Hi, Myself Dr. Manor Badarappa, Consultant Urologist and Neel Transplant Surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Sarjapur Road. My topic is role of keyhole surgeries in real life transplantation. The laparoscopic technique has revolutionized the living kidney transplantation and has made donation more appealing compared to open technique where they used to retrieve the kidney at the 11th or the 12th rib incision the laparoscopic technique in which we use small holes and retrieve the kidney from the bed line incision there are lot of advantages for the donor. So since the outcome with both the donor and the laparoscopic technique was same the laparoscopic technique and as more advantages like the better outcome, the early recovery then the patient will be discharged at the earlier date and also most importantly the aesthetic scar has made the laparoscopic technique one of the more accepted procedure in case of renal transplantation.


the parable of the long-handled spoons. A holy man was having a conversation with God one day and said, God, I would like to know what heaven and hell are like. God led the holy man to two doors. She opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.  They then went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one.  The people here were equipped with the same long handled spoons. However, the people here were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, I don't understand. It is simple, said God. It requires but one skill. You see, they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves. This is an old but gold kind of parable that has a pretty popular following. Although the tale has been told in almost every culture and religion, everywhere from Hindu to Buddhist to the Abrahamic faiths, most sources credit it to Rabbi Haim of Ramshishak and say that it originated in Jewish folklore. Now, there are many interpretations of this parable, depending on the cultural context, but the bottom line is a message of kindness that encourages people to be good to each other. The parable often suggests that people have the opportunity to use what they've been given. In this case, long spoons and stew, or in the Chinese version, rice and long chopsticks to help nourish each other. But the core problem lies in how people treat each other. In other words, given the same level playing field, one group of people who treat each other well will create a pleasant environment for everyone, where everyone is fulfilled, happy and working together for mutual benefit. Whereas another group of people, given the exact same tools to work with, can create unpleasant conditions simply by how they treat each other. Sometimes we get so caught up in all the chaos of our own lives that we forget that everyone else is also going through their own troubles as well, and that sometimes, by reaching out a hand and helping others, both of you can benefit. In fact, it's often said that this is a great technique for helping with depression and anxiety. Doing something meaningful for someone else and helping someone who needs it actually give you a great boost of self-esteem and help you gain perspective and tackle your problems from a new angle. More abstractly speaking, I think this parable is speaking to how we have the ability to create our own reality. If you put out an energy of compassion and help those around you, that's what you're going to manifest in your life. But if you choose to retreat inward, close yourself off and focus only on your own wants and desires and ignore everyone else, simply put, you get what you give. Perhaps the only difference between heaven and hell is how we choose to experience life.


Hello, my name is Marcin Gil. I'm working for Cloud Ferro as a support expert. And today I will show you the introduction to our platform, CRO-Odias, the Copernicus platform for Earth observation data, access and processing. Here is the agenda for today. So I will talk a little bit about CRO-Odias platform architecture, about available data collections, both free and paid, high resolution. And I will present briefly how to use two important CRO-Odias tools, EO-Browser and EO-Finder. And I will present shortly how to create virtual machine, which you can use for both some calculations and some processing of satellite data. After that, we will have questions and answers session. And a small anchor here. So what is CRO-Odias platform? CRO-Odias platform consists of several modules. One of them is CRO-Odias portal. So the place where you can start, you can register, you can access all our necessary tools. The other module is EO-Finder. This is the application used for finding necessary data, satellite data that you are looking for. Then EO-Browser that allows you to make some basic processing, sometimes even more advanced, but I will just show you briefly how to make some visualizations of some areas. And Cloud Dashboard called Horizon. This is OpenStack application, which you can use to create your virtual resources. So virtual machines, volumes. You can use your object storage. And also on CRO-Odias platforms, on CRO-Odias platforms are our partners who have their own applications. So this third-party applications is for all of you that if you want to use both for business or for research, considering the technical aspects, the EO data is stored on storage, on big storage. Now it's several, about 15 or 16 petabytes of data. We gather satellite data from various resources and we store it on object storage. We have also a big cache. This is part of object storage that is for additional purpose. So for some products that are not existing on our platform, you can process them yourselves and they will be put on cache. And you can also use your storage on your domain. When you register, you have your own domain and you can store your private collections, both for you and you can also serve it to the world. You can access the data using various protocols, most often our users are using NFS, so Network Fight Storage Notify System or S3, but also you can use HTTP and you can also use using Sentinel Hub. This is the application on our platform that is not on our platform. In fact, but generally it is partly on our platform, it's made by our partner Synergize. So you can both search the data, you can access the data, you can store it. So generally our cloud services consists of computes, so servers, applications that you can call function as a service but specialized function as a service that you can use for processing data and you can also have block storage and the storage that you can use as additional disks, object storage, which you can access using S3 protocol or Swift protocol and you can also connect your virtual resources with virtual networks that you can compose yourself. This are the flavors that you can use in our virtual resources. So from the very small machines like your 1x small, which is one V-core and one gigabyte of RAM and eight gigabyte of SSD, the bigger ones, most of the machines are based on Intel processors but we have also flavors based on AMD processors. We have also specialized virtual flavors that are dedicated for memory-intensive computing. So they have bigger RAM, like for instance, HM-4x large, which has 440, 496 processors. 6 gigabytes of RAM. And we have also servers that are equipped with GPU. So here you can see the GPU medium that is equipped with GPU card and also on some servers we have pre-installed ArcGIS. So you can also use the paid software and another group of servers are servers called dedicated servers. The difference between this and previous ones is that dedicated servers are stand-alone servers that you do not share with anybody else. So you have full access to all the V-cores and you have also access to fast disks and VME, which allows you to use it for instance as a cache for very heavy intensive calculations. And also special machines are DS-large with GPU. As you can see, you can have the dedicated servers with GeForce GTX-20 ATTI. Information, here's the link to the information about all our servers and so you can check on our site. And now let's talk about the data collections. The basic data collections are sentinels because we are cooperating with European Space Agency and these are the data sets that are available, so sentinel 1, sentinel 2 and 3, depending on the products and instruments we have both full archives and in some of them we have last six months and also mainly it is available for Europe but also we have some products are available for the whole world. And some products that are not available directly on our platform, you can order. Ordering is for free. You just have to be logged in and registered as crowd-use user. You can order the products which are not directly available on our storage and then the products will be stored on this additional cache that I was describing before and it's quite a big cache. So far we didn't have to clear the cache as with most of the products that our customers were ordering there are still existing there. There is also sentinel 5P, sets of Landsat 5, 7, 8, NBSAT and SMOS. Additionally we have data called as crowd-use service data and other data collection like Copernicus services and other collections like DEM, JSON-free and S2-GLC. And also we have cooperation with other providers of satellite data Gening, KazooSat and CompSat. This data is high resolution and this is commercial service. So if you are interested, you can select the sets of data that you would be interested in and contact our sales department and then we will get this data from the operators and put it in this case. We put such data on dedicated storage that is dedicated to the user that ordered the data. So it's not available as data in our big cache. In cache it is, if you order the data in a cache from sentinels for instance then it is available for everyone because generally sentinel data is for free. So here are the links to the pages that you can have some deeper and more detailed information about our data offer and you can also visit sentinel essa to see the user's guide about the data which is stored on our storage. And now I will show you the tools that are available on our platform. Just a moment. I have to share my screen. So I will share my screen. Okay. So this is the main page, from which you can access all of our important resources. Here on the docs you can see the information about various information and also some tutorials. So for instance in frequently asked questions we have plenty of tutorials designed to help you in managing the virtual resources and collecting the data, looking for the data. So many technical details I explained here. The other important thing is how to contact us. So on contact us there is information how to contact our support. So if you have any problems please contact any of these addresses. If you are registered user you can send information to us directly from the email and this will create a ticket. If not you can also do it from the page. So for instance I will login as John Doe. So I will show you how it looks like my page when I am logged in. And if I am logged in I can go to account home and then I can see information about my resources. So I can see for instance the bidding of my virtual resources. So for instance here is the bidding for April. And I can go to support and then I can see the tickets that I created and I can submit a new ticket. I can also order from here I can order new resources. And here on this menu you can see some additional information like pricing, information about data. But now I will go to the tools and show you our main tools like EO Finder. So clicking on EO Finder I will be directed to this page and this page gives me a possibility to look for products that I am interested in. So for instance let's say that I want to check for products that were created between 1st of April till today I can choose the processor but let's now first choose the collection. So let's say I am looking for Sentinel-3 and if I can also use the polygon selection so let's say I am looking for some data in Africa and having this I can click search and this shows me that EO Finder found about 1800 products. Here I can see the basic data how big this data is and when I click on some of the products I can see that for some metadata and I can either download it myself or I can use this path to check this product or get this product from my virtual machine. So this is the main tool for looking for products for looking for collections that I would be interested in and I can in some cases the products are so called offline so let's clear this so I clear all and now I can use processors for processing so let's say I want to download the offline products so products that are not available on our platform and it shows me that they are on Sentinel-1 for instance so let's search for such products type so I need to use type okay if it is a big amount of products so it takes a little bit time for searching so let's wait a moment okay well this was big amounts 40, 400,000 products when I click on one of them I can see that this product is so called orderable so now as I'm logged in I can add it to my basket so if I click add it appears on the cart now I can choose also other products but let's say that I have this one when I go to cart I can see that this product is ready for being ordered so I can for instance give it a name jam-do-01 and I can click order and then this product is being put into the queue and in this queue I have to check when I click again on orders I can see some other products that already I was ordering before and here is the product that I ordered right now this is in a state of queue at the moment so this is ordering products and on the help I can see some information how to order the products from using Finder API and how to use Scrodias Finder so you can find some tutorials here also how to order products okay so now I will look I will show you some other information so let's now go to see the EO browser so EO browser is another tool it's made by our partner Synergize it allows you to visualize some data based on also on information that you're looking for so for instance let's just a moment because I see it's still loading and you can also choose the dates and various collections so let's say you're looking for a Sentinel 2 in these dates when I click search it shows me various collections that it found in this area so you can browse it on the panel on the left so let's check for instance this when I click on visualize it gives me visual representation of this data in this area this is area of Warsaw so I can also zoom in and zoom out and see some information I can use some filters like false color for instance it takes some time for recalculation so please be patient okay so this is the same picture the same image shown in false color and you can also use some some customization so if you click on custom you can use various bands and you can use some javascript also to process some basic product to make some basic processing okay so now let's go back to the presentation the next item is okay so it seems that my internet connection is very bad so I'm sorry I apologize if you have some lags hearing me or seeing my screen but I'm doing the presentation from home okay so now I will show you how to set up virtual machine so I will share again the screen and go again back to Claudia's I can I can create virtual machine using this button order now and here I can choose various virtual resources like servers and and also additional storage but I will show you another way which is a little bit more flexible and gives you some additional advantages and to do it you need to go to your cloud environment when I when I'm logged in when I click on your cloud environment I'm redirected to the main page of OpenStack Dashboard which is called Horizon and I have two choices I can either use OpenID Connect or Keystone Credentials when I click on OpenID Connect I will be directed to the page using single sign-on so I don't have to put my credentials again and if I want to log in for instance you can give access to some other persons that don't have access to your to your Claudia's site but can have access to Horizon then they can use Keystone Credentials so now I will use the simple way that is OpenID Connect Quick Connect of course many of this information there is more detail you can find on our on our page so please check there some tutorials and if you don't find the information that you're looking for please remember to contact our support so us and we will try to help you as soon as possible okay so this is the main dashboard showing the resources in my project my domain is number 02722 and when I click on this menu at the top I can see that I have several projects projects are separated entities so in each project you can have another set of virtual machines virtual resources and they are separated from each another so they cannot communicate on the internal network but of course they can communicate through the internet but let's now stay with this so project I can check project for instance project with L without L this is in fact some historical remain because previously there was distinction that one project was has had access to your data and another one did not but now all the projects have access to your data so it's in fact up to you which projects you choose and you can also create your own additional project like this here and you can create at least remember that by default these two projects are created on with L and without L and they have routers allowing you to connect to the external world to the internet if you create your new project you have to set up your new router if you want to have access to the internet which is described in one of our tutorials so please check there this shows my limits so for instance on my account I cannot create more than 30 instances and use more than 9.5 terabytes of RAM for instance if you need more please contact us I will change this limits of course so it's just by default and now let's create simple virtual machine I will create it here and click on instances as you can see there is already one virtual machine that I created some three weeks ago and I gave it the name but I will create a new one so I will click launch instance one more important thing before showing this I will show you the network that is here so I can see either network topology or typical representation of my network as you can see there are three routers router 02722 router external 2 and as you can see the external 3 does not have router this means that you cannot attach if you create a new virtual machine you cannot use the pool of addresses that are allocated to external 3 because each of these external so external external 2 and external 3 has its own pool of floating IP floating IP, floating addresses and if I go to floating IPs you can see that I have already two floating IPs allocated to my project to this project, to my domain and they are attached to external 3 however as I don't have router in external 3 I would have to create it otherwise it will not be usable at all but I will not create router during this presentation because it's a little bit more complicated and this is introduction so I will only try to allocate another IP address but from external 2 so let's see there is free IP address it seems that there is no IP address in this external 2 so in fact I don't, so I will use it a little bit different so I can go to compute this means that they are this floating IPs external 2 have already been used allocated by some other projects so I don't have access to them so I would need to use external 3 but in external 3 I don't have the router so let's do another way I will go to another project in which I know that I have router created already so I already logged in as another user now let's see if I have what elements and what routers I have available okay I can see that here I also have only external 1 and 2 and I check another project so in this project project with L I have router external 3 configured so I will use this project of course I use the trick because I changed the project as another user but in your case in fact if you register now you will have by default the router external 3 so you will not have these problems as I experienced today okay so now I will go to instances I already have plenty of other virtual machines here but I will create a new one so let's start so I click on launch instance I put a name so let's call it webinar now I choose another pane it's called source and here in source I can choose from images so both CentOS, Ubuntu Windows Windows with ArcGIS Windows 2019, Windows 2016 you can use for instance Ubuntu with QGIS already pre-installed of course if you install your machine like we will do so for instance with Ubuntu 20 you can install other software yourself so you can also for instance install QGIS yourself if you want so now let's choose Ubuntu 20 I click on arrow up it shows me that it's already chosen now I have the choice whether to ah sorry one more information you can choose the select boot source this is what I told you that this horizon this open stack dashboard gives you more possibilities than buying from Claudia's site so if you create of course if you create virtual machine here you need to if you want to create virtual machine you need to have credits on your account and if you don't have credits and you just want to try our platform you can get 150 euro credits from us for free so you can test it and if you create virtual machine here it will be used as a pay-per-use mode this means that as long as it is used you pay for this if you delete the machine you don't pay for this so you don't lose your credits so this is another difference from buying from Claudia's site and you can also use you can make snapshots of the virtual machine you can create also volumes with operating system so it's bootable volume so you can start your virtual machine from bootable volume but in our case we will choose the simplest way so first time choose image and you can also choose the option create new volume yes or no by default it is no if you create yes then you can choose the size of your main disk of your operating system disk so this is also another option and you can also choose whether you want to delete it or not for instance if you create or no delete volume on instance delete no then after deletion of the instance the bootable volume will stay in your domain and you can start a new machine again from this volume so now I will choose create new volume no I will choose flavor now so you can have this plenty of flavors that I showed you before let's choose the small one now networks so this is what I told you that you can choose to which external network it will be attached let's choose external free network ports this you do not have to do anything security group is important because security group allows you to choose to limit the access to your virtual machine by default you have a security group called allow ping SSH RDP which means that you can ping it you can SSH this machine you can access it through RDP if you have RDP server installed and you can also create your own security group so let's choose this simple one allow ping SSH RDP and now keeper so I will use my my keeper there is a way to that is you need in case of Linux machines you should use keeper so private and public key if I click on this arrow this means that the keeper that is stored here sorry the keeper that is stored here you can see this this is the keeper public key that is added to this project will be attached to the virtual machine and you can access it using your private keeper that your private key that you have on your machine and now click on configuration this you do not have to change anything so in fact this button is already active so you can click on change instance ok so now as you can see the instance named webinar is being spawned so in a moment it will be creating it's already created I can choose various various actions here like associate.ep attach detach volume reboot rebuild rebuilding means changing the flavor so the basic thing usually is to associate floating ip so I click on associate floating ip now I choose from I can choose from existing addresses but I'm not sure I think they are from external free if not they will have error so I click on if there is no ip here I can click on plus and this it will look for a new ip address and allocate it to my project so I click on this one and here important thing is to choose the proper part in this case ah sorry I did not attach your data I forgot to attach your data so I will do it in a moment now I click on associate ok so now this is associated but I did not attach the your data if I want to have access to your data from my virtual machine I need to attach it so I forgot to do it when creating but I can do it now and select network so I need to attach your data ok so as you can see this virtual machine has already attached networks and I can see it here clicking on console so here if I put your console this is the default user on this machine I need to now add some password double twice but in fact I can so I'm logged in already so if I click on alas for instance I can see that I can see I can see some directories but the more easy way because here you cannot copy and paste for instance is to use the SSH so I will go to my to my terminal and I will use this address and type SSH user so this is another user as you could see previously I was using EO console but when accessing from SSH I need to use EO user and copy the address and if I do not put any key here it means that it will use my default my default key I will show you in a moment but if I click enter now it showed me the warning because I previously used this address so I need to so this is very normal so I need to use this this to clear this problem and once again SSH confirm yes so I'm now logged in to my virtual machine if I see the EO data LS I can see the collections that are already directly accessible from my virtual machine okay so just briefly I will show you how to use this I can see that my time is finishing so I need to hurry up a little bit so I will only show you the when I go to finder and when I search any like Sentinel-1 for instance from a weak search click on the click on the product as you can see there is a path product and identify if I copy this path Ctrl C and paste it here like CD this path and now LS this is the this are the products that are already so this are the I have access to this product from my virtual machine so I can use it for processing okay so this is the basic very basic introduction and I will now go back to the presentation and before questions and answers I want to tell you about one more thing we have the program called Okra open cloud for research environment so it provides funding for scientific and research institutions and we are a qualified Okra supplier for all European countries and we will have a webinar on this on 29th of April so if you are interested please register and the cloud services we offer open source based available on both virtual machines and dedicated servers and dGPU and Kubernetes so all this with access to gian network so please we welcome you to access this so thank you very much thank you I hope you had interesting information here are the links that you can use to contact us if you have any additional questions problems then please contact us and happy processing on the platform thank you


So as you all know, it's currently the case that the U.S. government, Donald Trump's administration, as well as cable news, they're trying to build a case as to why we should intervene in Venezuela. No, they may not necessarily say that we should intervene militarily, overly, but intervene in whatever sense we possibly can, whether it's sanctions, whether it is, you know, doing something that undermines that government and how they try to sell this to us, is they say, look, this is a humanitarian issue. If you care about human rights, then how could you not want us to step in and save the Venezuelan people from oppression? Well, here's why. Let me share a story with you. This is from Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams in an unprecedented revelation that highlights the consequences of the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan. The United Nations announced Wednesday that the U.S.-backed forces killed more Afghan civilians than the Taliban and other armed anti-government groups did in the first three months of the year. A new quarterly report from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan shows that pro-government forces, including both Afghan and international troops, killed 305 civilians from January to the end of March. That compared with 227 civilians killed by anti-government elements, such as the Taliban and ISIS. There were 49 unattributable deaths, which includes those caught in crossfire. Now, when you look at the bar graph that was referenced in this article, as you can see, U.S.-backed forces killed a majority at 53% of all deaths within the first quarter of 2019. That's 305 people. Anti-government forces killed 39%. And the unattributable deaths currently sit at 8% overall. And that's 49 deaths in total. So this is exactly why you should never believe the U.S. government and cable news pundits when they tell you that we need to intervene for humanitarian reasons. Because when we do that, we just make matters worse. Now, theoretically speaking, I would be in favor of humanitarian intervention. In the event I actually had any trust in the U.S. government, but I don't. Currently, there is a genocide going on in Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims. In an ideal world, I would love the U.S. government to step in and get them to stop that. But do I trust that the government could actually do that? No, they'd only make matters worse. So understand that the reality of the situation is that if somebody tells you we need to intervene for humanitarian reasons, we're just going to make matters worse. Now you can argue along the lines of the Sam Harris defense and say, well, our intentions are pure. We're never trying to kill more people. It doesn't matter. Functionally, if we cause more harm than good by intervening, our stance should by default be don't intervene. Just be non-interventionist. Because even if it makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable to sit by and see things happen in the world that I would like to stop, understand that when you say the U.S. government should intervene, you're a greenlighting more deaths and destruction. Because that's what our military causes. Now understand this. As commander-in-chief, the buck stops with Donald Trump. The buck stops with him. He is in the most powerful position in the world. And he could stop all of this. But he has not. And in fact, his actions have exacerbated the problem. Why? Because he's literally taken action to loosen the rules of engagement when it comes to air wars, drones, for example. So our bombing since he took office has become increasingly indiscriminate and opaque. So this is the result of Donald Trump's policies. He also increased drone strikes by 400%. His very first military raid led to the death of an American girl. So there is absolutely no justification for American wars, including humanitarian wars, because there's no such thing as a humanitarian war if the U.S. is getting involved. That's just the reality. And shout out to Tulsi Gabbard, who actually states this very explicitly. There's no such thing as a humanitarian war. Humanitarian wars is basically used to justify intervention that ends up leading to more devastation and deaths than if we just left it alone. Because remember, what was the argument? You know, in addition to weapons of mass destruction, once they couldn't make that argument when the evidence didn't pan out, they were saying, well, you know, Saddam Hussein is a very bad person. He's oppressing his people. They said the same thing about Gaddafi and Libya. And if you look at those situations, we made matters worse. We catalyzed a civil war in Iraq in Libya. They literally have open slave trades now because of us. Now, that's not to say that Gaddafi was a wonderful person, but did he bring stability? Could he have prevented literally slave trades and slave markets? Yeah. So the point that I want to get across to people is that we need to mind our own business. Mind our own business. Because, again, I'd love to say that I trust that my government could do good. I'd love to say that my government could intervene and stop atrocities from happening. But the fact of the matter is that they can't. And they don't often by choice. They just make matters worse. They exacerbate conflict. And even if they try to do something where they don't get directly involved, they end up arming the wrong people. And it's clear that nobody understands what's happening in these foreign countries. The amount of intelligence that you receive, the amount of experts you get does not give you a crystal ball to be able to anticipate the ramifications of our military action in these countries. So with that being said, we just can't do it. We can't intervene. So I really hope that Americans start learning, and I think most already know this, that humanitarian wars and the plea for humanitarian intervention, it's a red herring. It's a Trojan horse for us to intervene and do more harm than good.


Moving to my next point, the social effects of high property prices in Hong Kong, this can perhaps best be illustrated by the study of the Tokyo property bubble by Dorothy Chan in 2009. As you can see from the slide, that research showed that four out of five university graduates living in Tokyo were more likely to stay living with their parents well into their late 20s and even mid-30s if the property prices were seen to be too high for fresh graduates. As that paper argued, this means that these so-called parasite singles can still be dependent on their parents and they often even lack basic domestic skills. Chan gave the example of adult males not being able to boil an egg, while adult females could not use a washing machine or iron their clothes. However, there are some problems of trying to translate the findings of this study to Hong Kong. First, the sample size used by Chan was very small, with only 15 males and nine females being interviewed. Second, the family social structure in Tokyo is different to that of Hong Kong. Therefore, it is questionable whether all the social effects of a property bubble as seen in Tokyo will also be seen in Hong Kong. Perhaps younger people in Hong Kong are more independently minded, so they would not want to stay living with their parents. Instead, they might share flats with friends. More details of this paper are in the reference list at the end of my presentation if you'd like to find out more. My next point concerns the possibility of social upheaval.