a centrally sponsored scheme where the cost sharing ratio between center and states is 60 is to 40 the same is the case also with uts with legislature then for northeastern states in Himalayan states 90 is to 10 then for uts without legislature 100 percent so here only the first statement is correct correct answer option a one only now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to a project called as dam rehabilitation and improvement project this project at present comes under ministry of jal shakti it was initiated in april 2012 now the objective of this project is to improve safety and operational performance of selected dams along with institutional strengthening actually it is a six year project from 2012 to 18 implemented through central water commission coming to the funding of the project see this project is a mainly externally aided project this is because 80 percent of the total project cost is provided by world bank as loan and remaining 20 percent is given by the states or the central government for the central water commission originally the project was to be implemented in selected dams in four states only kerala madhipadesh odisha and tamil nadu but later even karnataka utrak and damodar valley corporation were included in this drip project with reference to our prelims examination there is one more term associated with this project this term is called as dharma dharma stands for dam health and rehabilitation monitoring application it is a web-based asset management tool here asset is dam or we can say web-based dam management tool so this tool this dharma tool it supports collection and management of data of dams and data of health of large dams in our country development of this tool is also part of this project now let's come to this question consider the following statements regarding drip project two statements are there which of the statements given above are correct it is an externally aided project with 80 percent of total cost being funded by asian development bank the statement is wrong because it is funded by world bank so eliminate option a and option c second statement dharma is a web-based asset management software to support effective collection and management of health data of large dams the statement is correct so the correct answer is option b two only this question is with reference to kare system two statements are given they're asking which of the statements given above correct see it was in news in november 2019 with reference to its inclusion in world's monument watch list for the year 2020 along with 24 other monuments from world in news the suranga bawadi kare system of deccan plateau was reported it is an ancient system where water is supplied through underground or subterranean tunnels and the kare system in deccan plateau they were called as historic water systems of deccan plateau see there are times when water could not be collected from the surface level say for example a desert places like iran balochistan and afghanistan are known for the system where the system is also called as kanad system in such situations groundwater provides as an alternative source or as a viable source so underground tunnels were developed to harness the underground water these tunnels are called as kare or kanad or fallage so in the system there is a gently sloping underground tunnel and this tunnel allows groundwater from a large area to flow in a single outlet the gentle slope of the tunnel is in such a way that it facilitates the entire system to function to collect water and in the origin of the tunnel there is a large well called as mother well or source well and there are series of narrower vertical shafts and these are dug up for ventilation and maintenance purposes individuals go through these shafts and work in tunnel and maintain them and these shafts are also helpful to mark the root of the subterranean tunnel over the ground so with respect to kare system in india world monuments fund it states that the kare system of bijapo in the deccan plateau was created by adil shahi rulers in the 16th century and reports say that this kare's underground system was built in 16th century by ali adil shah one later his successor ibrahim adil shah two added more structures to strengthen it and world monument fund it states that kare system was used extensively in the deccan region now with reference to this note that there is one another monument from india which was selected for 2020 world monument watch list which is the sardar vallabai patel stadium located in akmadabad the inclusion of these sites or these systems in the monument watch list is a measure to provide financial and technical assistance for maintenance of these locations we have given a short note about world monuments fund and the global program called us world monuments watch now come to the question two statements are there they're asking to select correct statements first statement the kare system or the subterranean tunnels used to harness underground water this statement is correct the second statement the kare's of bijapu was promoted by adil shahi dynasty during the 16th century both the statements are correct correct answer option see both one and two now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to siseri river bridge the bridge was in news in november 2019 as union defense minister inaugurated this bridge at the lower debunk valley district in the state of arunachal pradesh see it's a 200 meter long bridge it provides connectivity between debunk valley and siang in the state of arunachal pradesh this bridge was constructed by border roads organization under the project titled as project brahman see there are four important projects of border roads organization in the state of arunachal pradesh called us vartak arunank brahman kand udhayak these are projects that not only meet india's strategic requirement in the state of arunachal pradesh but also significantly contribute to the socioeconomic development of the region and this bridge will also be a part of trans arunachal highway see trans arunachal highway is a two lane highway project aiming to connect tavang in the west of arunachal pradesh to kanubari in the east of arunachal pradesh see kanubari is a place in thirap district we can find in the eastern side and this trans arunachal highway project was conceived in the year 2008 we have given you important and relevant information with reference to border roads organization and border area development program now let's come to the question sisseri river bridge recently seen in news is located in the state of arunachal pradesh now let's move on to next question now consider this question two statements have been given they're asking which of the statements given above are correct first statement section 6a of citizenship act of 1955 contains special provisions as to citizenship of persons covered by the asam accord this statement is correct this section 6a was inserted by citizenship amendment act of 1985 after the signing of asam accord on the independence day of 1985 first statement is correct second statement the central government may compulsorily register every citizen of india and issue national identity card see this statement is also correct this is as per section 14 capital a of citizenship act of 1955 one of the subsections also say that central government may maintain a national register of indian citizens and for that purpose it may establish national registration authority the first statement is with reference to the developments related to the updation of national register of citizens in the state of asam see the nrc means the register that has names of indian citizens it was prepared for the first time after the census 1951 as per the directive from ministry of home affairs and this process of updation was launched only in the state of asam in the year 2015 based on supreme court's order in 2013 there were around 3.29 crore applicants and the final nrc was published on august 31 2019 and it was found that around 19 lakh applicants name were excluded from the final published list so here both the statements are correct therefore the correct answer is option c both one and two now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to solar spicules it was in news in november because a research study published that solar spicules are reason why parts of sun's atmosphere and corona is hotter than the sun's surface we can see regions in the sun and around the sun here photosphere chromosphere and corona they are above sun's surface the research found out that jet like solar plasma they erupt from the sun's surface and punctuate the sun's atmosphere at any given moment a million gazer like hot spicules they erupt from sun's surface and they bring in the solar plasma until the corona which is in the outermost region of sun's atmosphere and this is explained as a reason why the temperature in corona is more than the temperature at the surface of the sun it is a highly dynamic solar phenomena we have been observing it from earth for more than a century but studying solar spicules is considered to be difficult by scientists for the main reason because each spicule they last only a few minutes from its formation and the collapse so see this question with reference to solar spicules often seen in news which of the following statements are correct they are gazer like spicules erupting from the sun's surface they are jet like plasma features that punctuate sun's atmosphere they last only a few minutes from formation to collapse correct answer is option d all the above now let's move on to next question this question is about sans campaign this campaign was in news in november 2019 because it was launched in that month by ministry of health and family welfare the purpose of this campaign is to combat pneumonia now it stands for social awareness and action to neutralize pneumonia successfully when we say pneumonia see it is a respiratory or a breathing condition where there is an infection of the lung the infection can come from bacteria or virus or even fungi for that matter and in this campaign there is a goal to be achieved by the year 2025 this goal is to reduce child mortality due to pneumonia to less than 3 per thousand live birds there is also a device that is called as pulse oximeter that is used at health and wellness centers so as to identify low oxygen levels in the blood now let's come to the question sans campaign recently seen in news is related to actually the word sans in hindi the meaning is breath to breathe so here the correct answer for this question is option a a government mission launched to combat pneumonia now let's move on to next question see this question with reference to tuberculosis elimination in india three statements are there they're asking which of the statements given above are correct before taking this question let us see few information pertaining to tuberculosis with special reference to our country see tuberculosis is a bacterial disease caused by bacterium called as mycobacterium tuber clausus usually it attacks lungs but they can also damage other parts of the body this tuber clausus it spreads through air this is visible particularly when a person with tb of lungs or throat cause or sweeces see tuber clausus is curable and also preventable according to world health organization now with reference to tb who has initiated a strategy called as end tb strategy this strategy aims to end the global tb epidemic and it aims to reduce tuber clausus deaths by 95 between 2015 to 2035 and it aims to cut new infections or new cases by 90 percent between 2015 to 2035 with reference to tb india here we have an ambitious goal to eliminate or to end tuber clausus by the year 2025 now about tuber clausus control activities in our country way back in 1962 india launched national tb program to control tuber clausus and in the year 1993 when world health organization declared tb as a global emergency and when it devised directly observed treatment short course in the same year india revitalized national tuber clausus program as revised national tb control program and we have also launched dots treatment there is a recent development that is from january 1 2020 the program against tuber clausus has been renamed from revised national tb control program to national tuber clausus elimination program the idea is to shift the focus from controlling tuber clausus to eliminate tuber clausus we already saw that india aims to eliminate tb by the year 2025 this ambitious goal is given in national strategic plan for tuber clausus elimination 2017 to 2025 in the context of tuber clausus elimination there is a web-based tb surveillance system called as niksha it is a portal which has the details of tb infections across the country the details can be fed by both government and private health care facilities and recently a battery operated device was invented by indian researchers it is this battery operated device that was in news in november 2019 and this device allows quick identification of mycobacterium tuber clausus so this device is said to minimize the time and also the cost for detection and diagnosis of tb so now let's come to the question first statement government of india has launched national strategic plan for tuber clausus under which it plans to eliminate tb by 2030 the statement one is incorrect because we are planning to eliminate tb by 20 25 itself once this fact you understand immediately you can arrive at the correct answer two and three only by eliminating options a b and d we have just saw the second and third statements which are correct correct answer option c two and three only now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to remote sensing data policy 2011 see this policy addresses acquisition and distribution of remote sensing satellite data from both indian and foreign satellites and these data can be acquired and distributed to civilian users in india and also to users outside india so the policy streamlines distribution of satellite data to government users then to private users who are involved in developmental activities with the government then also to other private users academic users and also including foreign users now the nodal agency for implementing this policy is department of space that functions under the overall control of the prime minister now there are two agencies responsible for two different roles national remote sensing center given the authority with respect to acquisition and disseminating remote sensing satellite data within india then antrix corporation given the authority to receive applications for grant of license for acquiring and distribution of remote sensing data outside of india this policy was in use in november 2019 because of launch of cartosat 3 in november 2019 cartosat 3 is a third generation advanced agile satellite agile means it can move quickly and easily it obtains pan chromatic and multi spectral imagery pan chromatic means it can sense all visible colors of spectrum multi spectral refers to operating in several regions of electromagnetic spectrum or involving several regions of electromagnetic spectrum the specialty of cartosat 3 is the high resolution imaging capability as it has resolution of 25 centimeter this makes it as one among the few sharpest civil earth images that are available in the world and whether all the images captured by cartosat 3 will be available to all of us this is not so because according to 2011 remote sensing data policy all data of resolutions up to one meter or poorer than one meter can be distributed on a non-discriminatory basis and also on requested basis better resolution means resolution less than one meter for resolution less than one meter for such images the data can be denied this is because to protect national security the policy ensures that such data better than one meter resolution shall be screened and cleared by the appropriate agency before distribution so now coming to the question two statements are given we are asked to select incorrect statements first statement the policy is for the acquisition and distribution of remote sensing satellite data from Indian and foreign satellites only for the Indian users this statement is incorrect because the policy also deals with acquisition and distribution for foreign users as well so first statement is incorrect second statement antrix corporation limited of department of space is vested with the authority to acquire and disseminate all remote sensing satellite data in India in India it is done by national remote sensing center and with respect to outside of India it is done by antrix corporation limited so both the statements are incorrect correct answer option see both one and two are incorrect now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to reverse osmosis systems the aro systems were in news last year since may 2019 itself because national green tribunal directed union environment ministry in the month of may 2019 so as to issue a notification to prohibit aro purifiers where the supplied water is already meeting bas drinking water standards the order also asked to cover in the notification so as to ensure a recovery of water from aro membrane to be more than 60 percent of input after taking some time after requesting some timeframe to publish a notification the union environment ministry in february it released a draft notification for this purpose this draft notification it prescribes prohibition in domestic sector where water quality meets indian standards of bas and it also prescribes water recovery efficiency and also complains date for such recovery efficiency to be achieved with respect to three categories domestic category commercial category and industrial category when we say osmosis it means water moves from low salt concentration into a region with higher salt concentration under natural conditions this is done to equalize the concentrations on both the sides in other words we can also say that in osmosis water moves from higher water concentration to low water concentration now in case of reverse osmosis external pressure is supplied to overcome osmotic pressure so as to force water from higher salt concentration to low salt concentration through a semi permeable membrane see we know that reverse osmosis is used in purification purposes so initially water will be having high salt concentration after purification water will have low salt concentration in this way you can keep it in mind and the systems that are based on aro process are known as aro systems the recovery efficiency that is if we put 100 liters of water the present aro systems their efficiency ranges between 20 to 60 percentage that is in some cases only 20 liters are recovered 80 liters of water are wasted in addition to wastage of water one another disadvantage is that when a water that meets quality standards is treated with aro processes then needed nutrients for human health are also found to be removed by the aro filters so to address these two concerns n gt and union ministry have taken several steps the recent step being issuing a draft notification for public consultation the draft notifications also asks the commercial bottlers who use aro systems to purify water so as to store the wasted water in safe and hygienic conditions for the purpose of reuse for users other than drinking water purposes for home purification systems aro manufacturers have to ensure water wastages 25% or less by the year 2022 and aro systems should inform the TDS levels at the inlet and also the water outlet and note that as per drinking water standards in India permissible limit of pH of drinking water is 6.5 to 8.5 and permissible limit of TDS total dissolved solids in water is 500 milligram per liter these things you have to know or come to the question three statements are given choose the correct statements from the codes given below aro systems are based on reverse osmosis process in which under external pressure water moves from low salt concentration region to high salt concentration the statement is wrong under reverse osmosis water moves from high salt concentration to low salt concentration eliminate options a and d now you have to check whether the third statement is correct or not the aro purifiers remove only unwanted salts it is not so even needed nutrients for human health are also removed in the process so three is also wrong only the second statement is correct which states aro systems are used in the purification of impure water correct answer option c2 only now let's move on to next question this question is with reference to open general export licenses see this was in news in last week of october 2019 and in early november 2019 because union defense minister approved issuing two open general export licenses while one is with reference to export of parts and components one is with reference to intra company transfer of technology these measures are such open general export licensing policy is considered to be important in the light of promoting defense exports from our country and also enhancing ease of doing business in the domain of defense exports in this context it is important for us to know what do we mean by this license who considers the applications for the applicant exporter and who authorizes such licenses and other essential features of these licenses as we have mentioned already there are two open general export licenses one is for export of parts and components other is for intra company transfer of technology and if an applicant is having license for parts and components then the license holder can export permitted items and components to designated countries and if a license holder is holding license for transfer of technology then only intra company transfer of technology is allowed meaning that an indian subsidiary can transfer technology to its foreign parent company or the indian subsidiary can transfer technology to other subsidiaries of foreign parent company only these two things are allowed and once an application is made for such license by an applicant exporter it is the department of defense production which comes into ministry of defense that exhibits the application and that provides authorization the authorization or the license will be valid for a period of two years from the date of issue consideration and application of these licenses are carried out only on case to case basis and for acquiring licenses one of the most important criteria is that the applicant should have import to export certificate here we have to know the restricted parts and components and the restricted technologies that cannot be exported under these licenses with respect to parts and components there are a set of items that are allowed say for example firing control systems firing related alerting and warning equipment body protective items components of omniscient and few sitting device without energetic and explosive material these things are allowed while the restricted parts we have highlighted here for your reference we have to know what are the countries that are designated as beneficiaries or allowed for exports under these licenses if we come from north america usa canada and mexico then in europe we can find uk france germany then we can find spain sweden belgium italy poland then japan and south africa here what we have to infer is russia and china are not there none of our sarg partners are there no west asian nations are there say for example israel is not there and note that export of items and technologies are not allowed for special economic zones of even the allowed countries so these are the important points with respect to this open general export licenses now come to the question two statements are given they're asking which of the statements are correct first let's read the second statement as of now export under ogl are allowed only to usa and russia this statement is incorrect russia is nowhere there usa is there but not only to usa there is a set of 13 countries including usa so the second statement is incorrect you eliminate option b and option c first statement it is a one-time export license granted by department of defense production to a company for a specific period as of now two years for the export of certain parts and components and intra company transfer of technology to select countries first statement is correct and is the crisp definition of open general export licenses correct answer option a one only with this we come to the end of this session on target problem series for the month of november 2019 if you like the video click the like button comment share it among your friends and 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Get him all situated right there. Good morning beautiful friends I just took a shower wrapped my little leg up like a Sandwich and surround wrap and I no longer smell like last week and surgery so movement in the right direction I'm really excited for today's video and slightly nervous I do not usually do any kind of trendy video topics or video tags or anything like that But I saw these videos going around like the assumption videos what you assume about me and to be honest with you It really interests me I am fascinated with assumptions about people and Really wanted to know what you guys assumed about me and wanted to respond to that So that's what we are going to do today I asked you guys on Instagram and on the YouTube community tab What you assume about me in any category and I am going to go through those and respond to those right now Are you guys ready? Am I ready? I'm not sure. I'm actually kind of nervous about this. I think it'll be really cool I'm I'm difficult to offend so I asked you guys to be really honest But it is also kind of weird to hear a lot of people's Assumptions about you. Let's do this. Ippisan assumes that I know how to handle stressful situations. Yes That is actually a hundred percent accurate. I think that I've been in enough stressful situations and gone through enough Extended trauma that I've learned to exist in crisis really well The flip side of that is that I have actually spent months in therapy specifically learning how to Live normal life because I spent so long Living with life like everything exploding around me essentially It's hard to like learn to just relax and for life to be normal. So yes I am I think I'm a good person to have around when crisis hits because I get calm and clear-headed and can handle it But the normal life thing I'm still working on R.K. Jackson assumes that I am an introvert. Yes I am definitely an introvert But if you met me in real life a lot of people assume that I'm an extrovert because I'm really Personable like I really like people. I love interacting with people, but it's also exhausting for me So I'll go out. I'll do stuff. I'll hang out with people go to an event But then I will need a massive gulps of alone time to recharge if I don't have that I start unraveling I honestly think that's one of the reasons why I like YouTube so much because I get to interact with people I get to talk which I love doing But it's not face-to-face with everybody at the same time in a way It almost feels like meditation or journaling or like having a one-on-one conversation with somebody Katie Fernandez says she assumes that I have the personality that makes everybody in the room feel comfortable for starters. Thank you Katie Yes, I do think that that is accurate The reason I say that is people have told me that before in real life in high school I was voted most trustworthy person like in my yearbook and before everyone's like hey You were home school. I was home school But I went to like a charter school school that sent me to college for my junior year of high school Confusing but anyways in that year I was voted most trustworthy because people tend to feel comfortable around me Jovana Kelly says she assumes that I am done with my other channel because it didn't do as well as this one So if you guys don't know I actually have a second channel and I've had that channel since October of 2017 It's called trauma talk and on that channel I talk about life in the aftermath of domestic violence sexual assault living with PTSD depression anxiety Mental health but pretty heavy mental health topics. It never took off as in I don't have as many subscribers, but that was never the point of it The reason I started that channel was to help me process things and to share that with other people I hope so would help them as well when I had my amputation I took a short break from it thinking okay I maybe I'll need a month to like physically recover then I'll be good to go But what I discovered is that I need a lot more time mentally and I still do Talking about what I've gone through in that arena of things takes a lot of emotional energy And now that I'm recovering from all of this stuff that takes a lot of emotional energy that that passion has not waned at all But it's too much to handle right now. I can't take on both things if that makes sense. So that channel is not dead I will definitely continue doing that in the future But right now is not the time for that because it's a little too much Riley Mierdos and a lot of people wrote this Assumes that I was bullied as a kid like 12 different people wrote that in I thought that was really interesting The answer is no actually I was lucky that I was never bullied, but I was also very much an outcast I was like the weird kid. I was homeschooled for starters. So there's that but also when I did interact with other kids I wore like all boys clothes. I didn't have any like gender dysphoria or anything like that I just didn't like that. I was a girl. I didn't feel comfortable in my own skin I didn't want to hang out with girls I only hung out with like all that skater kids and the other outcast And I was obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean and really into like fantasy and stuff like that I was just an odd kid and kind of did my own thing and Had a few friends, but my circle was pretty small and I had a really unique Childhood not a bad childhood just a unique one But people didn't really pick on me, but people also didn't really super pay attention to me if that makes sense Oh Ryan Ryan Palmer his assumption is that I didn't want to eat my leg Ryan Your assumption is correct if you don't know what I'm referring to I'll link it down below MJ Lynch says she assumes I never expected YouTube to get this big. That's entirely accurate I was literally just doing this to like help me process things and then in the hopes That maybe anyone would ever watch anything going through something similar would help them process it too Definitely did not expect this to happen and very grateful that it did and very much enjoying it But this is very unexpected to say the least then we have two contradicting assumptions one that I'm very well Off because I went to Ireland and one that I am very poor Neither one is accurate. We saved up for a year and a half to go to Ireland So we aren't like super rich and that we can just throw money around and go wherever we want But we aren't super poor. We're very in the middle pay our bills And I'm incredibly grateful for that But I also need to get back to work because we rely on both incomes so just in the middle Okay, so Kamea Johnson says she assumes.  I truly appreciate the genuine comments But you just hit on my biggest fear Comedy stand-up comedy is literally the scariest thing that I can think to do and I realize that that sounds dumb because I love Public speaking because I really enjoy talking to a camera because I aspire to be a professional public speaker But specifically stand-up comedy Makes me want to pee my pants makes me want to just like pass out and end up somewhere far far far away from a stage It is like my worst nightmare I do not think I'm funny. I think I would fall so flat So I really appreciate that you think that I would low-key kill a comedy open mic And maybe one day I should try it just to face that fear Megan Zuer assumes that my husband and I have a very good relationship And that is honestly true and I say that with a lot of pride because it has not been easy to get there We dated for three years before we got married then we got married and we've been married for almost four years now We're coming up on our fourth anniversary and when we dated it wasn't like sunshine and roses and rainbows We had a lot of stuff to work through like we both had our fair share of baggage and difficulties And we worked really hard to like work through communication issues to like work on our respective crap to have a good relationship by the time we got married we had Done a lot of hard work to have a really good relationship where we could actually talk about things Where when we fought it didn't get ugly where you know where we could actually enjoy our relationship And he's honestly my best friend and I'm so in love with him and that isn't changing like it's only grown in the seven years We've been together and so yes Megan you are 100% accurate We have a very happy relationship And I would say a very healthy relationship because we have worked really hard on it and I'm super proud of that There are a lot of assumptions that I regret my imputations and a lot of assumptions that I don't regret it and The answer is that you guys probably know if you watch my videos that I don't regret it There are definitely a lot of really hard moments and a lot of moments where I'm like man This would be so much easier if I had just Not done this but easier does not mean better This was the best choice and I'm very glad to have made it and especially after surgery I feel like like I said a couple videos ago. I feel so much better. I feel really really happy really hopeful So this is one of my favorites Karina assumes that I am not a natural blonde Because I make too much sense in my videos Thank you, and that I don't cook because my kitchen is too clean. That is an amazing Observation you are entirely accurate about the cooking thing. I don't cook I have tried from time to time to cook and you would think because I was homeschooled that I would be like queen of cooking But that is the one skill I did not ever allow my mom to really impart to me I can sew I can raise chickens I can live in the forest, but I cannot cook and Actually, I am a natural blonde so these roots you see coming through that is my that is my real hair color Zane assumes I am secretly an alien from a far off planet trying to figure out this weird human world. How do they find me out? When Clark assumes I am not actually productive like at all, you know, that's probably Kind of accurate mostly what I do is is make it through days right now And I'm okay with that. Leah assumes that I smoke weed or smoked it a lot at one point in my life Weirdly no. I mean, yes, I have tried it. I live in Colorado where it's been legal for a while But it does not agree with me like it really does not agree with me I've tried it a number of times and it makes me paranoid and Incredibly aware of all of the pain in my body I know it's supposed to do the opposite of that and I have tried like different kinds because people are like no No, you're trying the wrong kind, but I have tried a variety of kind and it always does the same thing It makes me feel terrible. So it just doesn't work for me I am gonna try CBD oil here coming up pretty soon and I'll do a video on that But that's about the extent of my experience with weed. Also one of my favorite assumptions Drew says he assumes in a totally non-negative way that I am not as well adjusted as I seem and that I hate the term well adjusted Those things are both accurate. I do hate the term well adjusted I don't know what that's supposed to mean and I'm not sure if it's something any of us should actually strive to be I mean, I guess by any traditional definition I am well adjusted But I think people probably perceive me as a lot more put together than I actually am like I don't I don't have my stuff I'll figure it out. I don't have it all put together and well adjusted I really don't know what that's supposed to mean. Then he assumes that I did not want to lose my foot But then I am getting along without it. That is entirely accurate. Yes This was not ever something that I wanted to have happen and I feel oddly guilty saying that because if you look at a lot of like amputee forums and support groups and stuff like that a lot of people will be like this is the best thing that ever happened to me I would never change it and At least at this point in my journey. I can't say that like I would prefer to have a perfectly healthy leg back And I feel like in some ways that must be wrong to say But it just is honestly where I'm at. I'm not like upset or I mean, I guess probably in some ways I am I'm not like actively fighting against this but just in a perfect world I would rather have kept it and have had a good solution for fixing it But that just didn't exist. So we went with the next best option, which was removing it And so yeah, I am definitely getting along without it. I'm excited for the future I'm really really excited that cool options exist for prosthetics And that I will probably be able to walk and even run With minimal or no paint sometimes see Dalton assumes that while I came from a christian background I am more open and accepting of others point of view than the major stereotypical types of conservative christians. That is Very accurate. I did come from an extremely conservative stereotypical christian homeschooled sheltered background And I really like filled that role for a very long time I even went to like a christian college and and all of that and my entire life was just about like faith spirituality god pursuing god becoming the best christian that I could be and then A lot of stuff happened and that really changed and my faith is difficult for me now But with that being said, I am very open and accepting to whoever someone is I realize that I don't have all the answers and I realize this probably sounds incredibly cliche But it's really not my place to judge people for anything as long as they aren't hurting someone else Yeah, so unless someone is doing something that actually hurts someone else. I have no problem with people I am a very accepting person. We try to understand other lifestyles other perspectives That's something that's really important to me and I spend a lot of time Like trying to absorb other points of view for instance I spent a lot of time in my last recovery watching channels on youtube about people who are gender non-binary and transgender because that's something that I personally never struggled with but I also Heard a lot of negative stuff growing up about that I don't want in my head anymore because I don't think that there is a darn thing wrong with that Because that's something I've never personally felt or dealt with I want to hear people's perspectives like I want to understand. I want to be the best Listener that I can be if that makes sense. So yes I do I do try to be very open and very accepting and educate myself on different perspectives and different people And yeah, I don't fall into the stereotypical mold of a conservative christian because I'm not a conservative christian I have faith but it's difficult for me to define so robin I don't know if you've been listening into my husband and I my conversations But she wrote I assumed that if money was no object You would end your husband would end up owning a large amount of property And you would have all kinds of animals and would probably run a rescue for said animals Yes, so much accuracy and that statement We have talked about that more times than I can tell you that is an ultimate goal of ours Well of mine specifically there is nothing I would love more than to buy a massive piece of property somewhere involving forests and rivers and open fields and Have all of the animals all different kinds of animals and rescue as many specifically dogs But all different kinds of animals as I can because nature and animals make me so happy And that is my idea of a perfect life. So robin. Yes spot on best assumption ever So people have made assumptions about my height from being anywhere from four five up to like five eight I will say that I am the same height as I need to google if this is actually accurate I was about to say tom cruise, but that's not accurate I'm two inches shorter than tom cruise figure that one out g lorant says I assume you push yourself really hard sometimes to your own detriment You don't like asking for help and that don't like asking for help part Is that an assumption a lot of people have and would prefer to do everything yourself all of those things are very accurate I do Push myself really hard But it's a weird inner dialogue because I never feel like I'm doing enough Especially physically like with recovery or anything like that I always feel like I'm slacking and that usually ends up with me doing too much That was really an issue Especially as I was a teenager and like my early 20s recovering from things I would push myself way too hard to the point where I would accidentally hurt myself And I learned that about myself learned how to do a better job with that How to kind of put more restrictions for myself in place how to talk to people about it The asking for help thing that is one that is a daily struggle And I want to say that I've gotten better about it since Having my leg chopped off, but I I don't know that I have spend five months and it is it is painful To ask for and accept help depending on the day. This one's interesting Meadow salt says she assumes that although you are strong in spirit mean comments or stares as much as you'd like to convince yourself Otherwise still secretly get me down. Yes. I will Thoroughly admit that that is accurate. It again depends on the day. Some days. I'm totally fine Some days it could not bother me less. Some days. I think it's funny. Um, I watch a lot of youtube videos I'm pretty involved in this community and I know a lot of the time people will be like, you know, forget the haters It doesn't matter. It doesn't like you say whatever you want. It's never affecting me blah blah blah, and I'm like I don't know if they're on another planet or if they know something that I don't but like the things that people say Do you have an effect on me to some extent? They don't like ruin my day But depending on what they are, especially if there's something that I'm like secretly insecure about generally about like my decision with my leg Yeah, it uh, it'll hurt a little bit or if people are staring or being weird in public Some days. I'm a hundred percent. Okay. And then other days Man, it does get to me and I do not like admitting that because I would like to be Stronger than that. I would like to be above that or whatever But I'm assuming that it's a process and I'm assuming that I'll get there because it doesn't bother me as much as it used to Canadia williams assumed that I wore headbands a lot in middle school I don't think I'll be able to find a picture Maybe I will be but I would like stack headbands on top of headbands like rainbow rows of headbands. How did you know that? That's a bizarre thing to assume but so spot-on L. Cheryl assumes that I really like pinteresty stuff and cheesy inspirational things Yeah, I do. It's true.  Yes, that is true That's something that I've had to work pretty hard at because of the stuff that I've gone through because of the trauma That I went through because of like the church that I was raised in and how mental health was not something to be talked about I've had to work hard to put things into words to gain a voice to be able to speak Yeah, I'm not I'm not like proud of the challenges that I've had those have been hard But I am proud that I'm now able to talk about them So this one's interesting two people said something similar. Jesse wrote I assume that you would still take opioids even if you weren't in pain and then I think it skits Yes, and skits McGraw said I assume that at one point you abuse drugs or alcohol to try to escape the pain. Thankfully No, I'm not going to say that that has not been a real Real temptation when I was 20 my life fell apart in a violent horrible way and at that time I also had basically Unlimited access to Very heavy painkillers. I don't know how I didn't end up being addicted Sincerely they had at least a little bit of a community left. I had a family I could talk to and I had a couple friends I don't even know why but um, I have never abused opioids. I wouldn't take them if I wasn't in pain I don't like taking them and I've never I don't know if I can say I never abused out Is it I've gotten drunk a couple times intentionally To like stop thinking about things when I was like 22 23 So I guess that probably counts as abusing alcohol, but it was never a pattern It did however start smoking heavily from like zero to 60 from like never having had a cigarette to smoking like half a pack a day within A couple weeks and then that continued for like a year and a half and then I quit when I met brian So while I have not um abused drugs I definitely have other Unhealthy coping tendencies um that some I've worked through and some I'm still in the process of working through Tiger 844 says they assume that I'm a very happy person and try to see the best in everyone Yes, and I think that is almost to my own detriment sometimes. I especially like this the seeing the best in people That was something that I was like born with I feel like it's a character Trait and no matter how many crappy things have happened. I have not been able to shake that I tend to always see the best in people Because life happens and because a lot of crappy things have happened I definitely have difficulty actually trusting people, but I still tend to see the best in them Madeline says you seem nice But if someone is mean to you then it takes a while for you to forgive them or you never do So actually no, I do tend to forgive people pretty quickly unless it's something Astronomically horrendous and horrible And that's something that I've actually had to work on a lot is like the boundaries thing and not Not letting everyone get away with anything all the time if that makes sense seeing the good in people is a good thing But letting them walk all over you and get away with everything is not and that is something that I let people do for years and have spent a significant amount of time trying to work through and trying to find boundaries with that and Realize that you can forgive people and still not let them walk over you Bronte assumes that I'm open-minded as well as logical and have a thirst for intellectual topics Yes, very very much so Enough so that I think I frustrate my darling husband at parties because like if we're hanging out with people and by parties I mean like if we're hanging out with like two friends He wants to just like talk about fun things like who won the fights last weekend and I'm like Let's talk about religion and politics. I like talking about like deep things like like meaty things I can get my teeth into and so I spent a lot of my time Watching videos about things like that or reading things like that So yeah, like I said before I am very open-minded, but I try to be really logical with things Anna assumes that youtube is my only job No, it is not That would be cool one day because I really enjoy this however Money dictates otherwise last but not least tyler assumes I have a robust meditation practice Ah, if only I don't um, I don't meditate ever I have meditation apps on my phone if that counts, which it doesn't So let me know in the comment section if any of the assumptions or my answers surprised you or if they were exactly what you Expected and I am just not if I'm just completely predictable. So thank you again guys This was a fun video for me to do and I really appreciate the audience participation You guys rock. I really appreciate it now I am going to lay down because I feel my energy like crashing Again, I love you guys. I'm thinking of you and I will see you in the next video whenever that is Bye guys. Okay. I forgot one thing guys. Um, I was closing down instagram and I forgot this one I wanted to read it because it just made me happy Max devlin assumes that I could probably kick someone's arse with one foot just as well as with two So thanks for that max. I don't actually know if that's accurate But we're gonna find out because as soon as I can get back to jiu-jitsu. I am going to do that Gosh darn it. So thanks for assuming I'm still a badass. I I'm probably not but One can dream All the body high


So, let us see now in this session what we have done so far. In the last few lectures, we looked at words and we have been emphasizing the need to pay attention to words and we really have to rework our relationship with words and languages and we are aware of the complexities of the task. So, we have dipped into the present Indian context, its demands by on the one hand placing the subaltern perspective and on the other hand also looking at globalization processes and the connections these have thrown up with a very fast changing world around us. We have also looked at multilingual plurality of India and also the multilingual plurality that exists within us. We have tried to understand the locus and the nature of English as an Indian language. This we maintained is a problematic area for reasons that we have already articulated and therefore although English is an Indian language, but the relationship with English language will really be somewhat paradoxical because after all languages keep changing with times and therefore we can rework our relationship in substantive ways. Some of the examples of Indian language scripts and words these were presented before you in terms of the word creative and creativity. This activity led to a presentation by Rinal who talked about the natural environment and the way languages coexist and also her own take on some of the issues related to the words creativity and creative. So as Maam said about the multilingual nature in India and the various languages spoken in the country, I would like to say that since my childhood itself I have been born in a very multilingual environment. So at home I spoke Gujarati and Kachhi and then I went to school and we generally spoke in English and Hindi and then in high school Marathi was added to it. And then for my higher studies when I went for engineering in my hostel I had students speaking various languages there was Bengali, Oriya, many southern languages mainly Telugu. So there was always a wide exposure of various languages surrounding me. It was taken for granted I mean I had never so consciously realized about the various languages that were spoken around. Eventually I started learning Oriya not because there was a language barrier in conversing with them but because learning a new language was fun. Presently certain linguistic spheres have evolved in my day to day life. At home I converse in Gujarati on the campus and amongst friends I speak in Hindi and while writing or talking about academic topics I switch to English. In case of informal writing like when I write my diary I usually write in English and switch to Hindi when I cannot find the right words to express my thoughts in English and thus I switch between the two languages back and forth. However I use the roman script all the time even while writing Hindi words. Similarly when I chat on the internet I type Hindi words in the roman script while talking to most of my friends and it has become so common that it does not take any effort to spell out the Hindi words. So this is what we did so far. From that perspective we felt that it is time for us to look at creativity and the relationship of creativity to words, to language, languages in terms of some very important western view points that have animated this discussion over the last few decades. He started off by actually quoting Raymond Williams from his famous study titled The Long Revolution where he had pointed out that this is a word in the English language with only positive connotations. And once again it is useful to point out that although we are dipping into this very significant study and the ideas of a very important thinker but our idea is to use it so as to develop generative exercises. Because you have already dipped into some of these personal issues, personal explorations, your own environment, the Indian reality at many levels. Although this is a starting point but you know you can begin to build on those experiential aspects. I think it is time to dip into a more systematic way of looking at some of the issues. What we have done is to look at the word culture and the word creative for our exercise today. That exercise of critical assessment and also exposure to this way of looking at analysis of the word culture and the word creative within culture. So now let us see what Raymond Williams in his famous study Keywords of Vocabulary of Culture and Society has to say about his own work and the approach that he has undertaken here. This analysis operates within the framework of a shared body of words and meanings of the practices and institutions which we group as culture and society. So which are the institutions we group as society? What are the actions and activities we group as a culture and also then the notion of society. What is society? What is this institution called society? How come he chose keywords? So the explanation that he provides that he says well the words selected are they are keywords in two connected senses. They are significant binding words. I think the emphasis is on binding words. They are significant binding words in certain activities. So they connect certain activities to some other activities or institutions. So they are binding words that is words that sort of actually resonate. They sort of move in the direction of many other activities. In other words while singling out these key words he is actually interested in looking at their vital connection with whole lot of other activities because after all words also represent activities. Words also represent thought processes that goes without saying but look at the word binding because when we begin to look at this critical perspective I think these ways of putting these ideas together they are very very useful and they will also provoke a lot of discussion and thought although since I do not get to see you and I do not get to interact with you in a regular natural setting that joy will be lost but we can find some other ways of compensating for it but certainly I think this word is what I would like you to concentrate on. So they have both the sense of binding activities but they also have an abstract aspect where certain forms of thought are indicated by their use. So this concrete and abstract I think this is what he is trying to bring out in his approach in terms of key words culture and creative are not the only key words he has chosen. He has chosen 131 key words if my counting is correct in this edition that I am using he has used 131 words and for each word he has also given connecting words which he has placed within this study. So there are about 131 key words but I think we also need to understand something about why he chose these words and why he chose this approach of clubbing culture and society together. To show you some of the resonances that we feel exist with the earlier part of our discussion he says to show he chose this study to show that important social and historical processes occur within language in ways which indicate how integral the problems of meanings and of relationships really are. Now this is a thought that I think would require certain amount of reflection on our part and therefore I like you to stay with it and when you follow up this lecture with the reading of the introduction maybe it will get clarified and we will also try and see in what ways we can reemphasize and clarify this approach and this idea in the next module or in the next few lectures of the first module in which we are trying to understand the general aspects of creative processes and how to trigger it how to identify our own unique talent within whatever exercises we have undertaken. So therefore I think it is best to come back to it I would say time and again. The other resonance that was very palpable is related to new kinds of relationships but also new ways of seeing existing relationships appear in language in a variety of ways. In the invention of new terms, in the adaptation, alteration of older terms, in extension or transfer. Let us see what else this holds for us. I think the important aspect of this study is related to the fact that historically the same words also undergo a lot of change and actually in some ways this is what he labeled as historical semantics but I think it also helps us locate the changing scenario historically for ourselves. The historical context of Raymond Williams himself is steeped in 1945 post-war Britain. When he came back from the war, he found that people around him used words in a way that he did not understand. The sense of meanings associated with many, many words changed and he was quite surprised by that. He was I think quite disoriented by that. So he decided to study this phenomenon a little more carefully and he found that people around him used the word culture more than any other world and I will read the statement that he made. I found myself preoccupied by a single word culture which it seems I was hearing very much more often than he had ever heard before. So then this historical context I think we should keep in mind. We have talked about the significance of maintaining a sense of historical context in every bit of our reading material because it helps us establish our own critical relationship with a text and he says the emphasis of the study is not only on historical origins and developments but also on the present, present meanings, implications and relationships as history and I would say as history in making which is what you are doing, which is what we do when we try to extend meaning, when we try to create meaning. We do not just stay with given meanings in our life, we try to give and find new meanings. So in that sense it is a very, very important approach where you look back at history and in terms of words you look at the historical origin. You also look at how those have undergone changes and in his kind of analysis you pin that in terms of the social context and that may mean economic, political situations, the attitudes towards certain institutions, maybe the need for those institutions, the economic efficacy of those institutions, we will have to see what that leads to. So what he has done in terms of the methodology, that is really very, very interesting, fascinating in fact, this was such a discovery I have actually I was familiar with many other studies but I had never dipped into it. So it has been a pleasure to dip into this study and find a very, very useful methodology. What he has done is to identify these keywords and then for each keyword he has clusters and we will share those clusters with you. So now in these clusters he has a particular set of interrelated words and references with meanings that emphasize interconnections across domains. So now I am sort of moving towards the word culture, the way he has identified the word culture, the way he has defined the word culture. I hope you will enjoy this activity. This is somewhat different from the usual vocabulary development work. If you have initiated that process already you can share your thoughts and your concerns and your viewpoints with us. So the word culture now, in terms of the word or the term culture the statement that he makes is very interesting. He says well it is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. That is really quite a statement, most complicated words in the English language. Then he goes on to say this is so mainly because it has now come to be used for important concepts in several distinct intellectual disciplines and in several distinct and incompatible systems of thought. Part of our aim in this first module is also to try and emphasize certain degree of independence of thought. So even when we dip into new thoughts we want you to first look at your own responses and then look at the more systematic analysis that is offered. So even if you interpret this in a simple surface way at this point in time that would be fine. We would explain these ideas later on definitely that is a commitment I am ready to make right away. So the term intellectual disciplines, what are these intellectual disciplines that he has in mind, what are these several distinct and incompatible systems of thought that he has in mind. Right now we are looking at the clusters and we are looking at the term culture in terms of its complexity. Culture is the first cluster where the word culture and its meanings are given. He points out that the word culture was used in earlier periods to cultivate, inhabit, protect, honor, worship, the other was tending and tending in terms of both natural growth that is crops, animals, but also spiritual mental growth. That kind of sounded really very interesting. I got quite excited by that, but let us first look at the related set of ideas here is related to use in works and practices of sciences, arts and intelligence. I somehow feel that there is a key here for us and we should open a new door or a door that was not opened for some time by using this key, but let us also see the other connotations here. So again cultivate, inhabit, protect and then spiritual mental growth of a human being, but also a particular way of life and is this particular way of life which actually has led to the growth of disciplines like anthropology that look at this variety diversity. As you know we are talking to you, but simultaneously I am also teaching this course in a regular natural IIT setting and the reason we have not been able to bring everybody here on board is primarily related to issues of logistics, the time frame in which the students work, the timetables are different and also in terms of clarity the video course does requires greater degree of clarity. But if we try this activity in class and it works out we will come back with some of our findings and share those with you. So in terms of tending my sense was that maybe you know we can go back to this earlier term because I think it may be sufficient for us to look at the word culture and how it has retained that earlier sense of tending, but also this tending of natural growth. In the earlier sense it was crops and animals and what if we transform ourselves a little bit or transfer our setting in our imagination a little bit and create a pastoral setting you may stay with your own experience of the big city or any other location where you exist and live your lives. But maybe you can examine what you feel about tending crops tending animals do you continue to have a relationship with the natural environment. So this may actually be quite an interesting exercise in trying to see what our relationship to our natural environment is and if we can build this as another theme in addition to the natural linguistic environment I think that would be a very interesting step because this will immediately lead us to other interrelated idea here of sciences and arts. So now let us look at his definition of creative the word creative and it is really not a definition but he is trying to work out the meaning associated with the word. So it points out that creative in modern English has a general sense of original and innovating and an associated special sense of productive. It is also used to distinguish certain kinds of work as in creative writing the creative arts. So in terms of the word creative we have fiction, we have image and we have art now I felt that it will be useful for us to look at the subdivisions in greater detail in terms of the links provided for these. So we start with the word creative we look at the links for fiction that have been provided we look at the links that have been provided for image we look at the links provided for art. So then for the word fiction quite surprisingly he has given two other words myth and romantic the cluster for image is again quite surprising there are only two interrelationships that he has mentioned one is realism and the other is idealism. These interrelationships to me on surface are not really very clear as to why realism and idealism realism still makes sense the whole tradition of my masses which we do not dip into right now. This word I want to pay greater attention to the word art. So with reference to the word creative as you remember this was one of the clusters one of the words in the cluster of three that he had given. So when you dip into it you come back to that sense of culture and sense of tending and sense of tending in terms of intellectual practice in terms of arts in terms of sciences and in you know in the realm of what he described as intelligence. Since we have the copyright permission from Raymond Williams estate let me read this longer quotation very clearly. The original general meaning of art to refer to any kind of skill is still active in English but a more specialized meaning has become common and in the arts and to a large extent in artist has become predominant. Art has been used in English from 13th century it was widely applied without predominant specialization until 17th century in matters as various as mathematics, medicine and angling. In the medieval university curriculum the arts the seven arts and later the liberal arts were grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. An artist from 16th century was first used in this context though with almost contemporary developments to describe any skilled person as which it is in effect identical with artisan until 17th century as a practitioner of one of the arts in another grouping those presided over by the seven muses history, poetry, comedy, tragedy, music, dancing, astronomy. Then from 17th century there was an increasingly common specialized application to a group of skills not hitherto formally represented painting, drawing, engraving and sculpture. The now dominant use of art and artist to refer to these skills was not fully established until 19th century but it was within this grouping that in 18th century and with special reference to the exclusion of engravers from the new royal academy a now general distinction between artist and artisan the latter being specialized to skilled manual worker without intellectual or imaginative or creator purposes was strengthened and popularized. This development of artisan and in the mid 19th century definition of scientist allowed the specialization of artist and the distinction now not now of the liberal but of the fine arts. It is absolutely delightful to remember a time when the separations were not so sharp and what we would like to do is to really see if this is a theme that we can develop further in terms of interfaces between these disciplines. For that of course there is time and we also need to generate more activities but we will definitely look forward to your participation in trying to take this connection sense of connections further. So, to come back to the total scene so to say about regarding the clusters this is how it looks and I am not going to try and read it I will let you look at it. Let us now turn to ourselves so we looked at this fascinating array of ideas based on deep critical analysis of culture and society but how do we look at these words? My simple question to many of my students was related to the word culture and creative and the frequency of use so I asked them which word do you use more frequently culture or creative. I was also aware of the fact that often in our own languages we use some of these words we have started using a lot of English words in our own languages also. So therefore the other question that perhaps I like to pose is related to the absorption of these words in your own mother tongue has the word culture been absorbed has the word creative been absorbed and the best way for you to get a flavor of the classroom situation is to have some representation from the class into this video course and therefore I would now request Neha Chaudhary whom I have already introduced to you in the earlier part of this module as someone who has been intimately associated with the preparation of the PowerPoint presentation and also discussion about the content of the course I would request her to share the flavor of the classroom participation and some of our own intentions in undertaking this activity in the class. So now Neha would make her own presentation and she will also give her own map because we also requested everybody in the class to prepare their own map of creativity in terms of what kind of associations the term evokes I mean I just wanted them to let go which is what we would like you to do however structured may we may seem but really unless there is this letting go of your imagination there is just no fun in doing this course. So now let us have Neha over. Hi so there is sort of inevitably you know a difference between how we did the activity in class and how I will sort of present it to you here because when we did this activity in the class we did it before we read anything about Raymond Williams. So we had a very instinctive response towards the kind of connotations the word creative generated and the kind of activities we thought about when we thought about the word creative. These activities are extremely open-ended and they are deliberately open-ended because when we began when Professor Talwar and I began to discuss about how we will generate activities for the class to explore their sense of self and explore their creative potential. We sort of realized that it's you know it's a very difficult in a structured educational environment to have people find their own different paths. So therefore we kept various sort of activities like the childhood activity and this map activity as a deliberately open-ended one because we want it as an exploration on your part. So now I will sort of move on to what different people said in their different maps about what they thought about what creativity means to them. So most of them in this age of the fast paced world most of them thought that creativity is something of a flash. It sort of comes to you as a lightning idea, a light bulb blows in your head and it's all about finding new ideas that come to you know at the tips of your fingers somehow. Another very interesting take that we had from another person in the class he said that creativity meant to him a way of being efficient in the way you do things in your field. So in your profession or in your work how efficient you are and the way you are able to manage your tasks that is what creativity meant to him. Then there were people in the class who thought that creative time the time in which you do creative activities actually equals your leisure time. It does not equal the time where you work you know or where you pursue your profession so it's it's sort of a divide between creative time and work time. And then I will just present to you a map that I made and I associate creativity with learning with bonding with fiction, technology, art, happiness, travel and cooking. Thank you so much Neha. I mean it's actually absolutely delightful to really have the students and other participants from the classroom situation to come here and share their views and ideas with others. We will keep doing this all the time and since we have very little time left for this segment let me just wrap up by talking about two books that we are going to dip into for generative activities because so far we have not been able to share the generative activities pertaining to Raymond Williams in specific ways. We will do that and for that we would recommend the you know introduction to or the use of the writer's workbook and also Paul Dawson who has talked about creative writing and the new humanities. These are very recent books and I think they contain practices from different parts of the world. So you can get started with these books, get hold of them and we will develop our own independent activities using some of the ideas that these books provide. Thank you very much. I look forward to talking to you again next time. Thank you.


We're here at ITU Telecom World 2015 in Budapest, Hungary and I'm very pleased to be joined by Tatjana Matic, who is the State Secretary for the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications for Serbia. Ms Matic, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you. I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of ITU Telecom World 2015 is accelerating innovation for social impact. How do you see ICT innovation directly impacting on socio-economic development in Serbia? Parts of the innovation have been measured and analyzed in different ways many times in the past three years and all the indicators showed that there is a great impact on GDP. So we are expecting that new social initiative innovation in ICT field will help us to bring some new initiative in our economy. First of all, we believe that our first step is building broadband infrastructure and that will automatically bring some new services, which we believe will help to improve ICT literacy in our rural and urban areas through the country. What measurements can government and industry take to encourage entrepreneurship and foster the growth of small, medium enterprises in the ICT sector and in particular, what's the government of Serbia doing? Well, we are all aware of demographic problems worldwide and also the economic crisis. So this has a great impact on our country also on the whole region, as we all know. But we are really doing our best to help and support ITU companies in our country. For example, for this year, we'll allocate funds for startup loans for the ICT companies, especially for new innovative projects that these companies have. And this is, we believe, the best practice to help them through funds to bring some new projects. And what's the value for you of attending events such as ITU Telecom World? Well, we'll believe that attending this kind of event like ITU World Telecom help all of us to, first of all, stay in touch with all progress that is happening in the ICT. And also, we are in a way being empowered to take some brave, some new steps and necessary that will bring really better to our industry. ITU's Girls in ICT initiative works to encourage women and girls to enter the ICT industry. What measures do you think need to be taken to encourage and make sure that this happens? Well, first of all, I think that it's good to have more women generally represented in the ICT worldwide. This World Telecom ITU event is also a good occasion for the ladies, from the companies, from the states to come and to be seen. And that is the first step just to be that we show to the ladies that it's not so complicated tasks to be involved in this industry. The second one is for sure to make them go easier, more, let's say, easier to find job in the companies. And for us in Serbia, it is very important to work more on the curriculum of the education in ICT, especially in primary and secondary education, which we believe that is crucial for the girls, also for the boys. But in this case, we are talking about the girls to recognize that there is a lot of potential in ICT and that they should be empowered. And what's your main message for participants here at ITU Telecom World and also to our viewers around the globe? Well, the main message for us is, for all of us, is to stay in touch, to make more connection as possible with more people as possible, to hear what are experiences of the others and of course to be aware of our own abilities. State Secretary, thank you very much indeed for your presence in the studio today. Thank you.


I wasn't actually able to get out to the park this weekend. I was super busy with a bunch of other stuff However, my friend Mikey Was able to go out there and he got some footage for us because there have been some Pretty large improvements that have happened starting off with the front entrance for max force You can actually see that they have repainted the little trestles Gray and red to match the color scheme and I think they look good Um, it's not the biggest thing, but it's kind of cool that they're keeping the old sign For the pictorium and as we move over to the construction site You can see the big thing for this week. Um, there have actually been trains The trains arrived. So they're in the shed now. You can't really see them very well, but they actually have Four cars, which is two rows per car. So those are eight rows, which means 16 riders per train instead of the 12 that were shown in the concept art, which is always good And we always need the extra throughput here at great america because of our very long lines Um, it looks like one trains on the track. Um, they do have two trains Don't know where the second train is yet, but hopefully it'll come One thing I thought was neat. Um, is they had these little gray uh track pieces That were meant for shipping and then the other thing to see over in this construction site is that the q The concrete for the q has been poured Um, it's very small. I don't know what they plan on doing because I expect this coaster to have such long lines and that q looks Tiny I don't know if this is like a standby q or like just the Single rider q or if it's the main q if it's the main q is really small And I totally expect the line to be spilling out on the midways All throughout the season when this coaster finally opens Maybe they have something else and the final thing that happened this weekend Wizard is actually back open, which means that the construction site over by wizard Is all completed. So that's always a good sign. Hopefully this coaster will be open within the next two weeks I don't think it's gonna happen. It might be another month until it opens I I don't really know. I just hope it's not within the next two to four weeks Because I'm actually going on vacation to cedar point king's dominion and hershey park Uh, so if If the coaster opens then I won't be able to go to media day, which would suck Thanks for watching this quick max force construction update. Make sure to like comment subscribe Mikey's instagram is In the description feel free to follow him and uh, Stay tuned for more max force content


The NL MVP, Mookie Betts at plus 950. Mookie Betts is entering the 2022 season fully healthy. Last year he was dealing with that right hip injury and that held him to only 122 games. But despite the fact of him dealing with that nagging injury, he still had a pretty decent season. His batting average was at 264. He had 23 home runs, 93 runs to go with 58 RBI. Mookie Betts is so good that that was considered a struggling season for him.  He's coming into this season fully healthy, playing in a lineup that is arguably the best that Major League Baseball has ever seen. And if the Dodgers win the NL West and head to the World Series, which they are kind of slated to do, you can expect Mookie Betts to be the NL MVP.


All right guys, so I'm at Birds Plus because I still haven't spoken to Lloyd yet. Guess what? The cops are mad that I had the footage first, so they didn't help Lloyd. And NBC didn't cover the story properly because they're like, why does a YouTuber have footage first? Because no one wants to wait till 5 p.m. or 11 o'clock for their news. We all have social media now. So let me show you how to catch a robber because I'm still on this case. Okay, let's see how Lloyd is doing. I literally saw him come out of the store limping, but he was holding a perch. Let me ask you a few questions. Oh no, here we go. Do you know that you are a hero in the Parrot community right now? I didn't want to be a hero. I didn't want that to happen. It's almost 20,000 people have watched your video. A lot of the pitchers are calling Lloyd. Lloyd, you did it. You're not the one to do it again. I saw you walk outside when it was sick. Allison is sick of baseball bad now. I saw you see him come in and know. Well, yeah, because he came in like this with a bag. So I knew he was going to try to take something. Bring us the fishes of him before. Oh yeah, for sure. After 40 years I can kind of feel. I got the feel for the criminal. You know that address that he gave is literally like two blocks away? What address? He added wrong, the name of the street wrong, but the other name of the street that the guy said is correct, and it is two blocks away. Oh, because that's what he asked me. And then he asked the customer, where's Stansberg? And he was on a skateboard, so he probably is in the neighborhood. He's in the neighborhood and he's probably up to no good. Tell us about when you went to the police school. I just went up and told him the story. And what they did? Nothing. I filed a police report. Were they mad that it was on YouTube? Yeah, he said, why'd you do this? Why'd you do that? You're interrogating me. I said, I'm not the same model. Exactly. You see that guys? They were like, why is it on YouTube? I don't know, because when 80,000 people care about birds, where are you going to put the footage in the detective's office? I don't think so. Did you know that this guy's a badass? Lloyd, where's Snatch right now? Ah, Snatch is all locked up now. Hi Snatch! Somebody around. Lloyd, has anybody called about Snatch? There's good people in looking at him, you know? Because they know he's Snatch? I don't even want to tell him. No, he's my buddy. You should take him on. He's Snatch. His name is Snatch, you know that really good guy. He's famous, his name is Snatch. Oh my god, did they show that? No, they didn't show that on YouTube. A lot of customers stole me from your website. Yeah, they're like... This is a nice story. Did you like it? Isn't that good? He said, punch this, I'm gonna go, whoa! This is when we're imitating you and we're having so much fun and I saw the sound effects and Jen was like, and he went, punch! George was like, and he went, punch! Like you do guys in here. Oh my god, the comments.  What made you save the bird? I like birds, you know. I like the birds. Right? Yeah.  Right? You know, go hit a jewelry store or something. Yeah. What's he gonna do with the pair? When you're outside, I put the audio like from inside to outside and you're like, give me the bird, give me the bird. In the heat of the moment, I don't know what I said to him, but I chased him all the way, you know, I didn't get him until down Burbank over. I packed him a few times on the way down to Burbank over. And what happened? How did Lloyd just get away? Did he have a skateboard? Well, I don't know, he came in first on those skateboards.  I didn't even see it. All right, here we go. He must have come back, but there was no skateboard there. Right? I packed him in the left. He must have come back and moved the skateboard somewhere else. Do you like when they put the gangster music for you and you're like, whoa. Oh, no. How did he get his shirt off? I just ripped him.  Oh my God, both of you wearing a shirt under that? Yeah, yeah. Is the evidence still here? Yeah, I do. Look at that. The police don't even come for the evidence. They said they were coming by. He said, do you have the evidence or is it you? He said, we'll be by the night or one morning. I should do my own DNA test on this stuff. Are you going to keep smash? Come here, buddy. Oh, I got him locked. Because of that bird burglar. He's all locked up now so that nobody can get him. Come on, baby. Come on. He knows I saved him. He knows? He knows. Come on, baby. Come on. Oh, he loves you. He comes right to you. Hey, Miss, now he's been on yours. He's been on the NBC News. You were on NBC News.  Yeah, I'll text you the address actually because I listened to the audio. I watched the whole thing. He said his address. Oh, he said, that's that guy. Where that address is. And I put Timothy together. Oh my god.  That's what I was thinking. Like, we need to go to the police and be like, this is where he was. Oh my god, he knows. He has to be your best buddy. Oh, he's got a little like plucking maybe from his chest. I was so glad he didn't hit the sidewalk. He hit the sidewalk three times with the bird in the bag. Yeah. And I thought for sure the bird got hurt. Were you nervous? I saw you like kind of looking but like afraid to look. Well, yeah, no, exactly. Because I didn't know if he's dead or alive in the bag, you know. But he's perfect. Worked his right around the corner. Oh my god. And he's so happy to be out with you. Boy, no bird left behind. We got the scoop. That's awesome. He didn't even get him until burbank. Oh my god. He loves the birds. He might actually keep snatch. That's so crazy. Hey guys, guess what? Oh my god. Forgot my face was like this. We're in the middle of a movie. Ignore. Anyway, I just got contacted from Lou at Birds Plus. The detectives finally went in there to like collect the evidence. Happy about that. But it's kind of a week late. Either way, they want me to contact them for the video. So I think I'll call them right now. Let's see what happens. They better catch this guy. Yeah. I'm putting it on YouTube. Yeah, because you guys are late. You don't have time to wait for you to catch a bird burglar. Hi. I'd like to speak to your detective. This is Marlene McCohen. I have footage of the bird robber. And I would like to know, I have a link on YouTube, but if you would like more specific footage, then I would just like to know how to get that over to you. Thank you. Bye. We're gonna get that bird burglar. Seriously guys, I'm in the middle of a movie, but I gotta do what I gotta do when it calls. All day yesterday, I was literally thinking, I'm so mad that these detectives haven't gone in there and I might have to go into the police myself. I mean, how often do you actually see a criminal that I have footage of and he left an address and we possibly have his DNA and you took a week to come check out the case? Well, I'm very happy that you came and collected the evidence. You know what? I'm coming down there with the video because I want to have this discussion with you. Lucky they finally went into birds plus. What are you doing? Huh? Mr. Detectives of Los Angeles because I know nobody eats doughnuts in this town. That's really a thing. Nobody eats doughnuts in this town. I'm not kidding you.


As always, whenever I get ready to do a new series of videos, my Patreon supporters get to vote on what the next topic is going to be. And this time around, given three options just like I always do, first option is dates and calendars. So it just be a series on dates and calendars. We'll look at some shell script stuff as well as other languages, calculating dates, getting dates in different formats, calendar views, that sort of stuff. Next option would be addresses and locations. So looking at accessing GPS data, getting addresses based on location, or getting GPS based on location, stuff along those lines, both again using shell scripts as well as other languages. And finally the third option is real world applications.  I get asked a lot, oh I see you do a lot of tutorials. Can you tell me some real world applications for them? And really it's kind of, not something I really, when I'm doing tutorials I like to show you how to complete a task. Here's a task, that's how you do that. And how do I use this in the real world? Well, if you need to use it in the real world, you should know. But I'm going to try, if this gets voted on, to show some real world applications. And I've actually been working on a lot of software. If you go to my github page, github.com forward slash metal x1000. I post a lot of code there recently. And you know as many of you probably know, by day I'm a firefighter. And we use programs, we use computers just like pretty much every business out there. I'm not always very happy, in fact I'm very rarely happy with the software my department chooses to use. So lots of times I wrote just as a proof of concept, my own software, my own take on a lot of the stuff. We have software for, or I write programs for stuff we don't have software for. And I try to make them as generic as possible so that if you work for a fire department or a lot of these software programs I write would be good for other fields as well. You know, such as calendars or manning or phone lists. So what I would do in this real world application series, if it's voted on, is just go over some of the programs I wrote that are on github. Just a quick overview, this is the program, this is how it does, this is why I wrote it like this. And a quick look at the code and how it works. And they would all be, like I said, applications, real world applications. And not only that, not only work related stuff, I'll probably go over some game stuff that I created my daughters to now. She's in very educational mode right now. And I've been writing a lot of very simple basic games for her. And I thought that I would share some of that code. It's all up online already. Again, if you go to my github page, I have all the code there. And a lot of that is already up on my web server as well that you can load up on your tablet. And so I'd go over that stuff as well in the real world applications, you know, game development. So I wouldn't go step by step through the game creating process, which might be something I do in the future. I've done in the past, but I might go in more in depth. But basically, look at games I've already created. And I'll just go over, again, I'll look at the code, show you the code, explain why I wrote things the way I wrote them. And so yeah, so again, three options.  And there is a voting field below where you can vote on the three options, which again are dates and calendars, addresses and locations, or real world applications. I know a lot of people are going to comment below on YouTube what you want to see. That's fine. I don't really take that into account. This is for my Patreon viewers. I just thought I'd post this here so that everybody will know what the options are and what might be coming up in the future. And again, if you want to say, if you want to be able to vote, you can become a supporter of mine on Patreon, patreon.com forward slash metal x1000. There should be a link in the description of this video. And not only do you get rewards, early videos, downloads, ad-free videos, you know, and a say in what's going on, you also help me keep my videos going. So as always, I thank you all for watching. I thank you for subscribing. And I thank my Patreon supporters for supporting me and helping my videos keep on going. So as always, I hope you have a great day.