Good evening aspirants. Welcome to the Hindu News and Legislation by Shankara's Academy for the date 6th of February 2022. These are the list of articles we will be discussing today. Now let us start today's discussion. Look at this news article. This news article reports about the booming winter sports industry in China. This is mainly due to the fact that China is hosting the Winter Olympics this year. For this, it prepared for last five years, which led to the winter sports getting popular and businesses started developing sports-related destination. This includes building up ski slopes, skating rinks, ski resorts, etc. The Winter Olympics gave a boom to the winter sports industry. In this regard, let us see few facts about Winter Olympics and some issues related to it. But why have we chosen this topic today? See, previously UPSC aspirants would leave the sports column while updating their current affairs. But remember, time and again there has been sports related question in UPSC problems as well as mains. For example, in 2013, we had a mains question based on cricket. And last year in 2021, we had a question about summer Olympics. This is why this topic is important for us. Now let us begin the discussion. See, Olympic Games is inspired by the ancient Olympic Games that was held in Olympia city of Greece. It is said to have entered in 393 Common Era. But then in 1894, it was revived by a Frenchman called Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The aim was to help rebuild a peaceful and better world by educating young people through sport. Although the first Olympic Games of the modern era was held, it was held in 1896 in Athens. Also, know that the International Olympic Committee is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the leader of the Olympic movement. Basically, the Olympic Games is a quadrennial international multi-sports event. That is, Olympic Games are held once in four years. They are held in both summer and winter. Initially, from 1924 to 1992, the summer and winter Olympics were each held in the same year. That is, every four years. This four-year period is called a Olympiad. But after this, summer and winter Olympics are still held every four years. But they are held in different years of an Olympiad. The summer Games are celebrated during the first year of an Olympiad and the winter Games are held in the third year. Also, note that each edition of the game is hosted by a different host. In this regard, Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in 2020. Coming to the Winter Olympics, it was first held in 1924 in a place called Chamonix in France. But a separate Winter Games cycle started in 1925 through the International Olympic Committee session in Prague. There are 15 Winter Games, namely alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, lug, Nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding and speed skating. Viewers can see the GIF files to understand how each sport is played. Here, note that the 2022 Winter Olympics is held by China in Beijing, so it is called Beijing 2022 Games. It already started on 4th February. Actually, this makes Beijing the first city to host both Summer and Winter Olympics because already it hosted Summer Olympics in 2008. The official motto for Beijing 2022 Games is, together for a shared future. Additionally, every Olympics has a mascot. For Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, the mascot is a giant panda named Bing Dwen Dwen. Bing here means ice and it also symbolizes purity and strength and Dwen Dwen represents children. Look at this cute image of Bing Dwen Dwen here. See, these are the basics about Olympics and Winter Olympics. Now, let us see an issue associated with the Beijing 2022 Games. See, there are environmental concerns associated with Winter Olympics. Among those, one of the prominent one is the use of artificial snow or man-made snow. See, artificial snow is needed when no real or naturally fallen snow can be found or whatever snow is found is not enough for the Games to be conducted. If we take Beijing itself, it has extremely dry winters. So, there is only an average of 0.4 inches of precipitation during the months of December, January and February combined. So, this means there is not enough moisture for consistent snowfall here. Therefore, to balance the needed snow, artificial snow is made. They are made using snow guns. We will see the process involved in making snow some other day. Today, let us just see the environmental concerns associated with snow guns. First of all, artificial snow is incredibly resource intensive. That is, it requires massive amounts of energy and water to produce snow. For example, International Olympic Committee estimated that 49 million gallons of water will be needed to produce snow for the Beijing 2022 Games. This is too much in a world where fresh water is running out. Because this amount of water will fulfill one day's need of drinking water for nearly 100 million people. Now, for this amount of water in the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government flooded a dry riverbed by diverting water from a key reservoir. They also resettled hundreds of farmers and their families for this diversion. So, for the game, they have ecologically changed the river, affecting the biodiversity and also affecting people's livelihood. Now, just for making artificial snow, this much damage is being done. Worryingly, artificial snow itself damages the environment because it destroys native vegetation and can cause erosion and landslakes. Plus, the snow guns make a lot of noise. So, it leads to noise pollution, which disturbs the nearby wildlife. Apart from all these, there is safety concern for athletes also because this artificial snow is much denser and not very soft like our natural, light, fluffy snow. So, this makes the game trickier and less safe. This is all about the news article here. See, in this discussion, we saw about the origins of Olympic Games, how summer and winter Olympic Games are conducted. Then, we saw some important points about 2022 Beijing Games and some issues associated with the Games. With this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Look at this article. This article here talks about the India-China bilateral relations. See, it mainly concentrates on the trade relations between the two countries. So, in this context, let us discuss in detail about India-China bilateral relations. The syllabus regarding this discussion is highlighted here. You can go through it. See, the written records of contacts between India and China dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The commercial contacts between India and China at the people's level improved with the advent of Buddhism into China from India in the 1st century CE. This happened under imperial patronage. Further, the decline of Buddhism in India and the spread of colonialism in both countries resulted in diminished cultural exchanges. However, when people of both the countries started searching for new answers to new questions, world friendships were revived. Note that on April 1st, 1950, India became the first non-socialist bloc to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Until the India-China border conflict in 1962 was a serious setback to the ties between the two countries, the visit by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi became a landmark visit in 1988, because it began a phase of improvement in bilateral relations. And in 1993, an agreement was signed. This was about the maintenance of peace and tranquility along the line of actual control. That is the LAC. This LAC is on the India-China border area. So, this agreement further improved the bilateral ties. Now, let us see the areas of conflict between India and China. See, LAC is the demarcation that separates India-controlled territory from the Chinese-controlled territory. Note that the length of Sino-Indian border is 3488 km. The border transfers the Union territory of Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. The LAC, in its wider sense, is the effective border between India and China. It covers the western sector which includes Union territory of Ladakh, the middle sector which includes Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand. It also covers the MacMohan line in the east which covers Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. See, India claims that China occupies more than 38,000 km2 in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in the Ladakh region. This region is known as Akshaichin. You can see this disputed area in this image. In the northeast, India recognized the MacMohan line and it considers it to be the actual line of control between India and China. But China does not recognize the MacMohan line. You can see the MacMower line in this image. Having seen the areas of conflict with the brief history of India-China relations, now let us see what is driving India's imports from China in spite of continued tensions with China along the LAC. Before that, just look at this bar graph which shows India-China trade relations. See, from the year 2001 to 2016, there has been a trade deficit. In simple words, it is nothing but India is importing more from China than it is exporting to China. Take a look at this graph here again. The blue bar represents exports from India and the orange colored bar represents imports to India from China. See, always the orange bars are higher than the blue ones. Now look at this table and the graph to know the recent trends between India and China trade relations. See, from the trade figure shown in this table and graph, we can understand that imports had fallen in 2020 because of the pandemic. But the fall did not last long. Look at this graph which shows how India's key imports from China has rebounded from financial year 2019-20. Yes, the Indian imports from China surged in 2021. Note that the trade deficit rose up by 22% since 2019. Thus, we can understand that besides border tensions, the trade is rising. But note here that areas such as investment remain in a deep freeze. Now, let us see what is driving India's imports from China. See, from these tables, we can understand that India's biggest imports being electrical and mechanical machinery and a range of chemicals which are used as intermediate goods used by industries to produce finished products. In addition to these Indian imports, active pharmaceutical ingredients, auto components are also intermediate goods. The top item also includes finished goods such as integrated circuits, laptops, computers and oxygen concentrators. What can we infer from these data? See, India's dependence on China for finished goods is a cause of concern. But the rise in intermediate imports is less of a concern. Why? Because it is a sign of industrial recovery and a great demand for imports. Now look at India's exports to China. It has also grown. But these are mostly raw materials such as ores as well as cotton and seafood and non-finished products. So what are the implications for India and China relations? Though trade continues to boom, other aspects of economic relations have dramatically changed in the past two years. There were tensions along the border that is the LAC crisis which started on April 2020. For this, the message from the New Delhi was that it cannot be business as usual when there is such border tensions. Also note that investments from China has plunged. For example, investments from tech giants such as Alibaba and Tencent has come to an abrupt halt. More than 200 apps remain banned and Chinese firms are kept out of 5G trail phase. So Chinese investments in tech and telecom space which was once rapidly increasing came to an abrupt halt. Note that India has also tightened scrutiny on Chinese firms in India. For example, tax investigations were conducted in companies like smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi. So due to border tensions and economic tension is also raising between India and China. Hence, India must take the following steps. Firstly, government of India needs to implement a hybrid approach for strategic planning, which includes both the component of bottom-up and top-down approach. Secondly, India should play a more proactive role in economic agreements like ASEAN, MESACAR and NAFTA. Thirdly, Indian exports should complement Chinese imports. These are all some suggestions which India can take to reduce the economic tensions and the economic dependence of Indian economy and Chinese economy. This is all about the news article. So here we discussed about the history of India-China relations. Then we saw about the border tension prevailing between the two. Finally, we discussed in detail about the exports and imports between them. And we saw how India is dependent on China for imports. And finally, we saw some suggestions to reduce the dependency. See, this can be used to enrich your main sensor. So with this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Look at this article. It talks about a team of scientists who are conducting a research using microorganisms native to Antarctica to clean pollutions from fuels and plastics in the white continent. According to the article, the tiny microbes degrade the waste, which create naturally occurring cleaning system. It cleans the pollution caused by diesel that is used as a source of energy and heat for the research basis in Antarctica. The research says that the pollutants can be food for the microorganisms. The research scientists are now trying to find out whether the microorganisms are degrading plastics too. If the organisms are degrading plastics in the long run, it would put together a biotechnological process for low-temperature polymer degradation. So this is the crux of the article given here. In this context, let us learn about bioremediation. First of all, what is bioremediation? Bioremediation is a branch of biotechnology that employs the use of living organisms such as microbes and bacteria in the removal of contaminants, pollutants and toxins from soil, water and other environments. Bioremediation may be used to clean up contaminated groundwater or environmental problems such as oil spills. Now let us see how the technique works. See, bioremediation relies on stimulating the growth of certain microbes that utilizes contaminants like oils, solvents and pesticides for sources of food and energy. These microbes convert contaminants into small amount of water as well as harmless gases like carbon dioxide. And it also requires a combination of right temperature, nutrients and foods. The absence of these elements may extend the time of cleanup of the contaminants using bioremediation. Now let us see how bioremediation can be done. See, bioremediation can be done in two ways. They are inside to which is at the site of contamination itself and inside to which is a location away from the site. Excite to bioremediation may be necessary if the climate is too cold to sustain micro-bactivity or if the soil is too dense for nutrients to distribute evenly. Excite to bioremediation may require excavating and cleaning the soil above ground which may add significant cost to the process. Now let us move on to see the duration taken for the bioremediation process to complete. See, the bioremediation process may take anywhere from several months to several years to complete and it depends upon variables such as size of the contaminated area, the concentration of the contaminants, temperature, soil density and whether bioremediation will occur in inside to or excite to more. This is all about bioremediation. Okay, now before concluding this discussion let us see an example of an indigenously developed mechanism. The product that I am talking about here is the Oil Zapper. See, Oil Zapper is developed by Terry and partly by Department of Biotechnology which is under Ministry of Science and Technology. Oil Zapper is a consortium of crude oil and oil sludge degrading bacteria derived from various naturally occurring and non-pathogenic bacterial cultures. These biological organisms eat up the contaminants which are mostly organic compounds and convert them into carbon dioxide and water. It cleans up the surrounding area without harmful residues or side effects. Oil Zapper's uniqueness lies in the bio-friendly manner in which it detoxifies oil sludges and cleanups oil leaks. Oil Zapper is neatly packed into sterile polythene bags and sealed for safe transport. The shelf life of the product is 3 months at ambient temperature. This is all regarding Oil Zapper. See, in this discussion we saw about bioremediation, different types of bioremediation and an Indian innovation in this field that is the Oil Zapper. With this let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. See this article here. It is about the analysis of the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica. According to the article, a research team has found an evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred 9,200 years ago. The team said that the storm took place during the quiet phases of the sun. It is unique because it is believed that during the quiet phases of the sun, Earth is less exposed to such events. It is also believed that solar storms are more likely during the current sunspot cycle. The researchers searched for radioactive isotopes beryllium-10 and chlorine-36. According to the article, the cosmogenic radionuclides such as carbon-14, beryllium-10 and chlorine-16 are produced within the Earth's atmosphere as a result of interaction of galactic cosmic rays. This is the crux of the article given here. In this backdrop, let us learn about solar storms and the layers of the sun. First, what are solar storms? Solar storms are a variety of eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface. A solar storm is a term used for atmospheric effects built on Earth from certain events that occur on the sun. Solar storms occur when the sun emits a huge burst of energy in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. These phenomena send a stream of electrical charges and magnetic fields towards the Earth at the speed of 3 million miles per hour. When a solar storm strikes the Earth, it often produces a dazzling northern lights. See, sometimes solar storms can also disrupt satellites and various forms of electronic communications. Solar storms start with a huge explosion on the sun. These explosions also called solar flares can be as powerful as billions of nuclear bombs. Solar flares usually go hand in hand with the release of huge streams of charged plasma that travels at millions of miles per hour. These streams are called coronal mass ejections or CMEs. See, when CMEs hit the Earth, they can cause geomagnetic storms that disrupt satellite and electrical power grids. For example, in February 2011, a CME produced by a powerful solar flare disrupted radio communications throughout China. Some experts believe a major solar storm could cause over 20 times the economic damage of a worst hurricane. Now let us see some basic about the layers of the sun. See, the layers of the sun are divided into two large groups, the outer and the inner layers. The outer layer are corona, the transition region, the chromosphere and the photosphere. While the inner layers are the core, the radiative zone and the convection zone. You can see this in the image here. Of the four outer layers of the sun, the corona is the outermost one. It starts at about 1300 miles above the photosphere and its temperature is measured to be around 900000 degree Fahrenheit. Of the three inner layers of the sun, the convection zone is the outermost one. It completely surrounds the next layer that is the radiative layer after which we have the core that is the inner most layer of the sun. So with this, we have come to the end of our discussion. With these learned points in mind, let us move on to the next news article. Look at this FAQ article here. It is about the recent US intelligence report about Havana syndrome. It is said that US officials particularly diplomats in embassies are showing symptoms of Havana syndrome. So according to the intelligence report, it was doubted that it could be caused by pulsed electromagnetic energy or close range ultrasound. But the findings of the report differ from the report of the Central Intelligence Agency, that is the CIA. The CIA report says that in most of the cases, the reason for the phenomenon is underlying medical conditions. So this is the crux of the article given here. In this context, let us learn about Havana syndrome and some basics about microwave weapons. First of all, let us see about Havana syndrome. See, it is a colloquial name given to a set of symptoms such as dizziness, hearing loss, headaches, vertigo, nausea, memory loss and possible brain injuries. It first affected US intelligence officers and embassy staffers stationed in Havana, Cuba in the late 2016. In the following year, American diplomats in different parts of the world reported similar symptoms. The State Department also reported potential cases in China in 2018, which resulted in evacuating State Department employees and their families from the city of Guangzhou after cases were reported there. Diplomats and intelligence personnel in Russia, Poland, Georgia and Taiwan have also reportedly been affected. See, it was initially dismissed as a mass hysteria or a reaction caused by psychosomatic causes such as stress. In late 2016, deployed diplomats heard a loud piercing sound at night and felt intense pressure in the face. It was followed by pain, nausea and dizziness. In the years that followed, many intelligence officers and military personnel reported symptoms such as confusion, nausea and disorientation. It typically reported with the onset of a pain and pressure in the head and ears. They reported other symptoms such as difficulty concentrating, brain fog, memory problems, light sensitivity and sleep-related complaints. The long-term symptoms of Havana syndrome includes migraines, problems with distant vision, squinting, recurrent vertigo and nosebleeds. Now, let us see what causes this syndrome, that is, the Havana syndrome. Initially, experts suspected that Havana syndrome may be caused by either accidental or intentional exposure to a toxic chemical, pesticide or drugs. However, no traces of such agents were found in affected people or their homes. See, the most likely cause of Havana syndrome is assumed to be some type of mechanical device that emits ultrasonic or microwave energy. Such radiofrequency energy exposure through highly specialized bio weaponry could potentially create micro bubbles in the fluid inside a person's ear. When those bubbles travel through the blood into the brain, they can cause minute air emboli that results in cell damage. It is similar to decompression sickness of deep-sea divers. Another explanation is that symptoms may be due to direct penetration of radiofrequency waves into the skull. And this will disrupt electrical and chemical activity in the brain and rewire certain neural pathways. This rewiring may be the reason for the symptoms to be intense and long-lasting. But the silver lining here is that Havana syndrome is not fatal. And all the infected individuals are still alive. Now, let us see the law enacted by the United States regarding Havana syndrome. See, in July 6, 2021, United States Senate anonymously passed a legislation. It was done to support American public servants who have incurred brain damage from possible direct energy attack or Havana syndrome. The act was called Havana Act, that is helping American victims afflicted by neurological attacks act. The act plans to lend financial support to individuals who have suffered from Havana syndrome. Both the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department will create regulations enlisting fair and equitable criteria for paying the victims. It is said that the Havana Act is an end over by the United States government to acknowledge the hardships of afflicted United States public workers. It was done by providing financial aid and legislative changes to help cope with the condition. That's all for this article discussion. Here we saw about Havana syndrome and the causes of the syndrome. And finally, we saw about the act which was passed to address the conditions of infected United States diplomats. With these key takeaway points, let us conclude the news article analysis session and take up the practice prelims question discussion session. We have four practice prelims questions today. Let us see them one by one. Let us take up the first question now. This question is about Olympics. Here, three statements are given. We have to find the incorrect statement. Now, let us take up the first statement. Winter Olympics is held in the same year as the summer Olympics. See, this statement is incorrect because only from 1924 to 1992, the summer and winter games were held in the same year every four years. But after this, summer and winter games are each still held every four years but they are held in the different years of an Olympiad. The summer games are celebrated during the first year of an Olympiad and the winter games are in the third year. Now, moving on to the second statement. Since its beginning in 1996, women compete in all sports of the Olympic program. See, this statement is also incorrect. See, we know that the first Olympic games was held in Athens in 1896. But only in the games of Paris which was held in 1900, women started participating in Olympics. And it took over a century and a decade for women to compete in all sports on the Olympic list. This finally happened in the 2012 games in London. So, statement 2 is incorrect. Moving on to the third statement. Norway is the most successful nation in Winter Olympic history till 2020. See, this statement is correct. Norway is the most successful nation in Winter Olympic history till now. It has a total of 368 medals in gold, silver and bronze. See, this may change after the 2022 Winter Olympics. So, stay updated. Since they are asking the incorrect statements here, the correct answer here is option B, 1 and 2 only. Now, moving on to the second question. This question is regarding bioremediation. Here, two statements are given. We have to find the correct statement. Let us take up the first statement. Bioremediation uses living organism for the removal of contaminants and pollutants. See, this statement is correct because we saw in our discussion that this is the definition of the technique of bioremediation. Here, microbes convert contaminants into small amount of water as well as harmless gases like carbon dioxide. Now, moving on to the second statement. Bioremediation can be only done by inside-to method to facilitate conditions for growth of a microorganism. See, this statement is incorrect because we saw in our discussion that bioremediation can be done in two ways. That is inside-to and excite-to. Excite-to bioremediation may be necessary if the climate condition is too cold to sustain microbial activity or if the soil is too dense for nutrients to distribute evenly. So, the second statement is incorrect. Since the statement 1 is correct and the statement 2 is incorrect, the correct option here is option A, 1 only. Now, moving on to the third question. This question is about solar storm. Here also, two statements are given. We have to find the correct statements. Now, let us get through the statements. The first statement is it occurs when sun emits huge bursts of energy in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Now, moving on to the second statement. They disrupt the satellite and electric power grids and other electric communication systems. See, here both the statements are correct because we saw them in our discussion. The first statement indicates the definition of solar storms and the second statement indicates the effects of solar storms. Since here, both the statements are correct, the correct answer here is both 1 and 2. Now, taking up the last problem's question discussion for today. This question is regarding Havana syndrome. We have to find the correct statement here. Let us take up the first statement. It is an illness which affects the people of Havana Cuba. See, this statement is incorrect because Havana syndrome is a colloquial term given to a set of symptoms which affects the United States intelligence officers and embassy staffers. It got the name as Havana syndrome because of the syndrome where first felt by the US officials stated in Havana Cuba in late 2016. So, statement one is incorrect. Now, let us take up the second statement. The symptoms of Havana syndrome include dizziness, hearing loss, headaches, vertigo, nausea, memory loss and possible brain injuries. See, this statement is correct. This is also we saw in our discussion and also we saw the doubtful cause of the syndrome to be accidental or intentional exposure to toxic chemicals, pesticides or drugs and also mechanical device that emits ultrasonic or microwave energy. See, since here statement one is incorrect and statement two is correct, the correct option here is option B2 only. The main question based on today's discussion is here. 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what are you crazy curious about? If you're crazy into psychology like me, you should stick to marketing, because the way you make money from your interest in psychology and philosophy is definitely marketing. So either specializing in funnels, services related to that, that those of you like psychology are gonna have a great old time in the third wave, by the way. You're probably the winners or gonna be people who love psychology. Because the one thing these have in common is you're gonna have to market them. Now the second thing, so follow your curiosity, and then the second thing is follow your current momentum. This is one, if you combine these two, sometimes people forget that they have current momentum in something and they're just switching too far around. So for me, I don't wanna switch far away from the thing. So you're not gonna see me. I thought about going into solar, for example, recently. I got approached by one of the biggest solar companies who are like, hey, Ty, you can go, and then I realized there's never been a day that I've woken up and thought about solar. Now I'm not against solar, I think it's a great thing. I understand it intellectually, but I have no emotional curiosity.  A good rule of thumb is only do things where you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea about them. I have crazy ideas at three in the morning, I'll wake up and I'll be like, aha, I've got like a course I need to launch to teach people something. So it'll be hard to compete with me. I'll give you an example. Let's do this real quick. I'm crazy into reading people. It's gone from curiosity to like a sickness.  And now I'm kind of like, yes, I think I did. I actually am not that interested in you, but I don't wanna say that to them. So I just, you know, like I would be like, somebody gave me a choice, would you stay on Tinder but you can never actually date anybody, just one date, but you can read people, I'd be like, hell yeah.


I kind of like Miami, if we're gonna get past that, gonna get past that tier here. And again, like the acknowledgement here is that Miami's floor is to win like six games this year, Tua sucks, right? Which you have to, I'm a Tua truther. I think Tua is gonna be awesome. I like the way this offense is gonna be catered around him as opposed to last year with Fitz, love the weapons here. Flores, I think you're shown to be a good coach. A lot of talent on defense. If the offensive line is not absolutely brutal. I think Miami's upside is to win a Super Bowl championship and Tua's upside is to be MVP. Like, I think that that is within the range of outcomes. Again, they can also suck. My only Super Bowl, my only MVP bet this year at that river, so you go. 66 to one, Tua tanga by Loa. I'm on board, man.


Guys, this is a famous IG star right here. This is Daniel Sin. He is, he's super famous. Yeah. Sneaking in. All right, anyway, let's go record. Get Daniel, he doesn't care about us. He doesn't want to, he doesn't want to be in our video anyway. So let's begin. All right, another fish in that again. This is the Galaxy S24 Ultra. We're looking at a two month video using this device and a lot of things you've seen in this video will be captured off the S24 Ultra. I'll be using of course this mic most of the time, but you get to see me use it in different situations, in many places. We'll talk about photos, videos, all that stuff. Now, some of the things we love about the S24 Ultra is the gaming performance, which we tend to do a lot on this channel. And of course, Call of Duty, Walser Mobile is available and you can easily play it with a backbone controller. It's not a sponsored plug or anything like that. It's just much easier to play with this. And I gotta say, the experience is fun. It's great. I've got some wins, but in this video, you're gonna see a lot of just terrible gameplay as you would expect. S24 Ultra works well. Performance wise, I'm getting roughly between 55 to 57 frames per second, but it runs really warm. I didn't measure the temps, but just in hand, if you're holding it, it's very, very warm. That's something to take note. So see, hopefully that gets optimized as the game kind of moves on. But you know, kind of just talking about the device quickly before we get back to some of this unanimous video in this video, I do like the fact that we have that anti-reflective display out in direct sunlight is absolutely stunning. It's great to actually have that. Although Samsung talks about this being a device that doesn't scratch easily, I've had this nice little gash. It's not a scratch, but it just looks like it's scuff marks on my screen from day one. So it's been there ever since, and it's just something that I can't take off. Doesn't affect it in any way, or doesn't feel like that, but it is what it is. And the day-to-day use of device is great. Oh, by the way, I gotta talk about this quickly. This is the Galaxy Fit 3. This is probably the best fitness band that I have ever used from Samsung or anyone. It's got a 14 hour day battery. That is impressive battery life. It comes in three colors, black, white, I believe the last one. I can't remember, is it pink or something like that? But it's very simple. It's got the standard UI you would expect from a Samsung smart watch. You can go through exercises, detract your sleep. But the cool thing is that you can work out with this and it will give you a 14 day, one four day battery life, which is impressive. So that's something to take note guys that I haven't seen anywhere. And paying that with the S24 Ultra, it's great because you don't have to charge this at all. And this also battery life wise is really, really good. I'm a heavy user, so I always put it on battery saver mode and it extends it pretty well. Without battery saver, I can do from 90 a.m. to 9 p.m. easy. With that, I can go all the way to like maybe, you know, one a.m. in the morning. So again, solid battery life and I think pretty stellar. But anyway, I am going to head over to the New York Auto Show. So let's go check that out. And then New York Auto Show. But this one over here. Oh, you're not doing it with me. Look at that. That's fine. That is a point. That's my car right there. No, it's actually real dope. The GX is, oh that, oh yeah. This is GX right here. It's real hard though, like for real. That's so fun. I actually really like the big one. Yeah, the $80,000 one. Oh, the design is, I mean, it reminds me of the... Yo, this is the ID bus right here. Remember the old VW bus? This is a long wheelbase, much bigger, lots of space in this vehicle. It's coming 2024. It's also three row. You can see here. Front right here, in middle. And then of course, the back here. Not a lot of trunk space in the back, but you do have a spacious third row. Of course, charging everywhere as you expect. We'll see how that goes. And then we can close this up. Here we go. So what do you guys think? ID bus. All right, so I've been driving the BMW i7-M70. I'm heading to my brother-in-law's house because we're having a barbecue. We're checking out a pretty cool pizza oven grill. It's pretty cool stuff. You see it in a sec. But let's just talk briefly about this car. Because I've kind of gone on this EV journey for two weeks. I had the Kia EV9 the week ago. And that was a fun experience with that car, 7-seater SUV. This is a luxury vehicle. The BMW i7-M70 is priced at $168,000. You've got 0 to 16, I think, 3.2, 3.5. And this car is just plush in every way. This is a car where you should be driven, not driving. Honestly, if I see anyone driving this car, that's just not the way it should be. And right behind me, I believe is an EQS, which I think is more of a driver's car than this than anything else. But I do love the experience in this car. You've got that infotainment system in the front. Great heads-up display that's so visible. Cool thing with the heads-up display. When you're changing your music tracks, you don't see it on the displays in front of you. It actually shows up on the heads-up display. Pretty nice. I'm sure it's been there for a while in vehicles, but it's my first experience. Now, you're probably going to ask about the range. The maximum range of this car, with the efficiency mode on, is 299 miles. So it's not as high as I would like, but it's pretty accurate. But an efficiency mode, you'll cap to 60 miles per hour, which is a bit of a bummer. When you're just regular, it's about 274 or so. And then you can, of course, drive up to 160 miles per hour if you want to of this car. The amount of tech here is impressive. The different modes, the Hansema sounds while you're driving in the different driving modes is also great. The EQS just passed me there. It's the AMG version. Let's just see what the AM and AMG can do. The back seat is where it's at in this car. That's where you should be. The driver's side, basically owner's corner as you will. You can basically kick it back into this, like, relax mode. I did that while I was charging the car, because I had to wait to charge, which we'll talk about. But there's a massive display here as well, which is pretty cool. You get to just bring it down, watch a movie, fire TV stuff. You can connect it there. And it gives you a lot of space and room. So that's where this car really shines. It's being driven around in the car all there. I forgot to mention the efficiency mode. If you're using that, you can't control the temperatures in the car, so that's something to take note because it's trying to maximize the battery efficiency as much as possible.  This is so fast. EVs are so great with that acceleration. And this car does not disappoint. It's so comfortable. Look, the other thing to note is the headrest has built-in speakers right here. So which means we're getting surround sound, while I'm listening to music. And even this is an audio book. It's so great, it's very personal. This car just packed with a ton of stuff. The ambient lighting at night is super cool. It's great, but I'm heading to my brother's lowest place. I got to go eat. It's St. Patrick's Day, so let's go ahead and check out some more stuff there. Actually, let's just go and eat. What's everybody? That's just an excuse. Call it what you want. Wow. I ain't got like six more doughs, though. I was dreaming about it. Making pizza. With the chef over here. What up, what up? There he is. Look at that. Well, I'm drinking extra salt. Oh, we got tomato sauce today, huh? Yeah. Yesterday we had a special kind of pizza with olive oil. It was technically an adult calzone. Right? We'll have more of those today. Oh, yes, yeah, definitely. Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo.  Try to crack it. Yeah. You should taste it. I'm not exaggerating. Hospital from when we had ash, babe. Yeah. Forget about it, put it in there. All right, so, chef, quick question. Talk to me. How much dough did you buy? Six. Six doughs, gonna feed about eight to 10 of us. Okay, and... Each dough was $3, as opposed to about 20 for a finished pizza. And everyone's waiting for pizza over here. So, yeah. It should be good, but I had it already yesterday and it was pretty dope. So, everyone's pretending like they can't talk because the camera's on right now. Yeah. But what kind of pizza you making this time? We're gonna do a little pistachio marscapone cream. Get that in the oven. And then we're gonna have some burrata on there and mortadella when it comes out. Look at that. This is the slice right there. Is this better than takeout? Is that what we're trying to sell? Yeah, it is. Babe, come and get a slice. Okay. Babe, the dough isn't at all. Better than takeout. Better than takeout. I don't think I'll leave this one here. Oh, look at him. He he he he he he. What you got inside, son? You great, son? Mmm. This one has almost no cheese in it. Oh, you want this one, man? Yeah. Come here, come here, play with the takeout one. It's gonna give it to you so you can lick it. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit to caramelize on top of the banana. One second, bud. Okay. Okay. No, that one was all coming. I want that one. At the bottom, there's like a... It's delicious. 10 out of 10. One bite, everybody knows rules. Give me. Chef said at night. I'm looking for additional Nutella. I wish I could just... I thought it did the... No. No, I have class. You sure? There's a lot the Galaxy S24 Ultra brings to the table, and in two months I've enjoyed my experience with this device with great battery life, some really good cameras that also have improved. But as you noticed, I'm in a very different space because we moved to a brand new office. Now, I'll give you guys a tour, but not in this video, so stay tuned and always enjoy your entertainment.


Let's try, let's try this one. Again, it says hydrogen is used in inflate weather balloons because it's much less dense than air. Calculate the density in grams per liter of gaseous hydrogen at 25 degrees Celsius and 1 atm of pressure. Okay, so well I was nice enough already to calculate for you guys the Kelvin temperature, okay, so that reminds you hopefully that this has to, all your temperatures for these gas law problems have to be in Kelvin, okay. So another way to remember that is to remember the, well let's write down the density formula first, okay, so first thing we'll do is write that down. So d equals mp over rt. So remember that, okay, if you can. And remember r here, that's the ideal gas constant, okay, so that will help us or remind us what units we need the other variables to be in. So r is going to be given to you, in this case, the units are liters atm mole Kelvin, okay, so that's why we switched that degree Celsius to Kelvin because we're going to cancel that out eventually. We want only units of grams per liter. We have the pressure in the atm and well the other thing we need is the molar mass, okay, so molar mass and the problem says that it's nice enough to remind you that gaseous hydrogen is diatomic. So if we look up at the periodic table we find that the molar mass of diatomic gas is 2.016 grams per mole, okay, so that's going to get our mole canceling out of there, okay, so again if we look at this equation we should realize that canceling all of this stuff out should give us grams per mole in the end. So let's plug and chug now and just prove to ourselves that this happened. So the molar mass of hydrogen 2.016 grams per mole times the pressure, so 1 atm by r, so 0.0821 liter atm per mole. Multiply that by r Kelvin temperature 298 Kelvin, okay, so if you've done it right all of your units should cancel out so let's make sure they do, so atm and atm cancel there, moles and moles cancel there, Kelvin, Kelvin cancel there and we're left with grams early, okay, so that's wonderful because that's only one, so now let's just plug all these values into the calculator and see if we get an answer, that makes sense. 2.016, okay, so the density for a gas you would expect, especially a gas that's less than dense than air, to be very, very low, okay, so the density I got is 0.0 and how many sig figs, so 3, so 824 grams per liter, so that's the density of hydrogen gas, as you might expect very, very low, okay, so are there any questions on doing something like that? Wonderful, so I think the main thing to do in this one is to remember the density formula, okay.


Our first question is from beauty and gains coach What are the pros and cons of circuit training and when and how should it be incorporated into one's training program? All right. It's a good question circuit training is quite popular mainly because of the Intensity the calorie burn. It's short. So it can be pretty convenient. Here's a deal though. It has to be done properly Circuit training with exercises haphazardly put together Especially when they incorporate Plyometric stuff into circuit training or just stuff to make you tired.  You might as well do jumping jacks and burpees You'll get the same result. So if a circuit training program is planned and programmed well It is a great way to get a workout in a short period of time it's good for stamina endurance and Occasionally might even provide a little bit of Muscle stimulation maybe not for your advance, but if you're like beginner intermediate, you might get some strength gains The way to program it. I think you should do short cycles of it. I really do I think, you know circuit training has done best Three weeks and then go back to your standard, you know weight training I think either like that or just intermittently thrown in there when you absolutely need a short workout That the because of the the research that came out around hit like I want to say was that 2001? 2002 right right around there when it got really popular Then it turned into this like mainstream thing like everybody started training this way because of the research of how many calories And how much fat you can burn and how it kicks that up for the entire day Your body burns X amount more calories and the truth is that it's it's a terrible way to build muscle It is not the best way to build muscle straight straight strength training is far better than that Typical standard programming where you phase in and out of like cycles is a much better approach to your your your weightlifting journey But the reality is there are times when you only have 20 minutes and to me That's when it makes sense to use a tool like this is you use it Intermittently when you when you only have that and if you're somebody who's listening and you only always have 20 minutes Then okay, then that makes sense right to train this way But the rest of the population that has the option of training for 50 minutes or for a 20 minute circuit You're far better off training the the 50 minutes straight set type of strength training cycle Majority of the time and then intermittently either one running it like you sal saying for a two week four week short cycle Then you get out of it or just using it when you have to when you can only get 20 yeah a lot of those studies they they used like a stationary bike and that was like because it was controlled and You know, there's less impact and they could really ramp up the intensity. So with hit. It's really about ramping up your intensity And it is cardiovascular on some level. So, you know in terms of me personally I prefer to do a hit-style workout if I'm gonna do cardio so I could throw in a lot of different movements if I want to maintain a lot of athleticism and be able to You know move through all the different planes, but you know, maybe add some load But yeah, it's it's intense So it needs to be done in short spurts and you need to be able to perform it With good form throughout otherwise, you know, you're gonna start having diminishing returns and Especially if you're teaching your body poor technique. What a great point there If your form is this that's the biggest problem with circuit training is form The form goes out the window because it's a it's a fatigue-based workout This was one of my biggest gripes with CrossFit back in the day is that they've turned everything into a circuit and when you do that your technique Inevitably it's gonna go south. It just does like anytime. You're super fatigued Even if you're doing an exercise you're very very proficient at your fit Your technique goes out the window and then you start to train bad movement patterns in your body Yeah, injury rate goes through the roof and you lose the value of the exercise and then it doesn't become important And this is my biggest gripe because it's it's there's a definitive line between training and competing and when you blur all that together You lose both the benefits. So, you know, like just keep that in mind like when you're training You want to be conscious of always trying to perfect form and keep composure


I'm Jake Feindel, this is State Tech. More specifically, it's energy in America is what it is. We do this on Wednesday afternoons every couple of weeks with Luc Plurici, wherever he may be in the world. He happens to be in Tokyo right now. Welcome to the show, Luc. Good to be here, Jay. Nice sunny morning. 10 o'clock in the morning here in Tokyo on Thursday. All right, well, that makes a five-hour difference, since you said three o'clock in the afternoon here in Hollywood. So there's so much going on in the world today, Luc, so much happening. One thing and another is like chock-a-block. And we could go on talking about all these things, but we're going to talk today about coronavirus, which is a really good topic and how it is affecting or will affect energy pricing and the energy markets. Because after all, as they say, things are uncertain in the time of coronavirus. What do you think? Yeah, first, I do think we tend to underappreciate the economic consequences. In a way, you could say there's some good news from this. It probably means that gas mean prices will be a bit lower in Honolulu. They might be a lot lower, actually. You may see a considerable drop, and we'll go through that a bit. And we have some data to look at the comparison of SARS and other sorts of breakouts, such as this. But this is a big deal. I know that this has been in the Hawaiian press, and government authorities have been talking about this, because it can have a rather devastating effect on travel. And you'll see that in some of the pictures we have here, but also, of course, in main tourist destinations, such as Hawaii. And I don't know what the data is showing. I know initially it doesn't look so bad, but we're really seeing massive shifts in air travel now. And you'll see how this shows up in a lot of different ways. It's quite amazing. And it's something that I really initially thought the administration was overreacting, was being much too aggressive, and trying to shut down travel. But there's some more recent data coming out that suggests this thing is a lot more serious than we have thought initially. And we'll talk a little bit about that first as a setup to this problem. Yes. Well, we've done three or four shows on coronavirus already, and we have state director of infectious disease. We've had the director of infectious disease at Queen's Hospital on last week, and we're going to have the director in the health department coming on next week. Actually, Friday. And so, I mean, what's happening is that nobody is able to stop this. The isolation thing doesn't necessarily work. And so what you have is the possibility of an unrestrained epidemic and query how long does that take to resolve itself? Yeah, so I think there's a little outside my lane here talking about epidemiology. But the recent research suggests that there was this sense that you could be asymptomatic and show no symptoms and transmit the disease. I think the most recent, some of the most recent research and observations, let's say, among professional epidemiologists are indicating that no, that's not the case. Some people have very low level symptoms, but you do have to be symptomatic to transmit the disease. You do have to have droplets in the atmosphere. It's obviously a communicable disease. And you will see that in some of the data here. But also, you will see that it is still largely a Chinese problem. But it can easily migrate to other parts of the world. So if we go to the first, why don't we start with the travel alert? Now, the picture is frozen on my screen, but I don't know if you can see me OK or not. Yeah, we were looking at NCOV, Health Alert, Fabulous. OK, great. Let's look at that one for starters. So I actually just have a personal story. My son came out of Nanjing about 10 days ago, 12 days ago, and met my wife and I in Honolulu for his holiday. He got out, and into Hawaii, there was no checking. No one checked in. He's back home in Washington. He's postponed his return to Nanjing. And he's completely asymptomatic. But during the time he was in Hawaii, the government began to ramp up more controls and reviews. And you could just see, well, there's a lot of people like him who came into the country who were under the net, if you like, before a lot of these controls had kicked into place. I think that, and I'm sure this is the advice your experts are giving you, wash your hands. It's unclear how good these masks are unless you have a real sophisticated mask, but do all the common sense things that you do for the flu. I can have a twin brother, actually, that works with big data in the health care field. And he was telling me he thought that there was underreporting of the data and that the strain might be much more lethal because of the underreporting in China. And if we go to the next slide, you can see it as a very traditional, the global spread of the coronavirus. And you can see here it has a very kind of traditional movement of a pandemic. It rises at a very rapid rate. By the way, this is, as we say, chump change compared to measles, apparently, kills about 150,000 people a year. And we have a vaccine for that. But I think the big concern about the coronaviruses, we just don't know enough about it yet. There could be misjudging these lethality that may be too low, too high. And there was a report. There have been two or three reports that Tencent, the monster technology company in China, probably one of the biggest companies in the world, had been posting data that was contrary to the government's statistics. And this data showed the number of cases and the number of fatalities. Probably 10 times as high as the official data, but they quickly changed it. So I do think we're still entering a period of time here where we don't have a good handle yet on the scale and scope of the disease. So this is a- People who are trying to make a vaccine, which would ameliorate the epidemic, say that it's going to take at least a year to do that. So that's a big- Yes. And that is- Right. And look at the nature of a virus like this. I think the unrestrained aspect of the virus is really simple. There are some people who only have a mild cold and they recover pretty quickly, but they're carriers. There are other people who are vulnerable and they don't recover so fast. And there are other people who are very vulnerable and they die. And I said, Right. A high percentage for this, I think. We don't know exactly what the- So the initial data on the folks I spoke to is that- So, and of course, a lot of this is the denominator, and the way we collect data, both in the US and China, but I think health experts in the US would say that the death rate from the flu, it hits very young children of babies and old people that are already ill who are old and the death rate, but it's not, it's probably well below a half a percent. Part of this is if you've got to collect the right data on the denominator and that there is some data out there that suggests that while the deaths appear to be low, it's lethality may be as much as 44 times higher than that of the flu in the US. And that's within China, we're probably not getting a good measurement of everybody who's got it. And we may, so right now we may be overestimating it's lethality because we're seeing the number of people dying, but there's probably a lot of people who have a mild case who are afraid to go to the hospital because they're gonna get quarantined or locked up. So I do think this is very typical of the early stages of these kinds of problems. We tend to probably underestimate it's lethality and it's problem on the other hand, the markets tend to overreact, at least in the beginning. And I think that's what we're seeing now in the oil market.  We know the travel industry has taken a big hit already. Oh, huge, huge, huge. A lot of flights and tours have been canceled, especially those dealing in and with China. And there's probably a lot of concern all over the world as to what is business now. Optimism leads to more investment, more activity and pessimism doesn't, the old story about markets. And I mean, I don't think it was out of line for the market to drop 600 points on one day last week. And it's come back since, remarkably. Yeah, yeah, but I do think that over time it'll probably decline until this is resolved. But you know, the one lesson that might be good that comes out of this, which is, we don't benefit in the West if there's a major calamity in China. We need China to be a prosperous country. Absolutely. There's over a billion people there. They're fantastic consumers. And it's not, and so this goes back to the issue of trade wars, whatever you want to say, our relationship with China is not one in which we win if they decline dramatically. If they decline dramatically, it's bad for all of us. Yes. And I think actually I'm almost sensing that the Trump administration has got that message. I mean, I think Trump has reached out to Xi on several occasions. The U.S. is already shipping a lot of medical equipment and testing equipment into China. They've opened up CDC resources to China. So I actually think the Chinese, you know, they do have all these characteristics of autocratic regimes and trying to hide data and everything, but they're handling this a little much better than the SARS. I think we're learning a lot more a lot quicker than they did under SARS. There's plenty of criticism brewing though about how they kept it quiet for a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As I say, it's the nature of autocratic regimes. Yeah. And the problem is that what they did before, which is now being criticized, leads to an undermining of their credibility. And so this is in a very sensitive stuff. People are worried about life and death. And if they don't believe the government because of what happened before, that undermines the effort to resolve the crisis. And so there've been a lot of articles and I've seen video interviews where Chinese people have spoken out against the government. And I really believe though, Lou, I believe that the government is turning more candid and the people have got to come along on that, including the Chinese people. Oh, I agree, I agree as well.  If we go to the question of bread crude oil price, which is the most classically traded price of oil in the world market, it gives a good sense what the price of crude is across the whole world. You can see that by February 20th, the price of crude oil dropped to $54 a barrel. This is largely, but not entirely, a massive drop in jet fuel demand. It's just a kind of catastrophic effect on the revenues in the oil industry, as well, of course, as refineries and the whole energy complex within the world. And it's not really good for US producers either because we export a lot of oil and gas now. So the economy is slowing down. I mean, people, there's a linkage, right? It's been an economy in demand for fuel. So if it's slowing down, that is gonna be a lower demand. And therefore, the production and consumption both go down. Right, right. So that's, you know, these lower prices, I think it is important to understand that historically when the price of oil fell, it was clearly a net positive in the US economy. But the US is a net oil export. Not an OPEC country, but it is. And when you have a decline in the price of a major export of a country the size of the US, that has an effect on economic activity within the US. So some consumers will benefit from lower gasoline prices. But big segments of the American industry will suffer. So it's going to affect the performance of our economy as well. So far, I don't think it's... To me, to me, the question is, so we know there's a matter of, I'm gonna call it, textbook economics, that smaller demand is gonna create a reduction in price and all that. The question, and this is a hard one, is where are we gonna go from here? Let's assume there's all the medical people are saying this. It's not gonna be resolved right away. It may spread in China and outside of China because of border crossing that have already happened. You have a long incubation period and it's communicable while you're asymptomatic. This is a recipe for global involvement. So my question to you, this is a hard one, how are these phenomena going to be affected if, say, this lasts for 90 days or six months or nine months? What are we gonna see around the world on the same issues? Well, let's take a look at a narrow thing. What happened to aviation over previous outbreaks? We have some data on that. And if you look at the next slide, it shows the impact of outbreaks on aviation. And basically what this data is, is something we call RPK, Revenue Per Kilometer, right? And of course, there are lots of other sectors, hotels, tourism, general commerce, shipping, but this is an area where we do have some fairly good data on how previous outbreaks affected what we call Revenue Per Kilometer, which is our kind of proxy measure for what's happening to travel, okay? And you can see that in the avian flu of 2005 and the avian flu of 2013, its effects were relatively modest. Mayors, which was this Middle East disease in 2015 did hurt, rather than you can see a drop from an index of about, let's say 95 down to 85. And then SARS, SARS was actually quite devastating. It dropped revenue nearly in half, right? Within three months. And you didn't get back to where you were to almost eight or nine months later. So that was in 2003. So I think that, not saying that's the outcome we're gonna see here, we just don't know yet. Don't know yet, but I think this does tell us that we could be in for a very rough ride. Companies and businesses, which are, you know, have some cash stashed away. They're in a position to make the right adjustments. We'll be able to survive this. I don't know if you saw an announcement by Cathay Pacific this morning. They have announced to all the staff that they should plan on taking up to 90 days of leave without pay over the next six months. So they are really bearing down for a long siege on this thing. Now, what comes to you also, I think, is that Cathay, if they paid the staff of this 90 day period without any revenue, they would be in deep financial trouble. And that's, I think we're gonna see some of these companies that are dependent on travel, tourism, transportation, are really have to do something because otherwise they're gonna be belly up. And that's a great concern globally, don't you think? I think it's a very big concern because if you start laying off a lot of people without pay, you're going to begin to shift expectations on consumer behavior, for the effect of investment. So it is in the interest of all the major industrial economies of the world, including the Chinese and our Asian, large Asian and growing economies to get a handle on this as soon as possible, right? We need to figure out how to get this under control quickly. And this says the Chinese, with their somewhat autocratic system, may be doing a good job eventually because they have the ability to order around people much more than we do. Well, I was impressed with the Chinese because very early in the game, they sent a bunch of scientists out to identify the genome and they sent the genome all around the world for other scientists to look into how it could be treated and create vaccines. So that was a good move and hopefully there'll be more moves like that. Yeah, and you might take a look here also at this last slide where how the coronavirus can affect commodity markets. Generally, these are two graphs here. One is the price of crude oil and the other is the price of copper. And you can see here that it's been, you're seeing a rather dramatic drop in both the price of crude oil and the price of a major industrial commodity called copper. And yeah, this makes these commodities cheaper but these are not cheaper through technological advances. This is strictly supply and demand. This is strictly the demand for these major inputs into the performance of modern economies is just dropping like a stone. And it should be a warning to the Trump administration, to the Congress, to all the major economic leaders around the world that they need to get their hands around this as soon as possible. Yeah, and that puts a serious burden on the US because we do have the medical and research facilities. Exactly. We have to take advantage of them. But you know, one thing, and it's all sort of in between the points you've talked about is that this affects people's sort of a socio-psychosocial sociological effect in the world. And I think that when you have a very threatening thing like this, and then you see the result of that threat actually play out, people get down on things. They're unhappy. They don't see a good future. They worry. And when that happens, entrepreneurship and innovation slow down too. And I think that it's a real threat to the world to have a serious epidemic like this where there is no light at the end of the tunnel. So that's your solution to put the end. I'm sure, and I'm sure this is a heretical statement, but I'm going to make it anyway. You cannot put all your brain power in one area. We cannot put all our brain power on climate. Okay, we need to put some brain power on climate a lot. But we can't put all of it into climate. We have to let this brain power get into other sectors. In the medical area and basic research and everything. And my observation has been in the last couple of years is that it's very tough. You know, I was at a bar in Honolulu recently and I met a young man who was a brilliant researcher working at teaching at UH. And he was involved in finding offshore groundwater. And I said, well, that's fantastic. He says, you don't understand. There's almost no interest in it. There's no money in it. There's no research support for it. Because if you're not working on climate, all the foundations, all the government agencies are not interested. And so I do think that we need to sort of think about this very carefully. How do we allocate our resources for brain power? Because we need people to work on things other than climate. We need people to work on climate, but we need them to work on other things as well. Well, that's my little hobby horse for today. So at the end of the tunnel, when we come out to the other side loop, how is this process, you know, the epidemic, the threat, the psychosocial reaction to it, the economic reaction to it, going to affect the energy markets on a longer-term basis? Certainly. I think if this is a one-off thing, if this is a one-off thing, I don't think, look, people like to travel. People are getting richer. They like to go see places. And once, I believe that as in the past, as the data showed on revenue per kilometer, once they get this under control and everybody gets comfortable that it's safe, that there's a vaccine for it, I think we're going to go back to, you know, the ex ante world in which there's a world travel will continue to grow, tourism will continue to grow. So the real role for governments now is to get a lot of smart people to cooperate with each other and to get the research underway, understand the basic fundamentals of this disease and both get a vaccine and then learn how to get it in control as soon as possible. And as for the rest of us, we have to watch this carefully, even if we do medical research or supported, you know, economic. Exactly. Right, exactly. We have to be informed about it and we have to watch the markets for that matter. And one guy told me this week, he thought this was in a strange, bizarre way. It was an opportunity because whenever he saw some kind of problem in the market, you know, that results from this sort of epidemic, he would identify the stock and buy it, which I thought was a big one. So for individual investors or hedge fund managers, okay, they could make some money and that's part of the nature of markets to move cash where it's needed. But that's separate from the public policy point of view, which is where's the responsibility of governments? And if you're looking for an area where there really is a consensus that the government has a very important role, it's public health. Right. It's public health, it's epidemics, it's vaccines. This is an area where the government should be, should be well-equipped and able to do a good job. And I was impressed with the HHS leadership team that held the press conference, you know, Fauci and all the guys from CDC. We do have some good people working on this here. I'm concerned we don't have enough. But at the top, I was very impressed. These guys were on top of it. They had a lot of good ideas.  You got the same reaction. And I'm taking from what you said a minute ago, and I think one point is very clear. And we live in a complex world, an interconnected Thomas Friedman kind of world, a flat world if you will. And we really do depend on China and so many other places for a balance and a global balance. We're all in this together, one big global family. And that individual person has very little effect on it. Governments have more effect. The government of the United States has more effect. And so even if you thought we should reduce the size of government, reduce the initiatives by government, this is a reminder that only government can solve this problem. There's no white knight coming out of left field on this. Government- No, this is a role for government. This is a great, this is an appropriate role for government, right? Yeah. Government does a lot of silly things. This is the area where we should be having plenty of resources and plenty of brain power. So drilling down one last question, Lou. Sure. You're in Japan. You made the trip. There's a certain amount of risk in all of Asia, but you made the trip. And you're presumably at a conference or some sort of energy event. How do you feel about this from that perspective? Being there, making the trip, following what's going on, looking at the markets. Are you optimistic or pessimistic? My problem is I'm by nature an optimist, right? So I am optimistic. I think the more people I meet, the more people I see in all these different industries and sectors, there's a lot of people, you know, trying to do the right thing, making things happen. You look at Japan as a very easy place to visit people or a lot of people are wearing masks. That's extremely clean environment. It has, I think it's in size, it's vulnerable population is very low. I mean, it's got good medical care. So I'm not, you're asking from a personal point of view, I don't feel at risk coming to Japan. Well, thank you, Lou. It's great to talk to you. Are you gonna be coming back the next couple of weeks? I'd go home on Saturday. And we can talk two weeks from now. We can, we can. Think about your trip and about what happens in the interim, yeah. Yeah, and hopefully this problem will be fixed by then. Yeah. Thank you, Lou. Okay, thank you, J.L.A. And Sayonara. Sayonara.


It's the gray cup, the Super Bowl of the Canadian Football League and this Hamilton fan wants to throw up the number one, but he's not confident because it's going to overtime, so he changes it to a solid fist pump and a smirk and he's like, well, maybe soon, I'm gonna throw up the number one, baby. This one's brought to you by DraftKings. Download the number one sports book app and use promo code JOMBOY when you do. Like I said, game goes into overtime. Ref says I got this coin here. It's got two sides, pretty cool. And they're like, just flip it, man. Flip it and Hamilton says we want them to have the ball first. Now, if you're wondering where all these teams are, you need to freshen up on your Canadian geography. I gotcha. Tiger Cats versus Winnipeg and Winnipeg. Blue Bombers are gonna take the ball first. Run it, run it first down, run it, run it first down. Eventually they're like, let's try to go in the air a little bit, toss it over there, get the touchdown, get on the board first, excited about it. This guy carries that guy. These two fans, incredibly excited, screaming, yelling and hugging. And then they go for two and they get that as well. And look at those end zones. I always forget that the CFL has a deep end zone. So now Hamilton has the ball and they're gonna try and do some fun stuff of their own. He hits the hole there. He goes up, he's gonna get the first down. They're all juiced up. Uh-oh, flag on the play. And what I love about this is look where the ref is. Is that like the 45 yard line when this starts? And then all of a sudden you're gonna see the flag come. He hasn't just tossed the flag on the field. He bombs it 20 yards into the middle of the play. I don't know, is that like proper ref etiquette? Are you supposed to be throwing the flag that far? I'm not an expert on it, but it seems like he really chucked that flag. And then it lands in the green screen area, which is weird. Anyway, the next play, now that it's first and 20, no one's open, so he gives it the running back, turns around, gets absolutely stuffed. That's a bad feeling. So now, second and 18, they gotta go in the air.  That guy scoops it into that guy and the blue bombers win the championship and Michael Shea, a Canadian football man, if I've ever seen one, is excited. And this guy's not, not excited. This guy, not excited. Here's the play. It's a bad throw. It should have been just a straight up catch and picked off to end the game, but it goes through that guy's hands. And this dude, number 30, I think his name is Winston Rose. He was on the Bengals last year on the practice squad. I think he got called up for one game due to COVID stuff. He bats the ball, tip-drails straight into his buddy's hands for the walk-off interception. Wins the game, wins the league. What a fun way to end the season.  You can see that he directs this right into his buddy's hands. He says, hey, you take it. I'm not making a one-handed grab. You just catch it. What a fun way to win. So they get the Gatorade shower because that's the championship and they get the confetti cannons and they hold up the trophy because that's the championship. Everyone's excited, especially this fan.  Let's go. This was brought to you by DraftKings. Download number one sportsbook app and just bet on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers that go on undefeated next year. DraftKings.


Hey guys, it's Kevin. Today we're going to fix the Epson 034004 error. If you follow Epson's suggestion, turn off the printer and turn it back on, and you can see the problem is going to come back again. This error is caused by a paper jam. Even if you do not see the paper jam, it doesn't mean it doesn't have paper jam. So the first thing you do is remove the paper roller from the back. And here you go.  Also take a flashlight and look into the paper feeder. You may find a piece of paper that has broken off when you fight with the printer. You can get a piece of sticky tape and put it inside, and stick on the paper and take the paper out. Okay, back to work. When you print a label and get a paper jam, make sure to count all the labels. Make sure there's no label get stuck inside the printer. Also, when you fight with the printer, don't get too violent, so your paper broke off like me, it's pretty hard to get it. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this video. Something off-topic, Illinois alumni went to space yesterday. They're going to be there for six months. They're probably going to miss the Illinois play in the Final Four.


You know the real story is that you know there were a set of us that just wanted to be able to hack on some stuff and not Have to go through all the process of shipping stuff at Google But there was a lot of other thinking behind it also We at least released GCE But then internally Google had a bunch of systems based on board and there was a real question of how do we start bringing these Things together and so it was really either all of Googlers and try and get them to start working with raw VMs Which would have felt like a huge step backwards or we have to take the board model forward You know you play a different game when you're the underdog and really was more important for us to to sort of reset the Playing field between clouds and so Kubernetes became a way for us to to start doing that I think when it first came out just my previous experience as a system administrator This is the thing you were trying to build all those years. So when I saw it I immediately knew like this thing solves my problems So I think I kind of attacked it as a contributor first and someone who wanted to teach other people what I saw in it Not sure it was going to ever blow up or not But it definitely had the right footprint when it came out. I you know I don't think any of us expected that it would be what it is today It's it's hard as humans to understand the scale of these things once they take off It goes from being something that you can feel to just you know numbers in terms of number of Deployments who's actually using it It's still impressive to me when I'll be like a cube cotton or something and it'll be you know Some company in Brazil that I've never heard of will come up and say hey We've like re-platformed everything on Kubernetes and it's working great for us Do you think it's good for people to interact directly with Kubernetes? You have a lot of people now editing gamma files for Helm charts making different versions for different stages Is that how it's supposed to work or should it be like a DevOps tool on top? So I think from a personal experience as a personal engineer as an engineer that should know how these systems work You should definitely learn Kubernetes if you ever plan to manage a Kubernetes cluster So if you consider yourself someone that's an ops or doing dev ops or a cluster administrator It might be a good idea to learn how the thing works But the whole point of infrastructure is so that people can deploy Applications and if you keep that in mind then you have to ask yourself Do I just want to present all of this low-level tooling to everyone in the organization or do I want to build some? Experience on top always tell people the YAML files feels like the raw assembly of Kubernetes No matter what you use on top Helm Case on it all that stuff is going to compile down to the raw YAML files The main issue that I see currently is that we have built up a very large set of fundamental technologies So things like Kubernetes things like Envoy You know with these are these are technologies that allow us to solve really substantial problems that people are facing But I think if one were to go out and talk to the average end user Those technologies individually, they're still too difficult to use people are stuck in a pile of the YAML There's too many different config options. I think that we need We need more cohesive products that can tie some of these things together into more of a platform the only way in my opinion to make it easier for most end users to have a Quote cloud native experiences to provide a more end-to-end platform a way that people can come together and They can edit code and review code and then actually do CI on that code and get that code shipped out to containers And have it be run with appropriate load balancing and observability and a bunch of other stuff So yeah, I think that's great from what GitLab is is doing. I love the fact that it's open source I think there's a lot to do in this area. It's exciting I'm still blown away with just the the diversity of the projects that are building on top of Kubernetes I mean our idea was that hey once you have this basis you can do all sorts of interesting things with it I think it's interesting to see that evolve


Government at all levels in Nigeria have been charged to address the challenges facing women in the country and ensure that their sexual reproductive health rights are guaranteed. This demand is against the backdrop of the untold hardship and difficulties experienced by a majority of women in the country due to their inability to access health services and other inhibitions.  Nigerian women are currently facing a lot of challenges when it comes to their sexual reproductive health and rights and some of them include harmful traditional practices that are still going on in Nigeria and thankfully the VAP Act criminalizes female genital mutilation. However, we know that it is still widely practiced in the country. We have other challenges also like lack of access to information and services that will enable women to space their children and to give birth to the number of children that they want to and within the timeframe that they want to as well. And if they don't want to have any children, they should also have access to services that will enable that.  So it's a lot of problems. It affects our psychology, our mental health, our physical and spiritual health. And then we now wonder why a lot of people are frustrated and a lot of people are carrying, you know, it's a lot of depression going on and these are faced by women and girls who do not have all this easy access to their sexual health and reproductive rights. So I can imagine how it feels. It's a very bad state of mind. When you 50% to over 50% of your population are denied their human rights in this instance women because they are the ones who are most impacted by the lack of delivery of reproductive rights, then you are taking away 50% of your population's ability to contribute to nation building, to contribute to our economic mainstream and economic advancement. And that is why it is critical that these rights which are human rights should be enjoyed by all in dignity, in confidence, to express themselves, to be happy and all of that, these are really, really critical. To take steps, active steps to respect, to protect and to fulfill the reproductive health rights of women because issues of reproductive health rights are human rights issues. They are not just issues that we can decide to either give or not give, they are human rights issues and when these services are not available, they do not translate to a violation of the rights to the life of a woman, it translates to the rights to dignity of a woman. So it also translates to several other violations of a right, violations to rights to expression, rights to good health and several other rights can be also attributed to lack of these services when they are not available.


The Director-General of the Labour Party's Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doi Okupe, has said that the party is set to put together the greatest grand political alliance in the country, which would bring together all the top political parties including the PDP and the APC. Okupe spoke when he appeared on our program, The Run-Up. We on our own are making arrangements for no less than 10% per polling unit. Now in that grand alliance, if other people come up with their own, so the number increases from 10 to 15 to 20 in different areas, let me tell you, believe me sincerely, we are not joking with this election and anybody who takes us for granted will be struck by lightning. I mean, I'm talking about lightning and political development. We Nigerians may be bad, we may be corrupt too, but because we play along whatever goes with us, but everybody has come to the realization that this is not going to all go well for our future and the future of our children. If it is just that fast, that financial fast of one day, many Nigerians have made up their minds to do it. Look, we had rallies all over the country and the digi of campaign of the presidential campaign for Labour Party, I'm telling you, I'm a Christian, I will not lie, we didn't give anybody shishi to run those events.  We're going to put together the greatest grand political alliance in the country. We're going to have an alliance of Labour, of all the other top parties besides the APC and PDP. We're going to form a grand alliance, including NNPP, including SDP, including PRP, including ADC, who are coming together in an alliance. An alliance that not necessarily says that the presidential candidate of A must tell them for presidential candidate of B, no. But you know, an alliance that fosters the political fortune of the component parts of the alliance nationwide. People may think, as I usually would deliberately think or assume, that we have new structures. We already know the number of polling stations in the country. And I'm telling you, take it from me. I am saying it. We will have no less than 10 people in each polling station across the country, across one or seven districts. Efforts are already underway. And I mean, I don't like to keep unnecessary secrets. I can tell you that we are well past providing over 40 percent of that arrangement, covering over 40 percent of that. It's not a problem. It's not a problem for us. It's not a problem at all. It's peanut butter. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


This research paper examined the use of Cap Paris Spinoza L, C, Spinoza L, fruit extract as a reducing agent to produce zinc oxide nanoparticles, ZNON piece. The resulting ZNON piece were characterized by UV spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, zeta potential, field emission scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results showed that the ZNON piece were highly pure, crystalline, and spherical with an average diameter of approximately 37.49 nanometers. Additionally, the ZNON piece demonstrated good biocompatibility with red blood cells, indicating that they are safe for use in medical applications. Furthermore, the ZNON piece exhibited strong antioxidant activity and low cytotoxicity, suggesting that they could potentially be used as a therapeutic option. This article was authored by Salma Aziz Nima, Salim Albuqadi, Israqusai Fali, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.