Hi, I'm Jordan Chil, and I head the BioNMR laboratory at Barilang University, and this is my student guide. The structure and motions of proteins are what give them the ability to perform the biological function. What never ceases to fascinate me is how relatively simple principles of bioenergetics can produce such exquisitely controlled and efficient processes, without which life would not be possible. The association of two or more biomacromolecules lies at the very heart of the most basic cellular functions, such as enzyme catalysis, signaling, regulation, transport, and many important others. A very simple yet instructive example of how we can pinpoint the factors contributing to protein association is demonstrated by our recent publication in Protein Science, focusing on a tetramerization domain in the potassium channel KCSA. Hi, I'm Guy Kaminsky, and I'm wrapping up my PhD work in Jordan's lab, focusing on the biophysics of the cytoplasmic domain of KCSA. This channel is known to open a tasselic pH, but the gating role of its 40-C terminal residues, arranged as a four helix bundle, has been controversial. After establishing pH-dependent tetramerization in a previous paper, we set out to determine the molecular factors that control this tetramerization event. To do this, we systematically replaced residues along peptide from this region with alanine and measured the effect of each mutation on tetramerization. We discovered that the most important effect from an energetic standpoint was the interaction between hydrophobic residues lining the inner face of the helices. Surprisingly, a network of electrostatic intersubunic contacts that had been identified in an earlier crystal structure came in only second in influencing tetramer formation. Finally, even residues on the outer face of the helices are important, an effect we believe they exert by encouraging the helical conformation, which adds to tetramer stability. One particularly pleasing aspect of the study was the complementary nature of our different method. Sedimentation experiments provided dissociation constant for all tetrameres, NMR was sensitive to their own and off-rates of tetramerization process, and molecular dynamics played an important role in confirming these results. For the latter, we are grateful to Jing Fei Chen and Yishan Yaou from the Kindao Institute of Bioenergy and Biophoresis Technology in China. Thanks Guy. Don't be surprised by the important role of hydrophobics in holding the tetramer together. Hydrophobic forces are a dominating factor in the folding of most proteins. Remember that when identical proteins associate, there is never a contribution of a net charge effect. Apparently, the intricate layout of solpages and hydrogen bonds serves to fine-tune the tetrameric association, possibly by controlling the precise relative positioning of the four helical segments. We hope to extend this study in the future to full-length channels embedded in the carefully designed membrane mimicking environment. I'd like to thank our co-workers, Orel and Hadasa, for their contribution to this work. I'd like to thank you for your interest and wish you a happy reading.


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Mr. Olawale Adu, the chair, board of trustees of the International Award for Young People. Thank you very much for the kind invitation to join you this evening at the Gold Award Presentation ceremony of the International Award for Young People in Nigeria. The International Award for Young People in Nigeria, as we've heard, is the Nigerian version of the Duke of Edinburgh's award. In the last 60 years, the award, I'm told, has impacted more than one million young people and galvanized more than 180,000 adult volunteers all over the world, including mobilizing young people to respond to the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. The award is a long-running initiative of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, of Blessed Memory. His Highness has been described as one who lived a life of service to his nation, to the Commonwealth, and to the world at large. His personal values of service above self shine through the conception and execution of this program, and we in Nigeria remember him with great fondness, his sense of humor, his common touch, and his kindness to learn about other peoples and cultures remain ever green in our memories of him. The Duke visited Nigeria four times, clearly demonstrating how important Nigeria has been or was to him and to his several programs and several interventions even in the area of conservation. Pride ceremony is an occasion for recognizing the achievements of young people who have completed the gold standard of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award, and it also provides an opportunity not only to showcase the resourcefulness of young Nigerians, but to also honor the values that the Duke represented in his lifetime. The achievements that have been celebrated today of young people are of young people who despite challenges imposed on them, and we've heard from a few of them, have also challenged themselves to make a big difference to themselves and to their communities. The recipients have learned how to be responsible to their society and their communities by participating in various voluntary activities, including community environmental sanitation, promoting awareness on climate change, advocacy on mental health and drug abuse issues, especially amongst young people. As part of their award activities, a recipient, Musab Mwazu, I'm told was engaged in educating out-of-school al-Majiri children, inspiring them to seek education and helping them to learn to read and write. Another recipient, Odupo Emmanuel, having lost one of his friends to suicide, was involved in promoting advocacy against suicide and promoting mental health awareness amongst young people through organizing workshops, symposia, and various advocacy programs. I'm told that the group also learned to develop self-confidence, perseverance, a spirit of adventure and teamwork, as embarked on several adventurous journeys. I'm told that some went to Kahashi Village, hiking through the Marian Hills in Dutse and journeying to the Kubua train station, while navigating themselves using a compass and a map. As part of the requirements for achieving the Gold Award, they undertook shared purposeful experiences with people who are not their usual companions in a residential setting. They undertook their residential projects in various locations, including engaging in wildlife conservation at the National Children's Park here in Abuja. Athletics training, I'm told, at sports camps, leadership training at various youth events, volunteering at various orphanages and hospitals, a recipient, Faith Wins Iwu, for her Gold Residential Project, volunteered at the Renezoma Hospital in Enugu State, and I think we've heard about that, having observed that the hospital was experiencing a shortage of staff, she resided in the hospital for a month, volunteering as a health worker and support staff to the hospital. Seeing you all today is a reminder of the many achievements of young people across Nigeria. Daily, we have Nigerians in our armed forces, living behind family and friends to serve our country in various internal security operations across the country. We've seen how young Nigerians rallied in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and designed various technology solutions to support the government. We've seen young Nigerians break new ground and earn global acclaim in innovation, in technology, in sports, in the arts and entertainment. So it's clear to us that our young people are our most valuable assets and the federal government believes that they must be encouraged and supported in every way. Which is why we're currently raising about $500 million to support technology and creativity. The project is led by the African Development Bank, which has already committed $170 million to the enterprise and this will be supported by the federal government of Nigeria, the Islamic Development Bank and the French Development Agency. Last year, Mr. President launched the Nigeria Jubilee Fellowship Program. This is a program supported by the UNDP and the European Union and many people in the private sector. It will run for five years and it will give well-paid work experience opportunities to 20,000 young Nigerians every year in select private sector and public sector organizations. The idea is that these interns will gain relevant career and life skills that will enable them transition seamlessly into the professional business or public sector while also earning good pay during the period of their internship. I hope that many of you, Gold Award winners, will participate in that program and will be a part of that program and experience all of the benefits of the program. Currently the International Award for Young People is working, I'm told, with the Lagos State Ministry of Education and the FCT Ministry of Education to incorporate the award into the public school curriculum. This is one of the ways of ensuring sustainability and also to achieve the right scale for inculcating the values of the award into many Nigerians from a young age. So let me again congratulate the awardees for their outstanding achievements. We're all extremely proud of you, well done indeed, but I'm especially mentioned for commendation, the teachers, the volunteers, the instructors, the award leaders whose selfless commitment to the success of these young people is a priceless part of their achievement. Thank you for your service. Let me also commend the proud parents of the awardees. You certainly ought to be exceptionally proud that of millions of young Nigerian children, yours are amongst the 44 Gold Award winners. Congratulations also. Finally, let me commend the trustees of the International Awards for Young People in Nigeria, the board chairman, Mr. Olawale Edo, Mr. Sambo Abduraman and Mr. Oshoke Bello, the national director. We appreciate the efforts as you've made to sustain this initiative in Nigeria and we look forward, certainly look forward to working with you next year and in the years to come. Thank you all very much for listening, God bless you.


This 10th year of Daily Tech news show is made possible by you the listener right there listening to me with me in your ears right now Thanks to every single one of you including Justin Zellers pepper geesey Carmine Bailey and new patrons Welcome them everybody silence signals and Al on this episode of DTNS PC mags I as actor has been using the galaxy flip and razor plus which flip phone is best We're gonna make him tell you plus what to expect from Nintendo's next console and augmented reality Takes a big step for This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday August 1st 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio with the hatchet. I'm Sarah Lane from New York City I'm I as actor and I'm the shoes producer Roger chain big happy birthday to Chey Wan from La Sarah Femme It's a birthday. Yeah Hmm if any of you in the audience know what I'm talking about Feedback to the tech news show calm. You'll make my day Hey, I as you want to do some tech news with me and Sarah today. That sounds delightful. Let's do it All right now. We do have a special message for Canadians today It's extra special to have you here since meta has started the process of blocking news links on Facebook and Instagram in Canada in response to the online news act But it doesn't stop us from bringing you the quick hits Uber reported a better than expected Q2 with a record number of rideshares and operating profit for the first time in the company's history That's a big one net income came in at 394 million dollars up 1 billion year-over-year because last year was a loss the company saw a 22% increase in trips on the platform combined with cost Discipline as CEO Daraa cause for Shahi put it so much AI news today here at the top Things you need to know Axios reports the Google plans to overhaul Google assistant and start using generative algorithms like Bard with it in Another part of Google YouTube is testing machine-generated text summaries of videos to appear on the search and watch pages They would not replace creator written descriptions a law in China goes into effect August 15th requiring generative AI apps to obtain a License in that country in advance of that law Apple has removed multiple apps from the App Store in China If you want to keep AI from using your art to train and then imitate you technology review reports on a couple tools that are meant to make images Unusable in generative AI training without changing how they look to humans Chinese automaker Geely announced it will launch a large language model to help with autonomous driving and in-car entertainment as part of the Galaxy L6 car coming later this year and finally the Financial Times reports the meta plans to launch chatbots called Personas that have unique personalities So it could be a historical figure like Abraham Lincoln or it could be a personality with a purpose like getting travel advice from a surfer You weren't joking a lot of AI news today The BBC launched social dot BBC which is an experimental master on server that it's testing for the next six months Now you can't create accounts or posts on this exact server But you can leave replies the BBC said content moderation is the potential concern since master don't doesn't have a dedicated Moderation team, but calls it an acceptable risk It's interesting if you build it will they come a Few security items to be aware of today a flaw called the bleeding pipe in the forage framework that many Minecraft mods use will let attackers control servers and game devices and you don't want that So players should update to patched mods or delete unpatched mods and of course scan their systems for malware The FBI is actively warning the public about the malicious use of generative AI to socially engineer targets as well as create Malware many security researchers believe that guardrails against creating malware in tools like cheat chat GBT are fairly good And it's probably easier for most malicious people to find exploits in more traditional manners but the FBI wants everybody to be aware and Bleeping computer warns of a malicious Android app called safe chat making the rounds that once installed could intercept messages from SMS Telegram and signal doesn't break the encryption It just intercepts them because it's on your phone and it requires user interaction So be on the lookout for people asking you to install apps that ask for unusual permissions That's something you should always be on the lookout for I suppose in some global drone news on Monday China imposed restrictions on exports of long-range Civilian drones this is due to concerns over drones being used for military purposes, even if they're Civilian drones on both sides of Russia's war in Ukraine Expert controls take effect today though some drone experts will still be allowed Meanwhile, the UK's first drone mail delivery service a joint effort between Royal Mail and London based Skyports drone services has begun in the remote Scottish islands of Orkney The drones will carry mail from Stromness to Gramsie and Hoy I hope I'm getting those right where postal staff will complete their usual delivery routes The project is a three-month test although both partners plan to continue it on a permanent basis if it all works out well You know what Abraham Lincoln used to say about drones. What's that? I don't know But I'm gonna ask that persona for meta and I'll get back to you. There you go All right, we got Nintendo rumors We do so video game chronicle sources say that development kits for Nintendo's next console have been delivered to key game studios Now Nintendo is reportedly planning to launch a new console in the second half of 2024 So the dates add up they make sense, but what else are these sources saying? Yeah, okay They are claiming it'll be usable in a portable mode So just like the Nintendo switch But it might have an LCD screen instead of an OLED screen to bring the cost down so that there can be more storage So the cost of manufacturing may be not the cost to you It also will have a cartridge slot according to the sources, which might make you wonder if it'll support switch cartridges It's worth recalling that in February Nintendo told investors that the current 98 million switch users Factor into its plans for the next console. So that implied there may be some backwards Compatibility but like you said Sarah this none of this is terribly surprising This is about the time seven years later after the original switch Mid-cycle for the PlayStation in the Xbox that you would expect Nintendo to start talking about bringing out a new console It's been so long. They're still running. I believe on a Tegra processor That's in my shields TV, which is ancient and super old in this and the even with the upgraded versions of the switch We still didn't get anything other than an OLED maybe a larger screen All I'm hoping for is a Nintendo doesn't have a Wii U debacle Just whatever you name this thing just make sure people know that it's a it's an upgrade and it is backwards compatible You can have that that's not there's nothing wrong with that But then if you have like, you know, let's say you call it switch advanced, you know We all figured that out with Gameboy advanced So maybe just stick to that kind of naming convention because next year if you're like why don't just get that old switch or to switch you You don't want that confusion We are we are in the tic-tac pattern of the disappointing Nintendo console, right? Because there was Gamecube, which I actually personally love most people didn't like it Then there was the Wii which everybody thought was amazing Then there was the Wii U which people did not like then there was the switch which everybody thinks is amazing Is it gonna be the switch cube? Would it just be like a cooler switch maybe Yeah, if it's gonna be portable with an LCD screen that could be enough to get people upset if like it's not that different And it doesn't have as good of a screen Yeah, I don't know. I I the switch is so beloved in fact, I feel like I Well, it depends on who's playing but I feel like I hear Someone's love for the Nintendo switch quite often like as if it were sort of new, but it is yeah So yeah, I don't know it that I don't know I I Have no real guess here But I know people are gonna be excited about whatever it is the Wii and the switch were departures From previous consoles models. It does not sound from these rumors these these leaks I guess that this is a departure although this isn't an official word so we don't know there might be some other stuff going on We haven't heard about but I I think we're gonna get an evolution of the switch and it probably won't be a bad Version of the switch, but it it I can't imagine them coming out with something that is a huge departure if they're gonna make it I got one idea Maybe they can soup it up with some kind of like a sterile dock so the dock is smarter than just Pushing through the same signal. Maybe the on device is a little bit less powerful than the docked device So you can get like yeah 4k on your 4k TV, but you're on the go with your LCD You get 1080p It's not that big a deal because you still can output these major major releases That's the only thing I think could work because it wouldn't confuse like oh, there's a new dock Does work my old switch? No, it doesn't or maybe it does that's kind of a crazy idea with usb-c That's a good bet something the dock. I like that. I'm gonna go with that. I'm gonna steal that and say it was my idea Slightly related to all of this for you mechanical keyboard fans out there You know who you are 8-bit do released its first mechanical keyboard It's wireless has 87 keys is compatible with Windows and Android and has a hot swappable switches, which is nice There are two editions, but the end edition is inspired by classic NES console designs Almost all white has gray red and charcoal accents makes you feel like the days of yesteryear You can order it now for $100 shipping August 10th Now for all you fans of open standards, you know who you are a big move in the world of augmented reality Listen to it. Listen to that crowd of open standards fans You know what we kid But there are a lot of you out there in the audience Adobe Apple Autodesk Nvidia and Pixar have formed the Alliance for Open USD to promote a standard for interoperable 3d tools and data. So basically a standard for augmented reality This is kind of been I've seen it compared to JPEG. I've seen it compared to HTML It's kind of somewhere in between it's based on Pixar's open source universal scene description That's the USD in the group's name and video already uses USD as the foundation for the omniverse platform If you've seen some of the stuff people make for augmented reality there If you were to create something that someone might want to call part of a metaverse You'd want something like USD because otherwise you'd have to replicate the geometry The cameras the lighting all the materials for each thing you create on Each platform you'd want to make it for so having a standard means you can use whatever software you want and make it for Whatever platform you want as long as they support standard with a standard You just make your thing Maya Houdini Autodesk 3ds max Adobe Substance 3d designer Whatever and then you can know that it's going to work interchangeably again like the graphic interchange format the GIF You know, it just works across platforms open USD group will work within Linux's joint development foundation Which gives it a path to be recognized by the international organization or of standardization ISO So this could be on its way probably is on its way to becoming an ISO standard And other companies like Epic Unity and even IKEA have all expressed support for the standard The doors have been flown open for others to join the Alliance You might expect those three companies to maybe step up and join the Alliance soon We're not hearing though from Intel or AMD about this nor have I seen anything from meta Yeah Well, I don't know as you were describing this time, you know, you mentioned the the GIF standard It also reminds me of you know various video editing programs, right? It's all gotten a lot better Over the years, but remember having to like output the same video like 40 different times depending on where you wanted the video to live somewhere It still can be a headache, but it you know, it's it's gotten a lot more streamlined because All of the platforms want you to use those platforms, you know, so they just they decided to make it easier And start to agree on things. Yeah, this this sounds like it sounds like a great idea I guess I'm not surprised that metas a holdout just because metas sort of on its own planet when it comes to the metaverse right now But you know, we'll see what happens, you know as more companies decided to jump on the bandwagon I mean Techno Mitch asked if Microsoft was on that list. They're not this is a very small list This is Apple kind of is the only hardware maker Well, Nvidia makes hardware, but they don't make headsets and Apple's the only headset maker and the others are our software makers So it does feel like it's early enough that you might get Microsoft signing up later Certainly, you're you're hearing from unity. You're hearing from epic. They'll probably join later. I Wonder why metas not in on this from the beginning. Did they not want to be or did these companies not want them in on it? I can't imagine they wouldn't have wanted them in on it. Meta must have just declined If I read the background stories correctly Pixar open sourced USD several years ago. Is that correct Tom? Yeah, 2016 That's okay. So there's no real need to necessarily be on this alliance to Use us to take advantage of it Maybe not gonna join the alliance but the fact that Apple's behind this definitely gives a huge insight to people going Hey, look, they want as many developers as they can to get familiar with some kind of format So they don't have to relearn everything for the vision Vision Pro the thing is getting content for these hardware devices that cost Thousands of dollars it better be worth it and the more people that you can get to work on the same kind of Standard the better and I'm just thinking that it's only a matter of time before other companies want to be a part of this because then I Maybe they can sort of influence what? Parts become more and more standard or not then again still open So anybody out there with any programming skills or even lack of programming skills these days You can figure out how to make something better because one of the other things I was reading about this is that open USD is kind of a kind of a chunky format and it was a Mobile interface and there's a competing standard and I could see stuff. It could be like a but the rules of physics We don't have a unifying theory of everything. There's a small mobile version and there's a big everything version But it's it seems like it's a really smart thing for Apple to be part of this So they actually have content for that expensive expensive piece of hardware. Yeah, yeah, they want to encourage developers They want to make it easy for developers. There's some discussion on whether to make get F part of this standard So it might get bigger. It's usually Apple holding out From these standards a lot of times because they have a better way of doing it They're like wow the standard is nice, but we figured out in a more efficient way I wonder if that's what's going on. Well, I mean they could have helped create it with Pixar considering Steve Jobs is Connection to the company for the longest time. I know there might be connections back there Yeah, maybe there's like hey, we kind of made this already. We know we're also here So that's that's my guess because why would Apple get ahead of this? They're already on it Now for those of you who use Android I have something for you as well Ron Richards and Huentui Dao bring you Android faithful a podcast devoted exclusively to Android news and information Done in partnership with Daily Tech news show. We're very proud that Ron wanted to work with us on this So catch it Tuesdays 8 p.m. East Coast 5 p.m. Pacific or just get it whenever you want by subscribing at www.androidfaithful.com In the past couple of months Motorola and Samsung have both announced new Foldable flip phones all the rage. So the natural first question is how do they compare which one's better? Now I as you've been spending a lot of time recently with both of these phones So what are your big takeaways and how do they stack up to each other? Okay, let's see if I can show them on screen. We've got the motto of right now in my left hand We've got the nobody can nobody on audio can see that but they don't have to believe me that they are Where they're I have seen proof I as really does have these two phones devices in my hand and I will say that they excel at different things and they don't get everything right just yet the Moto Razer Plus figured out how to use a small screen on the front of the device Way better than Samsung figured out with the flip five I will say because flip-flops that created orders hardware. It's got a better glass It's got really goes really glass with you. It's got IPX eight ratings. They're like it can be dunked in the water So I'm not dust proof. It's got about the same cameras there but it's got a very refined design then you've got the The Razer Plus which is more rounded and it's nice But the main thing is you almost never have to open the device unless you want to on The flip the amount of times you will see something saying we'll open the phone for this Kind of the purpose to me I wonder what you guys think about this Do you guys actually want to use a small phone like something that's a 3.5 inch display or 3.6 display and then choose to open your device Or do you really just want to pocket a 6.7 inch device in a more compact one factor? I don't know. That's a good question. I mean if I compare it to something like My you know and this is iOS my my Apple watch which gives me a lot of information, but it's limited You know, I have to I have to grab my phone at some point, you know for the stuff that I want to do But I know that because they're not supposed to you know, they don't they're not They're connected wirelessly, but they're not part of the same machine So it bothers me less it might bother me more if my phone was constantly saying hold it differently And then you'll all will be a revealed I Get what when was saying on the day of the Samsung announcement, which is The foldables are great the pixel and the and the Samsung is getting closer to the pixel in in their form factor of They work like a candy bar phone and you open them up But the flips are more compelling to more people because they're small Because it's like oh I can actually keep this in a smaller pocket I can keep it in a smaller bag and then open it up and it be a phone So I you know if I had to come up with a person who'd say no I want that It would be someone who's who's doesn't like having to shove a big old candy bar style phone in a pocket or a purse And likes the idea of the flip because it's it's more compact I mean and there are devices right now out there that can do that you get the flip I want to say a couple generations ago. We had the very small LCD Or ones that just don't barely have these like one-line displays you can have that so you're like looking at it as a Glanceable piece of information But I think when you go to a 3.4 inch or larger screen that's full collar 60 Hertz It should be able to do a little bit more than act like a bunch of widgets now to Samsung's credit They do have the the ability to add apps You got to go into the settings and find it and they give you a list of six apps You're allowed to know which is very lame and two of them are different messages apps So that's even worse. I mean these are text messages apps But if you jump through a ton of hoops, and it's in my review right now of PC PC mag if you get good lock and then run through like 15 steps You can install any app on the good lock widget and even then it may not run Which is more mind-boggling because some guy who made Cover OS or cover screen OS which used to work on the old flip and other devices He spent time at the or he or she I don't know went to this to the Samsung store learned How to create support for the new flip and it works now So in other words it can run any app and pretty much any widget But Samsung has decided to close it down for this I assume in my perspective a little bit like very Apple-like control like this is the experience You're gonna get because this is the one we'll get let you have but Moto since I think they have less to lose They're like go for it. It can go inside outside. We don't care. You can run apps however you want I really I think that For the durability aspect I like that you don't have to open the phone because if you got a limited amount of folds Why waste them because like you have to type a one line message back Now granted you could do that with both of these devices But there's just so many small things that I didn't realize that the razor can do on that small screen Because again a 3.6 inch screen on the razor Is slightly larger than the 3.5 inch display that was on the iphone the original iphone So it's not that crazy wild. Yeah Aspect ratio is different so I'll I'll I'll deal with that but like it's sure very different Yeah, it sounds like you look at the original iphone and I'm like this isn't real There's no way we all used that's for children. I thought it was that's no way there's no way who could even see it I want to I want to hold hold you you know to to picking One of these but I I feel like it's pretty clear that you like the razor plus better Is is there something about the flip five that you would say it did better than razor plus at all the hardware is The hardware is way better. It's stronger. It's got better better glass. Like I said, it's got better ipx eight ratings I mean the other one's got an ip 5 2. I want to say so it's got Something like yeah, it's dust versus water right on the on the two the razor basically if it sees water It's going to freak out. So I would not splash resistant Yes versus dunking one So I'm not a big fan of that I will say that the software implementation on the razor is better at this point But as a piece of hardware The flip five i'm just basically it's one software update from being Like perfect or almost perfect. It's so close to being perfect that it's just maddening That it's just a software tweak that they need to do And maybe that'll happen between now and it's released on the 11th because I mean the software is supposed to be baked by now But it's very frustrating But yeah, so hardware wise I think the flip five is amazing I think software wise that the moto has figured out the right way to go from inside to outside and back If you had to choose just one which one would you pick? Might be different for different people, but I probably pick As it stands with no like out of the box experience, I'll go with razor plus Yeah, because of the software sounds like yeah, I don't want to tinker with that right now More to do more to tinker Um, well, uh Since 1977 the voyager 2 probe has been tinkering around in the universe Exploring it, uh, and while 12.3 billion miles away from earth. I mean it's far Uh, it tilted its antenna to 0.2 degrees away from earth This is last month after an incorrect command was sent and it lost contact In fact, we talked about it at the time. It was very sad You know that voyager 2 has been around for a long time. However NASA reported on tuesday that during a regular scan of the sky, which it does It picked up a heartbeat single signal rather from the probe Indicating that voyagers 2 is still ticking out there Now nasa can't talk to it yet. They've got a huge dish in canberra australia Which is now trying to regain contact with the probe by sort of bombarding the area They think voyager 2 is in with the correct command original command But even if that doesn't work voyager 2 is already programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its its antenna pointing at earth With the next reset on october 15th at which point nasa says We will probably have a joyful reunion if we don't before then I think the the most identifiable part of this story is entering a wrong command and then spamming with commands to undo it Like yeah, every one of us has experienced that It's just crazy to think of nasa doing it over Well, I hope it works and if it doesn't hopefully october 15th resets it, but yeah I remember when I was like voyager 2 well, you know it's been around since 1977 I mean we were lucky to have it as long as we did right But the fact that voyagers like i'm just slightly off course, but i'm here is just very heartwarming Yeah, it's good. It's good that we we know it's still out there. All right. Let's check out the mail bag Let's do it. We got a lot of feedback on our e-bike conversation That was during our extended show good day internet with megan maroney And roger and myself yesterday So we'll read a couple of them one comes from daniel Who's an avid cyclist also has a motorcycle knows a lot about e-bikes daniel says in the us Legal e-bikes come in three classes class one petal assist only up to 20 miles per hour class two the same But throttle up to 20 miles per hour class three pedal assist only up to 28 miles per hour. My gosh, that's really fast daniel says when most people complain about crazy e-bikes Most of the time these are those 30 to 50 miles per hour max speeds with throttles And if they even have pedals, they're kind of a technicality They need to be banned and you obviously need a license and insurance to ride a motorcycle I think class two and class three e-bikes should only be allowed for adults And some licensing or permitting is probably appropriate daniel also reminds us that when people complain about bicyclists breaking laws or Motorcyclists breaking laws that car drivers break the same laws at about the same rates But with more dangerous consequences the solution always seems to come back to better and safer infrastructure And then lin forwarded a link from electric calm about california assembly bill 530 Which is in draft and set for committee vote and once anyone without a driver's license to Need a license for an e-bike an e-bike ban for anyone younger than 12 years old thank you Yeah, I haven't I haven't read the the draft of the bill But that does not sound like the worst idea after our conversation yesterday Yeah, no, I was I was uh Pleasantly surprised just how many people are into that conversation. We got more emails about e-bikes Then we have about any other topic this week. Uh, so Right good good pick. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, um, I think it was it was megan the idea So thank megan maroney, um, but we're first going to thank you Isaac to our because you are a wonderful human and we're always glad to have you on the show Let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work Go to pc mag.com. I got the review of the galaxy z flip 5 up right now working on the review for the z fold 5 Should be in should be up in the next couple of days All my stuff to their pc mag.com and there's a lot of great information there. So stick around Yeah, read that and uh, stick around for the extended show good day internet There's another foldable out there that is has been trying out and he's none too pleased with it Find out why ias is not pleased with the google pixel fold stick around Just a reminder, you can catch the show live monday through friday at 4 p.m. Eastern 200 utc find out more at daily tech news show dot com slash live We're back doing it all again tomorrow with scott johnson joining us talk to you then This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com Time and club hopes you have enjoyed this program


Hello, hello. My name is Benji Bullock. You might also know me as the DoorDork and I am a Door Hardware Nerd. I am the Senior Digital Communication Specialist for Osa Abloy Opening Solutions for the Americas Division. And yeah, basically if you visit any of our digital platforms, you'll be seeing a lot more of me. So hopefully that's an okay thing. What makes me a Door Hardware Nerd is a lot of things. First of all, I'm just a nerd in general. I love chess. I big Star Wars buff, less of a Star Trek buff, but more of the Star Wars MCU, you know, Marvel fans. But a Door Hardware Nerd, ooh, I would say what makes me most of a Door Hardware Nerd is I open up the door for my wife, you know, because it's the nice thing, gentleman thing to do, let her go through there. But then when I'm stuck there a couple minutes later, looking at the lock, adjusting the closer, you know, what all other Door Hardware Nerds do. Drive my wife crazy. We're watching a video or a movie and, you know, the lever will be sagging in the background. I'm like, oh, positive, positive. Did you see that? What, what brand is that? What lock is that? I think that's what makes me a Door Hardware Nerd. Before I joined this industry, a door was a door and a key was a key and I never thought twice about them. It was almost immediately after joining this industry and going through a very intensive training with us, Abloy called our foundation training. It's a lot of fun, but it's like drinking from a fire hose of part numbers. And I would say, yeah, it happened very quickly throughout that training. I got very obsessed so much that I think even I took my first picture of Door Hardware on that first week of trip. I mean, that first training that I went through. So it happened pretty quickly, so I think I've got a problem.  I don't know if you guys are familiar with them, but you can scan your key and download that. It can copy your key and then it will send a copy of that to you unless it's highly restricted and patented. And so I went in there with one of our Medeco High Security patented keyways and I filmed myself doing the whole thing and then shared it with, I don't know, thousands of people on the internet. So that's probably one of the nerdiest things I've done with Door Hardware. First of all, I think we need to come up with a good name for non-nerd Door Hardware enthusiasts, you know, just like muggles or something like that from Harry Potter. But I want them to know that and this is part of it, partially what I do and why I do it is the educational piece of it. Most people like me before I joined the industry don't think twice about doors, but it's something you use every day. It's very useful. It's a big part of your life and not many people understand the many of the codes and security compliances that come with Door Hardware. And that's part of our job for Door Hardware nerds to share that knowledge with the rest of the world and hopefully more nerds will join the industry but also be just more aware of doors and take better care of them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen, you know, a high school situation where, you know, football players are drop-kick and exit devices and I'm like, oh, if you knew how expensive each one of those were, maybe, maybe you wouldn't kick it. But, you know, I guess high school boys will be high school boys.


Sir, welcome you to Krista Kanta Handik State Open University and we feel very honored to have a guest of yours that's here among us. So, thank you sir. At that epoch making moment, when the great award was conferred on you, what was your immediate reaction to it? Actually, the immediate reaction was a kind of surprise for me because I never thought that the most respected or recognized prize will come to me or through me for the most neglected, most vulnerable, most abused children on the earth. I immediately reacted to my people who came and hugged me and kissed and they were all crying and tears and so emotional and excited. I said that look this is not the prize for Kailash Satyarthi alone. This is the biggest ever recognition to the cause, the cause which has been largely neglected, largely ignored. The cause of vice-less children, the cause of faceless children on the earth, they are recognized today at that highest level of recognition. But this is also the prize for all my countrymen, all my people, all my sisters and brothers from the remotest part of north-eastern India up to south-west, from east to west or south to north, entire countrymen because it is for the first time when the Nobel Peace Prize is being conferred to an Indian born, a Desi Indian and someone who was not a kind of star or a celebrity or someone who was very popular and onto the people because this is the recognition to my motherland, to my country, to my nation, so the award goes to everyone. So don't feel a sense of ego as an individual, I told my people. Every Indian should feel pride in it so that we all feel the moral responsibility to put an end to child labour and child slavery in our country and globally. Sir, in one of the autographs that I have seen you have given to one of our university colleagues, you have written there that sustainable development is not possible unless and until the rights of all children, all children are protected. So how do you put the linkage between sustainable development and the rights of the children? Because generally when we teach or we are taught that sustainable development is regarding protecting the nature so that in future our generations are safeguarded. So you have added a new dimension to it so we will be very happy if you kindly explain it. Oh Baba, I should be very careful when I am putting my signature and writing something. Actually I was born by many people that whatever you speak or whatever you write could become a reason for more research and so it is for the researchers. It is for your university, you can do it. But let me tell you that sustainability is all about what I call four P's. One P is people. People are not sustainable that means their liberty, their dignity, their opportunities. If they are not maintained, we cannot have sustainability, people, first P. The second P is planet. All of us know that how this climate change, the global warming and other kind of disasters, most of them I would say are manmade disasters whom we are responsible for have brought us to a situation of suicidal. So planet has to be preserved and protected. It has to be respected. We in India in our philosophy, in our culture, in our tradition, we learn that our relationship with the land is mother and son relationship. And that motherland, not just India, the land, the whole planet is rich of everything.  So we have to ensure that the economic growth, the industrialization, the consumerism must not be at the cost of planet. Planet is must. Second P. The third P is peace. So without peace, peace means equilibrium of mind, equilibrium in the society, equilibrium between human beings and nature. And that is why the peace has been one of the fundamental values or virtues which drive Indian philosophy, drove Indian philosophy. So peace is important. Peace is not something which is just a political thing which is negotiated on table, political table. Peace is not something which is just preached and taught in the churches and temples and mosque. Peace is something which should be the culture of life. We can live with peace. So peace is important for sustainable societies, for sustainability. And third and fourthly, the fourth peace prosperity. We have to get rid of poverty. Prosperity against poverty. Everybody has some sort of aspiration or desire to become wealthier or prosperous. That should not be ignored. But that prosperity should be inclusive prosperity. Everybody can be benefited out of it. So people, planet, peace and prosperity. Without them, we cannot create sustainability. Now come to the child rights which is very directly linked with that. If the children are denied childhood, then they are easy to be manipulated and misused, brainwashed by the fanatic and fundamentalist forces. And they may be misused against peace, against human prosperity, against development. So that is one aspect that how the children have to be treated and respected. Then education. We live in a world which is or in an era which is basically driven by the knowledge economy. We live in the age of knowledge economy. Without information, without knowledge, we cannot think of development. We cannot think of economic growth. We cannot think of social justice or gender equity and justice. Education is the key for all that. So children have to be educated. All children must be educated. So their right to education must be the fundamentally prioritized, should be prioritized. And that means we should have good laws and constitutional provisions globally. That means we have to substantiate all these provisions with adequate funding and budgetary allocations and so on. So the financial aspect should be taken care of. So all children must receive good quality education and that is a prerequisite for sustainability. That is the right. So the freedom of children, education of children are very, very fundamental to bring about sustainability of people, of planet, of peace and prosperity.


Hello, welcome to CMC Markets on Tuesday, the 28th of April and the weekly market update. Now last week I looked at the German DAX and I looked at the pound against the dollar and we're going to look at them again in the context of what we talked about last week, i.e. the prospect of a sterling rebound against the dollar, which we have seen. And also the possibility that maybe we've seen a significant reversal in the DAX. Now over the course of the last week or so we've seen new multi-year highs on Asian markets, particularly the Nikkei, which has managed to push above 20,000 for the first time in 15 years. And we've seen eight-year highs in the Chinese market as well. We've also seen a new record high on the FTSE 100 and we've seen a new record, marginal record high in the S&P 500. But we appear to be broadly range trading at the moment. And I think there's a certain amount of concern that possibly we're pushing at the upper ends or the upper boundaries of the gains that we've seen so far this year. Now why would that be? Well, I think it's largely as a result of the fact that pretty much most of the central banks are pretty much all in when it comes to quantitative easing. And really now it's a question of how much further upside is there given the fact the market has already front run a lot of it. And it's also an awful lot of uncertainty with respect to what the Fed is going to do over the course of the rest of this year. Now we should get some color on that or further color on that at the latest Fed meeting on Wednesday. I think it's unlikely that we'll get any further clues as to the timing or otherwise of an interest rate rise. I think the real big question is, will the statement be dovish or will it be hawkish or will it be neutral? And if it's one of those, what will the effects be with respect to the US dollar? Because the US dollar does appear to be showing a significant amount of weakness. And I think there is a school of thought that perhaps we've seen the highs in the dollars or seen the high in the dollar rather. And in that context I'm also going to have a quick look at Euro dollar as well and look at some of the key levels there. So let's start off with the German Dax. Now a couple of weeks ago we posted a bearish reversal candle on the weekly chart. Now if we look at this daily chart that I'm slinging up in front of you here, we can see that we've got a significant area of support around about the 50 day moving average. We've also seen the Dax struggle to really get back above the 12,100 level. And I've drawn a horizontal support and resistance line through the reaction highs after the push lower from the April highs. If we then move on to the four hour chart, you can see that in slightly more detail. And you can also see that we do appear to be trading in a little bit of a box range. The bottom end of that range is around about 11,600, which is pretty much where I've drawn that lower line through the lows that we put in the week beginning the 23rd of March. And the highs that we put in the week beginning the 20th of April, i.e. last week's highs. So for me that range should define where we go next with respect to the Dax, bearing in mind that we posted that bearish weekly reversal, the bias I think remains for a correction lower. And in that context, we can probably look at that through, we could use that as a prism for the next move in the S&P and the next move in the FTSE 100. Now the FTSE 100 has found support around about 6,980, that was the lows last week. So keep an eye on that level there. And also keep an eye on the S&P 500, the support below 2100, around about 2085. So the rest of this story is pretty much a dollar story. It's a dollar story against the euro and it's a dollar story against the pound. Let's start with the euro. Now obviously the main focus is really what's going on in Greece. The likelihood is we're going to get some form of default restructuring or what have you. It doesn't appear to be impacting too much in the euro and I think that's largely because the market is so one way in the context of where they think the euro will go next. Now I think that's a mistake and we're going to look at the four hour chart here on the euro dollar and I'm going to look at the channel that I've drawn in from the lows at 105.20. Now that 105.20 support line currently comes in around about 107.20, 107.30. The key level on the top side remains at the FOMC spike highs of around about 110.5. So 110.5 on the top side is really the key level on euro dollar on the top side for any further gains but at the moment it's pretty much like we are in equity markets. We're in a little bit of a range. The big barrier on the top side is around 110.5 and on the downside we've got the trend line support from the 105.20 lows. We'll finish up with the pound against the dollar. Now last week I talked about a bullish engulfing week on the weekly chart and the potential for further sterling gains despite the fact that there's an awful lot of uncertainty about next week's general election outcome and sure enough that bullish engulfing week we were very wise to pay attention to it because we've seen the pound push above 150 and the likelihood is I think we could well see 155. Why do I think that given all the uncertainty and given all the concern about a potential hung parliament or simply speaking I think everyone is two one way and this is not just a sterling story it's also a dollar story. So we look at the daily chart we look at the break higher the support now appears to be coming in around about the 50 day moving average which currently comes in around about 151.60. Below that around about 150 which was the original breakout point here and we can really see that borne out in the four hour chart but I'm putting up in front of you now we've got trend line support coming in from that low that we saw in the week beginning the 13th of April and again that sort of converges with the downtrend line that we broke above on the previous chart which I drew in from the highs that we saw in the middle of last year. So we can see that we are ratcheting higher yes the oscillator is very overbought but always remember whenever an oscillator is overbought doesn't necessarily mean it can't go higher you have to trade with the underlying trend and what we're seeing at the moment is we're seeing higher lows and we're seeing higher highs until that pattern is broken then the likelihood is we could well see further gains in the pound against the dollar. At a moment we're capped around about 153 we can correct all the way back to 151 but overall as long as we stay above 151 the likelihood is we could well see a move to 155. So that's it for this week once again thanks very much for listening this is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


So, it's obviously the case that women make up more than 50%, at least 50% of the population yet less than a quarter of them serve in Congress. And the reason why this is the case is because there are a lot more barriers that exist that prohibit women from running and even if they do run, it's more difficult for them to get elected. So what we have is a new Justice Democrats-like organization that is designed to help women get elected so we can finally maybe inch closer towards parody in Congress. So with me to talk about a new organization called Matriarch is its founders, Namiki Konst and Javanka Beckles. So thank you both so much for coming on the program. Thanks for the invitation, it's a pleasure. Thank you, Mike. Nice to see you again. Nice to see you again as well. So, tell us a little bit about yourself. So I'm sure that my audience is familiar with Namiki Konst, so we're going to start with Javanka and then we'll head over to Namiki and get a quick update. Javanka, tell us about yourself and your affiliation with the organization. Well, let's see, I am a long time activist, I've lived in the city of Richmond for a long time and decided that I could make a difference by running for office, so I ran for office in 2008, let me just back it up a little bit, I worked for the county as a children's mental health specialist and working with children and families, I see firsthand the challenges that families have and, you know, in working to increase the quality of life for the families that I work with, I realized that there was something lacking and what was lacking was policy and so I decided to run for office to be able to make a difference and create the kinds of policies that would help my family, specifically the families that I work with, Interest County, the majority being people of color. So I ran for office in 2008, lost by slim margin, one in 2010 was re-elected in 2014, ran for assembly because again, city policy is one thing and that's a good thing because we can do so much at the local level but I realized that there were policies that we couldn't implement at the local level, we needed some state policies and so I ran for state office, state assembly in 2018, we lost by I would say small margin but it was a grassroots effort, it was very little money and it was at that time that I realized how difficult it really is to run for a higher office working full-time. I worked full-time and it was very difficult for me to take off and, you know, like my opponent who was independently wealthy and it really was a challenge so when we started talking about it and Miki contacted me and other women, I thought this was a great idea because as working women, particularly women of color, we really need the boost and the support and the sisterhood that we are building here. Yeah, how about you, Namiki? What have you been up to since we last talked to you? I was like, she just covered it. Hey everyone, well, you know, I did run for office this year as much of us who are involved in matriarch have, I would say about 50% of our advisory group of over three dozen women is made up of women who have run for office, been in office, or are currently in office and one thing that just became very clear as I got to know so many of these women over the past few years in the progressive movement is there are obstacles that are just not laid out in a serious way when you go to these trainings to run for office. So if you're a woman and you've been interested in running for office, there are maybe a thousand different trainings out there and one of the first things that they do is say, okay, open up your Rolodex and you're going to call every single person you know and we want you to raise money. That might work for some people, maybe it'll work up to a month, but the most part, you know, unless you are independently wealthy or of means or have access to wealth, it is extremely hard to raise the amount of money you need to have a functioning campaign that can last, you know, several months. I ran in a special election. If that special election had gone maybe one more month, I wouldn't have a home and I'm being completely honest. Most people have to balance jobs, you know, maybe they are single parents, maybe there's a two-parent household and the other parent has to take on or the partner has to take on the extra burden. There's child care costs, there's rental costs, there's debt and a couple years ago when Donald Trump was elected, we saw a record number of women being called to run for office and they stepped up courageously and did so, but very quickly we saw the infrastructure was not there to support everyday women in running because it's not just that it's hard to raise the money, the organizations, the institutions that are out there right now for the most part are not recognizing their candidacy as quote viable, that's the word that they use for endorsement or support until they've raised like 150, 200, sometimes 300,000 dollars and if you're not independently wealthy, I mean it's even a struggle, a real struggle to get to 50,000 dollars and the press won't pay attention to you also if you haven't raised a certain amount of money.  So we wanted to fill that gap. So for the last several months I've been working with this incredible crew of women to come up with ways where we can help solve a lot of the infrastructure issues that women face when they're running for office, but specifically for Congress for right now. And I really like that. When I first learned about Matriarch my thought was finally because this is a working class version of Emily's list essentially where it helps working women, anti-establishment people who don't have that financial backing get elected to Congress and there's already enough barriers if you choose to run like political science studies show that women generally speaking in comparison with men they don't feel as if they're qualified which is untrue and thankfully it seems like we're kind of breaking away from that stigma after the 2018 election when so many women across the country are running.  Of course you can do it alone but it's a lot more difficult. So what this organization to me seems like is a justice democrats type of organization where we're saying look we're taking on the establishment and we're addressing the specific barriers that exist that prohibit women from actually being electorally viable and successful and we absolutely need that because this descriptive representation is incredibly important like I cited the statistic about less than a quarter of women being in Congress but when you when you actually look at women of color it's 8.7 percent which is abysmal. We need these voices in Congress we need their perspectives in Congress and there is this difference between descriptive and substantive representation but more often than not descriptive representation just getting people in Congress that are representative of you know the public demographically speaking it leads to a substantive representation real change. So that's why this organization is so important so I wanted to ask you Jovanka in terms of what the short-term goal is for 2020 and 2022. How many women thus far because you guys just launched have basically answered the call because you could nominate a woman to run. Do you guys know just preliminary results as to what the response is because I find this incredibly fascinating and exciting so what's the response been? Well it's my understanding from the you know the coordination that the collaboration that we're currently undergoing there it's been a really high number of women who are responding either via through social media directly through us and so I feel like that's really exciting that that women are feeling that okay finally there's an organization that's really there to help us as working women that you know grassroots candidates working people. Namke mentioned earlier nurses and teachers and you know myself as a as a mental health specialist but we have so many professional women that are in the trenches every single day and and what better voice to represent us right as working people than than us. So I know that there has been I don't have the numbers in front of me but I know that we've had overwhelming responses to to the call sort of a foraction maybe Namke you might be able to to fill that in in terms of the the actual numbers. I don't have the number as of the moment but I say that it's it's coming in I mean every single time we check the monitor it's like oh another one just came in and what's incredible to see is the the number of women who've been nominated by several people sometimes into the dozens from across the country but especially from their communities it doesn't mean that it's exclusive it just you know we know that that community support is super important but it's it's so amazing to see people around the country looking at races that may not you know be even close to them but they're very curious about what happens in Texas what happens when he goes blue where Virginia goes blue and they're investing in a national partnership of progressive coalition and and we're we're excited to be able to help facilitate that. You know I was going to say that I really see that you know we have a we have a movement and then we have some some amazing I think super women that that are leading the way thus far and in Ilhan and and you know Alexandria and and women are seeing that yes I'm an ordinary woman I can do this I know what the issues are shouldn't I be in a position to be able to create the kinds of policies to help us through these issues and that help us to have a place at the table a seat at the table so this is this is really exciting and and I'm really so honored to be able to be a part of this amazing movement yet to me this feels like a paradigm shift where before women were essentially shut out from politics unless they were wealthy right if you if you're wealthy you can do pretty much anything but if you're a working class woman who we want to represent us the most because there are mostly normal working class people in this country then you know we need you to run but there's so many obstacles that make it so difficult so this it does feel like a paradigm shift in terms of more women getting involved and just you know women really becoming the face of the progressive movement I mean you stated that Ilhan Omar we have Rashida Tlaib AOC I mean Pramila Jayapal there's so many women who are now the face of the move of the movement and now I think that that really sends a message to ordinary women who are just working women that you know I can do this as well because there are other role model models who are leading the charge so I think that this is really nice to see like so many people rally around this one cause from different demographics and it's about damn time so I wanted to ask you because this is a pack so I want you to just distinguish between a pack and a super pack just so there's no confusion Namiki can you settle this for us because I saw a couple of tweets at the beginning when I when I kind of I put out a tweet in support of matric and you know one of the first things I saw was oh this is a pack explain what this is yeah so I'm not an elections attorney so there are not a lot of ways that groups can come together and facilitate assistance to candidates and that's just based on the legal structure that we live in I think we've made the case very clear as to why it's important to have organizations out there that can help candidates out I know from my experience it was extremely hard running when you know nobody thought we had a chance um had to raise a certain amount of money and thank god for shows like yours Mike because you believed in us and that really your viewers helped to get us to that level of where we needed to raise money but not every candidate has access to Mike um I was very grateful to and so it's important to have organizations out there that can help at critical stages so a pack versus a super pack a super pack is you know some billionaire can dump in his life savings and basically buy ads on tv and you know and it's we saw Joe Biden is going to be a billionaire maybe a few billionaires are going to be doing that for Joe Biden in his presidential race so that you know Joe Biden has limited campaign contributions that he can take as a presidential candidate they're still extremely high but they're limited and so he's he's been unable to raise the the amount of money he needs to be viable so you know maybe a few of his donors that have a lot of money and had maxed out can now put it into a super pack and make up the difference and buy pro-Joe Biden ads or maybe attack ads on other people so that's the facility of the super pack it's also you put corporate money in there if you want to a pack is very limited um the money you can receive is up to five thousand dollars and give is five thousand dollars a split into primary cycle versus general so we want to be able to invest in candidates at a critical point where um you know they need it when when no one wants to give them money or attention but we know we believe in them we see their path whether it's to victory or to changing things on the ground in their community to be in you know because candidates can can serve a lot of purposes right they can be running to make a statement they can be running uh you know thinking maybe they don't have a chance this time but the next time they will because much of this country has not been invested in by progressives or democrats for for 25 years or they could be running because they have a real path to victory and so we want to invest in a candidate uh that we believe in and um and all for other resources i mean jivanca is one of our extraordinary women in our sisterhood that is opening up their time and energy into supporting and having the backs of these candidates and so we we don't have our slate of candidates yet but once we do we're based on contributions of course we're going to be offering assistance um in so many different ways and that's something a super pack doesn't do uh that you know hopefully down the line we'll be doing other educational you know trainings but uh 2020 is underway so we're we're just trying to get as much done in this short period of time that we can to help candidates out that might be facing primaries earlier rather than later yeah i hope that answers the question no that's that does that totally answers the question the takeaway for viewers essentially is that this is not a dark money group like this is a grassroots organization and i'm gonna put a link on the screen and really highly encourage you to donate because these organizations like even though we all hate money in politics you know the problem is that it's a necessity if we do want to win and if you want to empower matriarch to empower grassroots women then they do need that money and so even if you can chip in a dollar you know at a minimum or you know find out a way to support it you know otherwise that really does matter it is important this is basically a nationwide movement um i don't view matriarch as like just one component one thing like i view them as a microcosm of a bigger issue as one part of our whole movement you know this labor movement the women's rights movement this is all just one collection we're all in this together basically is what i'm trying to say in a convoluted way so they need money so if you could donate anything to them that would be incredibly incredibly helpful because these organizations they really need a boost of money especially at the beginning like justice democrats they had TYT and secular talk to really help boost their name so we need to do this for matriarch because this is important this is a cause that really matters and if we want to make sure that we up our chances of winning elections across the country then we need as many organizations as possible and this is an organization that is needed that's much overdue and they need your help so i wanted to ask you guys this is kind of a generic question but i do think it's important because a lot of people they just kind of feel as if they're overly cynical i can kind of you know sympathize with that viewpoint and if you're a woman in this country you kind of see the trajectory that we're on right you know women's rights issues kind of is put on the back burner we have donald trump in president who's incredibly misogynistic so if you're a working woman what is your message to them and why do you think that they should run for congress in spite of what they might think personally well well because our women's issues are you know it's intersectional right we we you know we are black we are queer we are immigrants we are mothers sisters right it's a you know our issues are are intersectional and no matter you know where we come from what our background maybe even our passion as long as we have the as long as we have the passion and support because there's no way i could have even ran a successful assembly race without so much support without the grassroots passion that comes along with that and knocking on doors so no matter you know what where you come from as long as you recognize that problem is that there is injustice particularly as women and women of color you know we experience injustice every single day and so we recognize that we see it firsthand we look at it in the eye and so knowing that knowing what these solutions are policy creating the kinds of policies we are not getting the policies that we need from men and we're not getting it from white men and so we have to look to each other right for those for the for the change that we we want to create so i say it is a scary thing our lives change when we run for office and having to do it full time is really what helps it helps us to be successful but you know but but do it and go for it and and you will not be alone and that's what's so powerful and and and beautiful about this organization is that we are a sisterhood we we recognize the challenges and we've got your back you know the message is that you're worthy like what i try to tell people is that you are qualified to run for congress if you care about political issues because think about some of the people who are serving like we have Louie Gomert as a sitting member of congress if he can do it anyone can do it you are qualified so i like to use that as an example to put it into perspective because we need you like representation is so crucial javanka made such a good point about the policies that are being passed because there's a 2014 Princeton University study by Dr. Asgillans and Paige that i like to cite that you know when it comes to policy outcomes average citizens they have zero impact it's statistically insignificant but elites and special interests they actually do have a substantial impact so we're getting policies passed that benefit rich people and rich people disproportionately are white dudes so if you want to change that we have to start changing the structures and that means we increase representation for women it's absolutely crucial so um namiki any lasting thoughts that you want to leave us with and i want to give you both the opportunity to make the last pitch to donate because this is incredibly important this is a grassroots movement and money is needed in order to get these types of organizations off the ground because that money it's not just going to matriarch what what you do is you train candidates you help them you give them money and this really helps like justice democrats was incredibly instrumental in electing aoc and we want lots of aocs we want to broaden the squad so absolutely we need more people to get in power in congress and represent us and like we see how aoc and ilhan omar for example are doing such a great job nationally speaking so if we broaden that i mean think of the change that we we really could accomplish so namiki what's the last pitch that you want to make and any lasting words from both of you yeah just some lasting words in terms of um the electability factor you know there there has been a movement over the last you know 70 years but really the last you know 40 years in particular to elect women to reach parity in congress so that means is a little bit you know so we have equal representation in congress and we've had a couple of really great years in which one of which was 2018 where record number of women were elected and and you know there was one i think in 1992 and then in 2006 but one thing to keep in mind there is that um yes record number of women ran because they were fed up with the system they were fed up with republicans who had really betrayed the country whether it was uh you know bush senior or it was republicans during the war um in iraq and of course you know 2018 it was post trump but we have to think beyond those moments beyond the like critical mass horrible republican forces we have to think what does it mean to build an infrastructure so we reach parity and i think what's unique about matriarch is we have a platform that is intersectional it's a platform based on economic justice the green new deal taking no corporate money and and supporting candidates that don't take corporate money um looking at reproductive rights as reproductive justice issues uh criminal justice reform and all of the the progressive movement issues in in the in the best form possible um with the root of no corporate money because we think that you know if you take corporate money um it'll it trickles up from there and then it's that old parable about a a a frog being boiled in a in a pot and of course we know that so if we're electing and looking for women who come from working backgrounds and can relate to these issues personally firsthand then they have that special connection with their communities they know the issues of their community space they take those issues that they face firsthand or or closely into congress and then as we see with the squad and vermila jaya paul and barbara lee i mean there's so many women throughout history who have been elected and and defied the obstacles that took that energy into congress now imagine equal representation with women like that we think they're more electable um we think that they just you know they need infrastructure support they need uh other women and other men of course like yourself having their backs but they need that support the way that the centrists support their their millionaires and billionaires we got to do the same thing for our movement and i think the ecosystem is is growing and we're just another piece of that so please if you can uh chip in some bucks as as mike said it's supporting everything from um our incredible team that's going to be providing resources to candidates whether it's mentorship from our board of advisory or uh trainings or you know we have some fun things in store that i don't want to i don't want to unveil yet uh and of course you know financial assistance uh is important as well so thank you yeah any last thing words from you javanka i just say thank you well uh well said namakey um just you know that it takes all of us right and and and all it takes is just a little bit of either our time or our resources and you know the sum of that um is is really you know what would what's going to help help this movement and so any little bit of of money any build any little bit of any of your resources um we would appreciate uh because we're only going to continue to get the kinds of policies that uh that increase the wealth of the elite class um if we keep electing white men um so in order for us to have the policies that really benefits us all we need women who understand the struggles and the challenges that we face so uh thank you for for having us on the show and and those and those of you who are viewing thank you for supporting this organization we can't do it without you and the women that are running definitely can't do it without you so thank you in advance for all of the sport that you're bringing and thank you both for coming on the mickey cons javanka beckles um the website is matriarchpack.com let me just make my pitch for you all because i think that it's important that i always try to put this into perspective for people when you donate this is kind of like an investment like you're putting in money into an organization that will later essentially pay you back like i always use the end i people criticize me because i use this example every time but it's really important to me so ilhan omar she's not my representative she lives you know in a different state but she introduced a bill that would cancel all student loan debt that's pretty important to me personally right so when we donate to these candidates even if they are not our representatives that still is beneficial so by donating to matriarch you are donating to an organization that is going to help push the envelope further in terms in terms of um getting representation for women and getting policies passed that impact every single person namely working people and working women so thank you both for coming on and making the case i'm incredibly excited we will be following and i'm i'm looking forward to the uh candidate list all right thank you so much mike


Studying neutral tones for Thomas Hardy? Here is how you can analyse this poem. The title neutral tones is bland and colorless, showing that their relationship perhaps has grown cold and bland. Remember Thomas Hardy was unlucky in love, he had two failed marriages, so this could be about the failure of love. The alliteration of we in winter shows how hopeless this relationship became.  The sun is described as being white, it's colorless, showing there's a lack of color in their love. Children of God emphasises that their love was even forsaken by God. A few leaves lay its personification, it's hinting at some death. Sibilance in starving sod shows the love is lacking life. Alliteration and fallen from emphasises death and failure of the love. Ash and gray are monochromatic colors, it shows that their love is lifeless.


You are going to learn how to group rows and column. First select the rows which you are going to group it and right click on it, then select group rows in that option. Now you can see that the rows you have selected is grouped, in similar way you can add as many group you want. As like you did in the rows, you can also group columns by just select the columns which you are going to group it and right click on it, then select group columns. Now you can see that the columns you have selected is grouped.


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