All right, so we talked last week with the crant stuff, right? For the personal use, right? So we'll have a form for that, we'll release it back to you for your own personal use. The tallow, we talked about that as well, we're just going to give that back to you and let yourself, there won't be a form or anything with that. It just essentially is no longer in tangible physical, you can move that. And I don't know how we have that tagged upstairs, but if it's physically tagged, we'll remove the tag and you can do what you need to do with that. The powders, we got word back late Friday from our policy folks that we're going to exercise some discretion there. So the intent from that product, for that product, right, was essentially for supplements, non-tank supplements. We're going to allow you to do that, non-tank supplements. Any idea how long it would take you to go through that inventory, the covered inventory estimate? You're saying you want me to basically get rid of it as quickly as possible? No, no, I'm just looking for an estimate. You know, six months, eight months, a year, like what's... It's supposed to be done and I was actually doing a liquidation because it wasn't doing so well. So I was trying to get rid of most of the product within two months. Okay, that's fine. We're not going to hold you too... Like, you know what I mean? It's not like, yeah, you only have two months to get rid of it. Well, those suppliers don't seem interested in selling to me anymore anyway. So it looks like I'm going to sell all the products within about two months. Okay. And that'll be that. All right. And that's for dietary supplements only, as far as the pemkin. You know, we had talked a little bit about maybe doing a dog food pemkin or things like that, which would mean labeling. And you can label it as animal pemkin, dog pemkin, however you choose to label it with the species of the pet or just pet pemkin. You know, it should be continuous to the label. You know, it's not like...  Yeah, no, I will make sure it says pet treat on it and very clear, not for even the consumption. And then the other side of that coin is the denaturing, in which, which, you know, for that powder, it's either you can mix charcoal into the powder or the other option I sent you the regulation on that is to mix it with bone meal or crushed bone. And there's certain specifications and things like that. And you could, I still could find crushed bone on mine. There is bone, okay. There is ground bone in the boneless peak powder right now. Does it mix, but that's more of a powder versus it actually? Well, that's, have you looked at that product? I have not. It's not really a powder. It's like, okay, clumpy. It's not really... Okay, maybe we can take a look when we're done. But I gave you the ranks on that. There's a certain size, you know, mesh and everything like that. So if you're going to make it into a pet treat or something like that, make sure you meet that criteria. So either denatured or de-characterized, you know, I give you a whole list of what we consider denatured. You know, more than likely the best option is either charcoal or the bone, the crushed bone. Yes. Beyond the pemmicking canopy for human food. Maybe I talked about that. So that's, I mean, at least good news for you there. Sure, I think there's anything else on that side. I think that's it for that. And then we can talk about the stuff from Byler. I sent you the stuff and I kind of knew you weren't going to, you know, I assume you'll be, you were disappointed with what I sent you. Well, last Friday in the conversation we had, you said, you know, you weren't so sure what they were going to say, but send me a customer list and you can probably, we can probably release it and you can probably sell it through the farm share. For a person, right. I didn't say for the farm share. Little distributed through the farm share. I wasn't sure about that.  I wanted to get the information for you so I could, I could get it to our policy folks, our legal division, and get you an appropriate response. What I sent you is that response. You see, I assume this is the email I sent you and it kind of breaks down, you know, the custom, what we mean by custom, what's allowed as far as the customer score. So where is this, where is this information listed? You know what, can I, can I? Yeah, yeah. So, if you see, when we go off the acts, right, and you look at the federal inspection act and this is primarily meat, right? It's not ultra, it's not ultra just grain. So I'll just talk about beef and pork. Yeah. In the actors, exemptions, exemptions for custom and there's certain somewhat general guidelines in the act for customers. I just want to clarify. So the, the, this answer you gave me pertaining to private membership association, this is not officially in any sort of document. This is kind of an issue that is addressed on a, like, specific basis. By the appetite. That's my case, right. So we've never, what you're proposing, you know, is inconsistent with the acts and the regulations. Okay. So we have the acts, we have the regulations and then our policy folks gets into the nitty gritty and kind of looks at certain scenarios and say, you know, whether that's in compliance with the act or it's not. And in your case, it wasn't consistent with what we allow as far as custom. So the customer base purchased the live animal and owns it with their money. The meat is sent to me to be distributed to the members and then they pay the rest of their share. That was, now you're telling me that's not allowed. Right. And we have talked, because I was getting a little confused as the scenarios we were talking about last week. And that's why I asked you just put your writing so I can get you a solid answer. The custom, you know, and I put that all in the email. Custom is at the simplest. You go somewhere with an animal or you buy an animal from the farmer. The farmer slaughters it for you. You pay for that service of the slaughtering. You're not buying meat, right. And that is for your exclusive use, nonpaying guests, families, so on and so forth. That's not really relevant to the private members. As it's basic, right. Now policy, and there's no thing, you're not going to find it in the act that you've got more than one owner, but we do allow more than one owner and I went to the specifics on the email of an animal, you know, with four people, eight people, what have you. But you still have to have that transaction that, let's say it's eight people, they're buying a live animal. They've made a transaction for a specific animal or animals, you know, you as the agent arranged to have it slaughtered, you bring back the meat, you distribute it evenly amongst the eight, which is a little different from what you're doing.  The whole animal was made at the sausage. That was how it was to be distributed. That was for the ease of distribution. Right. The shares are all, so if it's, you know, if it's a hundred dollars for share, each person is getting 10 pounds of the bulk of the, they're not ordering a specific product, they're getting a share. So they're going to get, you know, everyone's going to get the same three pounds of this, three pounds of this, three pounds of this. Right, but not all 1,500 people on that list. You know what I mean, it's in order to do that, those people would have to have purchased a specific animal. You know, through you, Frankie, not through, Frankie's free range, not through the company, you know, so on and so forth. They'd have to buy a specific animal. And then they'd get distributed. Okay. So you're saying, you're saying what I wanted to do through distributing the meat through the private membership association, where the meat has been privately owned throughout the entire period of time. That's not allowed. Because you're saying it's owned by the membership. It's owned by the people that paid. My understanding of the private membership association is people can buy into the private membership association and when they pay that fee, that can be applied to the purchase of the live animal for the customers and then they can have the meat distributed to them. Which isn't consistent with the regulations, with the act. Which says, you know, you have to, those people would have to buy that specific animal. You know, of that 1,500, let's say, the customer, let's say for simple sake, there's a hundred. You're saying instead of the members of the private membership association paying a fee allocated towards the animal, those customers have to have a specific interaction with me. I have to get all 50 people at once to pay a separate fee for the live animal when it's slaughtered. Yeah. And they don't have to pay you right there. And then, you know what I mean? It's, that's, the payment end is a little different. But yes, they have to agree to purchase that animal. So when I made a video a few months ago, before I did this, me and my customers had an agreement that we were going to get these products and people were going to purchase them. But you're saying there needs to be some sort of written record between each customer. There needs to be records, yeah. You have to, prior to slaughter. Okay. So I'm assuming your final verdict on this product is that it can be released to me for personal use. If that's what you choose, yes. Okay, so the problem I have with that is that there are, I can, I'm not naming them. I'm not going to say them, but I have them on this paper. At least four or five other businesses in the New York area that are, they're not selling shares. They're selling retail, custom, not federally inspected meat on their websites. They're not selling shares. There's four or five of them. They've made, they have way more customers than me. They've sold way more meat than me. They are not adhering to these rules by any extent. They just have, I have my customers, we agreed to purchase the live animal. We agreed to have all the sausages, whatever, all products slaughtered at that time, evenly distributed as a share. That's what we agreed upon with my customer base. These people that have been operating for longer than me, and that have been in business longer than me, have been selling retail, not federally inspected meat on their website to their customers with no, no. You're basically, I'm being, I'm way closer to these rules and these regulations than these people are, but you have not been bothering these people. You can go on their website, you can sign in, you can place an order for a steak, a ground beef, a piece of meat, whatever you want. You can order whatever you want off of these people's websites and they will bring it to you the next week. And I will say to you, if we had that information, we would act on it. What do you mean if you had that information? Everyone knows who they are. You guys have, they have had USDA inspectors at their, at their buildings. They have, most of these people have had that. And you're not, you're- I don't know, I mean you're, I don't know who you're speaking about. And I don't, if I knew who you were talking about, yeah, we could do something about that and hope to gain voluntary compliance with, with the piece of- You're saying all, you're saying all of these other businesses that have been operating for four or five years, way longer than that. I've been doing this for three years, that you haven't acted on them, but you're acting on me. When I haven't even ever sold that meat on my website, and these, I have never, that meat has never, that custom meat has never, ever been sold on my website. Not once ever. These people have been selling that meat for, I don't know, five, 10 years, and they have never had any issue.   I, I know this is specifically targeted harassment against my business. And I know you guys are just following orders from whoever's telling you, but this is, this is not- Thank you. We came here with the state, we saw some product that we believe to be a violation. Being misbranded, we took action on it. That's why we're here. As far as these other businesses, I don't know what businesses you're talking about. If I knew, I would send people out to deal with that.   You allow that type of stuff to happen. If they are misbranding product or selling misbranded product, we will deal with that.  You wrote the rules for those people to make, to sell shitty feedlot agrochemical-based, estrogenic meat. That turns boys into girls. You literally wrote the rules so they can make money. You have no problem with that, but you have a problem with this and you also have no problem with the- I know- You guys know very well.  I think you know very well every single one of these businesses, I think, you know, every single one of them and what they do and you're allowing them to do it, but you're not allowing me to do it because I'm not part of the club. That's why- That's exactly what I think is happening.  We don't give people special- That is- No, I mean I don't- We don't give people special exemptions. We don't regulate one from different. You're regulated as much as the biggest of the big. And then that- I mean- I've spoken to slaughterhouse consultants, I've spoken to USDA consultants, and every single one of them was shocked at how this procedure went initially with six police officers, the share of five inspectors. They- Every single part of this was not even close to equal treatment, okay? That's a ridiculous statement to make. Well, again, Frankie, the origination of this didn't stem from the USDA. The origination of this incident stemmed from the state. When the state attempted to come and do a visit with your business and you denied them, then the state chose to, you know, get a search warrant. The state notified us. We accompanied them as we've never been here before, and you're selling meat and poultry products that we regulate. That's how we became- Look, I- Look, I don't mean to get any of you guys. I understand you guys are just doing your job, but you're going to tell me that you're going to release me 1,700 pounds of meat for my personal use? We don't have a lot of options here. The regulations allow personal use, volunteer destruction, or we can move to seizure, right? I mean, that's kind of where we're at. We detain the products. By law, we only have 20 days to keep your products to taste. So after the 20 days, we by law have to go- What am I going to do? 1,700 pounds of product intended for my customers for personal use. That's essentially the same thing as destroying it. You do understand that, right? You do acknowledge that. What am I going to do with 1,700 pounds of product? You can give it to non-paying guests, non-paying, you know, your employees, your family, your friends. If I drove down to the middle of Manhattan tomorrow on the street and tried to give away that meat, I probably couldn't even do it. Who's going to take a frozen sausage in any weather and bring it home? You can't even give it away. And we're not saying you need to take it home today. You know, if you want to leave it here under personal use and take a little bit, little bit, little bit, whatever you've got to do as long as that product's segregated, you're not offering it for sale, you're not selling it, so on and so forth. Yeah, we're fine with that. You know, as long as you're saying, yes, I'm going to use it in my personal use. Is this the final decision on this product? The final decision, as far as what we allow for custom or the disposition. Those three options you just gave me, that's the final decision on the product. Those are your options. That's what I'm trying to relate to you. You can tell us, because it's essentially a voluntary disposition you're giving us, saying, yes, I'll use it for personal use or I'll destroy it or I'll just simply let it remain or any tension. So this goes against everything I've been told about the Private Membership Association. And it honestly sounds like, as I said, you guys are singling me out and making up rules along the way. And that's not the intent. You know, we're certainly not making up rules as we go along.  And as far as enforcing the rules fairly and equitably, that's what we do every day. All right. I mean, are you sure, are your sure provisors and the people at the USDA okay with knowing that you guys are going to get a lot of flak for me shutting down my business? Shutting down your business? Well, look, when I shut down my business in a few months because of harassment like this and being singled out, you guys know that people are going to know the truth about what happened. And my customers and these people don't like, they don't like government regulation. So this really specific issue where you have all of these other businesses where my customers have probably been purchasing from two, doing the exact same thing and you're saying, I can't do it. It's not really a good look. It's not. I understand that. And I get that. All I can tell you is we are enforcing the rules. So in my case of the small business, I'm guessing the amount of money I spend on USDA inspect and meet every week isn't really surmountable for them to care enough to keep me in business. Compared to the other competitors. You can buy from whoever you want. It's not as though we get the money at USDA. I'm not, this doesn't have to be explained. The people you guys are taking orders from are the same people that operate the businesses that I'm in competition with that don't want me operating my business. It's pretty simple. I understand you guys are here to follow the rules and just convey the information to me. I understand you guys are just the messengers. And I will tell you, we have about 7,500 guaranteed federal establishments, most of which are small to very small establishments. Yes, we said this last Friday.  Which I don't know anything about. I go to this guy that I had this custom meat at and I pay him whatever whatever your federal inspect and facilities are going to charge me, it'd be double. Would you pay $20 a pound for sausage? Because that's what I'd have to charge getting it from those guys after they steal the meat and overcharge me for it. If you want to resell product, that product needs to be USDA inspected in the past, right? I mean, it's to be said. Yes, but I mean, I'm going to say one last time, all of these companies have been selling that type of meat with less strict adherence to these rules and regulations than I was going to do. So you're saying I can't do it. They've been doing it for five years. I don't believe you're being truthful in that you would have, I think these people are in ties with whoever you're taking orders from. I've been nothing but open and honest with you that few days I've known you, right? And I understand you guys don't think I'm stupid, right?  Do you think I'm smart? I think you're smart. How smart do you think I am? I think you know what you're doing.  I mean, you're in business. You've had this for three years. So are you guys free or the people you take orders from? Yeah, I know you can't talk about it. I'm not a person, and it's sort of a person in their private life. That's, I don't think... Yeah, okay. That answers my question. So I think this meeting is over. You can go tell your friends and buddies what we spoke about here and that I understand that friends don't like it when other people try to run businesses. They want everything to themselves. I understand how it is. Okay? I get it. I'll shut down in a few months. I'm done with the harassment. So whatever you guys want to release or do today, that's fine. If there's... You can go back... If you want to go back to them and talk about the meat from... Then that's okay. If you want to just release it for my personal use so I can label it and get it stored in a box that says not for sale, that's fine too. Is that what you want to do? You want that file stuff released back to you? You want a personal use? No. I would prefer if you can go back to them and get a reconsideration on that product. Because that product is what's going to determine whether I keep my business operational or not. Because it's not... I mean, I can't really take another $20,000 hit but now if I know that the USDA is going to be ordering meat from me every week for my business and scrutinizing every single thing I've been doing under the guise that you're taking orders from those people that don't want me in business, what's the point? I can be on... This time next year, I'm going to be in South Beach, Miami having fun, not dealing with this nonsense. Yeah, there's a lot of businesses that are going to lose money that I'm not spending money on, the $10,000 a week in shipping, $10,000 a month in coolers, $20,000 a week in USDA inspecting meat, but I'm going to have the biggest smile on my face when I'm done paying all of these kinds of things. Because I don't care about money, and they do, okay? And that's what I'm going to do, okay? So I've had enough of this. So as far as this position, do you want us to leave it under the tension then? Are you going to... I'm a little confused. I'm asking, are you able to get a second reconsideration on the product or that's it? No, this was it. I mean, we had enough information to make a decision. We were here to relay that decision. So you're telling me it either needs to be released to me, destroyed, or... We can leave it under the tension. So you can send someone down to destroy it? Wednesday will be day 20. Wednesday will require to file paperwork to seize the product. So when the product is seized, what do they just come in and take it? There's... They could leave it in place.  Do they make an appointment? No, it would be U.S. Marshals. If the court okays to seize your... They'll have U.S. Marshals come and seize the product. And if I say, okay, I want you to release it to me, and then I sell it anyway... That's a separate issue. That's a criminal issue. It is. Okay. Can the meat be sold or not sold? But you guys are saying I can't send it, the shares to my customers that pay for the animal. Can they pick up the meat? That's essentially selling. So you just said... So the meat... No. So you're saying that I cannot ship the meat as distribution of the shares in the private membership association. I also cannot have people pick it up. Correct. Because they are customers. They want... They're buying meat at that point. Okay, that's fine. You can release the product. I'll label it, not for sale, and I'll keep it in some boxes. For your personal use. Use of nine... And it'll stay on the form. Yeah, only three pounds of hot dogs a day for five years. That's how long it would take. Your personal use, non-paying guests, family, friends, all non-paying. I mean, that's what we're telling you. Yeah, but you're coming into a small business and saying that I need to now give away 1,700 pounds of meat. That's not like...  That's a lot of meat. I would have to literally... It would literally be a full-time job for like a week or two for me to get rid of that meat, even just giving it away. You think people take meat from strangers on the street? I don't. But we don't have any other option. I mean, the personal use is... It's your product. You've purchased it. You own the animals. We're trying to do the right thing and let you use that product for your personal use. That's where we're at. So what's the reason you don't harass these other people that are selling non-fairly inspected meat on retail? You just don't know where their base is, where their location is? We do that every day, all day. If we talk specific scenarios or specific customers, companies, specific stores, then yes, we will follow up. We follow up on complaints every day, especially... All right, I've heard enough. I don't want to get any more upset. So we can do the paperwork to release the product, and we can wrap this up. All right.


The young Laker team recently took a surprise to the NBA world, they beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. Durant, Westbrook, Ibarca, yeah, that thunder. The Lakers managed to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, I mean they haven't won the series but you know, they won Game 1, they won Game 1 by 8 points. So now I bring you to game number 5. Game number 5, well, I'll explain why it's game number 5 in a minute. So here it is, Game 5, Oklahoma City Thunder facing up against the Los Angeles Lakers. The O.K.C. crowd is going crazy for this game as the Thunder are looking to come back in this series. And what I mean by come back in this series, well, surprisingly the Lakers with his son White side, DeMarcus Cousins, Jabari Parker, Kobe Bryant, and DeAngelo Russell, well, get that out of here. They're actually leading the Thunder, they're leading the Thunder not by two games but by three. The Thunder have no chance in this series for some reason. The Lakers are getting blocks on one end and fast breaks on the other end and that's exactly how the Lakers were running this game. That's exactly how the Lakers were running this whole series, Durant was getting upset and Westbrook was taking the worst shots in the world. Durant gets blocked by Hassan White side right there and that starts us off in game number 6, excuse me, game number 5. The series is a Laker lead, 3-1 so here it is, Hassan White side gets the mid range shot, makes it a 5-4 start to the Los Angeles Lakers, Westbrook gets the O.K.C. Thunder starting with an easy mid range shot, Kobe Bryant gets a quick steal from Westbrook and he feeds it off to Hassan White side who gets the easy lay up. Kobe Bryant, he played quite well in this series, I won't even lie to you. This man Ross of Westbrook, I don't know what was up with him but he decided to take some terrible shots in this series as Boogie goes all the way for the slam dunk. Westbrook, another three point shot man, that's not his game. Westbrook needs to attack the basket and go to the ring, Jabari's game, I mean we all know that, that's a three point shot right there. Now Jabari Parker, he's fully healthy, in the last episode that I showed you guys, well he wasn't too healthy as Hassan White side gets another block to add to the collection. That's three already for Hassan White side and with two seconds left in the shot clock, Durant just says, I'm not worried about that as he hits the mid range shot right there. He goes inside and with a crazy spin move, he makes this lead a four point lead to the Lakers. Make it a 12 point lead as JR hits the mid range shot making it a four point lead right now. JR Smith, he's been a really clutch player in this series and he's been a really clutch player in all games this year really for the Lakers. JR Smith, he's doing mad work on the offensive end and he's surprisingly improved a little bit on defense as well. We could have had a massive lob right there, unfortunately we missed the lob as Durant goes all the way and slams it down on Alex Land, pretty much ending the first quarter. Just wait, JR Swish from downtown you already know, look at those cinematics right there. So JR Smith ends the first quarter and the Lakers are up 23-18 in the second quarter right now. DeAngelo gets a really nice pass down to Hussar White side who gets the and one. Hussar White side and Boogie Karsens, they have a friendship, when I first traded for Hussar White side, the friendship wasn't quite there. They didn't really know how they were going to play with each other. I mean Boogie was a guy that just dominated the post and then he got asked to play power forward making Hussar White side run the center position. Hussar White side and Boogie Karsens, yeah like I said they didn't get on. And then one day they just clicked, they both figured out how to play with each other and now they're the greatest one to punch of the current era. Surprisingly, I mean yeah maybe I'm overrating them but in this series man these guys are dominant, they're the beast towers as I like to call them. So at the half, the Lakers are leading the Thunder 37 to 33. It's a pretty even match right now. So we skip to the last quarter, 56 to 56. It's a tied game going in to the last quarter. This quarter is the elimination quarter. If the Lakers win this quarter, they eliminate the Oklahoma City Thunder and they advance to the next round.  Terrible shot by Westbrook. He hasn't had a very good shooting night tonight. I mean does he ever? Especially when he's shooting as Kovie hits that three point shot right there and back to a one point game. Hussar White side gets the slam dunk to go. It's a three point game with five minutes remaining. The OKC Thunder fire right back with a three point shot from the old Denver Nuggets player. Boogie all the way, slam dunk back to a two point lead for the Lakers right now. Four minutes 14. DeMarcus Cousins gets another block and we feed him down low. Just kidding. Jabari from downtown gets a three. It's a four point game, three and a half minutes left to the Los Angeles Lakers. We finally feed DeMarcus down low. It's about the only time in this game. We haven't really needed two yet, but we do. He gets the miss, gets his own rebound, puts it up and gets fouled. And with one and a half minutes left, he needs to make these free throws. He gets the first free throw to go, but unfortunately he misses the second. The Thunder have the ball right now Alan taking the ball up. He should have fed it off to Russell Westbrook. He decides to go for a layup and you know offense is not Alan's game. So I have to fast forward this because this took forever. We asked for a screen. We couldn't get the screen and finally a screen works. We get DeMarcus Cousins an easy mid range shot right here with a feed from Hassan White side. That just shows you the chemistry that these two big men have. Westbrook sizing up DeAnthor Russell mid range shot. He finally gets one to go. It rattles in. 69 to 73, 40 seconds left in this game. Kobe Bryant, we look for him. We get the ball to Kobe, feeds it up to Hassan White side, gets the slam dunk to go. It's 75 to 69, six point lead to the Lakers with 37 seconds left in this game. Six point lead, here it goes. Westbrook all the way, gets denied by Hassan White side. And that's his sixth block of the game. Look at this block by Hassan White side. He says get that out of here. And with Alan failing to Marcus Cousins, he's going to the line for two. This is to pretty much seal the game and seal the series for the Lakers. Boogie hits the first freeze throw. It rattles home, 76 to 69, 30 seconds left in this game. He gets the second one to go and it's an eight point lead to the Los Angeles Lakers. All they need to do is play some defense right now. The thunder, get a good look with Durant, but he misses the turnaround jumper and with Boogie on the boards, that's pretty much the game right there. All we have to do is dribble it out. We feed Kobe Bryant and we bring it out right now. We're just wasting the shock block. There's no reason to get an easy score right here.  This is Black Mumber time. He gets Durant on a crossover, goes all the way, hop step jumper, draws the contact, no foul, but he gets the layup to go. And with a 10 point lead in game five, the Lakers are advancing to the next round of the playoffs. And that's what I'm talking about. That is what I'm talking about. The Lakers are doing work in this series and we're going to the next round, man. 10 point lead in game number five. And look at JR Smith, he's pretty happy with himself right there. He knows he played quite well in this series as he has all of these playoffs and in fact, the whole season, Durant shot 17 shots, but Westbrook shot 22 and made seven of them. He shot a terrible percentage and shooting over from six from downtown really cost the Oklahoma City Thunder the game. The Marcus Cousins dropped 18 points and 13 rebounds. Jabari dropping 16. Hasan White said with 14, six and six blocks, JR Smith had a nine point game with eight minutes. Kobe Bryant got eight points, three rebounds and nine assists. This was a great game for the Los Angeles Lakers. So let's see who we're facing up against in the next round of the playoffs. Will it be the Pelicans or the Clippers? It's the Clippers. So in the next episode, it will be the Battle of LA. The Clippers versus the Lakers with Chris Paul, JJ Redick, Thaddeus Young, Blake Griffin and DeAndre 3000. Doc Rivers is still their coach. It's going to be a crazy series. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, leave that like. Let's see if we can reach 500 likes. I'm out. Peace.


Okay, so we have about 10 minutes for questions. And do we have any on Twitter? Okay, you can go first. And please let me know which of the panel members you'd like to answer the question. First, the first question, I don't know who can reply on it, maybe one of the audience. I can't decide who can reply to me. First question is we are talking about innovation. When we are talking about innovation, we need a home for innovation. Who can make this rule? Who can make a container for all ideas that every person have? I am talking about that maybe everyone in Qatar in this region, maybe in more than this region, have a small idea. And this is a small idea, he don't know how to communicate this idea to others, okay? By communicating his idea with another ideas for other persons, they make developing for a specific idea. These old ideas should be contained in specific containers. This container should have funds, should have services provided. A lot of services needed for this innovation and containing all of these ideas, okay? Let me, I'm describing that because I was working on open source applications. Sometimes I want to make an open source product and make it for public, for public, for all. But actually I was afraid that someone stole my idea and make it commercial and get money from it, okay? I don't know what is the correct way that I am going in, okay? To have my rights of my ideas, okay? And have respect from all others that this is my idea. Okay, I will not going to share my idea if I don't get benefit from it. So I'm gonna ask Habib to respond first and then Dr. Shaker to respond second. Habib from the perspective of the entrepreneur and Dr. Shaker from the perspective of how do you encourage this insight accompanying? Yeah, so you're talking about ideas. Ideas are used to something, it's all about execution. So if I were here, I would not worry about someone stealing my idea or someone trying to work something against me. I would be open, maybe not open with all the world, but open with enough people that can help you get that to the next level. You're talking about how can you get it incubated and contained and I think this goes against everything that we talk about innovation, about openness. I think what you should think about is try to, if you really want to do that, I have an idea I want to take to the next level, do it. Do your thing, get a prototype ready, it's so cheap. I think all the goal of this conference is to say that today the cost of innovating is cheap and you don't have to look for funds to begin with, do something, you don't have to look for support or government support, that's all about you. It's all in your hand, you can do it and then when you get to the next level, it's when you go and seek an institution of support. Dr. Shay. Yes, I mean, I understand from where you're concerned, I mean, are coming. Basically, currently we don't have the right infrastructure to cultivate innovation and part of it because we don't have mature IP rules and I thought this is the purpose of, I mean, the outcome of this gathering might, I mean, lead us into the next step and I think ICT Qatar are having a brilliant incubation program through which you and others can develop their ideas through them and I hope that in the future we can do something in this regard also. Thank you. Do you have another question, please. Hello. I have a question for Habib. You mentioned a lot about Yamli but you didn't really talk about what Yalla startup is and I was just curious to know.  And I think the idea came to me about a year ago which is not really a brilliant idea but basically I found a gap. I think there's a disconnect, a disconnect between the entrepreneurs having the idea to taking it or actually doing it to getting to the angel investors. And I think what we try to focus on in Yalla startup are three main things. A, the social stigma. You know, it's the family and friends support. We don't find that very often in the Middle East in terms of you wanting to go and leave and become your own entrepreneur. There's a great saying that says behind every great man, there's a great woman. In the Middle East I say there's behind every great Arab entrepreneur, there's a great mom who thinks her son or daughter is crazy to leave his job to go be an entrepreneur. So that summarizes kind of the social stigma. So we work on that. We also work on helping entrepreneurs to form their ideas and use the right tools like open source and creative comments and all of those so that to basically get to the next level. And for example in Beirut we're doing something in November 12th to 14th called startup weekend where we're getting people from all over the Arab world to go there, developers and designers and enthusiasts to go there from long weekend. On Friday they come in, they come up with an idea, team up and deliver on Sunday. It's a very excited program just in the one weekend but this is the kind of stuff that we try to do in Yalla startup basically the down and dirty approach of helping the entrepreneur from point, from idea to basically a variety. Do we have more questions? Just talk into it and we'll get going. Hello. I actually do have a question when it comes to innovation and when it comes to censorship actually. I've been out from QTL to answer that or anyone can actually talk about that a little bit. If we do want to innovate, if we do want to actually think about it, if we do want to create it and if we do want to be open, how can we open when there is censorship and when there's actually filters on data? So for the people that are listening on the web, the question is that if there are filters on the information that's available and censorship on the information that's available becomes difficult to innovate if you can't access the fundamental information for innovation. So Dr. Shaka please. Yeah, I mean for open innovation, I mean information should be available and should be accessible whenever is needed. But I'm not sure about what type of information is censored. If it has to do with, I mean something ethical or I mean, this is not within the context, but when we talk about information, that information that helps to cultivate and foster innovation and collaborative thinking. And just from the perspective of open access, the idea of open access is to create a sense of information, but typically the solution is to create filters. And so the question is whether those filters themselves are open and understandable. But I mean I don't know if that sits in the context of this panel as much as it sits perhaps in the government information panel that's coming next. So you may want to revisit that question in the next panel. Do you have more questions? We've got one there in the back. And we'll take this one as the last question. Hello. I have a question for Mr. Lucio. There was a mention that our ability to generate data more than the ability to store it as of now. Is there a possibility that we might overwrite our existing data and then what happens to the companies which are the storage companies that say your data will be stored with us forever and ever? What happens then if it all be run out of the ability to store data? Do we overwrite the existing data in that case? Well, you know, we were talking about the capability to do things from technology standpoint. From legal standpoint, it is completely different which we are not involving on it, you know. And as other people said before, you know, one thing is the technology and the technology is there. Unfortunately, you know, all the regulation and things comes later. You know, when we talk about the progress, the progress is very much made several times by people that do things and then the regulations comes after, you know. There is always a way to protect your data, to make sure that your data are yours, no matter where they are stored and the way you store it. As the example I gave before on the services, we are going to provide to a new European company the data will be stored in Qatar and the server will be in Qatar. They will act on the applications that are here as a software as a service, but they don't care because that's the way all the system is designed. I don't know if this answers your question. So I'm just going to, you know, give a couple of comments to wrap up and then we'll thank the panel and we can all go have lunch. But the first thing that sort of came out that I heard was, and we've heard this all day is really that open systems are almost unreasonably effective when compared to closed systems if you've given enough time and enough people. And so we've heard about that in software and I think that's what Hasham was talking about in terms of Red Hat is that given enough time, even these open systems can out-compete the closed systems and that was the case in the internet and that was the case in the web. Even if these systems start out as small as something like Linux or as small as something like the first web page or the earliest internet servers. A second thing I heard from actually three of the panelists was the importance of education. So it's important to think about education to put these same open systems into place in the education context. As you train people to be open, do that training itself in an open way. It's one of the reasons why we work open educational resources so much at Creative Commons is that we have to actually have open educational systems if we're going to have these sorts of open innovation systems emerge. And then the third and the point that I sort of wanted to leave on is Habib's idea that innovation is a human right. And so if we believe that innovation is a human right, there's only a few places we can start. It's very difficult for me to point at Habib and tell him to innovate. If we could do it, that's what all governments would do. But one of the things we can do is invest in the capacity of that individual to innovate. Because if enough people have the capacity to innovate and enough people have the opportunity to try to innovate, again, over time that open system is going to be unreasonably effective. And we can start by doing that by being open. We can start by using infrastructure like Creative Commons and like Mozilla to be a part of that. So with that, I'm going to stop. Turn it over to Brian and thanks again to our panel.


There will come a day far off but inevitable at some point when traditional energy sources will no longer be needed. In preparing for that day we have two critical responsibilities. One is to sustain the planet between now and then so we can pass it on to our children better than we found it. And the second is to get ahead of the curve on innovation. And we in Canada are doing just that. Canadian companies are leaders in developing technologies such as carbon capture and storage, next generation biofuels, advanced batteries for electric cars, and cleaner oil sands extraction processes, among other advances. This creates good jobs and it also helps the planet.


Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Today, Dan Friedel tells us why local Tahitians are concerned about the Olympic surfing event. Gregory Stockle and Gina Bennett bring us this week's health and lifestyle report. Finally, we hear today's lesson of the day from Jill Robbins and Andrew Smith. But first... The Summer Olympic Games this year are in Paris, France. Paris does not have an ocean. So how do organizers plan to present competition in the sport of surfing? They are taking that Olympic event halfway around the world to the South Pacific country of French Polynesia. The athletes will compete on the island of Tahiti in a small coastal village called Teahupu. The area is rural. It did not even have a road until the 1970s. Hundreds of people are expected to visit Teahupu to watch the sport as the surfers go out onto the famous waves from July 27th to August 4th. Piva Levy is a Tahitian surfer. He said the Teahupu beach was a secret spot when he first rode the waves there more than 50 years ago. But he added, it did not stay secret. Teahupu gained fame among surfers around the world in the years since. Levy said the place has a special energy, a feeling known as mana in the local language. And the people who live there want that special quality protected. There are concerns that a week of Olympic competition in Teahupu could destroy the mana and harm the environment that surrounds it. Proposed preparations for the event included building temporary housing, roads, and even a large structure out on the water. The work called for drilling into a coral reef. Opposition to the plans quickly grew. Environmentalists, locals, and surfers joined forces to protect Teahupu's culture, its corals, and other sea life. It was too much for us. A big change, said Levy, who also serves on a local environmental organization, Vai Arao Teahupu. The group told the Olympic organizers they did not want new buildings or roads. And organizers are adjusting their plans as a result. For example, they will not be building any Olympic housing. Instead, athletes will stay on a nearby boat. Homes of locals will serve other Olympic housing needs. Organizers also shrunk the size of the planned structure, a platform they will build in the ocean. Judges will watch the competition from the platform. Some people worry that the drilling into the reef will disrupt the ecosystem and attract a dangerous algae. If fish eat the algae, people who eat the fish can become sick. 22-year-old Mormon Maite is concerned about the fish in the area. Maite is a spearfisher who catches fish to feed his family. He sells what they do not need. The water is where we get our dinner, he said. Tahitians also worry that changing the reef could also change the shape of the famous waves. Levy said, if the reef cracks and breaks off, there will be no more wave over here, it will be finished for us. In December, the worries of the locals were confirmed. When a boat working on some Olympic construction hit a piece of the reef and broke it. Cindy Otsanasek, the president of Via Araotea Hupu, called the destruction deeply hurtful. She said, in Polynesian culture, people believe gods and spirits are everywhere. In the coral, in the ocean. The ocean is considered to be our most sacred temple, she said. Otsanasek said the fish live in and around the corals, so if we break a coral, we break a home. Barbara Martins Neo is a senior event manager for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organization Committee. She called the accident awful. She said, Tahitians have a special relationship with nature. And it was like a bomb for us. Since the incident, Martins Neo said, the relationship between the organizers and locals has improved. The Olympic group is moving slowly and asking for more input from the local groups. I'm Dan Friedel. Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is an experimental treatment that involves having an electrical device placed in the brain. The treatment gives patients' brains targeted electrical impulses. Researchers say DBS could help some of the nearly 3 million Americans with depression that resists other treatments. It is approved for conditions like Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. Many doctors and patients hope it will become more widely available for depression. Recent research suggests games are possible and more research is planned. However, two earlier studies showed no games using DBS for depression. Those results have slowed the treatment that involves a brain operation. Some scientists continue to raise concerns about DBS. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has agreed to speed up its study of Abbott Laboratory's request to use its DBS devices for treatment-resistant depression. Emily Hollenbeck lived with severe depression. She compared it to a black hole. She felt as though her arms and legs could barely move. She knew both of her parents had taken their lives and that her condition was dangerous. Hollenbeck, who grew up poor and sometimes homeless, suffered from signs of depression as a child. In college, after her father's suicide in 2009, she had her first period of major depression. Another happened while she was working. She was concerned she would lose her teaching job and become poor again. She went to the hospital. I ended up having sort of an on-and-off pattern, she said. Medication helped her for a while. She was able to earn a doctoral degree in psychology, although she lost her mom in her final year of graduate school. But the depression stayed with her.  She was willing to try something extreme. Her doctor then told her about DBS three years ago. Nothing else was working, she said. She became one of a few hundred people to have her depression treated with DBS. Hollenbeck is part of ongoing research at Mount Sinai West Medical Center in New York City. Her brain operation took place while she was sedated, but still awake. Dr. Brian Cappell directs Mount Sinai's Center for Neuromodulation. He placed thin metal electrodes in the part of her brain believed to control emotional behavior and is thought to be involved in feelings of sadness. The thin metal electrodes are connected by wires to a device placed under the skin of her chest. The device controls the electrical impulses sending current to her brain. Doctors involved in DBS say the impulses help because the brain uses electricity to send signals. In normal brains, Cappell said, electrical activity spreads through the brain unblocked to all areas. In depression, he said, the brain's emotional signals get blocked. He compared the problem to dancing. He said DBS seems to unstick the circuit, permitting the brain to do what it normally would. A circuit is the path unblocked electrical current takes. Hollenbeck said the effect on her was almost immediate. The first day after surgery, she started feeling a lifting of that negative mood of the heaviness, said her psychiatrist Dr. Martin Faguet. For Hollenbeck, the biggest change was finding pleasure in music again. She wishes her treatment had been available for her parents. DBS research has continued for at least 20 years. Brain expert Dr. Helen Mayberg led early research that was called promising, but large studies launched more than 12 years ago saw no difference in treated and untreated groups. Dr. Catherine Skangos is a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also researching DBS and depression. She said there could be two reasons for the major studies showing no effect. She said one reason was that the treatment was not personalized for each individual in the two studies. The second was that researchers looked at outcomes over just a few weeks. Recent research has shown more promising results for depression. A 2022 study said that on average, 60% of depression patients showed improvement with DBS. A study from 2023 said that after six months of targeted DBS treatment, 90% of subjects showed improvements. 70% were no longer considered medically depressed. Treatments being tested by teams today target individual patients more closely. The team at Mount Sinai, for example, is using brain imaging to find the right place to put electrodes in the brain. Mayberg is also with Mount Sinai.  Medical devices manufacturer Abbott Laboratories is launching a large clinical trial on patients this year ahead of a possible decision by the FDA. Skangos said, I'm hoping we will have approval within a short time. But some doctors have concerns. They point to possible dangers of having a brain operation, which include bleeding, stroke, and infection. Dr. Stanley Karoff is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He said scientists do not know the exact pathways or systems in the brain that produce depression. That makes it difficult to send the impulses to the right place. I believe from a psychiatric point of view, the science is not there. He said of DBS for depression. Hollenbeck said DBS has not cured her. She still takes medicines for depression and needs ongoing care. She recently visited Mayberg of Mount Sinai in her office and discussed recovery. It's not about being happy all the time, Mayberg told her. It's about making progress. Researchers are studying the progress patients make. Recent research by Mayberg and others published in Nature said scientists can study brain activity to see how someone is doing at any given time. Study subjects can provide data from their homes about how they feel. Subjects answer questions and send data from their devices to researchers. They also send videos where researchers can observe speech and facial movements. Additionally, patients go to Mount Sinai so researchers can collect more information about their body movements. Hollenbeck, for example, is showing faster movements as her condition improves. The data gained, combined with other information like life events, records how she is doing. This helps guide doctors' decisions about treatment like increasing the amount of electricity used, which they did once. Hollenbeck showed AP the scars on her chest and head where doctors had placed the DBS devices. To her, they were signs of how far she had come. She added, I'm able to see and remember, even on a bodily level, that I'm going to be okay. I'm Gina Bennett. And I'm Gregory Stockle. Gregory Stockle is here now to talk more about this week's health and lifestyle report. Hi, Greg. Happy to have you here. Happy to be here, Ashley. This week's story told us about research on one way to treat depression, deep brain stimulation. It is showing promise for patients. You talked about clinical trials in the story. Could you tell our listeners more about what a clinical trial is? A clinical trial is medical research studies that test if a new drug, way of eating, or medical device is safe and effective in people. Often, a clinical trial is designed to learn if a new treatment is more effective or has less harmful side effects than existing treatments. In the story, you also said that the FDA will make a decision. Can you tell us more about what that decision will mean and what the FDA does here in the United States? Sure, Ashley. So the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, regulates or governs the sale of medical device products in the United States. Before a medical device can legally be sold in the U.S., a person or company that wants to sell the device must seek approval from the FDA. All right. Well, thanks again, Greg, for being here, and thank you for that report. You're welcome. Thank you for having me, Ashley. That music means it's time for the lesson of the day on the Learning English podcast. My name is Andrew Smith, and I'm joined by Dr. Jill Robbins. Hi, Jill. Hi, Andrew. Our lesson is based on our video series, Let's Learn English. The series shows Anna Matteo in her work and life in Washington, D.C. Here's Anna introducing herself. Hello. My name is Anna Matteo. Today's lesson is based on Lesson 30 of Level 2 of the series. It's a special episode. Yes, indeed. It's special because it is the final episode of the series. And it gives Anna and her coworkers a chance to dream about the future. That's right. Every end is also a new beginning. So listen carefully to what Anna and her coworkers dream of doing. That means what they hope for the future. And listen for the I-N-G form of the verb after the two words, dream of. The episode begins when Anna and Ashley meet, and they each share what they have dreamed of doing. Anna, where are you going in such a hurry? Oh, hi, Ashley. The nurse's office. Today I get the results from my blood test. I'm sure you're fine. Don't worry.  It is such an honorable career. Is there something you've dreamed of doing? Sure. I would love to be a dog trainer. Actually, I've taught my dog Dublin lots of tricks. Well, I'm off to the nurse. Bye. Bye, Anna. Bye, Dublin. When we say, I'm off to, that is an informal way of telling someone where we are going. Anna is off to the nurse's office. After she gets there, the nurse gives Anna some advice. She tells Anna that life is short and that it's important to do something you love every day. I think the older you get, the shorter life seems. That's true. And maybe the idea that life is short is one reason people have bucket lists. A bucket is an open container that can hold about 15 to 20 liters of material. For example, you put water in a bucket to help you wash a car or clean a floor. But a bucket list is a list of the big things, the big dreams you hope to do during your life. Anna asks Jonathan about his bucket list. OK, Anna. Say something and I'll check your sound level. Testing. One, two, three. Testing. Jonathan, I've been wondering something. What's at the top of your bucket list? That's easy. I love to win the World Karaoke Contest. This is so strange. I just saw on Twitter that they are having auditions in DC this weekend.  Can you read this story by yourself? Sure, absolutely. Thanks. You go. Anna is helping Jonathan do something he's dreamed of. He has dreamed of winning a big karaoke contest. And he's not the only person she helps. Listen. Penelope, I was wondering if you still dream of being a dancer. Only every day. Well, guess what? A famous dancer is having a flash mob around the corner. Hundreds of people are dancing together. No way. If you leave right now, you can join them. A flash mob is a dance that happens like a surprise with many people dancing together in a public place. Near the end of Lesson 30, Ms. Weaver notices that Anna's coworkers have left the building. Anna suggests to her that there is something going around. When we say there's something going around, we are usually talking about an illness like the flu or a cold. But that's not what Anna really means. Listen to find out. Anna, what's going on? Where is everybody? I don't know. Maybe something is going around the office. You mean germs? Anna, you better use some of this hand cleaner.  Right. Okay, thanks. Not germs. Dreams, Ms. Weaver. Dreams. What did you say, Anna? Nothing. Nothing. Is helping her coworkers follow their dreams? Listeners, what are some of your dreams? What do you dream of doing? Are your dreams realistic and feasible? Or are they far-fetched? Far-fetched means something is very unlikely or almost impossible to happen. But feasible means it's something that you can really do. And remember, even difficult things can be feasible. So listeners, write to us at learningenglishatvoanews.com and let us know what you dream of doing. What's on your bucket list? Does your list include learning to speak English well? I bet it does. To finish today's lesson, we'll hear Professor Bott talk about following your dreams. Thanks for listening to the lesson of the day on the Learning English podcast. I'm Jill Robbins. And I'm Andrew Smith. Here's Professor Bott. Our dream is for you to keep learning English. Thanks for watching! And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world.


We found that SZR104 had a more pronounced effect than KYNA on the morphology of cultured microlia. Specifically, SZR104 caused hypertrophid microlia with larger cell bodies, increased perimeters, and higher convex hull values. Additionally, SZR104 decreased the roughness and density of the cells, while increasing the fractal dimension and maximum span across the convex hull. These results suggest that SZR104 may be more effective at reducing inflammation than KYNA. This article was authored by Melinda Sobo, Noemi Leko, Carolina Delca, and others.


Hello there, so at the beginning of this year I had done a video on ST the simple terminal and that was around the time I actually started using it after being recommended it hundreds of times by subscribers usually the recommendations I get from subscribers are terrible, but this one was good So I did a video on it but I wanted to do a little update because I've added I know a couple you guys use my build and a lot more I'll probably what might be interested so I wanted to do an update showcasing what ST can do Sort of why I use it and additional features that I've added to my build so Now ST now suckless utilities. We'll talk about them later You might know about them, but they're built to be minimalist They're built to have very few lines of code the code is supposed to be very readable So that even people who aren't big into You know or you don't really have to have a lot of program-specific knowledge to get in there and modify things and Although a lot of people think of suckless as being sort of I don't know leet Little hard to access and there's a truth to that. I've found that even though. I'm not really a programmer It's it's pretty easy to get into this program and since it's source-based Understand it now. Anyway, I'll get into all that in a second, but As I said, I've added a couple features. Here's my build of ST. It's on my github I am going to as an example just go ahead and clone it And install it just in case you don't know how to but I've added a couple features like the ability to read extra sources I've actually edited the documentation and the manual and stuff like that because people ask and Added some URL detection and stuff like that, but we'll go into that So just clone it and to install it just sudo make install it and There are some build requirements that you may not have well You'll probably have them but check the read me if you if you get some kind of error So anyway ST. I actually already had it installed. This is what it looks like, but this is what my build is Now why do I use ST first off? I will say originally I was using urx vt Which a lot of people use out there, but there are some things that urx vt is just terrible at one example out there is that urx vt is terrible and a lot of other terminals are just terrible at doing unicode ST does them perfectly well as you can see these emojis print out perfectly fine. I will say of course You do need an emoji font for this sometimes people ask me. Why doesn't it work on ST? Sometimes it's just because you don't have an emoji font I have in consolata That's a mono space font that has very good emoji coverage and well unicode coverage generally But so ST is very good at unicode characters. It's also pretty good at You know like ranger previews and stuff like that. So the images and stuff like this They're a lot more robust than they are on urx vt Now I will say there is the problem where I think if you yeah If you like mouse over to another window sometimes the image disappears But I find that in general the images are like there are a bunch of programs They just can't have it handle these image previews very well, but ST actually does a pretty decent job It's the only problem is sometimes when you mouse away from it the image disappears, but So anyway, and as I said you are this is usually thought of as being kind of a Bad thing because a lot of people are confused by it, but ST is also source-based So what I mean by that is the intended way that you're supposed to configure ST is not by changing a dot file but by going into its source files and there is a config dot H file and This is where you actually set the settings and when once you've changed the settings you just recompile it now That sounds really complicated, but it's just again running pseudo make install I actually have it bound to a Vim button. So when I'm done editing this I can just run that or something like that But it's it's not it's not so It's not it's not so difficult the nice thing about I that I found again as a non-programmer the thing that I like about some of these suckless programs ST included is there's not like a a Rigid line between what a dot file is and what like the actual program is Once you start start playing around with patches and installing things you realize that even though I never sat down and learned C or something like that I'm starting to understand how this thing works and I can make modifications if need be so I think that it is Very helpful that there's not like a border between what the user can change and what they can't if you're in this mindset of changing The actual source code sometimes you need a lot more about out of your program, but anyway, let's actually talk about this anyway so here again is the config file I'm gonna go down to my My shortcuts that I've mapped and some of these I talked about in the last video But I'll just go over them because again, I get questions about them Now by default suckless is so minimal that it doesn't even have the ability to scroll back in its history But of course, I've added this and to scroll up and down you can press alt K to go up and alt J to go down Vim keys, of course or to go up faster you and D more Vim like keys One question I get a lot is how do I zoom in on the terminal and I've mapped that to Alt shift and K that is zoom in in ST and zoom out is J again Vim keys, of course and To get it back to the normal zoom level you press alt and I think home I don't actually use that very often I really only zoom in on stuff when I'm doing videos just because I feel like people might like a little bigger text But again, all of these are changed in the source code and you just recompile it and you can get whatever you want from it But so that's that I also have mouse scroll if you hold down alt and scroll up Or I think you can hold shift and scroll up. It'll scroll back in the terminal history just the same way Now one of the big changes that I did add Let me get rid of the screen key for a second one of the changes that I have ads added since I did my last video and this is sort of at the request of a bunch of people is People sort of found it annoying that you had to recompile every time like some there are some things like maybe color Or maybe some other basic settings that you want to be able to change in a kind of dot file That's fair So I added in a patch which will actually read Some of your settings from X resources so you can set your font your colors your background You know your alpha value your transparency value that is from your X resources. So I can go over Actually, yeah, go ahead and pull up my X resources file Where you'll see that I have some a color scheme set here I have grub box as my active color scheme and I have this other one brogrammer So if I just as an example, so let's what is Space yeah, so here what my colors will look like now I can't just go in here I can comment these out and uncomment these and Oh, yeah, you do have to you know, it is an X resources file So you have to run XRDB X resources Vim just runs it automatically for me on my you know in my Vim configuration But so I can go here and you'll see that there's a slightly different color in this terminal since we have changed them Changed these settings here. So you can vary easily with my newer build of ST You can easily change color settings or something else like that. Let me get rid of I don't actually like that color scheme that much But you know, it's fine So you can also change your alpha value again. My default is 220. Let's say we want it really transparent I can change it to 150 and that's what that looks like or let's say we don't want transparency at all change it to 255 and Go over here and that's what that's gonna look like. So again these settings you don't have to change your You you don't have to recompile it. You don't even have to have the source code. You can just you know, as I said ST will automatically read any of these Settings from your extra sources file. So that's one thing I have added in Additionally, just because I feel like I should because people use my you know my build or whatever I did actually add all the new stuff into the man So if you type in man ST once you install my build all the stuff will come up all the bindings and another thing Oh, I didn't mention a second ago. I forgot. I do have the ability to copy and paste So if I want to copy this stuff just alt C and I can paste it in with alt V or Shift insert because some terminals have shift insert as they're as they're um, I don't know They're paste command or something like that. So that is another thing as well But the other thing that I added in I think I just pushed this to the repo a couple days ago or something But the other thing I added in is okay. It's opaque. It's sort of annoying me Let me let me actually change this back to the what I had it before So what I added a couple days ago, let's say I have some I out put some text And here's the text of my website and there are some URLs in here that I want to follow now I could copy and paste them But that requires a mouse and as far as I'm concerned using the mouse is like pulling teeth for me I just don't like it. Just not my thing So what you can do is said let me actually close out of this browser so you can see it when it spawns So what I added recently there's a nice little well I'll just show you how it works You can type in alt and then L and that will give you a D menu list of all of the links that appear on ST on this particular window of ST right now So I can let's say I want to follow this link I can just click on that and it's gonna pop up in a browser It just uses XDG open or whatever to you know pop up So there's my link I can follow that So I added this just a couple days ago you can of course I mentioned before you can use What is it called URL scan or URL view for some programs? But it's nice just being able to actually so what the patch actually is I close out of it What the patch what the patch actually is is External pipe it just takes all of the content on ST and pipes it to some other program And I just stole the example from the suckless site, which just pipes it to oh Yeah, I should say that that feature requires Xurls to be installed just so so mind that you have to install Xurls But once you have that you should be able to have this little feature with D menu Oh, yeah, and D menu has to be installed But so anyway, that's about it again if you want to get my build of ST You can just go to github and go to Which my github is Luke Smith XYZ and it's just ST and you can get clone it and install it yourself I'm thinking about adding it to the AUR maybe I'm not entirely sure But I might do that just because I know a lot of guys use it and it would actually be easier for me since I have you know The the larves installer of my dot files. It would actually be easier to read it from the the AUR or whatever But that's about it if you have any other suggestions for you're free to make them any other questions and You can check the documentation or anything if you you know if there are anything Anything that might arise from that, but I hope you learned something check it out if you're interested and see you next time


What's up everybody, I'm EvilRabbit and we're here on a set of Corsa Bushido series round three qualifying is gonna be getting Underway here very shortly So we're gonna be running some practice in the vet some final practices before we head into the driver's meeting and stuff like that I'm gonna guys give you a little it look into the driver's meeting Which I will record the driver's meeting and stuff like that as well as my runs from different angles and stuff like that So you guys can see my qualifying runs and then we will digest the runs and talk about them Well, tell you guys how the rounds gonna go if we qualify in if we don't what we learned what we didn't so Round three Bushido series qualifying and stuff is today so we are going to run some practice before we actually hit into the driver's meeting and everything like that and Well, let's hopefully we can get some solid runs in on practice before we actually go into our qualifying runs. I Do have a fairly fairly comfortable tune dialed in and I did turn off Because there is Well, I did turn off my tire blanket because The Bushido series does not allow tire blankets So we have to worry about heating up our tires and so like that We're gonna run it without heating up and see how this works So if you guys remember my runs when I was testing for this round After getting a tune pretty comfortable in I'm pretty comfortable in the car and super excited to get in the qualifying And Realized about down to the second gear is gonna help me tremendously in that section So that's not a bad run at all So a little bit shaky, but I'm you know was just kind of thrown it out there real quick Now that our tires a little bit warmed up Which I think is what we're gonna have to do is warm up for tires a little bit before I run That's gonna be just a determination of how they have Their track temperatures and everything, but I will be able to test that before my qualifying run When the session actually opens We go that's good Carrying the line cut that a little bit shorter than I wanted to but Deep on that zone so like I said definitely getting very comfortable in the car and The way it feels I feel like I will be able to throw down at least two qualifying runs you guys remember round one I did double zero both my qualifying runs at Susuba by accidentally Go into tears off course on the first run and then looping it on the final section My second one I go in second that's now I want to do not do that in qualifying So I have gotten more comfortable on throttle control that one was way off way off clicks More smooth on throttle control because I'm going to definitely need to stay Kind of consistently on throttle and not be stabby I know the judges are listening to the cars and stuff like that So I don't want to be stabby in my throttling because being stabby will probably Subtract points for me in the long run Little bit linear on the throttle Popped on the second oh a little wall tap, but unfortunately that was a Is that curse of that one? So let's take a look at That run from the outside before we hit the wall because I feel like that was a decent run until we uh Kind of bopped into the wall. So let's take a look at that and Then we're gonna pretty much just hop into the drivers meeting Give you guys a chance to take a listen in a driver's meeting for the Bushida series series So that you guys see you know what we're told it they'll explain the driving lines stuff like that You know, so for those who are not competing and be kind of a look into What is there looking for when it comes to runs and stuff like that? So that was pretty a pretty flowy entry and a pretty flowy run there in The beginning that was pretty good as well So a little bit outside on that line, but and then here's where it kind of went wrong right there It kind of ran that one wide to wide. So we're gonna hop into the drivers meeting I believe the drivers meeting is gonna start here very soon Give you guys a chance to listen to the drivers meeting and see what they're looking for We'll take a look at the course map and everything as well. So let's just go hop into it How's everyone doing so sorry about the delay appreciate everyone being patient and of course we have almost Got all the lists ready if you guys haven't taken a look at the line map, please do open it up or Review it here with us as well. I hope everyone has read the rulebook. Just so you're aware For today, I will be judging angle. We have Tyler Nelson Doing line and we've got five doing style We've got quite a bit of people. We've got screenshots taken And we'll have the quality sheet ready here in just a moment with all the groups So I will go through what I'm looking for an angle and then we'll go with Tyler Talking about what he would like to see online and we'll finish with five seeing what he likes to see with style in terms of angle, of course once you guys to Get some big angle on the entry you guys know me I like the angle and of course with that immediate slow down. You're gonna need the angle slow down Here that big angle through a clip to in a clip three start to You know lose that angle a little bit. So you're not having to Slime on the brakes or something to get your car to rotate back And then you're gonna flick into getting ready for a clip four With some big angle there, but you've got a big turn coming up So make sure you don't flick too hard so you can carry that through the clip five fill that outside zone And then start wrapping it in to clip three and you're gonna have to slow down there a little bit I would like to see it done with some angle you guys. So big angle on clip six and Of course flip it back around for a clip seven and then finish it out with strong big angle coming in at eight and Through the finish line so not looking for a huge angle on the finish line obviously, I try to get close to that wall and Yeah, mainly just on the transitions. I want to see you know big angle snap the transitions But apply the angle where it's needed for trying to reach a next clip, you know Don't don't slam on the left foot brake there and with that on to Tyler How's it going? All right, so This is a pretty flowy track Line is kind of it's there.  You can almost keep the same angle from Clip four all the way to clip three Or sorry clip six and After clip six you can three you can be a little snappier with your transition or whatever you're comfortable with but Right back out to the zone and I want to finish out strong on the wall You don't want to lose power just because you get in the zone and you kind of angle out and lose power That people are gonna get bunched up behind you So you want to just kind of start to pull the angle out a little bit so you can keep speed through the finish and Not really park it but other than that. Yeah, it's a real flowy track. It's a lot of outside zones and Basically if your tires are in the zone, I'm gonna count it Because I'm sure the cars are a little different.  We'll hold the questions here until after fire. Go ahead with what you'd like to see for style Hello, I am ficarious. I will be judging style today as soon as previously mentioned Styles pretty self-explanatory You know, I'm gonna be looking specifically for aggressive flicks How close you're getting to the wall? How much angle you've got? How close you are to lead vehicle self? Um That's yeah, that's pretty much it. It's it's I do wish y'all the best luck though and we're gonna get things Cool. So with that floor is open for questions guys. Please let us know if you want to type it in the chat room will Next will be Rasmus Andrew when you ready, please A lot of Chevy Corvettes in this group. That's for sure. We're gonna be searing a lot of American v8 Ain't nothing wrong with it. Nothing at all great entry by Andrew Just barely dropping that tire as he comes into clip three Let's see how he does against clip four here Not bad trying to fill it out right in near the end there Got it together There he goes Andrew Cazora's first run not too shabby Next will be a Rasmus Andrew when you're ready to do a very good job. We have Andrew Cazora Coming in for his second run here Sitting on a 70 looking good through the course here that first sector Getting all the way out there does drop the tire just for a second. Oh Looks like you shifted into the wrong gear, but stay on it even with the wall tap Andrew Cazora going for broke on his second run All right, so with my qualifying runs done in the books I did get a 70 on my first run and a 75 on the second one with that pretty Pretty intense wall hit and I was lucky that I was able to keep control of the car with that wall hit So with my scores being 70 and 71 they held out pretty well for staying in the top 32 for most of the driver's runs until the last 32 drivers Qualified the last 32 were the ones that actually qualified in To round 2 so they're definitely Drivers and skill set so my run my 75 Was my best run and that was kind of my cutoff score and that set and stayed for a Very good time until like I said those last 32. So unfortunately, I did not qualify for round Round three of Bushido series here at Rockingham, but I learned a lot. I learned, you know You know getting the car set up getting more comfortable in this car and I was able to complete two runs Did a lot better than round one And I was super excited that you know, they have a complete two full runs Getting rid of some of those competition jitters that you know a lot of people get the nerves and everything to happen You know even though it's something you do all the time you still get nervous when there's people watching me and stuff like that so With my runs. I was happy with how I did it could I have gotten better one that second one looked like it was Very promising, but that wall hit was definitely Definitely a big deal, but you know it got the judges talking and they were kind of excited about it And I stayed in I was able to complete the run. So and I got a better run than my first one so With not qualifying for round three I was not super sad because I was able to accomplish something that I didn't do around one Which was actually nailed to qualifying runs. So moving on to round four definitely getting more comfortable in this car definitely more Solid in my driving when it comes to driving this Corvette, and it will probably stay I'm not gonna change cars or anything like that because I found Sometimes it's better just to stay in the same car that we're you know that I was running instead of switching up all the Time and changing it around and stuff like that. So I hope you guys enjoyed this little look at round three and You know make sure you saw me in Instagram and Twitter all which found scripture box below Looking at the drivers meeting from the judges what they were expecting to see and my runs from the judges Perspective and my own so looking forward to the next round looking forward to having more fun It leaves the next round is probably gonna be in two weeks. So as always, I thank you guys for watching. I'm evil rabbit I'll see you guys on the track