Street, Prospect, Angle, Lorraine, Gould, Pearl, and Alley, Sewer, and Water Improvement Design meeting. This meeting is being recorded. If you are a column user and you can't see the screen, we will take your questions following the presentation. If you can't see the screen, go to the bottom right hand corner and see the chat bubble and go ahead and put your questions in there and we will address those once the meeting starts. This meeting is being translated by Hilda Zaniga. Your project manager is Pratima Pujol. We'll let Hilda translate and then we'll pass it over to Pratima. Thank you. Buenas tardes a todos. Gracias por acompañarnos el día de hoy en la Junta de Diseño sobre las mejoras a las tuberias que se harán pronto en el norte de la ciudad. Esta presentación está siendo grabada. Si ustedes no pueden ver la pantalla y nos están escuchando por teléfono. Vavor de esperar un momento, vamos a después de que la presentación termine, vamos a contestar las preguntas una a una, como llegaron. Agra de Cemos mucho su presencia y comenzamos en unos minutos. Thank you. Good evening. This is the agenda for this meeting. I'm going to introduce myself and the project design team. I'm going to provide you project overview. Project locations and we are going to discuss some of the frequently asked questions. Esta es la agenda que vamos a llevar del día de hoy. Primero vamos a hacer las introducciones, unas generalidades del proyecto, el área del proyecto y también vamos a contestar las preguntas que ustedes tengan. My name is Pratima Pujol. I'm senior professional engineer with City of Fort Worth Water Department and I'm project manager for this project. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and email is Pratima.Paudial at FotostateTexas.gov. Daltech engineering is the design engineering firm for this project. Amir Taubes is the project manager and he's also present in this meeting. La gerente del proyecto es la ingeniero Patrina Pujol, que es la persona que les está hablando. El número para comunicarse con ella es el<PHONE_NUMBER>. También pueden comunicarse con ella a través de correo electrónico que es Patrina.Puto.Pujol, Arroba, Fort Worth Texas.gov. También vamos a estar escuchando el consultor de ingeniería del diseño que está con la campaña Daltech. El representante Amir Taubes es el gerente del proyecto para esta compañía y también vamos a estar escuchando el día de hoy. This is the Water and Sewer Main Replacement Project in the Central Fort Worth. This project is generally bounded by Northwest 31st District to the North. North Commerce is straight to the East. North is to 28th Street to the South and Pearl Avenue to the West. This project is in City Council District 2 and impacts the Inner District 2 Alliance, far greater Northside Historical Neighborhood Association, and the Diamond Hill Harvest Neighborhood Association. Entre la información general que vamos a ofrecerles sobre el proyecto es que se van a reemplazar las tuberías del drenaje y agua en la parte central de Fort Worth. El proyecto con Linda, con la calle Northwest 35 al Norte, con la North Commerce al Este, con la North East 28 al South y luego en el Oeste tenemos la Avenida Pearl. El proyecto se encuentra dentro del Distrito Municipal Número 2 e impacta las aliancias de vecinos Inter District 2 y las asociaciones de vecinos far greater Northside Historical and Diamond Hill Harvest. The black lines you can see over here on the map are the locations where we are going to replace the water and sewer line. The first one is in the alley between Ross Avenue and the Clinton Avenue. We are going to replace sewer line from Long Avenue to almost the 31st Street. The second one is in alley between Clinton Avenue and Houston Street. We are replacing the sewer line and it starts from Long Avenue and goes north of 34th Street. The third one is between in the alley between Houston Street and Ellis Avenue. It starts on Long Avenue and goes north of 34th Street. We are replacing sewer over here too. Son varias las calles que afecta el proyecto. La primera sería el callejón entre las avenidas Ross y Clinton. Desde la Avenida Long hasta el Norte hasta llegar a la calle 35 ahí se van a cambiar la tubería del renaje. Asimismo tenemos el callejón entre la calle Houston y la Avenida Clinton. Desde Long hasta unos 280 pies al Norte de la calle 34 donde también se van a estar cambiando. La tubería del renaje y también el callejón entre la Avenida Ellis y la calle Houston. Desde Long hasta unos 240 pies al Norte de la calle 34 que se ven en el mapa. The fourth one over here is in alley between Ellis Avenue and Main Street. It starts a little south of 32nd Street and it goes little north of 34th Street. We are replacing sewer line over here too. The other one here is in alley between Main Street and Commerce Street. It starts from Long Avenue and goes a little south of 34th Street. We are replacing sewer over here as well. Las otras dos calles que se muestran en el mismo mapa serían el callejón ubicado entre la calle Main y la Avenida Ellis. Desde unos 370 pies al sur de la Avenida Long a 130 pies al Norte de la calle 34. Y el callejón entre las calles Commerce y Main de la Avenida Long a la calle 34. Ambos callejones se van a hacer trabajo en la tubería del renaje. This is another area under this project on Prospect Avenue. We are going to replace sewer from 29th Street to almost to 32nd Street. Another one is here in the alley between Ross Avenue and Clinton Avenue. It starts on 29th Street and goes up to 30th Street. We are replacing sewer here as well. Another one is in the alley between Clinton Avenue and Houston Street. It starts on 28th Street and goes up to the middle of the block. Another one is on 28th Street right away. And this goes about 200 feet east and west of Alice Avenue intersection. En este otro mapa podemos ver también que tenemos otras calles donde se va a cambiar la tubería por ejemplo en la Avenida Prospect desde la calle 29 a la calle 32. El callejón entre las avenidas Clinton y Ross de la calle 29 a la calle 30. El callejón entre Houston y Clinton de la calle 28 a unos 425 pies al noroeste de la 28. Antes la calle 29 y este en la calle 28 desde unos 190 pies al oeste de la calle north main hasta unos 178 pies al este de la calle Houston. Todos son tuberías del renaje. In the same area we have another sewer line replacement between Clinton Avenue and Houston Street. This first section starts from 30th Street to 31st Street and the second section starts from 31st Street to 32nd Street. And there is a sewer line in an east vent over here. We are planning to read out the sewer line and bring that to the 31st Street and connect to the existing sewer line. And once completed we are going to abandon this section of the sewer line. En el mismo mapa podemos ver que va a haber construcción en el callejón entre Houston y Clinton desde la calle 30 rumbo al norte hasta llegar a la calle 31. En el callejón entre Houston y Clinton unos 325 pies al noroeste de la calle 31 hasta llegar a la 32. En el derecho real entre la calle 31 y la calle 32 desde 180 pies al oeste de Houston a unos 180 pies al este de Houston. La ingeniero planea abandonar esta tubería del renaje y cambiarla a la calle 31. This is another area in this project. The first one is an alley sewer line in alley between 29th Street and 30th Street. The second one is the sewer line in alley between Pearl Avenue and Angle Avenue. The third one is under Pearl Avenue we are going to replace this sewer line over here too. And on the 29th Street from Pearl Avenue to Angle Avenue we are going to replace the water line. Tenemos por ejemplo en este mapa el derecho real entre las calles 29 y la 30 en la avenida pro a la avenida angle. El derecho real entre las avenidas pro y angle 30 pies al norte de la 29 al derecho real entre las calles 29 y 30. En la avenida pro unos 80 pies al norte de la calle 29 al derecho real entre las calles 29 y northwest 30. Y tenemos también que en la calle 29 desde la avenida pro hasta la avenida angle ahí se van a cambiar la tubería del agua. We are going to replace this sewer line and glow Avenue as well. We are going to replace this sewer line in an alley between 29th Street and Lorin Street. We are going to replace this sewer line on the Lorin Street as well. And on the Angle Avenue we are going to replace both water and sewer line. En el mismo mapa vemos que en la avenida glow desde la avenida angle a 330 pies hacia el sur de la calle 39. En la calle northwest Lorin desde la avenida angle a unos 185 pies al oeste de la avenida angle. En el callejón entre las calles Lorin y la 29 desde la avenida angle a unos 100 pies al este de la avenida glow. En el último tenemos la avenida angle desde la calle 30 hacia el sur hasta la calle Lorin ahí va a ser ambas tuberías del agua y del renaissance. Why we are doing this project. City of Fort Worth Water Department prioritizes water and sewer replacement project based on various available data which includes water main break history leak history in case of sewer CCTV inspection data. Either the line line material and whether there are late services in the line or not. In this instance the project was created to replace old water and sewer lines which are in poor condition. Entre las preguntas que recibimos más de la comunidad es por qué se realista este proyecto y la respuesta es que Fort Worth prioriza el reemplazo de la tubería de agua y del renaje sanitario. Lo hace tomando en cuenta por ejemplo el número de rupturas y fugas que ha experimentado la tubería la información arrojada por las inspecciones realizadas con cámara de circuito cerrado. La edad de la misma línea el material de la tubería y la existencia de líneas de plomo. En este caso por ejemplo el principal motivo son las tuberías viejas del agua y del renaje y las condiciones pobres en las que se encuentran. Now we will go to some of the frequently asked questions. What streets will have construction in this street? Some of the streets will have replacement in this street. Some of the streets will have to open up to connect it to the existing water and sewer lines. So these are the streets we are going to have instructions. Angle Avenue, Pearl Avenue, 29th Street, Cloud Street, Lawrence Street, Prospect Avenue, 28th Street, Long Avenue, 32nd Street and 31st Street. One of the questions that the community asks us is what streets will have construction in this street? The answer is that in the following will have construction in Angle Avenue, Pearl Avenue, 29th Street, Gold Street, Lorraine Street, Prospect Avenue, 28th Street, Long Avenue and 32nd Street and 31st Street. Are we taking curb, gutters, storm drains and sidewalks? This is a water sewer replacement project. So if you have an existing curb and gutter and storm drains and sidewalks, then if the project has impacted or damaged it, then only we are going to replace it. I'm sorry about that. Will you need access to our property? If we need access to your property, contractor will provide right of entry later to the property owner and open approval, the contractor will access the property. We also need to ask if we are going to need to enter your property. If that is the case, in case you need to access your property, the contractor will send the property owner a right of entry or as it is known in English, right of entry. Once you receive your approval, that is to say that you allow the contractor to enter the property to do the work that you need to do. Will our sewer service will be disrupted and sewer service will not be disrupted. New sewer cleanouts will be installed at the property line. The sewer cleanouts will provide cruise easy access if there is a backup of our blockage. Will our water be turned off? Water will be turned off about 15 to 30 minutes when contractor transferred the service from the existing water line to the temporary water service and then it will be turned off again when contractor transferred the service from temporary line to the new water line. We know that the water service will be cut off about 15 to 30 minutes while the current pipe is transferred to the temporary line, as you can see here in the picture, which is how the service will be offered and how it is shown on the left. Likewise, another 15 to 30 minutes will be cut off when the temporary line is transferred to the new line or the permanent line. What happens if my property is damaged? The contractor will take pictures and videos of the property before breaking ground. We also encourage property owners to take pictures and videos of their property before construction starts. If it is decided that the contractor has damaged your property, the property will be restored to its original or better condition. And what happens if my property is damaged? They ask us, well, we answer that the contractor will take pictures and videos of the property before starting their construction work. We recommend the owners to do the same, take pictures and videos of the property before the construction starts. Will the construction effect my irrigation? The contractor will ask property owner to turn on the irrigation system so the sprinkler hairs can be located and flagged. The contractor has to cap irrigation lines before the construction. The contractor will replace capped or damaged irrigation systems. Now I'm going to provide you some timeline to this project. This is a design public meeting. The next steps will be advertising this project for construction. Once the advertisement is finished, we are going to open the pits. After that, the city council will approve the award to the contractor. Once the contract is established with the contractor, we are going to have a pre-construction meeting with the contractor and the city inspector. After that, we'll come back to the community and have another remix meeting and provide the updates. And after that, the construction starts. We are at 90% design on this project. So we are planning to go on construction meet to late fall of this year. After that, we are going to review each project. After that, we are going to ask the city council to approve it. The city council will approve it to grant the project to the contractor. Then we will meet with the contractor and the city inspector to discuss the details of the project. We have a virtual meeting with the community in which we will update and offer additional information to the residents affected by the project. And finally, the construction works begin mid-autumn or late autumn of 2021. www.photoastexas.gov and put the project number 2720 in the search bar and this project link page will come. The link to this meeting video, the project map and the project summary frequently asked questions will also be linked to the same project page. Where can you get more information about the project? We answered that the progress of the work will be updated on the website of the City of Fort Worth. There is the internet link to visit that page. Another way to get to the page of the work is visiting the main page of the city in www.fortworthtexas.gov and enter the project number 2720 in the search bar. There you will find the link to this video, the project map, a list of questions and answers, and the summary of the meeting that we are taking. Again, my name is Pratima Paudel and I'm project manager for this project. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and email is Pratima.paudel at www.photoastexas.gov. In case of any water and sewer emergencies, you can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER> and select option one. This is a 24-hour service. For other non-emergency issues, you can call the same number<PHONE_NUMBER> and they are open from 7am to 7pm. The important people that have to have in mind for any additional information about this project are the project manager. Her name again is Pratima Paudel. The phone number you can call is<PHONE_NUMBER>. There you will also find the email that is pratima.paudel at www.photoastexas.gov. If you want to report an emergency related only to the water, for example, breakups of pipes, drainage rams, 24 hours a day, you can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER> and select option one. El centro de ser visual cliente para llamadas de no emergencia está abierto de lunes a viernes de 7 de la mañana a 7 de la tarde. El número es el<PHONE_NUMBER>. Tengan en mente que estamos cerrados los días festivos. With that, this presentation is complete. If you have any questions, please type that on the chat box. Pratima, we have a question. Con eso terminamos la presentación. Agradecemos su participación. Y si tienen alguna pregunta, comentario favor de ponerlo, escribirlo en el área de comentarios. Thank you, Hilda. We have a question from Luis. He said, is there a plan and profile for the work being done on Lorraine and Gould? He said he believes the sewer line that's being replaced on Lorraine is not industry, but in the rear of the property. He said there's no longer an alley there and the property was replanted and the alley was removed. Okay, go ahead. If you could send me an email with the location, then I can reply him with better information and plan and profile as well. La pregunta vino de Luis, dice que si existe un plan o un perfil sobre el trabajo que se está haciendo en las calles Lorraine and Gould. Luis nos dice que él piensa había un proyecto ahí del renaje. La respuesta es que por favor nos envíe Luis la información por escrito y el área exactamente donde de la cual está ubicado para proveerle más información. That's the only question in chat. Do any of our calling users or our participants have questions? Alguien más que esté en la línea de teléfono. Tiene alguna pregunta o ustedes que nos están viendo por la junta virtual por favor hablar o es de escribirla en el área de comentarios por favor. Call and user five. Do you have a question? Okay. Victor and Luis on here. Do you either one of you have a question? Victor Luis tiene alguna pregunta. Okay, if no one has any questions. You've got the contact slide up on the screen with Pratima's contact information. I think we said at the beginning of the meeting that a video of this meeting will be linked to the project page on the city website. We also have the map and we also do a summary FAQ a written form in case you would rather read instead of watch the video. Recordamos a todos que tenemos la información de contacto de la ingeniero en pantalla. Si alguien más tiene una pregunta puede llamarle a ella o también le recordamos que al principio de esta punta decimos que tenemos. Vamos a tener el video de esta junta en la página de internet el proyecto para si ustedes después quieren revisarla de nuevo y de ahí resulta alguna pregunta los invitamos a que nos la envíen. Thank you everybody. Have a good evening. Bye bye. Thank you everybody.


The Steadman-Philipon Research Institute has been awesome for doing research. Me and my co-fellowed Dimitri have been extremely productive. He's become actually like a brother to me over the course of this year. We're sending a lot of our research to the National Conferences for hip and the arthroplasty. My wife and I are from New York and from the East Coast. I did all my training there. So coming to Colorado was a little bit of a culture shock for me. You know, there's no traffic. People are very nice.  So we had a lot to catch up on once we got out here. Watching my daughter Charlotte. You know, she's three now. Watching her grow up this year and mature has been just an unparalleled experience for me. Driving in every morning and seeing the mountains with snow caps. It's really an unbelievable experience to have for a year. Not only did I learn a ton about joint replacement, but I really got a second family. Each and every member of Dr. Kim's team really embodies the vision of Dr. Steadman. I mean, after all, we do have Crystal Adams who has been a nurse for 34 years. So it's not surprising that she keeps us in line. Dr. Kim is the consummate physician and just such a genuinely good person.  And countless times the patient would say, oh, Dr. Kim, it's so nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you. It's such a good reputation. That's the feeling I want patients to get when they come see me in clinic. So having that experience this year has been truly remarkable.


Hello, and welcome to the series on seed programming. Today, we're going to be looking at something that you probably shouldn't do too much, but it you need to do something quick and easy. It can be useful. We're going to call system commands from our C code. So normally when you write something in C, you try to write something in a lower level language. So you want to be more efficient, so you're not writing scripts, but sometimes it's just you don't want to write out the functions yourself. It's just a quick and easy way to do something, but again, if you're writing in C, you probably isn't your first goal to do this. That being said, I do it all the time. Let's go. Vim system C is what I'm calling our code file, and in here we have a very basic function here. This is important. We got our standard lib.h here. You need that to do a system call. We got our main function returning zero here. And what we're going to do is we're just going to type in system. And inside of the parentheses for this, we're going to give our command. And I'm just going to do a list command on my root directory here. So we're going to do that. Get out of that. I'm going to say gcc, our code file dash output, I'll just call it system. And then I'm going to dot slash to run system. And it lists out the files in my root directory. Let's give it another example. Let me come in here and I'll run the date command. So I'll just type in date in here. I'll recompile that with gcc. I will run it again, and now it prints out the date and time. I can even use the echo command, which would just be silly since you have the print f command in our function in C. But we can say, oops, echo, hello world. I can save that and I can compile it and run it and it says hello world. And of course you can do more than one thing. I can, in one command here, I can say date and then semi colon and I should be able to compile that and run it. And it's just like typing it at the shell. So we have our date and then hello world and of course you can also have a system command called more than once. I can come in here and I can say system and I can in here list out my root directory if I could type properly today. There we go. So now I can compile that. I can't run it and it gets the date, hello world and then lists the files from my root directory and of course we can also add options to that. I can say LHA as some switches for that and I can run that now and you miss the first few commands here but it gets the date, hello world and then runs that list command. So again, if you're writing in C, most of the time you're not going to, you're looking to do things a little more efficient but sometimes it's useful. Maybe you want a binary for some reason but do be aware you're not like really hiding anything if that's your goal because if I just run the strings command on our system binary here it gives out all the strings and I can then grep for something like list and you can see that the commands are in there in plain text. So if your goal is to hide commands in a binary file you might trick some people but not most people. Let's see, date, is that, yeah, so date, echo world, you know, so it would not be hard for someone trying to back read engineer your binary to find the commands you're running so you're not hiding stuff that way. Anyway, it is useful at times and yeah, this was a quick short one. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that you have a great day. Please visit filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris Cade, there's a link in the description.


So LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, uses lasers to measure the elevation of things like the ground, forests, and even buildings. It's a lot like Sonar which uses sound waves to map things, or Radar which uses radio waves to map things, but a LiDAR system uses light, sent out from a laser. But aren't lasers used for stuff like, I don't know, scanning barcodes, making your favorite band look awesome, removing hair? Ew. Seriously, how does a LiDAR system use lasers to measure stuff? Now just for the record, there are different ways to collect LiDAR data. From the ground, from an airplane, or even from space. Airborne LiDAR data are the most commonly available LiDAR data, and Airborne LiDAR data will also be freely available through the National Ecological Observatory Network or NEON, so we'll focus on that in this video. So to get how lasers are used to calculate height in Airborne LiDAR, we need to understand the four parts of the system. First, the airplane contains the LiDAR unit itself, which uses a laser to scan the earth from side to side as the plane flies. By the way, for you remote sensing geeks out there, the laser system uses either green or near infrared light, because these wavelengths or types of light reflect strongly off of vegetation. The next component of a LiDAR system is a GPS receiver that tracks the altitude and x-y location of the airplane. The GPS allows us to figure out where LiDAR reflections are on the ground. The third component of a LiDAR system is what's called an inertial measurement unit or IMU, not to be confused with EMU and IMU. The IMU tracks the tilt of the plane in the sky as it flies, which is important for accurate elevation calculations. Finally, the LiDAR system includes a computer. The computer records all of that important height information that the LiDAR collects as it scans the earth's surface. No computer, no data, it's as simple as that. Now you may be wondering, how do the laser, the GPS, the IMU and the computer all work together to get us these fantastically useful LiDAR data sets? Well, the laser in the LiDAR system scans the earth, actively emitting light energy towards the ground. Now before we go any further, let's get two key LiDAR terms associated with this emitted light energy out of the way. You know, so we can speak LiDAR and all. First, let's define the word pulse. A pulse simply refers to a burst of light energy that is emitted by the LiDAR system. And second, let's define the word return. Return refers to reflected light energy that has been recorded by the LiDAR sensor. So pulses of light energy travel to the ground and return back to the LiDAR sensor. Now we're speaking LiDAR. Now all of this pulse and return business is great, but speaking the language doesn't give us height. To get height the LiDAR system records the time that it takes for the LiDAR energy to travel to the ground and back. The system then uses the speed of light to calculate the distance between the top of that object and the plane. So let's break down what this distance calculation looks like. You take travel time, multiplied by the speed of light, divided by two since the light traveled to the ground and back. This calculation gives us how far the light actually traveled to the ground. So using this math we know the distance between the plane and the ground. But we're not done just yet. How do we figure out the actual elevation of the ground? To figure out ground elevation we take the plane's altitude calculated using that GPS receiver. And then we subtract the distance that the light traveled to the ground. And that covers the basics of how a LiDAR system uses lasers to measure height. So now we've got the basics down, but there are two more things that a LiDAR system has to consider when calculating height. First the plane rocks a bit in the sky as it flies due to turbulence in the air. These movements are recorded by the inertial measurement unit or IMU. No, no, no, not EMU, IMU, so that they can be accounted for when height values are calculated for each LiDAR return. And also an airborne system scans the earth from side to side to cover a larger area on the ground when flying. So while some light pulses travel vertically from the plane to the ground or directly at nadir, if we're still talking LiDAR lingo here, most pulses leave the plane at an angle or off nadir. So the system also needs to account for pulse angle when it calculates elevation. So let's put this all together one last time. The LiDAR system emits pulses of light energy towards the ground using a laser. It then records the time it takes for the pulse to travel to the ground and return back to the sensor. It converts this time to distance using the speed of light. The system then uses the plane's altitude, tilt, and the angle of the pulse to calculate elevation. It also uses a GPS receiver to calculate the object's location on the ground. All of this information is recorded on that handy-dandy computer also mounted on the airplane. And that, my friends, is how a LiDAR system works. Now, there is one more component of a LiDAR system that makes it so useful, a pulse of light doesn't just reflect off of one thing, like the top of a tree, and yield one return. Sometimes a LiDAR pulse travels through things, like the gaps between tree branches and leaves. Think about standing on the forest floor and watching the sunlight filter through the tops of the trees, making the leaves and branches glow. The light energy that passes through the canopy reflects off of the branches and leaves within the canopy. This ability of a LiDAR system to travel through and record information starting from the top of the canopy through the canopy and all the way to the ground makes LiDAR systems unique and highly valuable to scientists studying trees. These returns from within the canopy tell us more about what's happening inside the forest, or the forest structure. For example, they can tell us about the shape of the trees, or the density of the leaves on the trees. They can sometimes even be used to estimate whether there's shrubs below the trees on the forest floor. But we'll save that topic of using LiDAR to estimate forest structure for another video. And now, my friends, you know how a LiDAR system generally works. And also, you can consider yourself fluent in the language of LiDAR.


just a little bit longer to make sure everything is synced up and all the rest of it. Okay, okay, that's long enough. Good evening everyone, welcome to my live stream, thank you for joining me. Usual requests will you please like and share and all the other social media things that you do and also send me in questions, comments, anything you have to say, please send it through. Before I start this evening I wanted to answer a question that came in just after I'd finished on what night was it Thursday night and it was the question was it was from a person called Charlie who said he's currently a green supporter but he likes our position on animal welfare and asked whether or not we would also ban kosher meat which is also on stand as well as halal. Now I do know that the far right have got a they're being a bonnet about Jews and well they they're obsessive Jews aren't they and apparently we're all funded by Mossad and all the rest of this nonsense. Look very clearly it's my belief that the majority in this country agree with me on this and that belief is from listening to people I genuinely can't think of a member of the public that I have spoken to about this issue who didn't agree with me that the issue here is animal welfare and not religion and religions change, they have changed throughout millennia. We are asking them to change again and to put animal welfare as a priority to them to reduce to find the compassion to reduce animals unnecessary suffering. So in answer to your question it's in our manifesto I have consistently said it absolutely all on stand slaughter would be banned in this country under a for-britain government we would repeal the religious exemption to on stand slaughter. Now this we have had rules against or laws against slaughtering animals without starting going back to the early 1900s in this country but we have a religious exemption which makes the whole thing entirely and completely pointless it is allowing the people who actually want to do it to continue doing it and only stopping the people who don't want to do it anyway from doing it so what's the point of it what this is is essentially political trickery it's to look like we are taking action on something while doing nothing at all about the actual practice that we are you know pretending to stop something while allowing it to carry on with impunity this is a despicable political trickery and that religious exemption has to go either this is about animal welfare or it's not and if it is then religion will just have to change they will have to change how they process their meat final comment on that is that the kosher market is minuscule in comparison to the halal market kosher is not and never has been and nor have there been any moves to not certainly not to my knowledge been any moves to impose kosher on the wider public this is not the case with halal it is in schools it is in hospitals it is in across the public sector the army even parliament so we are clear all on stand slaughter kosher or halal will be prevented from taking place in the united kingdom under a for britain government thank you for that question and for allowing me to opportunity to clarify that yet again okay so on the lineup for this evening i'm going to talk a little bit about the coronavirus a little bit of an update from what we heard from the government this evening i'm going to talk about juliana sanj for a while and i've had a rather interesting day today in that i've spent a great deal of it reading about and watching documentaries about juliana sanj and i went into it with a completely open mind um wanting to know as much as i knew i could know about this and coming away with with very little clarity he's it's one of those issues where it depends on where you are as to whether or not you agree with him i think there are major arguments in his favor arguments against him but on balance i come out on his side and i'll explain in a lot more detail soon about that uh i will also go through as i was going to do on monday we didn't really get the time uh some of the islam's teachings on women and the reason we're doing this is because we uh we know that the that uh sahaja javid back in 2018 ordered a review into the ethnicity of the grooming gangs that review is now complete but it won't be published uh the point of this is that we are looking at with a few points one we are looking at ethnicity when we ought to be looking at religion we have completely discounted the religion in all of this when it's where we ought to be seeking because these are not an ethnic unifier among the rape gangs certainly across europe but there is a religious unifier and therefore we ought to be looking at the religion and i'm saying that these group these grooming gangs these rape gangs it's not a coincidence that they're almost exclusively muslim uh the contempt for non-muslims and the contempt for women is saturates islamic scripture and i'm not suggesting for a moment that the rape gangs or the members of these rape gangs before they go out to rape young english girls sit down and read the quran i'm not suggesting this for a moment what i am saying is that they are raised in a culture shaped by this religion even if they've never read the quran they are raised in a culture shaped by it and even prominent muslims like jasmine alibi brand some i'm not a fan of but to her credit she did speak out on this and she did say that there is widespread contempt for white women in muslim communities in this country so we'll talk a little bit about we talked a little bit about the quran's attitude to non-muslims we'll talk a little bit today about the attitude to women and how the two things combined shape people's views and that if we're going to look at grooming gangs with any seriousness we need to be looking at the religion and not the ethnicity okay so please do uh get your questions in um very quickly i was asked by mea before i finished on monday about uh trawlers in uk fishing waters at the moment so i want to just quickly cover that and i'll post any any articles that i refer to will go out on the forbidden committees twitter account so just to let you know um what's going on at the moment there are what are called super trawlers in uk waters two three from the netherlands and two from france off the scottish coast where they're hauling tons of fish every day they set off on towards to set about this towards the scottish uh coast only immediately after britain announced a corona virus lockdown uh so we are our fishermen are locked down and in the meanwhile um dutch and french super trawlers are roaming around the uh scottish coast and fishing and fishing and fishing and already uh desperate situation um for fishermen who are who are obviously and understand be upset about this the thing is that they're allowed to do this um and that will change the government's response to this has been this will change after brexit when we come out of the common fisheries policy people can still fish and this caused quite a bit of fury uh people can still fish in uk waters afterwards but only under strict circumstances and following the rules of the uk so something that has has been upsetting people but to me you know it's just it just seems to be just another one of those examples doesn't it i mean the airports are still open the airports are still accepting flights uh we've got workers coming in from romania um and they're coming in because they're they can be paid cheaper and several uh uk workers did apply to to do the cultivating picking the vegetables picking the fruits whatever it is that is desperately needed across the country and the where the hiring of british people wasn't taking place because they were too expensive and this i suspect i can pretty much confirm is across the board and coronavirus are not our industries are hiring foreign workers because they are cheaper um long term medium term and short term we have got to stop and change that it is an issue it is an issue and it's an issue that started actually when we opened the EU to the to the eastern countries and i'm not you know attacking the eastern countries when i say that but it was inevitable when you when the EU was western europe and you had essentially uh western first world countries uh same levels standard of living uh same levels of wealth or similar levels of wealth so that the the immigration between countries wasn't enormous but then you open to the much poorer east and it's inevitable that people will start to come in and that was really when the the practice of cheaper workers from eastern europe at the expense of british workers began to take place and of course when british workers were inevitably priced out of the market but that's where we are um and only a change of government and only a change of the house of commons will really stop that okay time is already flying and there's a lot i want to cover tonight so let's get the latest from the government on uh on coronavirus so the government press conference was taken this evening by dominic robb we are still in lockdown for the foreseeable future although borris johnson is reportedly coming up with a plan and we may have some restrictions east next week but those restrictions are as restrictions even are likely to be very mild and largely hardly noticeable oh one thing um we will be finishing again at five minutes to eight this evening to allow those who want to clap for key workers at five to eight um okay questions coming in thank you very much um apparently we're also having streaming issues and it is once again an internet issue but i will carry on regardless oh it's getting a bit it's getting um let's get him get much now i mean once or twice once is it happens twice oh dear has it happened again third time you you can't you shouldn't let it happen at third time you should do everything you can't prevent it from happening at third time but uh i've no idea what those issues are and uh let's see let's just carry on and hope hope for the best so thanks um for the questions coming in okay back to coronavirus so uh dominic robb has told us that abandoning social distance in reels at this point would allow the virus to spread again however at both rates of infection the rate of infection is down to which is called the or rate is down to minus one between point five and point nine which means that people who are infected are passing it on to fewer than one person which is obviously a good thing um so rates of infection are down rates of death are down but the social distance in reels will remain in place um because it will allow the according to dominic robb if we uh lift them now the virus may spread again um quick warning my dog is a little bit active to see me so she may bark okay here's the news that we all knew was coming and we're dreading and the news today from the bank of england is highly highly highly alarming they are saying that the uk economy will shrink by 14 percent this year this is almost twice the last big crash uh it will be the deepest recession we've ever had uh you know what is there what is there to say it's it's in it's it's that i haven't that isn't already said in that sentence we will see our biggest ever recession according to the bank of england today this will this will lead to death this will lead to great amounts of suffering um and we still we still don't have a a time or an indication of when our economy will slowly be able to get back on its feet there's a huge problems huge huge problems ahead this is this is a catastrophic figure and i don't want to over uh worry people we ought to be worried about this this is um we're going to have years we're going to have years of suffering and struggling ahead because of this thing and uh we i i you know we have a petition please please sign this petition i'll again send it out or make sure it is sent out on the for britain committee's twitter account but uh china owes us so far according to one story 350 billion pounds we need that money and it's likely to be a far higher figure than that by the time we get out of this before by the time we get back to some kind of normal whatever that will be we will lose vast numbers of jobs we will lose vast numbers of small businesses and china is enjoying itself it's enjoying itself it's buying up shares and in all over the world is is uh selling often faulty produce around the world it's making a killing on all this while the rest of us are watching our economy shrink by 14 percent um oh you know you remember the ppe that we bought from toky yeah it doesn't meet our safety standards don't you love it isn't this just fantastic this is what happens i mean we weren't even able to supply our own ventilators because ventilator production in this country didn't meet with nhs specifications so we're going to guess where china to buy them we have a manufacturing crisis there is a manufacturing crisis in this country we're unable to keep our own workers safe uh we need to completely review where we are in in so so many respects here's an interesting update from this evening now uk government data suggests that black people twice as likely as white people to die and i address this in one of our unfortunately written off um live streams again due to due to internet problems i i briefly addressed this um okay so we're set we're hearing that uh black people are twice as likely to die as white people from this okay now there's a few questions and we're told that we're going to look into this in detail uh and find out why this is i want to know a couple of things before we start this number one what kind what do we mean by black people are we talking about british black people are we talking about immigrant communities if we are talking about immigrant communities is it partly if not uh largely that many immigrant communities are refusing to follow social distancing rules is that part of it is it what the uh british medical association used as an example in what i read out in on that live stream the fact that religious minorities are refusing particular ppe because it it doesn't you know fit with the the the headgear or the birds is that a reason uh is it because are we talking about and this was something that was addressed by a statistician on bbc who said that it was a part of it was because many ethnic minorities live in in uh crowded areas uh or living in rather poorer areas but if that's the case then it's a poverty issue and and white people living in poor areas are subjected or overcrowded areas subject to the same things will if if it if we find that this is a matter of immigrant communities refusing to participate in social lockdown at then we then either this investigation will completely disappear we will never hear another word about it or it will be somehow spun and twisted to yet again somehow become our fault white people's fault it will somehow be down to us anyway okay that's that's the latest on uh coronavirus brief summary at least okay uh what else did i want to cover oh yes of course julian assange let's spend a few minutes on him and the time is of course flying by i went went into researching this issue with um with great interest and i came away from it with a couple of of uh i said i guess overriding thoughts i've made a few a few notes on this one thing that seemed prevalent throughout the various uh news coverage of him uh documentaries of him articles about him is uh that not many people have a very have much nice many nice words to say about him uh he's been described by several people as reckless several people as a narcissist and the uh division is an incredibly divisive figure and i understand why and i sympathize largely with both his defenders and his critics it's a very interesting uh case this but one word that continues to come up repeatedly even by his defenders i found was narcissist um and very few if anyone from what i saw in coverage today has anything particularly good to say about him it's obviously got um nothing to do with his right to free speech but it's i found a noteworthy noteworthy reality in in researching this okay so let's do a quick update and a quick summary of who he is and what he he's done he founded uh wiki leaks which is a uh like a wikipedia but for people who have leaks and for people who want to anonymously post information to be made public uh and one thing and i this is quite admirable um was that he would never uh and something i found that was consistent through uh discussion of him he wasn't um he was serious about keeping the anonymity and keeping the the protection of of sources etc private so this came wiki leaks came to international attention when they had published when wiki leaks had probably now i'm keeping a close eye on my phone just to let you know just to make sure that uh just to make sure that there's nothing telling me that i that the entire stream has gone down but just i'll just keep a close eye on that so wiki leaks published a video showing a us us military uh helicopter shooting people in in a nutshell on the ground and there was sort of attitude of ha ha i got him and and and this kind of thing and uh this this was this this was leaked and suddenly uh julia nassange found himself um in the middle of a summer so a global household name and wiki leaks suddenly found itself a household name now he was been given he was given this video and hundreds of thousands of pieces of classified us military information by someone who was serving at the time named bradley manning now bradley manning who is now known as chelsea manning who has undergone sex change was jailed for 35 years for uh putting out for for sharing uh information and was released by obama but is has been since really arrested again now there is some of the communications between this is where part of the the gray area is in terms of of julia nassange and what he could be charged with and this is where a large part of the debate around this is whether he was a journalist legitimately exposing information and protecting his sources as as journalists do or was he engaged in illegal activity according to us laws and collaborating for the release of classified information this is one of those gray areas that this case really rests upon and they're looking over his communication he had a long period of communication with bradley manning and some are implying or some believe that he had encouraged uh bradley manning who some say was sort of not it was a troubled person um a lonely figure a sort of isolated figure in in in the us military um and that he was sort of exploiting this i personally see no didn't see uh evidence for this but it is one of the gray areas involved in what his role is and what his role is and what he was doing was he collaborating or was he being a journalist largely uh determines whether you know what what approach to take legally what approach um to take to him so moving he continued by the way to to publish a periodically continued to publish information embarrassing to the to us um to the us establishment um and he including of course hillary clinton but before we get on to the hillary clinton section in 2010 he was interpol issued a warrant for his arrest on sexual assault charges in sweden he uh refused to go to to sweden because there were no assurances for him that as soon as he got to sweden to answer those charges he wouldn't be extradited to the united states where he knew he faced uh potentially extremely serious charges and carrying a very hefty prison sentence so rather than uh go to sweden and risk extradition to the united states he went to the equidorean embassy in london disguised apparently as a delivery person and went inside the equidorean embassy with a letter in his hand claiming asylum now controversially uh equidore gave him asylum and he was in the equidorean embassy for seven years where he continued to expect continued to publish embarrassing documents continued to work on the internet continued to participate in interviews and and etc etc and and and have a presence on the internet in 2016 the us election of 2016 he um began to be accused of walking as a essentially essentially as a as a an agent of russia when uh the hacking into uh when when hacking resulted in the uh embarrassing publication of hillary clinton emails he was accused of facilitating russian interference by publishing these things something he said you know there was an insistent about clinton camp for example that it was russia who was behind exposing and and hacking in and exposing um information from inside that it was russia who had done that and then used julie anassange and wiki leaks as a publication platform uh to interfere in the us election assange always denied that and i whether i it's it's um it's something that he has always denied but it hasn't stopped people and didn't stop people accusing him of being a a stooge for the russian state so he lost during that time a lot of people's view of him changed a little bit he'd gone from being a hero and a champion of freedom of speech to in many people's eyes um an anti-western stooge now let me just talk a little bit about my own views on on a lot of this i don't think i will ever be a a massive fan of of julie anassange and uh i do think that he his his target appears to specifically have been the united states and which is fine but he was in collaboration with the new york times he was in collaboration with the guardian uh his defenders were people like george galloway this was a he was very much supported in his attacks in america by the extreme left uh this to me you know when you target and single out america without going after others i understand that the information that he had was was was exposure of america i understand this but i did see uh one particular clip of him and i try as i might i can't find it but i know i i know this clip is there and it was him talking to what looked to me very much like an iranian molla uh talking to him about the and i quote that he had been fighting the hegemony of the united states now i'm sorry but if you really are a champion of freedom of speech then uh you know you know friendly chats about the the awful united states with uh an iranian molla i don't know for a fact it was an iranian molla it was certainly a muslim cleric um it doesn't it doesn't you know it it seems to me that it's not so much about well about free speech per se um rather than than uh inconsistent attacks on the united states which of course the left wing loves with all of that in mind or another reason he was accused of being a russian sort of agent not quite an agent i don't think it was formal but this is e-boss cast via ortee and a lot of people um were uh it raised eyebrows russia today a lot of people raised eyebrows about that i don't particularly mind that a platform is in many cases sometimes obviously you have to have limits i certainly do have limits and draw a line but sometimes a platform is a platform and you've got to speak to people and you will take platforms i'm not really uh concerned about this but uh overall overall here's here's the thing he was accused of uh releasing information names details of of of individuals which many stated as fact had resulted in real problems for for people people who uh some people it was argued had been killed because of the information that he published uh some people had uh if people who had been working for the us for example or even people you know people in afghanistan or iraq uh who had been working for the us and apparently uh had their lives really endangered because of information that he published uh he also published uh a week weeks what published uh the you the um bmp membership list but i'm sure they would do to us as well um do i think that a person should recklessly publish information that is unnecessary to get the point across in other words do you need to publish names and addresses for people in order to inform the public about certain things i don't think you do and i don't particularly like the idea of um revealing people's names and details uh and i don't think that it's always necessary if that person is particularly powerful and this is you know and there's an instance um that it's it's it's vital to that that's different um but to recklessly and the word recklessly continue to come up i don't particularly approve of i also do understand that there are you know we don't live in a perfect world and there are times when it may be justified the air of course the uh the default position has to be transparency but there may be times for security reasons when governments have to keep things quiet this is the real world that's the world we live in however having said all of that he has a right to free speech and he has a right i don't i'm not as big as fan i don't think i ever will be the party by the way hasn't got a position on this all of this is my own opinion uh our activists our members are as far as i'm concerned 100% free to campaign either for or against us and uh to speak freely and however they feel about us and absolutely no strong party position on this um but these are these are my my views and on balance i'm not a fan but i don't think that someone should have lost their liberty for this length of time for publishing information um it is a dangerous dangerous precedent and interestingly the united's the donald trump during the election campaign spoke very very gushingly about wiki leaks and how he loved i quote i love wiki leaks and this is because of course they were harming the hillary clinton uh i love wiki leaks but now no uh trump is in office uh the uh us is now looking for him again the he was as i said in the ecu d'oreal embassy for seven years the government in ecu d'oreal changed to a government that was looking to build relations with the united states and sadly for julien assange that meant his time at the ecu d'oreal embassy was ended he was arrested by uk police he's sitting in a british prison awaiting a hearing on extradition to the united states where he faces charges of espionage under trump under the trump administration he faces charges of espionage which could see him a facing a 75 year sentence in prison now america does not muck about with these things prison sentences in america are prison sentences is not like in europe where you get three years and serve three months uh this is america hands out serious prison sentences and you serve them so he's looking at the rest of his life in a high security prison in the united states his hearing is postponed due to lockdown now it's due to be heard in london in september um and we will see what happens then do i wish to see this man serve the rest of his life in a high security u.s prison do i think he deserves it now i do not not at all uh is he engaged in criminal activity according to the united states well that's as may be but let's not forget even if the u.s can make the make criminal charges according to their laws stick let's not forget that julien assange is not an american he's an australian citizen is he as a journalist and this is journalism he may even if he never called himself a journalist he's publishing information uh that makes him acting as a journalist and therefore journalism principles apply uh he is not is it the case if he is extradited to the united states and charged under u.s laws as an australian citizen uh is it then the case that internationally non-american journalists who publish information about the u.s or the u.s government are then suddenly subject to u.s laws there are huge huge issues here is the u.s going after him out of a a a revenge we you know this guy has caused us loads of harm let's get him i suspect there is a little bit of that my uh so on on balance um i think what he you know freedom he hi he may have harmed people but let's be clear freedom of speech as long as it's true is freedom of speech there are things that names of people who are are are you know involved in this by doing their job for example i don't think names need to be published uh if you can get the point across without naming people then you should do um and i do think perhaps he was somewhat reckless i i do accept that there is a little bit of ego going on here but none of those means he deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison he has perhaps caused harm to people but the sad reality is that free speech as long as it's true is likely often to cause harm to people and on balance free speech is far far more important and we cannot have it that a person who exposes inconvenience or uncomfortable truths about the u.s government whether or not and about affairs in iraq and beyond whether or not i like that person i don't particularly whether or not i think he caused harm to people i do but he this is free speech and he is entitled to it and does he deserve long-term imprisonment for it absolutely absolutely not and it'll be very interesting to see what happens with him but fascinating fascinating story and let's see what happens in september when he is up to be heard on his extradition to the united states okay uh what else right oh this is what happens you see these things are so interesting uh that i can't uh the time just flies so i do want to uh get on to the last issue that i said i would talk about tonight which is the um uh muslim teachings on women and i explained uh a little a short while ago why this is significant and why i have argued all this time that the ethnicity is not what you need to look at you need to be looking at the religion um but which of course we won't do because we will we will know if we look in honesty at the religion we'll know that it has a huge huge influence on why these crimes take place so i'm going to go back to our friend robert spencer rather than read from the Quran itself uh and you know remarkably i thought to myself there are there are probably many on the far right to actually agree with some of this um so i if i uh i i'm amazed why thinking women can go along with this stuff either from the left's defense of of islam uh or the uh far right's uh rather similar attitude towards us but let's go at the governing uh saura in the Quran in terms of women a saura for and it is entitled the women it is an owner's manual quite simply and because robert spencer is so so good at this i'd be nice and quick he has already put together all the bits of the Quran uh that i need to read out so let's do that so uh surah 434 now this is the most notorious of the anti-woman verses in the Quran i have been told over the years by muslim women and and other apologists that it simply isn't there doesn't exist it is anyone can pick up a book and read it it's there this is called reality so uh Quran 434 is what i call the um wife beating verse and actually interestingly robert spencer has split into two but i shall read it as one it says men have authority over women because god has made one superior to the other good women are are the obedient guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded as for those from whom ye fear rebellion admonish them and banish them to beds apart and scourge them uh scourge them means beat them or there are other versions of the Quran say beat others say strike so what this is telling us is a couple of things one it's very very clear that women are inferior uh it says so in in plain language god Allah has created one superior to the other then it tells us very very clearly that women are the property of men because they and this is explained in the requirement that women are obedient to men now that means a couple of things it means of course that women are inferior but it also means an assumption that men are always right and women are always wrong and it doesn't matter if the woman is 10 times smarter than than her husband or any other man in the vicinity she's wrong and he's right always and she must obey guarding in secret that which Allah has guarded i think it's obviously keeping uh keeping herself chased for her chased until uh until she her her father owner hands her over to a new owner now here's a here's a key sentence as for those from he from whom ye fear rebellion ye fear rebellion so she doesn't even have to be rebellious or disobedient you just have to fear she might be and on those circumstances admonish them which is sit them down and give them a bloody good talking to and banish them to beds apart refuse to sleep with them i can't that one always makes me laugh i have to say i doubt very much for a lot of muslim wives that refusing to sleep with them is a terrible punishment quite frankly probably quite the opposite for many but of course finally if none of that works if she doesn't become obedient after you've had a good word sit down and i had a stern talking to if she doesn't come back into line after that then you refuse to sleep with her uh and then you beat her that is karan 434 the karan as well go back to robert spence's explanations the karan likens a woman to a field to be used by a man as he wells quote your women are a tilth for you to cultivate so go to your tilt as he will that is karan 2 223 it further declares that a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man something else that is constantly denied yet there it is in plain english in the karan uh get to plain language uh get to quote get to witnesses out of your own men and if there are not two men then a man and two women such as you choose for witnesses so that if one of them is the other can remind her again this this absolute declaration that women are totally stupid uh back to uh surah 4 and this is uh where it allows this is what robert spencer summarizes it allows men to marry up to four wives and have sex with slave girls also if he fear quote if he fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans marry women of your choice two three or four but if he fear that she shall not be able to deal justly with them then only one or a captive that your right hands possess that will be more than suitable to prevent you from doing injustice a captive that your right hands possess i remember when tommy robinson had a discussion with majid noirs about this on television and i remember tommy's face when it was admitted that yes this verse applies to slave girls and the capturing of non-muslim women for rape they are war booty and if you are a society that won't bend down to islam and sharia you are at war with islam giving muslim men the right to take slave girls and beyond there's some there's a lot more and i want to repeat again because i can't read the entire sorrow to you and as i said at the last one do read it in context because people tell me all the time you're taking that out of context and i acknowledge yes i am taking it out of context and and taking verses out of context like this doesn't you know it doesn't really have the doesn't portray it accurately i want people to go to the real context because only when you see the context only when you contextualize all of this do you really see the true horror of it it yes contextualize it please please do read the whole thing because i can't demonstrate to you the true contempt either for women or non-muslims by simply picking out these verses the entire scripture must be read to fully understand the horror of this uh uh robert spencer goes on to say aisha the most beloved of muhammad's many wives who he married when she was six this is in the hadiths not in the quran admonished women and this is from aisha she admonished women in no certain terms and i quote oh women folk if you knew the rights your husbands have over you every one of you would wipe the dust from your husband's feet with her face we talk about child marriage now there is a it is uh because largely because of the hadiths and and and muhammad marrying aisha at six and consummating the marriage at nine uh this is largely used to justify child marriage is also a section in the quran or a verse in the quran which uh robert spencer points to and it is this if you are in doubt concerning those of your wives who have ceased menstruating know that their waiting period shall be three months the same shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated this implicitly actually explicitly permits the marriage to girls who have not yet menstruated i have mentioned the um wife beating verse the hadiths are in many cases even more horrific than the quran in terms of non-muslims and in terms of of women uh just a couple alas it's a couple of ades alas messengers said if a woman calls his wife to bed to have sexual relations and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger the angels will curse her till morning the husband is only obliged to support his wife when she gives herself to him or offers to meaning she allows him full enjoyment of her person and is not refusing sex at any time of night or day for this reason uh rape within marriage is absolutely unheard of we also have the specter of things like uh temporary wives and the sheer uh tradition i want to recommend to you because i can oh finally finally i i mentioned that a white a woman's testimony is worth half of a man's now if a woman is raped and if she goes to for seeking justice in this rape take into account that if she says this guy raped me and he says no i didn't her testimony is worth half of his this has resulted in the four male witnesses calamity or helped to result in the four male witnesses atrocity of injustice in that and this was the case in a law of the land in several muslim countries uh and and was the uh notoriously so in pakistan that if a it's called the hudud laws if a woman alleged rape to the police uh she and she couldn't produce four male muslim witnesses she is a and i quote the quran why did they not produce four witnesses since they produce not witnesses they verily are liars in the site of Allah so if she is raped and she can't produce four male muslim witnesses she is a liar in the site of Allah and catastrophically for her she's likely to be charged with adultery which carries the sentence of death by stoning so it's a pretty much a lose lose situation for women and a rapist's charter again i haven't really even touched the surface here please do go and read it for yourself so combination of contempt for non-muslims contempt for women an absolute invitation to abuse non-muslim women is throughout featured throughout muslim scripture and if we have an ounce of common sense we ought to be looking at this religion and looking for answers as to why women are treated so badly in muslim societies and as to why when you have mass migration from such societies they are going to treat our women and girls just as badly worse because they're not muslims either five minutes left um thank you for all your comments and questions anything i don't uh follow to uh answer today i will i promise to to come back to okay uh did it did it did it did uh okay just to just to let you know a couple of things uh oh i need to mention of course uh just to let you know a couple of things i um uh from monday we're going to be starting i almost forgot this we're going to be starting at half past seven we're going to make the time a couple of people said um half past seven so we'll start at half past seven on monday and we've got a few changes to uh to make uh from next week okay so finally tomorrow is as we know v e day and it is the seventh the fifth anniversary of the end of the of the second world war in europe it's its victory in europe day now i see around where i live uh union jack bontin going up there you know i've seen several flags hanging outside people's houses and it's it's heartwarming to uh to to to see i'm i'm i'm i'm actually i'm i'm always i get a little bit emotional when i see a british bonting around the place i know we're about to celebrate the country what a nice change it is to celebrate the country but of course we can't celebrate the way we would like to we would like to have uh street parties and and and community get together and we would like to to really celebrate britain for a change but because of this hideous hideous lockdown and this hideous virus which is wrecking everything um we're not able to celebrate properly but let's take let's take a moment i you know i'm going to take up a private quiet moment to myself tomorrow and i'm going to make sure that i think about and thank those who went before us who fought in this terrible war uh i'm going to think about the people who were around when that when this on the on this day 75 years ago think about how it must have felt uh the sacrifices they had made uh the the british spirit that was so alive at the time and i'm going to take a little bit of of uh time really just to to say a private i i often say private thank yous and quiet thank yous in my mind um for for good things in life and um i actually think it's quite a positive thing to do um and i would encourage others to do the same and i would encourage you know if you take to social media perhaps uh let's have a let's have a celebration let's celebrate uh britain and uh let's do so in in in honor of those who went before us of those who fight and who serve the country in the military today and of course as always for those who are yet to come and in in in honor and in memory of the britain that we are fighting for we are fighting for that british spirit that saw britain through those terrible years so do celebrate tomorrow uh honor our our forces honor our the people who went before us uh and and remember them and their sacrifices i shall certainly be doing so uh i will get to the the questions um and uh i i was having to get any but i'm sure i mean i wanted i i said i would discuss these things and and i think it was an hour well spent any questions i promised to get back to uh on monday uh if i don't question me again but that's it from me for this evening it's five to eight uh for those of you who uh want to go and clap our key workers please do and i shall see you back here monday evening at a slightly later time at of half seven uh and i'll see if people prefer that time okay thank you for tuning in guys thank you for your company and i shall see you next week take care until then


It's always kind of fun that they say it's a desktop environment, which is something that it makes me like feel a little bit uneasy inside. It's definitely okay. So this is going to be a long, exciting video. So whenever I hear somebody saying Kiri is a desktop environment, I am always that annoying guy that replies, actually it's Kiri Plasma because Kiri is a community of people doing cool stuff, not just a desktop environment. And I think it's important to point that out. What I did not expect is to see a main Plasma developer saying that they are not fully comfortable with saying that, yes, Kiri Plasma is a desktop environment. And the reasoning actually allowed me to see just how much power Plasma has behind the scenes. So let's start with an example. Look at Kiri Plasma because you do use Kiri Plasma, right? Right? Though it would be probably better to temporarily call it Kiri Plasma desktop, as we also have other Kiri Plasma products meant for other form factors. You will see a wallpaper, maybe folders and widgets on top of that wallpaper and a panel on the bottom side, widgets inside the panel and so on. You might think that how all these things work is quite an inflammation detail, but it isn't. Now take Plasma Mobile. It's a completely different product meant for different use cases, but you do have some similarities. Well, you have a panel on the top with widgets inside of it. If you open quick settings, you have notifications, the same notifications that you might see on desktop as well. If you change the volume, you see the volume thingy. Yes, that is its official name. And it's the same one as the desktop one. What happened at the very early start of Plasma, if I understood this correctly, I wasn't there, was the idea that Plasma had to be flexible to adapt to different form factors and devices. Even before Plasma Mobile, there was a project called Plasma Active with a very similar goal. So everything in Plasma was third, not as a desktop environment, but as a way of doing shots for different devices. Or as Alish Paul said it during his above mentioned Academy talk, Plasma is a UX for a number of devices designed by us. OK, OK, cool words. But what do they mean in practice? Well, I told you to give a look to Kitty Plasma desktop. So let's actually break it down in its components. So we have the wallpaper, which is modular. There are various wallpaper services that you can switch between. Different shells can handle wallpapers in a different way with different defaults. As an example, a Plasma shell meant for e-ink devices, which, by the way, is in my to do before mid-July list, probably wants to have an always white wallpaper, which is provided by the org.kde.color plugin. OK, so what else on the desktop? Well, there is the actual desktop with, as an example, files and folders. But if we had a different device like a mobile phone, we would probably want to have a different kind of desktop with something that looks like a phone home screen, right? So this component is modular, too, and it's called containment. And you can switch between containment. Kitty Plasma desktop offers two out of the box, one without anything and one with folder view. Kitty Plasma Mobile also offers a couple that both act like different home screens, but ideally third parties could do custom components similarly to the custom Android home screens. You might not only have files on your desktop, but also widgets. You might notice that even if you change your containment, your widgets are left untouched. This is because there is something underneath the containment that manages them. This component is called view, and it's part of the shell that you are using. We could simplify its job in one, take the containment and allow the component to draw on the entire view. Two, draw the widgets on top of the containment and three offer a way to customize the widgets and the wallpaper, regardless of the containment you are currently using. So if you see that Plasma desktop and Plasma mobile have different interfaces to customize widgets, it's because they are different shells. But if you do notice that they are actually pretty similar, well, we'll get to that. One thing that you have to notice, it's the same in Plasma mobile and Plasma desktop is the toolbox that appears when you long press the containment. That is called a toolbox and it's its own modular component. Shells will kindly ask to use a certain toolbox and you can use different toolboxes depending on what you're doing. Finally, what I could get into right now, but I want is the panel. It has the same idea as the desktop. You have a view offered by the shell, which then draws a containment on top of it. I think you could also have different kind of panels, but I haven't looked into it that much. After all of this, you might say, OK, but why? All of this work just to have more consistency between mobile and desktop. Absolutely not. OK, sit down because you are in for a ride. Katie has also big screen, which is Katie Plasma, but meant for TVs. So how does that work? Well, it's firstly a custom containment. So there is a shell that loads the big screen containment which draws the home screen you see. The style is completely consistent because it uses Plasma styles, which can be used throughout devices and for factors, not just Plasma desktop. Big screen also has a top panel, which at some point in time, I don't know how things work right now, was actually offered by Mycropped, the A.I. Voice Assistant thingy. And it included a Mycropped widget to do voice stuff. Katie also has nano and finally, finally, after like two years of my YouTube channel, I can explain to you finally what Plasma Nano is. OK, so let's say that you want to create a new shell for a new type of device like TVs or e-ink devices. Why on earth would you start everything from scratch? Right? What shells can do? And I think not just shells is set a fallback. So all components not specified in my shell will be loaded from another one.  So we have Plasma Nano, which is a minimal shell, which does things that you most likely always want in any shell anyway. But just that, it also implements a simple toolbox because sometimes you do need that one as well. So basically Plasma big screen can, as an example, just do a custom containment and then use Plasma Nano shell and tell Plasma Nano, please use my containment or take another example entirely. Say in an absolutely hypothetical scenario that I was a KD developer who was sent a pie note, which you can see there an e-ink device to work on, making sure that KD works nicely on it. That would never happen. But imagine what I probably would be supposed to do after trying out Plasma Desktop and Plasma Mobile on it is to consider making a shell specifically meant for e-ink devices. It's an option. And how I would approach that is to make a containment which highlights the most useful apps in an e-ink device in an e-ink friendly way. So only black and white, no scrolling and so on. And then use Nano as a base or hear me out. Here's an even crazier example. Say that somebody came to me and paid me to bring Plasma to smart mirrors. That would never happen. But imagine how I would do that, given that smart mirrors, as an example, have to use black as the background color and have to have like big, easy to use buttons on a home screen is to do a custom shell that uses Plasma Nano but has a custom containment to display the buttons. But I use a custom Plasma style theme to make sure it looks appropriate for a smart mirror. And then I use the org.kd.color plugin for the wallpaper with black as the default color and no way to change it. I think you can kind of see my excitement here. But hey, Plasma is so cool. And the coolest part is that it's not over. I haven't talked about styles much and neither I have talked about widgets themselves. Both of these allow Plasma to be even more modular and such, given that I can just use the same Wi-Fi widget everywhere, just changing the Plasma style instead of copy pasting the code or even forking it. However, there is a final yet pretty big component that allows everything to work. And in true YouTuber fashion, I will leave you hanging for a minute because this video is not sponsored by anyone, not Kitty, but it took time, like a lot of time and money to make. And I'm trying my best really to be able to sustain this channel. I have a monthly goal of 700 bucks and it's an hard to reach goal. I really need help to reach it in time. The amount I currently have for April all comes for Patreons, which, by the way, support me every month. So thanks, everybody. They do get some benefits like a private podcast about Linux news, some articles about my kitty involvement and polls to decide the content and so on. Again, I'm trying to do my best to do good content and to help out kitty, too. But I also need a bit of help. So anyway, what's the last piece of the puzzle? Look and feel themes. They're much more powerful than you might think. An example, they are able to change containments. So hear me out. OK, if I understood this correctly and that's a big gift, somebody could do a custom containment for Kitty Plasman desktop, which, I don't know, actually has some sort of tablet like home screen. And after installing it, you could have to look and feel themes and switching between the themes would also switch the containment between, I don't know, folders and a new home screen. But also look and feel themes can ask for a specific show, a show, which has like the views inside of them. That can change everything, like everything. I'm not sure if that's going to work if you just change the look and feel theme from like system settings, but maybe details, but they can also change layouts, where widgets are placed in the desktop and panels and how many panels you have and where. And of course, they can change everything else as well, like the plasma style, the application style, K-Win settings, just everything. They can even implement a custom OSD, which is the dialogue that appears when you change the volume or brightness. Yes, I lied. It's not called the volume thingy. It's actually called OSD, though. Of course, if you're doing your own look and feel theme, you can also set a fallback so you don't have to implement all of these things. You can just say, hey, do like that, but only change this tiny, whiny little thing as well. That works. Now, to close this video, I do want to highlight the fact that all of this is, in practice, much, much more complex than it appears. And I do not fully understand it. Just yesterday, I sent a private message to a Lash saying, hey, how do you use Plasma Nano? Like, what's the point? Now I think I kind of get it. However, I might have said some incorrect things. If so, please refer to your local Kitty Plasma expert for more correct info. I don't know. But yeah, to the best of my knowledge, what Plasma does is completely unique. And it's much, much, much, much, much more than just being a desktop environment.