Rice is food to more than half the world's population. Through rice research, scientists at the International Rice Research Institute are finding ways to reduce poverty through improved and diversified rice-based systems, ensure that rice production is sustainable and has minimal negative impact on the environment, improve the nutrition and health of poor rice consumers and farmers, provide equal access to rice knowledge and information. Helping make these goals a reality is Darshan Brar. Since 1987, Dr. Brar has spent a major part of his career working to broaden the gene pool of cultivated rice through wide crossing. Dr. Brar has transferred novel genes from wild grass species to cultivated rice. Moving useful traits from wild rice to cultivated rice is an important plant-beading approach to develop superior varieties for cultivation by the farmers. Wild rice, the ancestor of modern rice, grass-like trim-tip plants, are a treasury of genes for tolerance to major pest and environmental stresses. His team at Erie, in partnership with scientists from other rice-growing countries, has carried out extensive breeding using wild rice. We used conventional breeding and modern biotechnological tools to transfer genetic properties of wild rice. As a result, we developed many breeding lines tolerant to major stresses, such as bacteria blight, blast, tungru virus, and brown plant-hopper disease. These breeding lines have been exploited extensively in rice breeding programs in Asia. Seven of these lines have been released as varieties. In Vietnam, Dr. Brar's team crossed popular IR-64 with a rhizorufipogon, a wild species that grows naturally in acidic soils. His scientific achievements contribute significantly to global food security. Dr. Brar continues to use new tools of genomics to breed rice varieties tolerant of drought and other serious pests that continue to threaten rice productivity and sustainability, making sure that the world eats rice every day.


Hey, everybody. In yesterday's video, we talked about feeling a tightness in your low back after your deadlifting and all the different bottom and middle initial steps of the deadlift that could mess you up. Today I want to talk about the other half of the lift, specifically the top. The top is commonly messed up, especially if someone has tight hip flexors or weak glutes as diagnosed by maybe a physical therapist. If you're really lucky, your medical doctor would look into it, that'd be weird.  What I'm looking for instead is a rounding of the low back. That helps me feel my heels in the ground, that helps me turn my glute muscles on, and that fixes this shortening, this tightness of your hip flexor, and it fixes the weakness of the glutes all at the same time. It's really just a position problem. You should fix the position, and then all the other problems go away. I love this umbrella. I can just be gesticulating. Okay. So, first, primarily, get a nice round low back position at the top of this movement, and then in the stuff that we talked about in the last video, you're arching too much, or maybe you're rounding your back too much. That stuff can still happen if you've fixed it. Let's say you fixed it here, and then you get up here, and maybe even do this lockout really well, and you find your glutes, and you feel pretty relaxed. You feel like you're using muscles and not your low back. And then when you start coming back down, you lose it. This is the first motion that happens, and you just keep arching on the way down. Maybe even you have this little butt wink thing, and I got a lot of pressure in my low back. When I'm doing that, I need to go back to the basics. I need to go back to this start position, and just say, honestly, I'm looking at my video, and I'm not doing this correctly. I'm setting up the right way, and when I get back down there, I lose it. I can't maintain it. So if you can do it, then just say, if you can't do it, figure out how to do it. Go back to my bottom position video from yesterday. Figure out how to do it. And if you are losing it on the way back down, just say, OK, I know the position. Let me just get there sooner. Let me try to get right there. And you're going to mess up the next couple reps.  But you're going to have fewer mistakes, and you're going to learn it. It's a learning process. Your brain is learning a new motor pattern. So you need to teach it, and you need to be patient. So those are the two big issues. Make sure your low back stays round at the top, and make sure you're getting to a good position at the bottom. Nice, not too arched, not too round position at the bottom if you want to keep your back from getting tight during your deadlift.


So with the French Open starting in less than a week, we have some huge names that are not playing the French Open this year and also some players that have some injuries going in to the week before the French Open that maybe had injuries from Rome or before that. Let's go have a look at who is actually officially pulled out and who has an injury cloud over their head going into the second Grand Slam of the year. Starting on the WTA, we have Simone Halleb, of course pulling out because she is still on provisional suspension. Emerotic Carnu pulls out and she'll be out for a while because of wrist and ankle surgery. Vanuet Vanuet has also pulled out. Sable has also pulled out, still recovering from knee surgery and Anissa Mover has also pulled out. She's just taken some time away from the game. Hopefully she'll be back maybe for the US Open series in a couple of months. Over on the men's side, we have Brooksby, he's out, still recovering from surgery. Krino Buster, he's been pulling out of tournaments almost every week so concerning that he is still injured and unable to play the French, Kwan has also pulled out. Chilich has also pulled out which is a shame because he had a really good run here last year at the French, but he's still recovering from knee surgery. Nick Curios also pulling out of the French Open due to injury. He actually had knee surgery. Baratini also pulling out which is a shame because he just can't seem to get any consistency going this year on and off the court. Big one, Rafa Nadal. He has also pulled out, of course we don't know when Rafa's coming back. We haven't seen him since the Australian Open and this is the first time in 2004 that Rafa would not be in the draw. Nanny Murray, he's also pulled out which is a bit strange because he wasn't supposed to play any of the clay court season. Decided to play a few tournaments but then skipping the big one I guess to maybe focus more on Wimbledon and the grass court season. So at this stage, those are the guys that are pulled out. And the players that are in doubt or have an injury cloud over their head, Egas Fiontech. She of course heard her thigh last week having to retire against Rebecca and the quarterfinals of Rome. So hopefully she's alright after a couple of days rest. Linda Benchich also in doubt because of a hip injury that she got before the Madrid Open and had to pull out of both Madrid and Rome. So she's a concern going into the French. Jon Isner, he's pulled out of multiple tournaments due to having another child. So more personal reasons for him. Amunar is also in doubt. Not sure what the injury is but he did pull out of his match against Cochanakis in Rome. So a couple of players there with some serious big names there as well. In Benchage and Fiontech who are in doubt going into the French. So there it is, the list of French open withdrawals and also the players that are going in with some injury concerns. Of course with Fiontech, we'll keep you updated throughout the week on what her moves are because she did put out a tweet over the weekend saying that she's going to get scanned, she's going to get sort of assessments. Just take a couple of days off so hopefully she'll be alright. Let me know down in the comments below. Who are you going to miss the most? I'm sure Rafa will be the popular answer but there are other big names. It's not a massive list like it was maybe in Madrid where we had like 20 people pulling out. There are some big names, obviously Rafa, Mori, Kirios, just to name a few but let me know down in the comments below. Who are you going to miss the most at the French Open this year?


Depos and Petroleum Products Market as Association of Nigeria, DAPMAN, has pledged its support for the federal government's removal of fuel subsidy. DAPMAN's chairperson, Dim Winifred Akmani, made the disclosure on Wednesday at the end of a meeting with President Bola Tinago. She said the association would also support the government's palliative measures by providing between 50 and 100 mass transit buses. Akmani said the buses would be locally manufactured and would use compressed natural gas as fuel. DAPMAN delegation described the subsidy removal as a bold step that put a positive growth for the economy.


Okay, guys, what's up? So I'll be talking about ICOs. What is it? And is it a scam? So what is an ICO? Well, an ICO stands for this initial coin offering. You see, an ICO is similar to an IPO, which is an initial public offering, but a little bit different. I actually consider an ICO merger between like a Kickstarter model and the IPO model coming together. So Kickstarter model is like this, I have this drone idea and I want to build a drone in China. So I pre-sell my drone for like 600 bucks. I crowd-sale the money all around the world, and then I got money for my drone. With the ICO, it's like that, but you're not actually selling a physical product. You are giving away, you're not giving away, but you're offering either cryptocurrency or a token that represents the underlying protocol of your new blockchain startup. But the difference between the IPO, though, is this isn't on the stock exchange. This isn't run by securities and commissions, which I'll be getting into a second. To summarize, an ICO is a blockchain company that is offering its cryptocurrency or token to the general public around the world in exchange for other tokens or other cryptocurrencies. The most classical example or one of the most successful ICOs that kind of kicked this off was Ethereum. So about a couple of years ago, Vitalik created a white paper and they did their own ICO, which is said, hey guys, we are offering this Ether cryptocurrency in exchange for Bitcoin.  They offer their own cryptocurrency. That's what ICOs in general. It's a new form of crowdfunding startup, but much greater than that because the cryptocurrency or the token that represents that new blockchain startup is actually part of the initial protocol. So in Ethereum, you need Ether to run the Ethereum protocol. Without Ether, it collapses. Hence why many ICOs that don't have this type of protocol or don't actually need their token or crypto to be necessary part of their startup. In my mind, I won't touch them, tell you the truth. So I'll just keep it at that. So that's what an ICO is in a nutshell. I'll give you some other examples of successful ICOs.  Those are other ones. You can go check them out yourself. But there are some difficulties with ICOs. I'll tell you some difficulties. So number one is this. First of all, and I'm going to be getting into what do you look out for ICOs. So just if you keep on watching the video, there are some difficulties with ICOs. The first difficulty is this. Depending on what the ICOs offering, whether it's own cryptocurrency or token, there are a difference between those two. So either or whether they're offering a crypto or a token, the actual storage of that new crypto or token is difficult because most wallets or exchanges, which I don't recommend you keep your money on. So most wallets and exchanges don't offer support for that new crypto. So a bunch of these ICOs sometimes give you this weird convoluted method to store their crypto and tell you the truth. It's quite complicated. I myself have lost a bunch of tokens, I would say due to the fact of trying to store it because it just, it's horrible. So that's something to keep in mind. The actual storage of crypto, of the token into a new ICO is not the greatest. Next one, I want to focus on with ICOs are legalities. So for example, with Ethereum, it moved from Toronto to Switzerland. A lot of these ICOs, remember, they are not considered securities yet. They're not regulated yet. And so the issue is a lot of the securities commissions, whether the SEC, they're viewing as a liability. So most of these new ICOs are either going to Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and some other places around the world. So keep that in mind too, is whether it's you, you want to start your own ICO or startup, or whether it's your investing one, keep in mind is where are they legally registered? Because most of these ICOs are actually going from a crypto to a fiat to pay for the development of the new startup they invested in. So finally moving into the important part of the video is should you invest in ICOs? I'm going to say this here, I'm not going to tell you what to invest in. I'm not going to give you any of my picks. I'm not a financial advisor. I'm not a trader. I don't trade. I don't like trading. I don't have time to trade. I'm the Warren Buffett model. I'm long-term investing. Set it, forget it, park it. Okay. I'm going to give you underlying fundamental principles when investing in anything and this applies to ICOs and startups and stocks, etc. This is what I look for. Okay. I have a system of five points. Number one, I look for a strong leader. Without a leader, nothing's going to get done. If we look at Ethereum, Vitalik's a strong leader. If we look at Bitcoin, even though it's a mythical leader, they're still Satoshi. If we look at successful brands such as Tesla, we got Elon Musk, Amazon, we got Jeff Bezos, Alibaba, we have Jack Ma. There has to be a leader that's the glue, that's the visionary that holds everybody together that people can look out up to and also for the leader to do PR. The leader needs to go around the world, talk about a startup, create the community around him, which leads me to my second point. It needs a strong team behind that. So without the team, the leader is nothing and you need a strong dev team, a strong marketing team, a strong biz dev team. And what's really important beyond the fact that you have different cogs of teams is the chemistry among the teams. So when I'm looking at whether it's a startup or a new ICO, I want to interview the team. I want to interview the leader. I want to see how they function together. I want to see the history of them. I want to know what they did in the past. I want to know what their failures were.  Remember, do not invest in technology, invest in human beings. Next, the community. And what I mean by community, I'm talking about the all-encompassing community around the world. What type of community are they nurturing or creating? Are they creating a forward-thinking, open, positive community that promotes development, that promotes growth, or the more closed-minded, maximalist community? So it's really important that this new ICO or this blockchain startup is nurturing a positive community that does good around the world, that promotes openness and that promotes the future awareness of this new technology and this new solution to the problem that they're solving. Next, are they solving a specific problem?  My mind explodes. I have no idea what they're doing. I have no idea what problem they're solving. It's almost like I'm reading Mandarin or something or some Martian language is like, if you can't explain to me in one sentence or in an elevator exactly the problem you're solving, you will fail. Period. Because when it comes down to marketing, if you can't explain that to a regular person or as Einstein states, if you can't explain it to an eight-year-old, you're not a good teacher. It's really imperative that no matter what blockchain startup you start, that you can distill and dilute exactly what you're solving in one sentence. Just keep that in mind. And next one is timing the market. So this is something that you can't control. I've seen many great startups, many great teams, many great people who are great leaders. Unfortunately, the timing of their technology and idea is not yet ready or acceptable by the marketplace. So timing is something we can't control and it's hard to actually validate. And sometimes consider the X factor or the lucky factors. A lot of people consider themselves lucky because if they even came out two years later or earlier, they would have failed. So timing is key. And finally, I'll leave you with this, the tech, which honestly I'm not that big on the tech. I'm not really focusing on the tech because I'm not investing in the tech. I'm not investing in the nodes. I'm investing in human being, the core developers, the community, the leadership. I'm investing in the idea behind it, not the technology. Too many people pull emphasis and way and power on the technology. Technology is not going to grow by itself. So that's the last thing I'm investing. So there's my video for ICOs. I think if I to summarize an ICO is an excellent new opportunity for startups around the world to create cash flow for their business to pay for the development and also to add value back to their investors. Because with ICOs with tokens and cryptos, it becomes liquid. They can exchange it on the exchanges and actually add value and use it for other utilities. But I do want to state there are many scam ICOs out there. I won't name the scam ICOs out there. So I say be be aware. And what you learned today are the fundamentals. Forget about all this other stuff of trying to jump around the boat looking for one cent ICOs, the next 1000 ICOs. If you follow these fundamentals and all top VCs, all great investors, they follow this principle is what I just told you, strong leader, strong team together, strong community, solving a specific problem that it's really easy for somebody to understand timing in the market. And finally, lastly, tech. There you have it. What is an ICO or initial coin offering scam or no scam? It's a little bit of both. If you enjoyed this video, like always, leave a comment below this video. I want to know what your strategy is for investing in ICOs. And finally, if you want me to do another video, leave a suggestion below and I'll make sure I get to it. Have a great day, guys. Peace.


Okay, let's do this mechanism that you already know, the dibromination of cyclohexene. Why are we doing this? Because we're going to compare it to the quote unquote bromination of benzene that doesn't happen. But anyways, just to recall since you didn't, you haven't seen this reaction in a while, let's do the mechanism of it. So bromine looks like that, right? So what's going to happen is once this gets close to this pi bond, what you're going to have is a dipole form and induced dipole, right? So that's going to make this bromine partially positive, this one partially negative because of the negative charge here. So what's going to happen, of course, is this bromine here is going to become electrophilic, as you already know. So once that becomes electrophilic, it's got all those, you know, it's a huge atom. So it's got all those empty orbitals, you know. So what's going to happen is once that becomes electrophilic, it's going to attack like that. And then that's going to break that bond there and also form that bond there. You do that. I could draw either one of the two enantiomers. I'll draw the, I don't know, just for fun, we'll draw the one that goes back to positively charged bromine or a bromonium on it. Because we have no charge over here, we're going to have to have no charge over here, right? As you know that from Jim, you know, VR minus. And then what's that going to do? The least favorite reaction, the SN2 reaction. Backside attack, right? OK. So when that happens, we're going to get a di-bromide. Plus, it's an enantiomer. Of course, this bromine could have attacked from the other way. The ones we do. So the product is actually an issue. So when we react cyclohexene with bromine, it reacts. That's the whole point, right? And if we compare that to the reaction of benzene, right? This is cyclohexene, right? If this was cyclohexatriene, right, we would expect to be, you know, one, two bromines there, one, two bromines there, one, two bromines there. So hexabromines, right? But what happens when we react this with VR2? No reaction. Why? Because it's super stable, OK? And that's what we're going to get into now, OK? So aromaticity brings overly stable structures, OK? It gets overly stable structures. All right, any questions on that? I know we haven't gone into it very much. At least the mechanism of the cyclohexene bromination.


Today on the show we're taking a look at the final part the final official part of funeral for a friend This is funeral for a friend number eight superman number 77. So stay tuned As I said today, we're taking a look at the final official part of funeral for a friend This is funeral for a friend number or part eight Superman number 77 As you can see the end Superman flying off into the Sun, whatever Front cover is kind of misleading This is done by Juergens and breeding we open with Lex Luthor sparring With some martial artists or a martial artist anyway, and she pretty much kicks his ass And he's pretty humiliated by this, but he doesn't really let on right away Low slain comes to see him Paul Kent gets rushed to the hospital because of his heart attack in the last issue He he's he begins to hallucinate Get some pictures here of Superman and Clark Jimmy Olsen is trying to Is turning over some photos for a memorial piece for Superman for a magazine or whatever And he is obviously the official photographer of Superman We then come to the locker room Where the martial artist who pretty much kicked Lex's ass She gets attacked and Killed Eventually in reign of the Superman and return of Superman we discover it was actually Lex who killed her He was very humiliated by the fact that a woman be him that anyone beat him for that matter But especially a woman Anyway, we get to Supergirl and Lois Going to heading towards Cadmus there to try and find Superman's body And then Supergirl Takes off with the body of Superman. He needs to be able to rest in peace. So She takes him back to the tomb, however It's discovered eventually that Cadmus got the samples they needed in order to clone him Lex comes to the tomb and They all verify that Superman is in the casket when they lock it up, you know, he's he's pretty proud You know, he's gonna make sure that Superman stays buried So that's when you get the gotcha part we get Dialogue from Lex as he's standing over Superman's casket. So I went I knew I'd bury you one day You sanctimonious self-righteous pain. I owned this town until you came along There wasn't a man on earth who could stop me from doing whatever I pleased and if anyone dared to interfere They were given a one-way ticket to hell That's the main reason I killed her, you know, that's Sasha witch He's referring to the the martial artist that he killed in the locker room I throttle the life out of her throat or I throttle the life from her throat with my bare hands Just to prove to you that I was king again When they find her body tomorrow all the evidence will point to a janitor at Lex Corp and ex-con no less Of course, he'll deny the murder but no one will believe him and you can't do one blessed thing about it You're dead. You are nothing and I'm back on top and then we end it with the scene of Jonathan Kent his heart stops and He's reaching for Superman That's when we come eventually after this we will get to the white bag With the Superman symbol on it That's when we'll come to the adventures of Superman number 500, which we'll take a look at next week Then we've got one more issue One more part to the funeral for a friend storyline the world without Superman storyline Which will be the epilogue. I'm gonna go ahead and include it with the future funeral for a friend Stories before we do reign of the Superman and return of Superman Even though it takes place after the return of Superman since it's his funeral funeral for a friend tie-in I'm still gonna go and include it So if you liked this video make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos I'm Shane and for Comic NTV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides. Take care my friends


Bournemouth, who've risen from the lower divisions to train blows with the very best. Gnificent! Incredible performance from Harry Arthur. Nificent! Oh! Charlie Daniel! Magnificent goal! Here's the Bournemouth! Oh, it's in! A moment of history for Bournemouth. Their first ever Premier League goal. With his left foot, here's Brox! Coming into range, Steve Koch. Oh, and ANC Bournemouth! Let's finish! Salislaz again! Here's Jermaine Defoe! And it goes from Richie with real pace. False, they've gone in the way! Patience tough, the ball comes in, King takes it down. Can he set for the shot? Just you again! Swung in with Pace Koch. It's 1-0 Bournemouth, and it's no...