Hello GI Joe fans, before we get started I need to let you know Timmer from the YouTube show Half the Battle is doing his annual charity drive and it is going on right now. It will be running through the entire month of November. All you have to do to participate in this charity drive is donate to a charity that benefits children. Send the proof of your donation to the email you see on your screen now. You can take a photo of a receipt or other proof of your donation. You can edit out your personal information but make sure you include the amount. We are hoping to raise a thousand dollars for children from the GI Joe community. As certain target amounts are reached you will get special bonus videos. At the end of the charity drive there will be a drawing and the winner will get some special prizes. I am donating one of the prizes as I usually do each year and I will also be donating to a children's charity. This is our chance each year to do something positive for the world. I will be helping out and I hope you will too. It's time for another vintage GI Joe toy review and for this one I need to thank David Jones. David has been a friend of the channel for a long time. He sent a few things to me and he donated the toy that will be reviewed in this video. Thank you very much David. Overlord has fascinated me for years. He represents a pocket of the GI Joe universe that is almost never mentioned. We all know who leads Cobra. Cobra Commander. There have been challengers. There have been usurpers but they all failed to maintain their power. Cobra Commander would always return and assume absolute authority. But in 1990 there was a stranger on the throne. Apparently Overlord climbed through the ranks to become leader for a short time. There was a 1990 commercial where Overlord fit the exact role we would expect Cobra Commander to fill. I remember when I first saw that commercial I thought, who is that guy? Let's find out who that guy is. HCC788 presents Overlord and the Dictator. This is Overlord and his vehicle the Dictator from 1990. This figure and vehicle set were released in 1990 and were available in 1990 only. They were discontinued for 1991. There were no other versions of Overlord in the vintage era. There was a GI Joe Convention Exclusive version released in 2006. Overlord was in the 1991 GI Joe video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. His file card specialty just calls him Dictator Driver. But the text of the card says he is much more than that. This is a deluxe figure. He is packaged with a small vehicle to raise the price point. But the figure is meant to be more important than the vehicle. Some other examples of deluxe figures that were clearly more important than their vehicles would be Sergeant Slaughter, Zartan and Serpentor. Since the figure is the main focus of this set, we will look at Overlord first and we will set the Dictator aside for now. Overlord is no ordinary Cobra Troop nor is his position in Cobra Command clear. He is a usurper. He is openly positioning himself to take over the organization. That isn't unusual for Cobra. Cobra Commander was, of course, the founder of Cobra and its original Supreme Leader. Destro was a weapons supplier with his own ambitions. He attempted to take over Cobra on more than one occasion, often in concert with the Baroness. The Baroness had divided loyalties between Cobra Commander and Destro. Serpentor was a composite clone designed to be a super soldier, but he eventually deposed Cobra Commander and became the Cobra Emperor. Fred Seven, a Crimson Guardsman, impersonated Cobra Commander for a while in the battle armor until the real Cobra Commander returned and retook the throne. Where exactly does Overlord fit in all this? Prototype code names for Overlord were mostly anagrams for Cobra Commander. It may be that he was originally conceived as the return of Cobra Commander. There had not been a Cobra Commander figure since 1987. There was to be a new Cobra Commander figure in 1991 the following year, so Overlord is in the gap. He appeared in a couple commercials in 1990 in which he seemed to be an important character. It's strange that he had so little impact. Let's take a look at Overlord's accessories starting with his helmet. His helmet is removable. It is in gold plastic. It looks kind of like a Gladiator helmet. It has some nice details. I can't really complain about the helmet. It's a good design. When it's on his head, the gold helmet kind of blends with his gold face mask. Overlord also includes two claws that attach to his four arms. Each of these claws has a pair of sea clips that simply clip onto the arms of the figure. They are removable. Do be careful about those sea clips. They seem to kind of not fit very well on mine, so that could be a break point. These claws are both the same. There's not a left and a right one. They are in gold plastic. They have three tines. There is some plastic between them to add some stability. Those tines are attached to what looks to me like a sculpted three-toed reptilian or bird foot. There's definitely an animal quality to that sculpting. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. Even artwork did not include the claws, so it's hard to say exactly what they were going with here. He is a vehicle driver after all, and it cannot be easy to drive a vehicle wearing Wolverine claws. These claws are not copies of the claw that came with 1988 Storm Shadow Version 2, but they do work in basically the same way. Let's look at the articulation. On Overlord, he had the articulation that was standard for GI Joe figures well before 1990. He could turn his head left or right and look up and down. He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that allowed him to bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep that allowed him to swivel his arm all the way around. This was an O-ring figure, meaning it was held together by a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside. That allowed him to move at the torso a bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color of Overlord, starting with his head and the head is the most remarkable part of this figure. He has a Caucasian skin tone. He has black hair. He has a high hairline and a deep widow's peak. He has a silver monocle over his right eye. Cobra had another character with a silver monocle over his right eye, Dr. Mindbender. So this, of course, would raise the question, is this Dr. Mindbender in disguise? I don't think so, not with all that hair. Overlord has a gold mask that covers the bottom half of his head, wrapping all the way around the back of his head and covering everything from the nose down. His nose has some paint wear on my figure because his nose is very pointed. Overlord looks like a cartoon villain. He couldn't look more like a cartoon villain if he had a handlebar mustache under that mask and his real name was Snidely. On his chest, he has gold at the shoulders with a lattice texture pattern, probably to simulate snakeskin since he is a Cobra operative. Then he has this funny science fiction looking raised armor plates in gold that go around his arms at the shoulder. The rest of his chest is a plain orange shirt, plain on the front and the back. The whole chest is quite plain other than the gold at the very top. His arms are bare with that Caucasian flesh tone and a muscular build. He has long black gloves that cover his forearms. His arms are kind of plain too. The waist piece is black. It has a lattice texture pattern on the front but not on the back. He has a red belt with a diamond pattern that goes all the way around. He has a belt buckle in the front that has what looks like a three-pronged Y. The design on the belt buckle appears to mirror the three-toed design on the claws. I don't know if that's intentional or just a coincidence. Why is the waist piece black when the torso and the legs are not blacked? For an O-ring style figure there is a temptation to use a different color plastic for the waist piece than the legs. It allows the colors of the upper and lower half of the figure to be broken up without using an additional paint color. This is a temptation toy designers should resist because it always makes the character look like he's wearing his underwear on the outside. It looks a bit silly. His upper legs are gold. On his lower legs there's some gold just above the boot with a fine texture pattern that does not appear on the rest of the legs that may be part of the boot but I'm not sure. On the front of each thigh he has three black squares. The upper legs are otherwise quite plain. He has tall black boots and on the front of the boots he has some sculpted on squares that kind of mimic the squares on the upper leg and on the back of the boots he has buckles. Not sure what they were going for on this figure making him so plain with not much sculpted detail when this character was supposed to be a rival to Cobra Commander. Some pre-production artwork has surfaced artwork by Dave Dorman although I don't think he designed the figure itself and in the pre-production artwork he did have a few more details but not very much. Let's take a look at Overlord's file card. This file card was an insert inside the box for the dictator. This is an uncut file card. It is plain cardboard on the back. It has his faction as Cobra. There's a portrait of Overlord here.  This first paragraph says, rising up from the ranks of one of Cobra's elite legions, the Overlord is a power hungry authoritarian, bent on becoming Cobra's supreme leader.  At this point in time he is the only one with enough strength and charisma to reunite all the sinister personalities within Cobra's hierarchy to form a more dangerous, more vicious Cobra than ever before. This bottom section has a quote it says, as far as we can ascertain, the Overlord was a high ranking officer in the feared crimson guard now planning to seize control of both the Cobra organization and its expanded treasury. Of course, like any corrupt politician, he cloaked his back room dealings and improprieties with a platform of reform, righteous indignation, and a return to traditional values, Cobra values. At the end it has a bit of social commentary and I don't mind that, it's fine. I'm more interested in what this file card doesn't say. The file card does not say who Overlord is trying to seize power from. In some forms of GI Joe media, Cobra Commander had returned. But in the GI Joe toy line itself, there was not a new Cobra Commander figure yet. So is he trying to seize power from Cobra Commander? Or Serpentor, or Destro, or the Baroness? It leaves that open. If this guy is as important as advertised, he should be in the pantheon of Cobra usurpers with Destro, the Baroness, and Serpentor. But I question his path to power. For one thing, he partially borrows the backstory of Fred Seven, a crimson guardsman who became the imposter Cobra Commander represented by Cobra Commander v3 in the battle armor. Fred Seven though had a unique path to power in that he shot the original Cobra Commander in the back and left him for dead and that left the opening for him to impersonate Cobra Commander. This idea that Overlord would start as a regular crimson guardsman and just gain the loyalty of troops and use that as a path to the supreme leadership of Cobra seems unlikely to me regardless of who the supreme leader was at the time, be it Serpentor or Cobra Commander, Destro, or even the Baroness, as soon as a troop starts to gather loyalty to himself rather than the leader, the supreme leader will have that person executed. Real dictators are extremely jealous of their power and will not tolerate such insubordination. Looking at the other challengers to leadership while Cobra Commander was in charge, he tried to assassinate both Destro and Serpentor. He was not successful, but he tried. The only reason the imposter Cobra Commander was successful is because he had inside help. He was not a natural leader though and eventually Destro had to step in and sort things out. When the real Cobra Commander returned, he eliminated the imposter. Maybe that's why Overlord had no impact in the G.I. Joe mythos. When the real Cobra Commander returned, this guy's lifespan would have been about five minutes. Now let's look at the vehicle that was included with Overlord, the dictator. This vehicle was designed by Frank Caronius for Hasbro. At first glance, it is almost a motorcycle. It joins the tradition of G.I. Joe and Cobra vehicles that are almost normal vehicles, but not quite. It is similar to Darklawn's Evader, both in design and size, but the dictator has a few extra tricks up its sleeve. The overall color of the dictator is this grayish blue, which is fine. It's a reasonably subdued color and it works well with the black. And the stickers are a bit brighter for some extra pops of color. Let's look at the parts and the features of the dictator. Starting in the front, we have a tapered vented hood. And instead of a front wheel, we have a front tread. It has a single wide front tread. It's very long too. It's in black plastic. Of course, that's a fake tread. It rolls on two black wheels. On the brace piece where that tread attaches, there is an angry teeth sticker. There's one on each side and that looks kind of cool. And then on each side of that tapered hood, there is a bright yellow Cobra emblem. Atop that hood, there are two long black guns. The blueprints refer to these as rapid-fire 40 caliber high-impact machine guns. These guns are removable. They each have a C-clip that attaches to this bar in front of the cockpit. When you remove each of those guns, there is a cutaway section here that shows a vent through it. Each of those two long black machine guns appear to be the same. There is not a left and a right one. In addition to attaching to the vehicle, there is also a grip. And that grip will fit in the action figure's hand. So Overlord can carry this as a personal weapon, I guess. That grip is a little bit thick, so be careful about breaking the action figure's thumbs. That brings us to the cockpit. There is a molded-in instrument panel, which you can't see very well in this mold. The seat itself is not very detailed, and there is a seat clip. The infamous seat clip. The backside of that seat clip is accessible from the underside of the vehicle. So if you press from underneath, you can pop that seat clip out and remove it. Let's demonstrate putting the figure in the vehicle. The way they intend you to do it is to put the seat clip on the figure around his waist. And there are some spaces there for his legs inside the cockpit. First of all, I think it's impossible to get the figure in with these guns on. So remove the guns first, get those out of the way. And what they intend for you to do is to put the figure in a seated position and put his legs in those slots. And then clip the seat clip back on, like, well, it's not perfectly easy, but there it goes. So now you have the figure in the vehicle. There's not a lot of space for these claw accessories either, so I would leave those off. Once the figure's in, then you can place the guns back on. And he is ready to ride on his dictator. Let's put his hat on safety first. In my opinion, the seat clip is really not necessary for this vehicle. With the guns attached, that will hold him in the seat pretty well. And the seat is actually quite deep with spaces for the legs. So the seat clip can be left out. You really don't need it. Moving on toward the back, we have a pair of black missiles. The blueprints call these low-to-the-ground air-to-surface missiles. I don't think that description makes a lot of sense. There is a missile on each side, and they appear to be the same. And they peg on with these dumbbell-shaped slots. But the missiles each have stickers. The stickers go on one side. So even though the missiles are the same, of course you would want to place the missile on the side with the sticker on the outside. The pegs for those missiles are attached to black vents, one on each side. And that's a nice idea. It adds another black accent to break up the gray-blue of the body of the vehicle. Good idea, but note the white plastic stress marks on one of these pegs. The pegs do stick out pretty far, so be careful about those. They could break off. In the back, there are two black wheels. They're pretty far apart. There's a gap between them, and there's no axle, so they each roll freely. They are each attached by mushroom clips. And I'm not a big fan of these exposed clips on these vehicle wheels that happened a lot on 90s vehicles. In this case, though, the clip is pretty deep in there, so it's not as bad as on other examples. I mentioned before the dictator has some tricks up its sleeves. It's not just a fancy motorcycle. It actually has three different modes. It's a transformer. This is the motorcycle mode, as I call it. It sits low to the ground, and it's a good look. The second mode is the elevated position. The front tread and the back wheels kind of swing toward each other, and you kind of have to stabilize that cockpit section. But moving the wheels and the treads together puts the cockpit in this raised position. The elevated position, in my opinion, is not very stable. According to the description on the back of the box, it suggests Overlord uses this elevated mode to survey subjugated people. There is one other mode. This vehicle has a flight pod. Basically, the cockpit section detaches. So the cockpit section is supposed to fly, powered by magic, I guess. There is an engine here in the back, and that does pivot, so I guess that's supposed to provide vertical takeoff and landing. But yeah, that tiny engine is supposed to get this thing in flight and maneuver it around. It's not very realistic, but I guess it adds a bit of play value. But because this section is removable, this whole thing, even when it's all together, is not very stable. It's always wanting to come apart. Because this cockpit section holds the rest of the vehicle in position, without it, it's just kind of useless. You can move the tread all the way back to where it's directly between the back wheels. And it is somewhat stable that way. And I guess you could imagine, a figure could ride it like a segway. But there is no footpeg here, and there are no guns here. And the only armament it has would be the missiles, and they are pointed straight up. Let's take a look at how Overlord was used in GI Joe Media, and that does not take long. He had no appearances in the animated series. He was only animated for commercials. Between those commercials, he seemed like a very important character, but he had no impact in other forms of media. He made no appearances in the GI Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics. He appeared in the GI Joe series published by Devil's Do, but I don't cover post-vintage comic book series on this channel. If you had this figure, and you loved this figure, and you played with this figure a lot, that's great. But in terms of media, this guy was never a star. Looking at Overlord and the dictator overall, what is this? When I got back into collecting GI Joe as an adult, I thought I had a pretty good grasp of the toy line. I mean, I didn't know everything, especially from the later years, but I looked at yojo.com to see what came out after I stopped collecting as a child. I saw a lot of characters I didn't recognize, so I looked at a lot of them to learn more about them. Overlord was apparently overlooked, because I had no idea about this guy until I saw that 1990 commercial where not Cobra Commander was talking with Sergeant Slaughter. Maybe that should be Overlord's real codename, Overlooked. This should be a really important character, he's a challenger to the supreme leadership of Cobra. Yet, he's never mentioned in the same discussion as Destro and Serpentor. The other usurpers were all important characters, but for some reason, not this guy. It didn't help that he was barely used in any GI Joe media. No animated series appearances, no comic book appearances, only a couple commercials, and he was in that video game. He is an enigma, even though I've taken a closer look at him now, I'm still not sure I understand him. Why does he have Wolverine Claws? How does that help him as a vehicle driver or as a leader? Yes, I guess he could scratch people with them, but he could also shoot people because his vehicle comes with big guns.  Me either, but I imagine it would be very difficult. The Dictator is a fine vehicle. It has a fair number of play features. I guess it's kind of cool that you can switch it to different modes, but it's mainly there to compliment Overlord. Overlord being a leader of Cobra should be a deluxe figure. So the Dictator is akin to Serpentor's air chariot or Zartan's swamp skier. How do I rate this set? The figure and vehicle are inoffensive, but uninspiring. It's a bit confusing to figure out how they fit within the larger toyline. On their own, they're fine. I guess I would rate them middle tier. That was my review of Overlord and the Dictator, I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget Timmer's Charity Drive. Donate to a charity that benefits children, send proof of that donation to this email address and you can be entered to win some stuff. Thanks again to David Jones for donating this set and for your long support of the channel. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel, hit the notification bell and share this video with your friends, that's what helps this channel grow. You can find me on social media, on Facebook and Twitter and I have a website, HCC788.com. Thanks as always to all my patrons, I could not do these videos without them. If you like G.I. Joe and you'd like to help me make more videos about G.I. 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My name is Anurag, I work for AdHack and this talk is the result of my experimentation a couple of weeks back with OpenShift. So this is the result of the notes which I took during the experimentation. So what we will be covering in this session is an overview of OpenShift PAS, the command line client called as RHC, deploying a sample app, see how to add some addons called as cartridges. We will explore the shell, the remote shell which is opened by OpenShift, how to add databases, how to view logs, etc. So this is where PAS stands, this is the layer infrastructure, this is the stuff that you build software and this is what PAS provides you, so it provides you an environment where you can, it helps you with writing code, putting up CI, version controlling some cases, helps you with testing, let's see the definition of PAS, according to DevOps Borat this is what he means but in general it lets you provide, it gives you a brief platform where you can put in your software on top of IAS, for example AWS or OpenStack or something else. Have you heard of PAS before, any examples that you can quote off, like Google App Engine or something else, Hiroku, OpenStack is actually infrastructure in the previous diagram, this is where OpenStack sits and this is on top, this is stuff, the stack runs on top of an infrastructure like OpenStack or AWS or something else and this is what end users like developers, we build. So OpenShift was recently released as an open source application on Jitter by RedHand, the components are open source, it contains a broker, a message broker, a database layer, you can run OpenShift on your laptop, maybe on your premises, AWS or wherever you want, this is something called cartridges, they're modules where you can define a module, for example a language is a module, you can plug in a language into OpenShift and then it will provide you that functionality, for example these many languages are supported out of the box, Node, JS, Python, Perl, cartridges are already provided and there's a cartridge called do it yourself cartridge, DIY where you can build in your own functionality, so you can plug in any stuff that runs on X86 architecture and 6.2, for example a team from somewhere in Europe they had built a cartridge called as cobalt cartridge, so you can just take DIY cartridge and modify it, there are many articles in the wiki which tell you how to make your own cartridge, the cartridges for databases, the cartridges for metrics, the cartridges for crons, any functionalities you can think of, you can pick up a DIY cartridge and build on top of it and OpenShift, the default one which is provided by R.H. Cloud, it lets you scale from one machine, many people do, many nodes and it lets you horizontally scale, let's go into detail how to get a sample app started on OpenShift, you need to go to OpenShift.redhat.com, sign up for an account, so by default what it provides you is a domain called as your name space, you can set up your name space here, so you can set up your name space, I've set up a namespace called as rootcon, this is not there it will let you feed the entry, so there's a namespace called rootcon and application name, so your domain where you deploy the application will be applicationname-namespace.rgcloud.com, you can use the command line tools to overwrite this and put in your own domain, for example www.rootcon.com and then you can map that domain name with this particular instance, so there are no applications present, just namespace is defined and this is the structure of the URL that will be, so what we'll do is we'll create an application called as memegram which will be an Instagram killer, R.H.C command is present in RubyGems, so you can directly say R.H.C, if JSON pure is not it just say JSON underscore pure and then install R.H.C, so this package in Fedora also you can just install the package R.H.C will be there, you can install R.H.C and then app create minus application name and then specify the cartridge name, so it supports several cartridges, it supports many application cartridges, Node, JS, Python, Jenkins, Ruby, we'll select the Ruby one, this is your OpenShift username password, so what we'll do is it will create a JIT repo for you and create a DNS entry, memegram-rootcon.R.Hcloud.com, create a JIT repo, clone that repo inside your home directory and update the DNS entries, so this is what it creates, application name hyphen namespace.R.Hcloud.com, this is where you can SSH, this is a unique ID address, this is your instance, you can directly SSH to the instance and view your shell and databases, this is a JIT repo and this is application name, so what I'll do is I have a sample application on JIT Hub, I'll pull that repo, merge with it and try to see how to deploy it, created a JIT repo from OpenShift's default template and created here, so what I'm doing is I'm overwriting the default template with my application wherever it resides and then I say JIT push and it will push to origin which is your OpenShift, so what this will do is this will push and then it will stop the passenger, I'm using Ruby cartridge, so it will stop the passenger, it started again, if there's a gem file it will start pulling in gems put in vendor and then restart the application. If you have any questions you can ask right away, I've tried Heroku but it was long back when it was launched. I can maybe give between Google App Engine and this one, so many past providers for example maybe Google App Engine is limited to Java or Python, here you have the cartridge called DIY where you can plug in with any binary that runs on X80s architecture so you can build your own cartridge and you can open it, so basically any package that you can run on rel environment you can probably support that language on it and it's available as on-promise solution, you can put in your own private cloud and make your own pass. So the domain is irhcloud.com, so you can get the whole stack for yourself and you can run on your own private cloud, it's open so it reads about a couple of weeks back, so you can go jitter.com slash open-shift slash stick-shift or something is there, so that is the repository which contains everything and it has, I can show it right away, so yeah the reference crank is and there are many examples given, yeah local deployment as in you can run on your laptop right, so you can basically run the broker, crank case on your own laptop and then you can build your own instance on your private cloud, yeah so the cartridge is basically a YMN specification so you can get the DIY cartridge and start filling in your information or you can look at many cartridges that are provided here, so you can just pull in anything, this is DIY bin hello, so this is a hello example, you can just stuff in your own solution, people have built support for various languages on this, of which one, of the instance, you want to make a package of the instance, so you package it like a normal package right, it deploys in JIT, so your SaaS is, yeah, so it deploys in JIT, I am actually not getting a version but I think I will answer your question, you are saying you want to deploy your SaaS, your custom application over OpenShift right, and you want to package this, so you can package your application and then maybe you can use Fabric or something that can be done, so using Fabric or Capistramo you can push in the preferred, like if you are using JBOB or something which is the preferred deployment method, you can use that, yeah it comes with low answers, so there is a wiki page where you can see how to, I haven't explored that, I just made notes of my experimentation, I am not sure because it is tested on Fedora and since it is from Red Hat, I was surprised if it, yeah, so you get the point, so you deploy it and you can visit it directly, so this URL is over HTTPS or whichever there is a default certificate which is there or you can put in your own domain there, there is a feature request for custom domain, custom certificates, this is there in the process, you can, sometime you will find it, next we will see how to add cartridges, support for let's say MongoDB or Mitrix cartridge to see what the application is going through, right, so it deployed, it created a MongoDB instance for you and these are credentials which you can configure in your vinyl file in your settings file or you can retrieve these using environment variables, so as we log into shell we will see, it defines many predefined variables depending on what cartridge you have added, which you can directly retrieve using ENV or whichever language you are using, right, so, or you can list the cartridges, so these are the list of cartridges which supports HAPoxy and EJSQL, so this is available for everyone, so you can switch it on or off whenever you want, so it shows you basic CPU memory and application usage, I will see how the shell looks like, so you can say RxC domain show and show you the information for your entire name space, this is the application's UI, we will log into this shell, so these are the two cartridges added, this is the application, this is the repository and these are the environments which are defined, you can pick up your OSQDB host, app DNS, you can pick up various details from there and then directly configure your application based on that, so your access log and everything, application log everything is there, you can directly monitor or retrieve it using SSH and everything, one more thing we will see is how to take snapshot, so what this will do is stop all the services, stop all the cartridges and take a tower wall of it, snapshot, stop all the services, take all the configuration, make it into a tower wall and put it in your home directory which you can distribute and maybe restore the snapshot again under some other application, and you can do things like port forwarding and let's say if you are running on some other port and the ports are blocked, only 80 is open, you can do application for port forwarding, so it will start, it will open a port in a local machine 1201 and you can directly access the application or maybe Mongo database or anything like that, sorry, so you can have PostgreSQL, MySQL, you have MongoDB, these three databases support all the box, you can select any of them and it will grant you access details for that and about 512 MB of space is there, so you can, fairly small application you can fit in there, so that was about it, the result of my experiment is OpenShift for a couple of weeks, so this is, you can view the logs in tail mode or you can directly log into shell and then tail it, whichever way you prefer, snapshots, port forwarding you can do this way, you can sign up here, Jithub account is here where Crankface and all the repository example cartridges are given, IRC, Twitter handle, this fairly active Twitter handle where you can see what people are developing, they keep retweeting stuff wherever you find a timeline, this is a meanwhile application, so that's about it, I'm going to IRC and Twitter, so any questions, VPN, I doubt they allow VPN access to there, but they do port forwarding so you can, let's say, the application which they're running, you can directly hit them to the ports, or the shell is fairly good enough, but I haven't checked if they do soft forwarding over the shell or something like that, so as per the Wiki, the instance that they're running is on AWS and it's running 6.2 Red Hat, 8x1 Linux, and X86 architecture, so anything that runs on this architecture on this version will run on their platform, so you can upload it and directly start running it.


So today's experiment is how does a leaf breathe? All right, welcome back to Kids on Science. Today's experiment is very fun and easy and it costs zero dollars, right? So we're going to find out how does a leaf breathe? And so we're going to show you in this experiment how a leaf actually releases the oxygen. And so we're going to go through this and show you the setup and the science behind it right after this. All right, what you need for this experiment is you need freshly picked leaves. And I have a snowball leaf, an orange tree leaf, and a lilac leaf. So you want to make sure they are picked right before you do the experiment. You need three bowls or a bowl per leaf. And then you need some warm water. So just get some tap water that's warm, pour it in so it's high enough just so the leaf submerges. And then you need some rocks to be able to hold the leaves down. And that's it right from there. And so I'm going to show you the experiment net and the science behind it. Hey, if you're new to this channel, remember to click that subscribe button and the thumbs up if you like this experiment. So the setup's pretty easy. You take warm water and you pour it into the number of bowls, depending on the number of leaves you get. Just fill up just about enough so it's to be able to cover the leaf. So the next and last step is to take your leaf and place it in the water and put a small rock or stone on top of it so it's fully submerged into the water. And let it sit about two hours, one to two hours.  The orange tree has a little bit of bubbles. And then the snowball bush is hardly any after the first hour. So here's hour number two. We're checking back and you can see there's a lot more bubbles coming out, a lot more oxygen, which is pretty cool. So the science behind this is the plants help us breathe by taking in the carbon dioxide, the photosynthesis, by letting out the oxygen through their leaves. This process is called respiration. The leaf uses sunlight during the photosynthesis, which is where the plant converts the light energy into the chemical energy for the plant. During the photosynthesis, the leaf gets rid of what it doesn't need, the extra oxygen and water, which you see this video here on how you can capture the water that's released. The oxygen is the bubbles that you see and these bubbles is the respiration in action. I hope you enjoyed this experiment. If you did, remember to click thumbs up and to subscribe. Thanks for watching.


In February, residents of Sufra for Sezak and Envirens were treated to a host of free medical consultations. That they often cry outreach toko in collaboration with Integrative Clinics International, the Ministry of Health and the Sufra Regional Development Foundation, SRDF, hosted a cadre of 11 female doctors at the Sufra Hospital for two days. According to the organizer for Integrative Clinics International, Felicia Kelly, the non-profit organization has been providing such services to the Caribbean for over two decades. In Sufra, we're working with Toko, which is they often cry outreach, an organization founded by Taj Weeks and his wife Angela. And we're in Sufra to serve the people, do a free community clinic. And we have a team of 11 women in medicine. It's a unique group. I usually take a varied group, but this is the second team of the same group of women. And there's general medical doctors, there are emergency room doctors, there's OBGYNs. And we're just giving an opportunity to be seen by a doctor without cost. Kelly says following analyses, the hope is that the mission will return to Sufra. So we don't want to just go to a country one time. We want to come and assess what the needs are. You know, the chronic care issues such as hypertension and diabetes dominate the community. So in Jamaica, what we do is we go twice a year and we provide the medicine for the interim. So we give them enough to last until we come the next time. Because there are so many people who aren't able to spend the money to get medicines that are really life-saving.  So we just come and this is our first trip. So we will have to do some assessment on how it all went and where we can improve and what our obstacles and what our strengths were within that. She went on to add that the two days spent in Sufra were a great learning curve for the team of doctors and organizing teams. The experience itself has also been really valuable. I think it's been valuable for the people we've treated and then it's been valuable for our group to experience what medicine and what healthcare are like in St. Lucia. It's been something where we can bring our expertise and our knowledge to the patients that we're treating in St. Lucia. But I think it's also really rewarding for our healthcare team to see how healthcare is practiced in St. Lucia. We all kind of emerge better because of the experience. Physician Dr. Maya Fox explained that her team noted a high incidence of diabetes and hypertension. She says following consultation with her team, the hope is that they get to visit St. Lucia again. From the Sufra Original Development Foundation, I am Geneva Gonzague.


We are varied culture, different industries, different societies we have. So the demands, the requirements of the society and stakeholders are also different. Education is a complete, it must be open-ended. It must promote and give the opportunity to the students to pursue as per their desires. There are millions of courses and millions of topics there. And with a few clerical people sitting in your, at Delhi office, will you be able to recognize and evaluate the credits and equivalents and recognitions of credits? It is very tough. It is impossible. So far, we are paying the fees per semester or per year. But now after ABC, it is going to be per course. Every course will be charged. Don't you think that it is going to commercialize it? A hidden agenda is the government of India is planning to make a city centre. And they want to create a citizens of their choice. That is the intent of, the basic intent of this framework. Hello. Welcome to NewsClick. The central government recently released a document on the National Higher Education Qualification Framework. What is this framework? What does it hold? When it's implemented, how will it be for the next generation of students? To speak about this, we have with us, educationist Jawahar Nesan, who has been a vice chancellor of many universities. Hello, sir. Thanks a lot for joining us. Sir, can you tell us why was a new framework drafted and how did it go about the drafting process? Actually, the draft framework itself says that it aims to facilitate the recognition of different types of qualifications we have in different academic settings in the country. Because there are many states having their own pattern of education system and different universities are trying to offer different qualifications, like BA, Masters and postgraduate studies and doctoral studies in different formats. So, they say that if we standardize the system and centralize it, it would be possible easy for the stakeholders, like the industry people, employers and even the higher education institutions, where students are seeking enrollments in admissions and higher education. So that they can use these qualifications across the country, because it is going to follow one pattern. So, that is the purpose, but most of the countries who have implemented a standard nationwide common framework have also claimed so. There is no deviation in the objectives of this thing. But the main thing is you have to make it so generic so that it can be applied in a diverse academic settings, where the educational requirements are different, where the demands of the industries and the necessary skills required by the industry and the society are very much different. Because it is contextual in nature that it has to reflect the regions, always higher education or even school education is like this. So, you cannot standardize the skills, the knowledge supposed to be attained by the learners. So, if you do so, you are standardizing and it is going to make a uniform kind of skills and knowledge across the country. So, the educational institutions will not be able to innovate their deliveries, educational delivery process. They cannot innovate their curriculum and they cannot connect the curriculum to the society in different parts of the country, because we are varied culture, different industries, different societies we have. So, the requirements of the society and stakeholders are also different. So, you cannot standardize, that is one point. The other point is that they want to vocationalize the qualifications. Whether it is BA, BE, MBBS or postgraduate studies or even PhDs, they say that they want to vocationalize it. Vocationalization in that sense is the country leads skillful laborers and we are in a deficiency. We have scarcity of technically skillful workforce in the country. So, that means that they want to create more laborers and skillful laborers. That is fine. I don't mind about it. Any country should have the ability to promote or create the human potentials to satisfy the requirements. But it should be optional. You cannot trust upon anybody through your standardized system. And it is going to... You see, for instance, they have created different exit and entry points in the course of studies, whether it is first degree, master's or PhD. You can exit anytime or you can enter back anytime. But the conditions that they have laid out is that once you fail, you fail to pass through the examinations and things and you will be laid out and you have to exit. And you have to prepare and reappear and clear the examinations to come back and go through and pursue the studies. So, the earlier kind of systems are gone now in this framework. So, that means most of the students will be discouraged from continuing their studies. So, eventually what will happen? Dropouts will be increasing. And the occasionalization is coming here during the exit point. Every time a student exits, at that time they give 10 credit worth of coaching on some skills. And that skill is what other skills are you going to give? Now, do you have the infrastructure and human potential to coach millions and millions of students who are going to exit at every milestone in their studies? Do you have the workforce? And are you going to impart the 21st century skills which are highly demanding? Or are you going to give operational level skills? Are you going to promote operators? Or the 21st century skills necessary for the production and means of production that is going to be driving the economy in the 21st century? Cannot because you don't have the human resource and you don't have the equipments and infrastructure to impart such skills and that should be an integral part of education. It cannot be an additional or an add-on kind of skills and knowledge. Why don't you build such skills and knowledge in the curriculum itself and offer them instead of giving them 10 credit, two months training? Is it enough to get skilled to go and work as a workforce, a technical workforce? So this is completely a decent based educational system. In Tamil, we call it as Vakesh Kullak Kalbi. That means that it is traditionally, the students are going to follow the traditional jobs, family jobs and they cannot mobilize between jobs, between occupations, from lower end to the higher end. So those were the bottom most layers of the society whose occupations are traditional and family oriented and decent based and they will be encouraged to go back and do the same decent based jobs and occupations. They cannot get intergenerational occupational mobility and get their due stakes in the emerging opportunities and job and occupations and economic activities. So education is a complete, it must be open-ended. It must promote and give the opportunity to the students too to pursue as per their desires. But it is discouraging students. And also, you look at the fundamental centrality of this system is ABC, Academic Bank of Credit. If you look at that, the credits are managed, maintained, implemented, recognized, authorized by the university. Universities have their own statutory bodies like Academic Council and syndicates or sedits and they are the constitutional bodies. Like the parliament of India, legislating for the country, the syndicate and the academic council is like a parliament and they are empowered to recognize, to identify, to accredit and to authorize the credits, who you are sitting in Delhi to recognize. There are millions of courses and millions of topics there. And with a few clerical people sitting in your, at Delhi office, will you be able to recognize and evaluate the credits and the equivalents and recognitions of credits? It is very tough. It is impossible. What they are trying to do is to promote the digital online educational system. And because the ABC cannot be practically conducted offline in the classrooms, because students pursuing here can take, for instance, courses in Banaras in the university. In that case, can he go and study there? Cannot. It is only possible online. That means, why do you promote online? Because the World Trade Organization is promoting such online educational services, because education is a trade under God's agreement. And you can get services from across the sea also and across the country who are dominant in the education sector, dominant in the sense that market dominance, not academic excellence. And these private sector people having the market muscles, they will penetrate into the system and commercialize. So, so far we are paying the fees per semester or per year. But now, after ABC, it is going to be per course. Every course will be charged. Don't you think that it is going to commercialize it? It is. So, there will be no reservation. And are you going to give any reservation to disadvantaged students to take courses in IIT Chennai or IIT Delhi? And who will be able to access those credits, the courses in such top institutions in the country? Is it possible for a person sitting in a village who doesn't know any idea how to work to take and where to contact and who is not having any access to internet connectivity and things? Do you expect them to take courses across the country in different top institutions? It is not possible. So, in all respect, this is... Finally, I would like to say the hidden agenda is the government of India is planning to make a citizenry. This is the final point I would like to comment on it. They want to create a citizens of their choice per their desire. And they are in collusion with the super special communities, specially cultivated communities and the market forces. So, this triangulated coalition is trying to create a citizenry in this country. And this citizenry should follow the kind of nationalism that this right-wing government ruling this country. So, it is a Jhingais nationalistic and fascist nationalistic framework. And they want to create a citizens of their choice. That is the basic intent of this framework. So, who was involved in the drafting process? Who are the stakeholders who have created this framework? And where have they taken their inputs from? Actually, they have involved a few academics, academicians and some bureaucrats are also involved in the committee. And per the direction of the UGC, they have started formulating this. But without any consultations with any of the academic stakeholders, or educational stakeholders. For instance, you compare the development of this framework with the European framework. The European Union has been working for 20 years to develop a framework. Still, it is off-baked. Whereas these guys have just decided for six months and they created one framework with few guys. And without any taking inputs from the stakeholders, from institutions, from teachers, from students, from other employers and industries, without taking input, they have just decided themselves. And finally, one fine day, they gave two weeks and three weeks time for public consultations, not giving enough time for us to even respond. And then they closed the door. Is this the way a common framework should be created? It is not. You look at even Australia or England or even the European Union, who have a common framework. They have established this for several years, engaging all stakeholders. Even now today, the social dimension of the European common framework, higher education framework, is yet to be arrived. They say that we are not able to even think how the social dimensions, like the social impairments, disadvantages, could be resolved through the common framework. They are, after 20 years, that is their experience. In a diverse, very much casteist kind of structure we have in this country, most of the, I think, more than 90% of the students would be affected by this. What does this framework say about value-based education? Value-based education is the fundamental theme behind the framework. They have stated general skills, technical skills, educational skills and many things. But the main theme underlies is the value-based education, where they want the learner to be an obedient citizen. And they say that you must listen to the constitution, you must be obedient, you must learn all the ethics, the values. And the values, they also have quoted non-violence, peace. See, there are so much values. Say, if I want to be a violent person, and if my constitution allows me, why do you want me to emphasize non-violence then? Why do you quote, is it the only value you have? And what is your stand on the ethics and values?  Perpetrated by the minority super-class communities. And it will be inflicted upon the majority communities. And their value systems, whose value anyway, are you going to teach? You go across any part of the world, even Malaysia, they also have some common framework. These are all underdeveloped countries, where they never talk about value. Because if you talk about value, different communities, different cultures, have different value system, you cannot commonize the value system. That's why you should be very much careful to be open enough, to be so generic enough, so that they can accommodate their values, respectively.  So that is why I said that they are trying to implement their ideals, you know, to be blunt, I would say it is the Hindutva ideals of this current government. And that is the value that they want to incorporate into the curriculum. And they want to create the citizens of this country, to be Hindutva citizens. That is the ultimate goal of value-based education in this country. So is that what triggered you to write a book on it, within a matter of 10 days, a symbol of totalitarian nationalism? What triggered you? Of course, I feel that as a citizen of this country, and as a responsible academician, it is my duty to enlighten my colleagues and my fellow citizens on this. Let them decide. I'm not lying. I'm not a politician. I don't go for votes. See, the thing is, not only me, every fundamentally, every citizen has a responsibility to reflect upon it, because it is deciding their fate. And it is not... My concern is this should not be seen as an educational framework. It is a social framework. They want to create a kind of a society they desire. And the only way you can penetrate and create and transform that society is education. And they take this as the framework as an advantage and as a tool to achieve their goals. And that is the ultimate thing. So that means every citizen should look at this framework, not purely as an educational framework, but it is a part and parcel of their society, their livelihood and their evolution. So it's every citizen's job to reflect upon it and take a call on it, whether it is right or wrong. Thank you, sir. Thank you for giving us a brief on what the higher education framework is detailing. Thanks a lot. Thanks for watching. And we have more videos coming up on the topic. Please keep a watch.


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Coming up on DTNS, Google has a bad labor relations day, more robots for more restaurants and Warner Media takes the 90-day theatrical exclusive out back and tells it to look at the flowers. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Oakland, California, I'm Justin Robert Young. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just talking about new merch options for patrons as well as our thoughts on theaters on good day internet to get that wider conversation become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. The Brazilian state of São Paulo's consumer protection agency called Procon SP asked Apple to show evidence that not bundling a power adapter with the iPhone would not harm consumers and would in fact benefit the environment, as Apple claims. The agency wasn't satisfied with the evidence and determined that the sale of iPhones without chargers is against the Brazilian consumer defense code. Apple must respond to the decision or face a fine. Brazil's national consumer secretary is considering a nationwide requirement to bundle in chargers. Some accessibility updates to note Apple has released screen recognition in iOS 14 that uses computer vision to identify and label all button sliders and tabs automatically in any app that is not already labeled. The labels can then be used by voiceover to read them out and Google updated its voice access app to let users speak the names of labels rather than the previous method of assigning numbers to controls and then the user had to say that number. New commands can combine tasks like launching search and typing the search term as one command instead of two separate ones. A few more updates from Google to mention. Android users in limited locations can submit street view photos to Google Maps from our core compatible phones. Google will also shut down its 3D object library poly meant for VR and AR creators. Upload stop on April 30 and downloads on June 30th of 2021 and Android users can now let Google photos set wallpaper at random from the memories section. Memories are selected by a Google algorithm. ZTE will release the AXON 25G in 11 countries and regions on December 21, including the UK, European Union, Japan and South Korea. The 6.92 inch FHD plus OLED screen includes a hidden 32 megapixel selfie camera. No cut out. No notch. It's just there under the screen. The AXON 25G is a mid range phone otherwise with a Snapdragon 765G chip, 8GB of RAM, 90Hz refresh rate and DTSX Ultra 3D sound. No price yet either. A couple of multi factor authentication updates. Google's authenticator app for iOS has added an account transfer feature that you can use to move to a new iPhone. The mode generates a QR code to transfer up to 10 accounts at a time to a new phone and Twitter announced that it will now support logging in on Android and iPhone with hardware security keys. Previously, Twitter only supported hardware MFA on laptops or desktops. All right, let's talk a little more about Google's day. Oh, Google, when aren't you getting into something? On Wednesday, the U.S. National Labor Relations investigated the termination of several employees in November 2019. As a result, it has issued a complaint alleging Google violated the National Labor Relations Act by surveilling employees and interfering, restraining or coercing employees who tried to exercise rights under Section 7. Google is accused of discouraging employees from forming, joining or assisting a union. This all centers around Lawrence Burland and Catherine Spiders. They filed a complaint with the NLRB claiming that they were fired for organizing around treatment of temporary vendor and contract workers as well as retaliation against workers protesting Google's work with Customs and Border Patrol. In November 2019, Burland and Rebecca Rivers were placed on leave for allegedly sharing confidential documents not pertinent to their job. A protest in support of the two led to Rivers, Burland, Paul Duke and Sophie Waldman being fired. The complaint will be evaluated by an administrative judge after which the NLRB will decide whether to prosecute Google and pursue reinstatement and damages. But on the same day, Google fired its co-leader of ethical artificial intelligence, Timnit Gebru. Gebru sent an email that she said laid out two conditions. Those conditions have not been made known, which, if met, would lead her taking her name off a paper. If not, she would work on a last date for employment. Gebru says in response, one of her bosses' reports replied, quote, we cannot agree to number one and number two as you are requesting. We request your decision to leave Google as a result and we are accepting your resignation. However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the Brain Group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager, unquote. That email was sent to Google Brain Women and Allies, an email group for company researchers. Gebru studies bias in facial recognition, among other things, and is an alumni of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She worked on a landmark study in 2018 that showed facial recognition misidentified dark-skinned women 35% of the time while working well for light-skinned men. So a government agency, not just a pressure group, but a government agency has filed an complaint with a judge about the way Google treats its employees, mostly regarding union organization. There are rights in the US to organize a union. Companies aren't supposed to mess with that. Apparently, I saw a report that Google has the Pinkerton's involved, which makes this feel like a 19th century coal mine thing. And so that's significant. It's like, okay, Google's got a real labor relations problem that they have to deal with. And yet on the same day they decide to fire, it's an ethics person for AI. It's not their labor relations ethics person, but a person involved in the ethics of AI. Even if, and I'm not saying she was, but even if she had written something horrible in that email and it was worthy of dismissal, I think you go a little softer with that. You work a little more carefully than firing her on the same day you're getting an NLRB complaint. But Google is a massive company. And I do think that there's an element of when it rains it pours here. Obviously, this was based on what's publicly aware, a high tension situation where management was a very forceful on what they wanted her to do and having her get out of the door earlier rather than later. As for the rest of this, add it to the list of things that Google has to deal with. The idea that now they're going to be looked at as union squashers is probably something that they prefer they could escape 2020 without.  Solidarity forever dot at gmail.com. Food robotics company Karakuri announced the DK one robot. It's first automated meal making system. DK one can make hot or cold breakfast bowls and eventually will expand its capability to other types of meals. But it's essentially a big robotic arm that sits in a circular enclosure. So the robots in the middle and it's surrounded by bins on all sides. They are as tall as a person. So there's 18 ingredients. So imagine 18 different bins and the ingredients can include wet, dry, soft or hard food of varying temperatures. You can have hot food, cold food, etc. And then a customer would use an app to order precisely what they want. I want just this many blueberries, just this much oatmeal, etc, etc. And once your order is done, you get a complete report on your exact order with the exact nutrient level vitamins, minerals, calories, etc. Karakuri claims it can speed up orders increase cleanliness because only the robots touching the food limit food waste because it's precise in what it gets. It doesn't drop anything. DK one is a pre production demo machine right now. But the first on site trials with customers are expected to take place sometime in the first half of 2021. Yeah, my first thought was of this was like, haven't fast food restaurants been using automation to speed up the food assembly line for years? Yeah. But I love the idea of being able to make it, you know, a made for you custom made poke bowl or rice bowl or whatever kind of thing it is. Certain certain dishes are not going to work as well as others, of course, but for me to be able to be like, yeah, I mean, I'm looking to, you know, max out at this amount of calories or, you know, let's, you know, get a little lighter on the sour cream and something where you're not necessarily needing to like explain this to a person or order extra. It's something that becomes part of the meal of your dreams. Yeah. And for the restaurant, like you don't have that one server that's always a little heavy on the salmon and it runs up the price. Yeah, obviously, this is a long standing trend and I will only expect that it intensifies in an era where particularly germ conscious, but also I wonder exactly how utilitarian this is if, if like, you know, all things in a bowl does count for a lot, but not everything, maybe it's going to be too limited in its application. They think they can diversify how it works. I'm not sure how based on it, but yeah, we'll see. All right, Sarah, talk to us about Hulu. All right, let's do it. Hulu released its co-watching part of watch party feature to all subscribers, whether ad supported or on commercial free tiers, everybody gets to watch stuff together. So clicking on the watch party icon when viewing an on demand show in Hulu will then give you a link that can be shared to watch the program together with up to seven other Hulu subscribers. So you all have to be subscribers, but you can do it together. Watch party includes an integrated chat so you can chat along with folks. The feature was originally released as a test for just commercial free subscribers back in May. So I don't know. I guess they probably have enough data to say, everybody can benefit from this. Now, if you pause something, whether it's a movie or TV show, it won't pause the movie for anybody else. And then when you return, you can either choose to stay back or click to catch up and get back in sync with everybody. Probably want to stay out of chat if you're 10 minutes behind though. Amazon, Twitch, HBO, Plex, Instagram and Facebook have all launched co-watching features this year. It's all the rage and third parties offer co-watching for Netflix and other services. Yeah. This is a thing that everybody wants to have as a feature in their thing. Yeah. I don't use co-watching features and it's not because I don't think it's a great idea. In fact, if we all decided, hey, we all want to watch this movie, say, and is everyone kind of more or less ready at 7 p.m. Pacific time? I think that'd be a lot of fun. I find most of the people that I like to talk about entertainment with just are on different schedules than me. So this isn't a thing that I use all that often.  I'm not sure. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there saying, no, this is great. You know, this has brought my family and friends together in lots of different ways over the last year. I think of this as kind of like an accessibility feature that it's just a thing that everybody wants to add because when you need it, it is invaluable, but it isn't a thing, at least for me and I think for a lot of people that they're like, oh, finally I get to do it. But at the same time, if you have the opportunity to watch something with a dear loved one, especially during these trying times, I'm sure you would much rather have it be a part of the suite of things that you can get. You know, Gardner VH in the Twitch chat asked a very good question that I don't know the answer to because I've never used the Hulu version of this. So anybody out there that has, maybe you can email us with an answer. If some of the people co-watching have commercial free and others don't, how does that work? That's a good question because I, and again, I don't know whether Hulu only shows the commercials at the top of the movie, in which case they could just like have everybody that's commercial free wait and catch, you know, or something. But yeah, I'd be curious, curious to know how that works. Hey, folks, what do you want to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is in our subreddit, submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Oh folks, someday you're going to tell your kids how movies used to come to theaters and you couldn't watch them anywhere else for 90 days and the kids would gasp for 90 days. And then the great pandemic of 2020 changed it all. The window of my friends appears dead, or at least in critical condition, because Warner Media announced its entire slate of movies in 2021 will debut on HBO Max in 4K HDR at the same time they appear in theaters. That means Dune, that means Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, Godzilla vs. Kong, the whole slate of Warner movies. Each movie will be available on HBO Max for a month. They will be running in theaters like AMC, although I have yet to see what the theaters have to say about this, but that's what the stories imply. And the theaters can continue to run them after the 30-day HBO Max run, so there would be kind of a post-exclusive, I suppose. Coincidentally, HBO Max just stopped offering its free seven-day trial, so you won't be able to just pop in and get a free look at these movies. Warner Media had already decided to do a simultaneous theater and HBO Max release with one movie, Wonder Woman 1984. We mentioned that, but in that case, theaters were given a larger cut of ticket sales as a sweetener. Variety reports that will not be the case with the 2021 movies. Chair and CEO of Warner Media Studios Ann Sarnoff said in a release, most theaters in the U.S. will likely operate at reduced capacity throughout 2021. With this unique one-year plan, we can support our partners in exhibition with a steady pipeline of world-class films while also giving moviegoers who may not have access to theaters or aren't quite ready to go back to the movies the chance to see our amazing 2021 films. Chief Operating Officer Warner Bros. Picture Group Carolyn Blackwood said, we don't think we're changing the economics of these movies any more than the pandemic has. In other words, if we didn't put them on HBO Max, nobody was going to go see them in the theaters anyway, at least for a while. By the way, Disney's investor day is coming up December 10th, so another shoot might drop then. We'll see. I know that, of course, Warner Bros. is going to say exactly what they said. Hey, it's not our fault that this happened. We're just trying to make it easier for people to see movies, and they're not going to go to the theater anyway. So an AMC or a regal can complain about this, but they're going to be empty theaters anyway. So why should we suffer when we're trying to make sure that our bottom line is up to par? There's also HBO Max, which many have said doesn't have the subscribers that it should. It's sort of a long bet, but a potential really good bump because there's some really big movies coming out this year. I think that the thing that people seem to be talking about the most online and is the most interesting is, sure, this whole thing could be a, let's just call it for 2021. Let's try to at least recoup as much money as we can for some of these huge big budget movies. Probably going to lose some money, but maybe we're going to lose less than we would have if we just did it the old way. But I don't think we're coming back from this. I really don't. I think that once people are comfortable enough that a theater is, sure, you can go or maybe drive-ins will have more of a resurgence. We've seen a little bit of that more of like a novelty thing. I think more and more people are going to say, oh, I have a home theater. We talk about that all the time. I'm comfy at my house. I can make some popcorn, can be around my family and friends. And I think that that's the new era that we're in. In the next two weeks, we are going to see NBA basketball again. And the reason why, despite the fact that only a month and change ago, they ended the last season that they are going to start playing again, despite the fact that the NBA has a pretty strong union, is because they don't want to violate their collective bargaining agreement and then be forced to renegotiate when the market is absolutely at its lowest. What HBO is doing here, what Warner is doing here is two-fold. Number one, they are saying in a fork in the road, do we want to be a studio or do we want to be Netflix? What is the biggest money-making proposition? And right now, they're saying, to choose among the two, I would choose Netflix. The secondary thing here is they're basically declaring what was, I mean, it certainly wasn't a collective bargaining agreement, but it was a set of norms that studios have had with theaters for generations an end to that. And they're going to renegotiate whatever this is by the time that people start going to theaters again at the absolute low point in the market. Whether or not it stays like this, I would actually expect that the thing that happens at the end of this 2021 plan is that HBO Max eliminates the 30-day window restriction that they have put on themselves because that's really the only kind of give back that they have. They don't know, and neither do the theaters, know what this year is going to bring. And what Warner can do now is the theaters can stomp their feet and get really, really mad. And Warner can look at them and say, you want to know what? Talk to Gavin Newsom. Talk to Governor Cuomo. Talk to Governor DeSantis. Talk to anybody else that is making the rules about how many people can be in any space. They have a bigger boss to fight right now. And in the meantime, Warner Brothers is basically voiding these generations old packs that they have had with these exhibitors and basically saying, you want to know what? When the sun rises, we'll come up with a new deal. But if you're in a weak position now, we'll see how many of you are even standing in six months. Yeah. I mean, when you think about this, from the perspective of just the studio making money, it's about cutting your losses. They're in my way of thinking, just writing off these movies. Like, let's write them down. We're not going to make what we expected. But that's just 2020 for you. So let's write that down. Let's make, like Sarah said, as much as we can out of it. But we have a backed up release schedule anyway. We're back in production on movies. So let's clear that out. We don't want to have too many movies in the pipeline so that we actually shoot ourselves in the foot because we're stealing from each other, you know, from our own movies in the future. So let's make that not be a problem. We also have an activation problem on HBO Max, not just a subscriber problem, but an activation problem where people have access to it and haven't activated it. So we need them to do that so they can start spreading the word. And at $15 a month, we're around the same price as Netflix. If this can skyrocket our subscribers, well, yeah, we're getting into the game that Netflix is in where they make all their money off the subscription. And then add into that a comparison in the fight over the window to Universal. Universal threw around its weight and got the theaters to agree. If we, if you cut us in some of the digital subscriptions, we'll have a shorter 17 day window. We'll, we'll work with you on, on different windows for different types of movies. Universal could afford to do that because they're owned by Comcast, which makes a lot of money so they can let Universal eat the cost of waiting out the pandemic until people go back to the theaters. Warner's owned by AT&T that's in serious debt. They can't afford that. So they actually need to just like write it all down now. Just get the, get the hard part out of the way and start getting these movies out there. I think that explains part of it as well. Plus don't forget they will release these internationally in theaters and they'll get some money. Warner knows from Tenet. They're not going to get a lot of money international, but vaccines are not. People are not going to come back to the theaters until late in 2021 at the earliest just because they're out of the habit, even if they wanted to come back. I, I, I again also think that when all these players come and talk after the ball, all the bombs have fallen and now we are rebuilding all these deals, the people around that table might not be the people that are running these companies now up to and including the fact that some of these theater chains are in serious, serious dire financial straits. And now that it's not illegal for some of these companies and studios to buy their own exhibition houses and chains, I think you might see part of this be like, no, you want to know what? Now we're going to talk about how much our own theaters are going to get exclusive exclusivity on our own movies. This is going to be a totally different conversation by the time that we're looking at summer movie season. The paramount to consent decree is on its way out. Yeah. And so the thing that prevented some studios from owning theaters, not all, but some is over. We will see windows because people, studios make a lot of money off of big blockbusters being in theaters. We will see windows, but the windows will be dictated by the studios because it benefits them in the future. I'm almost certain of that. Oh yeah. And you'll get, you'll get the movies in your living room faster because even if you don't like staying in theater, there's still people who do. I mean, look, I think Wonder Woman is going to be the social coup on Christmas. People like watching movies on Christmas that can't go to the theaters. This is going to be the thing that everybody is talking about and HBO Max is going to see. I think that was a brilliant move by them, specifically if this was going to be what it is. And now it's like, oh, HBO Max, what's HBO Max? It's the place where I can watch Friends.  Oh, a little pressure on Roku there. Yeah. Well, yeah. And it's like, what is HBO Max? It's where big movies appear day in date. That's now their brand. It's all 2021. That'll be their brand. Exactly. And the likes of which that Netflix can't match the likes of which that Hulu can't match. Like this is what they do best that and your HBO series. It's a pretty good brand. Yeah, I think there's this is not a decision that Jason Calar, former Hulu CEO now in charge of Warner Media Studios makes because he thinks it's going to make them money now. It's a thing that he thinks is going to ensure them money coming in later. And that's why you do it. Yeah. And having it. I mean, look, Disney Plus is huge because they were able to ramp up to Netflix level, you know, an adjacent kind of subscribing numbers very, very quickly. HBO has not, despite the fact that they laid out a lot of money for a lot of different programming. All right. Let's let's get into a little bit of a different topic. How we navigate the universe. Let's do it. This one's cool. The European Space Agency's Gaia Observatory has made the most detailed 3D map of our Milky Way Galaxy to date. This new dataset may help scientists understand more about the universe's future expansion. What we're all doing here, what the stars are doing. The Gaia Observatory measures stellar positions, distances, motions and brightness with more precision than any previous instrument. Each object gets observed about 70 times to track its motions and velocities over a period of time. And the technique is accurate enough to measure the width of a hair from 2000 kilometers away. That is pretty precise. Two billion stars are now being tracked with highly accurate measurements of about 300,000 stars within 326 light years of our solar system. And data shows that Earth's solar systems orbit around the Milky Way is accelerating toward the center of the galaxy by 7 millimeters per second. Gaia is said to be operational until about 2022. But scientists say if it stays operational, its mission may extend to at least 2024 because it's holding up pretty well. Yeah. When we had Kiki on and we talked about the sad fate of the Arecibo Observatory, we talked about the fact that there are other kinds of observatories, either radio telescopes or satellite. This is a satellite telescope. This is a space-based telescope bringing us the kind of information that's going to help us figure out the history of the Milky Way, how it was formed, where other star systems are headed, what the expansion of the universe looks like. That's some big stuff in astronomy. This kind of precision map helps with all of that and more. And a great distraction to everything else that's happening. If you ever want just at a release valve, then read about astronomy news. This is a good, wholesome way that you can understand our place in the universe. I really want an app that will let me move around 3D through the galaxy. And I know that's not what this data is about, but it could help. I thought the same thing. I was like, can we 3D print this as the large egg that it looks like? And I just want to kind of look at it all day and spin it around. It's very cool looking. Yeah, because if you've ever seen a picture of the Milky Way, that's not the Milky Way. 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Welcome to Tech Talk. My name is Aaron. On today's episode, we're going to talk about some simple rules of the road. Channel markers, much like street signs, all serve a purpose. You're going to have your red and your green. Your green marker is always going to be in the shape of a square and have an odd number on it. Your red marker is always going to be in the shape of a triangle and have an even number on it. You're always going to want to try to place yourself perfectly between the two or a little bit over to the right depending on which direction you're heading. The numbers on these markers do have a purpose.  The great thing about the garment system that comes standard on all sports and boats is it comes preloaded with maps. It has all your channel markers and their numbers already in it. A cool thing too is to get these track marks right here so I can actually follow my routes, know if there's any obstructions, and to avoid that area. When I zoom in, you can actually see that's channel marker 5. If you look to our starboard over there, that green marker is number 5. So what you see here is what we call a day board.   What that means is you have to get your boat off plane and cruise it a speed where you're not throwing a big wake but enough to where you have control of the vessel. You'll also see a slow speed no wake. A slow speed no wake sign means that you have to be completely off plane. The boat has to be flat in the water and throwing the least amount of wake you can. Those are going to be in residential areas around boat ramps, bridges, and marinas. This red buoy we just came up on is a floating buoy. These will sometimes be in place of your normal channel marker. This in particular one has been placed here because the regular channel marker was damaged. It'll still be red and have the shape of a triangle towards the top and unfortunately they won't have a number on it. The day board we just came up on is letting us know that we can get on plane inside the channel anything outside of it. We still have to be minimum wake and has a 25 mile an hour speed limit on it. The speed limits are going to be based on the area so that you may see variable speed limits depending on the area along the intercoastal waterway. We're coming up to a drawbridge here. This bridge isn't passable with the boat with the teetop. It's a lower lying bridge. What we're going to do is show you how to correctly hail the bridge and get yourself an opening. We're not going to pass under this bridge but in this instance I would reach up and grab the VHF. I would hail the bridge on either channel 9 or 16 let them know what vessel I'm in and request an opening. The bridge tender will normally tell you when his next opening is going to be and the whole tight or hey captain open on the hour or the half an hour. So in this instance what I would say is Mathers Bridge. This is the southbound 24 foot sportsman requesting an opening. You may have heard the saying red right return. That comes into play when you're coming offshore into an inlet. The red mark will always be on your right hand side or your starboard side when you're returning from sea. We're returning from Sebastian Inlet which is south of us. Red right return will come and play with us when heading back to the dock. Well guys that just covers some of the basics. We highly recommend that you look into all state and local laws as well as take a safety boating course in your local area. The power squadron in the US Coast Guard put on great courses for that new boater that'll give you that confidence behind the wheel and let you enjoy boating that much more. If you guys have any questions leave them below in the comments. If you like this video hit the thumbs up button or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thank you for your time we appreciate you watching.