Hello, everybody. So, as already Gabriel mentioned, today I want to give a very brief introduction of what the REUS initiative is, because now, as if you have been here during the whole track, we have learned the importance of licenses and copyright, and therefore it is also important to declare this information on your project. So, the FSFE created the REUS initiative five years ago, and it basically aims to make the declaring this legal information on your project easy, but also fun. It seeks to be readable for humans and machines alike, as well as it seeks to already exist in best practices. So, to start with, I would like to talk a little bit about the common mistakes that we have seen so far, kind of like the state of play of how projects actually declare licensing and copyright information at the moment. So, we have noticed that there is definitely missing information about license or un-copyright of own or third party code, and this is connected with the second issue, which is that re-users may overlook this legal information, and we have already seen that licenses and copyright, it's important, and then, actually, if you overlook this information, you might incur into some legal issues as well. There is also a little bit of a problem about how to deal with multiple licenses, because if you are a developer, you know that your project might be under more than one license, and therefore, it is a little bit tricky to know how you display this information when we're talking about more than one license. There is also a little bit of license ambiguity, because so far, we have seen that some projects have an annotation of the license, let's say, in this case, the GPL, and then it says version 3, but we know that there is a GPL version 3 only or version 3 or later, and then this is not clarified on the way it is displayed, and therefore, it's a little bit ambiguous to know exactly where the license that the project is using. And there are also already some conflicting best practices. So, for instance, some people store the text of the license in a file called Copping, some others store it in a file called License, or in the Rhythmic file, so it is a little bit unclear where to find this information so far. So, that is the reason why the FZP decided to create the Reuse Initiative. The Reuse Initiative is based in some principles. So, as I already mentioned, we're trying to make easy but also fun to find the copyright and license information, because we're going to store this information in every single file of our repository. We are going to avoid silence, because again, we're going to store the info of the repository as close as possible to the code, so everything is going to be inside our project, and every information that you need to know about the project is going to be within the project. I already mentioned this. This information is readable by humans and also by machines. So, later in the workshop, you will see that with the help of our Reuse Tool, the Reuse Tool is able to identify this information, and you as well, you are able to go through every file and then read this information. And again, we're making licensing easy. As we have seen, there is a lot of things to take into account, but we're trying to make it easy for developers to actually comply with these legal obligations. And how are we going to do this? So, we're going to make our project Reuse compliant with very simple steps, which are three steps. We're going to choose and provide a license. Again, we already learned a little bit about licenses, the importance of them. We're going to add the copyright and licensing information to each file of our repository, and then finally, we're just going to confirm that a project is Reuse compliant. So, let me go one by one. So, the first one, we're going to choose and provide the licenses. So, once you have made the decision of, like, which license you're going to use for your project, you're going to store the text of this file in a text file that you're going to save under a directory that we're going to call licenses. So, this is actually one of the first features of Reuse. We are going to have a dedicated directory where you're going to find all the licenses used in the project. And we're going to name this text file after the SBDX license identifier tag. Again, we're trying to already stick to existing best practices, and for those that don't know, SBDX is already a project that is trying to make standard the way this legal information is displayed. So, in this example, we see the route of a project, and then we see that there is a directory called licenses. And within this directory, we have the GPL3 or later, and then the tag is used there as well. So, it is very clear to know what license the project is using. Then we're going to add the copyright and license information for every single file of our repository, and we're going to do it through a header. And the header is going to look like here in the example. Again, we're going to make use of the SBDX license identifier tags as well as the SBDX file copyright text. So, in this case, we see that this specific piece of code is under the GPL3 or later, and that the endo is the copyright holder. So, it's very straightforward. I know that in this moment, you might be wondering, okay, but there are some files that I cannot edit, such as binary files, image files, JSON files. But for this, we have two alternatives. We recommend one more than the other. However, we have two options. We have, first, separate .license file in which we're going to store this information. So, in this case, we have the picture of a cat, and then we're going to create a .license file in which we're going to include the license identifier as well as the copyright text. So, whenever we go to the image directory and we see the picture of the image, we can go to the text file and find this legal information. But we also know that if your project is pretty big, and let's say you have 2,000 pictures and creating 2,000 individual files for every image, it's not ideal. And actually, we'll double the size of your project. So, for these cases, we have the depth file file, which is a project by Debian. And we're going to store this depth file file in a dedicated directory called .reuse. And here, we're also going to specify what directory and what the copyright and license information is. So, again, in the example, we see that all the pictures in the image directory are under the CC by 4, and great artist is the copyright holder. However, in this case, we advise to really make sure that you know that the legal information is correct because you might be including some files that might not be under this legal information. So, if you're going to make use of this option, please be really careful about this. And third, we're just going to confirm that our project is really compliant. So, with our helpbook tool, it's going to scan our project and it's going to tell us how many files have this information, can also show us what licenses have been used in a project. And then, in this case, we can see that our project is really compliant because six out of the six files contain this information. Again, we're going to learn a little bit more about this in the workshop that we're going to have after this talk. So, if you are interested to see how this actually works, then stick around. So, here, I would like to talk a little bit about the components of reuse. So, we have a set of best practices that I went very briefly today, such as the licenses directory. We're going to add this information in individual files. We also have options for files that you cannot edit. And we're trying to do this to make standard the way this legal information is displayed. We have a helpful tool that we're going to learn more about this in the workshop, which actually supports developers in the process of making project reuse compliant. We have very nice things that the tool does, such as adding the header or scanning LinkedIn the project to see what you're missing. We also have a tutorial with an FAQ. This tutorial shows you how to make a project reuse compliant. And the FAQ also gives answers to some questions, basic but also advanced questions. And also not only about reuse, about the tool, but also some legal questions. So, we highly recommend that you take a look at the FAQ because it's pretty good. And we have an API in which you can register your project whenever it becomes reuse compliant. And then you're going to get a very nice dynamic batch that you can put on your repository. And then everybody that goes to your repo can see that your project is reuse compliant. And to very briefly talk about who has adopted reuse. So, in our API, we have more than 1200 projects registered. The majority of projects from our next generation Internet initiative have implemented reuse recommendations. The next generation Internet is a European Commission funded project. In the area of more like community, so KDE, for instance, and all its frameworks have also implement reuse. And they actually have also included in their policy, in their policy directive or guidelines. Projects such are CUR or GNU Health, and also CosmosCout, which is a project by the German Aerospace Center have also become reuse compliant. From the corporate side, we also have Siemens, Huawei, SAP, Laffrey, LF Energy, and partially the KERNEL of Linux have also implemented reuse, because it's pretty big. And the question is if you and your project or the project or friends are going to become reuse compliant. For this, I would like to finish my presentation for today saying that we welcome any contribution either from you joining the mailing list to join the discussion or also contributing with code. Reuse is a free software and people that maintain this software wouldn't mind any extra help there. And yeah, and again, if you we also have the reuse booster, which is trying to make a little bit closer experience with projects in which we support them in the process of making reuse compliant. Because in the end, we want reuse to become the way to declare this legal information. And with this, I would like to thank you all. And I think I have some minutes to take some questions. So thank you very much.


Welcome to CN Live, season five, episode seven, Assange and Ecuador, the backstory. I'm Joe Laurier, the editor-in-chief of Consortium News. And I'm Elizabeth Boss. The tortured story of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has involved four countries, the United States principally, Britain, Sweden and Ecuador. Former UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Meltzer accused these countries of ganging up on Assange to cause him to suffer from psychological torture. Ecuador's role in the Assange persecution from the granting of asylum to his arrest and much in between often does not get the attention that it deserves. Today, CN Live is in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital, to explore in-depth Ecuador's part in this story. Our guest today is Carlos Poveda, who has served as Assange's lawyer in this country. We're also joined by Ecuadorian journalist Jose Rivera, who has covered the Assange case here. Jose will also serve as our translator today. Carlos, welcome to CN Live. When Julian Assange lost his appeal at the U.K. Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden, he made his way to the Ecuador embassy in London. He feared that Sweden would extradite him to the U.S. After a careful process, the then President Rafael Correa granted Assange asylum. Carlos, why did Ecuador decide to grant asylum? And what price did Ecuador pay with the United States for doing that? Information that this was the beginning of an investigation that would originate a request for extradition to the United States. And that Sweden was already in agreement with the United States so that once it started and already learned or captured Assange was extradited to the United States. In front of this, the President Correa, once Julian enters the embassy in London, analyzes all the aspects and all the fears that there was about the Swedish investigation. And how information was given about the fear of extradition or the political or diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange. The cost at the beginning was quite high because in the international community what was manifesting was that he was giving asylum to a person for a common crime of rape that was not anything political or diplomatic. In Ecuador there were rejections towards asylum but, nevertheless, the autonomous decision of the government gave it up. And this was a first step to prevent his integrity and his life because if the issue of the asylum had not occurred, Assange would have suddenly been judged in the United States. But, in addition, in contrast to this position, there was also the support of certain groups and few states, highlighting the courage that the President Correa had to face very powerful states, being such a small country as Ecuador. He showed that he respected the rights of a human rights journalist and protected it internationally from a small state towards very strong states like the United States, Great Britain and Sweden. The message was also clear that despite being a small state, some did not even place it in the territorial space but that we gave more dignity and respect to human rights. For the first six years Assange continued working from the embassy but during that time we later learned from a Spanish court case that the CIA had contracted with the Spanish firm UC Global to spy on Assange, including on privileged conversations with his lawyers. Now Assange sued Ecuador and you Carlos, you represented him. Tell us about the case and what were your arguments and what happened with the case? That's what Assange said in public declarations that Assange was a comfortable person in the embassy and that caused a lot of harm to Ecuador in relations with the United States and Great Britain. Once Moreno takes the presidency, the level of security in the embassy has changed. Increasing the cameras. Interposing in hidden microphones in specific places. Obviously we knew that around the embassy, and this from the time of President Correa, there were international intelligence agencies from Great Britain and the United States that rented departments to spy, to listen, to watch for 24 hours. But then we realized that it was not only an external espionage, but also an internal and that it was being used by the security company that hired Ecuador to supposedly give protection to Assange and that he was in charge of watching, filming and listening to everything Assange did inside the embassy and passing intelligence agencies, not only Americans, but also British. It is a very unilateral way of acting that had the embassy of the, excuse me, U.C. Global and that the embassy knew about these aspects, this first time. One of the first evidences that we had when we arrived at the embassy that they were espionaging was the reportage of the CNN with a reporter from Ecuador called Arturo Torres. He makes a reportage and evidence of which is the legal team of Julian Assange at the international level and we realized that there were even photographs of our passports. I speak to him in my case and the only way I had to know was that the security company when I entered in November 2016 had obtained a photocopy of my passport. This information came to the hands of this Mr. Torres in a reportage of the CNN and evidently that made us feel that there was a filtering of information to this type of journalism. Then it was evident and the contact in Spain, in Madrid, of a group of people who offered to sell information internally to Assange to any media, international, media that offered for 3 million euros and they exhibited folders with images, they exhibited folders with voices, with photographs and with documents. It was an offer of information. In this sense, the Spanish lawyers with Aito Martínez and Barta Sargarzón requested a follow-up of these people and the fiscal year of Madrid authorized. That is when we realized that there was this theft of information, this situation of extortion because they had contacted Chris Raphson, who is the director of Wikileaks, to sell this information and that it does not come out at the international level of what was happening inside the embassy. In one of these folders that exhibited these people who wanted to sell information, a photograph of a document appeared that in a trial that we had in Ecuador and which was transmitted via telematics from London, where Julian Assange, with his Spanish lawyer Aito Martínez, appeared in a photograph of a legal document and the only ones who could access this document were the diplomatic personnel of that time that was in the embassy. It is more, it is very paradoxical, a finger appeared, one of the diplomats in the despair of taking the photograph. That is to say that while there was a trial, they entered the interior of the room or the room where Julian was. They took photographs and sent that. That was also part of the information they wanted to sell. With that, it was shown that the lawyers were spying on us in the auditions, when that was very reserved. Then they also exhibited photographs inside the embassy and videos. Some of them were even spread worldwide. And in this investigation carried out by the Spanish administration, there was in the recording of this conversation with Chris Raphson and Aito Martínez where it was shown that the information they knew and knew the staff of the embassy in Ecuador. That is to say that they had knowledge of all this and that they precisely leaked the information and that this information was not only obtained by them, but also by the Department of Intelligence of the United States and Great Britain, which they also had to report. It is more, the president of USA Global, Mr. Morales, he has already been in contact with characters in the United States and that, in exchange for everything he had done, he also had security contracts in the United States, basically with characters who supported Donald Trump's campaign. Once we had all the information, and the government of Madrid did their job in the questioning of these people, we decided to present a report in Ecuador on espionage, acceptance and intimacy, because the delegation or the space of the Ecuadorian embassy is territory. Ecuadorian and we had to present the report in Ecuador. He told them that once we had the information of the Spanish tax, as far as these acts were committed in the Ecuadorian embassy, which is Ecuadorian territory, and because they were supposedly involved in diplomatic personnel, we decided to present a spionage report here in Ecuador, in the tax office. It lasted about three years and in the end the tax office archived the cause. He said that there was no cause, that Ecuador could spy internally, because it was a public space. The judicial authority accepted it and we are imposing that decision, which is totally unskilled, that is to say that it was a public space, because the state paid the rent of the embassy, they could spy and that any person did not have the right to intimacy. On the other hand, in Spain, the investigation continued and these extortioners were even captured, but later they were put under surveillance. While in Ecuador it was archived, in Spain the investigation continues and even Mike Pompeo was reported in the United States with this information because apparently they have a lot of excess of the espionage activity that was generated from the United States towards London and that this had a responsibility against Pompeo. Did your case go to the constitutional court of Ecuador? No, it was in the court at the time, it would be a criminal judicial unit. We have not yet taken part in the constitutional court, that space would be missing. It's not over yet, is that correct? The case is not over? No, they appealed and they are waiting for an answer, which will take years. Elizabeth. Sure, in the closing days of Assange's asylum in the embassy, was your team able to communicate with him? I spoke to Julián and Estela, now the wife of Julián, because they entered a brutal police officer without authorization. I want to point out that Assange is still in Ecuador. That is another reason we have in Ecuador, they wanted to cancel the nationality and until now we are defending the nationality and the nationality of the country. We are defending the nationality of the country. And until now we are defending it. It is still in Ecuador, it has not been removed from the nationality. So until 2019 we were able to talk, and there in the Bermash prison we have not been able to talk, but through intermediaries, which is the British defense and the Spanish defense. So to follow up on that, what is the status of his citizenship? Because I do understand that Ecuador tried, I thought that they had successfully stripped Assange of his citizenship. No, they still has not finished. It is still in court. Assange lawyers appealed the decision. All right, thank you. In terms of communicating with the Ecuadorian government, what was that like? How did that change when Korea's administration left office? It was very fluid. And also obviously due to the distance here in Ecuador, but it was direct, there was no problem. In Gresa Moreno and all communication was broken. Zero communication. There was barely an exchange of communications. From the chief lawyer Bartelsar Garzón, with the staff of the Ecuadorian prison, but it was a couple of communications and there was no more. There was already total communication with the embassy and just to listen and to see the way in which Moreno was pronounced. Until now it is pronounced in an inadequate and grotesque way against Assange. Until now it justifies the departure of him, who was an uncomfortable, rude character, who did not respect the norms of coexistence and a number of lies that maintain him. In that sense, there was a period of official cooperation of the Department of Justice of the United States to the Ecuadorian prison. In fact, there are many evidences that have the Ecuadorian prison. Few returned to the power of the mother of Julian Assange. Many of them are unknown to their parents. There was information in the sense that before they came to Ecuador, they passed through the United States because they put it in a diplomatic suitcase. One of the ambassadors of Moreno at that time. We made a request to the judge who ordered this in-cautation and we have not had an answer. Or they are in the tax office or they are not in the country. They have not indicated where they are. And obviously they are very sensitive evidences. The recording and the information material have it here in the tax office. It is one of the reasons that has not yet been closed. As far as there is still a supposed judicial cooperation with the United States. It must be noted that what the United States asked for the tax office gave, whatever it is, it will never return to the world. The documents that are in the archives of the Ecuadorian government are those public? Some of them. Most of the documents remain in the U.S. Because the FBI went inside the embassy in Assange's room and they took all documents and they sent to Ecuador or whatever they wanted. That is what it says. Carlos, there was a story in El País, this Spanish newspaper a few weeks ago that said Moreno wanted to get Assange a diplomatic passport so that he would be able to leave the embassy but that he was stopped by the head of Ecuadorian intelligence. This is what El País says. Is that what happened? And isn't it true that Britain would never have given him a diplomatic passport anyway? The United Kingdom, in this case the United Kingdom, gave him a diplomatic passport, that was the obligation. But the United Kingdom never gave him a diplomatic passport because he was an internationally protected person. And of course, he had to lower certain scenarios or possibilities so that precisely the United Kingdom could not oppose. And one of those possibilities that even the Chancellor of El Enigma Moreno initially knew was to generate a diplomatic passport so that he could leave and recover his condition of a protected person, which was illegal. That was not illegal. Because the diplomats in the countries that are not necessarily from the career can also be honorary or people in charge of the diplomatic service. That was not illegal. But unfortunately, now, to be effective, this situation did not take place. And it was just an option. But my criteria was a legal option, it was a diplomatic option that could be done. And that, unfortunately, because of Moreno's position, it was impossible to do. It was simply to contribute to the issue of asylum and to protect it. To the point that, when the embassy breaks and Sanj is already free, the U.S. has made 18 U.S. charges and a petition to study that this was what protected Ecuador and that what founded the conviction of Correa to contribute to asylum was true. That is, you have to look at it. The fears of the beginning in 2012 were realities in 2019. So it justified even more of the asylum and it justified any measure, although it is diplomatic, so that a person who did the right thing to denounce the truths, this progeny, and not like now, who is deprived of his freedom with a very strong physical and psychological friction and at the point of saying this. Okay, so it was illegal to end the asylum according to international law. Is that correct? Is that correct? No, no, no, no, no. Yes. So I'm just going to jump in there and play that long list of laws that I read out in November 2019 when we both spoke at a meeting in Australia about the expulsion from the embassy. The ombudsman of Ecuador, we just heard, has declared the expulsion of Julian Assange illegal and as a de facto extradition from Ecuador to the UK in breach of primarily Article 79 which excludes the possibility of extraditing any Ecuadorian citizen. And in fact, the problem is that there is a due process that must be followed to terminate a citizenship and that is subject to appeal as well. So the person whose citizenship is going to be taken off them and very often it's to do with not filling in documents correctly, not giving the correct information. Fraud, Julian has not been challenged on any of these grounds. It was an immediate decision but I'll just be specific about which laws have been broken. So the rights to nationality Article 6, asylum, Article 41, the principle of non-reformant Article 66 and 14 and guarantees of due process. They have all been limited and that would be Article 77 in particular provided for in the constitution of the Republic, the human mobility law and in international human rights. Instruments and in fact, it would say that Julian Assange is still an Ecuadorian citizen. Thank you. He says that the United States proved with the accusations that they made against Assange that the Ecuadorian decision to give Assange the political asylum was legal. That it was, you know, based on international human rights law. Okay, next question. Under Moreno life in the embassy became very difficult for Assange. Moreno shut off his internet connection in March 2018, I believe. It doesn't seem like Moreno was acting on his own. There were 10 Democratic senators in the United States who pressured then Vice President Mike Pence to bring up the Assange case with Moreno when Pence visited Ecuador in June of 2018, just after the internet was shut off. And there was also talk that the United States used leverage about an IMF loan to get Ecuador to end the asylum. What do you know about the pressure that the U.S. put on Moreno to lift Assange's asylum? That there was pressure from the United States and from the United Kingdom for Moreno to give the turn that he made on a diplomatic issue, on an ideological issue. It is correct what is said because of what we know about intention cards for loans from the Monetary Fund. And that in one of the clauses could be established that the loans could flow from the Monetary Fund as long as Assange was handed over. And that was also in the loans of international character but also military agreements. Alan Duncan even points out how the Pelican operation said that Assange took out the major Pelican operation because the people of intelligence that directed Assange's exit had as an identification a naked Corbata with a figure of a Pelican. That is why it is the Pelican operation. He says it to Alan Duncan in his book of Memories. Including Alan Duncan. It was my first English. Yes, yes, yes. After Assange's exit he came to visit Ecuador and even says he gave him an English money as a souvenir to Assange and that there was a defense minister Harin who went to England and paid him all the expenses to prepare for the military cooperation. So Assange's delivery meant to Ecuador in the opening of the United States and of Great Britain the United Kingdom for military agreements and the development of economic loans. That was the condition. That is to say that Assange's head allowed, among other things, the opening of the Ecuador in front of countries that we had with Correa a certain distance for the ideological issue. Because Assange in the Correa era did not have any type of delivery conditioning. It was simply not delivered and that's it. So it's very modern and it changes everything. Absolutely. And yes, it is correct that the delivery of Assange between Comillas facilitated the international loans and military agreements with the United States and the United Kingdom. What has the reaction in Ecuador been to Assange's arrest and to his continued imprisonment? It's divided. I think there is a minority that supports Assange and a vast majority that is disinformation. Because the media companies and the large chains of information have distorted the information in Ecuador. Indicating that it was a rapist that was not a journalist that is a hacker that in the embassy caused many problems. That it was we were mal-created that it was disrespectful and therefore this caused a lot of damage to the image of Ecuador and the world. This is a truth positioned by the doctors and obviously as a large percentage of the population is left to take for this information the situation is not very clear the reasons and even many think that it is not equatorial. In this sense there is a very divided situation and also very prejudiced. I wanted to complement the previous idea because very skillfully Moreno created a protocol of written coexistence that is, what was the relation of the interior of the embassy? Who paid for the drugs? Who paid for the washing of clothes? The care of the pet? Etc. Etc. Even the coexistence there was always verbal character with a verbal character flow. Moreno did it with writings and that was the way if it transgressed health. One of the norms of coexistence should be expelled. That document was consensuated with the United States and Great Britain is what is known. And it was the pretext for, in quotes, legally to withdraw the asylum. So the image that is seen in Ecuador is not the most optimal I could say that Mexico for example has more knowledge than Ecuador as a population. The struggle in Mexico is very risky. I imagine that Joe already saw in Mexico what is the answer. Here there are no collectives of activism that defend Julian. There is no because it is almost unnoticed to science and they are almost forgotten. So it is very complicated because the media have positioned that idea and Moreno did the correct thing to withdraw the embassy. Elizabeth, do you have any more questions for Carla? Yeah, just one more to follow up on that. Do you have any comment, discussion about the Mexican president's attitude towards Assange and his attempts to help him? Asilo the judge in London said that precisely because of that freedom was not given to him. Because Assange has no reason to be arrested. He has no cause has no sanction but they have it locked up in Belmont. It is like seeing a common criminal with a high danger. When he has absolutely nothing wait only the decision of tradition that could make it freedom. And the judges said that that position of Assange in other countries justifies the danger of escaping and that was inaudible. It cannot be. So if it were to be accepted Assange should have a safe conduct or be in freedom of what it has. So it is very difficult to go to Mexico. But if you thank the front and it seems to me that the parents of Julian are doing a correct job. They have visited Mexico with those who studied in Brazil and also in Colombia. And this movement at a level South American is very interesting very important because one of the possibilities of Julian's freedom is that the United States removes the charges or generates an induction that we knew that Trump was going to do but then because of the pressure of his senators did not do it. So not only is the fight now judicial but also diplomatic the United States could remove the charges. Yes. So in the course of the approaches that Biden has with several Latin American presidents they are putting their agenda of bilateral conversations with Biden also a matter of Assange for him to remove the charges through the Justice Department. So the disciplines that Assange does is very important. It is my position and it is very important because the issue not only is judicial it is also diplomatic and the mobilization of people in the sensitivity of the TMSF is also very important. The collectives the editors of the main newspapers of the world have pronounced that it must be Assange's freedom and that also generates a different media attitude and criticism that other companies commercial and also that are important in exchange generate against Assange. Thank you. I think that's all for me. Joe, if you have anything else. Do you have any questions for Carlos? Yes. Okay, the ex ambassador the Ecuadorian ambassador in London went to his post over there in 2000 I think it was 2012. Carlos Abad was his name. Before Lenin Moreno he filed a complaint in Ecuador that UC Global had hacked his email account and had also complained that the UC Global was doing extreme things on the that went beyond the contract that they had given him. You know Morales the owner of UC Global so that was a complaint of the ex ambassador of Ecuador Carlos Abad about UC Global. And you know shortly later you know Lenin Moreno removed the ambassador from his post. That would be the question to Carlos Abad. Yes, Carlos Abad who has already failed was a very important character in the transition. In fact that document that had a personal access of the embassy that knows perfectly Fidel Narváez did not appear in this document never appeared. And not only they because when UC Global was discovered with these agents that were torsionated with the information in the declaration of a worker of the company UC Global they manifest that the vitagoras of income and the hearing and the recordings were handed to intelligence agents who were not the Senaí and that Carlos Valencia and the same president Moreno Carlos Valencia or Valencia that of the minister of foreign relations that now precisely is in the same economic world so not only it was the letter of Abad but also the declaration of a worker who was under protection in Spain that he assures that all this information went to other types of agencies that were not the Ecuadorian and that they went above and also he denounced Morales that for this situation that he did of entre comillas collaboration he was beneficiary of security contracts in the United States especially in Las Vegas and that he was hired by characters that supported the campaign of Donald Trump it was like a payment of the work that was done inside the country I want to thank you Carlos for your time finally I would like to ask you about the political situation here in Ecuador right now President Guillermo Lasso is facing impeachment from the National Assembly of allegations of corruption including ties to organized crime tax evasion corruption in the energy sector many politicians diplomats seem to be living in exile right now please explain the political tensions in Ecuador today in the issue of justice there is a selectivity for persecution to certain politicians with a career and Lasso was one of the main political entities with Moreno to the point that when the Lasso arrives he followed with the same institutionality of Moreno if we can't explain Lasso without explaining to us previously what he did in Moreno Moreno many times goes unnoticed but he originated all this debate the murders in the prisons he originated Moreno too and he continues with Lasso of course Lasso is a person who has interest in vacations he has a lot of money and what he notes is that he works for his political class he is involved now in issues of support of drug trafficking and organized crime he can't control the prisons the issue of insecurity in the country is very strong he now has the highest rates of crime that has never been lived in the country never never been lived at least in the democratic era since the 80s we have never had this situation there is no contribution in education in health the immigrant people now with much more frequency just like the 90s the young people don't want to live in the country if there are no sources of work so all this makes the political crisis very strong but also a crisis is about corruption because Lasso increases a lot corruption in shopping as a businesswoman as a businesswoman who can be legislated is like it was markets you buy them and sell them and obviously everything will depend on the amount of votes you have there are 92 votes to destitute the president if he doesn't have it he will continue but that would mean that various indigenous movements socials and popular claim in the assembly that is the scenario that comes to us can be very dantesque and on the other hand that Lasso is shrinking in a public force so many armed forces like the police and is taking strategies precisely to blind him and with a public force to Lasso we are seeing a crisis never before seen and what is being observed is simply a revanchism and a polarity between racists and non-racists we could also have a scenario of anticipated elections and in fact they are promoting candidates it is complex it is not very difficult to know what we are going to conclude but it is not in a scenario the most favorable and the cough from from Lasso not going to be because it will also depend on other interests we said here the embassy that is the interests of the United States in Ecuador precisely that is a very critical point that should be analyzed that is this happened as moreno occurred with lasso because of the visit of senators to leave with lasso not like it was the space of them there is no beginning of autonomy of sovereignty that is the minimum that there is in lasso therefore it is a scenario dantesque it is a scenario very dangerous and not very favorable for the interests of the people what about the issue of free speech in Ecuador today there was a massive march of workers on mayday through the streets of the old city of Quito and many were calling for socials revolution for lasso's impeachment it appears there's seems to be freedom of expression to criticize the government as and lasso as you you have just done a palesar que lasso a Dicho que son demócrate a las condiciones no estandadas porque para in sectores que no somo oficialistas habido a veces problemas en el pongo ejemplo los funcionarios de lasa nunca van a entrevistas con medios que supuestamente están identificados con correo or que no pactan entrevistas no las entrevistas de lasso por lo general se hacen con empresas mediaticas aderentes a él este libertad de libertad expresión genera problemas porque desinforma hay actos que deberían hacerlo y mienten hay cadenas aquí televisiva secuavisa teleamazonas telecentro tele ecuador el comercio telera fue expresó que posicionan mentiras que nunca contrasta y evidentemente de esa manera desinforman al país el otro es de que en este puesto espacial de libertad expresión que ahora lazo hay dos periodistas que han hecho seguimiento a crisis carcelar y así que han tenido que salir del país situación que nunca antecedió precisamente por peligro y amenazas de muerte hay un estamento que se llamamos funda medios que se autodenominan que solamente sirve para defender a los periodistas del aso no para el resto las coberturas de los levantamientos indígenas 2022 eran coberturas parcializadas gracias a los medios independientes y comunitarios nos informamos de la que pasaba en la realidad porque la mayor parte era desinformación lo mismo que ocurrió en 2019 las empresas mediéticas tienen cercanía con el poder económico las líneas editoriales se manejan a través de intereses partidistas a favor de un gobernante y no a favor de la sociedad por lo tanto la libertad de expresión en el ecuador es totalmente tergiversada es una información a medias una información que siempre está a favor del gobernante y que obviamente eso genera opinión pública tergiversada y quien no esté de acuerdo con esa línea tiene que salir tal es el poder de los medios que muchos llegados a las empresas mediáticas ejemplo tele Amazonas ahora lo tiene como secretario de entresión pública un exgerente mediático un hijo de en el caso de de periodista o quien no llegó que no está de embajador en lo tenemos editorialistas que están como representantes ante naciones unidas la OEA es decir esa es la forma como trabaja el gobierno con los años de las empresas otorgando cargos políticos entonces no hay objetividad ni tampoco imparcialidad ni tampoco transversalización de la verdad vivimos lamentablemente es espacio. Well I want to thank you Carlos for your time today and thank you Jose Rivera I also want to thank my co-host Elizabeth boss and our executive producer Kathy Morgan we leave you with these scenes from the Mayday March in Keto. If you are a consumer of independent news in the first place you should be going to is consortium news and please do try to support them when you can it doesn't have its articles behind a paywall it's free for everyone it's one of the best news sites out there and it's been in the business of independent journalism and adversarial independent journalism for over two decades I hope that with the public's continuing support of consortium news it will continue for a very long time to come thank you so much.


Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today there is religion among us. That's right, combining gaming and religion.  But you know what? I've done it before and that went great. The only person you can confess your sins to is God himself. And I'd like to confess that I have been rude to people on the street. Stealing a bit of fruit from the store. I was extremely hungry. But I'm not. I'm not God. It wasn't really my intention to do it. And it was a bit upsetting, but it's alright. It's something that I highly regret and I'm never going to do it again. And also I've run some people down on my camera from time to time. Thank you very much. Okay, let's get started. I'm going to be Father K. I can't fit in the rest of my names though. It'll sound good. It'll sound hip. Gotta get out of my weekend wear. Oh wait, my week wear. Priests work on the weekend. Okay, get into my weekend wear. I'll just use a halo. Do I have any good outfit here? Oh, perfect. I love it. Oh look, an angel. Angel, come with me, my child. I'm going to be added to a list here or something. A list of really cool friends on among us. I want Father bless me. What does that mean?  Oh, hot girl likes hot girl. I'm so confused.  Oh, great. I'm in the pasta right away. And I've been telling everyone to follow me. Someone dies in my company. They're going to know it was me. Okay, someone's scanned. That's good to know. Come on, someone. Let's go. We're best friends. I could just be friendly with them even though I could kill them in any second. You could just twist that little neck of theirs. Oh, we found a body. Yellow innocent, my children. Blessed be he. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Pink has gone too soon. Let us have a moment of silence. Just try to make them stop talking so that they don't accuse me who we've voted for. Silence, please. He just accepted it. He just votes. That's another word. Where is yellow? I want to go with yellow again. They seem friendly. Even though they could just accuse me for following them. Yes, yellow loves me. Won't go anywhere without me. Wait, hold on. We can't see anything.  Yellow is innocent, my children. Please, a moment of silence for Brown. He's saying Brown's sus, but Brown is dead, white clear. And then he immediately left the game. Did he disconnect or something? Skip my children. Let us go now in peace. I wouldn't be surprised if they just voted me off because I'm annoying them. Now look at my guy. Oh, he's so adorable with the little halo in the suit. I got one vote from ad.   This video is sponsored by Genshin Impact. Come on, player. We got to do it to them. Just hiding in the corner. Come on. We got it. We got to do it. They were just cowering in med bay with the lights off. No one could have suspected Father K. You're banned. Oh my God. I just said peace me with you and they banned me. All right, fine. If they don't want me to preach to them, they could have just said. I think they were just upset. They lost to Father K to be honest with you. Okay, crewmate. This is going to be way easier. We're all on top of each other. I'm watching you. I'm watching you. God is watching. I just call myself God. Now I'm one of those YouTubers. I'm on the silence for Lyme and they're like, oh, maybe I won't get banned from this lobby. Oh, he gave an F. Good. I said, please silence or F for respect only my children. Can we get an F in the chat? Thank you. Everyone's leaving. I wonder why I voted for myself. I can't vote it out. Oh, for fact sake. One person was just pissed off with me. Please come confess your sins in reactor. Okay, well, Father STF imposter kill Father first. Well, I best get to reactor so that he can come confess to me.  I'm just waiting in reactor here. The lights off and everything. Okay, good. Someone else died. Imposter. It is not too late. Come confess in reactor. I know you're just going to kill me, but give me a chance. Let's try to get this guy a second chance. Oh, wait. He just said that. Oh, no. Okay. That's it. Yellow is beyond saving. This is the most untelligent thing I have seen on this game. Well done, Father. Jesus, not an imposter.  That is the most untelligent thing I've ever seen. Confess. Oh, he confessed to me. Oh, that's brilliant.  Thank you for being honest, my child. Sorry, but WTF.  And then Brown's like, I thought it better to confess. You thought right. Oh, I'm the imposter. Fantastic. I'll go wait in reactor. Oh, confess my child. We're in security and there's someone right in reactor. There's so many of us around him.  A place of peace. And yellow is just standing on the body and burn yellow. Oh, God, that was close. I don't know why I'm upset for a big peepee almost getting voted out.  I didn't want to see him go. Oh, no. Oh, no. I just got caught red-handed during the work of the devil. Excuse me, my child. Oh, shut it. It's in reactor. My child waiting for a confession is blaming purple. I'm just like, we shall vote purple. We must trust our fellow crew member and pinks over here having an aneurysm. The black is all so confused. We're all just confused, I think, but purple is gone. They're leaving. They don't understand what is happening. Pink, my child. Come to me. Oh, my God, no one can blame Father Kay.  He left. He said, you have mind-controlling powers. And then I just responded with Father Kay forgives himself for his sins. Teach me to control the mind too, Father. Trust in me and I shall trust in you. If I have the shoulder of Satan, imposter, I shall vent. Oh, my God. Bring me to a vent, my child.  Your reactor's safe. Oh, my God, that is brilliant. Wait, Brown, let me come with you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Brown and blue innocent. Brown's safe. Meanwhile, Brown is like pink. It's pink.  This is not a Christian server. This is just a cult server. Well, there goes pink. Everyone except for one for Brown. I wonder who that was. Did he do that by accident?  He'll haunt you forever. I am the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.  Just following you around. Oh, risky move by Brown. Accusing blue and black. What's black and blue and lost the game? Them, unfortunately, and I was on their team.  Let's go. Is someone going to do it? No, we're not going to do this. Okay, as the good book says, blue is the impostor. Oh, he left the game. As the good book says, Brown is innocent. Vote Lyme. It's in there somewhere. I was in O2 with Father. In the name of Father and big pee pee, let us randomly vote. I'm going to leave this kind of ambiguous. It says, yellow says kill me. Let's honor that request. But his name is literally kill me. So will they interpret that as he's saying kill me as in him or he's saying kill me as in me? That's the end. Someone left. Ah, it's like God shining a light down on me. And now he has opened my eyes. Vote red for big pee pee. Sounds really weird out of context. No, even with context, it sounds weird. He's just like, no, no. So far, Father K has been very persuasive. So I'm hoping they go with me. Four votes. Please, that'll actually be him. Yes. Okay, good. Good job, everyone. Thank you for listening to Father K. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. This is not good. Pink is chasing Father K. I got to get the lights back on. Oh, yes, another defeat by default. But at least I got half of them. It was pink, actually. I thought they were chasing me. Father, do you do YouTube? No, my child. I do not have time for these things as I'ma spread the word of clash knock. They're like, you're not like a Catholic father. Are you do something? Okay. He scanned a very bossy. Cyan is faking tasks and I don't like that. Father K has chosen Cyan to be removed from the ship. Purple is scanned in front of clash knock. I don't even know what this is anymore. We're voting for Cyan though. I think Cyan. Goodbye, Cyan. I didn't even give my reason. I just said that Father K has chosen him. I didn't say why. I just saw him faking that card and he was there for so long. I do believe it to be him. Goodbye. Please, please. Perfect sake. I've just lost all my credibility that I built up over like five matches to who shall be burnt in the fiery pits of space hell. God, he's getting too into the cult. I just said he was suspicious because he hasn't shown up to confess and reactor. He's just mashing his keyboard at this point. Oh, there he goes. Lime. I think we all just stay together like we have been. No Brown, come back. Okay. What's father? What do you think about pink? We killed pink. That's what I think. He's just said father has chosen pink and then he just knows it's going to happen. Thank you, father. Another victory. It's not even over yet, please. My credibility will be in the trash if it's not them. Oh, thank God. Okay. I only got one wildly wrong. The rest were all accurate somehow. I don't know. I think it's the big guy upstairs that's helping me. That's Brown, by the way. He's a massive dude who lives in the apartment above me and he keeps stomping on the floor to give me code for who it is.  Satan is here. Satan be gone falling an emergency meeting immediately. My children, there is much worse than an imposter among us. Satan is here in the flesh. We must purge the ship from his evil. I like how they're all like, what is the problem, father? What if Satan is not just overruled? Satan be gone.  Oh, Satan left. I wouldn't be surprised if he did leave. To be fair, the whole ship just turned on him. I bet it was him. I bet it was Satan and Purple. That's my call. I'm hearing it from the man upstairs. I'm chasing Purple. I'm on his tail. Where is he? Clearly not doing tasks anyway. Oh, wait, he might be actually doing a task. I don't think it's him, but I'm just going to continue to follow him. What is going on? The lights have been off for like 30 seconds. They can't figure them out. They're confused.  Okay. I think it was Pink that time. Pink, you shall be banished from the ship for your misdeeds. Me. No, I think he's confused. Heck, it wasn't them. God damn, who could it have been then? They were like right on the body. It must be yellow then, was it? Look at him.  I'm going to vote Cyan, but I think I'm screwed because they're a little bit spooked that I've been following them around. I guess I'm kind of spooking everyone with the way I'm talking. Well, for the K tried. Is this the first time I've been voted out? I think it is surprisingly. Oh, I was right too. Geez, Satan, how could you do that? All right. I think I've condemned enough innocent people to death for one day. A lot of guilty people though, and that's what counts. That's what the history books will remember. I hope you enjoyed this video. I know I enjoyed making it. This was a blast. I met so many people that were going along with it, especially Big Peepie. Shout out to Big Peepie. I hope you enjoyed. I appreciate you watching. If you want to check out more of my stuff, I post every single day. And I also have a second channel on the Twitch. You want to check those out. But thank you very much for watching and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


U.S. warned Iran there will be revenge for attack on the U.S. military bases in Middle East. U.S. military bases in the Middle East came under attack with drones striking Al-Tanf, the U.S. base in Syria, and a missile strike on Conoco, another U.S. base in Syria, while the U.S. also intercepted three attack drones in Iraq. Fox News reported this. A U.S. defense official said that the drones had targeted the U.S. base of Al-Tanf located near Syria's common border with Iraq and Jordan. Iranian-aligned Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayyadine also reported that two U.S. military bases in Syria had been attacked. In addition to the drone attack on the Al-Tanf base, Al-Mayyadine reported a missile strike on the Conoco base in a rural area in Syria's northern Der Ezzor region. In Iraq, the U.S. intercepted three attack drones targeting two different military bases as two U.S. defense officials confirmed. Later, the U.S. Central Command also confirmed the attack. The two drones targeted the Ain al-Assad air base in western Iraq, where U.S. troops were stationed. Several soldiers were slightly injured. The third drone targeted a base in northern Iraq. No casualties were reported. Republican Senator Tom Cotton said that attacks by Iran-affiliated groups against U.S. forces are considered a direct attack by Tehran against America. He warned Tehran about the attacks of armed groups affiliated with Iran on American positions in the region. This will definitely be avenged.


Today I'm going to present a paper on the topic of role of ultrasoundography and computer tomography in evaluation of bowel pathologies. The aim of the study was role of ultrasoundography and computer tomography in evaluation of bowel pathologies and objectives were to find out the etiologies of the abdominal pain and to find out the infective inflammatory and neoplastic conditions affecting the bowel to find out the sensitivity of USG and CT scan to diagnose the bowel pathology. And the introduction, the pain abdomen is important and common complaint of patients going to medical room and it is seen and 5-10% of all emergency cases. However, majority of the patients have generalized self-lifting symptoms and only few patients have serious intra-abdominal diseases which require intervention. And ultrasound and CT are the most widely used diagnostic imaging modalities in patients attending this emergency department with acute abdominal pain. Both the imaging modalities are commonly used and considered important aspect of clinical and laboratory evaluation. In the last two decades among the cross-sectional imaging techniques, ultrasound had a growing role in development and application of techniques for diagnosis of GI diseases because it is cheap, non-invasive and more comfortable for the patient. And it has sufficient diagnostic accuracy to provide the clinician with high temporal and spatial resolution imaging data. Moreover, Doppler and contrast-enhanced ultrasound contribute important information about the blood flow. And in ultrasound, when there is a presence of gas and other intestinal content, it may make the assessment difficult in some cases. Therefore, this makes the endoscopy magnet MRI imaging and commuted tomography scan as the preferred imaging modalities. Upper GI evaluation with the use of the small bowel follow-through CT scan and MRI entrography are used for diagnosis of small intestine disorders. And CT scan is now considered as the primary imaging modality for inflammatory bowel disease and its complication due to the higher resolution assessment of intestine and extranetal diseases. And it also due to the short acquisition time and full-time availability. And the use of newer, more sophisticated multi-director helical CT scan machines which allow the higher resolution imaging of the abdomen, particularly the bowel loops, which generate images in multiple directions to assist the visualization of not very noticeable abnormalities. And in this study, we compared the ultrasound with CT in detecting the causes of common bowel pathologies such as appendicitis, diabeticalitis, volvulus in patients present in the hospital with acute abdominal pain in majority of the cases. And the methods which we used at the place of study was Dr. Dewey Barton Michael College and Hospital Cooney. And the study design was a processional study which was done for one year with a sample size of 100 cases. And inclusion criteria is as a clinically suspected lesion of the bowel. And the exclusion criteria were the patient allergic to ironated contrast media or pregnant women and patients with chronic renal diseases. And the equipment used was Phil's computer tomography imaging which is round 28 slice CT scan and ultrasound imaging machines like Aloka, Hitachi. And the technique for the CT scan, well, all the patients were called for at least six hours fasting before the scan. And the written consent was obtained from each patient after explaining the possibility of contrast reaction. Oral contrast will be administered 45 minutes prior to the scan. And the non-independent CT scan of the abdomen will be done taking five-month in axial sections of five-month interval from dome of diaphragm up to the level of cubic symphysis. And the patients will be caused to breath holding prior to the scan. And the IV contrast is given as per the weight of the patient. And after administration, the images are acquired in the hotel and menace phases, which is an easily optimized for the evaluation of important visit organs. A cross-sectional study was done on patients presenting with abdominal pain and all the clinically suspected lesions involved in the bowel in the patients were clinically evaluated and they underwent ultrasound and commuter tomography within a few hours of presentation. And the results, whereas we have, we have, we have done a bar diagram, which shows the agent gender-wise distribution of the study sample. And this is the agent gender-wise distribution of the study sample. And this is the pie chart showing the gender distribution male and female. And the mean age of the hundred study sample was 37 years. It's a standard deviation of 17.16 years. With the highest 78 years and lowest seven years, they had 61% males and 39% females in the study and 33% samples were from 21 to 30 years age group and followed by 20% subjects from the 31 to 40 years age group. And this is the bar diagram showing the organ involved on the study sample with, which shows that the large bubble was majorly involved, it includes 33% followed by the small bubble and appendix. And this is the bar diagram showing the type of diseases and on the study sample, mostly were infected, which is followed by neoplastic and then inflammatory and others which were like surgical emergencies like introspection and all this. And this is the bar diagram showing the diagnosis among the study sample, which shows the neoplasm was the most common diagnosis among study subjects, which includes the adenocarcinoma lymphoma, followed by acute appendicitis. And there are surgical emergencies like introspection and wallblasts were also present, along with the Crohn's disease, which is 17% and abdominal cough, which is 18%. And this is the table showing the disease of type of disease according to organ involved among the study sample. Appendicular diseases are mainly infected among the study subjects, whereas large bubble included both inflammatory and neoplastic whereas small bubble mostly they were infected. And this is the table showing the sensitivity of the test as per organ involved among study sample and overall CT scan was more sensitive to detect abdominal diseases than USG. And USG was as sensitive as CT scan to detect appendicular diseases, whereas for the rest of the organs it was approximately 50% less sensitive than CT scan. And this is the table showing sensitivity of the test as per type of disease among study sample. This was CT scan was the most effective for diagnosing neoplastic and other lesions like interception or wallblasts and the infective diseases can be diagnosed on ultrasound or CT with more than 70% sensitivity. And this is the table showing sensitivity of ultrasound and comatode tomography as per diagnosis among study sample. And the CT scan of the abdomen can detect 100% surgical emergencies like epiglute appendicitis, appendicular myococytes, interception, diverticulitis, and also the wallblasts. And the CT scan having almost double sensitivity for diagnosis including like chronic diseases like neoplasm, Crohn's disease than IUSG and USG having least sensitivity of 16% for the diagnosis of the ulcerative pulitis. And this is the cases which we have images of the cases which we have obtained. And this is the ultrasound image of the case of the Crohn's disease which shows the normal ilium with the viral wall technique shown in the ascending polon and the cecum. And there is increased vascularity, eccentric vascularity noted and there are multiple enlarged lymph nodes, eccentric lymph nodes. And this is the CT images obtained for the case of the ulcerative active Crohn's disease which showed the increase in eccentric vascularity. And there is a wall wall technique noted in the ilium, distalilium ascending polon and the cecum. And this is the ultrasound image showing the viral wall technique and surrounding fat stranding in the case of the ulcerative colitis. And this is the ultrasound images and CT images of the case of colonic interception with a large submucous lipoma which shows the target, characteristic target sign appearance on the ultrasound. And there's the CT and the transition point was not, the leading point was noted as the submucous lipoma which was a hyperequic on ultrasound and was hypodense on CT. And these are the ultrasound images for the case of the appendicular perforation which is noted at the base of the appendix, which is identified by the hyperequic foci noted and the normal iliocecal junction was noted. We also have a fairly defined heterogeneously hypoequic abscess which is noted near the appendix. And these are the ultrasound images of the case of abdominal tuberculosis which shows the iliocecal junction wall thickening with the surrounding necrotic and multiple conglomerated lymph nodes. And this is the CT scan which showing the bubble wall thickening with the surrounding fat stranding which is involving mainly the iliocecal junction and terminal ilium. And this is the case of retinocasin of the ascending colon. Here we can see there is the short segment thickening of the ascending colon and the cecum and there is a normal, you can see there is an incompetent, significantly incompetent iliocecal wall and significantly dilated ilium and ascending colon, ilium and the cecum. And here we on the CT scan we can see heterogeneously enhancing ascending colon with mild fat stranding noted and discussion. In our study a total of 100 patients with bowel disorders were studied using ultrasound and CT and 25 patients were diagnosed with appendicular pathologies. And 25 cases with primary neoplasm, 18 were abdominal coax and 17 were Crohn's disease, 6 were ulcerative colitis, 4 were wallblasts and 3 were diverticulitis and 2 were inter-subruption. Equid appendicitis was the most frequent finding seen in 23 patients and ultrasound was diagnostic in all except one case. Whereas bowel thickening was seen in most disorders and was seen in both ultrasound and computer tomography. And no customer was the most common finding among the neoplasm and was frequent in the old age group and heterogeneous post contrast enhancement with a non-necrotic and non-enhancing metastatic lymph nodes were helping understanding the extent of the involvement and treatment. And the hepatic metastasis and contiguous organ involvement were much less commonly seen in the vascular encasement which is sign of the nonoperability was not seen in our study. In our study, ultrasound was used an initial modality of choice for evaluation of patients. The study showed high specificity and sensitivity in cases like acute appendicitis, inter-subruption and appendicular mucosil. It provides a modality for effective real-time evaluation of bowel loops. In cases of dilated bowel loops likely wallblasts, it is ineffective in assessing the cause and transition point. Differential thickening of the various layers of the bowel wall can be assessed in real-time and they can be helped in the cases of ulcerative colitis where there is thickening and involvement of fully mucosa and submucosa. It is mostly seen in the ultrasound. And CT scan is a diagnostic modality of choice in the bowel and intestinal disorders. In our study, in only two cases, there were differences among the findings obtained in the final diagnosis. And a case of abdominal TB was diagnosed as Crohn's and a case of bacterial colitis was diagnosed as Ulcerative colitis. And the incidental findings like micro-diverticulum and interception were evidently on CT scans. And the conclusion in the last decade, many cross-sectional imaging techniques have evolved as superior alternatives to folloscopic imaging in examination of the small and large bowel. In particular trans-abdominal ultrasound will be regarded as the first imaging procedure in diagnostic work-up and follow-up of the bowel disease. Although CT is the most sensitive imaging investigation for detecting urgent conditions in patients with abdominal pain, using USG first and then CT only in those with negative or inconclusive USG results invest the sensitivity and lowers exposure to radiation. And whereas CT measures fewer cases than ultrasound, but both USG and CT can reliably detect common diagnosis among crossing acute abdominal pain. And these are the references. Thank you.


AU Challenge is a case competition that welcomes participation from international and Danish students across all of the faculties in Aarhus University. Three exciting companies will put forward cases, all relating in some way to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. All three cases will be tailored to suit diverse students from every faculty. Applying is simple, you just submit a motivated application along with your CV. From the applications, 200 students will be selected to progress further in the competition. The students who are accepted onto the challenge will be placed with students from different faculties into teams of four, providing great opportunities to collaborate with students from across the university. They will each receive an individual profile report, along with a team profile, so they will be able to see what skills each team member can bring to the competition. Each team will attend three five-hour workshops to prepare them and ensure that they get as much as possible out of the competition. The first workshop will focus on team building, the next on how to analyse and work with cases, and finally on how to present cases. The teams will then be sent out to the companies, where they will spend one day solving a case. This leads to the main competition, where the teams each solve the assigned cases for their case companies. There will be three semifinals, one for each company track. The three best teams from each track will progress to the finals, where one winning team will be found in each track. The winning teams will not only receive a 10,000 Danish Kroner prize, but they will also be given the opportunity to work as student consultants in their respective companies. They will work as part of an accelerator programme, where they will receive student salaries from the companies to convert their competition solutions into reality.


Targeting goals, giving investors a reason to cheer this morning, shares of both retailers climbing after reporting better than expected earnings. And with us now to discuss is retail expert Erin Sykes and Melissa Armo, the owner of the stock, Swoosh. Ladies, great to have you with us. Good morning. Thank you. All right, so Erin, we're going to start with you here. Target saves to our sales and earnings, both coming in above estimates. What is driving the growth in Target's case? Well, in general, there's a lot of disparity in retail right now, and it's retail Darwinism. So the survival of the fittest, of the most innovative, and Target, and then if we look at Amazon and Walmart and some other brands as well, they're the ones that are truly doing on the channel right. They're putting the investment not only into their existing brick and mortar, but then also online, marrying the two really synergistically and then looking at things like grocery and delivery and pickup services. So that is where a lot of Target and the other retailers' growth is coming from. So, Melissa, has Target figured it out? Well, I will say the stock Swoosh tip of the day is go, don't go by the sector, go by specific stocks which ties into exactly what she just said. You can't think all retail now is going to turn around and look like this. Target today looked very strong in the earnings, a lot better than Kohl's, even though Kohl's gapped up, too. Target is good over 78 now. It's not there right now, but it got close. It got very close. It could lift around. It's only not that far off the highs. Previous highs in Target was about $90 back in September 2018. So I like the way that this stock looks coming into show early in the year, remember, a lot of these retailers, they call it Black Friday because they're red all year, then they go in the black towards the end of the year, so to have the beginning of the year start out fresh like this is great. But again, the tip is, don't immediately jump in thinking, oh, all retail is going to look amazing this year. That's not the case. You have to be stock specific. Okay. So, let's pull up a chart of Target here just to get started. This stock's still up about 4 percent pre-market, certainly off its highs, but there you see an overnight charge. Stocks do like what they have to see. Aaron, I know that you mentioned delivery, easier delivery. That has been the case not only for Starbucks, but Walmart, too, and the age of Amazon. And both of these companies, is this a short-lived effect or is this something where they have real firepower, Target, and Walmart, too, to compete against in Amazon? I mean, it's competitive, right? So it is. It's starting that firepower and making sure that they evolve and continue on because you don't want to just give it all away to Amazon. They're going to be opening their own grocery stores. So you got to make sure you're continuing to stay in the mix, and not just in the mix, but ahead of the mix. So looking at Amazon as a nod to what is coming along, but then quickly you'll see Target, Walmart evolve as well. The one good thing is that, remember, Amazon doesn't have a brick and mortar store. Target and Walmart do. What does Walmart do? Right. But it's not the same thing as selling all the other products. And you sell more. I'm sure you'll agree with me when you get the people in the door. That's how you sell more products to people. Online is great, and you got to have that to compete with a free ship. And now Target's doing the one-day ship like Amazon, which is great, too, in specific cities. But having that brick and mortar, really, you tend to buy more when you go in the store. You try things on. Well, and the thing is, you can't be online only anymore. You can't be brick and mortar anymore. The larger the company, the more the omnichannel focus is important, and making sure that you leverage that real estate not just to sell to customers, but for other opportunities. OK. Let's shift down to calls. Because that company also beating on earnings, and then also a bright spot there for the quarter and for the year would be same-store sales growth, not only for the fourth quarter of 2018, but also for the entire year, and then a positive outlook for the remainder of the year. Is this a turning point for calls? What has calls been doing? I'm very curious. Yeah. I'm very curious. So am I. Because I'm very confident with Target. I see Target continuing to do well. I think that calls, based on, you know, their Q4 earnings looks like they're in a good place, but it's really going to be time will tell. Are they going to be able to play a little bit of catch up and evolve with the rest of the crew? What do you think, Melissa? Well, people like that, like that, like calls like calls. They have the calls bucks, people that go there for the sales and things. But I will tell you as far as the stocks goes, I like Target stock better than calls after the earnings this morning today. And I could change my mind second time around next quarter earnings for calls. But right now, Target looks a lot more promising. If you want to get in a stock that's strong, again, over 78, preferably over 80. Calls is nowhere near the highs right now. Both of these stocks looked very similar, again, towards the fall of last year. But now I think Target looks a lot better than calls. Calls has got to get over 73, 74 to look really like a good, strong buy to me. It's not there today. And in fact, it's dragging down because the market's down today. The market, though, I will say one quick thing about the market is doing the best thing it possibly can this morning, considering the sell-off that we had yesterday, market kept up this morning. We haven't held it yet, but we're trying. The market's hanging on after that big sell-off yesterday. Interesting, too. I mean, calls for its part right up four and a half percent this morning. We can take a look at the chart here to see exactly how it is performing. But Target, for its part, same-store sales up 5.3 percentage points. Calls, the same-store sales up one percentage point. And so that figure in and of itself seems to say something, Erin. Exactly. So you see both are on an upward trend, but Target is just getting there a little bit more quickly, about five times as quickly. So we'll see that, I think, continue to evolve through 2019. I don't see Target or I don't see calls pulling back. I don't see retail in general pulling back. But I see these real strong winners kind of coming out of the gates quickly like Target, and you'll continue to see that exacerbate it throughout the year. What I want to see Target do is follow through higher, which Walmart didn't do when it's last earnings. Walmart had blowout earnings and then dropped like a brick. I don't want to see Target do that. I want to see Target lift around, lickety-split, like in the next week. And I will say one thing about Target, too, they're coming out and this is different from calls with some of their own brands in lingerie, sleepwear. They're trying to compete with Victoria's Secret. They're getting their own brands and selling their own things. So that's a niche that's good for Target. Whereas I don't see that necessarily with calls. And also they picked up a lot of the store sales with the little Toys R Us and the Babies R Us that fell off then last year and went out of business, too, unfortunately. I know, and that all-important holiday quarter. Yeah, Melissa, we know you're excited about Target, Erin. Are there any other retail names that you're watching closely that you are excited about? Well, you know, I'm curious to see what's going to happen with Victoria's Secret. Are they going to spin off the V.S. brand? Are they going to bring bath and body public? What's going to happen with Gap? I think we have a lot of positive news there. Right, is Gap going to spin off Old Navy as a separate? Yes, it is. I mean, they're split. So what's that going to look like? You think that, I think that Old Navy is going to see that really positive projection.  Let's see what happens. And then, you know, you have Salesforce doing really well. You have all of the back-end operations, the oracles, et cetera, the things that drive, you know, the back-end of retail. That's looking positive, too. So the AI, the kind of analytic piece, I think that that's going to be the driver of any future growth. Who is taking advantage of all of those tools versus who's just kind of sleeping with their current? Always competitive in this space. Melissa Armo, owner at the Stockswush and retail expert, Erin Sykes. Ladies, thanks for joining us. Thank you.