Dragonball fighters like any other fighting game is extremely hard and even after you learn how to play You kind of need to keep playing to keep that muscle memory. I mean take my friend siriax here He's been playing a ton of Tekken, so he's a little rusty at fighters That's why we got the idea that maybe you could come on over here and just play a couple of random matches with all random characters Just to see what happens. Hmm. Yeah, you may have gotten a bit upset Okay, Dion so today as I said in the intro that I'm definitely not recording after this But how about we just do randoms, bro? Cuz all of the minds are broken after the update random one and it's already over for you I'm gonna random one and five four three two one. Oh, yeah, you're cut your cut random two I'm cooked random two and five four three two one. Okay. All right. All right random three for me I'm pressing that same time. Oh my god. Broke me.  I'm locked in those shots. I'm already locked in full disclosure built an excuse Brother Haven't played fighter since the last time we played fighters with the editor pull up the long neck hit from or We should we should play that mom when it updates My built an excuse get ready for it get ready for it my built in excuses.  That's a good video idea Watch Afro's last video with all of us. Hey, bro. Respectfully. I'm different now That wasn't a key blast, but if it was I would have walked through it Bro, you don't even know how to play master Hey, it was over the second I saw you start jumping around bro friction fist medium I pressed super fashion. I didn't dash and it wasn't super. It didn't feel very super. Oh my goodness Yeah, honestly, I think it might be better for you I think we're just gonna need this character I can make that happen for you, bro. Let me get freezing here first I appreciate it, bro. I don't even know how to play freeza. So always I think I messed that up not we're good We're good. I thought the explosion might have not done the damage, but I'll take that Okay, nice. Now. I have a character that actually knows how to play dry really I'm gonna play him either What's his knockdown do the what's gale claw media quarter circle back Medium, there you go. That's the one you always want to go for in the air Unless you want to EX it of course and then it works.  I could let me get another shot Oh, we might need you to go through a little fighter camp here. Yes, Nick mix up Nice, bro. You really mix me up. How's that defense looking? Good enough All right, how you gonna knock me down? He didn't remember that kick damn he remembered Yeah, sometimes that happens to me too Sometimes that happens to me too. Oh my god. I don't think I've ever played yoncha or Roshi. This is the first day Hey, there's a first time for everything so the suit so you found the chains of future I Somehow didn't expect you to do it the fourth time. Hey, hey, don't know the gap to see I'm so confused. I was like, what? I don't know. I put it together now. Yeah, I understand.  Honestly, there's a very real chance. I lose if you get to Frieza Oh, but now you're sitting in the corner Hey drugs, let me go ahead and just matches be taken so long, bro. I'm so like again Like this it would be over I would have already lost twice except I win now and take it because I'm I'm a bit of a mighty ruler myself I'm sure you've heard You I Goku don't ever in your life Frieza go ahead finish the job heel heel. Nope That's all burst damage right there, bro. I got literally the worst possible team Please enjoy that We re-roll you win. Yes 100 percent. Hi, bro. That's because we know that's not gonna happen You didn't even know where the character select button was Shut up, bro. You weren't supposed to catch that. All right.  All right. Five four three two one. Oh, boom.    Come on, bro. You got to be able to figure it out. I can't just press superdash after my goddamn two-inch. What kind of game? What kind of place is this? Honestly, yeah, Roshi is a bit weird, but I'm kind of being reminded right now that geneva is a weird jumping heavy Good. Well, you're gonna get him three times.  No, bro that backwards roll Oh, you saw it through my man, bro. I'm trying to remember how to do the seventh All right, I'm trying to remember how to do this 17 mix.  It's got to scale the combo heavier than this. Put me down. Thank you Do it Oh, no, what what are you what are you?  I have no idea what's going on I'm like my brain is trying to figure out how to do anything. Come on, bro. I just think faster Oh, yeah, that's me. That's my turn. Okay, 17 jump.  You just literally have phrases that would be in the english dub of finder Well, yeah, man, because that's that's what I grew up.  It keeps me safe.  I know how to play with bro 18 jealous 18 what The writing here is falling off a cliff. Damn it.  Yeah, man. I'm sure that's what's gonna stop you The once upon a time, bro. I knew how to do a little cell combo Yeah, I feel like I feel like you learn a new character and then you just don't play them for like three months And then you forget. Yep. That's me What how did that go like the doughnuts clipped me? Hold on. All I need is one button Yeah, what's that button? Come here and grab gojina if I may Oh, I'm a triple Oh, look at the metamorphusion duo Dynamic That come with no damage for how long it was In tec and that's doing at least a million damage. Come here. What? I don't get hit by this 2m though Okay I'm out. I'm out of there. I'm out of there. I'm gone. Oh my god, bro It isn't your bro, bro. I'm about to become a fighting game elitist. The stream isn't even a real fighting game It's real to me.   I think that's as good as you're gonna get freeze that maybe majin buu It was a joke Come on. Don't let me don't let me charge in your face like that, bro Damn Oh utilizing the new beam change that allows you to super dash to it. I said you just make it Making stuff on that Bro just making stuff up on the fly Oh, I love it, bro. I love it. I'll allow it all out. EXT. That was just a 2h. There's no way Well, it's over Bro for all his tech points Yeah, bro. Well, this is my first time back, bro.  You're gonna use that one. Yeah, that one didn't go so well for me Bro, I didn't have my whole rage arc to get back into the game All right. Well then I'll see busy doing rage arts. You were having a rage I'll go first. I'll go first. Oh, it's over Okay, it's over. There you go. There you go. I'm still feeling pretty confident. Oh, you're done.  Like he had to go to on every planet He was he I mean he was just up there in the freeze army. That has to get you some respect He might have been a hoe in one of his bodies. You never know like You know kept switching bodies who used to say ginyu's original body wasn't a baddie.   I'm still gonna have to remember a little bit.  Dan, how'd you build three bars? That was like the most basic thing ever Bro, that's crazy. Let me spark too. Oh, it's over Damn, I didn't expect it at two age there. Put me down. Put me down. No bar Let's go. See you sis. All right. Nice. See you sis. Stop making for men Yeah, go ahead play with ginyu then come here grab All right.  I'm so late, bro. He was getting a coffee. And am I dead? And am I dead? Yes, I am So it's not it's not looking too good for me. I won't actually I have a plan. All right, I have a plan bro Because I don't I think he's gonna get level seven You've seen a few dada doing youtube videos, huh?  Don't take that. All right, bro.  I don't know how it works Do I just keep massing them?   I think after they're done. Hey, man. Was it come on, bro You just got them doing anything, bro. You got these guys doing coffee runs. No That was an amazing superdash, but people won't give me give me the credit reserve. What?   I didn't want to nothing personal kid You could do it after that Put me down. Thank you. All right Makes helps. I got those don't even try to drag a rush What I was blocking bro Karate champs Come here me. Oh, I'm not I'm not about to lose to just you run it around with ginyu, bro That's what's about to not happen is that is that being the winning strategy Oh, brother. Here comes jenemmo Imagine if it definitely was in a country music You can only do so many in one charge if you still want to combo that it's Oh Ever heard of a safe jump mid-air addition It wasn't even a safe jump.  I ran under you. I got these you you dropped these You remember how do you remember bro? How do you remember? You Level seven gohan you didn't do anything I did a little something right. Yeah, a little something a little light tap bro I'm I'm I'm depicting it. I'm gonna get two vegetas and and bardock. No, I'm cooked. When can I be happy? Ha ha ha ha Not feeling the team man I'm just wishing like like surely at some point I land on the three specific characters that I can play in this large roster Bro is hoping for a statistical anomaly, man I am for I'm hoping to open the duel with all five pieces of exodia in my hand I feel like that I played yugioh for most of my life That's never happened to me once and I always hope it ever happens in real life Like there will be no way that people just don't assume that cheating wasn't Hey, it's kind of unfortunate, but then again, I don't think many people are running like cash Tierra with five random pieces of exodia Oh, brother.  Hey, bro. Try not to jump I'm just yeah, you did bro.  Go to sleep. I'm asked on that.  Yes I know you quite well at best I was just gonna be a little all right. Oh backflip. Oh my god He's getting good How do you do that? How do you do that? My roshi didn't do any of that. Oh, do you rush to do that? No, mafu Oh, come on get sealed away, man.   Hey, man, I'm having I'm having a ball playing roshi I'm glad. I hope he dies. He's kind of hey come on now He's kind of fun, bro.  I can't wait for the roshi nuzlocke video is gonna go crazy. Heal roshi. Heal Heal keep healing. Yes Yes It's that old man trying. Damn. I thought it'd be funny, bro No, I'm so old Oh, that was sick It wasn't that cool.   Hold on. Wait a minute. Don't ever jump in your life Switching out. I'm squidward in the uh, like looking outside as spongebob playing except like it's just us two somehow You're in the house and also outside the house. Yeah, bro. I'm looking at you having fun except at my expense Damn, what am I doing, bro?   Anyway. Yeah, you enjoy this, bro.  I'm just I'm giving one to you.  That's all it is. Oh, I guess That's all that now. Let me show you how annoying this hit character is Oh, that's you know, like half the time that you go through me there. Don't do it. Oh, thanks What's that?  I don't have I don't have that same hit reaction time. Oh, okay. That's garbage, bro. Hey hit grounded counter Hey Right here Why would I ever learn how to play this character when clearly I don't have to Nice. I remember when I did that combo on my first day of playing hit Well, I don't know what the I don't know what the route is if I had to guess it That does not have Right. Oh, you got me scared that damn powerful, bro I think we're gonna hit me eventually, man. You're gonna hit me eventually What I'm doing Hey, well, you know, I know a guy just about your same height that would love to meet you in there Come here.  Come on, bro. One more round. I don't even hate this game. Hold on. Yeah one more One more. I'm gonna get the good random this time. I'm gonna get the good random This is the random that we awakens this awakens I do didn't mean to do that I thought you meant to do that. I was even gonna say nothing about a hey, bro. So far so not good for you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay My luke home All right, second time I gotta play this shit character today, man.  Oh, look. Oh Watch the mix watch the mix No shot bro, just did that No, bro, it's just hitting any button on the goddamn controller Damn, I was a little something Hey, yeah, you blocked it Admittedly, I didn't know what to do.  He's really feeling it now. He's just We That's probably what go takes would sound like in english like actually Like the english dub casters did a fine job, but that's what he actually would have sounded like All right, bro. You use spark. I'm a use spark too. But off me Rocks Rock part two Damn it. Oh doesn't blow your work. I know that You're good. You're gonna get by this tail, bro. I feel like you're moving around so nervous But you you can't hide that it's something you really just want you want to be hit by jenemba I don't know anything. I just know I need to turn into a beyblade somehow That'd be quarter circle back quarter circle back any button.  I don't know to say that's like 21 too well, but I do know I got like command grabs and stuff So it might not push on anything Or they're not not match fast enough. That's another thing like the game is so much faster than tekin It's a lot faster. Yeah.  Hold on. Let me utilize my abilities because I think I'm gonna look cool. Oh my god Oh I got a look at goofy I got a look at confused You grabbed me out of my uh, oh by the way. You didn't notice the three bars disappear. We're my energy Got him.  You enjoy this This was a setup. This was a setup So you fell for the setup This was a setup, bro.  All right. All right.  No, I'm happy


Hello, Ocelator Sync here, and welcome back to another video in our series where we're taking a look at the sound design potential of the Volcker FM. So in the previous video, we were talking about the envelope, and the envelope is one of our two ways that we have to define how characteristics of our sound change over time. Now, when we're talking about the envelope, we're talking about a journey of sound, a journey which starts when you press the key and the sound might evolve during the time that we're holding on the key, and then we release the key, and the sound trails often kind of reaches its destination at the end there, so it's kind of very much a start to finish kind of situation. The other way that we have of modifying the characteristics of the sound over time is by using our LFOs. So that we're on the same page, LFO stands for Low Frequency Oscillator, and it's traditionally one of the key components in our sort of traditional subtractive analog synthesis for defining the way that a sound changes. So an LFO is an oscillator, which is of a low frequency, the clue is very much in the title, typically well below audio range. So if we were to listen to this oscillator, most would probably hear clicks, and quite often we would just see the speaker move in and out, we wouldn't hear anything because it's below audio range typically, so below 20 hertz usually, although LFOs kind of run faster, and it's interesting when they do. In our analog world we would maybe send the LFO to the VCA, so that would control the amplitude of the sound, that would give us a sort of tremolo-uh-uh-uh-uh kind of thing if we had a square wave going there, perhaps we could send it to the filter, so we get a wah-wah-wah kind of thing, that's where you get your whubs. You might send it to the pitch, so you get a-a-a-a-round kind of siren sounds if that's what you're into, or more subtle vibrato sounds I suppose. And if you are Nic Bat, then obviously you will send it to your pulse width of your square wave to get that beautiful pulse width modulation. Now at first glance, the LFO architecture on the Volcro FM can seem quite simplistic. You've really only got one LFO, or one LFO per voice I suppose, but that's one LFO as far as sound design is concerned, and it can only go to two places. It can go to the pitch, and it can go to the level of the operators. But actually when you start to dig into the architecture, and some of the additional features and functionality that exists there, it's actually a very flexible system despite the fact that we've only got the one LFO. So with that in mind, let's dive into the edit menu and take a look. So because we've only got one LFO, it's not kind of a per operator defined thing, although we will go back to the operators as we move along. We are going to head along to the all section of our parameters in our edit menu, and we're going to start off by scrolling across until we get to the parameter. This one here, this LAMD. So this is our LFO amplitude depth. So when you hear that, you're thinking, OK, well, I know what this is going to do. This is going to be affecting the amplitude of my sound. This is going to give me my tremolo effect. So let's check it out. So here is the sound with it turned down, and as we turn it up, absolutely nothing changes. So OK, is my LFO broken? Well, no, it's not. So the way that the LFO works on the Volcker FM is that in this section, in the all section, we're defining its shape. So when we're turning up here, what we're doing is we're making the sweeps wider. I tend to start by making them as wide as possible, and then I can always dial them back. But in terms of hearing what's happening, I tend to turn it all the way up to begin with and then dial it back to make it a bit more subtle maybe later on. We'll look at some of the other parameters in a minute. But the way that the LFO works is that you define the shape here and then you go into the individual operators to define how sensitive they are to them. So here I'm on a parameter, which says AMS. And what this is is the amplitude sensitivity of this operator. So this parameter here defines how much this operator is listening to, affected by, depending on how you want to think about it, the LFO. So at the moment, it's set to zero and we're hearing no change over time. As we turn this up, we start to hear the LFO affecting this operator. Subtle at the moment. And as we turn it up, we can hear that tremolo happening and go all the way up. And we're getting that definite choppy tremolo happening. Now, I'll just point out that one of the main controls of the LFO isn't actually in the edit menu, probably the most important control, which is the rate, is actually on the front panel here on this knob here. So if we wanted to make that choppiness slower, then we can do so. Which is cool. So here we're making operator one sensitive to the amplitude modulation of our LFO. And because operator one is our carrier, the thing that we hear by altering its amplitude, what we're doing is altering the volume of our output, which is why we get this kind of chopping effect. So let's turn that off for a second and move over to operator two. Now operator two is our modulator. So our modulator is going to be defining the timbre of our sound. So by making its level modulate, rather than changing the amplitude of our output, we should be changing the harmonic content. So let's check that out. So that's where it turned down as we turn it up. We hear that kind of throbbing, but it's definitely a harmonic throbbing instead. All the way up to these big old wubs. Cool. So this sensitivity control is actually quite a nice way of working because we can have all of our different operators. I remember we do have six of them. Next video we'll talk about a few more operators. And we can all have them modulated different amounts, which can bring some quite interesting things. So we might want, for example, to not have our sound rubbing so much, but we might want it to be quite choppy. So we could turn our sensitivity up on our carrier to full. And it's quite choppy, but it's not quite as wobbly as it was. But we can make it wobbly by turning this up if we like. Okay, let's talk about some of the other controls that we have for our LFOs because the depth over here is not the only one that we have. So if we move on two clicks along, we get to this parameter here, which says LFO, and believe it or not, that's a W. So this is the LFO waveform. So this defines the shape of our LFO. At the moment it is a triangle wave, which is a smooth upwards and then downwards kind of sound. Equal each side. It's a great sort of general use waveform. You just want to add that sort of gentle modulation to your sounds. As we move through the wave shapes, we've got some other interesting opportunities here. So this first one is a sawtooth or ramp up sound. So here we've got a wave shape which moves up comparatively slowly and then drops down instantly when it gets to the top of the waveform and goes up so you get this wab, wab, wab, wab thing happening over and over again and then goes to the sort of up and down movement. Number two here is the same thing but in reverse. So it's a waveform which starts high, goes down slowly and then jumps back up at the end of the waveform, giving you a down, down, down, down, down kind of sound. I actually really like this waveform for LFOs because it can do all sorts of fake echo kind of stuff. This one can sound really cool if we slow the LFO down a bit actually. So you kind of get these repeated notes happening. You get weird, cool rhythmic interplay between them as well. Cool. The next shape along here is our square wave. It's a very, very choppy sort of on-off kind of sound. Really cool on the Amputeuse, so sort of a square wave tremolo kind of sound. Here we have a sine wave. So this sounds a bit like our triangle wave. Whereas a triangle wave goes up and then straight down, a sine wave is going to kind of even off that top and bottom. So if we compare them, they have slightly different characters to them. Sine wave can be a bit more characterful I think. So that's our sine wave. That's our triangle wave. It's subtle, but there's just a sort of slight kind of difference. A little bit more time spent at the top end and the sweep down is a bit more dramatic I think. Kind of more soupy maybe. Quite like sine waves on the modulation there. And finally we have our sampling hold. So sampling hold, what sampling hold basically does is every time the LFO is going to go round, it's going to pick a new random point to stop on. So what we get is this kind of stop-start kind of different levels rather than a constant sort of oscillation. Now this gets a bit glitchy, so you have to be a bit sort of careful how you use it. There's certain things that you can sort of turn down to make it less sort of jumpy, which will make it less glitchy like this. Using it on some of the other parameters is maybe better in some cases. Quite cool for certain types of atmospheres I think. Especially slowed down, it's quite cool. Okay, so let's just move back to that nice sine wave that I was talking about before because it's quite nice and let's just make it a bit slower. Something like that. So the next parameter I want to talk about is I think one of the most important ones to be aware of because I think this can really change the character of a sound. It can really help you create sounds which evolve more interestingly and more naturally in some cases. So we're going to click back past our depth to LFO D. Now LFO D isn't depth, which is confusing sometimes. LFO D is your LFO delay. Now this is cool. What this essentially allows us to do is delay the onset of our LFO when we first hit the key. So let me demonstrate because it's probably easier to hear than it is to explain. At the moment with this at minimum, if I press a key, that LFO, that sweeping sound comes in straight away. If I turn this value up a bit, you can hear that the LFO instead sort of fades in and this is really, really cool because these can go quite long. So this is one of these tricks that you can employ to make sure that the first part of your note is sort of strong and well-defined and not sort of wobbling away. But then you sort of introduce that once the note is established. So it can like have a good strong start of the note but when it sustains you can make it sort of move and be a bit more interesting. Even just delaying it that little bit. It can be really effective. I use this in a lot of patches. I think it's a really nice feature to be aware of. So so far we've been applying our LFO to our operators, whether it's the carrier which will affect the output level of the operator or our modulator which is going to help change and shape the harmonic content. Now the other place that we can send the LFO essentially is to the pitch so we can get a sort of pitch wobble happening as well. So let's just head over to our operator here and just turn it down. Cool, okay. So we're now at a situation where we're not getting anything sent to our operator so let's take a look at the pitch. Now you would think, potentially, or certainly I did the first time I played with the synth, that we have a knob here that says P-depth and it's right next to my LFO rate and I thought great, grab hold of that, turn up the wobble for my pitch. However, nothing is happening, which is annoying and confused me to begin with. But basically what's happening here is that we have a similar setup in terms of sensitivity to the pitch modulation. If we go across with our parameters until we get to this one here which is the modulation sensitivity pitch, I think that stands for MSP. Essentially what this does is it makes our operators sensitive to the pitch mod so if we turn this up a bit we get that lovely wobbly pitch. I have to say that if you're mostly interested in your pitch modulation I find the sine wave very, very attractive. On pitch modulation it gives it a certain swampiness that you don't get with a triangle wave that I really, really dig. And you can hear here, this is another place where that delay really, really works. So the first part of our note isn't wobbling at all. But then it sort of fades in. If we were to set that a little bit longer, that can again be really, really quite nice so we can set our LFO delay to be longer like a nice strong first sort of note impression and then we give away to that wobbliness which can be really, really, really powerful when you start to sort of match up that delay to maybe even the tempo of the song that you're playing with. Don't just set patches and forget them, tweak them for the sounds that you need for particular songs. If you set that to the tempo so that that fading happens around like the second beat or whatever, it can be pretty magical. Okay, so there's one of the parameter that's related to the LFO that is a little bit more subtle in its use. I wasn't even sure whether I wanted to talk about it but I think for the sake of completeness I will mention it. So it's probably easiest for me to demonstrate it if it's affecting the amplitude. So I'm just going to turn my pitch modulation down. Cool, I'm going to turn that delay down as well. Okay, go over to Operator 1, make it nice and sensitive. Make sure that the amplitude is set up as well. Still got some delay on there we go. Lovely, okay, so to demonstrate this it's probably easiest if I turn my waveform onto a ramp. Let me just turn this off for a second which should be kind of the off position. So this is the final parameter here, this LFO case. This is the LFO key sync. So if I play a note now, can you hear there that every time I hit a key we're sort of landing in a different part of the waveform. So we're expecting to hear this nice ding ding ding ding ding ding ding kind of sound but because I'm hitting the key when it's not quite at the start of the waveform each time we're not getting that nice satisfying dink at the start of the sound. So what the LFO key sync essentially does is it resets the LFO every time you hit a key. But always, doesn't matter when I do it I'm going to get that nice satisfying dink at the start of the sound. So without, I can miss it and sort of get it towards the end of the waveform and it kind of ruins the impact of the sound a bit with it turned on. Always going to hit it. Now that's not going to be applicable for every kind of sound but for certain types of sound especially when you're working with the more steppy waveforms like the ramps, like the square wave and you want to make sure that every time you hit that first note you get that big part of the sound that can be a really essential thing to be aware of. So just to recap, the LFO system here is a little bit different maybe than you might find in some other synths in that in the all parameters we're setting the overall shape of the LFO but we have to go into our individual sensitivity so whether that's the sensitivity on a per operator basis or whether it's that pitch sensitivity at the end here which is in our all menu section you need to set that sensitivity before the LFO is actually going to affect anything. The rate for the LFO is on the panel as is the overall pitch shape of the LFO as well. Take advantage of the different shapes for different kinds of sounds and if you need to get that impact at the start of each sound every time you hit the key then make sure that you turn on that LFO key sync. As always thanks for joining me guys I hope that that was useful and you've got a better idea of how the LFO works on the Volgra FM now. If you enjoy the video make sure to give it the old thumbs and also make sure if you haven't already that you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on any more of the videos in this series and of course the other videos that we do on synthesis as well just as a spoiler alert in the next video we're going to be finally talking about algorithms so we've been dealing with just two operators for the last couple of videos we're going to move on to all six in the next video and it's going to be pretty interesting. As always really appreciate you joining me if you want to see anything or if you've got any comments please do drop a comment I love reading comments that people leave on the video so do do that and I will see you again soon guys take care


Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Misha Charles. This edition stops stories. Saint Lucia to Banday Portation of Styrofoam Containers as of June 1, 2019. USAID helps to strengthen Saint Lucia's response to Zika. The ancillary seafood festival is prepped with trained vendors. All that, plus the latest in youth development, sports, and the NTN Nouvelle Arquillon. Saint Lucia will ban the importation of foam and plastic food service containers as of June 1, 2019. This was announced by the Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, Honourable Dr. Gail Rigabert during the debate on the appropriation bill, 2019-2020. The minister cited research that shows that food service containers made from polystyrene and plastic negatively affects our health and environment. And as studies have shown, food service containers made from what we know as Styrofoam, along with plastics, have continued to negatively affect the health of citizens and the cleanliness of our environment. In this regard, the Department of Sustainable Development in partnership with other key agencies such as the Saint Lucia Solid Waste Management Authority, the Department of Economic Development, Ministry of Commerce, the Department of Finance and the Customs and Excise Department over the last few months have worked towards the development of a suitable strategy to eliminate single-use plastics or Styrofoam from our market and environment. In the first instance, the government will be phasing out the importation of all Styrofoam food service containers including cups, plates and hinged takeaway containers and other selected plastic cups, plates and containers. Thereafter, a ban on the use of these products will become effective immediately on June 1, 2020. And selected plastic food service containers landed after May 31, 2019 will not be released by the Customs and Excise Department. These items will be phased out over a one-year period commencing June 1, 2019 until May 31, 2020. This approach will allow all stakeholders a chance to exhaust their current stock of Styrofoam and the selected plastic food service containers and to source environmentally friendly alternatives. The importer will bear the associated costs for disposal of any seized items. Minister Rigobot lauded the private sector for its cooperation in effecting the ban. Saint Lucia's response to Zika and Arbovirus is expected to be strengthened as the United States Agency for International Development at the USAID hosted a social and behaviour change workshop recently. More in this report from Miguel Morissette. The workshop is aimed at enhancing the capacity of participants to increase the practice of priority healthy behaviours in the community as it relates to vector control. Medical Officer of Health Dr Sharon Belma George says vector-borne diseases are of significant public health importance therefore there must be the integration of social and behaviour interventions in health programmes. This workshop is extremely timely and I'm also happy to see the presence of our partners because at the Ministry of Health we cannot do it alone. We need the support of all of our partners to get at the level of the communities. Acting Chief Environmental Health Officer Parker Ragnannon says it is important that a collective action in the community be undertaken for vector control. We hope that you're going to be change engines in your community, in the society, and be responsible to seeing that there is an integrated vector management approach that is undertaken because for too long as a country we've depended on using chemicals to treat for vectors. What we have seen is the results are very clear that you cannot do the same thing all the time and expect a different result and therefore the results that we are seeing is evident that the chemical treatment is not working. A participant of the workshop, Lucy Lubringirad, believes this workshop will assist her in making changes in the community. I am confident that I will be able to facilitate a better intervention programme with all the skills and knowledge that I have acquired. I also learnt strategies to get maximum community participation and involvement focusing on the stakeholders and the resources required to effect that change and to be able to monitor and evaluate the impact of the intervention on the ground. Another participant, Alicia Elevic, also shared her perspective on the workshop. As community leaders, we always figure the main thing is to put them out perhaps if there is a meeting, put the notice on the radio station and expect persons to come. But having come to this training, I realised there is a target audience, there are other factors to be considered when calling a meeting even when conducting a survey, etc. A key element of the workshop was a data collection exercise on vector control in Grusile. From the communications unit in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Miguel Morrisett reporting. A burst of flavours can be experienced at the Anslerace Seafood Festival come April 26. This follows weeks of rigorous training to shape vendors and their assistance to deliver to international standards. Given the growing trend in coronary travel, local officials are taking bold steps to create a niche around St. Lucia's offerings. The St Lucia Tourism Authority and the Ministry of Tourism have joined efforts to enhance the offering of the Anslerace Seafood Festival. Under the supervision of Chef Didier LeBeurre, 15 vendors and 30 assistants are receiving training in culinary creativity, safety and presentation. The six-week program has afforded the 45 trainees the opportunity to demonstrate their newly acquired culinary skills weekly at the Seafood Festival. Jackie Mathra is the Senior Marketing Manager at the St Lucia Tourism Authority. With communities like Anslerace helping to drive culinary and the culinary experience in St. Lucia, we really saw the need to develop the skill set of our young people and to really bring up our level in the sense of presentation, the sense of using our local produce and really creating something really wonderful and exciting around the whole niche of cuisine and cuisine tourism. Aldrich Evans is the Chairperson of the Anslerace Seafood Committee. Aldrich Evans, who operates a smoothie bar, is also on the going training in mastering the art of creativity, safety and presentation. He says working with Chef Didier is very exciting and the vendors are serious about advancing their skills. With this training, I think it has mobilized the people. The people have learned how to do their stuff a little different to showcase their product. And I think it will be a great thing for them and this is the opportunity they're going to take now. There's a lot of advantage over it and then to do a very good thing for themselves because this is what they depend on. So I think they're going to do the best out of it. Seafood vendor Nadia Chalmain says the training has put the skills of seafood vendors to the test. She adds that when the training is all over, the Anslerace seafood experience will be one with a difference. On a normal Friday, I will try it to see people such as creole shrimps, creole larvae, and steamed and banana leaf. We have tried it and it was a very good experience. The Ansleracee Food Festival will get on the way on Friday, April 26, 2019, when the public will have the opportunity to experience culinary delights of international standards with an all-siclution flavor. The Viewford North Constituency Council has delivered on its mandate to improve the quality of life for residents, more from Chef Roy Marius. Maneuvering over flooded canals is now a thing of the past for the residents of the Viewford North Kaku Community. We received a newly constructed mini-bridge walkway donated by the Viewford North Constituency Council. The handing over ceremony took place during the weekend in the Vijay Kaku Community. Chairperson of the Viewford North Constituency Council, Miss Kate Admey, echoed the importance of council's role in community development. Let me say to you that council's role is to improve the people's lifestyle to meet their basic need. The residents on the other side of this road had very little or no access to find themselves to the main road in order to either send their children to school or go to work in order to help their financial needs within the family structure and especially if a sick member needs medical care. It was very difficult to cross through this little structure that you can see in order to get this person to a health institution for medical care. The mini-bridge walkway will provide a secure access route for several families who traverse the road on a daily basis. Local government officer in the department of local government, Miss Keisha Atil, commanded the Viewford North Constituency Council for the timely donation. Today, I am very proud to see that Viewford North Constituency Council is here in Kaku to provide some support to the residents by building this access route. So on behalf of the Ministry of Equity on behalf of the Department of Local Government I wish to say thank you to the residents for accepting the little that we gave to offer to you today and we pledge to continue to support in any way that we can. Residents in the community extended special thanks to the donors for the much needed walkway. I would like to say how much I appreciate and we in the community we appreciate the work that has been done there so far. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. The walkway is the Constituency Council's first project in the Vijay Kaku community. Reporting from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment, I am Shivre Marius. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. There are signs everywhere.  Visit your health center to get screened. It's a preliminary test to determine if you are exposed to the HIV virus and STI or tuberculosis. Some people who are HIV positive also have tuberculosis. But there is help. Tuberculosis can be cured. And yes, you can live a full life with HIV. Talk to your doctor. Be responsible. Help stop the spread of TB, HIV. Help everyone to get tested. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Hello once again. I'm Ryan O'Brien with your update on happenings in youth development and sports on the NTN Nightly News. The Second Physical Education and Sports Conference was held recently at the Beanfield Comprehensive Secondary School. Physical Education Specialists in the Ministry of Education, Alice Poris, outlined the objectives of the conference. The objectives of this conference are to bring physical education teachers and other sport leaders together in a professional setting to share ideas and best practices, to identify problems affecting physical education and sports, to identify possible solutions and to generally highlight and raise the profile of the physical education profession. This year's theme is Physical Education for Nation Building. I'm sure everyone in here understands the impact that physical education and sports can have on an individual, a community, and a country. I know firsthand the impact that sports can have on an individual. If done correctly with long-term visionary planning, sound structures, linkages between the various agencies in our system, and provision of the necessary resources, physical education and sports can have a significant positive impact on the lives of our citizens. Dr. Alice Poris went on to say that following last year's resounding success of the conference, it was decided that local knowledge, skills, and expertise would have again been used for this year's event. She, however, noted that as the conference continues, there remains a possibility of presenters from overseas being used. In time as the conference grows, we will invite our colleagues from the region to join us. In the interim, our local persons are getting the opportunity to further develop their presentation skills to hopefully present at regional and even international conferences. I'd like to recognize our sponsors, UNICEF, Flow and the National Lottery Authority. Without their assistance, this conference would be a conference on paper. We would still be talking about it. The Mass United All-Star Team chosen after the 2019 Mass United Insurance under 19 in the secondary school's cricket competition had an outstanding win recently against the traveling Worcestershire under 19 squad from England at the Grooseley playing field. The young Worcestershire team batted first and scored 151 for 6 of their 30 overs with Edward Bragg scoring an attractive 56 not out. When the Mass United All-Star team batted, it was a brilliant batting performance by Akimogis who scored a stroke field 78, which contained 11 forwards and 3 6s that propelled the Mass United Insurance under 19 team to victory, gathering 155 for 6 in 27 overs. The Mass United All-Star Team comprised Akimogis, Ephron Charles, Keyon Gaston, Marklin Estefan, Dick Hedge Henry, Denzel Roberts, Amari Venner, Tyrone Thielo, Craig Elizay, Keegan Arno, Tiedon Elibox, Lee Solomon and Bolton Sears. The Ministry of Development and Sports will be holding a review of the recently held inter-secondary school's track and field championship at the Conference Room of the Ministry on Friday, April 26. Physical education teachers representing the various schools that participated in the two meets are expected to be part of the review. Additionally, among events of the school sports programming for the current term will be Special Eds, Table Tennis and the Primary Schools Netball Festival. And that's your update on your development and sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. Children in the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital are expected to benefit from a safe sleeping space as a donation of cribs and towels were made recently. More on this report from Phinell Neptune. The St. Lucia Mother's Day Committee of Brooklyn, New York recently made a donation of cribs and towels to the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital. A member of the committee, Claudia Ogistanisla says her organization remains committed to giving back to the citizens of St. Lucia. We are hoping this will bless the hospital that they will be distributed to. Our mission is to help our home country the best way we can and when this opportunity comes to us, we could not let it go. We would also like to thank Mr. Ernil Johnny for thinking of us when this opportunity popped up. Departmental sister of obstetrics and Child Health Services of the Victoria Hospital, Cecil Marcellis says she is extremely grateful for the donation of the cribs which will ensure the safety of the children. This donation is important in that it will assist with the safety of our younger children in the department because as we know children are very active and sometimes even though they are ill we still need to ensure the safety. A total of 18 cribs were donated to the Pediatric Unit of the Victoria Hospital. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Phenel Neptune. And stay with the NTN Nightly, up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquillon. Preparation is to make sure that the food is served at every portion, particularly after a disaster. Millions of people who have suffered from joint diseases. Be careful when buying food. If you examine it well, it could be too bad to look at it to make sure it is not too bad. If you buy it at the same price keep it in stock for free in the Ministry and if you want to buy it you can examine it if it is satisfactory for you. If you buy it, you can buy it for the people who are still suffering from chronic leukotomy, wash them well and then they will be very careful. Take care of them when they come and eat it fast. Serve them on a plate with other things in it to catch up when they leave.  If you don't have food for three days and the only thing left is to have a massage before eating, since after a few days Welcome back. We join Prime Minister Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle-en-Cueil. Mr. Utan Nishih, I am the Secretary of State for Information and Information for the Government of this country. This is GIS, the National Television of the NTN, the Nouvelle-en-Cueil, the Prime Minister Hutchinson. A continuation of his presentation by Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney, pay attention to his education. According to Prime Minister Chassney, the Government has never been in place to advance education for all ages and to deal with academic and vocational disabilities. Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney, the Government has approved technical education and also participated in sports, culture and acting in a way to achieve total ability to follow the program of education at secondary school. Prime Minister Chassney declared that the program of training for professional development for the rest of the year will not be able to deliver restrictions for the students in the country. Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Chassney also announced that the Government has added $10 million to the program to provide education for the rest of the year. The program of education at secondary school has added $2.5 million to Prime Minister Chassney so that it can facilitate the study to strengthen the ability to prepare for the first time for employment in the country. The residents of the community have a strong role in this. I have found that the water supply is very high. I have a good example of this. I have a good example of this for the residents of the country. This is because of the support that comes from the community in front of the community that can initiate this to build a new business. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community. Chief of the Council of North V4, Madam Kate Edmé, to strengthen this role in the development of this community. The responsibility is to improve the life of the residents so that they can live more safely. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community so that it can facilitate the study to strengthen the ability to prepare for the next time for employment in the country. I would like to present a point that was mentioned a week ago in the community so that it can facilitate the development of this community. Village Oslaway is in a position to support the large number of people in this area to support the development of this community so that it can help the residents to get a living. This is to help the residents to participate in the study to strengthen the ability to provide a good place for them to live. This is to help the residents to provide a good place for them to eat in the international food. This is to provide a good place for them to eat in the international food. São Paulo province prec park, Thank you, Pail Primus. And here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Skies are fair with a slim chance of showers. A gradual increase in cloudiness and showers is expected over the forecast period. The Atlantic High Pressure System will maintain a moderate easterly to east-north-easterly wind flow across the eastern Caribbean region for the next few days. A weak share line is causing some shower-y spells over the central eastern Caribbean islands. The tide for Castries Harbor was low at 12.54pm and will be high at 7.29pm. The tide for V4 Bay low at 2.21pm and will be high again at 8.36pm. Seas are slight to moderate with waves and swells 3 to 5 feet or 0.9 to 1.5 meters. The sun will rise Wednesday at 5.45am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us any time on the Zenusia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.


Hey guys, welcome back to come again TV. We're all geek culture collides. I'm Shannon and today. Oh my god Today, I'm gonna be reviewing the trailer for Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix. I Just what caught this trailer last night. First of all, let me just say this they could not have picked a better song To put in the trailer Metallica's one from the Injustice for All album freaking awesome The way the bridge of the song fits so perfectly with the gunfire and everything in this trailer Just I'm a longtime Metallica fan and personally I feel the Metallica should be the sole provider of Music for this series. They have a whole host of songs That would fit in perfectly with The Punisher. I'm talking one the unnamed feeling The day that never comes Injustice for all For whom the bell tolls Unforgiven fade to black seek and destroy sanitary and blackened wherever I may roam fight fire with fire The memory remains creeping death Disposable heroes the shortest straw the freight ends of sanity the god that failed nothing else matters and Fuel and I say the god that failed because There is a specific scene in the first good Punisher movie from early 2000s the one guy says go with God Castle and Frank says God's gonna sit this one out and that was kind of repeated in Punisher war zone where towards the end of the film the Punisher here someone screaming They're being attacked or whatever and he starts walking up all of a sudden behind them The neon cross that says Jesus saves Goes out so that's kind of echoed that God's gonna sit this one out and that's why I say the god that failed would be the perfect The perfect song for at least one episode of this Season with that being said let's go ahead and check out the video and We're gonna start it up right now We open up with Frank playing his guitar with his daughter It is Metallica's one His wife saying, you know, they've got plenty of time now that he's home and then all of a sudden She shot in the head Come to find out. It was a CIA that killed his family They did it To wipe away any remnants of him Apparently, he just came back from a special ops mission. They wanted no traces left So he'd kill on site order and now the CIA the FBI the police Everybody is after Frank Castle. I have to say John Berenthal does an excellent job portraying Frank I don't see Frank as the The crew cut type though, but I do like this scene where he says The one guy's telling them, you know, you should work together and Frank says on one condition I'm gonna kill them all which is a huge reference to Metallica Of course with their kill them all album This scene here where he's shooting off everyone in the blood is about splattering that goes so perfectly with the bridge to the song And then you got the Punisher skull, which is very reminiscent of the first good Punisher movie I have to say I really really dig this trailer. I cannot wait for it to hit Netflix As of right now, there is no date linked to it. I'm not sure what's going on Netflix is keeping it sealed for that. They're they're staying tight lept I really don't know what's going on why they're being so tight lept. You'd think they would want everybody to know Exactly when the Punisher is hitting Netflix.   I'm Shannon for Comic-Con TV. Take care Hey guys, if you liked this video make sure you smash that subscribe button and click on the little bell to receive notifications On all our upcoming videos hit the like button make sure and leave us a comment So we know how we felt about this video and don't forget to share with your family and friends until next time I'm Shannon from Comic-Con. We're all geek culture collides


Welcome to Monet Café. I'm very excited to bring you a sample video of what you can expect on my Patreon page. And the weekly challenge we had was to emulate a famous artist. But I want to go ahead and share these videos on my regular Monet Café art channel or YouTube channel for everyone to see. These videos will be a little more sped up, but this will show you a little bit more of the in-depth teaching art tutorials that you can expect if you become a member of the Patreon page. I go into everything from choosing your pastels to painting techniques, suggestions for sketching, just ways to get better in your art endeavors overall. So enjoy this video that is more, it's the sped up rendition of what's on the Patreon page.  Those will never stop. You guys know I'm focusing more on the beginner series. I've gotten so much feedback from you guys that you're loving those videos. And I actually, I think I already have two of them. I have the footage for those videos, so they will be uploaded soon. So and as always you can ask any questions here on the YouTube channel. I'll give you as much support as I can. And if you ever feel you want to take that next step though, that might be neat to you know to become a member of the Patreon page. But for now if you just want to hang out Monet Café on the YouTube channel here, that's great too. Alright so enjoy this sped up rendition and you'll still learn a lot from looking at this. But I'm gonna add some nice music for your listening pleasure. And I am just so excited about everything that's happening. I love the new Patreon page and my new patrons that have already become members. And as always I love you guys in Monet Café. My art friends from all over the world. Alright enjoy guys and I'll have more beginner videos on the way. So this was so much fun for me. I had recreated some other famous artist of course Monet. But I'd never done a Van Gogh painting. And wow it just it stretched to me I think artistically. So I hope you guys will try this. You can really learn a lot by emulating another artist's technique. And as always happy painting and come on over to Patreon if you'd like the full lesson. Thanks so much guys.


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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Just how common is teen sexting? Last week, we reported on a new study of more than 1,500 internet users aged 10 to 17. It found that only two and a half percent of them had sexted in the past year. It also found that only one percent of the images might violate child pornography laws. That study came from the University of New Hampshire. But another new report suggests much higher rates. Both studies defined sexting only to means sending or receiving naked pictures. Psychologist Jeff Temple is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He says, we found, actually, about 28 percent of teens had sexted. Mr. Temple says reports from medical offices and school officials support that finding. One of the authors that will be on our paper with our data is a pediatrician. And he certainly sees this in his office. And from talking to school personnel and teens themselves, it certainly seems like it's happening quite a bit more frequently than the one percent reported in the New Hampshire study. He also says the behavior was the same for boys and girls. We found that about a third of girls had sent a naked picture of themselves to another teen. And about a third of boys had sent a naked picture of themselves to another teen. Sexting is not the only issue involving teens and technology. A recent online family report from computer security company Norton called attention to cyber-baiting in classrooms. Marion Merritt is the company's internet safety advocate. She says, kids may engage in purposely taunting or teasing or harassing the teacher in order to get the teacher to have some kind of reaction or response that they then hope to capture on a cell phone camera, a video, and post online where people can view it. Now, this can be incredibly embarrassing and humiliating and damaging to the reputation of a teacher. Ms. Merritt says Norton surveyed more than 2,300 teachers in 24 countries. What we were surprised to learn is that one in five teachers globally knows somebody that it's happened to or has had it happen to themselves. The online survey also found that 70% of young people reported having had a negative experience online. 40% rated the experience as serious, including cyberbullying, cybercrime, or being contacted by strangers. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal.


Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Ayes Academy. Displayed are the list of news articles taken for today's analysis and the page numbers in different editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles have been provided in the description and the time stamping is also provided in the comment section for the benefit of mobile phone viewers. Now let us move on to the analysis of first news article. These news articles are about the announcements made by Indian prime minister during his visit to Russia and we know that prime minister has participated the fifth eastern economic forum as the chief guest. This forum is being held in Vladivostok in Russian Far Eastern region on the Far Eastern Federal University campus. The syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article has been highlighted here for your reference. First let us have a brief look into the Russian Far Eastern region then we will see the news article in the light of the region and the forum. Overall if you see Russia has eight federal districts. These federal districts were created in the year 2000 by the present president of Russia to increase the power of central government over the regions. One of these eight federal districts is Far Eastern federal district. The geographical territory in this federal district is usually called as Far Eastern region of Russia. This region has you know more than one third of Russia's territory. Some news reports say that around 41 percent of Russia's territory can be seen in the Far Eastern region of Russia. The population is around 64 lakhs within this region and the region is known for low population density in Asia and is also known for this low population density is because of the hostile and harsh climate that prevails in this region. Reports are saying that around 20 percent of this region is not inhabited by people. That is why news reports we could find description such as this region is one of the underpopulated regions. If you see during winter that is from the months of November till February. The average temperature is said to be around minus 20 degrees Celsius. The annual average temperature in northern Far Eastern region is around minus 10 degrees Celsius and the annual average temperature in the southern Far Eastern region is around six degrees Celsius. So among several reasons this is one of the main reasons why the population is not much in the Far East region of Russia. Now let's see the basic economic sectors or the basic economic industries in this region. We can see mining industries, gold mining industries, fishing industry, forestry and wood industry, metallurgy particularly non-ferrous metallurgy and shipbuilding industry. This Far Eastern region of Russia is specially known for major natural resource deposits. Here by deposits we mean oil, natural gas, coal, gold particularly the Colima gold fields in Far East in Russia is a specially known gold field. Then deposits of silver, diamonds, pulp, wood, fish, iron ore, lead and zinc. A promising trade relation of India with this region in Russia means India has to get benefits from these industries and the natural resources. Though the region is rich natural resources deposits a significant proportion of the population here lives in poverty. The reason being see the mere availability of the resources makes the region rich but not its people. This is because the deposits are not yet explored and exploited for economic activities and one another issue with this region is that there is also less connectivity in this region. So these are some of the information with respect to the Far Eastern region of Russia. Now let's enter the news article. See the Prime Minister has announced that India will lend 1 billion US dollars for the development of Russia's Far East. This line of credit is part of economic diplomacy and also part of India's engagement with East Asian region under the East Asia policy or under the Act East policy. To be specific the engagement of India with this Far Eastern region will be here for called us India's Act Far East policy. India has understood the geo-strategic significance way back in 1990s. See in 1992 India has become the first country to open a consulate in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and one another consulate of India has located in western region in Russia that is in St. Petersburg. We have an embassy in Moscow. Oh it is said that the industrial conglomerations in Russia particularly in this region is short of labor force. This means the region could become a promising source for Indian labor so as to contribute to the development of the region. That is one of the reasons why Prime Minister has said that India is proud of the achievements of Indian diaspora and that even in Russian Far East Indian diaspora will make active contribution to the region's progress. Therefore the region offers an important area for the use of India's skilled and semi-skilled manpower to develop the area. So the article mentions that the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister has opened up new investment opportunities for India in this region. So this means India is set to benefit from the economic opportunities in the resource rich region. So these are some of the information announced by the Prime Minister as part of fifth Eastern Economic Forum. See Indian Prime Minister was invited by the Russian President to be the chief guest of the forum and the present visit of Indian Prime Minister is the first visit by any Indian Prime Minister to the Far Eastern region of Russia. Now let's see few information regarding the Eastern Economic Forum. This forum was established recently that is in the year 2015 by the decree of Russian President. The forum has been formed with two main objectives one to support the economic development of Russia's Far Eastern region then to expand international cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. The forum will conduct events in the form of panel sessions, roundtables, business dialogues. The purpose is to promote Russia's relationships with various countries that are participating in the forum. If you see the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum this includes a number of business dialogues with leading partner countries in the Asia Pacific region on the one side and the Russia on the other. There will also be business dialogues with ASEAN that is Association of Southeast Asian Nations as well. At present if you see India is not a prominent investor in the region. Now the some of the prominent investors are China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam. Now let's see some special facts about Russia that may support and assist India in terms of trade and economic development. See Russia ranks number one in the world for oil and natural gas production. It also ranks first in the export of primary aluminum and nitrogen fertilizers and Russia is also the largest in terms of reserves in tin, zinc, titanium, niobium, nickel, iron ore, drinking water, natural gas, wood, diamonds and silver. We should know that Far East is one of the regions of being the largest in terms of these resources. One reason for being the largest in terms of reserves of drinking water is also because of Lake Baikal which is the largest freshwater lake in the world. These are some of the special facts with respect to Russia. So we saw about the Far Eastern region of Russia and some announcements made by Indian Prime Minister at the Eastern Economic Forum. We saw the EEF in short and we saw few facts about Russia. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. Now let's move on to next article. This news article discusses about measles, rubella and the plan of WHO Southeast Asia region to eliminate or to banish both these diseases by the year 2023. We will see about the both the diseases, the immunization program of India and the vaccination strategies for these diseases and we'll also see the recent developments that happened at the 72nd session of WHO Regional Committee for Southeast Asia. Recently we saw about the Southeast Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund day before yesterday. We also saw about the Delhi declaration on emergency preparedness. The fund and the Delhi declaration was with respect to disaster management. Today's news article is with respect to measles and rubella. Measles is an infection of the respiratory system and this is caused by a virus called us paramixovirus. Humans are the natural hosts of this virus. It's a highly contagious communicable disease can spread from one person to another person easily. So we have to keep in mind that human to human transmission of measles infection is possible. This can happen through the droplets from nose, mouth or throat of the infected persons and the virus can be released into the environment by sneezing or coughing. Some of the symptoms of measles include fever, conjunctivities and common cold or chorizo. Conjunctivities, it is an inflammation or swelling of the conjunctiva. It is nothing but conjunctiva is the thin transparent layer of tissue that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and it is this thin transparent layer that covers the wide part of our eye. This conjunctivities is a common eye disease especially in children. It is also called as pink eye. Coming to the health complications that could result because of measles infection. See it could lead to blindness, encephalities, severe diarrhea, ear infections or even some severe respiratory infections such as pneumonia. Severe measles is most likely among the poorly nourished young children, particularly those having vitamin A deficiency. Severe measles can also be noted among the children whose immune systems have been weakened by HIV, AIDS or other diseases. Measles is called as killer major killer childhood disease by the world health organization. Now let us see with respect to rubella. Both measles and rubella are viral infections or viral diseases. This rubella is caused by rubella virus. Similar to measles it is also a contagious infection. Virus can spread through air by droplets from infected person to uninfected. Humans are the only known host to this virus. It is a mild infection with symptoms including rashes, low fever, nausea and mild conjunctivities. Among the adults it is said that women get affected more commonly. They tend to develop arthritis and painful joints. Arthritis refer to a set of conditions that could lead to inflammation in joints or rather pain in joints. With respect to rubella there is a syndrome called as congenital rubella syndrome. It is said that when a woman is infected with rubella virus early in pregnancy there is a 90% chance of passing the virus to the fetus. This may lead to miscarriage or still birth or severe birth defects in the born infant. This illness in infants that results from maternal infection with rubella virus where the infection happened during pregnancy is called as congenital rubella syndrome. You should know that both measles and rubella there is no effective treatment against these viral infections. However vaccination is there to prevent. With respect to rubella rubella vaccines are available in monovalent formulation. Mono means one. Monovalent formulation means the vaccine is directed at only one pathogen. That means it will affect only the rubella virus only. But commonly if you see vaccines are available in combination with vaccines against measles or other vaccines. Some of these vaccines are measles rubella vaccine then measles mums rubella and varicella vaccine. In India under the immunization program measles rubella vaccine is being administered. Now let's see a few facts about immunization program in India. It was introduced in 1978 as expanded program of immunization by the ministry of health of government of India. This program was modified as universal immunization program in 1985. At the time the program was planned to be implemented in a phased manner to cover all districts in the country by 1989-90. But until 2013 it is found that though the program has been in operation for many years the universal immunization program was able to fully immunize only 65 percent of children in the first year of their life. So to address this India has launched mission Indra Danush in 2014 where the main goal is to ensure full immunization with all available vaccines for children up to two years of age and also for pregnant women. In October 2017 to further intensify the immunization program the prime minister at that time launched intensified mission Indra Danush. Now the target of this intensified mission are those who have been left uncovered under the routine immunization program. So under this mission the government aims to reach each and every child up to two years of age and all those pregnant women who have been left uncovered under the routine immunization program. So now let's come to the news article. It states that the member countries of Southeast Asia region of WHO have resolved to eliminate measles and rubella by 2023. They have adopted a resolution at the 72nd session of regional committee for Southeast Asia WHO which held in in New Delhi to eliminate both the diseases. It is called as the member countries adopted strategic plan for measles and rubella elimination 2020 to 2024. The strategic plan lays down the roadmap and focus areas to achieve the elimination targets in the Southeast Asia region of WHO. Now they are saying that eliminating measles will prevent almost five lakh deaths in one year or every year in the Southeast Asia region. Eliminating rubella and congenital rubella syndrome will prevent 55,000 infections of the disease. So eliminating rubella and rubella syndrome congenital rubella syndrome will promote health and well-being of pregnant women and also infants. The news article mentions that elimination of measles and control of rubella has been a flagship priority in this region since 2014. At that time the plan was to eliminate measles and rubella by the year 2020. Now the however the deadline has been extended to 2023. So this means that all the countries in Southeast Asia region have made it a priority to eliminate these diseases. So with respect to the member countries in this region of WHO, we can say Bhutan, North Korea, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste, they have eliminated measles and Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste have controlled rubella. India has not achieved both these feats so far. It is expected that by 2020 or at least by 2023 India will also achieve the status of eliminating measles and controlling rubella. Recently we saw in July that WHO has announced that Sri Lanka has eliminated measles. So it is said that strong political commitment is required and the immunization systems has to be strengthened and the population immunity against the two diseases has to be increased or the herd immunity has to be increased and it has to be sustained at all levels and there should be a case-based surveillance system supported by a highly sensitive laboratory. There should be enough mechanism of preparedness for response in case there is any outbreak. So these are some of the steps that has to be taken to eliminate measles and to control rubella within a prescribed time limit. Now coming to the regional office for Southeast Asian region, see it was established in the same year WHO was established that is in 1948. Day before yesterday we saw about the six regions of WHO, one among them is Southeast Asian region. We saw that it has 11 member states, six member states are from Sark except Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then we have North Korea, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Timor-Leste. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. We saw about measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome and the developments that happened in the 72nd session of WHO Regional Committee for Southeast Asian New Delhi. Now let's move on to next article. This news article discusses about the institutions of eminence. The syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article has been given here. See the status of institutions of eminence is granted based on the declaration under the institutions of eminence scheme by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development. This scheme was launched to implement the government's commitment to empower higher educational institutions and to help them to become world-class teaching and world-class research institutions. Ten public and ten private institutions are to be identified, selected and to be declared as institutions of eminence so that within a period of 10 years they will emerge as world-class teaching and research institutions and they will also enhance affordable access to high quality education for ordinary Indians. These declared institutions has to reach top 500 institutions in the world ranking within a period of 10 years from the declaration. We have discussed the information about institutions of eminence on 3rd August. On that day the news was about the recommendations given by University Grants Commission and also by the Empowered Expert Committee which is constituted to select or to recommend certain institutions that can be declared under institutions of eminence scheme. Today's news is based on the press release given by Government of India titled as Steps Taken to Implement the Institutions of Eminence Scheme. So according to the information the Ministry of HRD on the advice of UGC and the Empowered Expert Committee have declared five more public universities as institutions of eminence and they are IIT Madras, Banaras Hindu University, IIT Kharagpur, University of Delhi and University of Hyderabad. These public institutions they will be eligible for a government grant of rupees 1000 crore. We saw five more government institutions are declared as IOE. So what are the institutions that have been declared as institutions of eminence already? See these are Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay. So as of now of 10 public institutions, eight public institutions have been declared so far. Two state universities or two public institutions have been selected but have not declared as IOE and they are Jadavpur University of West Bengal and Anna University of Tamil Nadu. They were selected by Empowered Committee however they have not yet declared because the concerned state governments have not yet indicated their commitment towards the financial contribution under the institutions of eminence scheme. Now in private category for 10 institutions they have to be deemed universities or they have to be considered under Greenfield category. Here so far for around eight institutions letters of intent have been issued by Ministry of HRD and these institutions have to accept the letters of intent. They have to send their preparedness for being declared as institutions of eminence. For two universities Shivnodar University in Uttar Pradesh and one another university in Haryana these universities were given letters so that for their consideration for declaration the concerned state government has to pass legislation in their state assembly to discontinue the status of these institutions as private universities and they can be considered as deemed universities under the institutions of eminence scheme under the institutions of eminence scheme. So the statuses eight public institutions were declared as IOEs four institutions declaration is pending for state government's confirmation and eight institutions under private category have been given letters of intent. Now coming to the benefits of institutions of eminence the government institutions that are declared under the scheme they will get additional funding up to 2000 crore all the selected or declared institutions they will have complete academic and administrative autonomy and regarding financial autonomy they will have complete financial autonomy to spend the resources that are raised and allocated however subject to general conditions and restrictions under the scheme. No government approval will be required for these institutions to go for academic collaborations with those foreign higher educational institutions that are listed in top 500 ranking and these institutions will have the freedom to hire personal from industry and other fields as faculty they may have experience in their field but may not have the requisite higher academic qualifications that freedom to hiring is also available to this institutes and these institutions can have 25 percent of its faculty strength to be recruited outside India they will have the freedom to have own transparent merit based system for admission for students they will have the freedom to fix and charge fees from foreign students without restriction they will have the flexibility in fixing the curriculum and syllabus and there is no requirement for them to follow UGC mandated curriculum structure at the time of declaring the faculty student ratio has to be 1 to 20 however within five years the faculty student ratio has to increase to 1 to 10 these are some of the benefits once the institutions are declared as institutions of eminence this news article is about state rooftop solar attractiveness index shortly called as saral this index has been designed collaboratively by the ministry of new and renewable energy and three more institutions they are Shakti sustainable energy foundation then associated chambers of commerce and industry of India then Ernst and Young here Shakti sustainable energy foundation is a non-profit company that was established in the year 2009 now its purpose is to support India's sustainable development and clean energy objectives their mission is to aid the design and implementation of policies of government that promote judicious use of existing energy reserves and also development of cleaner energy alternatives Ernst and Young is a professional business consulting and management firm that has also collaborated in this index this index was launched by the ministry of new and renewable energy in last month that is august 2019 this index evaluates Indian states based on their attractiveness for rooftop development with respect to rooftop solar deployment it was launched to incentivize rooftop solar by creating healthy competition among the states in India see government of India has set a target of 175 gigawatt of renewable power installed capacity to be attained by the end of 2022 of this 175 100 gigawatt has to be from solar power and 60 gigawatt has to be from wind power and 10 gigawatt has to be from biomass power and 5 gigawatt to be from small hydropower out of this 100 gigawatt from solar power 40 gigawatt of installed capacity has to come from grid connected solar rooftops when we say solar rooftops it means the electricity that is generated by installing solar photovoltaic panels on the top of the roofs rooftops of residential buildings or commercial buildings can be utilized for generating electricity and this electricity that is generated will be connected to the grid that is the main power line of state power utility so this is what we mean by saying grid connected solar rooftop so because of this ranking it is understood that the index will encourage each state to assess the initiatives taken so far or what it can do to improve its solar rooftop ecosystem and the exercise is likely to create more conducive environment for solar rooftop installations and it will encourage investment and thereby it will accelerate growth in this particular sector this index that is the state rooftop solar attractiveness index at present captures five important aspects the first aspect is the robustness of the policy framework within every state with respect to installing rooftop solar systems the second key aspect is the implementation environment in the states and then they have also assessed the investment conditions of the state in the rooftop solar then they have also assessed consumer experience and finally the fifth aspect is the business ecosystem so these are the five aspects captured by this index and this index has assessed for the financial year 2018-19 for 29 states including JNK and two union territories that is Delhi and Chandigarh based on the scores obtained by the states they have been assigned six grades they are a plus plus a plus a b plus plus b plus and b here a plus plus denotes top performing states and b denotes least performed states and there are some seven states that have least performed according to this index and seven states were assigned b grade for their poor performance the grades have been assigned based on quantitative and qualitative methods in this index for the financial year 2018-2019 Karnataka has got the first rank with the overall score of about 78.8 second rank is obtained by Telangana then comes Gujarat and then comes Andhra Pradesh all these four states have got a plus plus grade meaning these states are the top performers with respect to rooftop solar development in India for the financial year 2018-19 Jammu and Kashmir has been given the 31st rank the least rank 30th rank is given to Omega layer both these states along with five other states have got b grade the news article mentions that Tamil Nadu has been ranked 10th in the state rooftop solar attractive index and regarding the union territories Delhi has been awarded 7th rank and Chandigarh 11th rank these are the two union territories that were included for this assessment the news article mentions that Tamil Nadu aims to have an installed solar capacity of around 9000 megawatt that is 9 gigawatt by the year 2023 and 40 percent of this will come from rooftop solar systems similarly every state will also have a certain ambition to be achieved within 2022 or 2023 according to their concerned state policies with respect to solar energy so these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this index and this news article now let's move on to next article this editorial article talks about hepatitis b and the reasons for its prevalence despite the availability of vaccine the article appears in newspaper because recently Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Thailand they have become the first four countries in the southeast station region of WHO to have successfully controlled hepatitis b when we say these countries have controlled this infection it means among the children who are less than five years of age those who are infected have been reduced to less than one percent now coming to hepatitis it is a medical condition where there will be inflammation of liver cells and the complications of hepatitis vary with the type of infection the type of infections are called as hepatitis a hepatitis b cd and e each type is caused by a different hepatitis virus now hepatitis b is a viral infection it attacks the liver leading to both acute diseases and also chronic disease when we say acute disease these are medical conditions that occur suddenly and they last for a brief period in the body when we say something is chronic that means these conditions occur slowly and they last for a long time or sometimes throughout the entire life and with chronic infection people are at high risk of death from cirrhosis and liver cancer coming to transmission the virus is most commonly transmitted by vertical transmission from mother to child during birth transmission is also possible through contact with blood or other body fluids regarding treatment there is no treatment available no specific treatment available for acute hepatitis b however treatment is available for chronic hepatitis b vaccination is available to protect against this virus they are saying such vaccines offer 98 to 100 protection in india vaccination against hepatitis b was introduced under universal immunization program in the year 2002 it was rolled out all over india in 2011 till 2011 according to this article there was monovalent vaccine however a pentavalent vaccine was introduced in 2011 in kerala and tamallado on a pilot basis and it was rolled out nationally in 2014-15 when we say pentavalent vaccine it means a combined vaccine that will be administered to children to protect from diphtheria tetanus pertusis hemophilus influenza type b and also hepatitis b the author says that even now every year around 10 lakh people in india become chronically infected with this particular virus chronic infection is dangerous because it will lead to premature deaths before the life expectancy because of liver cirrhosis or liver cancer the vaccination will be carried out to children in four doses first it is called as birth dose that means the vaccine will be given at birth or as early as possible within 24 hours after birth subsequent three doses are given at sixth week and tenth week and 14th week after birth and this will be mostly in combination with other vaccines in the form of pentavalent vaccine so these doses on schedule should be given to effectively control hepatitis b in 2015 according to WHO the coverage of hepatitis b third dose has reached 86 percent but despite this high vaccination coverage the disease prevalence in children aged less than five years has not reduced below in percent so that we can say that india has successfully controlled this hepatitis b the author says that one reason for this is the sub optimal coverage of birth dose in all infants within 24 hours of birth now this birth dose is important because it helps prevent vertical transmission that is transmission of disease from mother to child this vertical transmission has to be seriously addressed that means the birth dose has to be given for all children because of two reasons one is that those new bonds who are infected by transmission vertical transmission they become chronic carriers of hepatitis b or they will become long-term or nearly permanent carriers of this virus and one another reason is because of the present state in india where we can find the carriers of hepatitis b around 20 to 30 percent of them are due to vertical transmission so they have to be effective redressal or addressing of this problem of vertical transmission by administering birth dose to all children the author says sub optimal coverage of birth dose according to a report of ministry of health in 2019 it says that the birth dose coverage in 2015 the birth dose coverage was low as 45 percent and it was as low as 60 percent in 2016 the author adds one another statistic that is among the children from institutional delivery the birth dose vaccine coverage is as low as 76 percent and there is no information about children who are born outside health care institutions so if you see all over india the author says that 80 percent of all deliveries are carried out in institutional delivery mechanism 20 percent of deliveries are carried out outside health care institutions so the main reason of inability to control hepatitis b is the sub optimal coverage of birth dose vaccine the author adds one another technical angle into it that is medical practitioners because of the fear of wastage of vaccine do not provide vaccination to newborn children this is because of the use of 10 dose vial a single dose vial means the medical container will have only one dose of medication for the need of one patient or one person after using for one person say take for example 10 dose vial if they are not preserved under standard precautions the opened vial will get contaminated so due to fear of this wastage the health care workers are not providing birth doses the author says that the health care workers are often or frequently unaware of the w h o recommendation that says that opened vials of hepatitis b vaccine can be kept for a maximum duration of 28 days so that it can be used for other children also however it has to meet certain standards like expiry date standards proper storage and preservation standards etc so technically these health care workers have to be given proper awareness regarding the vials and the general public and others have to be given prompt awareness regarding the merits of birth dose so today we saw three viral infections measles rubella and hepatitis b so these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article this question is with reference to measles they have given three statements and are asking which of the both statements are correct first statement measles is caused by a virus the statement is correct it is caused by paramixovirus now second statement human to human transmission of measles is possible see measles is a communicable highly contagious infection that means it can easily spread from one person to another so that means human to human transmission is possible so second statement is correct now the third statement india has eliminated measles now this statement is wrong india may eliminate measles and become a part of those countries that have eliminated measles in 2020 or most probably by 2023 so the third statement is incorrect and with respect to eliminating measles in July 2019 Sri Lanka has eliminated and other countries in southeast Asian region that have eliminated measles are Bhutan, Maldives, Timor-Leste and North Korea when we say here southeast Asian region this is the region within world health organization the question is asking for correct statements so the correct answer is option b one and two only now this question is with reference to institutions of eminence they are asking they have given two statements and are asking which of the above statements are wrong or incorrect the first statement institutions of eminence tag two institutions is declared by the ministry of human resource and development government of india now this statement is correct the institutions are recommended to the ministry of human resource and development by the ugc empowered expert committee constituted for the recommending purpose after the recommendation they will be declared by ministry of human resource and development so the first statement is correct now the second statement at present 10 public and 10 private institutions from among the existing institutions have been granted the institutions of eminence tag now this statement is incorrect this is because at present eight public institutions have been declared as institutions of eminence and with regard to private institutions eight private institutions they have been given the letters of intent and they have not yet been officially declared though they are selected for declaring two state universities or public institutions not yet declared because of commitment from the concerned state governments regarding the contribution to this ioe scheme so this means the second statement is incorrect they are asking which of the above statements are wrong only the second statement is wrong therefore the correct answer is option b 2 only now this question is with reference to the index that we saw today state rooftop solar attractiveness index they're asking this index has been developed by which of the following ministry of power nithya yoke ministry of new and renewable energy ministry of commerce and industry with respect to nithya yoke we recently saw that the composite water management index is prepared and released by nithya yoke now this state rooftop solar attractiveness index was launched by ministry of new and renewable energy prepared by this ministry as a leading agency and three other institutions so within the given options the correct answer is option c ministry of new and renewable energy and the three more institutions that are part of developing along with ministry of new and renewable energy is aso champ that is associated chambers of commerce and industry of india then earned stand young consultation firm and then shakti sustainable energy foundation a non-profit company associated with carrying out the work related to sustainable development in terms of energy and also moving to alternative source of energy and clean energy so the correct answer is option c with this we come to the end of today's the hindu news analysis if you like the video click the like button comment share and subscribe to shankarae's academy youtube channel for more updates and content on civil service exam preparation