these one per mile, basically rope hauling groups of carriages along this railway. So history could have taken a very interesting turn at that stage, but fortunately that didn't happen. There were people who very sincerely believed in locomotives and the Rain Hill trials were a major success for them. But the Rain Hill trials are somewhat misunderstood in terms of their topography. One thing that Rain Hill is known for is this skew bridge, which is a sort of very acute angle, took a turnpike across the railway. And people locate the grandstand that the dignitary sat at. There are some 10,000 people that came to see the trials. They locate that next to the bridge. But we know in fact that the grandstand of the bridge was some quarter of a mile, 400 meters or thereabouts apart because they were used as timing locations. There were posts there where people were taking interval times. So this very common model, which you'll often see, is not likely to be correct. There is a second French illustration, which is probably also a reconstruction, but is more likely, I suspect, to reflect what is actually happening. So here again, we're now looking north and the grandstand is immediately to our left. And you can see that there is a workshop there, a tent for refreshments, as well as the track. And if we just go on to the next slide, hopefully what you can see is the skew bridge there right at the extreme right and on the left, the sheds in the grandstand, now 400 meters from the bridge. So you can see that the French illustration is likely probably a reconstruction, but it fits much better with what we know about the location of all the elements. In terms of the actual contenders, there were three engines that were involved. So the most famous one is the yellow one, which is Rocket. We have Saint-Pois, which is the green one. And the one that looks like a tea trolley is novelty. And novelty was the crowd favorite, because you look so cool just standing on novelty and going along. All the others had to try much harder. So on from Rain Hill, now we have early stations. There's a station called Collins Green, which didn't survive for very long. But what we see there is something we see on maps also in other locations. And that is that the early stations evolved from stopping places, basically where there was a level crossing. So there was a road and this needed to be a point that was manned. And in many cases, they needed to provide accommodation to the gatekeeper who was responsible for organizing, for maintaining the safe operation of the railway. And this is where people came because they came to get onto the trains and got off the trains because there was a member of staff there they could stop the train. And this allows us to make certain guesses as to the way in which stations evolved. So here we have our octagonal cottage, as it were. And we have the yellow areas here, which will appear the bay at the front may have been the sort of first place that passengers colonized. And then the heated area on the left may be extended into that region. Okay, so that's my hypothesis that the front bay evolved into the waiting room because there was nowhere basically for passengers to go. So I just want to end with one final station, one final feature, and this is the Sanky Viaduct. It's now a great one listed Viaduct. It dates all the way back to 1830, but it's still used. It was over-engineered basically. It is 60 feet high and was able to take the ships, the mercy flats as they were called, the barges carrying goods under the railway arches. So it went over the Sanky River and the canal. And I'll just end by hopefully giving you a demonstration of that. And here we can see in all its glory three of the nine arches of the Sanky Viaduct and indeed one of the barges, roughly to scale. So I'm just going to skip over a couple of slides and merely end by thanking everybody for basically providing an absolutely wonderful tool for studying historical sites such as the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Being able to build affordably on this kind of scale is fantastic. Things like blogging and Twitter are very useful, accessory tools. And I just want to end by acknowledging the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust, who do a lot to provide background information on this kind of thing. And then of course the OpenSim viewer and content developers and the service providers that make this such a great community. Okay. Apologies for probably overrunning a little bit. And thank you very much. Graham, thank you. Wow. That was a fantastic presentation and showing us literally how OpenSimulator can be used for historical recreations. There's so much we can do with that and I hope more and more people take advantage of that. So thank you very much, Graham. And I want to encourage everyone here to visit our OSCC 17 poster expo in the OSCC Expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations like this one and explore the hypergrid too. There's hypergrid tour resources in OSCC Expo 2 region along with sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all the OSCC Expo region. So make sure to stop by each one of them. Our next session is going to begin at 8.30 a.m. and it's going to be OpenSimulator Statistics. So stay tuned and we will see you here at 8.30.


In the fifth congressional district of Maryland, Steny Hoyer is the individual who currently holds that seat. He represents that district. And the bad news about Steny Hoyer is that he is next in line to be the speaker of the house once Nancy Pelosi leaves. And as much as we all don't like Nancy Pelosi on the left, Steny Hoyer is actually worse than Nancy Pelosi. He's actually more conservative than Nancy Pelosi, more hostile towards the left than Nancy Pelosi, which is almost unthinkable because when you think about neoliberal and centrist hostility towards the left, I mean, Nancy Pelosi embodies that. But everything that we've seen based on his record, based on his rhetoric, Steny Hoyer will be worse than Nancy Pelosi. So we have to do everything in our power. I cannot stress this enough. Everything to stop that man from becoming speaker. And there's only one surefire way to do just that. Kick him out, oust him, launch a primary challenge against him and kick him to the curb. Now he actually does have a primary challenger. That's the good news. Her name is Michaela Wilkes and I actually brought her on my program a couple of months ago. And this is a difficult race. Like anytime you are challenging leadership, that's a David and Goliath situation. And I know that we may feel a little bit emboldened because we were able to oust a leader, a future house speaker when AOC took down Joe Crowley. But this is a really difficult task. This is, look, we've got our work cut out for us. But the great news is that Michaela Wilkes is gaining so much steam that Steny Hoyer is officially worried. And we know that he's worried for the first time in decades because he's actually having to campaign. You see, whenever there's a primary challenger against members of Democratic Party leadership, they have so much clout in that district, so much money that they don't even acknowledge the existence and run ads of, you know, their primary challengers or anything like that because they just know that they're going to win automatically. But guess what? Steny Hoyer is forced to campaign because of Michaela Wilkes because of the amazing campaign that she is running. And her campaign manager tweeted out this, Steny Hoyer just made a $30,000 TV ad buy spanning five regions. This is unprecedented for a primary race in his 40 year tenure. Michaela Wilkes clearly has him nervous. Hoyer's got money. Michaela Wilkes has people. And as you can see, they posted the report here. He is choosing to advertise on, surprise, surprise, MSNBC between 7 p.m. to midnight. Now you may see that and think, well, it's only $30,000. And that makes sense to think that that's not very much because we just watched a billionaire, Michael Bloomberg spend a billion dollars almost of his own money, buying ads across the country, but in a congressional race, $30,000 for an incumbent, that's a lot. That's a lot of money. And it does show you that she's starting to break through. She has a real chance to actually defeat him. And I want to show you why I think it's the case that her campaign is gaining momentum. She put out an ad in April and she has this pinned to her Twitter page. And this really shows you who she is and why Steny Hoyer is so bad. And this is by far one of the best ads I've seen throughout this election cycle. So take a look at the ad and we'll discuss it when we come back. When I was about nine years old, we moved to Charles County here in Waldorf. My family played a huge part in my life. My dad was murdered while my mother was pregnant with me. And so my aunts and my mom were my support system. Growing up, my aunt, her name Sharon Carver, we were just so close. I was in math class. We had a substitute teacher. The sub turned on the TV. What she was watching were airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center. I went home and I'll never forget my mom was in the living room watching the news. When I looked at the TV, I was like, isn't that where Aunt Sharon works? I began to run away from home. I began to skip school because I didn't know how to deal with what I was dealing with. What I needed was someone to talk to and what I received was being shackled and taken away to a juvenile detention facility. This was bigger than the individual. Like it's so much bigger than the people that get in trouble. It's the system that catches them when they get in trouble. I wasn't always interested in politics because I didn't see any politicians speaking about issues that were important in my community. No one was knocking on my door. No one was calling my phone. Then in 2018, I saw people like ALC running for Congress. We can run as regular people and we can speak truth to power to these issues that are heard in our communities and we can win. Single mother of two is taking on the second most powerful Democrat in the house. Steny Hoyer takes money from corporations that profit off of the most vulnerable, marginalized people in our community. And I know this because I'm one of them. We are, of course, on this floor now considering a major comprehensive drug bill. This is someone who signed every single crime bill that has been put into place that has helped to contribute to the mass incarceration crisis. This is someone who refuses to believe that we should act on climate change now and support a Green New Deal. This is someone who works with the very corporations that profit off of our pain. What we have at stake is actually having affordable housing. What we have at stake is actually providing jobs that provide livable wages. I'm fighting for Medicare for all. I'm fighting for a Green New Deal. I'm fighting for a restorative, more holistic approach to criminal justice reform, one that is fair to everyone and not just those who can afford it. We are going up against someone powerful, someone who is backed by the machine, but we have to show them that we have the people, those who have been affected by legislation, those who are closest to the pain. That is who runs this movement. It's us, it's me, it's you, it's regular people, not the corporations and not the politicians who profit from it. I'm asking each of you to join this movement with me. A vote for me is a vote for us. Wow. Listen, watching that ad, something just kind of clicked with me. If enough people in that district, if every single person in that district saw this ad and knew who Makayla Wilkes was, she'd win handily. In fact, I'd argue that if every single person who was going to vote saw that ad before casting their vote, she would win in a landslide because the difference between her and Steny Hoyer is like night and day. He hasn't just been not representing the people of Maryland's fifth congressional district, he's been doing damage to their community, damage to communities of color, supporting mass incarceration and whatnot. So that ad is so good that if people saw it, she could win. And here's the thing about these races. Even though oftentimes primary challenges are not successful, statistically speaking, it just takes more time. It takes more name recognition. And in every single one of these races, I truly believe to my core that all it takes to win is we educate enough people. Enough people have to know about the choice that they have. And I think nine times out of 10, they're gonna go for that progressive option. They're gonna go for the person who's actually hungry to represent them. I truly believe that. And we really do have our work cut out for us. I don't want you to make it seem as if this is going to be an easy race. And because he's purchasing $30,000 worth of ads, you know what's over.  So they basically have to rely almost exclusively on phone banking, which isn't everything. I mean, making those personal connections with future constituents, that matters. So, you know, this isn't over.  But what I want you to take away from this is that there's a real opportunity. These primary challenges, they're not, you know, lost causes. They're not always going to be a foregone conclusion. Most of the time when we mount these challenges against incumbent Democrats, you know, our side isn't successful. But, you know, as AOC said in the documentary, Knocking Down the House, it takes a hundred of them to win or to run in order for one of them to win. And with the way that some of these primary races are going, where you have people like Steny Horror and Nancy Pelosi with Shea Hidbutar challenging her, actually being forced to campaign, that is a phenomenal, phenomenal sign. So, Michaela Wilkes can win this race. And I know it seems like that's an impossible thought currently because the left just lost the biggest race of our lifetimes with the Democratic Party primary and Bernie Sanders, but it's not over. And there's still a lot of wins that we can rack up in 2020. We've got a long way to go and her primary's coming up. So I'm gonna link you to the interview that I did with Michaela Wilkes. And I wanna encourage you to donate to her campaign. I know that everyone is hurting right now. I know that, you know, we're losing our jobs and our livelihoods because of COVID-19. But if you have anything to spare, a dollar, that can make a difference because she's got Steny Horror on the ropes. We just need to give her enough momentum to land that knockout punch. It's gonna be hard, but it is possible. It is within the realm of possibility. Don't tell yourself it's not possible. Michaela Wilkes has been campaigning now for over a year and she has a phenomenal strategy. She's running a good campaign. She has a solid team and she could do this. Don't just believe it, fight for it, but acknowledge it's possible.


We'll do it now. So let's get to know the band members from the exit band, you know, to a juwek, know them individually and what they are about. We start from here. Kindly JPG Entron. Okay, kumajina na jita Kelvin Atman, jina Angu Kamil, jina Usanini Jojova. Ya ni, umeni pakema jina. And it was so simple. Kelvin. Okay, Kelvin. Okay, Kelvin. Alright, thank you so much for coming through. Man with a guitar. Kumajina na jitwa Javan, Wanda. No, Evoto. Evoto. As simple as that. Kumajina na Mr. M.K. M.K. nas mamia Maxi King. Maxi King. Alright, okay. So turu ditu kuako. Tell us a bit about exit band. Jina li toka api mo namka jita zi exit band. Okay, exit band. Mna toka api. Mna exit ni. Tu na toka madare to the world. The flesh music. The flesh genres. Yes. And all that. Like you are diverse. Tofanya mziki taipiote. Exit. Atu bagui. Yeah. Boratu kuna vo calling mahali. Yao sisi. Yeah. Alright. Javan. Javan. Mi ya kem. I'm done. I'll just stick to Kelvin. And then Javan, okay? So forgive me for today. Javan. Man with a guitar. Tell us a bit about, you know, nini kama exit band mu li patanawa api. How did exit band come to be? Ahio suwali. Nambu ga jibu. Buonae. Ya na jiyu wa ndoivu. Ah, mazi Kelvin. Mi ya mli patanawa api. Iba handi. Tama patanawa. Achan seme situ mu jibu. Tama getu kwa agro jiyu. Pakasahivu na buto naivu. Okay. Uiu. Tami tu alitipata kwa roi. Alitipata kiyendele. Okay. Maana na kumana. Adi ni. Okay. Sisi, mi na mke. Okay. My soul you spirit guitar He right. Yeah. Yeah. We've been working together, Were living together, got a job offered and she worked with us. In 200 years, even with Sisi. she worked with us. More demand. More demand. More demand. Anee, And we worked with the place that she sponsored me with. I� lost her exhibition at first. I doubts on the downs and results. But it's our focus. Yeah. Main sumptuous, kwa? almost 9, 10 11 kwa wengi ok, safari of tisha ok ok, jarvan kwa kwa kwa? kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa? kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa? ok, before we even get to that let us just listen to one of the latest songs we will get back to it was formed by Exit V Exit Band so we got to know the jarvans kwa wengili ali hepa bati utatu jibiya wali sema weha wu kwa join ulewa join in between so ni nili kufanya kwa decide ok nimi pata na wa atu and by being with them wacha tu nila wajoi? afuotia kwa biasiri moja sisuot na toke area moja na wu niya pukand kwa wipi na kwa ganduwa kwa baki reere flani bapitapina na gita iwi sanika mo nga na kwa mambia abrosu fani ki toa kanembia jo ni kuju kuju wakina wu fani tizi na wewa sasani member official member of the band I like when we have groups around dynamic is just so interesting this one is like this we will get there so to not come to fani a ka pelaki dogo the beautiful voices to not talk with this gear so yeah take it away mapezi gyanara okimpata na ekufa kwangumi na nishanga ni merivika na ni meka kupata munginesi wezi oh misi wezi sifa nampagamu yesi asasani shuna valisha ya ni mapezi asafisha narizika burudika kwangumi mapezi na nishanga nastaki mungine foyu mama and forever and ever foyu mama and forever and ever foyu mama foyu mama foyu mama we would have given a standing over but we already standing good job guys that was nice that was amazing na kwanguna vocals atileo tufuraia that doing the thing so yeah that's dope I hope you've enjoyed it back at home like we have just getting the raw voices amazing talent right here so let's get back to the interview this one I think I'll ask opposites Kevin what do you think the strength Mr. MK strength ya kenika kukuku mpya kwa bandin kwa bandin kenya nafanya anaseidi bank kierere na na kierere kwa kisha maliyak kierere kwa kuna otwa tende kuna otwa na tende asin na piseidi kwa kierere kwa piseidi na tende nga na warbe I hold the mic closer. I hold the mic closer. ye ben pa tihil tenya jova Venga yaao munga y Tankia Tingi chakuna kanda Fuhalako Ako fiti kung multitask Yes na meshke Simple Gita na bado na imba So, uki na kwa eliminated instrument Now you can taste the same arromba atat Trying to have the same nutrition Ya hwiyo? ya na kuja nga na indiaz sanasa yeh umutuliaivi mi na tiza gita freishu na skyasha hindi na mamba kwa ke Mr. Miliata tu pali doivo sas yaa so nintia ke kwa po kwa kwa niliata doivo alright, so Mr. Mki nini ni muna fanyu milisa mabilianza kama 9 members 9 members sa mko 3 members what do you do to make sure that group emestik munainda goals zen umu na ziachiv mi siyendem kacha no kumberla all about hezima mi hezimum muna fanyu na fanyu na kazi wajusi po hezimum muna fanyu na fanyu na kazi akuna malimtaenda mi hezima lafuma mi niyania trust inukti ya maana trust ya trust lafuma ya kwanza na kamungu mberla ya bila goda tumge kuwa pasari ya kaka goda mberla trust na discipline iutu alright so still do you you are new artist kwa black market records tell us a bit about that bila ilikam kuwa and how that deal is working out for you guys it happened that yo siku tuli ito na Steve Murua shoutout kwa ke manze ina bifatu kwa pasari so kwenda honbil tuli ito honbil iliku watu kwa small gig in South Africa presenter in South Africa kwa maikam so after kuka oko tuli tiambe akutoka madari actually baka buruburu honbil kufika eni nwasani lakini me kuja 2 vile muna kuangahom honbil honbu sisi kitu na sisi sisi so tuka have kupafom tuka request to perform so kutoka upon do see your black market say drick sing leto na li kuwa hapo do aka bungeshona taitas do kupugeshugli hi kaitas so after bungeshona kaitas tukam kuwa Monday studio tuone katu neza akma moja dutukenu tukapugeshugli tukafanya makaratasi rafundutu kuwa pasas nice that is dope ok Kevin you have a new track right now ma penziraha tell us a bit about that and concept ya gelkwanini and then we can get to hear it in a short while ma penziraha yengoma mutu forisha san maza official video na drug 24 base Monday inakami ok yoma penziraha yunia idea janaitun dog Allah yunifan mamari ya anapenda ngangoma kaisu so ningoma tu ali kuja nai usi lafuna pata plukwani le precious to you keshoknaita jika studio tu nangoma ya aga kuja tu nai o chorus sika sanai chorus nita kandika kasonga nai ya javan bingwani wendu uli kamapnai idea watwana risiva jey yungoma out there I know the video is not out there but we have the audio we have a live performance reception ikwa jen jey yungoma kwanze inapenda kwanza area zetu jey yungoma inapenda jey yunga mesejika papiasu jyoni atari ma penziraha ma penziraha doku doku yu ganda apu kijana yutu apu doku yu vasawasa napenda gey yungoma jey na patikuna yu ganda kufilani kuswai lufilani konejiri apu mesejika unutukai sana sanapenda kukamaizo suna patikuna napenda jiyo iko mixed nabusa everywhere so what's next after ma penziraha after the video has dropped ok after ma penziraha saisezu wambia akina wambia mambu yana kumia mub mub mub tungoje tungoje tungoje amazing things alright Mr. M.K. what's your opinion on social media kila mahali the exit band everywhere all digital platforms all social media handles the exit band alright tutkimalizia you just need to send out your shoutouts kama mkwata konazo twanze tupa kwa Mr. M.K. achetwanze kwa baba hii ok manze mengependa ino reka naendo spokesman koji mengependa ko bigap manze ya libis family na wa pendasana mam dad wote yung kwa po home na ni watched na wa pendasana mishiana kei ii na ku pendasana uro ma spokesmanze ma li muko sa ii na jyom kona game kutafu ma li muko na wa pendasana tarikawa ma li umi tarikawa na wa pendasana na wa mabistezangu wote sezuwa tajani wote mkwe ini manze na watch manze mkwa po kuni support na jyom na ni pijema simu ta na wa pendasana mam na wa pendasana na wa pendasana jaman shoutout amin kuwanza nengependa kushikuru manze japa ali kaitas manze wote sku masana na mubigap na laf na wa kushishu na familiya kuwetu wote na wa pendasana alright miss time kei kumiba kubigap mawe kiyohoma na watch mazae se ya kawera na wangana nga nga nga na na piga supli tresi na kubigap manze lafi mama osini wengi haiku waza mc lekul DJ Motik Bana DJ Lil T bigap manze alafu ayo shon our very own best producer ayo shon alafu kimalizia black market records bigap manze so thank you so much for coming through I would have a love Diani we talk more because there seems to be you know I like the group dynamic there seems to be something interesting going on but unfortunately our time is up but I have enjoyed each minute of this interview and we also need another performance we need to feel like rohozetu zina papasua na tu performi aning no problem na performi ya nai torem boy na banguma tarifla ni apu vo na performi yos asa us chanambu wuki jana apenu mawa was chana so atahiku skia us chananga kimi alakini twin bie ni tafalani us chanaki sumu nga mawa una feng nga bitu ga jagaben sol alright take it we think it's a bad guy akesha kitandan sanita se moa amusori sate bina dama kuna bide yatru na fi sajitoku bagen bata se moa adenani ni minyonge aka mabera na utilianda wa bonge urembo wa kume ni yazaan ronde ena kufi hantina urembo urembo moa nana niwa maio liwa yo eni uto ta wa de urembo urembo moa nana urembo urembo nga ma kuya na omano urembo wa kume ni yazaan dino asi to chika kukupena angino awana no yo ahoh na tamani kukuku jwa even mo kume bawa kume ni yazaan utoto ay moja maiko ko yo maio liwa urembo urembo moa nana urembo urembo moa nana urembo urembo moa nana urembo urembo moa nana


Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It is a prerequisite for having plants, animals, rocks, rivers and humans and forms an important part of the biosphere. It influences the distribution of plant species and provides a habitat for a wide range of organisms. Soil is in danger in many parts of the world due to urbanisation, deforestation, poor agricultural practices, overgrazing and municipal waste, leaving it degraded and unproductive. Soil quality is very important as good quality soil provides nutrients in adequate amounts and improper balance for the growth of crops and plants. Loss of organic matter is one of the main causes of soil degradation and decreased water retention capacity. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides impact soil composition, humus content and pollute the groundwater. In addition, long-term usage of pesticides affects human health and the environment. Organic fertilizer offers a very good solution to enrich the organic content of degraded soil. It provides greater stability than mineral fertilisers as it feeds the humus and improves soil productivity. Furthermore, it does not wash out easily as it offers greater resilience to extreme climatic events. Kitchen scraps, garden waste or animal manure are some of the sources of organic matter. Compared to chemical fertilisers, fertilisers with high organic content take much longer to break down. The lengthening of this process helps the nutrients last longer and be delivered at an optimum rate, ensuring that plants are constantly nourished. The production of organic compost mainly depends on the good quality of organic waste derived from households and commercial farms. People often dispose of waste without proper segregation at the source, making it less viable for recycling or producing good quality compost. Therefore, the first step is to separate waste at the source as it enables the recovery of bio-waste from kitchens and gardens. As the organic matter decomposes over time, its storage should be as short as possible. For efficient utilization of bio-waste, it is necessary to consider that bio-waste can contain numerous plant pests that require sanitization. In this process, the waste is heated up to 70 degrees Celsius for a few hours. There are various methods to treat bio-waste, and some of them are composting and biogas plants. Composting is the biological decomposition of separately collected bio-waste by micro-organisms in the presence of oxygen and under controlled conditions. Through this process, compost is produced, which can be used as a soil conditioner in agriculture. As the metabolic rate of the microbes accelerates, the temperature within the system increases. Composting can be centralized or decentralized. Centralized composting can be undertaken in open heaps that are turned and mixed mechanically in windrows. Composting can also be undertaken at a much smaller, decentralized scale and has been a traditional practice among home gardeners. Another treatment method is in the biogas plant, where organic waste is fed into a sealed tank called a digester, where it is heated and mixed. In the absence of oxygen, anaerobic bacteria consume the organic matter to multiply and produce biogas. Waste coming out of the digester can be separated into solid and liquid. The solid part can be composted and the liquid part can serve as fertilizer. Waste should no longer be considered as waste. Resources can be recovered by efficient management practices involving waste prevention, improved separation, recycling and material recovery, forming a closed-loop system and thereby supporting sustainable living.


Hello everyone welcome back another chat GPT tutorial this one going to show you how to use the new image or visual functionality in particular how to upload an image to chat GPT before I show you keep in mind that this is being rolled out to people or to users over time here so you may or may not have access to this at this moment but it should be there pretty quick okay that out of the way let's go so you'll see here I'm in chat GPT for and right now I'm in browse with Bing so I'm basically making it internet capable in order to upload images and do the visual stuff you actually want to switch back to default when you do this at the bottom you're going to see this little I guess attach images this tiny little icon has appeared this also works on the mobile version as well but there you go you'll see this little attach images this is all you need to do now click on that button and when you do that you'll get some options I'm going to go ahead and select this one here this is an image of my bulldog named Kingston and I'm going to be like hey does my dog need braces so you'll see here that I'm just typing in underneath the image and then once you do that you'll see here here's an image of my dog right before he went in for some uh mouth surgery and he had to get his tooth little tougher there fixed but there you go your dog's appearance suggests it's a french bulldog and they often have an underbite so there you go it's already working it's giving me a great answer and then it talks about going to a veterinarian or a veterinary dentist I don't think there's dentists for bulldogs but whatever let's have some fun I'm going to stop this one let's do another one but this one's going to have code and this one's probably a little bit more up your alley so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to click attach images again here remember making sure that you're in chat gpt4 in fact I'm going to start a new chat because it's a different topic again in default now I'm going to click on attach images and this one is right here I've got html code for a web page now I'm going to go ahead I'm going to go ahead and say hey what what is the code saying in this image oops you can type this in anyway but I'm just going to go ahead and just type something like that in and I'm going to basically I'm saying like hey what is this so the code in the image is an html document structure which is correct and here's a breakdown of what it says look at that hey this is how you can use just drop an image in even an image of code so you could take a screenshot of some fancy javascript or some fancy whatever python code dropping in and it'll give you a great little read back like this now while it's doing that I'm going to show you one more thing I'm going to go okay great write out this code for me now I'm just going to go ahead and stop generating here because you don't need to see this I'm just going to go great write out this code for me I'll hit enter watch this of course here's the code written out and there we go it's giving me the code and once it's done I can click on copy code so do you see how awesome this is I'm going to start a new chat while this one's going I'll show you one more example I'm going to click on attach images and then this time I'm going to just basically show you this white board and this white board is basically like a document flow diagram so what is this oops is this white board about whatever click enter and then look at this so here it is start yes no so it's basically just a standard diagram it's a flow chart bang here we go it's describing exactly what's going on in these images that is literally all there is to it this is an amazing new tool I'm going to test it out and show you a few more examples shortly but anyways that's all there's to it guys thanks for watching let me know if you have any questions


It is such a delight to be among you all today. I look forward to interacting with BJP Kairakartas from Alapuda, Atingal, Kollam, Mavelikhara, Vatnam Thitha when one thinks about Kerala, one thinks about the great land blessed with wonderful and warm hearted people. The beautiful landscape especially its lovely backwaters draw people from all over. This is a land of learning. This is a land of wisdom. Every part of this land is blessed with immense spirituality. This is also a center of social justice. It is from Kerala that the message of harmony and equality has spread far and wide for centuries. We remember several saints who devoted themselves so that the poor and marginalized could lead a life of dignity. Today when we are meeting we also have some sad news. It force our party to call for a bandh. I want to tell our hardworking BJP Kairakartas. They should inspire everyone across the state to avoid taking any extreme step. Whatever points we have we should express them firmly and convince the people about them. Let us go to Alapuda where we will talk to our Kairakartas. Namaste. My name is D. Ashwini Dev, district jail secretary and municipal councillor. In Kerala we are the Kairakartas facing multiple challenges from various parts of society. What is your message to the Kairakartas of Kerala? Friends, Alapuda often referred as the Venice of the East is a tourist hotspot. The region is famous for its beauty, the boat races and the backwaters. No words can do justice to the efforts of the Kairakartas of Kerala BJP. Those in power in Kerala for years have shown no respect for democracy. They have made every effort to silence the voice of the BJP Kairakartas and the voice of the people of Kerala. Despite the brutal killing of several BJP Kairakartas, the state governments have failed to perform their duty and punish the guilty. Despite such a tough times of our Kairakartas, they are doing great work. Who am I to give an advice to such wonderful devoted Kairakartas? It is the Kairakartas who inspire me and particularly the Kairakartas from Kerala. But one thing I would like to say, we should constantly seek and accept feedback. So we must listen to what the people have to say and incorporate the feedback in our organization. Being a quarter-bath party, our feedback loops are strong. Through the Narendra Modi app, your feedback reaches me directly and I look forward to it. There is a survey posted in the app and I look forward to knowing your response to gauge the pulse of your state. Often people ask me, what is the biggest asset of the BJP Kairakartas? I say it is their love for the nation and their energy. In fact, be more energetic now. Go out among the people and convey the good work of our governments are doing whether at the state or at the center. Let us now talk with friends in Atingal. Namaste Atingal. I am very happy in the governance of our country. We know the Kairakartas and the Kairakartas. Our country has reached the world and the world. We are very happy to have our Narendra Modi. I would also like to say that to fulfill the duty of our country, we have not come to listen directly to the pain of the people. We have just arrived at our Narendra Modi. That is why I would like to say a few more greetings to you. I would also like to say a few more greetings to our Mahatma ji, our Vidya Ganand ji, our Sri Ram. Jai Jai Narendra Modi ji ki. I have a question and I would like to ask in English. We are not in power in Kerala. So, how do we explain our governance model to people? Rajiv ji, sab se pehle to aap sabko Narendra Modi ki Jai nahi. Bharat Mata ki Jai bulwaiye. Sab se bulwaiye Bharat Mata ki, Bharat Mata ki, Bharat Mata ki. Today, when I am talking to you all, I am reminded of two years ago when I had got the opportunity to offer prayers at the Shivgiri Mata. I was honored to pay tributes to Sri Narayan Guru and service and receive the blessings of noble saints. In Kerala, there are two governance models currently. The Congress model and the Communist model. Both models are models of efficient corruption and inefficient governance. The BJP model of governance is a model of development. It is a model of quick development, inclusive and all-round development. Do you remember? There was a similar situation in Tripura, but people gave us a chance and now they are seeing a new model of governance. Such a day is not far in Kerala too. You are right that BJP is currently not in power in Kerala. But that does not stop our welfare agenda from improving the lives of people of Kerala. Do you know that close to 90,000 people from Kerala have received free treatment under PMJ or sometimes called ModiCare under Aishman Bharat, 90,000 in Kerala? Do you know that more than 2.25 lakh toilets have been built in Kerala in the last four years? Do you know that more than 1,000 kilometers of rural roads were built in Kerala in the last four years? Do you know that around 50 lakh Mudra loans worth rupees, 25,000 crore rupees were given to enterprises from Kerala? Do you know that close to 2 lakh families in Kerala have got a home in the last four years? All this has happened due to the efforts of the central government. In the last four and a half years, a number of connectivity projects have been started to increase the reach of fruits of development in the south. In the year 2018-19, 19 national highway projects costing around 3,500 crore were sanctioned in Kerala alone. Under the Sagar Mala program, meant for poor modernization, four projects have been sanctioned for Kerala. A few months ago, Kerala bitness, heavy rain and flooding, today I once again reiterate our solidarity with all those affected by the floods. When the floods struck in August 2018, the entire nation stood with the people of Kerala. Blessings and contributions came from all over the nation. Let us now go to Column and interact with Karkartaj, their Column. Namaste. I am Gopagumar, Madalam Secretary from Chathaneur. Sir, we have a good presence in southern states in terms of our work. And also we have a lot of goodwill among the people. We have an excellent presence in Karnataka and also we've been here earlier. Sir, question is how we expand our base in Kerala? I can sum up my answer in one line. Make people's voice heard and people will hear your voice. To explain in detail, we need to connect the aspirations of the people. For that, we need to hear people and make an effort to understand them. Atalji always used to say, jail and train. Atalji used to say that the people should act like this. One leg should be in the back of the rail. The other leg should be in jail. If you are in jail, then don't worry. One leg in the rail and one leg in the jail. Atalji used to say that a Karkartaj should always be among the people. Fight for the rights and welfare and in this process involve the stakeholders. When you are struggling for people, make them a part of the struggle too. What I am seeing in Kerala is the same. Be it any issue, BJP Karkartaj in Kerala are effectively becoming the voice of the people. They stand strongly with the people. Even if it means withstanding the brutality of political violence, our Karkartaj have withstood the worst of political violence and have given great sacrifice for doing what they believe in is right. Our friends in Mavelikara, they are also very eager to ask some questions. I am M.B. Tvabakumar, District Secretary. I have a question. India's position as one of the leading and respected voice globally is becoming stronger by the day. You have been able to chart a vibrant path for our nation in international community. Today the way India is perceived abroad is changing. Why is this happening, sir? The credit for India's resurgence on the global stage must go to India's permanent ambassadors. Who are India's permanent ambassadors? The Indian diaspora and the Indians working across various countries are the ones bringing glory to India. There are thousands of my brothers and sisters from Kerala working abroad in various countries. Workers from Kerala are known across the world for their dedication and intelligence. Software and other professionals from Kerala are known for their innovative and resourceful nature. Business persons from Kerala are known across the world for the spirit of enterprise that enables them to take risks and succeed. Their efforts will bring more glory to India. The more my brothers and sisters from Kerala succeed across the world, the higher India's name will soar on the world stage. When a nation of 130 crore people speaks, that voice is heard. Be it terror or climate justice, be it in cornering economic offenders or economic growth today, India is the forefront of setting the global narrative. We are the fastest growing economy thanks to the people who are working hard to make us so. India is founding member of the International Solar Alliance that seeks to save the planet by adopting sustainable energy. We have become a space technology hub because of our scientists. Yoga is creating waves globally and giving the gift of a fit mind and body to entire world. We are among the biggest startup ecosystem in the world with a lot of cutting edge innovations. We are becoming more and more visible in global sporting events. Thanks to our young athletes and sports persons. This is the power of 130 crore Indians. It is the people who are bringing glory, respect and pride to the nation. I am only a representative of the Indian people on every international stage. Thus, if India is emerging as a leading voice on the global stage, it is due to the people and their phenomenal achievements. My government and I are just enablers helping the people bring about this transformation.  My question is, what do you see is the change in the last four years in our country? Patanam Thitha is famous throughout the world for the Sabarimala Temple. I would love to speak on this topic and could go on for hours. Let me touch upon some of important areas. Compare newspapers from four years ago with the papers today in 2018. What did you see earlier? Inflation, scams, economic downturn, power grid collapse. Today, what do you see? Since you are from Kerala, four years ago, solar would only mean scam. But today, it means the international solar alliance where several countries have come together for a sustainable future. The Indian economy was among the fragile five before 2014. The world had turned away from India. Within four years, that perception has completely changed. There is renewed interest in what India is doing. We are now regarded as the world's fastest growing economy. FDI numbers are at an all-time high. India jumped up 65 places in 2014 to the 77th rank in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking for 2018. In 2014, only 38% rural households had a toilet. Today, 95% rural households have a toilet. In 2014, only 55% habitations were connected with the road. Today, 91% habitations are connected with road. In 2014, only 55% households had a gas connection. Today, 90% households have a gas connection. In 2014, only 50% households had a bank account. Today, almost all households have a bank account. In 2014, only 70% rural households had electricity. Today, 95% rural households have electricity. Earlier, the buzzword was VIP, everywhere, VIP, VIP, VIP. Now, the buzzword is EPI. And when I say EPI means every person is important. So, well, I have given you a glimpse of what has changed. I also assure you we are working even harder to bring about more people-friendly changes and make the dream of New India a reality. It was wonderful talking to Kairakartaj from Kerala. Let us continue working hard and keep in touch. Namaskar. Thank you very much.


Super mind-blowing how much diversity there is in living critters on the planet. This is just a little animal gig. This is in the fish category. What is that thing? It's like a dragon, a sea dragon related to seahorses. This is a frogfish that actually is on its way to using fins as feet. Like, look at that thing. Fish, have you ever been snorkeling? Like, getting to go and look at all these, like, amazing fish, super fun. Doesn't that look like sort of a limb? Like, yeah, you could actually maybe walk on that thing. It's starting to look tougher and tougher. And eventually some of those critters came out onto land and had the anatomy to support it. I mean, at that point, like, think about that. So you were a fish. You were in the water. You see, like, there's life out there. There's stuff on land.  So it's like a free-for-all out there. So the critter that had the mutation, the magnetic mutation, that modified those chunky bones in the arms and made it so that they could drag themselves out, that critter had an advantage. And that advantage probably was reproductive. I'm still alive to make babies. My babies are going to be able to eat whatever that is. They're going to be able to stay alive and pass on their genes. And you can see how these changes can happen over time. Salamanders, oh, that's a cute one. That's a very cute one. Frogs, like, look at this diversity. To the critter, the frog or amphibian-like critter that said, hey, you know, I'm stuck by the water. Lay an egg that didn't need to be in water, I wouldn't have to stay by the water. I could go and populate other places that don't have vertebrates in them yet. And so this reptile scene totally started out water-ish, but then man started getting into desert land because you've got the amniotic egg and that can let you live in different places. The birds, which are reptiles, are the reptiles of phenomenal group of organisms. They're dinosaurs. Look at this diversity. They're so beautiful. Oh, my gosh. And then we get into mammal land, where I'm just going to keep that amniotic egg up inside me and I can go anywhere.  My friendly platypus.  And so they lap up the milk from her little belly bowl. Aw, super cute. I want a baby platypus. Really, it's a mammal. And it's a mammal that went into the water and was like, hey, there's no mammals in here. I can dominate this scene. And they do. Mammals, like, look at these incredible diverse. Don't you just want to go out and, like, find all these things and, like, pet them? Aw. Then yawn with them and cuddle that one. I don't want to cuddle that one. No, thank you. I don't really want to cuddle that one either. He looks kind of a little cranky right there. I feel like that sometimes. They give each other kisses. That's nice. And you eat some eucalyptus and some bamboo, too, and whatever that is. Like, I want to eat that and cuddle that. Aw. And they cuddle each other. That's super sweet. And they're mine. I put this picture in there because, dude, that's when my kids were really cute. That one is almost as tall as me, and I want to, like, punch him in the nose. Like, stop that. No more growing for you, young man. Young man? You'll be a teenager this year. That's crazy. All right. Good work. Don't be overwhelmed. You can totally tackle that cladogram bit by bit. Think about evolution. Think about biodiversity, and you can rock this thing. All right. Holla back, dogs.