So we're here at the Mobile World Congress 2023 here in Shanghai and Hai. So please introduce yourself. Okay, yeah, sure. Welcome to Lenovo, the show. Yeah, this is about the smart campus. And the solution is the robot is for the remote checking.  It can do it automatically, autonomously, or need to control it. Yeah, so from these solutions, the management team over the remote, so they can, in a real life status, a life environment to see the status of the factory or the campus. Okay, let's walk around. So which part do you talk about here at the booth? This part. Is that also a Lenovo robot? Is that a kind of robot? This solution, the robot, is especially for the power transportation. And you're controlling it? Nice. I'm not going to kick it. Yeah, we use this solution in a real customer case for the state grid. In this case, because the environment is not for... So like here, for example, it shows a dangerous place for humans to go and the robot will take care of it. Yeah, this is dangerous or it is not easy for men to check. This solution solves the problem. So this part, all this screen is all about smart manufacturing. As Lenovo is a global leading manufacturing company, so we are very proud. We are leading in several fields such as the global manufacturing management supply chain and research, especially supply chain. So we are the number eight in top 25 arcana ranking. All right. So this is the overall of the solution. Yeah, overall of the solution. So Lenovo, we can provide the smart research, smart manufacturing, smart supply chain, sales and service and operation and IT transformation. So all the solutions are running on our digital base. So we have our eyes, our G-pass and our V-pass. So nice. And what did I see here on this screen here? What is that? Yeah, this is all about the city management. Yeah. Particularly the screen is about the city contingency management platform. Yeah. So it's like fire trucks and... Not only fire trucks. So this platform, we're collecting the data from the fire department, from the community and from the weather forecast department and from the travel. So in China, we have the department of contingency. So this department, they need to know the status of the community, of the traffic, if anything is going wrong. So they can know it immediately and they can take this. So every city will have a screen like this somewhere at the control center? Yeah, more or less, I would say. So this is a solution from Lenovo. Nice. And what more you show around here? Yeah. So this is all some solution about the city management. So this is for the... we use the edge, the computer edge and the 5G solutions to manage the huge amount of video stream. And so when we use the AI capabilities to analyze the data. It could be on machines like this, potentially, with the huge NVIDIA? High-end storage. Cloud storage and stuff. And servers. Lots of storage. Storage solution here. Yeah. All right. Let me grab... Let me talk about this for a second. Okay. Yeah. What is the solution? Okay. This is off-lash storage. It's from Lenovo and the network. We are developed together. Okay. Use the Lenovo hardware and use the Lenovo software. This is off-lash. It's for like a 5G solution. We can to provide the EB levels storage pool for all the customer applications. What's happened there? This is software-defined storage. Software-defined storage. Yeah. Sorry. Do you want to continue to show a little bit? Yeah. Sure. After the city management. So I already went through this. This is smart manufacturing. This one? Yeah. Yeah. Smart manufacturing. Yeah. So we already went through this. This is smart manufacturing. This one? Yeah. Yeah. Smart manufacturing. So where is manufacturing happening? Is it only in China? As a global leading company. So our solution covers the global level. For example, the smart supply chain. And particularly for the smart manufacturing. So we based on the maturity model and the Lighthouse standard. So we summarized the capabilities, 18 capabilities. So Lenovo, the Wuhan Hefei production campus is named as the Lighthouse factory this year. Lighthouse. Lighthouse. That means what? The best? The best. This Lighthouse is a Lighthouse factory is selected by the McKenzie and the World Economic Forum. So that means in the global level there may be 150 Lighthouse factories. But there are about 50 in China. And Lenovo Hefei factory is one of the 50s. Oh, nice. We are very proud of this. Nice. And around here there's more stuff for the traffic. Yeah. This is for the 5G smart transportation solutions. In Lenovo we have a department specifically focusing on the smart, focused on the 5G product solutions. So this is part of the applications. Nice. And here we see, this is like a gate, smart gates. So this is called the smart video, the video gate. So this gate they use the AI technology and the face recognition and everything. Yeah. Yeah. So they can, this solution reduce the cost and they can detect whether something is following you or... Nice. Check if the authorized person is coming in. And here's 5G, the solutions here. Yeah. This is 5G manufacturing campus solutions. So this is our edge server. Server? Yeah. The edge side. So that means in the factory or in some scenarios you cannot put the calculation in the cloud. The delay is not acceptable. So we use the edge server to close to the manufacturing side in the factory. That means in the factory will be a bunch of little processing near everything that gets made. Yeah. You don't need to go back to the cloud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We use the solution in our factory and also use it for airplane manufacturing in Shanghai. What does this do? This is the global campus operation platform. So the Lenovo will have over 30 plans over the world. So we need to manage through a unified platform. So with this platform we can check the status and we can interact with the platform. Nice. All right. So we use this one in our south manufacturing campus in Shenzhen. All right. But you can monitor Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hefei and the factories over the world. So if you have the password you can log in and you can see exactly what's happening right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. And manage it. Yeah. Must be a cool visualization. Yeah, yeah. Not only the visualization. Actually the manufacturing, a smarter manufacturing solution is what we think as a leading global company. We really want to use our capabilities to empower the other companies. So for example, anybody who wants to make a factory anywhere in the world should contact Lenovo. You will help them to make it the best way? I would say the manufacturing, there is many fields. If the field is similar to Lenovo, such as the electronics manufacturing or something like this, I would be confident to say it's very valuable to use the Lenovo solution. So you can help people setting up factories in other countries. It could be like in India, in Indonesia and in Vietnam, everywhere. Not only in China. Yeah, yeah. In the US and Europe. Yeah, yeah. Because we have over 35 factories over the world, so we use the platform solutions. And this is some of the products that your factories make. For example, the very famous X13 ARM laptop. Yeah. Lenovo is the number one for laptop, no? In the world. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And also desktop solutions. And this is what we call the commercial laptop or commercial tablet or something like this. And here's some SSD, some smart plugs, think plus webcam, and pocket device for videoconferencing maybe. And then you have a bunch more things here. This is a commercial laptop. And here I see projectors, many different things, right? And it's all your colleagues. So this part is more for the consumer. And here you have dog food. This is for the home. Nice. Cat food. This is for the pet food. Yeah. And this one. I wonder... Can you introduce this to your foreign friend in English? Yeah, you can talk about this? Okay. Yeah. Can you take the mic? Yeah. He suddenly found it. Okay. Yeah. So what is the CPU here? Intel. Intel. Oh, and AMD. And AMD. Yeah, AMD. And actually there are two nodes, two servers. Okay. But they come together. So we call this one the water cooling servers. Okay, servers. So the water temperature in light maybe from 18 degrees to 50. Okay. 50 degrees. Wow. The in light water temperature. That goes through to cool the CPU, the memory, the air cars and power supply. Then the in light, the temperature can be 16 to 65. 60 degrees. All right. So that means even in a very hot area location, the warm water can do the cooling. No need additional chillers to cool the water. So that means that we do not need to chillers and we do not pay the money to buy a chiller. Even the chillers power supply, power also do not need. So that means we can, the PoE, we can put a PoE kind of down to the 1.1. So it comes in as 50. Yeah. 5-0. That was 0. About 65. 35. So a little bit warmer and you could use it for the coffee or something. No. A little bit. No, not enough. Not enough, yeah. Not enough. So the warm water, 60 degrees warm water can do the energy recycle. Energy recycle. Yeah, energy recycle. You can heat the building. Oh nice. Yeah, you can to provide the building warm water to someone. So the first one can maybe cycle the ratio maybe 60 to 70 percent. Nice. So that means we call it EIF. EIF, yeah. Do you work with the ARM CPU? No. No, not yet? Not yet. Not for this kind of project? ARM CPU is not popular in the server market. In China or in general? It should be the same. Same, yeah. All right. What is this platform there? GPU server. GPU server. Yeah. Yeah. And it's an air cooling GPU server. You can support 8 GPUs. Nice. It's the front side and the back side. So the cool air can cool the GPU car force, then cool the CPU memory and air cooling. And is it Intel? Yeah, Intel. Intel CPU. Yeah. Right. Cool. Thanks a lot. Thank you. All right. All right. Okay. I'll give it right here. So if I walk around here, I see more and more solutions and even some big desktops. Lenovo is very big in the desktops also. And all these products made in those factories you talk about, right? Yeah. This is about the Lenovo product. Yeah. And here is also some of the latest laptops. This is the YogaBook 9i Air 14. And Lenovo solutions right here. All right. Cool. No English. It's cool. Your English is cool. My English is cool. Okay. English is cool. There it looks like factory solutions maybe. This is where the mice are being made on this platform. Can you put this there? Okay. What do we see here? Yeah. Yeah. And you can say what he said. Yeah. So this is for the industry inspection. Okay. So we use the less assembling to detect the defect. Yeah. Yeah. So this is a demo. To detect the defect just by camera. Yeah. Yeah. We simulate industry scenario. So we detect the mouse or whether it is good or not good. Nice. In traditional AI model, we use a huge amount of assembles. Nice. The unique value of Lenovo's solution is we use much less assembles. Nice. To train the model and we need to use it. What happened if I put this here? Is it going to say a mistake? So the model, the training is completed. After the completion, we use the model to detect whether the mouse is not good. Okay. Cool. All right. And there will be a bad mouse somewhere. Okay. Nice. The testing started. It said one is bad. Yeah. It's abnormal. It's normal. All right. There's a bad one there. Boom. Okay. It's abnormal. Nice. So you can automate quality control by visual. Yeah. I think the amazing one is we use much, much less assembles to train the model. So the training happens in the edge side. So that means the worker in the workshop, so they can train. Nice. We don't need the engineer in the lab to train. Nice. And the edge could look like this. It could be a little... This is the edge, maybe. Yeah. It's running on this. This is edge. That one is... This is also edge server. Smaller. It's just different computing capabilities. Nice. This could also be a small edge. Yeah. So this is all edge server. Yeah. Nice. So this is... So the edge, the responsible is to collecting the data to transform the protocol. And the... It depends. So we have some edge server. We have high computing capabilities. Nice. And there's a cloud operating system. And that's running on the tablets. The true scale is a business model. So it's not a technology. The true scale is Lenovo's solution brand. So that means we sell the product solution and the services. We combine, solve their hardware and services together. And we sell to the customers in a consumption base. So that means you don't need to pay a lot of front cost. You can pay monthly, quarterly. So in this case, we gave a lot of flexibilities. And here, see art generated by AI. Isn't it? Like... Is that also music? Is the music with AI? So what do you have to click to make it happen? My colleague can have a demo. Ah, you can just say. Put hand here. And he say something. And they can play song. That, they will make an art. They will make an art piece. Can you... Can you tell them... Can you tell him to make an art piece about a crazy foreigner with a camera? Swiss guy with a camera. Swiss camera guy on the mountain. You can say that? Camera guy in the... On the mountain. Switzerland. Switzerland. On the mountain. Interviewing the cows. I think sometimes if you ask strange requests, they will crash, no? He's in the mountain with his video. So that means a cameraman in Switzerland mountain. Nice, taking photos of the cows. Is it you? Yeah, it was... That's me yesterday, yeah. All right, cool. All right. And there we have... Thank you so much for... It's just more and more. This is the compact when it's all closed down, right? Looks like this. It's lack of power. Out of power. Nice. All right. So how many of those you ship so far? Secret? Is it already hundreds and hundreds of pieces or a small test? It's already sold out. Sold out? Yeah, it's always can be sold out. So everyone you make, people want to buy? It's big demand. Actually it's a little... Expensive. Expensive. It costs more than a car? Yeah, exactly. How soon can be affordable? I want one at home, you know? Yeah, it's not a family-use toy. It's for converting stations or power stations. Nice. So it's a serious toy, right? It's only part of the whole solution. So all the new solutions are not part of it. So the solution is... The smart remote inspection. So we sell this solution to a state grid. So you can see the videos in a dangerous environment. So we send the robot to check the status of the transformation station. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot for showing everything here at the booth. It was so cool. There's a Frisbee here. What is this Frisbee? It's not a Frisbee. It's an antenna maybe. And there's all kinds of special materials around here. So this area is ESG. So environment, social and governance. So this is showing Lenovo. So showing Lenovo is a responsibility for the society. Special materials. And even for the power banks. So they are all made of recycled materials. Right. These charges also. This is all made of recycles. Battery even. Yeah. Alright. Cool. From this one, 85% of the stuff is recycled. Nice. Cool. Thanks so much for showing all this. You're welcome. Hope you enjoy this tour. Thank you. Thank you.


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The whole scenery has changed and it looks great in this month's video. Also this month we look at some beautiful and scale locomotives from Broadway Limited with sounds. We have a Y6B articulated locomotive and we also have some RSD-15 locomotives that we expose with beautiful outdoor photography. And by the way these things run like a perfectly running watch. Also this month I've got some great new products that Bachman Industries, we have Doug Blaine on the show this month. And he shared with us all the new products that are coming out this August. Also be sure to check out the What's Neat this week video show that we produce down here every Saturday night keeping you updated on what's new in the hobby with special guests and our wonderful regular podcast crew that we always have. And so with that let's continue on with the rest of this August 2023 What's Neat. We've come out and about and we've traveled down to Cherk which is in Wales near Wrexham and it's the home of Daypaw. We've been invited down here to have a good look around and I'm really excited by this. It's the first time I've actually got to have a look inside a real factory making wagons and such like that. We've come into the factory and I'm really intrigued by these. This is the actual tooling for some of the models and we've got all of the different products that Daypaw produce but what's interesting is that some of these date back to the days of Hornby 00 so when you have your sex assault wagon or your gunpowder wagon that's actually tooling that started out at Hornby 00 and it's a really great link with the heritage of railway modelling but some of these a bit newer but it's so intriguing to see how a plastic model goes from just grains of plastic to being that finished article and today we're going to look through the entire process and find that out. So here in the tool room and this is where the tools go when the needs change these slides that are inside them so when you hear companies talking about a tooling suite having different slides to do different detail for different models in the range this is actually what they mean so this particular tool here is having the inserts changed so that it can make a slightly different version of the model. So a typical process would be that you would change over the sliding cores so the sliding core would be moved over there and bolt the back section remove the detail and then place a new section on depending on what type of mould in you want to do to it. So the back plate there is like a carrier that carries the piece that's got the detail that's actually what's going to come in contact with it. So when the tool opens and closes you'll find those pins slide inside those pins there so the movement so that everything's exactly where it needs to be so that you don't get weird shapes coming out. Correct yeah I mean as with all injection mould tools within microns plastic will find its way through so everything has to be very precise. So how long would it take to change the setup on a tooling like this? This tool would be three to four hours mainly because of the size and the bulk of it. I mean some tools if you can gain access to the sliding core in situ you can actually take that core out so we've got buffers and non-buffers so if you look on sliding core on the end of that you would just change insert on the end. Right there's so many different configurations. So this is the colouring that goes in the plastic the bulk of the plastic is just a plain white colour and then if you add in just three of these capfalls to that full sack that's enough to make the black that we see on the machine coming out that's quite a powerful dye. The bigger tools need more clamping pressure so this can clamp up to 250 tonne worth of pressure whereas some of the smaller machines are only 35 tonne worth of pressure so the bigger the mould the more the clamping pressure is. Right so the big objects like some of the o-gauge items would be made in this machine. Well this will be pumping off the line body for the line wagon.  Well it's not the biggest tool we've got but because of the width of it it means and it's got more than one cavity it means to be clamped quite tight. Right. But you'll get sort of flashing around the edges of the body. Yeah where it's sort of squirted out through the gaps. So obviously the pressure will keep everything where it should be and produce nicer. And how long would that tool be on the machine before it's changed to something else? Well I've put this on this morning and we'll probably run it for a couple of days. Right. So we've got you know a thousand or so produced and then we'll swap to something else. And how long does each cycle of the tool take? How long does it take to make each body? About a minute. So it's a minute for each wagon body? For each wagon body, yeah. Right.  Oh so that stops them from distorting.  We want them to stay nice and straight so they'll get put on to here.  And then after a minute or two they'll get taken off and put into a box. Just sort of let them cool at the right shape because if you put them into the box warm when you came to put your roof on at the end they wouldn't fit. Yeah. When I'm looking at some of the O-Gauge wagons what really impresses me about those is how many separate parts go into these O-Gauge wagons. And it's a marvel to see that they are made and finished here at the factory in Daypole. And there's so many different stages and processes that go in. And parts that I thought were just one molded part turn out to be multiple parts that go through multiple stages of assembly. I've got here one of the sprues for the Stroudly coaches in O-Gauge. Again, these are all molded here on the machines that we saw before. And you can see just how many individual details just on this one sprue that have to be hand assembled. And it really does give you a new appreciation to the work that goes into these. That piece would be cut off because they're not sprayed. And then you would take the rest away for spraying. With the first trip through the spray booth complete to get the base colour, it's on to the decorating stage where the master for the tampo printing is made. And this is quite a simple process when it's all boiled down. The plastic master is laid into the machine and then a template on clear acetate is laid over the top. And this carries the lettering, numbering and any other details such as strapping on the wagon. Using UV light, this is exposed to the red plastic master. And then by means of a wash with special etching chemicals, they are then recessed out. And this is a process that's quite similar to how etched circuit boards are made. The end product is very durable and can be put into the tampo printing machine. And we're ready to start decorating delivery on the wagon. And as you can see here, the process fills up those newly created recesses with the white ink that the tampo printing sponge can then transfer to the wagon. The end result is a really neat finish and it dries almost instantly. It's then back to the spray booth. So I've actually been allowed to have a go at assembling a wagon. I'm going to see just how hard it is. So the wagon in question is going to be one of the lime type wagons. So I've got the body here. It's already been through that printing process and the spray painting process that we saw before. So we're all ready now to assemble that with all the other bits that go up to make a finished wagon. And the first thing we've got here is the underframe. And that's already had the metal weight glued in place. And these are done in built bulk at the start just to make it a bit easier in the assembly process. And then we're going to be putting the top on there. That's right. It doesn't matter which way around that goes. Make sure you get your limits on the hand first and then check the other side. So I can already see it's harder than it looks. There we go. Yeah, then just make sure it's flush. So just make sure there's nothing that's caught. That's gone all the way in. At the ends together, probably. That's perfect. So I've done that right. And then I'll give you this screw. Okay. So we're going to screw that into there. And how tight do we need this? When you just get to the top, just stop it from bowing. You see on the front here, sorry. Oh, have I gone too far? No, no. Keep going. Just keep going a little bit more. That's it. Because I don't want it to bow. So is that? If you stand it up and just check it then on the edge of the chassis, that it's not bowing, it needs to just untighten a little tad. So, just a little bit. Yeah, just to bring that down a little tad more. I'd say so that's that. Oh, I see. So we'll see what I'm saying. Yeah, so it's level. So again, there's a lot more that goes into it than just putting pieces together. Yeah. So to the next step, we've got all these wheels. And so I'm guessing one side in and then... There we go. So that's in. And then another one. Click that in. And I think that's in. Yeah. And then I'll hook each side of the chassis. So this is the coupling hook. Yeah, you hold the bottom there and then you can click it. Oh, I see, yes. Click it in better. So that we've got something to push against. And then, yeah, click. This is where I can tell that my eyesight wouldn't be good for doing stuff like that. It's not fair for you to do anything. And that's click. So we've got the coupling hooks in.  So that's all of the bits that we need. And there we go. I built this. So if you find the one I made in the box in the shop, no refunds. Yeah. I was really impressed at that. What really struck me actually is it's a little bit more tricky than you might initially think. And particularly tightening that screw up. It's very easy to get the tension wrong and either over tighten it and you ruin the wagon or under tighten it. And the whole thing would just start to rattle. And people get that in the box and think, oh, this isn't right. And I'm gaining a new appreciation of just how much work goes into each of these products. Well, we've had a great time today. And it's been so interesting to see around and to actually find out a bit more about models that are forthcoming. So I really hope that you enjoyed our little visit today. But until next time, you take care. Bye for now. For this segment of What's Neat, this is the part of the video where I'm outside, usually doing a photo shoot. And I have been doing photo shoots in the last couple of days with these beautiful locomotives from Broadway Limited. I've got some Y6B locomotives. Those are the articulated locomotives here on the table. And these things are absolutely amazing. The fidelity of the detail. They remind me of a quality watch. Just how they can make these locomotives so small that they pack so much detail on them, in them, and they also have full sound in them. The first one is the Y6B locomotives. Broadway Limited is offering these models in five paint schemes for the Norfolk and Western Railroad, plus an undecorated sample where it's just simply painted with no lettering and no numbers. And they've also got three or two units that are a fantasy paint scheme, a beautiful blue locomotive. A 2882. Number 2198. And also a maroon locomotive. Again, in the Norfolk and Western paint scheme, this brown, this maroon color is absolutely beautiful. I've got some outdoor photography that I'm going to be showing you as I talk about these models. These models are amazing. The fact that they've got the Paragon 4 sound system in it with rolling thunder. They've got the integrated dual mode decoder with back EMF. These things run really slow and really sweet. I also have video of them running that I'm going to show you while I describe these models. The precision drive mechanism is engineered for heavy load towing and smooth low speed operation with extra built-in capacitors so that they don't stall on your layout.  So outside is plastic. Inside is a heavy weight on these models with rubber tires. I mean just absolutely beautiful prototypical light operation. Front headlight, rear headlight, and cab lighting on these models. They're microtrains compatible with couplers. They run on code 5570 and 80 rail with no problem on a 9.75 inch radius. These models are just absolutely exquisite as I've said before. And I didn't want to talk about them outside because I thought it would be more important to cover all the details so that you would know what it is you're looking at. Of course you can find all these models on the Broadway Limited website. I did and it's a beautiful website in that. They also sent me some RSD-15s. Now these are passionately known as alligators because they had the long snoot nose on them. They sent me the alligator in the Tiger Stripe ATSF paint scheme. These were made between 1950 and 1960. They also make two other variations of this. They also make the high hood variation. Of course there's a standard high hood and then there's the special high hood variation that they had. Whereas on the Pennsylvania prototype the high hood models have different locations for the bells and the air horns on these locomotives. They also have independently functioning headlights, rear lights, cab lights, and front and rear number boards. All you can then operate with your DCC system and these both run on DC and DCC. It's important for me to point out that the sound system on these locomotives matches the prototype. The sound for the Y6Bs absolutely matched the sound of what they sounded like and the same with the alligators with these RSD-15s. They had the 16 cylinder, 2400 horsepower, Alco 251 engines in them and these models come with that sound system in them. They just, it's amazing. So I mean just an absolutely exposé of these beautiful models. The diesels, the steam locomotives, all the amazing detail.  They look exquisite. It's amazing how n-scale has come so far and I wanted to make sure that I shared these beautiful models with you this month on What's Neat. For this special segment of What's Neat, I've got Doug Blaine from Bachman Industries all the way from beautiful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hey Doug, welcome to the What's Neat show for August. How are you today? Very well thanks and yourself. It's great to be with you, Ken and your audience. It's always great to have you on the show. As many folks know, we have been working together for almost 30 years and a lot of great memories and a lot of amazing products, Doug. And we're going to keep them coming. Memories and products, you know. So what do you got to talk about today? I've got, I'm going to be featuring several of our new Thomas and Friends products. I'm going to be starting with large scale or G scale and working through HO, HO narrow gauge and n-scale new products. Very cool. So I'm going to start out for your garden railroad folks here. This is, oh we've got a burnt way up here. I've got to get used to this camera angle. So this is Toby's Museum Coach. It's a brown coach, I don't know if it's, that's showing up as brown. That's beautiful. Yes. So a nice passenger car typically runs behind Toby. You could choose to run it behind any locomotive. In any case, it's not limited to just Toby. So there's the coach. We also have a brake coach. So I'll bring that right up. And here we go from brake coach. Very interesting. So it's got the, sorry, the brake end there with a rear lamp. It's got a typical British style shape for the brake coach. And so that'll be a nice addition to a garden railroad line. That is so true. All right. So that's our large scale products. Moving on to HO scale. We have a character that's not as well known. This is Beau. This is based on an American 440 prototype. Oh, wow. So this was only in one movie. So it's not, as I said, it's not as well known. But as an American prototype, we felt we really wanted to do it. We put a typical Thomas and Friends hook and loop coupler on the back. So it will connect with other hook and loop product. And just, this is a minor change, but the color on the trim on the tender, just below the wood load on the actual production will be silver. This right now, what you see is going to be silver like this. I'm going to get the reflection, but on the sample, it's not yet silver. So that would be different in final production as silver. Very nice. Boy, that's a good excuse to bring time. Thomas into the American landscape, and we just thought we should do that. Also coming, so that's for future production, as are the large scale coaches. Currently available now, these just came into stock. These are HO scale narrow gauge box fans. Oh, nice. So these, we have a box fan and a brake fan in two different colors. So this is, as I said, this is HO narrow gauge. And it actually runs on end track. Where am I going here?  All right, this is. Keep going up. There you go. Perfect. Look at that. So more freight cars to add to the end narrow gauge. Yeah. HO scale narrow gauge. So we have this in two different colors. This matches our, we have passenger cars in red and blue. Okay. So this is the red version of the box fan and brake fan. And then I'll show you the blue as well over there. Oh, nice. So again, this is HO narrow gauge, gauge runs on end track. And we have several locomotives to go along with us. There's Scarloy. There's Reneus, Peter Sam, Rusty and more to come. That's amazing. All right. New in end scale, not out yet. So now that was HO narrow gauge. We're going down to end scale now. Okay. This is an early production sample. This is Emily. And this is based on a sterling single prototype. There we go. How to hook up the. Very nice. Yes. Look at that. That is Emily. And did you say this is, what scale is that? This is end scale. Okay. Very good. So this is going to, I'm going to put up Thomas there just to give you a size comparison. So this is our end scale. Oh, we have a visitor. He heard Thomas, I think. So there's Thomas and Emily size comparison in end scale. That's amazing. Yes. Kind of don't have hooked up right there or there we go. That's a better alignment. That's such a big market, isn't it? Absolutely. The end scale Thomas has been very, very well received. And then to go along with Emily, we have her coaches. Just hold these guys up. There's a regular coach and a break coach. Ah, there goes a coupler. Oh, well, these things happen. So I'm just going to hold up now that the coaches as a pair. Okay. There we go. That's amazing. Yes. The fidelity of end scale just, it's just so, it just blows me away that you can do such finite detail like that. We put up pack a lot of detail in this smaller size. We really do. We try and make them as accurate as possible. And our customers, I think, appreciate the effort. They absolutely do. Truly. All right. Now I've got three end scale box fans. These are currently, these just came into stock. So this is the same size as the Thomas and Emily locomotives I just showed you. Up higher. There you go. Up, down, down, down, down, down. There you go, right there. Perfect. All right. And pull back a little. So that's a Sodor fruit and vegetable company. Okay. Is that a focus? Yes, it is now. All right. We have an ice cream van. Okay. Okay. And one more for a great Western box fan here. Okay. Whoop, whoop, there we go. G and W, there you go. All right. Also, we just got some samples in for HO scale figures. So these are Thomas and friend figures. And we've had figures in the Thomas line, but are much larger, more appropriate for G scale really. Okay. So these are HO, or really they're double low to match our Thomas size. And this is the hat family. We're going to have several different character groups. So all right, these are the two children in the hat family. This is going to be tough. Okay. All right, are they focused at all? Yes, no, it looks good. Okay, that's Stephen and Bridget. There's the hat children. Then I'm going to bring up Mrs. Hat and Dowager Hat. So this is the wife and mother of Sir Topham Hat. Okay, very good. All right. And then of course the star of the show is always Sir Topham Hat for Thomas and Friends. And there's Sir Topham Hat. Very cool, Doug. Yes, this is going to be interesting. This is the first time you've done characters like that. Absolutely. And people have been really responded well to the introduction of the figures. It's just going to be a great addition to the layouts to be able to add Thomas figures and add some life to those layouts. All right, and I've got one more. Oh, here we go. So this is a big debut here on your show, Ken. This is the first time we showed a painted sample of Ann Scale Gordon. Okay. So a little drum roll there. Drum roll. And let me get the coupler out. There we go. Okay, here is Ann Scale Gordon. So this is our first painted sample. And if I do say so, he's looking pretty sharp. That's beautiful, Doug. Gordon is such a popular figure in the Thomas line. Absolutely. The HS Scale model you made of that was beautiful. So this is for an Ann Scale model by size. It's a lot bigger than Thomas, but it just, it does look great. It does. Smooth runner. It's got a nice slow speed operation. And again, for expanding an Ann Scale layout with Thomas, we now have Thomas, Percy, James, coming out with Emily, we have Toby, and now Gordon. So we've got a great selection in Ann Scale to expand that. And range. Yes, you do. Fantastic. You know, those are models I've never photographed outside. Well, maybe in G scale, we've done that in G scale, but you know, that that would be an interesting model to do. G scale. That's that's one big locomotive. Yes, it is. Absolutely. So that's it for our new Thomas and Friends products, either what's coming in stock now or in development. Very, very cool. For parents and grandparents, great addition to railroad to entertain kids and grandkids. And, you know, there's always fans of Thomas of any age for your own railroad. That is absolutely right. That's it for new Thomas and Friends products. And I was happy to share them with you today. That's awesome, Doug Blaine. It's always great to have you folks sharing the new products, including the ones for this month of August. And that is this special segment for What's Neat. All of the products seen on this episode of What's Neat are available from Lombard Hobbies in Lombard, Illinois. Or order online at LombardHobby.com. 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Hello, everybody. Andrew Meyske here with Dental Tutoring. So this video will be a very interesting video because it's going to be more of something that I feel that the public should know. This is a good watch for anybody in the dental profession, but anybody in the public too. If you are in the dental profession, you will be watching this and listening and being like, yes, yes, somebody's actually saying it. So let's talk about it. So I was actually talking to a group of dental hygienists just last weekend. And the funny thing is was I was looking through my Social media and one of the posts on a dental hygiene private group was about this exact thing. And the post is I'm not going to read it. But I'm just going to going to give you guys the key points and I do have it here just so I don't forget anything. But basically we all talk about nurses and, you know, teachers, we talk about hospitals and how things are changing so much, you know, they always want to hire less nurses. But the nurses that are being hired are, you know, overworked, underpaid. Same thing with teachers. They want to hire less teachers and pay teachers less, but look at what's happening with our kids these days. Things just aren't what they used to be. Now it's the same thing with the dental profession. Things are not the same as what they used to be. And for those of us who have been doing this for a long time, I've And I say only, like I have only been doing this for about 14 years.  And that is the dental profession as a whole. So I'm just going to check my post here for Somebody else's post here for a second. So we were all talking And basically saying how things have changed, but not always for the better either. Now let me just quickly say that I love Being a dental hygienist and I wouldn't have any other way, but I'm also starting to work for myself because that to me is the best thing. And that's treating my patients how I want to be treated. So let me talk about this a little bit. So the dental offices these days and I'm not picking apart any office. It might not even be all offices. So of course, this isn't for all offices. But dental offices these days. They're so I guess focused on their bottom line and that hurts us as dental assistants dental hygienists because we are typically Overworked underpaid. We have to do more and more and more but be paid less and less and less because our boss just keeps on saying there's no money In the budget. Yes, yet they have to have the latest computer technology. They have to have the latest equipment They have to do, you know, in a dental implants on every single patient and we're just back there saying, okay, We're here to educate the patient and teach them how to maintain proper oral health proper tooth care, how to understand that.  But now It's switched so much where we are just pretty much talked to sell, sell, sell. I shouldn't say talk, but we are told In a lot of offices where, okay, well, you have to make this amount per patient. So do whatever you can to make that amount. It doesn't matter if they have hardly any plaque. Well, if they don't have a lot of plaque, then that means that you should be taking x-rays then on this patient. You should be doing this. You should be Pushing this treatment, you know, of course, I'm saying all of this very loosely, you know, the dentist would never come out and say push this treatment. But the dentist might look at the chart and say, oh, well, this patient has severe wear on their teeth. They have insurance through themselves and through their husband. So let's talk to them about crowds about full mouth crowds. Yes, they didn't go out and say, you know, we want to get as much money as we can for them. But when they start talking about insurance right away, that kind of implies that's what they're doing. Not all the time. But this makes me, so I'll just say me then. This makes me as a hygienist very concerned because I don't even pay attention to insurance. I don't because I am focused on that patient, that patient's health and what they need. I'm not saying that I don't know how much things cost and I'm going to tell the patient everything they need. It doesn't matter how much it costs, but I like to give them options anyway. But my first thought isn't, okay, how much insurance do they have? Let's maximize that. You know, that's not what us as dental hygienists and dental assistants think about. But dentists, a lot of them, that's what they're thinking about. The first thing that they typically say to their receptionists is call the patient's insurance, know exactly what they're covered for, get a printout before they come in. If they're covered every three months for a cleaning, get them in every three months because why not? And yes, that's true. Why not? It doesn't hurt anybody to come in every three months, but do they have to? Maybe not. If there's hardly any plaque or tartar there and no stain, I'm not going to suggest to a patient to come in every three months for their cleanings. I'm going to say every six months is probably good enough for you. You can come in every three months if you want, but you don't have to. Another point that these hygienists were making was basically, you know, a lot of offices are so, I guess, are so focused on making it a whole spa-like experience that if we hurt the patient, I may not hurt the patient. If we're cleaning somebody's teeth who hasn't had their cleaning in 10 years, and it's a little bit uncomfortable for them as it, you know, sorry, I have something on my lip there. There you go. As it probably will be because they haven't taken ownership, and it's been 10 years since their last cleaning, they get upset because we have made the gum sensitive and they will leave to go find another office. Yet we're just doing our job, and we are trying to get their teeth and their mouth as healthy as possible. Yet they might go to a dental office down the road that is like a dental spa. So it looks awesome.  It looks inviting. They offer free whitening for all new patients, even if that patient isn't qualified or just isn't a good candidate to get the whitening. Well, they will push that free whitening to get patients in the door. And then when they go in for their cleaning, they have a hygienist who barely cleans their teeth, barely touches them because she doesn't want to make the heat or she doesn't want to make the patient upset. And it makes us, as the other hygienists, look bad and look like we were hurting them. You know, that's what it's coming to is we don't want to disappoint the patients. We don't want to hurt the patients. We want them happy at all costs. Yet to be a good dental hygienist, you need to clean off that plaque and tartar. So a lot of patients don't realize we're not trying to hurt you. We're not trying to be difficult, but we need to clean off that plaque and tartar. You know, that's just what you have to do. Now, I'm actually, I'm that hygienist where the patient usually says, oh, that was a really good cleaning today. Like, you didn't hurt me at all. So that's kind of the opposite of what I'm saying. But I don't believe in hurting the patients though, either. But if they haven't been in for 10 years, it's going to be uncomfortable properly. Probably, I couldn't think of the word, probably. But I use certain instruments and I make sure my instruments are nice and sharp. So it doesn't actually hurt them because I'm doing a good job. I'm not saying that the hygienists that are digging in there aren't doing a good job. But perhaps they're, you know, your appointment's only a half an hour and they have to hurry up to get the cleaning done. So of course it's going to hurt. But if you have a hygienist who has technically all the time in the world has a full hour appointment, she can take her time. And it's not going to hurt. It doesn't mean that the last hygienist did anything wrong. It doesn't mean that I'm doing everything right. But time isn't an issue. So a lot of patients need to realize that as well, that we're not trying to hurt you. But maybe our, you know, maybe we've been working for eight, eight hours today. We haven't had a lunch. We're exhausted. We want to have a lunch so we might move a little bit quicker, you know, but that's why I love working for myself. I am now a mobile dental hygienist. So I actually traveled to nursing homes. I travel to people's homes and people's, you know, people's offices and clean 13, but I run the show. I don't have a dentist telling me, Oh, well this patient needs eight crowns. Make sure to talk to them about that. Send off an estimate to their insurance so we can get that covered. I love working for myself. I do still work though in a dental office about three times a week, but I work for a good, um, a good office, but I have been in offices before where we will literally have a morning meeting, you know, every single morning, and their first comment from the dentist and from the consultant is, okay, so we need to make this much money today. How do you think that that makes us feel as a dental hygienist? It's like, well, I can't just tell a patient they have a cavity if they don't have a cavity. I can't just take X-rays because you want to make extra money, you know, so it's very hard for us and how things have changed. What else? Sorry guys. Um, just pretty much, we're all saying like we are health care providers. We love what we do. We are a spa trying to make you guys as comfortable as possible. We're trying our best to make things healthy, but now talking to dental professionals, we need to work for offices that are good offices. If you get a bed, um, if you, you know, if something just doesn't seem right, if all they ever do is talk about numbers, go somewhere else. Go somewhere else, look for another job, say, you know what, I can't meet your quotas, so I'm just going to go work somewhere else because at least I can get an hour of lunch. I can clean people's teeth for one whole hour and not for a half an hour. So that's how the dentistry, I guess the dental field has definitely changed where it's more of the cost of living is so high and dentists are coming out of school with these huge loans and they hire the cheapest hygienists that they can find, but we also need to work. We need the money. So we might take a lesser hourly pay if we need the money, right? But then we have to work so hard. We don't get a lunch. We don't get a break, but we want to be the best for our patients all the time. Um, but still at the end of the day, at the beginning of the day, we're always thinking, okay, so the dentist told me the other day that I didn't bill enough for this patient that I should have built this much because I did.  What's new?  So yes, it took an extra 10 minutes. But am I going to charge that patient for making small talk with me? No, but that's what the dentists expect. The dentist consultants, that's what they tend to expect. It's like, oh, well, your appointment was booked for an hour, but it's been an hour and 10 minutes. So why did you only bill, you know, three units of scaling when it should have been four units of scaling plus a half unit of polish to just make that like one hour and 10 minutes? This might sound a little bit foreign or a lot foreign to you if you're a patient, but for a dental professional, you know what I'm talking about here, right? It's like, well, I didn't charge that much because we were just making small talk for 10 minutes. Oh, well, now you're 20 months behind for your next patient. That is not good. I can't just tell the patient to shut up and move on, right? So everybody talks about nurses, about teachers, but what about us? What about health care professionals, dental professionals? We try so hard, but we don't often get the appreciation for it. So tell me your thoughts, you guys. If you've been a dental hygienist for a long time, a dental assistant for a long time. If you're new at this, what are your thoughts? What are your concerns? I would love to hear them. Okay. I don't think I forgot anything because yeah, like we were just talking to a bunch of dental professionals. We were just talking last weekend. And then I saw a post in a private group and I thought, oh, this would be a nice thing to talk about. And everybody says we need to tell the public that this is how it is that us as dental hygienists love, you know, we love what we do. We work so hard, but it's sometimes the dentist. Sorry guys, that's true. That are making us sell, sell, sell. We don't get an hour lunch. They don't buy the proper instruments for us to use. I can go on here. They want you to take x-rays every year, no matter what. But what are we supposed to do? Say no and then lose our job. You know, just so many things. So let me know your thoughts. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.


Hello and welcome to Tomorrow News, your weekly guide of everything happening within the space industry. This episode, the original winner of the Inspiration for Generosity seat has revealed themselves all the latest from SpaceX's Boca Chica site, a new NASA small-sat contract, uncertainty around the UK's first launch space traffic and a whole lot more. Stay tuned as this is your episode of Tomorrow News, which is the week of February 1st 2022. Kicking off the SpaceX update, I'm starting off with a story which we discussed a little bit in last week's live show, available at the card in the corner about a Falcon 9 second stage we're just going to crash into the moon. The second stage in question assisted the Discover mission or the Deep Space Climate Observatory which launched on the 11th of February 2015 from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 v 1.1. The destination of the payload was glugrange 0.1 or L1, the opposite side of the Earth of L2 where the James Webb Space Telescope now resides. And as we have just lived through the journey of that mission, hopefully you'll get a good scale of how far away Discover actually had to be pushed. The 1.1 of the Falcon 9 wasn't as powerful as the current Block 5 variant of the rocket, only being able to carry about 4,850 kilograms of payload up to a geostationary transfer orbit compared to Block 5's 5,443. Because the second stage had to be pushed really far in order to get Discover on its way to L1, it didn't have enough margin to deorbit instead leaving itself in a high Earth orbit. This orbit is now going to be intersecting the orbit of the moon, I just realised I've been saying orbit a lot, as at about 1226 UTC on March the 4th at a latitude of 5.18 degrees, longitude 233.55 degrees plus or minus a few kilometers, the second stage is going to unintentionally impact the far side of the lunar surface, so we won't be able to see anything from Earth, but this animation I made does show the rough location of the impact zone. The time of the impact also means that we won't be able to see the moon as the sun will be shining on the far side. This can be seen as something that is quite surprising considering the SpaceX deorbit's second stages, but obviously that option was not available for this mission. Other rocket stages have hit the moon before, most notably the third stages of the Saturn V of a few Apollo missions, and the reason the moon looks how it looks today is because it has been bombarded with millions of asteroids over billions of years, so this isn't new, and it isn't really that bad, it's just a bit of a surprising story. Something else surprising is that the real winner of the Inspiration 4 generosity seat has come forward after giving the prize to Chris Sembroski. We knew Chris wasn't the original winner, but we just didn't know who had recommended him to the people selecting the winner. Kyle Hipchin, a Florida-based captain for Delta's regional carrier, Endeavour Air, originally only told a few members of his family and friends that he had won the seat and lost his ride due to being over SpaceX's weight limits for the Dragon spacecraft. Hipchin said that he was trying to figure out ways of dropping the weight in the time span set out, but that it also wasn't the most healthy thing to do. Because of this, Jared Isaacman allowed him to pick someone to go on the flight in his place, and that person, as we all know, was Sembroski. During the 1990s, the pair were roommates whilst attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. They'd often make the hour drive down to the Cape in order to catch the shuttle launches, and they also belonged to a space advocacy group, even going to Washington, D.C. to support commercial space travel. He still hasn't watched the Netflix series that followed the crew around during training and the flight, and to be honest, if I was in his situation, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do that either, but I do think it's called that he has shared his story, because it was a big act of generosity to give the seat generosity to somebody else. Sembroski still brought up some personal items for him, but the experience of flying into space is one of the most unbelievable things a human can experience, or so I'm told, and missing out on it must have hurt a lot. Moving down to Starbase to have a look at all the action that has been happening there, and the first high-rise is the B2.1 test tank being lifted off the structure test stand after being hooked up to the crane earlier that day. A strange tank has been seen in one of the tents, and we don't know exactly what this is for, but what we do know is that the shape of the tank is unlike anything we have seen before at Starbase. This new booster forward dome has been sleeved, which will be placed on top of one of the future super heavy boosters currently in production. The quick disconnect arm, or QD arm through the actual Starship ship, has had some more crews working on it following on from its movement test the other week, and speaking of movement tests, the water bags were loaded back up onto the chopsticks last Sunday before being filled up, allowing the catch arms to be moved up and down the tower several times. If you aren't already aware, these big orange bags are able to be filled with all different volumes of water, simulating the different masses of super heavy and Starship configurations, as well as pushing the arms beyond the maximum expected limits, just to make sure they are as robust as can be. The wide bay has had a bit more of a gross spurt this week. Yes, there were new beams, but we also had the lifting of another prefabricated part, bringing the current shell of the building to about the same height as the high bay. That's not all, however, as a second piece was lifted up from the inside, aiding the completion of that side of the structure. Now the wide bay is matching the height of the high bay, I think it's safe to assume that a lot of people, including myself, are getting a much better scale of the immense size of this structure. The new smooth style nose cone, suspected to be for Ship 24, has been spotted inside Run of the Tents, and Ship 22 has been getting its own nose cone action, as the forward flap mounting jig has been attached. I'm leaving off the segment with this wonderful shot from Boca Chica Gal, who caught the Texan Sun falling under the horizon in the background of the orbital launch pad. On January 26th, NASA announced that they have selected 12 companies to provide launch services for their venture class acquisition of dedicated and rideshare missions, otherwise known as VEDA. Those 12 companies are in alphabetical order, ABL space systems, Astra, Blue Origin, L2 solutions, Northrop Grumman, Phantom Space, Relativity Space, Rocket Lab, Spaceflight, SpaceX, QLA, and Virgin Orbit. The VEDA contract will provide a range of services for delivering a range of CubeSats to class D small sat missions to a variety of orbits. The range of launch providers being used is quite vast, with the big names of SpaceX, QLA, and Northrop Grumman. Some companies which have reached orbit a number of times, such as Rocket Lab, those who have only done single digits of orbital launch attempts under their belts, such as Astro and Virgin Orbit, and those who are only in the development phases of their rockets, such as Phantom, Relativity, and Blue Origin. 50% of the awardees have made it into orbit at least once, with a third more planning to launch within the next few years. The remaining two companies, Spaceflight and L2 Solutions, are launch brokers, with the former arranging launches on a variety of different vehicles from all around the world, and the latter providing ride share services through its subsidiary, Seops. VEDA is going to be building on top of the previous venture class launch services, or VCLS demonstrations, which was awarded in 2015, and VCLS demo 2, which was awarded in 2020, which saw funding go to Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic, which has now been transferred to Virgin Orbit, Astra, Relativity, and Firefly, a company which is not listed on the VEDA contract. Now, unlike Phantom, Relativity, and Blue Origin, Firefly has actually attempted to launch a rocket and deliver a payload to Orbit, although it did fail to do so because of a faulty engine, so why have they not been selected? It has been a bit of a turbulent time for Firefly, with them pausing preparations for their next launch attempt, originally slated for last December, as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US requested that the largest shareholder in the company, Noosphere Venture Partners, based out of Ukraine, sold all of its shares. Because of this, NASA could have not selected them, or they could have not placed a bid for the VEDA program, with both of these scenarios yet to be confirmed or denied by both parties. Carrying on the conversation about small sat launches, Virgin Orbit has two planned launches out of the UK this year, originating from New Key Airport, otherwise known as Spaceport Cornwall. CEO of Virgin Orbit, Dan Hart, has said that the launches are targeted around the middle of the year, but three key licenses are still required in order to make that happen. Firstly, Spaceport Cornwall would need a license from the Civil Aviation Authority, aka the CAA. The head of the Spaceport, Melissa Thorpe, has said that they are working with the regulators on their Spaceport license, and that they're working towards a launch in the less than six months time, and that they're currently working through feedback from the CAA. Virgin Orbit will also need to acquire a license from the CAA, but as they are an American company, they will also need a license from the FAA. Now even though the companies are confident in the launches happening this year, CAA officials are acting a bit more uncertain. At a hearing of the Signs and Technology Select Committee, the CAA's Director of Strategy and Policy, Tim Johnson, declined to say if the agency were expecting the first UK launch this year several times. Greg Clark, the chair of the committee, asked, the government have said that they want to see a satellite launch in the UK in 2022. You are the regulatory authority and have had sight of these things. Are we on track for that? And in response, Tim Johnson said, there is a lot of work to do and we are working hard in assessing the applications that we are getting, working with the operators and providing them with feedback, and we will exercise our duties in the most timely way possible. Clark then followed that by asking if they expect a launch from one of the proposed sites this year, which was followed by Johnson saying that we will be doing everything we can. Later in the hearing, however, we did get some numbers with Colin McLeod, the head of space regulation at the CAA, saying that for the spaceport, we are expecting it, the license to be filed, to be between six and 12 months because it is slightly more straightforward than launching. And that space is cutting edge and innovative. Every application is different. Lots of American companies will take many years, therefore in the UK, we think that nine to 18 months is a very competitive timeline for what we are trying to do compared with everyone else. So there isn't really a clear answer on whether or not Virgin Orbit will be launching from the UK this year, with Virgin Orbit and spaceport Cornwall saying yes, and the authorities saying that they are doing everything they can do, whatever that means. With the minimum timelines that McLeod put out, Virgin Orbit's launch license should be ready around July or August, and spaceport Cornwall's license should be ready around April slash May time, but those timelines also had a range that was double those figures. So we'll just have to wait and see how the entire thing pans out. The news this week seems to be pretty full of small-site launch news, and that trend will continue as last week I covered the anomaly that ABL space systems had suffered whilst testing their second stage, and now we've received confirmation that their first launch attempt will be delayed because of it. ABL CEO Harry O'Hanley has said that the E2 vacuum engine being used suffered a hard start, which is when the flow of propellant and ignition fluid doesn't allow for a gradual increase in energy, but an explosive rise instead in the hot gas circuit of the turbopump. This resulted in a substantial fire at the aft end of the stage, which then resulted in a complete failure approximately 20 seconds later. ABL President Dan Piemont has said the company had seen some small hard starters previously during other engine tests resulting in minor damage, but that this failure was much larger and more complex. The company had set a realistic date of February for their first test flight at the RS-1 rocket from Kodiak, Alaska, but now with this failure that schedule is being pushed by three months to May. The second stage is now the only piece of the puzzle to get working, with the first stage already in Kodiak, the interstage being shipped to Kodiak, and the payload fairing having completed its acceptance testing with it being shipped to Kodiak soon. The Chinese commercial rocket manufacturer and launch Atlantic Energy has announced that they have raised US$200 million in two funding rounds during the second half of last year between July and December. That money is going to be put into the development of this, their proposed Paras-1 medium lift reusable vehicle designed to take five metric tonnes to Leo, placing it alongside India's GSLV Mark II, which isn't reusable, and just over half the performance of Rocket Lab's upcoming Neutron rocket which will be reusable. They're planning a launch in early 2023 using kerosene for the propellant and liquid oxygen as the oxidiser. You may remember that back in December, Atlantic Energy reached orbit twice with their Cerys-1 solid propellant rocket, becoming the first Chinese private launch provider to do so, and hopefully this money will be able to advance to the next chapter of the company's story. The next chapter of this episode is space traffic, so let's stay with China for the first launch. The first launch to cover is Elsar-1A, which launched to top a long march for C at 2344 UTC on January 25th from SLS-2 at the G-1 satellite launch centre. Heading for a 600km sun-synchronous orbit, Elsar-1A is an Earth observation satellite which will be used to survey the environment after geological events such as landslides and earthquakes. It is part of a satellite group, and as soon it will be joined by Elsar-1B. SpaceX's fourth launch of the year finally commenced at 2311 UTC on January 31st after a total of four scrubs with the Falcon 9 booster B1052 lifting the 2,230kg CSG-2 payload, otherwise known as the Cosmos SkyMed 2nd Generation 2 off Slick 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station near Florida for a fantastic sunset launch. After releasing the second stage and the payload, which is now on its way to a 619km 97.86 degree sun-synchronous orbit, yes the Falcon really is powerful enough to send a spacecraft the opposite way around the Earth. B1052 slowly descended upon Landing Zone 1 to give us the second RTLS recovery of the year, and the third consecutive RTLS recovery of a single booster as B1052 was previously used as a Falcon Heavy side booster, also making it the only Falcon 9 booster to land at both Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. Coming up over the next seven days, we have NRL-87 on a Falcon 9, Starry Group 4, Mission 7 on another Falcon 9, a Soyuz 2.1A launch, and Elena-41 on Astra's Rocket 3. And here is your face weather with Dr. Tana Fascoe. Our sun definitely brings on the eye candy this week. As we take a look at our Earth-facing disc, it may not look like all that much, but do you see this region up here? This is region 2936, and as it begins to rotate into the Earth Strike Zone, it becomes an X-flare player. In fact, on the 29th, WHAM right there, do you see that? It fires off an M1 class flare, and along with it, it also launches an Earth-directed solar storm. You can see the blast wave rippling across the disc like that. That solar storm is not super fast, but it is on its way to Earth, and I'll talk about that more in a minute. Meanwhile, we also have a coronal hole that has been rotating in through the Earth Strike Zone, and we're dealing with the waning fast solar wind from that region. But since then, not too much has been going on, unless you look at the east limb of the sun. We have a couple regions that are going to be rotating into Earth View here in the next couple days, and they are definitely solar storm players, so that's going to continue to boost that solar flux up even higher into the triple digits than we already are, and that's great news for amateur radio operators and emergency responders. For more details on this week's Space Weather, including how that Earth-directed solar storm may affect you, come check out my channel or see me at spaceweatherwoman.com. 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Our guest today and you this afternoon is Dr. LaSima Zerbo, who is the very distinguished head of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. He's been in that role since 2013, but previously led the technical verification team within the organization all the way back to 2004. So in that time he's had to deal with multiple crises of people breaking out of the non-proliferation regime, particularly the North Koreans. But in the process has established an absolutely fantastic reputation for technical excellence and real credibility. This is an absolutely indispensable multilateral organization. And LaSima is here at ANU to give the 2018 John G Memorial Lecture. John G being a very extraordinarily distinguished Australian diplomat who was one of the founding fathers of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Office for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons until his untimely death in 2007. And we're looking forward very much to your speech, your address, your lecture this evening on the subject of the problems of multilateralism and multilateral organizations in this contemporary age, which are legion. But let's begin briefly by telling us a little bit about the state of play with respect to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the prospects for its ratification and the role that you are nonetheless able to play in your organization pending that ratification and formally coming into force. Thank you Gareth and thank you for inviting me to be at ANU today. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, let me say that consists of an international monitoring system, international data center, basically a verification system that former Secretary of State John Kerry called one of the greatest accomplishment of the modern world. But the greatest accomplishment of the modern world with a treaty that is not yet in force and that's the dilemma we have. So we have a solid technical framework, organizational framework that is supposed to be or that is supposed to back a treaty that is not yet in force, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, with eight countries that are basically holding Austria, the international community. Those countries are US, China, India, Pakistan and the DPRK and Israel, Egypt and Iran. So among those eight, five have already signed the treaty and then three haven't touched it. So those three are the DPRK, India and Pakistan. So the state of play is, you know, we are stuck and trying to do our best to get those eight countries to join and we're hoping that opportunities like the DPRK could help the international community move the treaty a little bit forward. We'll come back to the problems of multilateralism generally and specifically in the context of arms control but perhaps you can say just a little bit more about what makes it possible for your organization to detect nuclear explosions in small countries far away when there's obviously not the capacity to be there on the ground. Is it seismic? Is it atmospheric releases? Very small scale explosions of the kind we had in the early North Korean testing program. You still seem able to pin them down. We can be pretty confident nobody's getting away with anything these days can't we? This day I think we can and we are. I think there is hardly any explosion I mean in the process to develop nuclear weapon that will go undetected by our international monitoring system and the national technical. How many countries are involved in participating in that monitoring system at the moment? We have around 90 countries that are part of the I mean that will host the international monitoring system facility, Australia being the third largest with 21 facilities and we're here to celebrate the completion of the segment, the Australian segment of the international monitoring system. What form do those Australian facilities take? They're essentially seismic monitoring? No, we have all the four technologies. You have seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic and radionuclide. Radionuclide basically sniffing the hair but with seismic that's what we do on a regular basis. I mean consistently looking for any shaking of the ground and then with hydroacoustic checking I mean you guys are, I see Australia, I often say Australia is an island but I mean that's what we see on the map but I mean it's a continent but I mean you are within the largest part of the ocean on this planet and strategically placed with strategically placed station as well and hydroacoustic for underwater movement and an infrasound for anything that deal with you know air pressure and the radionuclide is a smoking gun of the three other technologies and anything that moves not only in that part of the world but you know all the planet will be detected by our system. It's a fabulous technical achievement. It's a fantastic diplomatic achievement to get that degree of buy-in from so many in the international community. It's also a pretty fantastic achievement to be able to do all this when the treaty is still not in the force, the parent treaty. How have you been able to get away with that? I think basically the preparatory commission that I'm heading, I mean it's still the preparatory commission. Precisely. His mission is to prepare the technical means and the political means for the entry into force of the treaty technically by getting ready with all the facilities supposedly 337 facilities over the four technologies to be ready for an entry into force that was supposed to be due three years after its opening for signature meaning by 1999 we should have had the treaty into force. Well CGPTO is a fantastic example of a multilateral organization working exactly as it was intended to be even if more informally than formally but of course the theme of your talk to us this evening is that multilateralism more generally is under stress and manifestly it is under stress with the armed control regime with the INF Treaty obviously in a very fragile condition at the moment the Americans threatening to walk away from that bilateral arms control nuclear arms control between the United States and Russia pretty much dead in the water across a broad front with a real anxiety about the new start treaty coming up for renewal quite soon and no enthusiasm whatsoever from the nuclear weapons states or the nuclear arms states more generally outside the nonproliferation treaty to show any degree of interest in in nuclear arms control that alone moving towards serious disarmament. Does that make you very dispirited or is it a function of some structural problems in the international community as we have now evolved or is it just a transient issue associated with particular very difficult personalities and none more difficult of course than President Trump in the United States at the moment is it an endemic systemic problem we've got or one that can make us a little bit more optimistic that it might be just transient. I think it's beyond the personalities of the leaders of today it's more of a systemic problem with a changing world changing world with emerging powers emerging powers around the world you take India you take Pakistan and then there are other countries that are coming alone and as countries are emerging people feel that domestic security is not there anymore and then they don't trust each other. I think it's basically a deficit of trust between countries regionally and internationally and if you add to that you know personal egos it just doesn't help so but in arms control and non-proliferation this is where when you talk about stress the stress is more tangible I think we're seeing now potentially another arms race DPRK is one example but if we don't deal with DPRK in a way where the international community solves the issue to stop any other attempt to move into developing nuclear weapon I think we'll go into a serious arm race that will see things emerging again not only in this part of the world but potentially Latin America even in Asia here and that's one of the biggest risks that we see today. Of course the other big alarm bell that's ringing is over Iran's intentions with America walking away from the manifestly very successful uh nuclear agreement that was agreed upon some time ago. JCPOA as it's called. How worried are you that Iran is going to break ranks on this in the context of that abdication of responsibility by the United States and how worried are you that that in turn will generate um preparation pressures elsewhere in the Middle East? My hope is that Iran stays because Iran has strong support internationally with Europe and then the rest of the international community. The sad part from me as head of the CTBT was that we missed an opportunity with Iran to not bring the comprehensive test plan treaty as part of the joint comprehensive plan of action had we done this I would be the happiest person today because one would see this as an opportunity to get other annexed two countries to join the CTBT but there is an opportunity still with the support that Europe is giving to Iran the support that the rest of the international community is giving to Iran there's room to get Iran to use that trust to me to do a further step in arms control and non-proliferation that further step could be considering the CTBT to win the trust of those who are still hesitating about Iran's intentions and that's what I'm hoping. Whenever I talk to Iranians I make very clear my impression that they're occupying the moral high ground at the moment and they'd be very foolish indeed to walk away from that internationally when they've got so much support in that context. The other thought that has occurred to me and I'd be fascinated to see what you think is whether China could in fact be persuaded to play a leadership role when it comes to nuclear disarmament we're focusing on nuclear weapons because that's your specialty. Given that China after all has been you know a very reluctant starter in many ways in the nuclear arms race they have a quite small arsenal much much much smaller than the United States and Russia as we all know and they are of all the nuclear arms states the only ones that are really seriously committed to no first years at least at the moment. So my hope is that the Chinese despite all their nationalist tradition and the chest beating that's going on might be persuaded to play a leadership role on this particular critical global public goods issue in the way that they've chosen to play a leadership role on climate change with the abdication by the Americans of leadership there and on free trade issues as well. Is that a totally quixotic hope that the Chinese might be persuaded to to really pull the pieces together on this in a way that the Russians and Americans are manifestly not keen to do at the moment? I think China's commitment to the no first years makes them to be perceived as the most responsible the most responsible nuclear weapon state I mean that's a perception that the international community at least the developing world is seeing with China so that's probably gives room for them to continue that leadership at least from the perception to giving or pushing for progress in arms control non-proliferation and disarmament because we stuck now if we take the the process towards NPT the NPT review conference 2020 what do we have on the table nothing because we are nothing on the table we may see in China an opportunity to play a leadership you said they did in climate change already to basically open that little door that we're looking for which would be considering the CTBT ratification and that's what I say the DPRK might be that opportunity North Korea a China being a main player in the North Korean issue they might find a way to get North Korea to join them North Korea showing goodwill and China showing an opportunity to open that gate that we're looking for for progress in disarmament and non-proliferation so in that sense yes I think China can and should be persuaded to do so so will they do it really I mean that's a question I mean the situation is such that the tension the current tension seems to push China into getting closer to Russia than previously what was seen Russia in the US and then fearing China's you know as an emerging power but now China seems to be allowing itself to some of the position that Russia is adopting but sometimes rightly so if you say Russia with regard to the CTBT we talk about transmission of data and some countries say we believe in the international monitoring system the international data center but the treaty is not something that we'd want to consider and all of a sudden we see voices coming and then saying but how can you not believe in the treaty and wanting data from its international monitoring system that's the next challenge for the comprehensive test and treaty well you like me you're an incorrigible optimist about the capacity to move the game forward on all these fronts Lassimov but where's the just one final question really before we wrap up where's the leadership going to come from if not from the China in these particular contexts we've been talking about do you see this is really possible for that that group of middle powers that in the past of like Australia and previous government incarnations at least have been very energetic supporters of the multilateral order the rules-based order that we associate with that are you confident that that kind of energy can be regenerated and that it may bear fruit over time or is it all just a pretty gloomy kind of scenario out there at the moment no absolutely I'm confident that countries like Australia could get attraction into getting enough energy to pull the rest of the world in the direction that basically the nuclear weapon countries would follow but it's how to do that I mean if I take the prohibition treaty the ban treaty the ban treaty seems to you know gather enough traction right now but is it practically feasible I mean that's the question that one is asking should a country like Japan I mean that Japan is seen as one country who should go forward with regard to getting this word rid of nuclear weapon but Japan is facing a situation not only with its civil society but with the multilateral or bilateral agreement that they have with the United States and many other countries well I think you'd have to be a supreme optimist to think that there's going to be buy-in to the nuclear ban treaty which was recently negotiated as we know by 122 very well-intentioned members of the international community not including Australia I'm sorry to say but the reason we can't be optimistic is that it's not really an operational treaty with enforcement and verification provisions of any of any credibility it's really just a normative treaty it's setting up there in lights and objective and demonstrating that there is that support in the international community my own instinct is that we are going to move forward on a disarmament agenda it is going to have to be step by step around these issues like no first use buy-in and reduced deployments and reduced launch alert and the CTBT and the CTBT which is full circle back to where we were and but you know some of the nuclear states talk the talk about step by step but don't show very much enthusiasm for walking the walk so that's the task ahead of us last summer it's a gigantic enterprise with the the world in the sorry condition as it is but we're absolutely delighted to have you back in Australia absolutely delighted to have you at ANU and wish you every possible success in the the fabulous work that you are continuing to do with Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization so thank you Lasse Mazzurbo for joining us here at ANU


So I just got back from dropping my kids at school and this morning for breakfast. I'm having a bulletproof coffee now a Lot of people have asked me I've been doing bulletproof coffee for a number of years now A lot of people ask me over the years why and how I do a bulletproof coffee and Recently I wrote a big piece on bike chaser about fasting and in that piece I talk about the bulletproof coffee and I've had a lot of people reach out to me again about How why etc so this morning I'll link to that article as well below this one If you're interested this morning. I thought I would show you how I make a bulletproof coffee and Why I make it so everything set up in the kitchen Let's go perhaps before we go deep into how I make it and the benefits just quickly explain what bulletproof coffee is It's an invention from a guy called David Asprey He's a entrepreneurial guy out of the United States and he's very much focused on the health and more-being sector And he created this thing called bulletproof coffee, which is essentially black coffee with butter It's a grass-fed butter and MCT oil, which is an extract from coconut and Basically creating this high fat coffee and you have it in the morning And there's a myriad of different benefits that people can get out of it But what I wanted to do is explain to you how I make it because I actually make it a little bit different To the way David Asprey makes it based off my own body how I felt from the butter in particular I actually use this coconut cream instead of butter and that was advised to me by a very well-regarded health practitioner Helen Patterin based out of Sydney and also the benefits that I get out of it as somebody who trains quite heavily I'm a cyclist, so I guess the you know benefits from an athlete's perspective. That's what I really want to dig into so First of all, why do I personally do it? There are three main reasons why I personally do it number one is I do it to just give my body a rest. There's a lot of Interest these days in fasting intermittent fasting. So a good intermittent fast would be 16-8 so you're giving yourself 16 hours of rest and 8 hours you're eating So say if you finish eating at 7 or 8 p.m. In the evening and then you go through to noon or 1 o'clock The following day that's considered an intermittent fast Now does the bulletproof coffee in the morning say that it isn't a true intermittent fast? Maybe but it's it's just a little bit of liquid and I'm addicted to coffee I can't get by without it and doing this enables me to have my coffee fixed But also enables me to have that intermittent fast now 30% of your daily energy is spent on consuming food So you take away one of those meals So let's just say maybe on a day where you do a bulletproof you're doing 20% of your daily energy is on burning food So you're saving yourself 10% and that gives your body more of a chance to have a rest Recover better get rid of toxicity, etc. So that's the first reason the second reason is that it helps to reduce blood sugar and Manage your insulin levels. So a lot of us have become reliant on carbohydrates You tend to spike your insulin and you're you're going through ups and downs through the whole day and a lot of people That do eat a lot of carbohydrates snack a lot as well.  So it's helped me manage my weight better as well for the kettle is boiled So I've got my organic coffee here. I've got my little scooper Scoop this for a big scoop in the top of the aero press got the kettle boiling water Now fill that to the top now. There's a there's a little filter below the aero press so you can see that coming out Now I've got quite a big mug And I do that because I love coffee and I want to have an everlasting experience and I'm just gonna wait for it to You can see Just wait for it to drop down to about here and Then I'm going to refill it to the top and then with the aero press you put this on and it sort of Suctions the coffee and with the air pressure just holds it in place So the next thing I want to do I've got my blender here and I'm going to put my coconut cream two tablespoons in the blender that's Tablespoon pretty chunky tablespoon I go Now it's still a bit fair bit of coconut cream in there So what I'll do is I'll put it in container put it in the fridge and just use it it for the next time So the next thing I'm going to put in is this MCT oil one tablespoon of this Then the last thing a little cheeky teaspoon of this mushroom powder It's not the type of mushrooms that you get in Bali but It's the top of mushrooms that makes you concentrate better moisturize during the day and Goes kind of nicely with the bulletproof. It's a teaspoon in the blender Meanwhile the Coffee is just brewing on the side now normally I like to have strong coffee so I'll let it brew for Around five minutes by the time you sort of fill up your blender you get close to five minutes now with the air I press you push down slowly Gotta be patient if you push down too fast done this in the past the filter can self Combust and Basically you get the whole coffee granules and everything in your coffee and you got to start all over again Not a good thing. So nice and slow and the coffee It's going to go inside The blender Okay, so right now that's not looking too good Now some people stir their bulletproof and it's highly recommended you don't because it just doesn't blend It really doesn't and you get chunks doesn't taste as good Okay, you don't need a fancy Vitamix blender any blender will do So you don't need to get too excited on the blending I go for maybe 30 seconds to a minute But you can see that's all nicely blended in there. It's got a nice head to it as well It's actually a very nice sort of creamy latte type scenario So I'm at my desk Ready to start my day and I've got my creamy bulletproof coffee here It's good and I wanted to share just a few things with you if you're thinking about trying this intermittent fasting or bulletproof for the first time Things you need to be thinking about first of all This is a rest day for me So I haven't gone and ridden 50 or 100 Ks this morning and if I do that I tend to want to fill my body with good quality nutrients for recovery purposes post ride So I would recommend doing these on your rest day Additionally, if you haven't done a bulletproof coffee before and you've been eating breakfast for the last five ten fifteen years Keep in mind that you're going to have to condition yourself and get used to this process You're not going to see or feel the benefits straight away. In fact, you might struggle for the first few weeks of doing this I know my sister has started doing this and she's been getting super hungry. It's a 10 or 11 a.m So what I suggested to her and what's recommended is don't have your meal then straight away Don't go straight for a mid morning breakfast or some lunch. Take a handful of good quality fat So that's raw nuts, walnuts, cashews, etc Make sure they're not full of oil and salt raw nuts and have a handful of those and that will sustain you until lunch time Or take a boiled egg or something like that Additionally, like if your body hasn't really Used ketones as a primary energy source before certain. There are a lot of people out there because they eat carbohydrate for every meal Your body is dealing with a new way of using a different energy source. So breaking down fat into a ketone For the first time so you might feel a little bit strange So just keep in mind that it's not going to be for everything once you condition your body and for me in the mornings Now when I do a bulletproof coffee, I've noticed operating off ketones are much more laser focused for work as opposed to having a carbohydrate meal in the morning Now the last thing I'll mention which is super important is for your first meal once you break the fast So after 16 or so hours at noon or one o'clock don't have a high carbohydrate meal don't have a Pasta or a pizza or some rice have something which is sort of well rounded Make sure you've got some good quality fats in there as well through avocados raw nuts, etc And that will ensure you're not spiking your insulin level and that will ensure that the next time you do a bulletproof coffee It'll be a little bit easier and then the next time you do it after that It'll be a little bit easier again, and then you will just get used to it You'll actually really enjoy the experience like I do and you'll get those benefits that I talked about at the start of the video So I hope that's been useful and insightful for those people out there They're thinking about doing some intermittent fasting or trolling bulletproof coffee. I'll catch you in the next video