Okay, so macOS Monterey was just released a couple of days ago to the public I've been using it throughout all of yesterday and in this video I wanted to showcase my top five features of this new macOS upgrade. I upgraded from Big Sur And I was really looking forward to this upgrade because Big Sur for me personally was a massive disaster If you haven't seen my previous video covering on why that is then let's check out the description I've got a link of it there or you can click up here So I'm going to start off and give you a few examples of why I think these are my top five features of this upgrade But essentially it is basically like iOS 15 but converted for a Mac screen and just a side disclaimer I'm not going to cover all of the new features that they've released There's probably a lot on there which you guys may like, but this is personally all the ones that I find practical I know there's plenty of new things related to FaceTime That's probably one of the biggest updates they've made for this OS and also for iOS 15 I'm not a big FaceTime user, so I won't be covering any of those topics But like you can see on the Apple website There's a whole host of them and I will be covering a few of these as well I also had a video released recently about my top five practical features for iOS 15 for my iPhone So do check that out as well because those things I think are really useful for the iPhone Which I won't be covering for specifically the Mac So let's go ahead start off number one The biggest update for me, which I think is great for Monterey is the upgrade from Big Sur and the improvements of the battery life And the speed and performance so before I upgraded I took a screen recording here from iStat Menus Just to see my battery health now I bought this MacBook Pro 16 inch in 2020 so it's only been about 15 months as I've had it I maxed out the specifications for this so it is super fast and it was Really performing very well from the first month. I got it When I bought it it was advertised as having 14 hours of battery life Which I kind of expected I wouldn't get I ended up getting around 10 Which I think was just still great for everything that I did as soon as I upgraded to Big Sur That battery life very quickly and drastically dropped to around two hours If I'm doing a lot of content creation I'm using Final Cut Pro for my video editing Then that dropped down to about one and a half hours maximum on battery and after paying 4,500 pounds for this MacBook That was purely based on the software update and I wanted to get away from that as quick as possible And it took quite a long time for Monterey to be released But I'm glad that I did so here's a screen recording of my battery health from when I had Big Sur As you can see I just took it off charging when it was at 100% And here it shows that I've got three hours and 29 minutes remaining of battery life This is purely based on just me having one browser open and nothing else So I've got Chrome open as you can see in my dog nothing else I wanted to have the minimal usage as much as possible I've got still 88 health on my battery, you know after 494 cycles and this is over 15 months You know, I'm still happy with the capacity and the health of the battery at that stage Which kind of proves that this is purely software based That three hours 29 was more realistically between one and a half hours and two hours in real life You know the time just kept dropping and dropping in 10 minutes segments So then Monterey hit I started to upgrade and it is a huge file is over 12 gigabytes It took about an hour to install and get everything set up, which is not too bad Then I ran the exact same test the next day And I just wanted to see the improvement by opening an additional browser So I have Chrome and Safari open with a few tabs in each So I just wanted to do a comparison. So I charged my MacBook to a hundred percent I took the charger out. I calculated the time and immediately I saw the difference It said here 10 hours and 25 minutes remaining on wireless battery You know for me, that was what I first expected when I bought this MacBook Again, you can see that the current capacity has very slightly increased as well compared to what I had on big Sir, but overall that 88 percent health still remains and I used this for most of yesterday after I upgraded that 10 hours You know without opening any other additional apps. It lasted around six to seven hours So for me personally It was a massive improvement But of course when I do open my high-end editing apps like Final Cut Pro Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom, you know those kind of things then the battery life did start to decrease But it still lasted around four hours in that case So I've still got more than triple of battery life when I had big sir So for me, that was a really good improvement. Number two is universal control At the time of the release of Monterey that feature is not available They usually release it maybe a couple of months later. Hopefully by the end of the year Which is a bit of a shame in case you guys missed what universal control is Here's a quick sample demo from the keynote I'm putting the finishing touches on an illustration here on my iPad It's the last piece. I need to finish a presentation that I have open on my mac book Now I'll just set my ipad down next to my mac And check this out without any other setup I'm going to simply move my mac cursor towards my ipad and the ipad automatically recognizes it And if I move a bit further Boom my cursor is now on the ipad. How cool is that? And now I can move my cursor back and forth effortlessly between the two Now it's easy to control my ipad with just the keyboard and trackpad on my mac For instance, I can click and close this document And flick on my trackpad to return to my ipad home screen Of course, I can swipe between my pages of apps And I can use my macbook's keyboard to open spotlight and say launch notes And even use command tab to switch back to procreate This is really powerful with universal control. I can even drag and drop files between my devices I'm just going to take this drawing I finished on my ipad and drop it on the keynote on my mac Awesome For our pros out there universal control works with more than two devices So let's add this iMac into the mix Now I can use the trackpad on my macbook to control my iMac as well I can also switch to use my iMac's keyboard and mouse And this is so cool. Watch this now. I have a title text image I've been working on here and procreate on my ipad Now I'm going to take this image and drag it across all three devices And drop it in to final cut Just like that Let's see the final product Nice That's a quick look at universal control on mac os monoray and for someone like me I do a lot of video editing and photo editing I can do a lot of things on my ipad Just place it right next to my macbook pro And transfer everything across between both devices very easily just like that I also use my ipad for sidecar which sets it up as a second monitor Which disables the touchscreen of the ipad But having universal control allows you to still use your ipad as an ipad So you can still touch screen you can still manipulate all of the things on the tablet itself But it's just one of those things if you are a creative person And you do use your ipad for a lot of things And you always generally transfer to your mac Then this is something that's going to be very beneficial to you Number three is having the ability to do airplay from your phone to your mac So whether you have a macbook or an iMac You can just start sharing your iphone screen directly to this as if it was a tv or a monitor Which I think is great. It's very simple. I just have my phone next to my macbook pro In the control center you can see under screen mirroring macbook pro has been listed I'm just going to tap this So it will just start to load And the screen on the macbook pro will change There we go Let's see how responsive this is So I'm just going to hold this up like that It's a little bit laggy Let's go ahead and open up youtube See what it's like to play a video maybe And the video should come out onto the macbook pro speakers All right guys iOS 15 has now been released to the public And in this video I'm going to showcase to you my top five iOS 15 features That you probably use on a daily basis And you guys have probably seen all of the new features that this comes with You've seen all of the videos But today I'm only going to be focusing on the ones which I think you guys Probably going to use the most often and which are the most practical So let's go ahead and dive straight in It's pretty responsive and I'm quite impressed with the way this works And for me this is something that I may want to use Just to showcase quickly to my friends or my family members Something on my macbook pro Especially if you don't have an Apple TV around Where you can play to a specific monitor So that makes it very convenient Number four is Safari updates Now they've obviously introduced tab groups And a multi-device sync from the iOS 15 launch And they've brought that over to Monterey And if Safari is something that you guys use quite often Then I think this update is quite nicer It has this nice compact view at the top as well with the tabs But I think just the ability to have groups and separate things out And then sync that back to your iPhone It just makes things so much more convenient and more productive Especially when you use Safari for maybe business or for your work And also for your personal browsing So you know I've created a work tab here I can go here and I can go ahead And take a look at all of my tabs there quickly And if I wanted to you know just pick up where I left off on my phone If I just have to leave my desk Then I can go ahead and just carry on using the same tabs on my iPhone So for me that is a very practical update And Safari just becomes a lot more nicer to use generally And the experience overall I think is just great And Chrome for me personally you know That's always been my number one browser But that takes up a lot of resources and a lot of power on my macbook You know the fan starts going crazy as soon as I have 10 tabs open But this is I think more optimized for the OS and for your macbook So for me it's a great thing to have And last but not least number five This is probably one of the features that are not talked about too much It's right at the bottom of the Monterey page It's this thing here low power mode This goes back to my point number one Where the battery was draining quite heavily After I upgraded to my macOS Big Sur If you do get to the point where you feel like You know you don't have your charger with you and you're running low on battery You can switch to this brand new mode called low power mode Now we have something similar on you know smartwatches You know you can go into low power mode on the Apple smartwatch And there's also ways you can do that on an iPhone as well But to have that on your macbook I think is just great So under settings you go to battery You go into power adapter And then there's a new checkbox just there on the bottom low power mode If you select this This would essentially allow your macbook to reduce the amount of energy That is using from the system And it operates a lot more quietly as well So you won't hear a lot of those fan noises Blowing up when you're doing higher in editing But of course in this mode it would probably slow your machine down If you do end up opening like Final Cut Proves And start running like heavy intensive programs So for me that is a big plus And if I am outside and I don't have my charger with me I feel a little bit more comfortable That I'll have that little safety net to turn this into low power mode Just in case to give me that additional boost Lenten the battery that I have remaining So that's it guys My top features of macOS Monterey If there's any other features that you like that I haven't mentioned Then I'd like to hear from you Drop a comment down below If you found this useful Make sure to give it a thumbs up Plenty of cool tutorials iPhone videos Mac videos And tech reviews coming out every single week Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss those ones And I'll catch you guys next time Take care


And we just have one quick thing we're gonna show just bored. Yeah. And then while we're doing that, go ahead and post it for questions in Discord. I have a couple stored up, but here we go. Lady, what is this? This is a new, well, it's not new. It's just chips quite old. It's a time of flight sensor. I forgot to get around to making a breakup for this. We've got all the other like VL53LX mobile series chips. This one's like an 8 by 8 grid. It's like four meters distance. So I think it'll be cool. So I sent out the prototype PCBs. Okay. I don't have it. This isn't really a top secret, but we're taking photos. So here's one thing. Since we're the overhead, it's working again. I'll show this. I'm collecting non baseball baseball cards. So this is a person who makes these. This is a hackers card. And so you can, this is zero cool. And yeah, it has, you know, it's hackers. It's number 33 to 99 print run print in USA. So I'll have the photo set up soon. We have some Steve Jobs. Did you know he was married to Angelina Jolie? That's interesting. Like for like six months. Oh yeah. Yeah. They met on the set of hackers and they got married. Oh, wow. But then I will obviously divorce.   Maybe that's how it works sometimes. Okay. Well, that's, that's our top secret.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am going to be reviewing, trying on and showing you a few comparisons of the new lipsticks that Charlotte Tilbury has launched for Lunar New Year. So if you want to see some lip swatches, then just keep watching. It's supposed to be limited edition. It says on the Charlotte Tilbury website, these are limited edition icons, but then you click on the lipstick specifically. It doesn't say the lipsticks are limited edition, but I think I put money on these are limited edition, but like Charlotte Tilbury's version of limited edition, AKA they'll probably be available for a while, but don't hold me to it. Nonetheless, if you don't know, Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks are my all time favorite formula, particularly her kissing formula. Unfortunately, these are not her kissing formula. These are her hot lips matte formula, which are still very, very good. One of my favorite matte lipstick formulas, but again, it's not as good as her kissing, which is more shiny, but her matte lipstick formula is still amazing and amazing enough for me to spend $37 each on these. So yes, they are $37. You can pick them up on the Charlotte Tilbury website and if they are available anywhere else, I will link them in the description box down below for you guys. Let's get into it. Most special thing about this collection is going to be their packaging. So this is the box that they are going to come in. Look at this. Lucky red and tiger print packaging. Here's the side. It explains about the matte revolution formula. These lipsticks are made in Italy, which is lovely. I'm looking for a shelf life here. Oh, 18 months shelf life. Fantastic. But we love it. And then you push through and boom, here lays the lipstick, which also has that red tiger print on it. Really beautiful. I'm a sucker for the limited edition packaging from Charlotte Tilbury when it comes to her lipsticks. I just think they're so special. My collection of Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks has declined given that some of them have gone old or some of them are just my moms, but I just love seeing them all together. Anyway, let's take a look at these shades here. In case you didn't know about this packaging, these lipsticks are also refillable so you can repurchase a lipstick for a little bit cheaper and then pop it into the packaging. Let me tell you, I've never bought a refillable lipstick. So I just paid the 37 dollars every single time. So it's not really refillable for me because I never refill them. But anyways, three colors. Let's take a look at the first one. We're going to go through this one kind of fast. I'm thinking it's going to be a quick video. The first shade that we have and you can see I've already worn them. This is Only Muse, which is a delicate peachy nude matte. So let's take a look. So even though the lipsticks are matte, you can see they still have some moisture to them. So they're not going to be a super flat matte, which you will be thankful for because that makes them very, very comfortable. So let's try this on. This is going to be the most wearable in the collection. What do we think of Only Muse? It definitely is like a red with a very strong orange to it. I really like this one. Again, like I said, this is the lightest one. So you can see that the colors in this collection are quite bold. If you don't like bold lips, this is not going to be the collection for you. But it really is a comfortable matte. These are not the most long wearing, which is okay because that's what makes them so comfortable. I applied this without a lip liner. I think it looks really pretty. So again, this is Only Muse. Also, I know I don't need to have these hair clips in my hair, but the front of my hair today was looking janky. I don't know why, but I think it's just better if we pin it back. I'm just going to keep it this way the whole time. Next, let's take a look at Walk of a Star. This is described as a soft muted berry rose matte. So you can definitely see this has more berry in it. Let's try it out. This color would be so pretty for a date night. I love it. So again, this is Walk of a Star. Really pretty. Now, this is really in the true right tones here. Love it. Every time I wear red lips, I'm like, I need to wear red lipstick more. And then I never ended up doing it. I was pretty good in December. I made a goal in December to wear more bold lipsticks than I did. I just wish this collection launched a little sooner so that I could have incorporated these. Okay, my lips are a little stained, but that's okay because the last color is rich. The last shade that we have is K Romance. Look at that. Let me swatch this for you. Sorry, my bones were being weird. This is a bright berry matte lipstick. So it definitely looks like a much brighter berry. Let me show you the pigmentation with that first swatch. Look at that full opacity. And here is K Romance. Honestly, you guys, this one is my favorite of the three. It's definitely more bold than I usually do, but I think this is like the perfect berry. It definitely has a lot of red in there though. It's my favorite though. I would say it's the most unique of my collection and this collection is bold. So if I had to pick one, I'd pick this one because I just love the tone on me. So K Romance is my favorite. Again, if you want to take a look at the swatches to see the difference in color, here they are. If you are new to the Charlotte Tilbury Matte formulation, basically they're a comfortable matte. They do have a little bit of satin to them as you can see, but that's what makes them comfortable. If you pair them with a good lip liner, they're gonna last a long time, but they are not transfer proof by any means. I do not have the Charlotte Tilbury lipstick collection that I once had. Some have expired. Some I've given to my mom, but I am gonna swatch to the ones that I felt I had that were similar. So if you have some Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks and you want to know if there are any close dupes or how they might look, let's get into it. Okay, so here's what I could find that was similar to only mules. So right here, I have Sweet Blossom. I would say these two are probably the closest. Sweet Blossom is a kissing formula and it is ever so slightly darker, but I think they just give a similar effect on the lips. Here is Karina's star. This has more like peachy-ness to it, but again it's very close, but it is just a wee bit brighter. And then I thought I'd give Red Hot Susan a try because sometimes Red Hot Susan can look a little bit orange, but it's very very different. But I would say if you have Karina's star or Sweet Blossom, you could probably pass on only mules. Okay, so next we're gonna compare Walk of a Star and I will say I feel like this one was harder to get a close match with. So first we have Super Starlet, which ended up not being a match at all. Then we have Mrs. Kisses, which is a little bit more peachy, but I think we're looked similar, but different tones here. Then we have Wedding Bells. Again, same thing, different tone, but could look similar. And then lastly, I did First Dance, which is a little bit more opaque, but I think these two color-wise are probably the most similar, but they still look different. I don't know. This one doesn't have very many close matches in my own personal collection. Final lipstick to match up was K-Romance, which you can see. I feel like it looks more red in the actual lipstick, but it definitely pulls like a brighter berry. So the first shade that I swatched was Amazing Amul. I think these two are very very similar. K-Romance is just a bit brighter and I think it's a little bit more berry. So it definitely looks more vivid on my hand, but they're similar. Then we have First Dance, which is more muted. And then finally, this ended up not being very close. I don't even know what color it is. I think it's Wedding Bells. I just wanted to see, but these aren't even close, but definitely similar to Amazing Amul and First Dance, but just a bit more vivid. All right, you guys. So there you are. I swatched and compared all three of the new Lunar New Year lipsticks from Charlotte Tilbury. Personally, K-Romance is my favorite, but I think all three of them are beautiful. Do I think you need all of them or any of them? Not really. If you see a color that stands out to you, I can guarantee you the quality is good and you will love it. But it's only if you need these colors. I don't think this collection is going to be for everybody because the colors are so bright and deep and red, which honestly isn't my cup of tea. I wasn't jumping for joy for this lip collection either. I'm a nude girl too. I think she did a good job with the colors and their pretty tones. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and you found it helpful. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. I'll see you all in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.


All right, so I got my my hole Cut in my bucket here. I got a square hole because of this You got to put the plug through it and once again, it's the little Chinese Flat bladed no holes generic plug But they send to the US So the way this works though Get your water inlet connect to your pump. Oh and your pump lives down in your bucket And I've read about you can add any freeze if you're in cold climates you can add Algae side These Clorox bleach to shock things dead But mostly it seems to be You want to prevent algae from growing in your bucket or in your water system in general You need To remove light so have a closed bucket with opaque opaque size like this or Just add a lot of chemicals and I've opted for the opaque bucket cheap three bucks or bucks at home diva and And And I'll just be using distilled water Maybe once in a while. I'll add a little bit of bleach just to make sure things aren't growing in there but other than that this should be a pretty closed system and Hopefully things won't grow in it One of the other things people mention about these water systems is that you're a turn line So where the water goes back in you're gonna want to have that below the water line and the idea behind that is to Reduce the amount of air that you're introducing into your water So reduce the amount of air that you're letting in your water because algae and any little micro organisms that are gonna grow in your water and Muck it up. They also need dissolved oxygen so Removing that dissolved oxygen like the oxygen I think right now is Important for keeping your your algae growth under control And I've got six gallons here. I don't know if I'll need all six I don't think the tube takes a whole gallon of water, but we'll find out Now there's That's four, so I'm gonna try this out and just see Right now Put that in let me see if I can check in our laser tube Right there we go. We've got water going through take y'all try and the Air bubbles in there and the best Advice on that is just to tip the machine Because you're gonna have air bubbles no matter what you do And you're just gonna want to let this run for a while Then tip your machine so that the air can go out Back into your reservoir let that run for a while with the air bubbles purge I think eventually I'll probably get a flow meter Just so I can see because you can't really hear it it's under water It's under a lot of water inside that sealed bucket, so It's um It's pretty quiet closer Probably here my 3d prints are going more than this thing So anyway, it's a it's quiet so flow meter would be a good idea and a temperature gauge I don't know if eventually I mean it's pretty warm here in my garage This is gonna keep things at the correct temperature or not I don't know find out So the the tipping method seems to work well I mean the this machine is light enough where you can you can lift it up without any problems But you really do have to lift up quite a way in order to To get those air bubbles out and so you're really They're gonna need to get over here, so I don't know if you can see there's there's one right there So I tip it up and then Back and that seems To suck those things right out And there we go, so they're still See it's gone, but yeah Those will probably show up every once in a while as the The bubbles get sucked in through the pump Until we're out of bubbles, so I'll I'll keep an eye on that, but I'll just let this run and I plan on having this just plugged in I don't know if you can see my power strip over there, but that's going to be the power strip for this whole area When I'm not using the laser, I'll just flip that off the power for the pump will go off And when I want to use the laser or anything associated with it I'll flip it on that way the power will always be to the pump and it'll always be circulating through the laser And I hope I don't need a chiller, but Uh people have said that lasers like a cooler Not freezing, but cooler, so we'll see uh If that's required or not in my climate It just gets pretty warm in the summer. I thought that ambient temperature would be good Um To disperse the heat, but I did a test run and I don't have a piece here, but it didn't seem Very powerful Then I read online about the the cooling for these lasers and they tend to be happy around 18 degrees celsius So I wanted to find a cooling solution But one that wasn't super expensive because you can buy those coolers CW 3000 CW 5000 and they are Hundreds of dollars So I've already spent too much on this thing as it is Uh anyway, I went into Craigslist and I found somebody who had a Water cooler and water coolers have a compressor like your refrigerator and they've got lines and they've got a A coil So let me move this thing out of the way And in my bucket of water now I have a coil copper That is cooling the water down So I'll uh, I'll give you a shot of what Ambient is I'll just point this at the ground 27.8 Now if I uh, shoot the Inlet hose the water going to the to the laser tube 23.5 And that's a 74 So anyway Um, that's cooling the water down and hopefully that will work a little better than ambient temperature Because apparently higher temperatures Reduce the lifespan of the laser tube and give you lower power versus results So I want to get the most power I can I got this thing for 25 bucks. It had the water cooler exterior, but Stripped it all off until I got just the radiator compressor and the coolant lines and uh You'll see right there's my thermostat and it's got just a little screw on the back if uh, the water gets too cold and causes the tube to condense Maybe we're below the dew point then I can just back off on the thermostat Hopefully this will work out. I'll have to fix my bucket cut a hole right about there to uh Allow space for those those to fit in while being able to close the bucket completely So that's uh, a nice addition a cheap addition and maybe one other people can uh, can use Wanted to show one thing With the cooling system because I wasn't really happy with my my kind of makeshift We would set up there. So, uh, one thing you'll notice there's an extra hole on the machine now and that is my flow meter I've got the pump going right now and you can see the water's flowing I improved the the inlet and outlet I Changed out the tubing for some of this uh thicker vinyl tubing and Insulated it there all the way back to the bucket Insulated the top insulated the sides like before Got a little extra insulation there because when this garage gets hot It's going to need the extra insulation to keep in the to keep the heat away and let the The pump do its work so There's the the inlet side and water's going through there through the tube comes out And from the outlet side snakes up here to the flow meter And comes right back out to the go back to the bucket There's a third plug there and you see I've got it plugged right now But that's a spot that I'm going to use for A temperature gauge and then I'll just run those wires Down through there and back up to the control panel. So I got a little display of the temperature Got my flow meter. So I know that's not really a safety thing But it would be a really nice thing if the laser had this kind of stuff to start with but I'm gonna install it


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Well, hi there! I'm Sandy Almok and today I'm going to show you a little Copic Bible journaling that made it into my Bible recently. I haven't done any Bible journaling on this channel in a while. I do have another channel just for my Bible journaling, but I have this stamp set from the Colorado Craft Company and I was trying to figure out how to get this to fit in where the verse is that I wanted to do and it wasn't going to fit because the stamp is too wide. The verse is too wide as well as the image.  I cut it to the exact size of my Bible and round it to the corner since my Bible has rounded corners. We'll make sure it fits just perfectly and then I'm going to lay out my stamps and stamp them in whatever ink that you want to use for whatever technique you're going to use. I'm using Lawn Fawn's Jet Black and it's one of my favorite inks for Copic stuff. You want something that's going to be friendly to whatever coloring medium you're going to use. Recently I did another video with Colorado Craft Company stamps and I did what I called sketchy card layouts and did something very similar to this but I'm going to show you how to do it on a whole page. Now if you're not a Bible journaler you could certainly do this on an art journal page. It does not have to be for Bible journaling. This whole technique idea will work for that too but I'm using that other technique as a jumping off point by just creating lines and I'm using a rolling ruler. A lot of people ask where I got that. I think I got it at my local store where they sell children's school supplies I believe. You can probably also get one maybe over at Blick or something because I think they sell pretty much everything like that. I will try to find a link and put it in the doobly-doo if you want one but you can get them real cheap at your local school supply store. Once I've got a whole bunch of lines in there and you know you can put the lines wherever you want and not have to really think about it ahead of time because this is your sketching phase you don't have to actually make any decisions till you get a pen out but I got out some dies and some stamps and just started adding other images to the page and I knew I was going to do some fun coloring on this. It was going to be a fully saturated page as you saw in the sneak peek at the beginning so I used some hearts from the folk hearts die set. I don't even know if it's still available it's really old from Ellen Hudson and I also used some Ellen Hudson flowers the big peony in the bottom left and then the leaf in the upper left and the little flower are from the Mondo hydrangea set because I just wanted some flowers on here some imagery as well. My whole idea for this was to create some sections in which I could do for one some doodling and for two some journaling because when I do my bible journaling I like to write messages in there and I write down things God's doing in my life. I write down things He's told me I write down prayers my commitment to things that He tells me to do and you know okay yes I will do it and that's what I'm trying to create some sections in here where I can put some of that kind of content. So as I'm going in with my pen now this is a Ko-Kik friendly pen if you're using watercolor or something else then by all means use whatever's going to work with that medium and some of the lines I cross over each other some of them I stop short and I'm just creating different sections because I'm going to be able to color in each one of those sections some of them are going to go up higher and some only going to block off smaller sections and with something like the hearts you can decide whether or not your hearts are going to cross over some of the linear areas or if they're going to just be looking like they're on the surface of all of it and you're not going to have any lines go through them and I decided to kind of do a mix over all of this and just have fun with it. The stamps from Colorado Craft Company has as a lot of theirs do I don't know if all others do but a bunch of theirs have people where you just see the bottom of the person which means you don't have to actually color the face to match whatever person is in the scene so if you're a blonde you don't have to worry about coloring blonde hair but if this stamp has you know long hair and you have short hair it's not going to look like you or if the person that you are coloring it for has one kind of haircut and the stamp doesn't then it's not going to match but on something like this when they cut off all the heads it gives you some options that you don't have with some other stamp sets. It does create some challenges though for how you end it and I would recommend going to their Instagram page because they post of course a lot of cards made with them and you can get lots of ideas on how other people handle that and what I've done here is just created a box that that image is in. It's the same thing I did on the sketchy card layout videos I did one for my channel and one for Ellen Hudson's and you can go see those I'll have links to all of that in the doobly-doo as well and stuff on the blog but it kind of gives a frame for it a little place for it to stop instead of feeling like it just trails off into nothingness and what I'm doing with my coloring here my Copic coloring is to create real warm colors in this one section and I do my pajamas I have lots of mixed match pajamas so I have one that has a yellow shirt and purple pants and I colored yellow socks on there so you can color this in any way you want but I wanted all the warm colors in here and all the stuff that has yellow and golden things I'm going to use a little bit of yellow and gold in other areas of the coloring but I'm going to focus them on here because that's the main image that I wanted to have for this page and then I also want to draw attention to the psalm the text of it that's up above so I'm going to use some of that yellow up there too but I just decided I was going to use a bunch of those kind of warm colors down below now I am going to speed this up more because it took me a long time to color this but I thought I'd also talk a little bit about for Bible Journalers out there who probably came to this video very excited that I was using Copics in my Bible there are no Bibles that you can use Copic markers in and the reason for that if you think about it a ream of Nina which is what you would need to color your Copic markers on a ream of Nina's 250 pages and your Bible is what 1000 pages 1500 2000 depending on the size of the font you you would never want to carry around a Bible that's as thick as you would need if you had Copic friendly paper it just ain't going to happen some people have asked if you can use page preps and then use the Copic markers on top of that and I would not do that to your markers it's just dangerous to do that because those are I I don't know if it's a scientific truth but it feels like those page preps are more of a you know just those and things are more of an acrylic they can actually ruin your marker dip I I did try it once just to see and it got a kind of crusty thing going on so I just didn't even want to mess with any of my markers because they're too expensive to do that with but putting a page like this in your Bible and attaching it inside is one way that you can use your Copics and get a really powerful strongly colored image because on Bible paper you're not going to get this kind of really strong image the paper is just really thin and it doesn't handle super heavy color I think the only other medium that you could get this kind of intensity with would be like ph martins watercolors because those come out really strong and really bright but most everything comes out much softer which I don't find to be a problem but some people just really want a lot of color so I am just proceeding with the coloring of this and adding layers and layers of color and doing different fun techniques that I know of in Copic marker coloring if you take in my Copic jumpstart class there's all kinds of fun techniques they're stuck in the hex art class lots of different ways that you can add detail and and lots of fun things to stuff like this I'm doing some reversing out of color by using lighter shades to make blobs of color and then I'm going to use a black pen and a white pen to add a lot more detail and to add some of the text that I wanted to put in some of the sections so you know that that just gives me a world of opportunity to do tons of doodling I mean this was like a five or six hour project I think to do this page so it's not for those who are trying to get anything done quick but it is one way that you can use your Copics in your Bible this however is on this channel rather than on my Bible journaling channel because it is not Bible journaling made simple which is the title of the book that I wrote because this is not even remotely simple it also this technique requires that you have Copic markers and you have all these supplies and you have other stamps and a lot of Biblejournals are just getting started in art at all they have no sense of all of these supplies and I don't want people on that channel to feel like they have to have all this stuff but since I know that a lot of people that watch these videos have all the stuff I gotta give you an idea for how you can use all of that stuff in your Bible journaling too yeah if you even aren't a Copic marker user and you want to do something with watercolor or distressings or something you can do it on any kind of sheet of paper and adhere that into your Bible and tip it into your Bible but you're going to end up with one of the problems that I had which is okay now I've got all of the color coming through the back of this so I put some double stick tape down the B creative tape and glued this onto a sheet of blank paper just I used really thin paper I just used computer paper and then I trimmed it out all the way around it using my trimmer and I did the little corners with my corner chopper again so that I would still have that page now I've got a blank white side so that I can you know do some more writing more journaling on the back of that page or something but at least I don't have to look at all the crazy Copic marker coming through on the other side but if you do other techniques you may have that issue as well so one more strip of the double stick tape that B creative tape it's super sticky so what I do is line up the outside edge exactly where I want it and I hold up that edge with the sticky part on it first get it exactly where I want it and I don't press anything down until I am positive that it's going to be right there because otherwise if you get it in the wrong place you can't get that tape back up but you do end up with a page in your Bible that kind of sticks out like this it doesn't kind of lay down like Bible paper would but for a special page like this it might be worth it to you you might even put this at the beginning or end of your Bible so it doesn't kind of stick up in the middle like this and all I did was then highlight the verse itself opposite of the art page that I did so there you go there's one way that you can use Copics in your Bible now I have one other tidbit for you which is that there is a giveaway I purchased one of these and Amy sent me one of these so I ended up with two sets of this so if you want to go leave a comment on my blog because you can't do giveaways on YouTube leave a comment on my blog and I will pick a winner in a week and send this stamp set out to someone so I hope you win good luck and feel free to share that with your friends so they can enter as well and I'll see you later bye-bye


Welcome to dealing with materials data, we are looking at the collection analysis and the interpretation of data from material science and engineering, we are in the third module, this is a module on probability distributions and we have looked at several discrete probability distributions and we are now going to consider one of the continuous probability distributions which is called as the normal distribution, as the name indicates it is a very common one and it is also very important one for several reasons. So we are going to spend quite a bit of time understanding normal distribution and so in this session we are going to look at one aspect of normal distribution namely that many a times if you make measurements because of random errors or thermal noise, the value that you would measure repeatedly if you make the experiment will not be the same number. The error will actually make it get distributed as a normal distribution. So this is the context in which we are going to understand normal distribution first. We will look at other contexts and also the importance of normal distribution and we have been using normal distribution in some cases earlier. So we will even revisit some of those and try to understand what we did and why that makes sense in the context of understanding normal distributions. Let us consider any measurement that you are making. Let us say that x is the measurement and let us say that the mean value of the measurements after you repeated the experiment some n number of times is mu and let us say that the standard deviation of the measurement is sigma. We are assuming that the reason for deviations from the mean is the random noise. So this rules out data such as grain size distribution because we saw that you can make a measurement and the measurement can give you mean and standard deviation but that might be because of some other distribution that is there in the system. It is not because of random noise. So it is not related to the normal distribution. It need not be related to normal distribution. We have also seen in the previous example for example that mixing to or convoluting to distributions can result in some other distribution. We saw that normal plus hyper geometric actually gives you binomial and so on. So normal can also be a result of some other distribution that is not the case that we are looking at at this moment. We are saying that if you have some random error or noise or thermal noise that will lead to a normal distribution in the measurements that you make and we say that x goes as normal distribution with mean mu and standard deviation sigma and we also define what is known as standard normal distribution for which the mean becomes 0 and the standard deviation is 1 and you obtain from x the z by doing the transformation that is you take all the measurements and subtract the mean and divide by the standard deviation the resultant variable will actually follow the standard normal distribution. Normal distribution is mathematically known as the gas function and here is its probability distribution function. It is 1 by sigma square root 2 pi exponential minus x minus mu whole squared by 2 sigma squared. So this is the normal distribution mean of normal distribution is mu and standard deviation of normal distribution is sigma. So that is how we actually built this distribution and standard normal distribution we are going to replace sigma by 1 and mu by 0. So and the variable is x minus mu by sigma is going to become z so it is z squared by 2 and 1 by square root 2 pi. So this is the standard normal distribution typically it is referred to as z and how do we work with normal distribution using r norm is the keyword so d norm p norm q norm r norm will give you the probability density cumulative distribution function and quantile function and random variates and let us assume the mu to be 20 and sigma to be 2 can we get the so as we did earlier. So let us look up norm so that is not the norm we want d norm. So mean standard deviation is what you have to give so if you want to have mean to be 20 and standard deviation to be 2 and so you can so let us make x let us say it goes from it is a sequence and it goes from 0 to 50 this thing so you can say x d norm x comma mu comma right. So this is the standard the normal distribution and you can of course make the cumulative distribution function that is just by changing it to p norm and the here is the cumulative distribution function. So for quantiles we have to make sure that the sequence runs from 0 to 1 so let us say that we want to say q norm and that is in terms of y this is y. So here is the quantile function and of course if you want to generate random variates so you have to say r norm and you have to tell how many random variates you want let us say we want 20 and the mean is mu and the standard deviation is sigma so we have r norm. So you can see that these are values which are centered around 20 and sigma is 2 so it will be between 18 and 22 is 1 sigma and 16 and 24 is 2 sigma so that is how these values will be distributed and of course you can make a histogram plot of this r norm and see that so you see that but if you generate more and more random numbers and you will see that it is becoming a nice bell shaped curve. So let us say that we want to make some 1000 so you can see now that it is a very symmetric curve about 20 and standard deviation of 2 so things are between 18 to 22 and 16 to 24 most of the measurements would fall. So you can make more and more nice looking the normal plots by generating more and more random numbers. So this is one aspect so now let us go back to normal distribution and so like I mentioned normal distribution in the context in which we are talking about is also because of errors that you see in measurement and we have already looked at one example of conductivity of ETP copper and we had actually plotted and we also tried to figure out what distribution it is and we showed that it is normal distribution. Now that we know the probability distribution function for normal distribution can we take the data and plot it and also get the do a simulation of random variants from normal distribution and compare the two. So that is what we want to do in this exercise so for that I am going to use this side of commands so here is the script. So we are going to read the data on ETP copper conductivity and mu is basically the mean so let us calculate from the data and sigma is the standard deviation so we have calculated from the data and z is random variate from a normal distribution we are pulling out some 20 numbers with this given mu and sigma and z, z is basically the probability density function using z that we have calculated and so we have made a data frame out of this simulated values that we have got. So we are going to make 3 plots first is of course to take the data and plot it as a histogram so we are using gg plot so this data is x and aesthetics is take x as a conductivity and make a histogram. So that is what there is a problem in reading the data. So this is the distribution you get and it says something about bins pick a better value with bin width and we can do that so you can give bin width let us say okay so you can make this and you see that this is the distribution that you get of course next you can do the plotting of the so this is the same mean and same standard deviation but we generated the data so it is basically a simulation and we are going to plot it as a line so this is the distribution that you find. Of course we can put them both together in the same plot that is gg plot allows you to do that so let us do this okay so you can see that these are the data that we measured and this is the simulated distribution that we are getting and of course here again it is complaining about so you can see that we have plotted both on the same plot and if you generate more and more random numbers so you will also get a distribution which looks like this of course the total number of data points we have is very small we have only 20 data points and it still shows a nice normal distribution that is because in this case truly the mean value or the actual value of conductivity is somewhere quite close to where the mean value is and all this distribution that you see is because of the errors. So this is one of the most important reasons why we are interested in normal distribution random errors are always distributed normally and that is what is going to allow us to do lots of analysis as you will see and we are going to derive lots of distributions from normal and we are going to use them also to understand data but there are other uses for normal distribution in material science and engineering in general everywhere you will get to see normal distribution but there are certain specific things which are very relevant to us one of them for example is that normal distribution is related to error function and diffusion typically gets solutions which are error functions. So diffusion problems is one of the problems and it is a stochastic problem so random walk of atoms is what leads to diffusion and so it is a naturally stochastic problem like nucleation it is one of the other important stochastic problems and so we will look at error function for example in the subsequent sessions we also had this probability scale that is based on normal distribution so we will try to understand probability scale. We tried to identify the distribution empirical distribution of a data whether it is normal or log normal or variable or things like that so that also is based on the normal distribution at some level so we always use normal as the sort of benchmark for understanding other distributions skewness and kurtosis for example is basically to tell how much the distributions deviate from some of the properties of normal distribution in terms of symmetry and in terms of tails and so on. So we will look at all these aspects one by one and understand normal distribution in greater depth and we will do all that using R in the sessions to come. Thank you.


Hey y'all it's Tammy. Today we're cleaning shrimp, butterflying shrimp, frying up some shrimp, and it's gonna be so good with the baked potato I made while I was at the grocery store. So y'all pull up a chair and enjoy how to make good fried shrimp. Hey y'all it's Tammy with Collard Valley Cooks not starving. I just got back from the grocery store and I'm in a butterfly-fused shrimp they had some on sale they had one pat left and that's that wonderful white lily self-rising flour. It makes a good biscuit and it makes a good fried shrimp and it makes good everything. And I'm gonna show you how to clean them real easy the butterflying and get them in a skillet and have them in no time and boy are they good. So you can bomb already you know I like the big ones now if you want to use a smaller shrimp you can and you can pound it out and I'll show you what I'm talking about in a minute. But if you'll just take a fork a large dinner fork and run up through the center of the shrimp so it's right on the top of the shrimp his his line goes right through there so you just pull it up. Now if you want to buy your shrimp already deveined you can do that but you do not need to buy it pre-cooked okay. So make sure he's clean and you don't leave anything nasty in there okay. So it's best to do this near the sink so I ain't no shrimp expert. You know I couldn't go down to the pond in the pasture and catch me some shrimp. I guarantee it. I guarantee I didn't catch no shrimp in the pond. Yeah here I catch shrimp in the net but we usually just buy it.  As much money as he spends on buying shrimp. Alright there it is with the tail on it. I'm not doing any more like that because it's pain in the butt and then I got to worry about it okay. I don't even know if they can see this good because you're kind of not on the side you ought to be on. Alright you see that right there that's what the fork brings up see it. So it works good it works very good and the more you do it the better you'll get at it and I'm not an expert like I said. But you know what these are gonna be delish. You really shouldn't cut them so far down as I've been doing. Cut them about like that. Alright there's one two three four five one two one more. Tell me about the first time you ate shrimp what you did. That wasn't me. Who was it? I had a friend that they went for prom probably in high school they lived in the mountains in North Georgia and they probably went to Red Lobster or somewhere like that and so they ordered shrimp and they got what do you call them the shrimp with the shells on the cocktail shrimp. Yeah like cocktail shrimp or whatever and so they ate them and they were like well they're okay they're pretty good they're a little fishy or whatever you know. They went to school it's just a different shrimp or different color. They went to school and asked one of their teachers in class they said Mr. Coke so-and-so have you ever had shrimp and he was like well yeah and they were like did you like it and he said yeah I liked it pretty good and they said well it's it's we like it but it's crunchy ain't it and the teachers said what are you talking about they said it's it's real crunchy he goes no shrimp's not crunchy and they said well yeah he goes what'd your shrimp look like and they described it to him and he's like you're supposed to take the shells off of it and de-shell it and all that you just ate the shells and all you're not supposed to do that so I'm sure everybody in Red Lobster or wherever it was was checking those boys out I'm sure they all got a good laugh out of. Did their dates eat it that way too? Probably. Alright this is soul food seasoning it's got a kick and it's real it's really salty so you don't put salt you just use it it's from Dollar General Clover Valley then you're gonna put some pepper on them and no I don't put it in my flour a lot of people want to know why I don't season my flour well when you're using flour to bread stuff don't you throw a lot of it away yes most of the time and all those seasonings that you have to put in there extra to season that much flour you're throwing away too so I always season this we're gonna pour a little bit of buttermilk on it not a lot just a little enough to wet it it's hard to judge exactly how much flour to get unless you fried stuff a whole lot and you're always gonna have a little bit leftover that's the way it is some of y'all might have been doing it so long you feed the same amount of people but you know even no matter who we are our lifestyles change you know you know we're young and we're just feeding ourselves we get married and then we get a couple of kids and we're feeding us and the kids and then our kids leave the house and then it's just us sometimes in the spouse and then sometimes we have to take care of our parents I mean sometimes we're by ourselves I mean so lifestyles change and all you gotta do is reduce your cooking by really whoever's eating all right we're gonna throw a little oil in the skillet now like I said if you've got small shrimp all you have to do is put your shrimp in a zip lock bag and pound it and it'll get flat and really wide and big if you want to impress somebody with a smaller shrimp now we're just gonna use some self-rising flour I put a little bit of oil cooking oil in the skillet to get it hot and we're gonna turn it up on high and now all we're going to do is put plenty of flour on these self-rising flour make them nice and crunchy that's all you need make sure you put your soul food seasoning on there it's got a kick to it but it's not enough that they're gonna be hot and spicy it's just enough to give them some flavor but don't go real heavy-handed with it or it'll be too salty and too hot just slightly sprinkle it like I did when every time I do this I think of chef Cormann in Atlanta chef Cormann is has a channel I know a lot of y'all watch her and she does shrimp and fries most everything with self-rising flour like I do and she's a chef so she's not just a home cook that does it she's a chef that does it too all right so you can test your oil it's ready we're gonna we're gonna lay these in here and then how y'all like our new light we gave it the best pro shot yesterday it's supposed to go in a boat just shine on fish I guess I can see it good yeah I hope it's not like you know how sometimes the light will not do it well all right that's not gonna take but like a minute all right so I'll let you tell your story while you're showing them the shrimp and while ago she asked why that shrimp was different color there are like there's white shrimp and brown shrimp that there are shrimp that are different color okay but anyway we're watching this shrimp fry take very long the first time I got on a treadmill we were at a hotel and I got out and went down to the workout room this is when I was in good I was in really good shape because I was still young and I got on the treadmill and I tried to figure out how to turn it on and it wouldn't turn on I was like well this thing how does it work I guess you just and so I started kind of running on it a little bit and it did move and so I just okay I'll just work out on it like this and it was really difficult and I couldn't hardly run I just about had to walk and hang on to the rails and push it and all that and so I stayed on it about 20 or 30 minutes which was a lot less than what I usually did and there was there was a lady that came in there and she was working out and she just kept looking at me and I thought well she looks like I'm good looking or something and I got down to the I got off the treadmill and I was over there wiping my face and all that kind of stuff and then she went over there and turned it on and pushed the buttons and everything how it was supposed to turn on and started running on it and I was like oh it runs he didn't even know his electronic he got on the treadmill and worked out on the treadmill without it was quite a workout to my power not going off because I didn't get the spot button yeah all right here we go let's go there really quick no time at all that's a we didn't have to double dip it we didn't have to you know dip it and then dip it in the flour and then turn around and dip it again and that's that wonderful white lily self-rising flour it makes a good biscuit and it makes a good fried shrimp and it makes good everything but anyway I think the lady was pretty impressed that I could do that for 20 or 30 minutes because that did that did take a lot of power and strength and endurance that's what you think now if y'all are here we give you about a shrimp and a lot of y'all probably thinking Lord I could eat that much shrimp by myself well so could we but we are trying to do better aren't we Christopher yep tell them how much weight you've lost so far I went from 226 to 2 12.5 this morning that's pretty doggone good y'all and nothing grabs my tail more than to go to a restaurant and get shrimp and it and it be overcooked so don't overcook it okay it should only take about a minute on both on each side at the most and I've already ate lunch I had a potato I didn't know she was gonna come back from the grocery store shrimp say I only get a couple of them to okay and you can show them this this is a recipe in our food cookbook right there it is and I was gonna show y'all a couple of things and that is I got some good salad stuff I got me some collard greens onions I didn't give up a day is because they're too soft and they won't last long I got a couple of ears of corn some onion so I've been reading and it says if you'll get a cheddar instead of a different kind of cheese it will take less of it to make some taste cheesy so that's what I got oh and I got us I bought our ground beef this way so I could pick it up in quarter-pound servings and cook it and then I also got us a watermelon and see how nice and yellow the bottom is that means it's gonna be good and right and then what else is that it oh I got some good bread oh and I got popcorn so that we can pop popcorn for a snack we used to eat popcorn like this all the time and I got popped corn stuff all right let's give this a taste get a close up and it pretty old it's gonna be good with my but with my baked potato clap you're not gonna believe this what you know how I am you know how good I am at tasting things I can taste anything I got a really good palate this shrimp was pre-frozen we live right here on the coast yeah and we got pre-frozen shrimp you can taste it it tastes similar to the freezer now some of y'all can't tell the difference but I sure can so it's not fresh shrimp we'd have to go get it from somebody else we'd probably be better off making the shrimp that you fish with cuz they're live aren't they yes but you're not supposed to do that that gets those guys are not selling food grade shrimp oh they're not supposed to you're not supposed to eat that okay but I'm sure there are probably people that do but I would not condone that no but you can go catch your own shrimp and this is this time of year I mean it's delicious where you can do it and you can catch them with nets out of the river and eat them this recipe is perfect it's the right amount of salt without being too salty it's crunchy it's perfectly fried it's not overcooked it's not under I mean it's really good y'all so most people would think it was delicious but I'm pretty picky about my shrimp yeah it's hard to find a place where they actually serve fresh shrimp year-round mm-hmm and no matter where you are right you know you can be on the coast a lot of people think this cuz they take a vacation on the coast that they go in restaurants me and Chris used to have a place at Minnesota we were there all the time and I'm not kidding I don't think we ever found a restaurant that served fresh shrimp or fish hardly but that every once in a while you'd find one that had some fresh fish but now there is a restaurant in Darien that serves fresh shrimp yeah what's the name of it being J's being J's and then some of these down here I think sometimes will have it I don't think they always have it but I think sometimes they do yeah I've had fresh shrimp here before yeah I'm gonna cut watermelon I'm gonna have me some of my baked potato and we will catch you next time on color Valley Cooks y'all fry up some pretty shrimp for your sweet heart they'll love it bye y'all love ya thanks for watching


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Can you tell us why is Axiona pursuing a net-zero goal? What are the benefits and why is this important to you? Within this year, after the pandemic, the approach to climate change has really changed. We are a real emergency and infrastructure company.  It's the watermark of the society and the prosperity. And we want to be part of the solution. We want to be part of these designers who will make possible this transition. And the benefit is the position is give us a purpose, give us a drive for innovation, give us the opportunity also to lead the market because the market will transform, will transform by the climate change. Can you tell us a bit more about what positive action your company is already doing to drive this change? Every company I think that we follow the same pathway. First, we try to take responsibility about the problem. We try to measure to have a better metrics to make better decisions. Then we know how the climate is changing the context, the market and try to avoid risk and embrace opportunities. This second wave is about net zero commitment. It's about how we transform our strategy into these new circumstances. But I think that we are seeing that the third wave, a wave that we want to be beyond the net zero, beyond how the business is not making alone part of the solution. Try to be net positive, try to regenerate, regenerate how part of the moham that we as a society was provoked during the last decade. I think that most of the companies are in the most advanced way in many sectors. In this key moment, we are thinking about how we can contribute positively to solve the problem. What has been the most significant hurdle when it comes for you in terms of achieving net zero or indeed the more regenerative approach that you're talking about? How have you been able to overcome this? The approach of the carbonisation and net zero needs a long time to be reviewed. Sometimes not all the actors around the context have the same timeframe. We think that we see sometimes some pushback from the regulations that are not fully convinced that this is the way that we need to follow. And these uncertainties are bad for investors and for business. This is the first uncertainty around the real commitment about net zero. And the second is about how the solution, the technological solutions, can solve the problem. We have not in the electrification part, not in the energy part, we are talking about many of our supply chains are not prepared to provide services in this environment of the net zero. We need more zero concrete, still transportation. And also this availability to provide real net zero solutions. If we move to maybe some of the learnings that Axiona has had in your journey, what are some of the things you wish you had known before you started pursuing a zero emissions policy? The mindset, which is change of mindset. You need to understand that the first shock when you are talking about net zero is when you say, okay, guys, you need to double your revenues and half your emissions. Say what? And this is the first that you are in the right way when you are capable to make this question and the people on your teams understand that this is the real challenge is to double the revenues with the half of emissions and they are capable to do it you are in the right way. And you have a very huge toolbox to do it. We can recommend that the price of carbon to introduce CO2 emissions targets into the valuable remuneration to have the carbonization fund to train people to make it happen. There are a lot of toolbox and every single company should choose which one would be more feasible or suitable for their culture and moment of knowledge. So what would you tell a company that is just beginning their journey? What would be the main kind of learning that you would have for them? First of all, you need to be conscious that business is part of the solution but we cannot make it alone. We need to count with the context of our businesses with our clients, with our suppliers with people who are working in our organization and taking into account that this is not a one-man show transformation this is the beginning. The second part is trying to identify not only how you are impacting to the mitigation of the climate change the emissions, also you need to take into account that adaptation will be equally important and these two things mitigation and adaptation are equally important in the strategy of a company. Trying to understand what are the metrics in the first part of your approach to the climate change are very important and a huge step ahead. Then you need to understand that not only a risk behind the climate change are a lot of opportunities because at this stage we are seeing how the transformation can affect our business but in a couple of years in five or six years we will see how this transformation is also giving opportunity to innovate and to promote and changes in the market that can be very beneficial for our strategy and to think in this long term to give you a new view. Can you tell us a bit more about how Axiona engages with their supply chain and in the value chain to deliver on net zero? This is a very important and a very important topic. If you have a look to our footprint you can see that the most of the infrastructure companies are very related to concrete, steel and logistics more than the operational CO2 that you are emitting and if you are looking for improvements in the supply chain you need to first of all to know better your suppliers to partner with them and also to co-create solutions for a concrete problem. Our recommendation is don't try to eat all the elephant at the same time try to identify what are the main things that you can collaborate. With this small step ahead you are giving confidence also to the teams, to sustainability teams in your supplier in order to introduce new improvements that give you the opportunity to contribute to your carbon footprint. But the secret of this collaboration is fast and long-term. You need to be committed together that you are in the same boat in order to transform your business in order to make it zero carbon in the near future. What are your reflections on the most important outcomes of COP26? I was attending probably more than a half of the COPs during the last 20 years and believe me every single COP was a failure because the speculations at the beginning were very high but I think that we will remember this COP as a success. Why? I think I am so optimistic about this. We finally decided to go to a very demanding target that is 1.5 degrees and this is very relevant to have the consensus that the 1.5 degrees is the threshold that we need to have. The second is because the article 6 and the articulation of the market will provide us a more secure framework in order to finance the transformation. Probably we are only seeing the papers and behind these papers are a lot of good ideas, a lot of instruments that we can implement in order to introduce a carbon pricing or a global market of carbon. And the third that is also important is about the adaptation piece of work. Adaptation was a missing part during the last COP and now to make it happen to make it present into the text give the opportunity to focus on the most close problem that we have that is the climate is changing but it will not change in 10 years or 20 years, it is changing today and there are a lot of communities affected by the climate adaptation. And these three things that could be useful to have in mind in the future and we will remember COP26 as a landmark in this transformation. Probably I am frustrated like most of you about the results, we will need to go further but step by step we are gaining momentum and I think that this momentum is more stronger than in the past and this is a good idea. One of the key points that the European Union needs to now deliver is their Fit for 55 package of legislation that is really one of the critical elements towards delivering on emissions reductions in the EU and the overall contribution to the Paris agreement. Can you tell us a bit about your priorities for this package, what are your views on what the EU is doing at the moment? 555 is a extraordinary step ahead in terms of climate policies to reflect the real momentum that we are living. But to take into account that this is a decision for the EU to become a real climate solvers in this environment and this is very relevant because Europe has decided to become a champion in climate and it is an opportunity to industrialize our sectors with this climate positive of net zero solutions for 555 is provoking through the I think that it is the great instrument it's a great instrument with incredible funding behind that it is the next generation. If we combine the real purpose of the regulation across the energy sector about how we are implementing the power of the tax and how we are implementing other instruments across the Europe in terms of financing this green transformation with the capabilities or the power of this huge amount of money that the next generation is fueling this change I think that this is a great opportunity for Europe and also for the world to become a real climate solver in this month.


The streets, residential areas and roads of Chennai are flooded repeatedly even for moderate rainfall. In November this year, the city witnessed severe water inundation, thrice during the northeast monsoon. The stagnation continued for days even after the rain stopped. The inundation sparked off a debate on who is responsible for the current situation as well. A news click spoke to former professor of Madras Institute of Development Studies S. Janagarajan regarding this. Actually speaking I would not call it a flood. This is not a flood actually. Because what you see today in 2021 in Chennai is more water inundation and that is also more localized. So wherever you see a low laying area you find this kind of water inundation and there are lots of issues and the problems and factors which can be attributed to this kind of water inundation. So basically I would not call it a flood. This is not a flood. I mean this kind of rainfall I mean is a manageable rainfall. Something like a 250 millimeters of rainfall in 24 hours is manageable if your drainage system is in good order. But it only reflects that our drainage system and whatever you know macro drains that you have, river systems that you have and the stormwater drains that you have they are in good shape. I think this sort of rainfall should have been taken care of.  One of the main reasons why city today is experiencing this kind of water inundation and people are in total I mean misery. Particularly if you go to the North Madras, if you look at in particular the popular people who live in slums, they are in an extremely pathetic condition in a very, very bad shape and they are not able to come out of their homes, their streets are flooded and not able to commute and even you know hop on to the transport and look for a transport or hop on to the bus, come in many issues and concerns and I think this is going to become more significant to come. Mainly because the population density in the city, Chennai city is increasing year by year. If you look at the data for the past 15-20 years you would see how rapidly the population density in Chennai has gone up. For instance in 2011, as per the 2011 census 26,000 people lived in Chennai per square kilometre. Now we are in 2021 in the last 10 years, I am sure the population density would have gone up tremendously. It may be now something like 33,000 or 34,000 per square kilometre which only means that the urban space, the available urban spaces shrunk tremendously which means that more people living in the same area and density has gone up which means the urban space has come down. That is really resulting in lack of space, lack of drainage space for draining water. It also means that the per capita drainage space in Chennai city is coming down rapidly. You have to have certain level of drainage space in any city. If there is no space for drainage of water, naturally the water will get inundated because you got homes, you got the compound walls, you are obstructed all waterways and water flows and streams. Naturally it gets obstructed and you will see all the major drains in the city have been obstructed, disconnected and are in a pathetic condition or clogged heavily. So water doesn't flow. This is the case of all these. There are 16 major drains in the city. All these 16 major drains and something like 30 to 35 micro drains, all of them are in a bad shape or disconnected completely and water doesn't flow. That's the reason. This is more sort of unscientific land use policy, unscientific urban land use policy, unscientific urban expansion policy, unscientific urban development policy, unscientific or unregulated urban development policy. You have to be more scientific. For instance, when you expand the city, it used to be something like 174 square kilometers, that was Chennai city. Today it is 26 square kilometers and it is going to go up in the years to come and again Chennai metropolitan area today is 1,190 square kilometers. It is going to be extended to 8,800 square kilometers. So when you expand the city or when you expand the metropolitan area, you have to adapt certain standards. The issue is one of what are the principles of your master plans? What are the bottom line principles that you are adopting for urban expansion or the city development? So this is unclear to me. All that you are now interested in is build up your residential area, build up your market commercial area, build up your industrial area, acquire land for construction of roads and for transportation and acquire land for the institutions for building government buildings and so on and so forth. But have you ever thought of acquiring land or reserving land for ecosystem use for protective environment? That is something unfortunate that we did not do. Only if you follow this principle of yes, you also need land for ecosystem needs. You also need land for environmental, protecting environmental conditions and for environmental needs. And you also have to have a policy of protecting for instance, you know, the water bodies. And if you don't have that, and unfortunately in the absence of all these, you are going to suffer. That's what exactly has happened in the past several decades. Now, at least now I am asking a question. Have you learned any lesson from the past mistakes, past blunders of master plan one and master plan two? Master plan is going to end up in the 2024. But what have we done so far? What are the blunders that we committed? Have you learned any lessons so that you can correct yourself in master plan three? So this is very fundamental. If you do not really look back, if you don't have a rethink on your master plans and Andrew's policy, you are bound to suffer. People will definitely get into difficulties. People will definitely suffer in the city of Chennai.


Second, liberalism, because that's what we're discussing. It's one thing to talk about the ideas. For example, for me, the central idea of liberalism is the dignity of the person. Irrespective of race, it's quite another how liberalism is applied in specific cases. I mean, and you can see in the discussion, that for example, for Belarusia, it's a different problem than what Mary said about how the whites, for example, special districts are not, sorry, the Democrats are not actually how the Republicans draw the lines are not prepared to vote. So every country has a different thing. If we're going to generalize, what's the problem with democracy per se? I mean, we see in China, for example, because you actually combine capitalism with liberalism, but China has capitalism with communism. So we used to think that all the evils had to do with the combination of liberalism and capitalism, but it's not because in China you have communism. China is a good example because this is the myth and the delusion of this whole discussion, right? Is the idea that what it is that demarcates the West is democracy and this progressive democracy, et cetera, et cetera, here all the time, economic, et cetera. That is not what demarcates the West. It's empire, it's slavery, it's colonialism, it's brutality, it's the fact that the British empire was 25% of the world's population and did they have democracy? Of course they didn't have democracy. We weren't even fully human beings at this point, right? So if you're going to explain why we have the West, democracy is not the explanation, right? It is not at all. It's actually totalitarianism across the world pretending to be democratic at home. And if you take China, for example, a country which has pulled itself out of poverty, right? And I'm a big critic of China, believe me, I'm not a fan of China, but if you actually look at China's development, it's very similar to the West, totalitarian, exploitation of people. It is a democracy. The idea that democracy is progress is complete nonsense. Our economic progress, this depends on totalitarianism, depends on exploitation. The Chinese regime, you would compare the Chinese regime. It's even, since we have, I represent for the British parliament here. Do you think? So do you compare China, for example, we say that China and Britain are the same and people enjoy the same liberties or none? I mean, No, but the question, and this is the question is, how do you, all this, we talk about the wonderful liberal democracy, the wealth that allows you to have social democracy in the West is based off racism, slavery, and colonialism. Last year, nine million people died from hunger. A child dies every 10 seconds as they haven't got access to food and water. They are all black and brown. That's today, not 100 years ago, today. So all this wonderful democracy we love to talk about is predicated on that. How about a person like, let's say, when Stalin exterminated 55 million Soviet citizens or Mao exterminated 55 million Chinese? That's not a Western race, that's power. No, the reality is we're talking about capitalism and we're talking about liberal democracy and the power to have a liberal democracy comes from the capitalist exploitation which is racist around the world today as it ever did. So when you have people, and I actually agree, I agree 100% agree on this, just the expectation, if you go to the British public and say, well, look, if everybody can vote, this is gonna be great. Of course it's not gonna be great because the British public understand. We have a country which is saying, look, we want to go back to empire. We liked empire. Empire was good for us. Racism is wonderful. We don't want immigrants. Why on earth would you think that getting everybody to vote is gonna be the solution? Because democracy is not the solution. It isn't, isn't. It's not a vote, it's not a vote. I think we're moving to a state where the ultimate question would be, comparatively speaking, where would you rather live? I think that's really what we're getting down to. It's a very important round.