The entire storage facilities are being handed over to one businessman. I was recently in Himachal Pradesh and they told me, that the entire apple industry is now controlled by Mr. Adhani. There are three or four ways that they control the farm. The first, as I mentioned, is by ensuring that he does not get loans and when he gets loans and cannot repay them, they are not forgiven. The second is by controlling the storage facilities. The third is by using exports and imports as a weapon against farmers. The moment he is about to sell his product, the export import policy is changed and the value of his product drops drastically. The moment he has sold his product, the export import policy is changed again and the price of the product shoots up. And every farmer in India has one central request. And he is saying that if all producers prices are protected, why is the farmers price not protected? And when he made this request to the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister insulted every single Indian farmer by saying he will not give illegal MSD. And that is why in our manifesto we have clearly stated that we are going to give the farmers of India a guaranteed legal minimum support price across the country. To power in 2024, we are going to protect the farmers' interests by making sure that these type of tactics, these type of strategies are not used against the farmers. We cannot allow policy storage to become weapons that are used against India's farmers. Come, come, come. You come here. Every single country that has grown successfully has grown on the foundation of agriculture. Every single country that has grown successfully has grown on the foundation of agriculture. Every single country that has grown successfully has grown on the foundation of agriculture. Thank you.


And, as I said, Starbucks temporarily shut 8,000 stores this week to conduct four hours of racial bias training for its employees, and new policies will allow guests to use the facilities, the heads, without making a purchase. And how might this change? Businesses like Starbucks, the founder of the Stock Swoosh, Melissa Armo joins us. Melissa, I love it when you are in the studio. I love it when we're together. Thank you so much. We love you all the time. We love you particularly. Who's coming to New York? I love the Big Apple. We will hope that we don't hear the sirens as we're talking. You never know in this city. So there are lots of Starbucks right around us now, and they've got a new policy that allows patrons or non-patrons to use the restrooms. They can go in there without making a purchase, and that's going to not just change business for Starbucks, but I imagine others in this space are also going to be looking at what's going on with Starbucks. What do you think? It's very interesting because did they do this just because of that incident? People used to go into Starbucks all the time. We were talking about this, use their Wi-Fi, and not necessarily buy anything. Was it just because of that incident that they decided to implement now this new policy and whether people do it too? I don't know. As far as the stock goes overall, though, with all this negative press, they really haven't had that much of a negative reaction in the stock. The stock's still holding in a pretty good uptrend, so Starbucks looks good. It's a strong, strong stock. It's a buy, but for other companies, are they going to change their policies? I think it will affect sales because then somebody could go in. They could sit there for four hours, six hours, take up a seat that somebody else wants to sit that wants to buy lunch or coffee or a dessert or whatever. Like any restaurant, McDonald's, any of these places, someone could do that. What if you have a paying customer, and they want to come in and they want to sit down in a table, and then you have a non-paying customer, so it's kind of not fair. It's interesting because Starbucks was the first or at least one of the first major changes to offer free Wi-Fi, so people went and took their MacBooks or whatever and hung out and bought coffee or something and hung out for hours. And so they're sort of on the vanguard of these changes now, where they're going to allow people to use the restrooms, et cetera. But I imagine the pressure on the others because what happens if, for example, some homeless people, I mean, God love them, but come into the establishment, it maybe doesn't smell like fresh coffee anymore, and the patrons stop going to these places, really could impact businesses' bottom lines. As Starbucks, as of course, wants to be a socially responsible company and good for them, lots of companies would like that moniker, but they really care about their bottom lines and so do the shareholders. They still have to make money, yeah, they still have to make money. So if you have homeless people coming in and using the facilities are just kind of camping out there, and you have customers coming in, it may not make as nice of an environment for customers to come in, you may not want to go in there, so that's a problem. Now, has that happened yet? Probably not, or maybe in some places we haven't really heard about it, hasn't been on the news because they just implemented this new policy. But I think that's the danger. That's the danger of any other place doing it, any other restaurant doing it.  I mean, who's to say, or sit at the bar and just drink a water and not buy anything. These stores are there, these restaurants are there, these companies are there, they have to make money. They're trying to please everybody. That's the situation right now in the world that we live in with social media. One thing happens and it blows up to a time-taking bond, and then they have to change all their policies, just like they shut all the stores down when they did that sensitivity training just a couple of days ago. That costs them money. Look and think of the money that they lost just from doing that in that one day. 8,000 stores, four hours closing, a lot of lattes being sold. Exactly. You know, I, in New York here, I happened to take a couple of long walks yesterday and I would stop for convenience along the way. And I don't want to mention the name, but there was a chain, not Starbucks, that I stopped in.  And I just thought this, I think, might be about to change. If you were a member of a board of a Dunkin' Donuts or something, Melissa, is this something that you would demand be raised? This is what I'm saying. If you're on the board, if you're a shareholder, if you're concerned about the stock, you want to make money, but also it's the perception. This is the interesting thing about where we live right now today. Times are changing. It's the bottom, the perception is affecting the bottom line because people may say, well, I don't want to go to this store anymore because I don't like their belief systems. Remember when we were talking about back in during football season about the Papa John's pizza and then the pizza with the NFL? And now the NFL just came out, now they changed their policy anyways. So there again, it has to do with how are people reacting on social media and then, of course, you have to have the company thinking about their bottom line. It's a touchy situation. You've got to have really good people in charge, PR people, people in the background. And ultimately, it's about the employees. You know, it's really unfortunate what happened with Starbucks. That guy, I guess, was just waiting for his friend. I don't really know exactly why that incident happened. It's a shame.  That would be a good move. Melissa Armo, the stock swoosh founder. Thank you so much. Appreciate seeing you here.


You know you didn't record that. Who was it that forgot to press record on the first tee? I think we know who that is, me, something like that. Right, it's no big deal is it? Otherwise I wouldn't get to tell an offer, I reckon. It's no big deal. And you know what happened there? Because we missed another shot as well. That's a chip in a putt. Passed that. Lewis played a great iron off the tee. A great... Oh, and that was a birdie start. Pick that one up. So yeah, I missed the tee shots, but we're underway at gunner number two. That's a half to start the match. And a big question will be coming shortly. All a bit of a formality really, seeing as I've lost my ball. This is for birdie. Well, trust me, then green. Oh, lightning. Pick it up, Lewis. Yeah, well done. Right, so stood up on the fourth tee at gunner. The great backdrop this is. I'm going to have to get livened up in terms of the game, but the first question is from David Tasker, played in the average golf day. And he basically said, I'm going to abbreviate his question. He stands on a tee, and he'll often play a hole better when he takes iron off the tee. He scores better. They'll get on that same tee with a group of players. They just reach for the driver, and he feels obliged to reach for it. Yeah, explain this one to me. I come away where 16, 17, irons, you know... Sorry, sorry. 17, 18 scored well. 18 driver, bindi, blob. I think it would be...  There's obviously something you're doing with your irons that you're not doing with your driver.  Driver is harder to hit. But I think you've got it really good, I think. Well, my answer is probably... I think it's a good analogy, playing with Lewis or playing with better players. If you play with some real good players, the tendency is you get a little bit scared, they drive the ball for miles. Big Itters is a good example. And you get to that tee, and you feel like you've got to keep up with them. And the reality is you can't. So I think the biggest thing I would say, and the thing I've learnt over the years, is play your own game, stand on that tee, pick the club that suits you. And... If you're not coming to where you've drive with them, if you don't put the work in or...  Or get a lesson. It's not ideal, but I'm on the green anyway. I don't want to get a shot. Right, question time. Stuart Morris. He asked the question about playing your ball as it lies. He's saying, should amateurs have to play it as it lies? And he's talking about tree stumps on gravel, on stones. I think he's on about, he's paid good money for his clubs. A pro will play from where it lies, but he's getting free clubs and all that. Thoughts on that one, Lou? I think he needs to take a penalty drop. Yeah, well, obviously that's an option open. It might be a bit blunt, but this doesn't have to play from there. The option is two club lengths, one shot. I appreciate the, you know, it seems a little bit harsh, but I think the rules there for... Well, you just get... It's one of them rules that would be abused. It's quite a rare situation that you find yourself. So if you're that concerned about damaging your clubs, I think take the free drop. Second question, follows on, it's a similar type of question, but John Yoren asked about should they have changed the rule about playing in divots? So your ball lands in a divot, horrible thing. So you're going to take it out of the divot? You're basically a free drop, wouldn't you? What do you think on that one? I think, again, it's a similar answer to the last one. It's open to abuse. I think the problem is, if you let that happen... So, yeah, if you get any scruffy light... Yeah, I agree. If you could get any scruffy light, and you go, oh, I'm in an old divot, I'm just going to roll this out. I think ideally, if it could be monitored properly, but it can't. It leaves a grey area, doesn't it? I've got all this birdie... Not birdie, but long par putt. Right, Luc, so I've got effectively two for a half. It's a great par. Look at that. Look at that. That's one of the better ones I think I've ever seen. Lou? You can have that. He's just said, I've got a better idea of pace now we've played a couple of holes.  Hoit one left for the second. It's just golf, mate. Chance, Lou. That's me for the four. This for the half. The game is one. I've sort of hung on in there and got it back to as ever, a few shots off Lou, so that's got me... And one down, but he's got this to keep it up, well, keep himself one up. And then we're going to ask a big question. The big question. First big question is on Louie. Can he hold this? You might have picked that up on a camera from back there, but believe me, that got very, very close and then took a bit of a swing. Are product reviews YouTube product reviews, are they honest? Are they always honest? Let me give some context to this, because the reason I like this question is because it was asked, I did a... Asked it all the time, don't we? Asked it all the time. There's often we're going to talk about some criticisms of reviews, which question integrity and honesty. I'm going to start off with... Did the Homer review, or I did a Homer review recently of a driver. And it was probably one of the most negative reviews, let's say, that I've ever give. And I think that you start the question, then, everybody sort of applauded the honesty. But does that lead to... That would lead me to suggest that the positive reviews... Well, that's what I want to talk about, yeah. First of all, when you watch... Prior to being involved in YouTube you weren't a great watcher of those things, but let's say you read it in a magazine, then.  You know, apart from you. Yeah, in review-wise, yeah, yeah. Review-wise, it's always pros, so it's hard to sort of take on, you know, because I know that I can hit certain clubs or don't hit certain clubs as well as a pro, so you know, I think it's difficult to... But essentially, they don't make bad clubs anymore, do they? They don't. No, but let's just stick to the point, the honesty elements. Do you believe when you're watching reviews? Because I do. I mean... Yeah, I would always take people off what they say. I don't think... Because people don't gain anything for being positive or negative. Well, I think that's the question, isn't it? The question's often asked, and specifically to YouTube. I know it's been leveled at me, and I'm going to go to the other end of the spectrum in part two of this answer, because it might take a while and we've got a game not too far behind us. But the first instance is that I think people question, yeah, what are you getting to say those nice things? Yeah, you don't get... Well, let's be honest, you get access to the product, you get access to all the products, so there's no, like, bias towards anybody, but it's a big deal. People can pay for a fitting and get access to the product, don't they? Yeah. Working for four golf would... I get to it, but I don't get it. I don't gain anything or lose anything for being positive or negative. But when I watch other ones, I think, well, that's fair enough, that's their opinion, and I wouldn't have a question in their opinion go to bad. I just don't think...  I do think, and I've always said that, you know, the idea you cannot be, and this is only going to be leveled at one person, you can't be sponsored by a manufacturer, a product manufacturer, and do club reviews. That's my opinion, because no matter what happens, human nature would be or my human nature... then you're questioning. So that's where I question honesty in reviews. I can see a game coming over the brow. We'll pick this one up again in a minute because I think there's a bit more to say on it. In terms of the match... I don't want any golfers. I don't want any golfers.  Yeah, good ball, a bit down on the left, but that's fine. Leave the tee for us, Luke. So in terms of the match, I managed to get back... Yeah, yeah. Square. Feeling a bit under the pump, to be honest. Well, I think as ever, it's the shot situation sometimes a little bit... There's one on here. Is there really? Yeah, yeah. Tough all this one. Yeah, right. It's got a little bit too much left to right, and I went and picked it up. But I just want a while to study here again because we're only on the next tee, but it's a stunning backdrop. The thing for me, again, is the... where we're going, we're doing a crossover.  It's a bit about... the honesty bit. I think it's a big deal. It's a massive deal for me on a personal level.  I don't mind comments. People call me bald, boring. A personal abuse I can take. But the comment that gets me is when people question your honesty and integrity. So, that's my integrity. So, that's why my channel is built on that. So... I don't know how it's been any more. I wonder if you all will... Yeah, I don't suppose no-one likes that. Yeah, and I think that across the board from, like, other YouTubers, I don't think there would be a reason for anyone to give a... a review for any... reason, then, an honest review. I think so. I mean, that's the way I... that's where I take them, like I said. But I just want to mention, because it gives me an opportunity, really, to answer a question that I don't really get involved with. And it's the PXG irons, because when I put the PXG irons in the bag, for some reason, that was the one, and it's the videos that I always get where I get sparked with the infomercial, you know, that I'm in their pocket. They've given me the clubs. How am I getting out of them? And it's exactly the same for every manufacturer, and that's why what I... the thing with me, and I'm obviously on my soapbox here a bit, is I love the fact that everybody said, right, we love this review on the homer... driver, because it was honest. Well, the thing was, it was negative. And for some reason, honest negativity seems to be more applauded than honest positivity. So listen, I appreciate everybody saying that, you know, they applaud honestly, so I love that from the video we did. But for anyone in terms of the PXG thing that really gets me, is that, like I said, that's where integrity is questioned. I can assure you, when I do a review, every one of them is honest. I'm not swayed either way. I couldn't care less whether, you know, there's every chance, let me tell you this, there's every chance that one manufacturer have had a little bit of a spat the dummy out with a review that I did. Yeah? I reckon. We shall see when the next product release comes along. But, and if they do, they do.  So for me, in answer to the question, and it is, well, it's the big question in terms of this episode, I think that I can... I would love your comments. I forgot that bit, Lou. Certainly, your comments down below is the big deal. But for me, in answer to the question, I know 100% that my reviews are honest. And I believe that everybody that's reviewing out there, not just sitting on a fancy item, they're giving an honest assessment of the product. A long may continue. Anyway, let's get this match finished off. Being really nice to each other, because that bunker shop was insane. It's fine to give me four. Yeah, I must have made to have, I always can be chicken. This is for a three on a chateau. I would love it. I was worried, I'd say this would be good enough for this to go in. Bit of a swinger, I think. I actually thought it was in the hole when we were walking up. It was such a good shot. That's literally nose dive right at the last. I can't believe that's a four net three. I feel slightly guilty with the win on that, mate. I can't do it so far, right? He's in the perfect position. What the... Are you... I've just been... That is like... Right, so a few microphone issues. I'm not sure if you got our commentary on where we're at.  So we walked a few hours and said we're struggling with time. We're playing now, is this 17? This is 17. 17, and I don't think there's a better T position to finish it off. That's all number two.  I didn't think I had that in the locker, to be honest. It's all right with me, don't I say? I don't have it now. What was that? That's incredible. That's some drive. Put me under. So, yeah, so we're all square. I'm going to borrow Louie's drive. I don't really know what to say there. That was awesome, mate. I thought he was going to land right in the middle of the green. It's not far short of it. He's only followed me. Mate, they're literally... Here's me thinking I was a good driver of all and it's just a club. Mate, they're shot for shot then. I love the shaft that's in there. That was a good flight as well. Yeah, I want it to be bang on anyway. I don't think you can tell. Here's on camera. Point is, fine low all to play for. Guller number two has been absolutely safe. He's so good. Yeah, really good. He's got us the weather. Right, I said fine low, but there's not enough drama there, Lou. No. The van ended up too tidy for us, can you? It was a bit of a boring finish, really. Great golf hole, boring finish. Come on. Right, Louie's on driver. Straight back into the clubhouse. It's fairly short, this 305. So he's not going to have much left if he gets one going. Oh, absolutely ripped there. I'm pretty sure that camera will pick that one up. Awesome shot. Awesome shot. This is where, obviously, I've been playing mini-driver and I'm a great advocate of the mini-driver. You're playing into the wind here on these courses and having that extra bit of muscle off the driver. Well, it has been a help on a few holes that we've played. The ones you haven't seen, really, wasn't my best to hopefully avoid the bunker. Get out. Yeah, it's fine there. A bit of luck there. Just slipped by that bunker. 89 in. He's done me like a different in terms of the drive this time round. That was 305 into the breeze and he's just come up short. I've got 89 in. I've got a feeling they'll make birdies in there. Right, Adam. Right, Adam. That is a great shot. Happy with that. He's got to make a chip in a putt. Battle of the putters, Lou. Battle of the putters. I thought you'd got that. I thought you'd got that a bit closer, I think. Oh, I know. Maybe it was the pressure. Yeah, maybe. I actually take my glove off for the first time. I think I could have got it closer with the putter, to be honest. Where I was off the table. There's a bit of movement in this, you know. Again, they're very subtle. They're kind of... Well, unless I've read it wrong. Right. To put the pressure on. Oh, my goodness. It's all shooting. Threw it further away from the hole as well. Wow. That looked in even from over here. It looked in, it's literally all the way. You can't believe that, but it's threw it a mile away. Anyway. Do you want it out? Yeah. I'm so glad you made that. I didn't want to have to hole that out. I'm glad you've hauled out for birdie. Pick that one up, bud. Well done. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. Comment down below to the discussions we've had. But also, comment for the next video. And we'll see where we film this. Well played, mate. We enjoyed it, don't we? Yeah, loved it. Gullon number two, just a quick mention. Thanks to Gullon for allowing us to film here. But I mentioned the Gullon number two. A lot of courses in this area. Sometimes it can be a bit pricey. But Gullon number two is a great value for money option. Yeah, underrated. I thought it was absolutely top draw. Must play, I think you said. Right, see you soon. Time for a pint.


The police trust fund should be independent of the police and government bureau crazy and trustees should make all the decisions to ensure efficiency. The rule of law and accountability advocacy center gave this recommendation while briefing newsmen in Lagos. Destiny Momo has more. On 24th June 2019, President Buhari signed the Nigerian police trust fund establishment bill into law to provide funds for the training and retraining of personnel of the Nigerian police force. Provide them with state of the art security equipment to improve the general welfare of the personnel of the Nigerian police force and enhance their preparedness among others. Over time, consents have been raised to some of the many barriers to the effective performance of the PTF. Convener of Rulak Okechukunwanguma speaks more on the essence of the trust fund and what is needed to be done going forward. We came here to do an assessment of the implementation of the police trust fund two years after it was signed into law by the president to find out how far they have been able to achieve the mandate of providing additional funding for the police in the absence of the adequate funds for the federal government. The ratio of structure has also been identified as making it impossible for the fund to operate. Some members of civil society present were quick to observe the challenge of indiscipline and the limit to how much the executive secretary can approve. They are good ones. They are good policemen. Not because they are bad acts there, you know, we count all of them together. They are good policemen and women. And when you meet them, you fall in love with them. These men and women, to be frank with you, they suffer. Some of them don't have, you know, their salary is nothing to talk about. Some of them, when you get to their divisions, they don't have anything to work with. Wangumar also speaks on other bureaucratic bottlenecks. When I talked about bureaucracy, I'm talking about one, the structure of the police trust fund. First of all, you have different layers of authority, which includes the police. It's not supposed to be so, because the police is a beneficial organization. It ought to be outside, the trust fund is supposed to be outside of the police. Outside the board of trustees, you have an implementation committee, outside that the act also gives the beauty, the power to appoint other committees. The Nigerian police trust fund, in essence, seeks to achieve an overall improvement in the efficiency of the police force, including its auxiliary staff in Nigeria and abroad. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.


Now we're going to discuss stereotactic biopsy, troubleshooting, and micromarkers. So sometimes when we do stereotactic breast biopsies, we run into roadblocks. I would say 90% of the time, stereotactic biopsies are super simple, super straightforward, and flow very well. But when they don't, they're really difficult. So what are some problems we can run into? One, the breast can be too thin, and that means we aren't able to have an adequate stroke margin. The ways we can fix this is bolsters can be used such as towels, foam, and other material to give the breast a bulge. Tape can also be wrapped around the breast near the chest wall to push more tissue anteriorly. Another issue can be lesions are too close to the chest wall. When this happens, and we need to get more posterior, you can put the patient's arm through a hole and have them hold on to something below to drop the breast further into the image. Sometimes the needle is in and the lesion is still too far away from it. Sometimes the lesion moves when the needle is fired. Positioning the trough above or below the lesion can help for this. When we're done our biopsy, we do the specimen radiograph, and we're supposed to see calcifications within the specimen radiograph. However, once in a while, we do multiple samples and don't see calcifications. So when we don't see calcifications, we should relook at a scout image and then we should reposition the needle if necessary and rebiopsy. Here's a specimen radiograph and we can see there's multiple specimens and we can see calcifications in this specimen here and probably some up here. So this is adequate and does not require rebiopsy. Micromarkers, before placing a micro marker, you want to confirm that there are no other micro markers in the breast. So before I go in to do a biopsy, I always look at the patient's last mammogram to ensure there are no other micro markers. If there are, I ensure that I use a different shaped micro marker for each different biopsy so that there's no confusion in the event that something needs to be excised. You want to really remember that the micro marker is something that stays in the breast and needs to avoid contamination at all costs because if it does get contaminated, it can be a nitice of infection. So I always make sure not to uncover the micro marker until I'm ready to put it in the breast and then while I'm putting it in, I make sure it doesn't touch anything before it gets into the introducer. You want to try to place the biopsy marker in the center of the lesion. And it's really important to remember the introducer for the micro marker is longer than the biopsy device and the introducer. So what happens is you can hub your biopsy device in your biopsy device introducer and you don't have to worry about going further than the introducer tip. With the micro marker introducer, it's longer. So you always want to make sure because what you don't want to do is just hub it and end up in the lung. So really important to go slowly and watch the tip of your introducer come out of the biopsy introducer. Then you want to do a post clip mammogram to confirm click placement and you want to make sure the clip correlates with the mammographic finding if applicable. And if it does not correlate, you can stereotypically biopsy the asymmetry or you can do a follow up depending on the suspicion of the finding. Here are the biopsy micro markers. So they're in this device here and they're inside and you use a plunger mechanism to plunge them out. And here's what they look like. There's ribbons, wings, coils, and here's what they look like in the breast. We actually at our institution call them breast bling. Makes them sound much more attractive to patients having them. So another issue now that we're talking about clips is clip migration. So you can have clip migration after biopsy. So this is a good example. We have a patient who had biopsy, these calcifications in the medial breast. And after we put the clip in, we see the biopsy changes in the medial breast, but we see the clip has migrated laterally. And so this can be a problem. You want to always hope that there are some residual calcifications. So in the event that this comes back as malignant or sign that needs to be excised, you can just localize the calcifications and not worry about the clip. And that is that for Stereotactic Biopsy.


So YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on is engraving here with another video and in this video We're here to talk about my post game thoughts as y'all know since we've been doing the post game thoughts for years now What that is is a more condensed version of the post game live stream because y'all know them post game live streams They can go they can go and not everybody can watch the replays of that So this is a more a shorter version of that and without me being able to get distracted by live stream comments Which I appreciate and shout out to everybody that came through for the live the live stream during the game and the live stream after the game I appreciate y'all rocking with us for those What four hours or five hours have along it was I appreciate it cuz we had a lot of fun. So now Just to jump straight into it Tyler Huntley Tyler Huntley Going into this offseason. I felt like he was a number two quarterback last night Continued that and he just he just looked better than trace He looked better than trace. He looked he made better decisions than trace and He he did this thing now He did have both of them had each had a turnover trace had the interception on that throw it He was like, I one of these receivers got to be down there somewhere and just toss it up And Tyler Huntley he had to turn over where he was scrambling and he was like, alright, man I ain't sliding. I take whatever here whoever want to try to hit me. Okay. Go ahead. Try it try it and They tried it and they succeeded and they knocked the ball out But he ended up bouncing right back from that and getting a touchdown. So shout out to Tyler Huntley Probably one of my favorite throws from him of the night wasn't even a completion It was the pass to Tyler Wallace with tight great throw, but Tyler Wallace just couldn't The timing of his feet on the ground and it was just tough. It was a great catch though great catch But it was in completion because both his feet weren't down But Tyler Huntley is just crazy his the similarities that he has to Lamar Jackson and Before he even steps on the field because with the hair they both they both got the same hair They both obviously from down here. So they from the crib. So that's a plus But just that their body language there their energy the way that they are Pre snap is just when you watch Tyler Huntley. You just see so much Lamar Jackson In him and it's it's crazy. It's one of the craziest thing that they don't run the same. They do not run the same but a Lot of this stuff just the way that they when they're feeling it like when they plan with confidence and they like things are rolling You can see it and they just they look like the same person man. It's it's crazy man So shout out to Tyler Huntley and shout out to trace McSawley, too Because trace McSawley, it was a little bit up and down for him But I think one thing that was consistent with both quarterbacks one thing that was consistent with all running backs, too was the offensive line and they were consistently a Medium-sized yikes throughout the game and again the reason I say because I know it's a lot of people tripping about the offensive line right now But again, it wasn't all starters out there. Now. There was some starters, you know Bradley Bowes when they said he got an ankle spring So nothing serious Zitler he wasn't out there Stanley wasn't out there, but Alejandro Villanueva. I know He struggled my guy he struggled, but it's part of the process and it's he's making a little transition right now and He's just going through a growing pains so hopefully In this preseason, it's the first game of preseason the first time you're going up against somebody else now They have said he's been struggling a bit in training camp. So but Hopefully just get get it all out of system now and again We got to remember he was not playing with starters next to him. He was a starter But I starting right guard whoever that's gonna be No, I started right guard gonna be Zitler. He wasn't there. So he wasn't even playing next to a starter I started left guard whoever that's gonna be he wasn't there unless he was but It's just so the offensive line I know a lot of people freaking out about the offensive.  There's no way But they did So yeah, man offensive line run blocking for the most part was pretty bad all night past blocking It was it was in and out It was really in and out but run blocking for the most part all night. It wasn't good Now J K didn't do much of anything, but he got out Williams number 34 He got a couple of nice runs off But for the most part he wasn't doing too much of anything in McCrary number 18 He was toting that thing man. He was trying man. He when he broke he broke But he was like pushing and he was holding the bar You could tell like he he was running like he got something to prove He really trying to get a spot on that Ravens roster, man So shout out to them Ben Mason, they had him playing full back the whole night had him on special teams He made a really nice tackle on special teams. So that was nice to see from Ben Mason I still do believe that he is going to be a stash candidate when the time comes Because I just do not see them keeping both Patrick Ricard and Ben Mason on this roster The only way I would see that happening is if they had Patrick Ricard take more snaps on on a defensive line Start taking snaps on a defensive line class. Yeah, I don't think he really took much of any but That would be the the only way but I don't see that happening. So I think Ben Mason ends up getting stashed But hey, we'll see Josh Oliver made a couple of nice catches. He did have that one Awkward drop where he kind of tipped it up in the air because he didn't he didn't know the ball was coming yet It could have been a catch, but he wasn't ready for it yet and Tyler Huntley It wasn't placed in the best spot. It was still catchable But it just it was bad timing for them on that play for both of them Tyler Huntley threw it a little too early than Josh Oliver was anticipating and Tyler Huntley didn't put in the best spot But thank goodness it wasn't an exception and then on another play that Tyler Huntley threw to Josh Oliver He threw it to him and it was a completion, but Oliver had to awkwardly like turn up field So it wasn't put in the best spot So that's something to to just watch for moving forward Tyler Huntley his ball placement I don't think it's an issue. It wasn't a big issue because it was just those two plays just him and Josh Oliver so they just Got it gonna had to get into more of a rhythm with each other because they would everybody else It was just fine. It was just fine Especially that pass to Benjamin Victor and it was Benjamin Victor. It was so cool because I remember um, I called two plays in a row I called the um, I Called the the touchdown run with Tyler Huntley. I was like, oh, yeah He bought the run it in for a touchdown and then right after that I was like, oh they going for two. I fade the Benjamin Victor fade the Benjamin Victor They did both of them, but the Benjamin Victor one ended up being a PI and then how did they go for two after that? I think they gave it to Williams and then he got in So I didn't think they were gonna do that, but they I'm glad that it worked So shout out to them Greg Roman just to get on Greg Roman for a little bit I know I've been seeing a lot of chatter about the play calling the play calling with Tracy McSully versus the play calling with Tyler Huntley and the fact that it was a bit different now early on From beginning it wasn't different on that first drive when it was third and five or third and six And they called that QB drip the QB draw with Trace is like no I think Greg Roman was he was thinking about Lamar Jackson He's thinking about Tyler Huntley, but he I think since Trace be chilling with them boys man Greg Roman must have thought Oh, yeah, Trace. He's up to speed like literally with them He should be as fast, but now that wasn't the case They did that QB draw and he got caught immediately right away But it was definitely the best play call, but and I saw a lot of people they let oh, yeah Greg Roman He's in mid-season form. So we are ready to go So it that was just a head scratcher But something else to think about too is the preseason is the preseason so they're not gonna show all this stuff But at the same time There can be some concern and some worry because we know how Ravens have operated But right now, I think it's too early to worry about play calling if we start seeing that in regular season like If if we don't see like significant improvements through week three Then I think it may and of course it all depends on how the games are going It all depends on the floor the game because every game is not the same every opponent is not the same every opponent's defense It's not the same so we're just we'll see how that goes with giro and company But they are there people saying oh man. Well, they call in different plays for Tyler Huntley and trace McSawley and You got to think that with Tyler Huntley He's a lot closer to Lamar Jackson than trace McSawley is and when the offense was under Tyler Huntley It's a smoother transition Not that the offense can't be run with trace McSawley, but since Tyler Huntley is a lot closer to Lamar Skill set then trace McSawley is then that makes it an easier process now something that some people pointed out Which again, I saw but I didn't realize that I was seeing it was that the Ravens were playing a lot from under center And with them playing from under center that just opens up the playbook that much more So that was a good thing. I think James crochet onto the wide receivers Devon Duvenay started off hot cool down a little bit But I think he had like three catches. I believe So and he was making some contested catches. So it was good. It was nice to see that James crochet He had one catch Other receivers Tyler Wallace he drew to pass interference And then he had the sideline in completion And then he had the fumble too, which was unfortunate So hopefully he'll have a bounce back game next week because again with Tyler Wallace I just had not I had not been hearing anything I had not been hearing his name throughout training camp So I was unaware if he was doing good if he was doing bad like what his status was for training camp. So Now that like the game last night pretty much let us know where he's at But so he's getting there. He's getting there though. He's getting he's a rookie. He's a rookie This was his first NFL game So again cannot overanalyze anything and he showed promise like I say drew to pass interference And that catch on the sideline was nice catch man, but it was an incompletion Gray called a really nice pass from Tyler Huntley took he got hit by like three Three Saints at the same time was still held on to the ball. So that was nice Benjamin Victor he had two catches and one of them was a pass that got tipped Actually, both ends catches the past got tipped. I just realized that both of them the one with Tyler Huntley in the Not in the back of the end zone, but along the sideline that one got tipped by a wolf And then the the one earlier than that It was like a maybe a five six yard completion that one got tipped I think by the defensive lineman, but he still called both so good concentration by Benjamin Victor Of course, um Deion King didn't play Hollywood Boykin didn't play but We just whenever Ravens return to practice I would think it would be either Monday or Tuesday whenever they return to practice the headline that I'm expecting to see Hollywood Brown returns to practice Because when you saw him and Lamar throwing passes to each other and Hollywood was cutting and jumping for the ball Oh, yeah, he's ready. He's ready. So whenever Ravens return to practice I can almost guarantee you that we're gonna have that we're gonna see that from whether it be Jeff Zrebek Jameson Hensley Ravens official account. It's gonna say. Oh, there goes that number five There goes that number five because he he looked ready. He looked ready So that is a positive sign. That's a great sign and I love him. I love I can't wait So shout out to Hollywood. We'll see you very very soon my friend Jay Jaylin Moore, I think he had he had a nice catch I mean, I remember doing Hollywood stream the other day. He was saying watch out for Jaylin Moore Watch out for Jaylin Moore So he had a really nice catch who else and I think that pretty much sums up the offense Trying to think if I missed anybody, I don't think so But anyway special teams Justin Tucker 56 y'all field goal, but Verity Verity with a 53 y'all field goal. So Lot of Ravens fans are already thinking of which which the next team that Verity is gonna be on who the Ravens gonna flip this guy for What draft pick are they gonna flip him for? What are they gonna get for Verity? Because if he's out there chilling with Justin Tucker out there kicking 53 y'all field goals in an era where Field goal for field goal kickers are more and more important Especially sit for the extra point since they moved it back a couple of years ago So field goal kickers are very important. You need those guys And he if he's chilling with Justin Tucker, then he knows how to be clutch He knows how to kick the longers and show and he may even know how to sing opera too. So shout out to Verity Johnny Townsend, I think Sam Cooke got one point early on but Johnny Townsend to handle it for the rest of the night I believe something with him though And initially I was thinking like okay to shout out to Johnny Townsend because he'd been he'd been around a team But he knows he's not gonna make the team but at the same time He could be waiting for Sam Cooke to either be released or retire next year because obviously not happening this year Because that's what happened with Nick Moore Ravens continued to keep Nick Moore the long snapper around on a practice squad all year and a lot of us were like why why why why But then at the end of the year they ended up releasing Morgan Cox He went to the Titans and then I was like, okay, that makes sense So we'll see how the Ravens do with Johnny Townsend See if they end up keeping him on the practice squad and that'll sort of give you an indication with Sam Cooke possibly So we'll see now on to the defense defense. Um, well, they had six turnovers, I think They had six turnovers and they had I think they had three turnovers in the first quarter alone But that defense the starters the depth guys everybody was on it Now one thing that I did see from Taysum Hill that I saw from James Winston and that I saw from Book, I think it was book they were not afraid to go not necessarily deep but those intermediate routes those um, yeah, I guess yeah a little bit deep They weren't afraid to go deep on the Ravens not too deep But they weren't afraid to get some nice little chunk plays on the Ravens throughout the game throughout the game But Ravens defense what they would do they did a lot of bending, but not well, they did do some breaking too But they a lot of time they were bend but not break because they were for some turnovers Like these these same with your fumbling that ball out of nowhere They would just keep fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling fumbling. It's like whoa, okay But so that was nice to see shout out to Ravens defense Broderick Washington Very disruptive from jump. I'm glad he got his opportunity Especially with Kalaeus Campbell ran at Williams, Pernil McPhee and Derek Wolf all being out So the defensive line was obviously a little bit short on people with Broderick Washington He was doing this thing early. Just a matter BK was out there. He was a bit disruptive too But he wasn't out there for too long Broderick Washington. I don't even think he was out there for too long So they they both look good Crawford I think yeah, I think it was Crawford. He made a couple of plays The pass rush though the pass rush Dalyne Hayes He was getting after me. He was getting after Tyus Bowser For the limited amount of time that he was out there. He was doing this thing too. Dalyne Hayes end up getting a sec But the story of last night, I think had to be a daffy away Number 99 and everything that you've been hearing about and practicing all that. It's all true It's all true Every last bit of it. It's all true That guy he was showing out He really he really did his thing last night, man Even got him a third of a sack because like I said, I think they should give the sack to all three people Because a daffy away red be the beaters the offensive linemen beat his tackle Open his arms up and tried to close in on the quarterback And he started the sack and then Chris Smith and I forget I still forgot who the last person was I don't know if it's Brandon Stevens or who but The other two ended up closing it out So shout out to a daffy away. He made a really nice tackle on was it a screen pass or was it a run? I think it might have been a run But he made a really nice tackle he because he got some long arms man He got long arms. So he grabbed the running back in throw him down to the ground So a daffy away is so far so good. So we love it Patrick Queen Patrick Queen looked really really good in the limited amount of time that he was out there He was out there for like a couple of drives, but he looked good He looked decisive. He looked smart So shout out to PQ And he diagnosed the screen really good to and stopped it now Ravens did give up a couple of screens now They gave up some big runs and they gave up some big screens and they gave up some big passes So again, it's preseason But and it wasn't just it wasn't starters out there playing the whole time But just some little fine-tuning here and there that they can do For PQ look good Malik Harrison Malik Harrison who on the Ravens first official depth chart, he's listed as a starter next to PQ It's looking like that could actually happen because they had LJ Ford out there like Really throughout the rest of the night playing with all the backups back up. So That'll be something to look out for because I really thought that LJ Ford would be the starter this year and they was like slowly transitioned to Malik Harrison But maybe they like a all we needed was an offseason We needed a true offseason for Malik Harrison to get up to speed for him to get right So we'll see we'll see because um, you know teams are faster than ever They may want that speed that that youth out there Um, so we'll just see how that goes throughout but Malik Harrison looked comfortable um CJ board he had a fumble recovery So that was nice Christian Welch that thumper he ended up getting the shoulder stinger So he came out the game. He didn't finish it. So we'll see what happens with that Um, so yeah, that would do it for the linebackers the cornerbacks I last night I initially thought when we were doing our review I thought that Marlon Humphrey didn't play but that he actually did Um, and somebody told me in the comment section that he actually gave up a third down So I didn't even remember. I remember Marcus Peters though.  Uh, and then he ended up I mean smart play from from Taysum Then he ended up going up top And number one, I forget what his name was but number one caught the ball number one was doing this thing Where it's night for the saints Um and and taevon young ended up it ended up being a completion But taevon young hit him out of bounds but speaking of taevon young he looked healthy wasn't playing scared wasn't playing like timid anything Um, so shout out to him. That was nice to see uh Just moving around the whole secondary not even just corners or safeties. We just talk about it all Brandon Stevens. I loved everything that I saw from this dude Everything they had him blitz and they had him covering this dude was always around the ball carrier. He's a physical guy He got some good instincts. He was killing it, man He really was and the ravens had him out there early and often So that lets you know that's an indicator of how they feel about this guy Because we've been hearing about him in training camp and stuff about them using him a lot blah blah blah But I don't really get caught up too much in all that training camp talk because that's one thing When we actually see it on the field though, it makes it real So it became real last night that these ravens really like Brandon Stevens. So shout out to him and I just hope he continues to do well Ardarius washington undrafted rookie free agent They had him at safety. They had him at corner.  He almost had a pick It was on the third and long and he jumped it and he almost had it But he just couldn't quite catch it. But that's fine because you didn't give up the play So shout out to Ardarius washington. Um he It's gonna be excited man to see what these guys do and then I mean speaking of a third safety third times the charm Gino stone Gino stone, uh, leave no stone unturned and he didn't He got the diving pick and then he got the other pick where uh, chris westerie Ended up like sort of running into the wide receiving the ball at the at the perfect time And then it ended up getting popped up and gino stones at the right place at the right time Like somebody in the comments said last night But he's made the right play Because we've seen a lot of times from really every team not obviously not just the ravens But in the nfl players can be at the right place at the right time But they don't always make the right play. So we got to give gino stone his credit He's trying to make this a hard decision for the ravens when it comes to safety Because he's on a one-year deal jordan richard's on a one-year deal and the levine's on a one-year deal So the the safety of the ardarius washington undrafted rookie free agent So those safeties are like oof So the only safeties who are like safe is obviously the shine elliot chuck clark Um and also uh brandon stevens But but he obviously beyond that No You know safety is safe And I still I don't really think we have a true Free safety But we'll see how these guys how they end up being used and Just the evolution of all of our safety because all of our safeties are pretty young They're pretty young but it seemed like we just got a bunch of like box of strong safeties Not saying that these other guys can't do it because um But we'll see man. We'll see how it goes Uh Who else who else? Trying to think if i'm missing anybody, but I think oh westry westry westry um Big he was a he was a gunner. They had westry in a doubt fair way as gunners So you got them two long fast like crazy athletic guys at your gunners like man, that's that's wild man That is wild like wild um So but chris westry I like him. I didn't know anything about him going into this season And I heard stuff from different people about him, but watching him last night I liked him. He's a long guy with six four, but he's fast. He's tall. He's physical too. Um, and He could be something man. He could be something and I think He has a an opportunity big opportunity, especially with the the injury to jimmy smith The the current injury and jimmy smith's injury history So I think chris westry could end up being somebody that they want to keep around Um, so we'll see how that goes.  Oh taunting. That's like come on there. Um anthony avid Hurt my heart for anthony avid last night because anthony avid and this is something with him. Um, Just his his play style. He he's not getting burnt. He's not getting beat over the top He's not getting dog. This he's not get oh, he's not getting any of that stuff But with him the thing is that he'll be there around the play, but he won't Make the play on the ball Like he'll be right there, but he just won't make the play on the ball. So that's that's where he struggles at a bit um, because again, he's not a bad cornerback at all um, but Sometimes he just like I said struggles to make that play on the ball He gave up a touchdown and he gave up a couple catches. Um, but it was all the same thing All the same thing Just him being in the right place Right time but not making the right play And again, it reminded me of chuck clock a lot of times when he's covering a tight end It can be the same thing. He'll be right there, but he'll struggle to make a play On the ball. So just some a little fine-tuning That they would need um to try to fix that Uh, so we'll see how that translates into the regular season. Um, but yeah Overall though, it was good stuff Something that I had noticed and I I brought it I brought it up that um I brought it up uh in the live stream last night that And not that I expected during the regular season because they're not all gonna be starters. Oh Shawn Wade just to end it out Shawn Wade He ended up getting that pick to seal the game and something that we mentioned Was that with Shawn Wade? There was a lot of talk about him not being able to play outside corner Or since he's it went he's a slot corner in the slot. He did good but on outside he he was terrible He was bad That's what a lot of people were saying but when we had to interview with his father a couple of months ago Um, he y'all checked that video out too But he said was Shawn Wade the thing with him that was bothering him last season was an injury to his ankle of his foot So that injury made him unsure of a lot of times when he would jump up to deflect the pass to jump up to try to get a pick I said it just made him unsure of himself. So that kind of said his play back a little bit But I thought it was very fitting that the interception since when the game from Shawn Wade came when he was playing outside corner So I love that so shout out to him. But what I was saying before is that um with With the entire draft class That played because obviously Rashad Bateman and Ben Cleveland they didn't play at all But the entire draft class from this year, they were all making place every last one of them made place last night So they are off to a good start and again, no, I don't expect them all to have so much significant playing time each I don't because they got guys in front of them, but they're off to a good start This is a nice call for this booster and this is a nice way to to get things going So shout out to all of them. Shout out to the Ravens for taking care of business and 18 straight 18 straight That's I know it's preseason, but still 18 straight preseason games Now if we could have this same preseason preparation in the postseason, then oh, we'd be unstoppable Unstoppable But hey, it's all good man. So anyway team keep it clean I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Thank you for watching this thing went on like it was a live stream but a It's the first post game thoughts video of the year Um, and I look forward to uh, just us having a great week together I appreciate you all support. Um, I appreciate you all just tuning in And rocking with team keep it clean. I love y'all. Thank you all for everything And we out


Hello and welcome to daily debrief brought to you by People's Dispatch. I'm Pragya. Let's go straight into our first story today. It's on the Pulitzer winning journalist Seymour Hershey's big expose. His latest story claims to reveal the United States' hand in explosions that decommissioned the Nord Stream Pipelines last September. That was during the thick of the Russia-Ukraine war. These gas pipelines are Russia's sole link with Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Prabir Pulkasa is in the studio with us to discuss the wide ranging implications of this story. Prabir, thanks very much for joining us. Prabir, they say, you know, I'll start with a cliche of sorts, but they say the truth will out. Is that what's happening or with Seymour Hershey's story, which basically says the U.S. was involved in bombing Nord Stream? Explosions which led to the destruction of Nord Stream or at least holes in the Nord Stream Pipelines. So is the truth out? Is the U.S. now supposed to answer more questions? What happens next? You know, the question that I have is not this. The question is, why, what has Germany done? Why have not they asked this question? So if they have, have the received answers and if they have received the answers, why have they been kept quiet? So is it a conspiracy of silence which has been punctured by Seymour Hershey's story? Seymour Hershey is not just a journalist. That's right. He was the one who exposed the my or brought to notice the my life massacre. He's talked about the Iraq war, given reams of inside stories on that, how it happened, what happened. And there is a ton of other exposures that he has been, he has done. Interestingly, Seymour Hershey's exposures have become rarer and rarer in mainstream media because now he's forced to get into places which are not so well known, they're not so public. And finally, even those places do not accept his pieces anymore. So he has a substack account on which has put this expose. So I think the important part, one important aspect of the story is that Seymour Hershey has no platform today where he can write the stories. I think that's a big, big, shall we say for any news organization to think, to think about why is that he doesn't have a platform. This story, this is something we have discussed earlier as well, that it was an obvious sabotage by an interested party who did not want Russian gas to reach Germany. Therefore, to say that Russia sabotaged its own pipeline, which has been the refrain of the Western media organizations uniformly. That Russia is the key suspect. Why should it sabotage its own pipeline? It has invested money in it. It is sending gas to Germany. The potential of sending more gas to Germany because of Nord Stream 2, which wasn't open at that time. Germany didn't want to take from Nord Stream 2, but it was there. There's a rising pressure in Germany that Nord Stream 2 gas should be opened allowed. So why would Russia do both destroy its pipeline and its leverage on Germany? Why would it do that? That was never explained by the Western media, but they kept on saying Russia is the key suspect because this was a European infrastructure. Yes, it was a European infrastructure built and owned by Russia for the purpose of sending gas to Germany. So Germany really, primarily Germany and from there it could go to others. So it bypassed other pipelines which are going through particularly for Ukraine. That was the major pipelines going through Ukraine, who of course was playing games with it. So there are other pipelines also, but this was the key one. And other pipelines were with NATO allies who were also willing to cut the supply of gas, except themselves perhaps. So given all of this, why would Russia actually sabotage its own pipelines? We never explained. Seber Hershey's explained what we have been saying all the time, that obvious suspect is one of the NATO powers, either together, singly or one or two of them. Seber Hershey's argument here or what his expose is, is that it was planned by the United States jointly done with Norway. Now Norway has one major stake in destroying the Nord Stream pipeline because it has reserves of gas and it is supplying gas to Western Europe. So therefore Russia is a competitor. So if they take out Russian gas pipeline, they obviously get the market and the price of gas goes up, it even benefits Norway more. So given that, Norway had this stake in this and it was an obvious suspect. The second important part of this story is the fact that it was done, this was all of it was arranged or executed at a time when NATO was having a set of what would call enable exercises of an island, which is actually under Denmark's jurisdiction, an island of that, where these exercises were done and during the course of it, the pipeline explosions were actually charged, meaning that those explosive devices were set over there and apparently the last moment, again Hershey's article, they had also said, don't cause an explosion too soon after this, we should be able to pick and choose when we do the explosions. So I'm not going to get into American law and what is illegal, how it is legal, where the President's powers are, can we do the declaration of all of that, that's really left for the American people to decide. But the fact that this was a planned explosion, that it is one of the countries either UK, Ukraine, United States, Norway, these were the possible suspects. Now it appears that the lead was United States, which we always have felt would have been done at the United States leadership and we had thought UK could be a participant, Ukraine could be a participant, Norway could be a participant. Now this is confirmed that Norway was a participant and benefited also from the rupturing of the pipeline. The interesting part of it, we have I think discussed this earlier, there are four holes, North Stream two had one hole, North Stream one had three holes and the argument is that they made a mistake, they wanted two holes in that means, because each of these pipelines have two streaks, that means there really two pipes. So there are four pipes and out of which North Stream two had two pipes, North Stream one had two pipes. So by mistake, they actually put a depth charge or an explosive device on the same pipe twice and one of the North Stream pipe, two pipes are still actually functional if it can be used. But Germany after this has learnt its lesson as given up, the demand okay will take cash from North Stream two has now fallen in line. So I think they got the message that in the try, another explosion would probably take that pipe out too. Right Rabbir, thanks a lot for joining us. And next for the second time on the show, we have chat GPT, the artificial intelligence that's making waves among users. It's a machine that's responding to questions in the most human-like way ever, but business interests are behind some of the hype around it. Artificial intelligence has come a long way, but does it have a much longer way to go? Bappa Sinha joins us in the studio to discuss the advances in AI and its limitations. Bappa, good to have you back on the show.  Is that what it is? Is it all hype? I don't think so. It is, it is a fairly interesting development, right? It marks a significant advancement of AI technology. Well, it by itself, not by it by itself, but this class of AI algorithms is a significant advance of AI technology, right? Why this is generating so much of the hype as you say is, this is probably the first time where common people are coming face to face with such a technology, right? I mean, it's not the only application of or the only AI model of this, what I'm calling the new generation of AI, but it is definitely the first time where humans are directly, where common people, non-technical people are directly interfacing with them. I mean, they have a neat website where basically there is just a prompt and you then ask any questions you can and it gives wonderful answers, right? I mean, it can write poetry, it can write Shakespeare like prose, it can do medical diagnosis, write software programs. It is fairly impressive. So it definitely is not just hype. Is there hype about it? Yeah, I mean, with any such new development, people then extrapolate and kind of project marvelous things. Yeah, so of course, there is a lot of hype around it. There's a natural excitement as well. There is natural excitement. There is also, you have to understand that these things, a lot of these things, the new developments in computers and technology, it has a very peculiar model of way it is funded, right? It is funded through this VC model, right? And the whole VC game, so to speak, is that you make these huge investments or bets and you want to effectively cash out in five years, right? And so for you to be able to cash out, you need to create a hype, you need to project that the world is changing because of this, your technology and get a few billion dollars from somebody and cash out. So this hype is not just natural. It's intentionally generated for the VCs and the initial investors to cash out. But this by no means is like cryptocurrency, which in my book is all hype. There is a core to this, which is real progress in technology. Okay. Bapa, now the thing is, the interesting part is that there is not a guy sitting or a woman sitting behind this software typing up those answers. The machine is doing it. So does that mean human beings will become less necessary or unnecessary? So I think the real question is, does this not today, but in let's say the near future, and near future is let's say five years, right? Because beyond that, we can't really predict, right? So in the near future, let's say five to 10 years, will it achieve a human-like intelligence, right? And in technical terms, there is a technical term for that, which is called artificial general intelligence. So you have artificial intelligence or machine intelligence, and then there is a term called artificial general intelligence. So artificial general intelligence is effectively human-like intelligence where when people talk about machine intelligence, right, or machine learning, you're talking about the machine doing a specific task very well, right? So we already have machines which do, like, I mean, you have Google Translate, which does a reasonable job of translation, not perfect, but a reasonable job, right? You have speech-to-text, right? You have vision where, like, the AI has got pretty good at saying, like, if you show it a picture of a cat, it will say, oh, this is a picture of a cat, right? So they've got pretty good at these things. So, but these are specific things that they can do well, right? But a human intelligence is far more than that, right? Even a, like, two-year-old child or a three-year-old child not only can understand, like, can point out what is a book, what is a cat, what is a dog, it can do that without any special training, right? It can speak, it can start reading, right? So even a two-year, three-year-old child can start doing some of this stuff, but they can also do some things, they, when they come up with a novel situation, a situation a child hasn't faced before, it instinctively knows how to react, right? That is not something which you sit down and teach in class. That's something almost instinctive, instinctive the child knows how to do, right? The AI, the way the AI, our current generation of AI models work, we haven't even begun to understand how that works, right? So we are in no way getting close to any of that, right? So is AI going to match human intelligence in the next, let's say, five, ten years? I think the answer should be fairly categorically, I don't think so, right? But will the AI become far better than what it is, than what we have been used to? I think so, and this chat GPT is basically a algorithm, it's from a class of algorithms which are called transformers. See, the GPT in chat, so chat is a chat program, right? The GPT actually stands, it's the core technology behind chat GPT, right? So GPT, it's a technology owned by this company called OpenAI which is a Microsoft-funded startup. The GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformers, right? So Generative isn't it, this is AI which can generate stuff, it can create poetry, it can create passages, sentences, prose, software programs, there are Generative AIs which can do art very well, like if you look at that art, it looks like this is done by a top-notch artist, right? And so there are AIs which can do that. So these are a category of AIs which can create stuff, right? Training is all these AIs need to be trained, right? But the transformer part, that is new technology, right? Effectively, this is not how AI used to work before, right? So this, there is a paper by Google in 2017 which kind of introduces this technology, right? And then this has become like kind of become the thing in computer, in machine learning and like now everybody is doing that.  The programmer basically tells the machine that if you encounter this, you do this, if you encounter this, you do this. So it has a finite set of rules that you can tell the machine that do these things if you encounter these situations, right? But how do you go about telling the machine how a cat looks like, right? A cat could be a fuzzy cat, like there are different kinds of cats, there are different colors, different shapes, there are fat cats, thin cats, big cats, small cats, like to come up with all the rules and cats is like just one category of images, right? Right. The animals similar to cats. They need not even be animals, right? So the kind of things we recognize, like are probably like it's difficult to like have a list of things which we can recognize, right? As humans. Absolutely. And so to actually try to code that down as like, if this is this, that's just not feasible. So the first generation of AI, right? Rather what AI used to do before 2017 was that they have a set of, they have a effective, think of it as a set of equations, right? And the equations have like they are, they have constants in the equation, these things are called weights.  So you know, which is you tell the AI that this is a cat, this is a dog, this is a mountain, this is a car, bike, whatever, right? And these are all labeled. And so what the AI tries to do is the AI tries to adjust the weights of his equation to get the correct answer, right?  Can I adjust the weights of each equation to somehow get the correct answer, right? It's effectively a regression model, right? So I feed it a million images and it tries to do this curve fitting, right? Is this this or not? Yeah. So and if you, if it guesses wrong, then that feedback goes back to it and it says, okay, you got it wrong. So you need to tweak your weights of these equations a little bit and try it again, right? And it does this over and over again over a million images. And after that, it kind of fine tunes his weight so that it is able to recognize the like these category of images, right? And so then when you come up with a new image, which hadn't seen before, hopefully weights are tweaked just right that it will be able to predict that, oh, this is the new image, right? So it's basically a regression model. That used to be how it used to work. The problem with this is that you have to, like not only do you have to provide it a million images, which should be easy to provide now, like Google has millions of images providing them to the AI is not the problem. The problem is a human has to sit down and manually label each image. So the amount of training data which you can give to the AI is limited by how many humans you have to kind of label each image. Now that becomes the limit. And your models as the more data your model is trained in, the better the model gets. That should be obvious, right? Now, but you're limited in the data because you're limited by human capacity to label these images. So this in 2017, this new paper, this came up with a novel way of kind of doing this training without humans being required to label, right? So in a very simplistic way, it's like if you have a sequential data, like words in a sentence, right? So the model is trying to do is it is trying to get the kind of statistically the correlation of different words in a sentence, right? So it is trying to say if this word comes, what is the statistical probability of this other word coming together with it, either close to the close to that word in the sentence or away from that. So at a very coarse level, that's what it is trying to do. Now because it is, it doesn't require label data. It is just kind of doing the statistical correlation of different words in a sentence. You can pretty much feed it the whole internet, right? Perabytes of data. So it is now trained on much bigger data than what was previously possible. And once you do that, the AI starts performing far better than what it used to do earlier. So that is this new leap in technology and kind of every, like all the big guys can now are experimenting with these new technology. Great, Bappa. Thanks a lot for joining us. Thanks. And that is all we have for you today. Thank you for watching Daily Rebrief. Do come back to us tomorrow. You can visit our website for more People's Dispatch Stories and watch our regular updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


My name is Ashley Eckert. I am the Extension Agent in Golden Valley and part of Billings County in Western North Dakota. And today we're going to talk a little bit about flower pot design and how we can pick out what we want to put into those pots as we get ready for spring as we're all getting a little antsy after the long winter to get some pretty flowers in our lives, especially during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic as we're looking to find some bright spots and some happiness. Part of our distance learning today, I have my son with me, this is Gus. He's going to help me do the planting. He's a 4-H member here in Golden Valley County and he does horticulture as one of his 4-H projects. So we're going to learn a little bit. He's going to help me with the transplanting as we do the video today. So what I'm using for a planter is something a little bit nontraditional. What I did was I was at a local box home improvement store and I found this three-tiered stand that's actually meant for a kitchen or a bathroom and I bought some coconut fiber inserts and stuck those in there and we're going to make a three-tiered planter today. And as part of this we're going, and what I did was we just filled these planters with a regular potting medium. Nothing fancy about the potting medium and then that potting medium we just have, I mixed it in a bucket with some water so it's just nicely damp. It just barely holds together when you give it a squeeze, but it doesn't completely fall back apart. So how do you decide what it is that you want to put into your planters? The main method that you used to do that is called the thriller filler and spiller method. And so you want, the thriller is something tall with some interest, some visual interest, something that's going to dry your eye to the pot. In the case of today's planting I'm going to use this regal geranium. This is a regal elegance, Martha Washington geranium, so we're going to use that. Oh, I want, can we put it over on this side? I think we can. All right, so let's go ahead and find a hole. We're going to break up the roots just a little bit as we go ahead and do this. And go ahead and I'll help you build the hole.  Most of our dirt is, it's all right. We're filling it up with the dirt that was around the geranium roots to begin with. Okay, so, and then can we water that in? We'll just take and water in each of these transplants a little bit as we do. Now, because of how these grow, I don't plan on actually putting a filler in this particular basket. My lower two baskets are going to have more of my filler for this particular design. Now, when we were trying to decide on these designs, what we did was we actually set up a three tiered foot stool and we set different plans on there to figure out which color scheme that we wanted to go with. And so the color scheme that we're using today is starting out with purple on top, going to a light yellow on the bottom. It is going to have some purple and yellow and pink and pinks and yellows in the middle. So it just kind of shows you our scheme. And you can see that these other ones that we had looked at and shows. And that's something that you can do at home too is, or as you're going to the greenhouses, you can set together the plants that you're thinking about for a planter and see if they look the way that you're envisioning in your mind as you're picking out which plants to purchase at your local greenhouse or nursery. So we want to finish this one out. We want a spiller. We're going to put our spiller on top and we're going to use a vincavine today. And we're going to put the vincavine right here beside this geranium that will come down over the side of our planter and hopefully throughout the summer we'll fill in all the way down here onto the side. So this is the spiller aspect of our planter today. We want to break those wits up just a little bit so that way they're not circling and we'll spread out within the soil. Go ahead and pop that buddy in there. Let's train that vine to come over the side.  Want to give it some water bud? Yep. Okay, now I'm going to wait to hang this guy back up till we get our whole planter redone. So there's our top. Even there's our top. It's got our thriller and our spiller. And now we'll do a couple with our fillers. But I'm going to wait to hang this back up on our planter and to do the whole thing until we get them all done. I'm a little nervous that this might take a tumble off of my shelf back here. So basket number two. Now these are roughly, it's hard to tell on these owls but these are roughly 10 to 12 inch baskets. I ended up having to use a 12 inch coconut fiber in order to make that fit. So in a 10 to 12 inch I would suggest about three plants in there to let those really fill out well. So in our middle one we're going to use three to four plants. And in our middle one we're going to use some of these crazy tunias. We're just going to put a couple in. Can you put those two in the back? Can you put them in the back? Oh, I thought that was the back.  And these are more of a bunching petunia. These are going to fill it in bunch. And then in this basket also it's a kind of, this is our transition basket from between purples to yellows. And we're also going to put in there a couple of Calabrocoa plants. So we're going to put four in this basket. And these are a Calabrocoa that are yellow and pink. So do you want to put these kind of in the sides off on the front so they'll grow together. Do you want to give this basket a little bit of water for the next one off the hanger? And then our last basket, what we're going to put in here is about three plants. And these are a petcoa plant. They're part petunia and part Calabrocoa. So as you can see we also have a little bit of a theme. And I would put these in a triangle shape. Two in front and one in the back. And these are going to be more filler. So as these grow in bunch, the planter should fill out in the middle two, should vine off of the top and spill. And then have our thriller with our geranium on the top. So we're going to put three of these petcoas in here. And this should complete our transition of color as well, from purples to pink, or from purples to yellows. And again, I'm just breaking up these roots a little bit so they don't continue to circle and will spread out in our soil and our pot. Okay, you want to water that one in. We always want to make sure we water them in so they're good and watered to begin with. Now I'm going to put these plants, I'm going to hang these baskets back up on our planter so you guys can see the finished look when we're done. And then when we're done today, before we quit here for our work in the greenhouse today, I am going to take it, I'm going to cut all of these plants back. And I'm going to cut these back about like this, cut off all the blossoms, cut a couple inches below the blossoms. And that will help these plants grow and fill out so they fill into our pots. So it seems like it's a little drastic to take that much off, but as long as you keep your growing points and some new blossoms coming, these plants will just continue to fill in and you'll have a finished basket that looks full once you guys get into later parts of the summer. Now I'm planting these today, and these will be staying in a greenhouse until probably about the 15th or 20th of May depending on the weather forecast. That is the finished product with our thriller, our spiller and our fillers coming down the planter. And we're going to just let this go until throughout the summer and see how this does for us. And it also shows how you can take something that's not meant to be a planter and turn it into a unique piece. I plan to set this one by my front porch, by my front door on my front porch. So this is just an idea, something that you guys can do is you guys are looking at filling your planters or filling your pots, or patio balcony, and have just a spot where you could have just a few flowers or plants. One thing you could also do if you're looking to do some plants but want a vegetable as well, you could also make your thriller like this, a tomato plant like these. This is a bigger tomato, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one, but a smaller bush cherry tomato plant would make a beautiful thriller and then you could put a greenery in the bottom so you have something edible and with your flowers in a small porch or patio area. Do you guys have any questions on flower pot design or on how you would go about doing something like this? Please contact your local extension office.


I've made all the majority of my money in bad times because that's when you can be opportunistic. This is how I live. You build your balance sheet and your liquidity in good times and then you don't acquire in good times. You acquire in bad times and this is the time you eat the week because the week is going down right now. Every single business that I see right now is trading at a lesser multiple and is starting to have weaker earnings than they had two and three years ago. So this is the time and I can promise you this. We'll come out of this recession and you can play this back in two or three years if we go in it and then we're out of it and I built my net worth considerably because I'm going to do some eating. I'm going to get fat in the next couple of years.