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This is a collage from 1991. I've done a zillion collages. They've got boxes full of them. And you can see it's like nine inches by five inches. This is criticism creeping back into the thing again. This is called Brotherhood of Artists.  It's from an announcement for a group show. And I would cut off the last names and just use the first names. And I got a bunch of them. And they run up into that particular series. And there was a pun in there that artists are kind of a brotherhood compared to the regular bourgeoisie. I don't know. None of my artist friends are voting for Trump. There was a kind of brotherhood in the union sense, because there's always the brotherhood of Teamsters, the brotherhood of scenic artists, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Gender included and inclusive in brotherhood. But there was also a little bit of irony in the title and that you heard me say before. I didn't really think that much about community. So there wasn't any brotherhood. But the effect of criticism, and I use this analogy once in a while. Somebody says you're writing criticism and your art affect each other. And I say, the art doesn't really affect the criticism, because you have to be kind of Catholic small C with the criticism to go out there and see things and try to take them on their own terms. On the other hand, when you go into the studio, sometimes it's like there's a little tape recorder in your head playing at very high speed, very high pitch, and very fast. And it goes, and it's all the other art that you've seen.   Sometimes you have difficulty with it. Now, I know that artists go see other art. That's not the point that you should hold up and not see other art. But there's a difference between seeing it because you want to see it, seeing it because it's a friend of yours, seeing it because you've heard about it show and you might check it out, and seeing about it because there's some sort of journalistic responsibility to cover the waterfront.


Thank you all very much for coming it's a great pleasure and honor to be here with a very distinguished panel I would also note that my cameras are here for my show so I'm sure that on the subject of the international economy there will not be huge outbursts of spontaneous applause or booing but where you do have such an inclination I would appreciate it if you would not do it because the cameras will catch it and it will not work so well for the television show so don't stand up and cheer or boo and please turn your cell phones off those are the only constraints within which we're operating we will take your questions after we got get through a initial period of a conversation amongst ourselves what I want to do is begin by just quickly not really introducing but reminding people of who are on the panel here Kristalina Georgieva who is of course the managing director of the IMF Ray Dalio who founded what is the world's largest hedge fund and has written a really extraordinary book that charts four or five hundred years of economic history and draws conclusions and establishes patterns and draws conclusions from it Andre Plankovich the Prime Minister of Croatia and Valdez Trombovsky the European vice president for an economy that works for people this is a new title at least as best I know but better known as the EU commissioner for trade which is a very powerful position because people often talk about how Europeans are not united well on one issue they are very united which is trade and they operate like a superpower in that in that arena and so the world is really on trade issues a tripolar world the United States the European Union and China what I thought we do is get a sense from this extraordinary and distinguished panel first just where are we in terms of the challenges before the global economy right now I can think of really no one better to do it than Kristalina who has run a country come out of you know has had the experience of coming out of a communist economy the the emerging reality of capitalism and democracy now has been running the man at the IMF with extraordinary skill and integrity I may say so Kristalina tell us what do you think is going on we are faced with a crisis upon a crisis in a very short period of time two shocks that are exogenous to the countries that are experiencing so even countries with strong fundamentals can be brought on the NE to the NEs as a result what we face today is the realization that our interdependence is so high demonstrably a virus in Wuhan forced us to press the pause button of the global economy for two years and the unthinkable a war in Ukraine is causing hunger in Africa we have downgraded our projections for growth in a short period of time twice in January why because Omicron cost tremendous disruptions of supply and then in April because of the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine the sanctions that were imposed as a result and since we downgrade it the forecast from originally 4.9 to now 3.6 percent three things happened tightening of financial conditions appreciations of the dollar and further slow down of China as a result of lockdowns so further downgrades are not out of question but I want to immediately say what worries us more is not the fact that we had these downgrades because from 3.6 percent to get into negative territory for the world economy that is a long way to go what worries us more is the risk that we are going to walk into a world of more fragmentation with trade blocks and currency blocks separating what was up to now still a integrated world economy and here is the paradox what did the two crisis teachers they taught us that we actually need each other and we saw it with the vaccines though the only reason we are here is because we have a global vaccination program they taught us that we have to find a pathway to work together and yet the trend of fragmentation is strong I lived on the other side of the iron curtain I hated it and I can tell you it scares me that maybe we're sleepwalking after the hot war into another cold war what is reality today for it reality is that we also learn from these two shocks that we need to pay more attention to security of supplies because more shocks will come in the future and therefore the old concept of economic efficiency only based on costs is no more valid we do have to integrate security of supplies in that concept but this need not take us to making our future one of more division and inability to sort out problems for which we need to be together take changes just one example and in our view for it what it would take is to actually be relentless in identifying what are the areas where we must and we can and we should continue to work together so read you tell us what you think how this fits in to the historical patterns that you've been studying so carefully okay just so everybody knows I'm a global macro investor so all the liquid markets in the world I've been doing that for about 50 years and I am just a that makes me not ideological as much as just sort of practical how does the machine work and I learned in and that's politics as well as economics because the two tied together and I learned that many of the things that surprised me were were things that didn't happen in my lifetime but happened before my lifetime and that everything that it's coming to me is new that hasn't happened into my lifetime I have to study and that's by studying the Great Depression we were able to anticipate the 2008 financial crisis so there's a mechanistic reason there are cause-effect relationships and three big things that are happening in our lifetime that haven't happened before I needed to examine and those three things I think if we focus on them they pretty much encompass most those three things are first an enormous amount of debt creation which is debt that's monetized that has to do with the value of money in throughout history it's been very much the case in all cases throughout history that when there's not enough money there is the then the creation of money Rome they had gold coins and they put other metals in it and they depreciated and so on so so we have something that is going on with money credit and inflation that's due to the fact that we don't have enough real money okay that's that's one fine the second is internal conflict my measures I like to have measures and so there are lots of measures in this book we have populism of the left and populism of the right that are irreconcilable differences history shows that when the causes that people are behind are more important to them than the system the system is in jeopardy and so if you look at populism or you look at the size of the wealth gaps or the values gaps they're the largest since the 1930 to 45 period and it's understandable and the third is the great power comp conflict we began our world order in 1945 and the pattern repeats all the time there's a war the winners of the war determine the world order the rules of the game that's why the United Nations is in New York and the IMF in then World Bank or in Washington and then you have the world order and the dominant power the United States had 80% of the world's money money was gold and it had half the world's economy and it had a monopoly on military power and as that power changes then you have great power conflict and so you're having these three things happen again for the basically the same mechanistic reasons and if you go back through history you see that they repeat over so they have this cause effect so I think that when we look at the future and we calculate for just year by year we're now in 2022 we're in the part of they always do it the same way you have a downturn and they print money and credit because that's the way that you stimulate the economy and so on it produces inflation they tighten monetary policy there's a trade off and that and there we are now then you take that forward and you look at 2022 there's a political thing going on we're gonna have midterm elections in the United States we're going to have a changing government the 20th People's Congress in China and so on there's a political thing going on and then you take 19 20 2023 and 2024 and with this populism you're going to have possibly irreconcilable differences in other words it's entirely possible that neither side accepts losing in the domestic and so when you have that going on you need the historical context so mechanistically that very much looks the same that's fascinating Ray and both you and Kristalina talked about this issue of governments being forced to act and the principle way in which they've done it particularly for the COVID crisis but increasingly they're going to have to do it with the supply shocks and energy problems is through providing subsidies of various kinds Prime Minister your Croatia is seen as a great free market country you are seen that way how do you feel about all this free money being given to other people and this debt accumulation thank you Farid it's coming from the youngest EU member country which is just about to attain the final criteria in order to join the Eurozone as of 1st of January 2023 and I think while this has been helping us to navigate to a series of criteria in that respect and also country just about to join Schengen I have to admit that this situation that we are all facing in last two and a half years has entirely altered the global agenda this was supposed to be the decade of digital revolution or evolution and the decade of green transition towards the global climate change goals what did we do since last Davos we were in pandemic crisis management for two years as soon as it was trying to eclipse a little bit from our attention we have the Russian aggression on Ukraine violating everything that we know about international law and international system as we know it attacking brutally a member state of the United Nations causing three fold crisis one greatest tragedy for the Ukrainian people and the incredible humanitarian refugee crisis second leading to a spike of energy prices that in turn leads us into a situation where we are all due to the fact that the raw materials prices have risen due to the fact that the construction materials have risen prices due to the fact that food prices are rising we are all facing inflation pressures why am I saying this is an introduction I come from a centerite party EPP we are supposed to be pre-market economy social market economy liberty of entrepreneurship responsibility of an individual this is the triangle of our political philosophy and then I look at my own track record what did I do in last two and a half years I never stopped intervening my my critical task was to avoid the social fracture and we were facing the most incredible social fracture we as a government insured salaries bear in mind with a country of all a little bit less than four million people we paid salaries to 700,000 people in private sector and we sustained it it never happened before it was unimaginable before we pardoned all possible levies and taxes to our businesses in order to help them bridge the crisis now what we are doing when the energy crisis has hit us again a package which was up to 1% of our GDP two months ago in order to ensure that people who are vulnerable have social transfers to subsidize their bills for electricity and gas to people who are elderly we made in one of huge investment for pensioners putting down the VAT and other taxes helping farmers helping helping agricultural sector helping households and micro smaller and medium-sized businesses because otherwise for them it would be untenable and in that perspective I think that we have all found ourselves this was not only thanks to the Croatian funds but or budget it was also in the synergy of the European efforts and I think that what what my morale what my message was that we had a big problem with covid and we had a big answer at the European level joint I think the EU next generation is a unique joint effort to help the citizens and the member states now with the repower EU we are doing almost a like exercise of a smaller magnitude but still with the objective that the state or the Union at European level serves its purpose now the citizens can feel why the state exists in crisis and why the European Union is good and profitable actually for our citizens when they needed the most commissioner don't love this how should we think about the economic crisis that the Ukraine war has created Kristine and I talked about the dual crisis and the most recent one of course is this economic credit it is the war the crisis of the war itself but then the economic crisis created throughout the world by this war what is the best strategy to deal with that economic crisis well first of all we need to deal with root causes of the problem and root cause of the problem is Russia's aggression against Ukraine that's why EU was so determined to provide all necessary support for Ukraine to defend itself to win this war that's why we are putting lots of pressure on Russia already five sanctions packages are agreed and six sanctions packages being negotiation because the faster we stop the war among other things the faster we stop the economic implications of the war because there is a risk of this war we're getting boss protracted if Russia manages so to say entrenched itself it currently occupied territories or there is a risk also of this war to spread because Russian politicians Russian propaganda are making no secret of willingness to invade also other neighboring countries so from both point of view it's important to contain Russia and that's important from security point of view but that's important also from economic point of view second what was already said one of the channels how economic crisis is affecting as a you and indeed other countries is high energy prices and there in case of EU well we have a dependency on Russian fossil fuels and we need to get rid of this dependency well we already have prohibited imports of Russian coal as part of the sanctions we are currently discussing oil embargo but I would say sanctions or not we anyway need to move fast away from Russian fossil fuels and for this European Commission has presented a plan a repower EU plan which outlines how to deal with this if we go beyond specifically Russian fossil fuels we see that in any case fossil fuel prices are high globally so it makes sense for us to move faster on the goals of the European Green Deal facing out fossil fuel so together moving to renewables investing more in energy efficiency in other measures which actually reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and volatility of prices of fossil fuels so part of our strategy repower EU strategy is to accelerate this roll out of renewables and accelerate the rollout of European Green Deal in between obviously we need to mitigate the negative consequences and then Prime Minister Plank which other colleagues will be spoke how it's done well from the EU side that's why we provide EU member states with flux flexibility both concerning EU fiscal and state aid rules so that EU member states how this room of maneuver to respond to the crisis and to support vulnerable households to support companies there however I wanted to sound a note of caution already now we see that budget deficits and debt levels are elevated in EU member states debt interest rates are gradually growing so this era of very easy money seems to be coming to the end so also there will need to strike the right balance so when you look at the scale of the problem Kristalina you know you just signed a forty four billion dollar package for Argentina to a little Argentina and you think about the global food crisis that is being precipitated by this the war and really by as you say Russia's aggression and then Russia's blockading of the Black Sea and of Odessa you're going to have crises in Pakistan in Egypt and you know in all these places you're going to have hunger and poverty and migration then there's the cost of rebuilding Ukraine which is being destroyed on a scale that we have not seen since the Second World War whole cities are literally being destroyed I mean you're going to need hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars and as I guess a question that people often ask the IMF but it really feels do you really have that kind of money well to put everybody here as it is we have deployed about 300 billion out of our 1 trillion dollars war chest we still have 700 billion there but we did something very important last year and that was to issue a new allocation of special drawing rights 650 billion dollars for Ukraine for example that meant a 2.7 billion dollars injection that does not add to that because special drawing rights are this magic thing when we use the strength of all our 190 members to put forward reserves that is at no cost to anyone but we did one more thing and it matters in this crisis we turn to our members some are here that are with strong position and we said you're getting these reserves but do you really need it why don't you lend through us to those who really need it at least a part of those and we got so far over 60 billion dollars of which 40 billion we put in a very special thing to help address climate change called resilient and sustainability trust and I'm using this audience to say hey talk to your if you are from a rich country not necessarily only advanced economy maybe emerging market economy in strong position ask your parliament and government to do more to reinforce the fighting power of an institution like the IMF and we will need it we are faced with a very heterogeneous world one of the huge implications of this dual crisis is a growing and very dangerous divergence between those who have the capacity to deal with problems and those who don't for it for three decades we have been converging poorer countries catching up with the better offs this is now gone we are diverging and when you look at the economic situation of countries it is so different in terms of their growth prospects inflation burden that burden where they're headed what changes prospects one how strong you are to begin with like you know with the COVID if you have a strong immune system you do fine if you are weak you're vulnerable to how close you are to the epicenter of the Ukrainian war the closer you are if you're Moldova if you are a country right there you're at high risk three how much an impact this increasing in fuel prices and especially in food prices has on your Europe there is more vulnerable because it is more dependent but think if you are in Africa or in if you are Egypt or Lebanon or any of the subsequent African countries your poor people spent before this shocks 40% on food prices of food double and triple that virtually means people go to bed hungry and a family is not out of question so not only we need to step up but we need grants to tackle some of the vulnerabilities of the poorest countries and this is where the SDR so good because they are not adding to to to death is it possible for the world to stand up to these challenges yeah we produce more food than we collectively can consume are we doing it and the set answer is no but we must yeah I think the food crisis is one that really would there is a way to achieve a certain kind of collective action create a humanitarian corridor move ships out of out of Odessa and feed the world I mean that would be the the argument Christina is right ray that that the IMF has this magic capacity most countries do not and what we are seeing is very high debt burdens I'm sure you remember in your days as an investor the moment when Japan hit debt to GDP ratio of 75% which was then the highest of any country in the advanced industrial world and everyone said oh my god this is you know this is crazy numbers are now this seems to be the low end of the of the norm what is going to happen to all this debt I think it's so really simple and also if we look at history so there's a mechanical there's money money has is now fiat money so you can produce money and credit so naturally everyone is in a position that they needed more money where do they get the money from if there was limited money they'd have to get it from someplace else but what they do is produce money so central banks produce money where's the money come from you could have it from taxes and take it from somewhere else but that's difficult because people want to hold on to it they don't want to give it up but nobody asks where do we get the do we have enough money so but we need more money everybody agrees we need more money to spend but if there was a limited amount of money we would say where do we get it from and we'd have constraints but we're not like that so what happens is naturally you're in the positions that you need more money and so the central banks print more money and then through all of this credit everybody says we need more money we got more money but then we devalue money it becomes less valuable and surprise we get inflation okay shouldn't be a surprise so when we are looking at the circumstances we're now in a new era you know we wish that there's coordination we've lived in an era where we were global and the way resources were allocated was where was it more cost efficient so if it was cost efficient here you'd send the capital you'd build it there and that would raise employment and so on and that's what we've come to believe is a is a fair system but that's only because we've gotten used to that but if you go back and look at history and today many people would believe that's not a fair system so here we are in the fragmented world that we're in and so the resource allocation system is no longer economic the resource allocation is political and ideological so when we ask ourselves and we wish for cooperation it's understandable that we won't get cooperation because there is a risk there is conflicts there's an internal conflict of civil war so how do we distribute the wealth within our country so we'll have it within the country well there's a hell of a fight over that right and so there's the willingness to fight over that and then the same is true internationally so what is you know America first or what is that in terms of that and so I think we have to understand we have to keep in mind that when we say we're going to cooperate or should in a world where self-sufficiency because we could go to war becomes important the efficiencies are no longer the most important things survival is the most important things the possibility of a war is important thing and it changes behaviors in ways that are logical but maybe undesirable for those of us who are in a perspective that we believe that we should be in this together and how do we work together so I think it's all understandable okay so that depreciates the value of money we are going to have more conflict we're going to have more inflation inflation causes domestic political conflict so it'll be a big issue in the 2022 elections in the 2024 elections that's just how the machine works and in the meantime we have and the war in the Ukraine and Russia and with China is a is understandable in terms of a big you know the big powers conflicts and so we see the world if you read history and you see this happen over and over again you see the world is now breaking up into sides it's like their allied powers and their access powers and their neutral powers and those ideologies become the dominant consideration so it's entirely possible for example that we could see in and in China and so on that it's no longer desirable or politically acceptable to do business in China and it may may not be now you think about how intertwined the world economy is 22% of American manufactured goods imports come from China so not just imagine the implications for inflation and the inefficiencies that's just mechanistically what's going on so as a mechanic who was looking at next year in the year after and where we are in that thing I'm just saying it's it's undesirable and the unimaginable is becoming increasingly probable all right we're going to open it up to two questions ma'am in the front there if you can tell us who you are and you know just if I may say the question can be a question and not a statement that would be wonderful I have a question for Ray looking at historical precedent what do you think the likelihood of a civil war in the United States is I think that I'll first define that civil war I think that it's reasonably probable that no side will accept losing and now what is that probability I don't know you could maybe it's 50% maybe it's even more than that I don't know that I think it's probable or there's uncomfortably high probability that directions from the central government rule of law in constitution won't be won't may not be followed Supreme Court rulings may not be followed because individual states say that I'm not going to do that it's like sanctuary cities they say I will not follow I think what's happening now is that there is a movement from one state to another with due to changing values and changing that's producing a hollowing out in some states and when that happens because the rich move someplace or the ideologies are the same it produces a hollowing out in other locations you're seeing that in New York and Chicago San Francisco and other places that exacerbates the gap it exacerbates not only the wealth gap but it exacerbates the ideological gap and then when you get to that rule of law and respect and compromise don't exist then you deal with power and it becomes a power decision and I think we're seeing this or more like Disney's issue with the state of Florida you know in a in the world mostly that I grew up in it would be that there would respect different views and you respect it it becomes a power thing state of connect a state of Texas might not have city bank of issue the bonds and so on and it becomes more and more of that kind of conflict so it becomes a power thing I think that's developing in that kind of a movement in that direction that's a very scary thing because when you don't have rule of law or you start to have fighting it's a different world I think you you there are signs of that and history is shown history is shown through times that when there are these populism of left and populism of the right a populist is an individual who will fight for you and so for each of the sides and when they say I'm going to fight for you they want fight to win and there's no compromise and so when you have that there's history shows us that there's a loss of the middle you can't be in the middle you have to pick a side and fight on that side so you could see in the French Revolution and Russian Revolution and Cuban and the Chinese and so many others they lose the middle because you have to pick aside and the way it's resolved is that there's a conflict of war and who has the power so I think that these things are emerging all right can we get somebody else have a question thank you let me ask the commissioner do you think that the Europeans can enact another round of sanctions that will really be tough enough given the gaping loophole of oil and natural gas Putin is getting 350 billion dollars of oil and natural gas revenues what can you do if you're going to keep that exception surely everything else becomes a little bit of window dressing well that's exactly the problem if you look at the trade structure between EU and Russia so pre-war 62% of Russia's imports were hydrocarbons so we already have prohibited import of Russian coal part of the and I would say central part of the six sanctions package is oil embargo member states are currently discussing hopefully it's possible to arrive at the conclusion on this because indeed otherwise there is this problem that with one hand we are providing massive support to Ukraine with other hand we are paying a Putin for its war so clearly we need to address it but as I said already before sanctions or not strategic decision to move away from Russian hydrocarbons is already taken and we already working on this and we also outlined plans for example how already this year we can reduce our dependence from Russian natural gas by two thirds by diversifying the supplies and faster rolling out some other measures Prime Minister you have any thoughts on this I think that the idea to gradually phase out from the Russian-based fossil fuels is a far-reaching political move I think that we have all witnessed that the Russia's aggression on Ukraine has made the European Union NATO more unified more solid more coherent even appealing to for countries to join faster you see interest of some for the EU and interest for some some others on the NATO side because of the collective security of the article 5 my firm belief is that the actual topic of this decade is energy 99.5% of everything that any of us of humanity does around the world comes from some sort of energy source and what we are witnessing now in the context of all the crisis everything we have mentioned that we need to substitute the supply chain of different energy sources which have held their usual pipelines for decades and what we have done as a as a country who is happy to have the Adriatic Sea we were a little bit farsighted last year and we opened an LNG terminal at the island of Kirk which has in terms of supply of gas altered our entire margin margin of maneuver in this context not only for ourselves but also for central Europe I have the impression that specific situation of some countries and some are fully dependent on Russian gas some of them very much an oil is an element that requires time for the alternative supply chains to be fully in function the whole grid and fully functional but we should not take out from the equation the element of price this is the key of this game now and we are of course supportive as a country and this is this is our line all along and I have to conclude that we are facing a very polarized world not only authoritarian regimes against democracies but also huge polarization within democratic societies and this has been exacerbated by internet who was originally conceived to bring to global citizens the best of humanity knowledge for free in an unregulated world it sometimes from an individual takes out the worst and this is the issue we will have to address with education with very intelligent and dedicated way to avoid the negative sides of global connectedness where anybody can say anything on anyone including the organized harassment including the misinformation thus creating a new generation of young people who are I would say lacking filters and are prone to manipulation this I see as a general threat to our societies in an altered world that we have entered now I want to ask you Christina to close on that on that theme which is you're somebody who came out of the iron curtain out of a you saw this new birth of freedom for your country for yourself do you worry that we are moving backwards that we are moving towards illiberalism protectionism fragmentation yes I do what we face are very very starking different pathways ahead of us one in which we manage to stick together as a world and then we have a chance for the better standards to be seen by all and desired by all as we did on the other side of the iron curtain or a world in which we close ranks within our little bubble and as a result two things happen we are poorer just technological decoupling would cost us five percent of GDP at least and we bring down the standard of liberty and freedom for hundreds of millions of people we should be very careful which pathway we choose also because we have a looming climate crisis that we cannot possibly resolve one block at a time so my plea is for us to think of these choices as companies as countries as organizations very carefully because the unintended consequences can be quite green you tell us we are we are done we are on the pathway of separation I'm an optimist I don't know yeah okay I don't mean to interact no please do no I think it's all on how we are with each other we have the highest amount of GDP we have the greatest longevity we have technologies the ability to be productive and so on no I agree with you I think you're at a juncture and the juncture is how we are with each other it's that's totally comes down to how we are with each other so we have a choice I think you're in a sense saying the same thing there are structural pressures and you're saying but there is still room for human action well what I'm trying to say they're not short-term pressures they're big you need a restructuring but you need a in a sense a total restructuring and a dealing with that of the debt and the social and so on so the capacity exists within us to work well together it does exist the probability of us the probability of us working well together for the common good and working that out is low that's all I'm saying but we have the power to do it we need you we need you for it we need the media to amplify the voices of reason and also the fact that majority of people are good maybe not perfect but good there is this minority that are hateful and evil but it is their voices that dominate today so please amplify this voice of reason and goodness and care for our future thank you all this is a great honor thank you


Hey everyone, I am Nathan Rufflejantz from Nintendo Prime and we are playing the Ouija's Mansion recreated in Unreal Engine 4 by Cryzen X on YouTube There will be a link to his video and download for this in the description below. Now, this just seems to be a skin re-skin of the Ouija's Mansion for the Nintendo Gamecube The reason we're featuring this today is because I took as I was exploring old videos in the past I noticed that you guys really liked when we play games or when I play games So we're gonna be doing a heck of a lot more of that We do have some live streams planned for things such as Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch in March But this is just for us to kind of take a look at some more fan related Unreal Engine 4 projects and we have some more videos for this coming up including one for Ocarina of Time Maybe a little Mario Kart 8 action Maybe some Pokemon Stadium, etc But today we're looking at the Ouija's Mansion I should be noted that I do not think there's any actual gameplay in here Like there's no interacting with ghosts or capturing or anything Get kind of cool look at the fire effects up there I can also see some breath effects here coming out of the Ouija's mouth. Pretty cool His model overall looks pretty fantastic. I've seen some clipping with some weird physics on his pose when I move the camera I don't know why the camera movement should not affect that to be honest with Again, this is just a fan project. So let's just take a walk around the edge here I'm just really curious how much is included How much details put into this re-skin of Luigi's Mansion Unreal Engine 4. We got a well here. I can't really get much of a look inside Looks like it's just a dead bottom. There's no water or anything Alright, we're going to bed for the mansion. Let's just stick to this edge over here Just kind of see what we find back here some pretty dead-looking trees See the side of the mansion over there some lightning in the background this music man Just listen to this Luigi's Mansion music So good. They were coming up on the edge of where the mansion was What's that? Are we behind? Are we behind the wall? Are we walking out to the eternal abyss? What is happening? What is happening? Where does it all end? Where does it end? What is this? Guys, we are going beyond the mansion and Luigi's Mansion right now. What is happening? Whoa Invisible wall. No No, okay, so I can't go over there. That's cool. I'm assuming that invisible wall is still around Let's see if we can get back inside Whoa Can we go over here creepy grass? Nope. Invisible wall. Invisible wall No, what? What? What? No, I always hate when you have like these eternal these These eternal falls into nothingness. I'm moving the camera right now. You can't even see and nothing's happening. Well Let's try that again. Shall we? And we're back So we can go beyond the mansion. Well, there's nothing over there except for a weird blank spot in the ground that lets you fall forever So let's go over closer. Okay. Actually, let's see if there's anything else Okay, so we can get out Luigi's little vacuum cleaner ghost. Ooh ghost, let's switch now Is there any other controls? I'm hitting other buttons. Nothing seems to be happening. What's this one do? Let's put the vacuum away. Oh, we're looking for Mario Alright, Luigi's mansion memories just coming back at me We'll go heading up to the mansion doors. Oh It's a nice detailing Not the greatest of HD kind of textures, but certainly a little better than what we got in Gamecube Can't jump Looking for Mario. Anything on these gravestones? Oh, nope blank All right, have a quick run around the mansion.  Call it a demo. Looking for Mario. So cool There doesn't appear to be much. What kind of go to this back area. Just make sure there's nothing back here Otherwise that might be it for videos Well, no not again Well, that's gonna do it. Hopefully you enjoyed this little look at Luigi's mansion in Unreal Engine 4 Obviously very very early build by Kryzen X Did you enjoy this? Hopefully you did. I know some people in our last video the Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 4 made by Somebody else not Kryzen. They didn't really appreciate the dab and other things But hey, we did get to fight Goma was a little underwhelming this time we explore Luigi's mansion Hope you enjoyed it if you can like subscribe if you hated this video dislike away We'll be back. Hopefully soon


Ukrainian forces defeat Russia's armoured fist near Lyman. Over the past two months, in the Lyman direction, the Russian occupiers have become more active and attacked Ukrainian positions with a large amount of manpower and equipment. Despite this, the Ukrainian military managed to repel the attacks and inflicted significant losses in the equipment to the enemy. This was announced by the head of the public relations service of the 21st Separate Mechanised Brigade, Serhii Dibrov, on the Espresso TV channel. The enemy had an order to achieve some success before January 1st, but they failed. Then, for several weeks, the Russians gathered new forces and manpower and equipment. Recently, the Russians launched a new attack, as they say like the last time. This time, we felt the impact of a large number of armoured vehicles. The enemy has attracted dozens of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and armoured personnel carriers which are now burning out in front of our positions, Dibrov said. The results of the successful work of the Ukrainian defenders was the loss of Russian armoured vehicles which were left to burn on the battlefield. Dibrov emphasised the effectiveness of the actions of Ukrainian sappers, artillerymen, and drone operators who worked to destroy enemy equipment. The enemy's armoured fist has noticeably decreased. Dozens of vehicles remained on the battlefield. So the Russians are again intensifying attacks with manpower and the number of artillery and small arms attacks on our positions. He noted.


My name's Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lyon Detective Bureau. They call me the lion's eye Jeff Regan investigators starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the barefoot boy with shoes gone There were three women in it three guys and seven cats It figured for an easy trace job. All I had to do was find a missing guy named Thaddeus mink a painter Only before it was over a couple of people turned up dead And what made me think maybe I was training a killer with a screw loose was what happened to those seven cats The thing teed off for me when a letter came to the lion detective bureau in the morning mail My boss the lion opened it. You could see the dollar signs in his eyes Hey, Jeffrey Well, we're looking at rich uncle of yours finally kick off. What do you mean? You look so happy. Oh, it's not that Jeffrey listen to this The Ezra Park Duffield Art Gallery's Pasadena from the sanctum of EP Duffield already. I don't like it now now now now Jeffrey mr. Duffield encloses his personal check for $50 for which we do what? Yes, well now, let me see No, we find a missing person Jeffrey a man by the name of mink Thaddeus mink a painter It mr. Duffield says we'll be doing an an Inestimable service to the world of our duffield say why he doesn't go to the cops Well, he does mention that he has personal reasons for maintaining secrecy. They all say you worry mean by that Listen line the LA police look for missing persons free guy doesn't want the free services got a reason And he wants a finger man. Maybe it's a stakeout Jeffrey. Do you think that if I thought sure I do you don't mean I mean it only count me out. I don't risk my private op license for 50 bucks See you now wait a minute. Mr. Duffield says in his letter.  All right Jeffrey. I will Now that ought to be duffield now.  Lion? I'm Regan That's lion behind the desk. I see I'm EP. Duffield. Yeah Come in. Thank you, mr. Regan Mr.  Yes Well run along Jeffrey. I'm taking this case remember you're waiting in Duggan's place on Hill Street until something good turns out Yeah, that's right See you I Went to Duggan's or sat looking into it What I kept seeing was EP. Duffield red hair gray green eyes tall About 511 but not too much of her just enough any place you look I Looked up at I was still seeing EP. Duffield That's because she was there Mind if I sit down mr. Regan bars public Thank what a lady have nothing thank you Lion didn't take your case. Well. He said you were the operative so Mr.. Regan, I have an art gallery Ezra Park Duffield gallery's Pasadena. He was my father. I'm Esther Patricia Duffield you wrote a letter said you wanted somebody to find a missing person Painter named Thaddeus mink. That's right. He didn't go to the cops. Why? Cops trace missing persons free. Well, but you see mr. Regan. I couldn't they wouldn't help me give me more I've never seen Thaddeus mink. I don't know what he looks like keep on. It's true You see he's a painter. He sent me a number of paintings by express, but I haven't been able to locate him. I've tried but Mr.. Regan if you'd come to the gallery and see his pictures. I think you'd understand Will you come you put up a 50-buck retainer lady? You want me to look at pictures for 50 bucks? I look In here Jeff with you lady the mink paintings are here in my office There they are Cats yes cats and look how he paints them how evil he makes them. Yeah, I see what you mean cat phobia Jeff Sometimes an artist becomes great through passionate love and Sometimes through passionate hate and mink hates cats that it's made him a great painter That why you want me to find them. I have just these few canvases. I want more. They'll be worth thousands of dollars You paint those circus pictures, too No, no, I did you a few years ago. I traveled with the circus, but my paintings are much good Mink ever painted anything except cats one picture it here I have all his pictures, but you've never seen him. I told her we sent them express I tried to trace him, but I couldn't find him all I have are the paintings These are the cats and the one other all signed the same way not with his name But with the print of a cat's paw painted in one corner. Where's the other one over here? I Keep it draped It heightens me Look a Woman you see Jeff he's painted her back as she stands at the mirror fixing her hair The back of an ordinary woman, but in the mirror her face the eyes Her the cat and the way her fingers curl and hook into her hair Like cats claws Well, maybe she's something we can go on. What do you mean? Well, maybe somebody else has painted it, too Maybe she's registered as a model we find her maybe we get a line on mink might work I Found her photo in an agency Mrs. Margaret Ames lived in Hollywood. I drove out there Only when I got there I rang the doorbell. I got a big surprise Sergeant bowls of the Hollywood division LA police opened the door What do you want came to see Mrs. Margaret Ames?  Nope. You know her Nope, a lot of good.  Maybe she hadn't planned to get strangled this morning. Oh could be Neighbor lady found herself she come in to borrow coffee. That's what she found Scared the hairpiece off of her. She said Mrs. Ames live alone divorce lives alone. We got nothing Regan nothing And so the police haven't aligned at all on who might have killed Margaret Ames Jeffrey. No, no Here, let me check the late edition. Hmm. No. Yes. Yes.  Now sergeant balls wouldn't have formed me if they had You know, no, I suppose not Jeffrey Isn't interesting item in the second section of the paper It says that in a place called mountain crest on the mountains near los angeles Somebody's been putting out poison meat But here's the strange thing the pieces of meat have been tied up in trees Yes, and several cats have been poisoned. Hey, wait a second Poison meat up in trees that could be it. It could be what jeffrey Maybe the poisoner ties the meat and trees so dogs won't get it only cats Why lion? Well, I don't know jeffrey. Maybe because he hates cats Jeffrey you mean that that cat painter mr. Maintain worth a try Mountain crest you said yes, we'll keep in touch with the margher name's murder lion. I'm going to mountain crest It was only a couple of hour drive, but I got started late and it was dark when I got there Cold up there snow above the 4,000 foot level Mountain crest was a half a dozen houses abandoned lumber mill and mountain crest haven A rundown auto court with a gas pump and cafe I pulled in and stopped at the gas pump Sorry to keep you waiting, but we didn't expect no customer up here a mean night like this. You run this place. Oh gosh.  What it'll hold.  I have a cup of coffee while I fill her up Yeah, it's a good idea Bunny'll serve you bunny as you come up here a couple of weeks ago. She's the waitress. Ah your girlfriend, huh? No No, she ain't I went inside Maybe I saw why jimmy's face clouded up when I asked him if bunny was his girlfriend Bunny was behind the counter ordinary pretty kid corn yellow hair about maybe 19 But on a counter stool talking to her was a slick-looking guy 25 thin-faced pinstripe suit I walked over slow Well, I buddy, I buddy listen, you can't talk to me like that art jones. Oh, no, you think you want something Yeah, I could use coffee bunny. How do you know my name jimmy tommy? Uh, I'll see you later bunny Bill collector him That's art jones. He's in one of the cabins. You like the cold weather.  He takes me places Dancing out of anaheim. Sure Here's your coffee Anything else? No, no, no Why don't you go with jimmy? He hasn't got a car Yeah, but the next time I will I don't know where art gets off just because mr. Mink gave me a Mink Yes He gave me a painting. He's a painter But that's no reason for art to get sore why mr. Mink is old. He must be 35 Yeah He live around here mink In a cabin up on lime peak fire for me a couple of miles You live alone. Mm-hmm He's he's sort of funny. I think he's scared of people But I guess he likes me You know him mr. By reputation. He's a very sweet man. What I hear Give you a painting of a cat, huh? Yes, he did cat's paw painted in the corner Yes It was a picture of a dead cat a dead cat Read in the paper some cats got poisoned around here lately around mountain crest Seven of them a curdy of mink might have done it. Oh, no He loves cats. He loves them. Now what I heard I heard he hates him I phoned the lion and told him when I had he had something for me Cops had traced the strangled woman mink had painted Mrs. Margaret Aime's maiden name was Margaret mink. She had a brother someplace cops said His name was Thaddeus Next call I made was to Pasadena Speaking hello Esther Jeff Regan Located your painter baby Thaddeus mink. Yeah, no cabin up here in the mountains. I'm near there now Where are you place called mountain crest minks cabins up a couple of miles from here? Well, that's fine Jeff Jeff I want to see him first myself. He's very queer and temperamental. I'm sorry, baby I'm I've got to go up there first thing in the morning Minks may be mixed up on a murder I rented one of the cabins at mountain crest Haven Got in bed and read some Edgar Allen Poe to quiet my nerves About six the next morning the wind dropped wind had brushed everything white still smooth I started from minks cabin on line peak about eight Bunny went with me There it is Smoked through the pines. That's from his cabin. We're almost there. Hey, hold it. What Jeff footprints In the snow Coming from that way From the highway There's a shortcut that way to the road where it goes over the summit Man's footprints must have been made this morning since the wind dropped or they'd have been covered over Oh, come on Wait a minute. What is it over there same footprints going back toward the highway Running steps are longer and the snow is kicked between them. Yes. Come on. Maybe something's happened We ran to the cabin it stood in the pines in front of a shelf of rock The footprints led to the door then running away from the door again and toward the highway There weren't any other tracks the cabin door stuck for it was unlocked. It always sticks There Mr. Mink Mr. Mink come on It wasn't mink It was a thin-faced slick looker in a pinstripe suit And it is stocking feet Art jones strangled Five foot eleven of beautiful red-headed dame e p duffield duffield art gallery's pasadena Hired me to find a missing cat painter name of mink First track I got led to his sister But that was a dead end Somebody'd strangled her Then I went up in the mountains somebody'd poisoned seven cats at a place called mountain crest Maybe mink You know mink lived up there only when I got to his cabin and there was a corpse on the floor Art jones bunny's pal in the pinstripe suit Strangled no shoes on I searched the cabin not a shoe in the joint Half an hour later bunny and I got back down a mountain crest haven The combination gas station autocourt where she worked as a waitress Oh, this is better I'd better get you some hot coffee. You're not used to the car after I phone the sheriff Where's the nearest place? I got one meridian township. Yeah, I'll be back for the coffee. Jeff.  Mink maybe But he went up there He saw his footprints going in through the snow The ones who came back out were made by the same shoes. I checked that But art jones didn't make him no No, I know the killer took jones's shoes after he strangled him and wore them when he left So he wouldn't make tracks with his own shoes Mr. Mink didn't do that and there weren't any other tracks bunny One pair of footsteps in One pair of footsteps out Jones in to see mink tell him to lay off seeing you probably Who out? I'll get you some hot coffee. Sorry kid So that was it case just about wrapped up mink must have strangled jones Jones was strangled just like mink's sister If there weren't any other tracks in the snow, it didn't make sense anybody else had been there I phoned the sheriff at meridian township took five or six minutes to get him on the phone His name was lyell Sheriff Jesper lyell, what can I do for you? My name's Regan private investigator from Los angles. Huh? You better put out a description on a Thaddeus mink sheriff. I can give details short about 35 years. That's out already Huh? Out already mink wanted per question and homicide and a Connection street Wrangulation of his sister market mink games. Oh, yeah Yeah, that's right on the wires at four yesterday Don't think you did it though. Don't seem to kind Sitting right here beside me in the office. Give me that again.  Yeah. Yeah. Sheriff Tell me one thing When did you pick mink up? He'd picked mink up four hours after the wanted was sent out by la eight o'clock last night Mink was in the meridian general store buying cat food Yeah, and he told the sheriff a sad story. He loved cats loved them had four But they'd come down with something suffered mink had had to put them out of their misery When he found out they'd passed the disease around mountain crest He put poison up in the trees to save the cats of the town the misery his cats had suffered He'd bought a new cat though So I was buying cat food So that made everything fine case all wrapped up Yeah Like a hot rod around a telephone pole Sugar Jeff Jeff oh Oh, yeah, thanks here. Thanks Anyway, I'm glad it wasn't mr. Mink. Yeah, mink didn't strangle jones. Couldn't have sheriff adam. Well, I'm glad Jones went up to the cabin to see mink saw her about mink giving you the painting that part still holds Made tracks in the snow Didn't walk back out Got strangled But his shoes walked out Somebody in him you think money not mink not jones Somebody with a motive to kill jones You didn't like him Art jones went with him because he took your places only maybe you didn't feel good about it He wasn't your type I guess he wasn't he wasn't and then he began to crowd you mink business for instance You figured he didn't have any right about him your life. Well, that's true. But what about jimmy jimmy? Yeah, the kid that works around here more your style. You seem like a nice kid He is only art jones got in between you What are you thinking? I'll tell you what i'm thinking I'm thinking somebody must have been in mink's cabin when jones got there this morning Somebody had gone in before the wind dropped so the tracks covered over Somebody that would have killed jones And you think sleeping one of the cottages here at the outcourt. Yes sleepwalk.  Listen, baby The sheriff will be getting up to mink cabin in the next 10 minutes on my say so Half an hour later this joint here is going to be jumping only not with customers with cops deputies asking questions Now let's get ahead of him. Well, I didn't kill art if that's what you want to know I know you didn't Now you couldn't have you couldn't have done the job strangled him Strangling is not a girl-sized job Well, then why did you ask me all those questions to get answers, baby about you and our jones and jimmy Only two people had a motive to kill jones you and jimmy Look on her face said she was scared that that might be it jimmy liked her didn't like jones I started to look for jimmy when he was doing when I found him didn't help he was stealing my car Hey, hey get out of the car jimmy jimmy get out of that car Won't get away Come here. Come on All right, this will hold you What are you trying to do come here? How do I go? I got an armlock on him all of a sudden he quit fear. It worked two ways on him made him fight made him quit You better talk jimmy like fast, huh?  I didn't do anything you tried to steal my car He stole the keys out of my cottage. You got the way if the motor hadn't been cold jimmy jimmy Why'd you want to steal my car because I I had to get away because you killed our jones. No, I didn't kill him. I I Go on kid get it out I I had to get away I had to keep out of it bunny You think a lot of bunny jimmy well, I Yes, I do you didn't like jones No, I didn't where'd you get his shoes I found him in the snow by the highway. Look the sheriff. We want a better story than that. You'd better practice up on me Well, I I got up early sleep here someplace. I've got a room in the kitchen go on I went up the highway a ways. I was trying to think Well because of art jones and bunny I didn't think I had any chance with her I guess But then I saw the shoes in the snow by the highway I brought him back anybody see you're coming or going why Yes, yes, yes, well, they were scraping the road. There's where I found the shoes I Checked jimmy's story and it was okay. He had a snow plow crew of witnesses So that made it great Two people had a motive to murder jones jimmy and bunny bunny couldn't have strangled jones and jimmy didn't Well, if nobody with a motive to murder jones had murdered him Then it had to be this way Somebody without a motive to murder him had I walked back up to the cabin where jones was strangled Sheriff lyle and his deputies had been and gone. They'd made tracks in the snow But then I saw some tracks they hadn't made They were the paw marks of fattyus minks new cat I asked myself where I had seen cat's paw marks before That gave me the answer I went back down the mountain crest haven and made a phone call I got the right answer That left me just one place to go It took a while to get there Painting all just touching up this still life Then better lady if you just stayed e p duffield art dealer You mean because I paint so badly it's part of it You're more the outdoor type tall strong I suppose that's uh Those circus paintings over there you painted she showed me yesterday. Yes You were in the circus strong enough for that jeff. Just what are you trying to get at not trying? I've got I phoned the model agency for mountain crest a little while ago Model agency where I got the track on margaret aims mink mink sister that got strangled You'd gotten her address a couple of hours before she was murdered. That doesn't mean anything. You wanted to be a great painter Yeah, but honey, you didn't have the stuff What happens? Thaddeus mink sends you his paintings. He is a great painter. Go on jet. Sure Mink didn't sign his name to his paintings painted on a cat's paw print instead So mink was a shy guy He found out nobody knew him nobody knew he'd painted the great paintings of his you had except his sister She'd posed for one You killed her And jet and that left mink Him dead you'd be the genius that painted the pictures. Yes Well, he is dead jeff and I am you went up to mink's cabin after I talked to you on the phone last night Nobody home, but you waited Guy came in early this morning. You strangled him wore his shoes to walk out.   Hey You mean reagan That was in it from the first jet Jeff bursting in like this into my office Perhaps trying to make love to me. You shouldn't have done it. Not when I happen to be armed put that gun down.  You should stick to strangling. It's more accurate Next day I gave the land a little lecture on art You seem to have become quite an authority on art, but I'm afraid I'm a little more interested in art jones Oh, great. You went back up to mountain crest. I suppose yep That nice young boy jimmy how are he and that girl bunny? Say jeffrey Why did he try to steal your car and run away? Well only he and bunny had a motive to kill jones Jimmy found the shoes then overheard my call to the sheriff lile He knew he hadn't killed jones So you mean he suspected well, he was scared all he could think was to get those shoes far away He knew there was strong evidence E p duffy would toss them out of her car, but he didn't know that he thought that bunny Oh, I can't believe that he was in love that mixes you up Yes Yes, it does only bunny hadn't done it jimmy hadn't either If the two people who had reason to kill jones hadn't killed him it added that jones was killed by mistake Yes, I see that in minks cabin So it made sense the killer meant to kill mink only he didn't know what mink looked like Only one person fitted that E p duffield. Why that's brilliant my boy brilliant Yeah, but what about 30 years mink mink? Oh sheriff lile released him And when he found out how much dough his paintings are gonna bring him. He turned philanthropist. He did Yeah, gave us a present in there right outside the door. Oh jeffrey Here may be one of these valuable paintings worth thousands of dollars Yeah, yeah, it could be could be worth that much big enough box You open it. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh jeffrey jeffrey. Do you think?


The flat fertile fields of eastern North Carolina grow a variety of crops. Corn, potatoes, and small grain do well here. But with the changing face of American agriculture, farmers are always looking for ways to diversify their operations and increase their profits. Here on this farm in Beaufort County, North Carolina, there's a new crop being grown that's showing good promise for profitability. This harvest represents the beginning of a new aquaculture industry. It's a budding enterprise that could become for North Carolina farmers what channel catfish means to Mississippi growers. Lee Brothers is raising and marketing hybrid striped bass. The fish is a cross between a striped bass and a white bass. And in just two years, Lee Brothers has gone from scratch to selling his fish to upscale restaurants in the North. It is nice. It's nice. The thing I'm really excited about is I am providing a good quality fish to whoever buys them. I mean they're fresh fish. You can't beat them. I think Lee Brothers has been an excellent example of how to raise hybrid striped bass. He's an innovative person. He's very outgoing. He's willing to look at all the angles. He makes his own decisions. He's a classic innovative type of person I think. Lee Brothers quality product is the result of 10 years of research by UNC Sea Grant, the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, and the National Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute. Their work has centered on finding a replacement for the popular native striped bass whose populations have dwindled. The result is this hybrid. It grows faster, is more disease-resistant, and hardier than either of its parents. Because of suitable water quality and climate, the hybrid striped bass grows well in the southeast. And the market potential is promising for the hybrid since striped bass are already popular in restaurants. Well the best markets right now are in the northeast to white tablecloth type restaurants. The hybrid is replacing what used to be a large market for the striped bass, and so that's where most of the fish are going.  We think in the future this fish will be highly marketable in Japan and Europe. Using on-farm tests, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the essential requirements and best conditions for growing hybrid striped bass in the southeast. Flat, easily drained clay soils for ponds and an adequate supply of good quality water are important. Water can come from wells, springs, reservoirs, or streams. Whatever the source, there must be enough water available to fill a pond completely within 10 days. Of the four sources, wells are best because of their high water quality and reliability in dry weather. Brackish water can also be used in hybrid culture and seems to improve survival rates during times when the fish must be handled. Maintaining the proper water conditions is important for growing healthy fish. A calcium level of 100 parts per million or higher is desirable. Temperature and dissolved oxygen should be monitored mornings and evenings. Aerators are used to keep the dissolved oxygen levels above four parts per million. Hybrid striped bass grow at water temperatures between 55 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. A good deal of thought should go into deciding how the aquaculture production area should be laid out. The hybrids are raised in standard aquaculture ponds that are levied all around and have flat clean bottoms for easy saining. The recommended size for fingering ponds is two to four acres and five to ten acres for grow-out ponds. The top of the perimeter levies should be 16 to 20 feet wide to prevent erosion. For most soil types, the levee slope should be three to one. The pond grade should slope toward the toe so that the pond can be drained completely in about a week's time. The drain structure itself can follow a variety of models. Most states require permits for an aquaculture facility. Before beginning work, you should check with your local Department of Agriculture to find out the regulations. Once the ponds are built and filled with water, it's time to set up the hatchery. Broodstock to produce hybrid striped bass must be collected during their spring spawning migration. Depending on the location, spawning runs for striped bass occur from March to May in coastal rivers or rivers flowing into large reservoirs. Broodstock, especially females, should be handled carefully. To avoid overly stressing the fish, Honaldon or MS-222 is often used to sedate the fish. Fish are transported in saline water. It's important to keep the water at the same temperature as when the fish were collected. Ice can be used to maintain the water in the 59 to 65 degree Fahrenheit range. As soon as the fish arrive at the hatchery, they're tagged for identification and injected with a hormone HCG. HCG induces the final maturation and ovulation of eggs in the striped and white bass. It's also used to enhance sperm production in males. After the brood fish are injected with the hormone, they should be segregated by species and sex to aid in handling and to prevent spawning in the holding tanks. For female striped bass, an egg sample is taken 20 to 28 hours after the injection. Eggs are examined to determine how long before ovulation will occur. Ovulation in striped bass and white bass females is verified by applying slight pressure to the abdomen of the fish. When the eggs flow freely, complete ovulation has occurred. If the eggs are not stripped within an hour after ovulation, they become overripe and can't be fertilized. Spawning is accomplished by manually stripping the eggs and sperm from the right fish into a container. Fertilization takes place by using either a wet or a dry method. With the wet method, the females eggs are stripped into a small amount of water and sperm is added periodically. With the dry method, the striped bass females eggs are stripped into a dry container. Sperm is stirred in and water added to allow fertilization to take place. Female white bass eggs are sticky and must be treated to remove their adhesiveness. These eggs are fertilized using a variation of the dry method. After the water and sperm are added, the fertilized eggs are removed and placed in a tannic acid solution. The most common method of incubating the striped bass and white bass eggs is in a modified McDonnell hatching jar. The jar has a tube within a tube design that permits water to circulate and keeps the eggs in motion. Air is allowed to escape without lifting the eggs out of the jar. One jar can hold 100,000 to 250,000 eggs. When the fry are two to ten days old, they can be stocked and fertilized ponds at the rate of 125,000 to 250,000 fish per acre. Fries should be stocked at night since they may be killed by exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. The larvae should be gradually acclimated to the new water temperature and water quality. Nursery ponds can be filled about two weeks before stocking fry. Most hatcheries use fresh water in their ponds although brackish water up to five parts per thousand is used in some areas. Raising hybrid striped bass successfully depends on an adequate population of zooplankton for food. Nursery ponds should be fertilized with a combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers to speed the production of zooplankton. At the end of the 30 to 45 day nursery period fingerlings are harvested by saining. Fish that are to be sold for culture are held a few days in raceways where they can be taught to eat pelleted food. For the first few weeks the fish are fed a 45 to 50 percent protein salmon starter in crumble form. Initially this ration is fed twice daily equaling 15 to 20 percent of the fish's body weight. After six to eight weeks the fish are large enough to take the smallest pelleted food. Normally a 38 percent protein trout grower is fed from then on. During the first year the fish should be graded and sorted to prevent cannibalism. At the end of the first year the advanced fingerlings are harvested by saining. The fish are funneled into live cars which can be moved close to shore. From there the fish can be transferred to containers to be moved to grow out ponds. Fish survival to this point should be around 85 percent and the average weight of the fish should be a quarter to a half pound. The advanced fingerlings are stocked in the grow out ponds at the rate of 3,000 to 4,000 fish per acre. Maintaining good water quality is one of the most important aspects of aquaculture. It's essential to monitor the levels of dissolved oxygen. Low levels of dissolved oxygen can become a major problem for the fish at this stage of growth. To keep oxygen levels up it's important to keep the pond water aerated. Paddle wheels are the most efficient aeration method for large ponds. Usually the aerator is turned off during the day and turned on at night to maintain dissolved oxygen levels above four parts per million. Fish will begin to die if the dissolved oxygen level drops to one to two parts per million and all fish will die if the level remains lower than one part per million for very long. When the fish reach a pound and a half they're ready for market. Under proper management 90% of the fish stocked as advanced fingerlings should survive until harvest. The pond level is lowered and the mature fish are harvested by saining into a live car. They are immediately iced boxed and trucked to markets mainly in the mid-atlantic states and the northeast. Startup costs for a hybrid strike bass operation run about five thousand dollars an acre. It also takes another five thousand dollars an acre to raise the fish to market size. A well-run hybrid strike bass operation can be profitable but like all farming success requires plenty of hard work. The returns can be very good if you're a successful farmer. If you pay attention to detail and raise your fish successfully the returns can be initially in the range of a dollar to a dollar fifty a pound over your production cost. The personality that the person needs is one where he's willing to pay attention to detail. He's not afraid of taking risk and he's not afraid of putting in many long hours. Much like a dairy farmer to me who has to be there morning and evening to take care of his cows the fisherman is going to be the same kind of person. After two years as a hybrid strike bass pioneer Lee Brothers has some advice. They need to study up on whatever they're going to raise as as much as possible and go places visit other farms see what other people are doing they could save them money talk with their different associations that have anything at all to do with it like Sea Grant or the extension department. Just learn as much as possible as you can about it and really study up on water quality. I think we're going to see ponds pop up here and there and people going to be riding down the road saying what's that you know I really do. The catfish industry is growing real quick in North Carolina now and I really believe that the way the river systems and the sounds and all are getting around here now and the commercial fleets are catching fewer fish all the time I think it's a way of the future. After years of research it now appears that hybrid strike bass production can be an alternative enterprise for many southern agricultural producers. As markets expand here and around the world the demand for high quality fish may well fuel a boom in aquaculture.


Hello and how are you all today? The question says a man borrows Rs 9,006 per annum and promises to pay off the loan in 20 annual installments beginning at the end of first year. Find the annual payment to be paid. We need to use the value of 1.06 raise to the power minus 20 as 0.3119. Now let us start the solution by writing down whatever is given to us. Here we are given V as Rs 9,000. We are given the rate of interest as 6% per annum which can also be written as 0.06 and the number of years are given to us as 20 years. We need to find the value of R. Now we know the formula for V that is R bracket 1 minus 1 plus R raise to the power minus N upon R. Now we will be substituting these three values that are known to us. It is 9,000 equal to R upon R that is 0.06. This is the rate of interest 1 minus 1 plus R that will be 1.06 raise to the power minus 20. That is further equal to 9,000 into 0.06 equal to R bracket 1 minus the value of it is given to us in the question as 0.3119 which implies we have 9,000 into 0.06 equal to R into their difference comes out to be 0.6881. So to find out the value of R we will be multiplying now 1,000 with 0.06 and dividing it by 0.6881 and after doing the calculation we have the value as rupees 784.77 as the value of R. So therefore we have the annual payment to be paid is rupees 784.77. Right so this completes the session hope you understood it well. Hey you just need to take care of your calculation do remember the formula that is to be used and have an ideal state.


Get five, get five skills, five skills tonight. How did you do it? I don't know. I didn't know, I had a five. It just, you know, like I was able to develop my game because coaching staff trusted me, giving me a lot of minutes. So, and you know, I don't know how I got five skills but you know, I'm glad that I got to carry a high five skills. The three ball wasn't falling early in that first quarter and you know, you knocked down two from that corner three. Seth found ya.  Yeah, you know, like I wasn't worried about like I missed the first two shots but I mean, first miss was ugly. It was almost there was it but and just keep shooting with the confidence. That's what I've been doing since the first day of the season. So, no matter what, just keep shooting. I know my teammates gonna find me. Like you said, Seth gave me a great pass. I think other one came from Royce. It just trust in the team. So, you know, it was a great team effort. You feel like your game is growing at this point?  Yeah, you know, obviously they start taking away. I know they start taking away my threes. So I got to start. I got to, you know, start to find the like other way to finish. And I think I've been, I've been proving that I can drive and that I can finish. So I just got to keep working on it. And then like I started doing that then, I think, you know, defensive defender is not going to know what I'm going to do. So I guess I'm going to still like, you know, keep shooting threes or kind of stuff. So, you know, it was, it was good to see myself attacking the rim, finishing around the rim. How much fun has it been during this 11-day-long shoot? It's been, it's been really fun. As you got, I think you guys can tell, you know, we have been having fun on the floor, having found the bench, the local room and the practice.