As Nigerians join her counterpart across the globe to celebrate Children's Day, the President Elaine Bonattinibou has been advised to prioritize child matters and initiate policies that would better the life of children. This call was made known by a group-treasured point of light at the 2023 Children's Day celebration organized for indigent children in Abilkutahilgun state capital. Speaking to Newsman, the convener said it was important for children dumb inside in rural urban areas of Abilkutahilgun to experience this year's Children's Day in a unique style. Speaking of what informed the celebration, the convener said it was imperative for indigent children to feel loved despite their status and environment. She added that the children can become better if governments prioritize their well-being. To identify the treasure in every child and remember that every child is also important and it's a day to celebrate children. We have our children, you know, at amusement parks, atres and nobobies. We still have some that are very important in this part of the community and we call the rural urban places. So we're bringing the funds to them in their community since they don't have the advantage of going out, you know, to be a part of the roller coaster rides and those. We are bringing the fund right to them in the community. We have so many things that are child-based for the new government coming in. We want you to prioritize child matters like they do in so very many other countries. We have policies that don't favor children. We would like to see a change in that direction. There are many policies that cases of rape, sexual abuse and all of that. I don't favor children and we want this new government to do better. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Okay, so I'm late getting my new video up because my wife and I went on vacation last week. We went to Dallas, Texas to attend the Con of Thrones because we're both huge fans of the books, had a great time, was awesome, but now I'm back and ready to start making videos again. I'm working my way through to finishing my video on the importance of difficulty and game design, and I'm tinkering with my Dead Space 2 analysis. I'm also going to do a quick video on the Dark Souls remaster, and I'm playing Borderlands 2 again. But today, I wanted to get a super fast reaction video about the Destiny 2 September expansion reveal. There's a few key things I want to talk about, so let's just hop right to it. So as any viewer will know, I'm a cranky guy, and in general, I'm impervious to hype. But the intro commercial to this was really cool. A crisis bow and arrow will be coming. A new weapon slot system. Random rolls, armor perks, collections, bounties, finally a warcraft-like end game zone, which the game desperately needed.  So there's an awful lot of promising things in there. Like a lot, legitimately a lot of cool things. However, the further I got away from that initial 3 minutes, the less comfortable I got.  No more of the that's kinda super secret, but we'll have this conversation as time goes on. They really needed to come and explain things here, so in that vein, let's get to some of the things that still concern me after the reveal. First of all, this DLC does not contain a new enemy race. And while it has new supers that look really cool, it does not contain a new class. Which means that we will almost certainly go through 5 years of Destiny with no new races and no new classes. I want people to try and imagine Warcraft going 5 years without a single new enemy or class for the player to use. Imagine Borderlands launching a sequel without any new classes to play. This is completely unacceptable. Bungie really needs to stop with the reskinning of enemies. They desperately needed to pull people from Destiny 3 to make certain this expansion knocks it out of the park. And while many of these changes, including finally a PvE and PvE blended mode, seem really cool, I don't think it's too much to have hoped for for an actual new enemy race. I admit that it remains possible that these new enemy reskins can be different enough in behavior to finally add some spice back to the combat, but even so, a reskin is highly disappointing. We'll have to wait and see on this, but all we can go on is history and Bungie's history on reskinning doesn't inspire too much confidence. The Taken were just different enough to not be completely boring, but it was still pretty damn disappointing. I know I shouldn't be amazed at Bungie's reuse of assets anymore, but I really was expecting an entirely new enemy race. Again, we'll have to see how these enemies play out, but as of now, this is pretty underwhelming. On that disappointing note, I don't understand Bungie's refusal to simply explain what they're doing. I don't understand why this stream wasn't the time to really dig into the changes to the weapon system and explain it to us. Let's start with the big one, okay? We're going back to random roles, so I guess the answer to this is you didn't. There was no answer to that, as anyone could have easily foreseen. You know how I know that? Because no other loot-based game has static roles on gear. And you know why that is? Because it simply can't work. It was crazy to think that this would work at all. I can't imagine the conversations that led to this change. So while I still embaffled at why they did this in the first place, this is unequivocally a good change. But it's also a change that we already knew was coming, because there was simply no other option. Still, they needed to go into more detail about this before they had the gall to try and sell me a season pass. A quite expensive season pass, by the way. For instance, if we're going back to random roles on guns as they are now, don't even bother. We need to go back to the old system, meaning bringing back all of the old perks and having more, better perks on the weapons. If we're going to get the random roles back, but it's only these tiny, insignificant perks, that won't bring enough back to the game. So random roles are coming back, but we still don't know if that will be the pretty good system of the first game, or what the first game actually needed, which was even more wild perks and combinations, or if we're just taking the existing perks and mods and making them random.  I don't know, because they didn't tell me. Moving on, armor perks are coming back.  I have no way of knowing, because they didn't tell me. Okay, the weapon slot changes seems intriguing. The idea of being able to equip any three weapons you want seems like exactly what the game needs, which is vastly more variety and build diversity. However, if we're keeping the same ammo types, then I'm actually kind of skeptical. If my fusion rifle is still classified as a power weapon, that means an ammo will still be scarce, meaning I can't use it as often as I did in Destiny 1, meaning the combat variety that was Destiny 1's bread and butter will still be lacking. So while this initially seems really great, the truth is we have no idea if this will really change things until we understand how the ammo economy will work. So I just don't know how it will impact the game, because they didn't tell me. Especially if fusion snipers and shotguns remain classified as a heavy weapon. In many ways, I just wish they had simply reverted to the old system because that system worked. People complained that too much special ammo was in the crucible, but they didn't want this system. So while my initial reaction was positive during the video, the more I think on this, the less certain I am. And again, we have to remember that as much as we want to believe, they'll get this right. This is still the same company that made and sold Destiny 2. It's the same company that just made Hive Escalation Protocol and implemented it disastrously badly. Bungie has tons of good ideas that they mangle when they implement. So I really actually can't be excited for this change. If they'd said, hey, we're going back to the old system, period. I'd have been excited for that change. Or if they'd said, hey, we're going to four slots, we're moving special weapons back to their own slot, I could have gotten excited for that too. But this change has too many ways it can go wrong for me to be completely comfortable. It could be amazing and just what the game needs, or it could be shit and completely not viable to run a sniper in a rocket launcher. They really needed to explain this, but they can't get away from their default position of being as vague as possible.    So who knows? Could be great, could be terrible. I don't know because they didn't tell me. Moving on.  The area is new and looks really, really good. The end game raid area is extremely intriguing. They basically said that the raid and end game will have an actual story and tie into the campaign. Crazy, right? Isn't that amazing?   So going back to the way everyone else in the world, including Destiny 1 does it, is hugely appreciated. I'm also highly pleased that they're deciding to tell a grittier, less funny story this time. That's another change that was disastrous for the game. Deciding they were going to be Borderlands, but without any of the grim violence, a Borderlands made by Disney, that was a terrible idea. The tone of the game shifted dramatically in Destiny 2 and it was a narrative disaster. So that's another thing that's good to hear. We can't get too excited because Destiny is the worst storytelling I've ever seen in a game and even at their very best in The Taken King, it topped out at competent in the actual game.  So fingers crossed, I guess. At least they listened to feedback and are moving to a grittier story. Your game is set in a post-apocalyptic universe where almost all of humanity is dead and the tiny remnant is protected by space zombies raised from the dead by an unknowable and mysterious force. That's not the setting of a comedy, Bungie. Alright, let's move on to the final, hugely important thing I wanted to talk about about the stream here. In my last video, I finished up with a section called, It's Time for a New Model. In that section, I talked about how Destiny's monetization model is an unsatisfying mess. For Destiny 2 Season Pass, I got two quote-unquote expansions that barely qualify for that word. No new enemies, really no new weapons or armor. The vast majority of the content was reskins or reused assets. With tiny little stories that had almost no time to actually be interesting, these DLCs provided dismal value to the customer. In that video, I argued that Destiny needed to move away from the two tiny, useless DLCs and move to one large DLC a year. This is the part where I remind everyone, by the way, that Year 2 of Destiny 1 featured no extra DLC to buy. In fact, the ever-versed microtransaction store was supposedly implemented in order to fund continuing live events in the game. These ranged from the crappy seasonal events that were ultimately nothing, to the April update that was actually quite good. Everyone knew that Destiny 2 couldn't follow the same content drought model as the first game. The time from Taking King to Rise of Iron was long and boring, and Bungie needed to figure out a way to do better this time around. With a suddenly, right-in-your-face microtransaction store, one could be forgiven for assuming that the suddenly much more robust microtransactions would be sufficient enough to fund content updates to keep people happy. Kinda like how a game like Warframe manages to do just that. Or Fortnite. Or whatever, you know what I mean. Well, Bungie is in fact changing the model for Year 2 of Destiny 2. But instead of no DLCs like Year 2 of Destiny 1 or two DLCs with terrible value like Destiny 2, Year 1, Bungie is going all in by forcing you to buy the entire package as an annual pass. In the stream, Bungie's PR voice gave a very brief explanation of what we can expect. Notably, far less in the way of cinematic story. Now, one could argue that for 35 bucks, players are entitled to a bit of story, but to be honest, I am fine with this. Why? Because it is now beyond doubt that Bungie is simply incapable of producing a quality story. The cinematics range from fine to cringe-inducing and if Bungie wants to take all of those resources and move them over to missions and strikes in gameplay, yeah, that is a huge improvement. There's no law that an expansion has to be heavily narratively focused.  So on that front, this is a positive change in the model. However, if Bungie is going to move from two $20 DLCs that players can choose to buy a la carte based upon reviews to one large fee that players have to pay up front and hope they get value, they need to really provide value. And at the same time, I would hope to see a corresponding de-emphasis on the ever-estore.  Destiny 2 features a season pass and a shitload of microtransactions. And now Destiny 2 Year 2 is going to have one expensive all-or-nothing season pass. So they better not sell players a season pass that has to be bought as one item and then lock a huge amount of the content delivered during that pass behind a paywall. It's shitty. And it makes me, and people like me, sick.  So, I'm skeptical and annoyed about this. And I find the move to one price for the year to be fairly sleazy. I expect this expansion in September to be quite good. And right afterwards, while feelings are high, I expect many players will buy the annual pass. And as opposed to Year 1, where players could realize they were robbed for Curse of Osiris and then refused to buy Warmind, this time, Bungie will have all of the money up front and therefore much less pressure to actually produce quality content for the price. Imagine Bungie unshackled from financial pressure.  Even when they knew people were pissed about the base game and Curse of Osiris. What will the next one look like when they already have the money and see everyone happy about the expansion? Okay, so that's about it for now, man. Sorry if it rambled, I just went off the cuff on this one. Once again, Bungie managed to have a huge event without telling players any of the details that are necessary to form an opinion about these changes. Does it all look very promising? Yeah, sure, it actually does. But step back for a minute and remember the history here. Hive escalation protocol looked very promising. The story in Curse of Osiris looked really actually very promising. Heroic strike modifiers returning looked very promising. Getting a DLC about Zoll and Rasputin was about as promising as can be imagined. And how do those things turn out? Very often, Bungie understands the problems and instead of giving players exactly what they asked for, they try to get cute and decide that they know better. Players wanted Destiny 1 Heroic Strike modifiers back. Period.  Players begged for a horde mode. Instead, Bungie delivered a pseudo horde mode that has already basically run its course. Bungie has a history of thinking far too highly of itself. Of refusing to do what players want and what other games have already shown works. I say it every time, I know, but matchmaking, instead of the somehow still eight months long beta that is the failed guided games. Bungie has a long history now of failing at implementing good ideas. Because instead of just delivering those good ideas, they think they need to make Rube Goldberg contraptions to implement these ideas. So yeah, it does, it looks promising. And I wish that this hour had told me enough to be truly confident about anything. But in many ways, it was just classic Bungie being Bungie. Telling us just enough so that we can imagine how well it might work, but not enough to actually leave us knowing that it will work. And ultimately, that means it's still the same old Bungie. I want to be pleased. I desperately want to love the game, Bungie. But once again, all we can do is wait and hope. All right, bye, I'll see you soon. Thanks.


An atomic energy power plant has already proved feasible. The future supplying of electric power to entire cities is far from impossible. America once embraced nuclear power. Industrialists, politicians, and intellectuals hailed the technologies the future of energy in the 1950s. In the new world of the atomic age. In 1953, President Eisenhower delivered his famous Atoms for Peace speech, calling for nuclear power to become a global priority. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace. As of mid-1961, approximately half a million homes were receiving power produced by nuclear reactors. A million more homes will be using such power by 1964. Between 1967 and 1972, 48 U.S. nuclear plants went from breaking ground to producing power at a fraction of what it would cost to do so today. Then in March of 1979, there was a meltdown at Pennsylvania's three-mile island nuclear power plant. It was the first step in a nuclear nightmare. It was four o'clock in the morning. There was a mechanical failure, then a human failure. Throughout the day chaos and confusion reigned as monitors tried to determine exactly how much radiation was released. Questions clouded the atmosphere like atomic particles. There were no casualties and there was no lingering environmental damage, but the incidents spooked the nation. From a publicity standpoint, the timing was disastrous. Three-mile island occurred while the China Syndrome, a fictional account of safety cover-ups at a nuclear plant, was still in theaters featuring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemon and Michael Douglas. It will start with a tremor in a nuclear power plant where it will end. It will depend on three people. The closer they get, the more threatening it becomes. After three-mile island, what was considered to be the best interest of the public was just reducing risk as low as possible. And all of it resulted in a huge volume of regulations that anybody that wanted to build a new reactor had to know. It made the learning curve much steeper to even attempt to innovate. Adam Stein is the director of the Nuclear Energy Innovation Program at the Breakthrough Institute. The number one lesson of the Three-mile Island incident was that we needed to revise emergency preparedness regulations, which did happen and it was appropriate to do so. The biggest problem with what happened at Three-mile Island was they didn't know what to do in the event of an incident. We still are working in that area, but at that time we just weren't prepared. The second result was you had a full meltdown of a reactor and there was no severe impacts to the public. Even though nobody was killed by Three-mile Island's meltdown, the pace of nuclear reactor construction tapered off, including a 20-year spell in which no new nuclear reactors were built. My view is that these supposedly environmentalist groups formed in the 1970s that are not primarily pro-environment, they're really primarily anti-nuclear. The writer Eric Dawson is the co-founder of Nuclear New York, a group fighting to protect the industry on the grounds that nuclear is, quote, the most scalable, reliable, efficient land-conserving, material-sparing, zero-emission source of energy ever created. He says the Three-mile Island empowered the anti-nuclear movement. That same year, about 200,000 anti-nuclear activists crowded into New York City's Battery Park City, capping off a week-long concert featuring Pete Seeger, Jackson Brown, and Bonnie Rait, which raised awareness and funding for the anti-nuclear movement. Stopping atomic energy is practicing patriotism, Ralph Nader told the crowd. Stopping atomic energy is fighting cancer. Stopping atomic energy is fighting inflation. They are a generation that was radicalized from the Vietnam War. They became anti-war. They then became anti-nuclear weapons, and then they conflated nuclear weapons with nuclear energy, and they made it their mission to shut down nuclear energy. An anti-nuclear power protest in New Hampshire a year ago. Similar demonstrations at other nuclear sites are planned this spring, and the emotional battle over nuclear energy goes on. And they succeeded in that mission. Environmentalists, in effect, may have crippled the only truly viable form of clean energy. The federal government makes permitting arduous. Many states severely restrict new plant construction and force operational ones to shut down prematurely. A striking recent example was the shutdown of Indian Point Energy Center, New York State's largest nuclear plant. I think it is insane, and this is a quote, I think it is insane to have a three-unit reactor on the banks of the Hudson, 20 miles from the Bronx and 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan. Anti-nuclear activists had targeted the plant for decades. In 2007, they found a powerful ally in state attorney general and future governor, Andrew Cuomo. I understand the power and the benefit. I also understand the risk, and this plant in this proximity to New York City was never a good risk. Of course it's true that nuclear energy carries risk. So does every form of power generation. If you look at energy sources, there's nothing that's perfect. There is no utopia. Basically, we have a choice. Everything is compared to something else. Decades of political attacks on the nuclear industry have caused the United States to rely more on burning fossil fuels, which bring another set of risks. Nuclear would eliminate the majority of pollution-related fatalities in the US, which is thousands a year, because most of those come from coal-fired power plants currently. So you would be able to eliminate the largest health impact from pollution to the American public. In his campaign against Indian Point, which provided a quarter of downstate New York's electricity, Cuomo dangled the promise of a different sort of clean energy before New Yorkers. A true transformation to a green economy must create a complete green energy system to replace the old carbon-based supply. There is a gulf between intentions and results. The effect has been to increase New York's carbon emissions. Renewable energy like wind and solar couldn't fill the gap, despite decades of promises that they would replace nuclear power plants from Ralph Nader in the 70s. Solar energy is here. It can be here in a big way if we as consumers demand it through a national political force. And part of that demand involves the abolition of nuclear power once and for all. To green New Deal advocates Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who each backed Cuomo's moves against Indian Point. We have nuclear facilities now that I'm frankly very concerned about, like Indian Point that should have been shut down a long time ago. The environmentalist pitch wasn't ever to go back to fossil fuels. And what we don't want is Governor Cuomo to shut down Indian Point and replace it with hydro-fract energy. But that's exactly what happens. When Indian Point shut down, state utilities made up for the loss by burning more natural gas. The closing of Indian Point's two reactors coincided with a 9% increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in New York. The state's energy prices also increased over the same period. This outcome isn't unique to New York. Germany's Greens pressured the government to close its nuclear plants, betting on wind. Electricity from windmills increased, but so did the country's reliance on coal. Germany emitted almost eight times the carbon per kilowatt hour in 2023, as did neighboring France, which still gets the majority of its electricity from nuclear and less than 1% from coal. The problem is wind and solar aren't reliable power sources because they depend on intermittent weather. Batteries can provide stored energy, but it's too expensive to manufacture enough batteries to meet the energy needs of New York's grid when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. Nuclear plants also require a lot less land than renewables, about 1% of what solar farms need and 0.3% of what wind farms require to yield the same amount of energy. Consistent low-cost, low environmental impact electricity with a very large potential fuel source. It's really just as close to a modern miracle as we have. There is still a kind of irrational fear of technology, especially on the far left, where a lot of the same groups that are opposed to fossil fuels are opposed to zero-emission nuclear. For some, more natural gas for New York appears to have been the goal all along. Court documents show that the Cuomo administration knew that natural gas would benefit from Indian Point's closure. And Cuomo's former aide and campaign manager, Joseph Prococo, was convicted of corruption for taking bribes from a natural gas company to hasten the plant's closure, though the Supreme Court later overturned the conviction because he didn't work for Cuomo at the time. It's okay to open up two new gas-fired plants that spew emissions, but it was okay to shut down a nuclear power plant with zero carbon emissions. That's hypocrisy to me. Theresa Nickerbocker is the mayor of the small town of Buchanan, which had been home to the Indian Point Energy Center for nearly half a century. Six units to be built between 1957 and 1975. A lot of pictures of when the plant was being built. She tried to negotiate with the state and spoke at rallies to save Indian Point. So you're going to see here today there's a thousand helmets, yellow helmets, and that represents the loss of 1,000 jobs. After surviving decades of attempts to shut it down, the plant finally switched off on April 30th, 2021. That was really sad. I did an event that day. It's sad. I still think back and I'm sorry. I get emotional. I think there were two major events that happened here in the village of Buchanan. When Con Edison came here and built the nuclear power plant, we ended up getting a lot of our infrastructure. We have our own sewer treatment plant, so it was a good time for the village. It was a historical time. What do you think about that? You did? Yeah. What did you do there? I was up in the administrative department with the big boys. What did you think about it closing? Sad. Very sad. So is the energy. That was the end of an era for us. Indian Point Energy Center's containment domes still loom over the Hudson and could remain untouched for decades. New York has paused the process of decommissioning, dismantling the structures and disposing of the radioactive byproducts they contain. With the mission of cleaning up the Hudson, the non-profit riverkeeper was instrumental in the shutdown of Indian Point, setting concerns ranging from the plant's water cooling system killing more than a billion fish eggs in larvae a year. An estimate a federal study says could be as much as 1,000 times too high to the possibility of an accidental meltdown or terrorist attack. Riverkeeper was formed in New York in the late 60s. It gained steam partially from hiring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as their chief prosecutor and attorney in the 1980s who was actually later Andrew Cuomo's brother-in-law. Riverkeeper, whose representatives declined to speak with reason, played a major role in stopping the decommissioning of Indian Point. The organization holds a seat on the state's decommissioning board and worked closely with lawmakers who halted the process. When nuclear fuel is spent, it gets placed in pools of water to cool it down. That wastewater is then treated to remove toxic levels of radiation. At Indian Point, it was then released into the Hudson. The process was heavily monitored by federal agencies and it's what Riverkeeper has successfully lobbied the state to halt. EPA even has documentation of what was discharged and what the levels were compared to drinking water and way below the stand, way, way, way, way. People ask, would you drink that water? Well, the water goes into a discharge canal. It's diluted and it's been done for 60 years. Would you drink that water? You know what, in the Hudson River, I wouldn't drink the water in the Hudson River because of the PCBs that came from GE. That's even a bigger concern. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that the amount of radiation in the water is about one-two-hundredth the federal safety limit and there was no evidence of an occupational or public health threat. It is based on politics and fear-mongering and a lack of understanding. People hear radiation. They get confused with radioactive contamination. They get confused with other items and they have a fear and that's what this was all based on. Indian Point's vice president, Frank Spagnolo, says New York has delayed decommissioning by at least eight years. Everything was based on twelve to fifteen years and there was no thought that we would not be able to release liquid waste as we had for the past fifty years. We're kind of stuck in this position. Spagnolo previously worked for Entergy, the company that operated the nuclear power plant starting in 2000. He says that Indian Point could have safely continued providing clean energy for decades. To be honest with you, up until the day before I didn't believe we were going to go into decommissioning, the maintenance that we did, the inspections that we did, all validated that the plant was able to run another twenty years and we were in the middle of relicensing for years. But it was held up by politics. As we're cutting this place up, the four inch thick carbon steel steam generators are in perfect condition. The four inch thick RCS reactor cooling system piping is in perfect condition. Clean on the inside, clean on the outside with no degradation. So, yes, it was premature. We could have ran another twenty years or maybe another twenty after it. Holtec, the company that took over Indian Point, has no alternative plan for disposing of the wastewater. So, they're waiting, as is the town of Buchanan. You're talking 240 acres, beautiful prime property on the Hudson River. It was not fair what happened to this community and now the lack of support. Even after the wastewater is disposed of, the property won't be usable with dry spent fuel on site. Nicarbaca blames the federal government for failing to remove it. The government claimed responsibility for all nuclear waste disposal in the 1980s and has failed to come up with a viable alternative since the collapse of plans to build the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada. The nuclear power plants every few years will sue the Department of Energy for their expenses of keeping that on the property. So, we need to figure out what to do with this. Otherwise, I really feel that that's going to sit there for many, many more years. Probably I'll be long gone and it'll still be sitting there. It wasn't the nuclear industry's problem. It's the federal government's problem for not dealing with it and just kind of like putting their head in the sand. Does the fact that the presence of the waste makes the land unusable and nobody really wants to take it make a case against nuclear energy? I think if the Department of Energy had complied by their agreements, I think if our country had done what other countries, for example France did, to reuse that, I don't think we would have a stockpile of this around the country. France recycles about 96% of its nuclear waste and has plans to bury the rest. Increasingly stringent regulation forced the only three reprocessing plants in the U.S. capable of recycling nuclear waste to close in the 1970s. How much nuclear waste are we talking about? All that's ever been produced in the U.S. would fit on one football field if stacked about 15 feet high. Finland created a bunker, 1,500 feet underneath an island to bury its spent fuel. The International Atomic Energy Agency called this approach a game changer for nuclear power. And the U.S. could do the same if not for political opposition. The economics of nuclear power remain challenging, but its advocates say that's primarily because of the thorny politics of nuclear power. There's nothing technologically that makes it not profitable. It's because of political will. So if you increase protests and increase class action lawsuits and increase regulation at the NRC and at local level, this increases the cost ultimately to building more power plants and keeping them online. The saga of a new power plant in Georgia underscores how hard it is to build out nuclear capacity in 21st century America. This nuclear reactor is part of Plant Vogel near Wainsboro as it was being loaded with fuel in October 2022. It's the first U.S. reactor built from scratch since 1974. And the process was a nightmare. It took almost 17 years from when the first permit was filed, cost more than $28 billion and bankrupted the developer in the process. Those construction costs could be as much as 12 times higher than a natural gas plant producing the same amount of energy. Way over budget and way over time and their costs are much higher than anticipated. If you look beyond those projects which were challenged in many ways not just being a first-of-kind but other challenges along the way such as financing, bankruptcies and a pandemic and look to the newer designs that are being worked on right now those costs are expected to be although haven't been built and proven to be much lower. What if these big, expensive, complex projects could be made more simple and smaller? That's the promise of the next-generation nuclear technology known as small modular reactors. They're intended to be less complex than large plants which have to have many redundant backup systems several coolant loops so you get system simplicity less moving parts but they have to be smaller in order to achieve that. The federal government issued its first-ever approval for a small modular reactor in January 2023 and the Biden administration spent $200 million on the project but the company that created it Newscale canceled its first-ever planned use less than 10 months later because the projected electricity costs were still too high. Why should we have energy subsidies at all? Why should we have federal loan guarantees to nuclear energy? Why shouldn't nuclear just have to compete in a marketplace? In market terms you still need a little bit of a jolt to get some industries moving. Federal funding has always been the way to improve the lives of society fastest through R&D by funding things that never would have been viable in the market, raw science. Ideally, no energy source should receive any subsidies. Unfortunately, the grim reality is that all energy sources receive subsidies and all energy sources are heavily regulated at every level. Renewables like wind and solar still receive the vast majority of federal subsidies. A government report found that nuclear energy received almost $3 billion in federal dollars between 2016 and 2022. Renewables got almost $84 billion and yet they still barely outpaced nuclear and total electricity generation despite decades of plant closures and failure to increase capacity. I think that correcting that imbalance is the best step that we can do going forward. So if there is a public push to subsidize zero-emission energy well we should subsidize just that zero-emission energy that's technology neutral. Other companies are advancing nuclear projects like molten salt cooled reactors which reduce meltdown and explosion risks. Holtec, the company in charge of decommissioning Indian Point is developing one that it hopes to install in a decommissioned nuclear plant in Michigan. It's already trying to make history as no nuclear plant has ever reopened after having its fuel removed. That's another upside of small reactors they can be plopped right into old nuclear coal and gas plants. So if you can replace what's being retired at the same time makes grid planning much easier. My research looked out farther than 10 years and the farther you look the more uncertain you become. But in about 10 years we expected to see a doubling of nuclear energy in the U.S. The Biden administration is also bullish on nuclear power. A 2023 debarpment of energy report projects as much as a tripling of nuclear energy in America by 2050. Stein thinks that this political atmosphere has created enough pressure in Washington to reform some of the regulations stifling the industry. Many Republicans have supported nuclear energy for a long time. Recently many Democrats have seen nuclear energy as an important or necessary component of new electricity generation in conjunction with renewables and other options. So at the moment is a very bipartisan support for nuclear energy. Some former nuclear opponents have become advocates acknowledging it as a vital source of clean energy including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. She supported the Indian point closure, but after visiting Fukushima she acknowledged nuclear's emissions free power, noting that when Fukushima went offline use of coal and other fossil fuels spiked. Greta Thunberg opposed EU plans to categorize nuclear power as clean energy in 2021, but by 2022 acknowledged that it was a bad idea for Germany to shut down its nuclear plants. If we have them already running I feel that it's a mistake to close them down in order to focus on coal. Jane Fonda opposed nuclear power in the 1970s. In 2024 even the China Syndrome Star sees nuclear as a stopgap measure to reducing carbon emissions. Other organizations assist still part of their core mission to oppose nuclear energy ideologically at all costs. But if you look at the science it shows nuclear energy has the least overall environmental impact of any energy source from mining all the way through use and decommissioning. It's hard to reconcile an ideological position against it without at least trying to confront the science. I think that things have to get worse before they get better this is how humans learn but in the long term I'm very bullish on nuclear. In the 21st century economic growth is so dependent on having abundant, reliable, affordable and increasingly zero-emission electricity on a grid. And so when you think about what markets are looking at right now everything is being led by AI, artificial intelligence data centers, blockchain technology like cryptocurrency all of this requires a huge growing amount of electricity and this is along with the push for electric vehicles and electric heating and electric machinery and you go home and you have your electric fridge and your electric stove and your electric TV and you have your electric phone and your electric watch and electric goggles. The question is where are we going to get all of this electricity? With a demand that high I think that it is a good bet that there will be a supply in the long run and the best way to scale up rapidly is through nuclear technology. The long nuclear power winter might finally be coming to an end in America. America deeply desires to join countries all over the globe in adapting the atom to the arts of peace.


Course Reports As a teacher we have access to some very powerful reports telling us what our learners have been doing in the course and when. To access these reports or logs we go down to the administration block and click the link Reports. We can see here logs and live logs, an activity report and a course participation report. You may have others on your Moodle depending on course and admin settings too. But let's just take a basic look at two of them. If we click Logs we can leave it as default which is showing us everything everyone has done or we can specify a particular participant, day, particular activity and type of action. We can also look at different types of logs. Teaching usually relates to what course teachers do that will affect the learning experience of their students. For example, updating a course section or grading an assignment. Participating usually relates to the student's learning experience such as posting to a forum or submitting to an assignment. And other might be updating a calendar or viewing a message, things which do not directly affect learning. So let's select a specific date and create and teaching and then we can see that on that day our teacher Sam set up a forum. Another report that we can see if we go over to the administration block and click Reports again is a course participation report. This is useful for seeing easily who has and has not been taking part in particular course activities. One of the activities we set up if we click the drop down menu was an Introduce Yourself forum and we need each learner to tell us a little bit about themselves. So if we look back one day and choose learner and post, we'll be able to see who's been active in this forum during the last day. And we see that Francis has posted but Mark has only viewed and not made a post. So we could tick the box to select Mark and send him a message as a polite reminder to participate more in the course. Or we can also select a number of learners and message them together.


I'm going to talk about the lessons learned in the design, development and deployment of an electronic medical record, or EMR, for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, or MDITB. So I don't think I need to describe to anybody here what a nightmare MDITB treatment is. It's very long, it's very complex, lots of side effects, plus it doesn't work very well. So with the arrival of two new TB drugs, Della Mignon and Better Quilling, we finally have hope for a better treatment for MDITB. So the MTIB project strives to find a new, shorter, better and less toxic treatment for MDITB. The key to this project is a clinical trial which is ongoing, but it's five years before we get those results. So while we're waiting for that, we're putting patients on treatment now, patients who need the treatment now, and we're collecting data on them, their outcomes, their adverse events, and we're going to analyse all that data to see what is the effectiveness and the safety of these drugs. So it's a complicated disease, it's a complicated treatment, and it's a complicated organisation. So to get enough patients to have meaningful results, we needed to join forces with our colleagues from Partners in Health, from Interactive Research and Development, four sections at MSF, Epistand Access Campaign and others, all funded by UNITAT. And collectively, we decided to design and build a new electronic medical record. So first of all, we needed to design it, so we needed to know what we needed. So we identified some key players and we tried to listen to what everybody needed, and then we tried to describe what we needed. We only wanted everything, we wanted to do clinical management and programmatic management and use it for research. We first got together in June 2015 with a software developer called ThoughtWorks in India, and with some key people, we tried to describe to them what we needed. But meeting once wasn't enough, so we were meeting weekly to try to get them to understand what our needs were. And we had to detail in a document called a metadata exactly what we needed. Every variable, every option, every answer that we wanted to have in this electronic medical record. So in August 2015, we started building. So every week, we would meet virtually with the clinicians, so Boston, Dubai, Paris, Geneva, with ThoughtWorks in India. They would show us what they were developing. We would give feedback. They would update it. They would develop new things, and the next week we'll go on in this cycle. It was really a cycle of them building, releasing and giving feedback. So by April 2016, we were able to pilot the first version in Armenia and Georgia to very well-established programs. Each organization had a team of implementers, and those implementing teams between the organizations discussed a lot together. And the implementers went to the field to put in place the EMR. And then every six weeks, we would update the implemented versions. So they would come with us with a new release. We would test it at headquarter level. We'd give feedback rapidly. They'd adjust the content. Big no, no, don't change the metadata in the middle because everybody hates that. It gets very complicated. They would improve it. They'd be adding features all the time and fixing any bugs. And then we would remotely upgrade the sites that are already implemented with the new version. And this happened every six weeks between April and December 2016. So what did we end up with? We ended up with a platform that multiple users can use in the field. They can use it for patient management. So you have a comprehensive patient summary, which you can see at the bottom there. And you have a monitoring tool, monitor 22 parameters that you can see at the top there. And both of these can be seen on a tablet or a mobile phone. In terms of project monitoring and reporting, there's 28 inbuilt reports that are automatic reports that they can run in the field. And then for pharmacovigilance monitoring, pharmacovigilance is an important part of the project. So serious adverse events are reported within 24 hours from the field to the pharmacovigilance unit in Geneva. And they're entered into their database, a special pharmacovigilance database. In the field, they enter just the initial information, the term, the data onset, and the number given by the PV unit. And then every three months, we import the ultimate causality and outcome data from the PV unit. So that we can be sure that's complete and coherent between the two databases. Every day, there's an automatic export generated, and we've already used those exports for multi-centric analysis that we've already presented in some forms. So by December 2016, all the MSF sites had been implemented, and now currently all the NTB sites are implemented. As I said, we upgrade rapidly to the new version. We just have a new version we're going to upgrade next week. It's available in multiple languages, and there is a hotline and a help desk. Where are we in the cohort? We're about midway. This data is from December 2016, but there's about 1,200 patients included in all the sites. MSF has already reached its targets. Unfortunately, the majority of patients in the world treating with delaminated are treating in MSF projects, but that's not something we should be proud of, something more the rest of the world should be ashamed of. The end user feedback, we try to do a bit of a user questionnaire. We just have feedback from the first two pilot sites, so they're moderately satisfied. But we did identify some training needs and some frustration at field level. It's always difficult to have an EMR that will do patient management, program monitoring, and for research, and usually it's the field level where the frustration appears. What are the key lessons learned? So really need to identify those key stakeholders, listen to everybody who's going to use it, and also identify some focal people who are going to make the decisions during the development and really define the roles of who makes what's decisions. And in MSF, this was very well defined, but in the other organisations it was much less well done. You need to define the scope very early on, otherwise you'll get lost in the sort of wish list things that come along the way and you'll lose sight of the ultimate goal. It's very easy to get distracted and never get to the ultimate goal. Prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. You have to prioritise. You can't do everything at once, it's short. And even if you prioritise and you start doing things, you have to re-prioritise because things always take longer and more complicated than you think. The metadata, I can't emphasise how much time it takes and it has to be done early in the project. So the people who are going to define these things have to be identified and they need to be given the time to do this and to reach a consensus. So this is a really big lesson learned that this takes more time than any other step and it has to be done early because changing it afterwards is annoying. Cons of communication and feedback is essential. You think you understand, I mean I worked out what the user interface was, that was good, but you think you understand each other, but when you see what's been developed you realise there's miscommunication as in everything, as the keynote speaker said. And nothing is impossible. The question isn't, can you do this? The question is how long will it take? How much money will it take? How many people will it take? What risk is there? So it's never impossible to do anything. You just have to decide what you want to do first and decide how much money and time you've got to do it. So where are we now? So we are developing more easy package to implement in non-NTB projects. It's already implemented in Mumbai and will be implemented in Papua New Guinea soon. We're giving ongoing support to the projects and we'll work on some more training. It's an open source platform, so we're hoping other people will use it and adapt it to their needs. Big question about how can this platform communicate with other platforms, such as the hospital one that you'll see in the next presentation. And who decides about that? It's a big problem in MSF. Who decides about these things? And of course, improving its utility is to say it's never ending. You can keep going, you can keep developing features. You can keep improving just when to stop when you run out of money. So thanks very much to all the people who are involved and thank you for listening. Thank you. Another great example of a highly complex multi-centre study, but also a good example of real-world, real-time evaluation. And whilst the project's going on for five years, you're collecting the data now. So that's awesome. And I look forward to hearing more about that. Any points, questions for clarification? One at the back there on the left. Two on the back of the left. I'll ask. Thanks, Cathy. It's fascinating. Who enters the data? Is it the clinician or do you have data entry people in the field that do it? So all the MSF sites have data entry people. So the clinician's feeling of a paper form and then the data is entered into the database. There's 200,000 clinical observations in the database. It's quite a lot. Thanks for more questions. Thanks, Claire, from MSF. I just had a question. For people that are enrolled in the study, obviously they give consent and presumably they're told what happens to their data. But for people outside that are receiving the drugs but aren't in the study, what are the issues around ownership, use, all of that? And to what extent is that sorted? Yeah, excellent question. So this could be a good question because I personally think that this is, the data is analysed as aggregated data and anonymous data. We do nothing to the patient. This isn't a clinical trial. We do nothing to the patient that would be not be done in a programmatic management of India and you're obliged ethically to collect data on what happens to the patients, to record side effects, to know the outcomes, to know that you're running your programs correctly and to know that the patient's being treated correctly. So I think it's non-ethical not to collect the data. So this data is collected for all patients. The only data will be published up on patients that sign the consent form to be in the study. So there are programmatic data on how many patients started treatment, for example. They will be included in that. Good. And just to finish it, so it's highly secure in terms of any data that comes from the field is anonymous data. So we never see anything that's got a name or not showing anything. There's another part of the story of sending samples. That for sure, we would never send samples for patients that didn't consent to do extra testing but this is not part of this.


We're going to do a titration to determine the mass percent of sodium hypochloride in commercial bleach. We're going to prepare a diluted solution of bleach and pipette a 25-milliliter sample of that dilute solution. We're going to react that solution with an excess of potassium iodide. Iodine will be produced, we'll titrate the iodine produced with a standardized solution of sodium thiosulfate. The volume and the molarity of the sodium thiosulfate solution used in the titration will allow you to calculate the moles of thiosulfate used, the moles of iodine produced, and the moles of hypochloride in your dilute bleach solution. This will allow you to calculate the number of grams of sodium hypochloride in the dilute solution and the number of grams of sodium hypochloride in the concentrated solution. You can use that data to calculate the mass percent of sodium hypochloride in the bleach. We're going to pipette 5 milliliters of the commercial bleach solution into a 100-milliliter volumetric flask. We're going to add distilled water and we're going to fill the flask until the bottom of the meniscus reaches the line on the volumetric flask. We will then stop for the flask and mix the solution so that it is homogeneous. We're going to pipette 25 milliliters of our diluted bleach solution into a 250-milliliter early Meyer flask. We're going to add a small amount of water, roughly about 20 milliliters of water to the flask to give us a little bit of additional volume. We're going to add 2 milliliters of 3-mower HCl to our reaction mixture. We're there going to add 2 grams of solid potassium iodide to the reaction mixture. The solution will turn a reddish-orange color due to the formation of iodine. The hypochloride in the bleach oxidizes I- to I2. We're going to titrate the iodine produced with a standardized solution of sodium thiosulfate. The sodium thiosulfate will reduce the iodine back to iodide. We'll take an initial burette reading. We'll slowly add the thiosulfate solution until the reaction mixture is a real pale yellow color. We should rinse down the walls of the flask periodically to make sure that everything has a chance to react. We're going to titrate to a very light yellow color and then we're going to add several drops of starch indicator solution. The solution will turn blue due to the formation of a complex between the iodine and the starch. We will continue the titration until the blue color disappears. We're going to take a final burette reading and determine the total number of milliliters of sodium thiosulfate solution added to the reaction mixture.


My father, when he was maybe in somewhere like around middle school, went to his father and said, I think I want to be a teacher of the Dean. I think I want to study the Dean full time. His father took him by the hand and walked him to Azhar's Sharif. And they went to the admissions office and said, we'd like to enroll young Yasir in Al-Azhar. The response was, well, since he wasn't with us since elementary school, he can't actually be enrolled. My father was devastated. And he said that day, as a young middle schooler, he made a du'ab to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and said, Ya Allah, if ever my child was to ever come to me one day and say, I want to go study the Dean, I would let them. Fast forward. In comes Rania. And the day came where I was a middle schooler. And I said to my father, Baba, I'd really like to go study the Dean. He said, what am I to do? I made a waaad to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but if my child ever were to want to study the Dean, I would fulfill that aahd.


So, welcome. Looking forward to this discussion with the Prime Minister of Vietnam, but to kick it off, I'm going to ask Klaus Schwab, the founder of the WEF, to give us a few brief words. Klaus. Thank you, Thomas. Thomas, I'm particularly pleased and honored to introduce Prime Minister Pan-Chieng. Prime Minister, we have met several times. You promised to join us in Davos, and now you are here together. It's a great delegation. And I think it's so important to have your presence, because since you assumed the position of the Prime Minister, your country has embarked into reform policies. You are transforming the country really into a new powerhouse with a very straight forward-looking vision of creating a green and a intelligent economy, I would say. And also, if we look at the statistics, Vietnam now is not only a star in East Asia, but really on a global level if we look at also growth rates, which are exceeding many similar countries, I think you are in the process of becoming a very important partner in the global economy. Therefore, we appreciate your presence, and I am very pleased that my old friend Tom will chair this discussion. So again, also, the whole delegation from Vietnam is very cordial welcome, and we even have prepared some sunshine for you. Terrific, thank you, Klaus. I hope so. Prime Minister, it's great to be here with you. It's a treat for me as someone who's visited your country, and I've had a chance to even sell some books there. And so it's been really one of the highlights for me to have this chance to have this conversation. I want to start with a general question of your sort of long-term vision for Vietnam's development. You began globalizing with sort of lower-skilled jobs in lower-level technology products. You're now moving to higher technology products, which will require higher-skilled workforce. Talk about what is your vision, and how do you see yourself making this leap from the low end of the global export market to the high end? Thank you very much, Mr. Freeman, for giving me an opportunity to discuss on the long-term vision of Vietnam. Our objective is to build a strong nation, attach importance to the wealth, the overall development of the people with a vision to 2030. Vietnam will become a development country, a modern industry with upper-middle income. Our goal is by 2050, Vietnam will become a developed nation with high income. So that is the overall objective of Vietnam. In order to accomplish that goal, we need to develop and implement three major pillars. First, to develop a socialist-oriented democracy, to maximize the power of our nation, and bring into full play our nation's unity and solidarity. Second, we need to develop a rule of law state by the people, for the people. And third, it is our goal to develop the socialist-oriented market economy. When we talk about market economy, it needs to revolve around the demand and supply principle, and competition principle. But it needs to have the engagement of the state in terms of need. When unpredictabilities occur, similar to those we witnessed in COVID-19 era, those are the three pillars that we are aiming to reach. But most importantly, we attach importance to the people. The people should become the focal point, should become the driver for growth. We will not sacrifice social equity environment protection for pure economic growth. Additionally, Vietnam implements the foreign policy of South Alliance. We diversify our international relations. We are just a friend and partner of all countries around the world. We are a reliable partner for the purpose of peace and development in the region and the world. We develop an economy of independence, self-reliance, with active international integration in an active and substantial manner. And we also carry out the defense policy of four nodes, no military alliance, no signing with one country against another country, not allowing a third country using our territory as a military base. And we do not use force or threaten to use force in international relations. Another important issue I would like to touch upon is that we always maximize the national identity, the national unity. We can refer to as the culture. Those factors serve as the foundation of the nation. The culture will shed the light for the whole people, the whole country to follow. It should become an overracking vision for us. Mr. Freeman, if we talk about the development taking place around the world, as you mentioned, we see new engines for growth. Digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, and therefore Vietnam needs to take stock of what's happening around the world in order to develop a suitable policy and also to realize the policy in a substantive manner to ensure sustainable and fast growth in our country to leave no one behind. These are exciting you most right now, Prime Minister. Which industries are exciting you most? Because I've been reading about Vietnam's next decade plan. And you want to be manufacturing semiconductors. You want to be basically participating in the future AI economy. What does that require of the government? And what will it require by way of education? For the industries to grow forward, as I share in the national vision, we need to develop a modern and industrialized nation. We need to attach importance to all industries as a whole that serve our national objectives. Nevertheless, we need to have a list of priorities. As you mentioned, the area and industry that I am excited about the most. Given the current context, importance should be attached to digitalization, artificial information, and green transition. These are the areas that I think we should give priorities to. This is an objective request globally. This is a strategic option and also the top priority of Vietnam. In order to achieve success in innovation, in digitalization, we need to promote startups spirit. In order to do that, we need to carry out three important strategic breakthroughs. First, institutional development. When we talk about the movement, when we talk about development, it should be backed up by a good institutional framework. Only by having a good institutional framework can we harness our potential and competitiveness. The second breakthrough I would like to refer to is infrastructure. Information, technology, infrastructure particularly. When we talk about energy, when we talk about power, when we talk about satellite and signal, we need to ensure smooth infrastructure facility. And the third breakthrough is human. Human is the decisive fighter to ensure the success of our growth. In order to turn Vietnam into a hub for semiconductor chip, we need engineering in semiconductor. We are having a plan to train 50,000 to 100,000 semiconductor engineers in the future. If the leader and there are many here of a similar developing nation were to come to you for advice saying Vietnam has really made a quite remarkable transition, what would be the top two pieces of advice you would give to another developing country who might be here in Davos, leader from your experience? What do you think are the two most important things a country needs to keep in mind if it wants to grow in the way and at speed that Vietnam has? I would like to share with you, Mr. Frightman, some general information. Throughout the course of development, there are five important experiences. First, we need to remain unwavering in maintaining independence, also in line with our socialist orientation. The second one is that the people should be those who make history. The third one is national unity. The unity within the party, within the people, and also international unity. The fourth factor is that we need to combine the national strength with the strength of the times. And the last one is the right decision made by the party. Everything should be done for the benefit of the people, for the well-being of the people. So those are the five important lessons that we attach importance to during the course of national development that I would like to share to you. And going back to your question, the two pieces of advice I have for developing country, resources coming from our mindset, the momentum coming from reform, the power originates from the people. Given our current context, we are facing crisis in strategic trust. And I am personally impressed with the theme of the annual meeting of WAF this year, which is to rebuild strategic trust. All of the things happening in the world right now are global issues, and no single country can deal with global issues alone. And therefore, if I have an advice for them to give, because all issues that matter the most are global issues, we need to hold in high regards multilateral approach to deal with pandemic issues, climate change, no individual country is safe if other countries are affected by epidemics, by war, and by climate change. The second piece of advice I would like to give to developing country is that all of the issues are closely related to the people, and therefore, when we handle and resolve any issues, we need to consider the people at the center of all of our solutions. The people should be a part of the solution, and they should be the major beneficiary of all of our policy. So those are our two pieces of advice. A lot of developing countries look at Vietnam and they see something, a lot of developing countries look at Vietnam and see something quite unusual. They see a country that has fought wars against both the United States and China, and yet you've managed to balance good relations with both today. President Biden just recently visited Vietnam, and short while later, President Xi came. So there aren't too many countries that have managed to balance the G2. How did you do it? Give us your secret. Thank you very much for such an interesting question. I would like to share with you, following the Second World War, the nation that suffered the most is Vietnam. We went through all ups and downs following World War II. We fought against fascism, right? When we gained independence in 1945, and right shortly after that, we fought against colonialism, which ended by the Viet Binh Phu victory in 1954 with Jeanne. And then our nation was divided into two parts. So it was such a sad story. The third part, my stone was that the north of Vietnam enjoyed peace, but the southern part of Vietnam had to fight against neo-colonialism. So after three decades of war, we regained independence and we liberated our nation in 1975. The one thing we was not able to predict was that we need to fight against poverty, genocidal regime against humanity.  But the world misunderstood us and imposed sanction and siege against us. Not until 1986 did those embargo become invalid. So those historical backgrounds showcase the sacrifices that we suffer. Nevertheless, we do not forget the past. That is a part of the history. We cannot distort the past and history, but we need to shelf the past to respect differences, to harness our similarities, and look forward to the future. And Vietnam can become a symbol of the spirit of restoring the world legacy, world consequences from former enemies. We become friends. The two countries, G2, as you mentioned, they are comparative strategic partners of Vietnam and we became friends. For China, not only are we friends, but we are comrades. For the United States, we are comprehensive strategic partners. And now what we do is to look forward to a brighter future. This is a symbol. I can say this is the symbol of shelfing the past. President Biden comes to you and says, look, everything's good with us, but could you cool it a little with China? And when President Xi then comes 10 days later and says, everything's good between us, but could you step back a little from the Americans? What do you say? I just want to get in the room where it happens, you know, hear what it sounds like. The most important achievement from the two important trips is that we enhance the political trust together. Once we have the political trust, we have a sense of sympathy, a sense of mutual respect and mutual understanding. Building upon that platform, I must say that the two countries, the United States and China, are all friends, close friends of Vietnam. And when we have political trust, that is very important. If one of the two presidents advise me, like you said, I will respond to them that Vietnam pursues a foreign policy of being a reliable friend and partner with own countries for security, stability for development, because we want to enhance the relations with both the United States and China for the ultimate goal of sharing the mutual benefits. And there's no reason to advise us to take side with one country against the other country. I don't know if my answer can satisfy your question or not. Otherwise, you can raise another question for me. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, how is Vietnam experiencing climate change? And what are you doing by way of innovation, either regulatory or through manufacturing and through exports, to reach your vision of having a clean and green economy? But how has the weather changed in Vietnam? Vietnam is among five to six countries suffering the most by climate change, and we are located in the Mekong Delta region, and we face difficulties in drought, in saline intrusion, in landslide, so on and so forth. And therefore, we must identify one thing.  We need to come up with different solutions, active solutions to fight against climate change. One of those solutions include realizing our commitment, reach in 26 to reach net zero emission by 2050, the sooner, the better. Recently, we are implementing various solutions related to anti-slides, anti-drought, anti-saline intrusion by navigating various initiatives. And we are the first country to dedicate 1 million hectare of land for high quality rice cultivation with low emission. It is one of the initiatives that we are implementing, not only to ensure food security in Vietnam, but the food security around the world. Secondly, we are building more forests, and we are looking for carbon credit. We are trying to reduce the emission of methane coming from husbandry, coming from agricultural activities. The theme of this year's annual conference is rebuilding trust. How are you, and to what extent have you already, absorbing AI systems in your manufacturing, but also in your schools and in your general public? Is AI just arriving to Vietnam? Is it two years old? And if it is two years old, how is it manifesting itself? AI is a chant that we need to attach importance to it. We cannot ignore AI. And we cannot do it as we want to do it. There are two sides of the coin. AI has its pros and cons. We need to maximize the pros, but there are cons in it as well. But we need to come up with different solutions to harness and maximize the pros and to minimize the cons of artificial intelligence. That is our overall policy towards AI. We need to pursue the goal. In order to promote AI growth, we need data. We need big data. In the immediate term, we need to develop a national database system, which we are doing right now. All of the sectors of the ministries, all of the localities need to develop database center. That is the most important thing. The second thing I want to highlight is infrastructure. And the third one is incentive policy. When we want to give priorities to AI, we need to come up with incentive policy to attract the participation of not only the private sector, the public sector. And last but not least, we need to give priority to human resource capacity building. It will not come within days. We need to train our human capital from the lower level of education to a higher level of education. Accommodating me, we have the presence of the Ministry of Minister of Education and Training. We need to attach importance to human resource capacity building. We need to have, all in all, we need to have institution. We need to have infrastructure. We need to have education and training. We need to have high skilled human resources. In reality, we are implementing all of those above mentioned goal. It is happening right now in my country, in a smooth fashion. This is a follow-up to an earlier question. But how do you go as a country from assembling Samsung phones, mobile phones, to using Samsung mobile phones? That is, your aspiration is to be a technology powerhouse one day, like South Korea, for instance, is the Vietnam's biggest foreign investor, which is interesting. But how do you make that leap from assembly to design, which is where the real, you know, growth opportunities are? How do you do that? We are the latecomer. We can enjoy the opportunities, the lessons that set for us. We need to take advantage of the opportunities and minimize all of the challenges and the difficulties of being a latecomer, of those who walk after. The first thing we need to do is to call upon investors in high technology industry. When they come into Vietnam, we will facilitate the investment environment, the market. The second thing we do is that we give priorities to developing an R&D center in Vietnam. Medicine for science, for technology, or just sort of general R&D center? In all industry, we require the same. In principle, we call upon foreign investors to set up R&D in our country. For example, high technology, mobile phones, when they want to do that in Vietnam, we request that there should be a human capacity building center in Vietnam or an R&D center in Vietnam, and there must be a plant or a manufacturer, which can produce the high quality products. So those are our requests. But in order to meet all of our requests, it depends on their capacity. But in order to facilitate their operation in Vietnam, we always stand ready and we are willing to do so. In regulatory frameworks, in infrastructure facilities, we are willing to do that. But all in all, it revolves around trust, hope, and determination. One of the success stories is Samsung, or Foxconn, and DVR. The CEO and Chairman of NVIDIA just visited Vietnam and they say to me that Vietnam will become the second home of NVIDIA. So those are the examples of what we are doing. But whether we are going fast or going slow, whether it will be effective or not, it depends on the trust and depends on the ability to provide supply. I hope that things will turn out better in the long run. Prime Minister, we've run out of time here. We have another session coming up. But I just want to thank you for coming, for sharing your thoughts. As someone who's been a visitor to Vietnam, I've been impressed at how you – the positive slope of the country that you're on. And for someone who's on his first visit to Davos, you've done very well. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Friedman. Time does not wait for anyone, but innovation and technology is limitless. We save time. In order to save time, we need to attach importance to innovation and reform. Thank you very much.


Good morning everyone. Welcome back to my channel. This feels so weird because I Have not vlogged in pretty much a week Um, let me give you a little quick life update on this past week genuinely probably The worst week I've had in a very long time So hi guys. I'm Kinsey nice to meet you guys in here subscribe. Um, you guys will see what my face is like Crazy right now. So welcome to a vlog I don't know. It's gonna be a whole week or if we're gonna do a few days or whatever We'll see we'll figure it out. But um, yeah, so last Sunday, okay? So today's Monday last week last Sunday. I got off from Arizona and I was super sick I thought I just had allergies there and then having a cold.  My nose is like so swollen So awful and then I was having a really bad period and then my car had to go to the shop Which my car has been in the shop recently But only because like someone hit me and then I had to get any tires like not because there was something like wrong with that But I had like an engine misfire so I couldn't even drive to get my medicine and then it was just really rough like the whole week Oh, I literally I got up I tried to get up like Monday and Tuesday a little bit to like go about my day and I was like no I literally can't do anything. I didn't get up get up until like Saturday.  It's definitely like the reaction Thing but at this point it's just like a breakout. So it's like fine for me to go in public You know, so anyways, that was my last week. So this week is gonna be better Today's Monday this week. I'm working out a ton I saw a personal training tomorrow at 6 a.m. Every morning or Monday Tuesday through Friday with daylight for the next two weeks Yeah, it's gonna be really exciting So anyways, I need to I have my car back But they let me take it back through the weekend because they couldn't get some certain part of something random They just wanted to do Until today so after this I'm gonna go shower take her car back in and then I'm gonna go Like do some like work and homework and stuff at a coffee shop And then I'm gonna meet up with Quinton later and help him pack up some stuff. So That is what is on the agenda for today I'm like it's taking everything in me to not get a Celsius right now, but I'm not going to do it Also, I'm just so happy to be back vlogging. All right guys, just like a really subtle jumpsuit I'm back from Pilates a showered and yeah, it's like 1130 Um, I need to go to my car off and then I'm just do a little bit of work near that place And just wait for them to work on my car.  Okay, so I think I already vlog about this today My new like cross-body bag and I'm obsessed with it, but the zipper is not on it fell off I got it for a really good deal. So it's not like I can be like, oh whatever But I got some zippers from Amazon that don't work So I feel like I have to get like a tie like I honestly want like a black rope tie kind of thing But like I literally can't close it right now, but it's just so convenient and I don't want to use anything else So gotta figure that out and then I'm wearing this so let's do Maurizia It's the boyfriend sweat suit and like the neon green, but I haven't worn this I think I've literally worn this one time and I haven't worn it in like months It's one of those outfits that uh, you know, it's not too subtle So uh, you don't really wear it every day, but it's super comfortable and then I have my bag packed up I'm gonna leave update on my skin. I'm gonna let it breathe, but now you guys can see it a lot more Like isn't that just like so scary So anyways, I tried to vlog last week because I was like, I don't want every week to just be like great in life It's awesome blah blah blah, which like life is still awesome, but like last week was just actually really really really bad But we're gonna have a better week this week. Um My face honestly like yeah, this looks like really kind of awful, but it's getting better. So whatever It's like literally not the end of the world. I've gotten so much better so much faster than I even thought I would So yeah, like there's not even dry skin on top of my nose anymore Like it's all around here, which it used to be like more so it's gotten a lot better Or just like you the best of it and it's just like literally whatever who cares happens to everyone So not really like what's happening to my face, but you know what I'm saying like a breakout or something But you can see like it's weird because it's not a breakout. You know what I mean? Anyway, so I'm gonna go head off now and have a to-do list for today I've been really on a country vibe lately listening to a lot of country music. So that's what I've been doing Yeah, I'm gonna go and get on with my day. Just dropped off my car Right next to my favorite smoothie place. I'm gonna go get my favorite smoothie and get some more fun Okay, so I'm not nature. Well, I got my tropical green smoothie. It is my favorite smoothie ever I also got a wellness shot and then I have a coffee that just like doesn't look appealing, but I really need it okay guys so Well, my hair is finally drying. Um, yeah today is not super crazy. I did some homework. I did some work at Nature well, which is my favorite smoothie place in the valley, but I am at Clinton's right now I'm helping him move. He lives for Dallas on Wednesday, which is really exciting So we're just like moving some stuff out of his apartment and everything if you guys are in LA Park, La Brea And these are really classic apartments. This is really no I still have so many friends who live here like one day I'm excited for Park, La Brea to be a closed chapter in all of our lives But I'm gonna door-dash some food. I'll leave my door-dash code down below So if you guys want free food and free delivery, you guys should use it, but I'm so hungry Got a lot done. I'm sorry that today is not crazy exciting. Just taking you through my week I'm not gonna have my camera off or anything like that, but I don't know how long we're even gonna be here I definitely need to go grocery shopping for later I'm craving salmon so bad. Okay guys, we are back in the valley. Look at my car.  I know Okay, all right guys. I'm gonna quickly unpack these and show you like a 20-second trader Joe's haul I wish I don't gotten stew potatoes, but it'll be okay on ice-pasta mushrooms veggie Buddy sticks shredded carrots kale red cakes lots of broccoli Bananas cucumber broccoli again romaine hearts for smoothies Lemon peanut butter Mami seasoning then coconut water again for smoothies I think I'm gonna make some to have ready for my workouts in the morning dates Avocado and yeah, I just had to pick up some stuff not too much though I'm gonna make some dinner. I might go ahead and make some smoothies though We'll see what I'm feeling and then I'm also guys one of my favorite things in the entire world I haven't made these of forever But you cut dates in half and then you put peanut butter in them and then you put them in the fridge And they're so freaking good. So I think I'm gonna do that just to have some of them ready as well For dinner, I just made a really easy dinner So it's rice broccoli shawty carrots and then just this trader Joe's organic toasted sesame oil I really like or I've made this whole thing because you put coconut aminos on it. It's so good Just to realize that I'm out of those so So I'm about to go to personal training at six and I applaud is it seven by but I expect Randy has a duty to soldier boost Then I have my backpack.  I went to bed last night at like nine Watch them scandal fall asleep. So very excited Making some coffee Here we go. It's my new morning routine this morning. I will be filming probably an entire Like morning routine for these workouts Oh my gosh I don't know where traveling mugs went. So I'm literally drinking coffee out of a mug I don't know how I'm gonna do that but my drive since it's so early Is gonna be pretty much Not existent. Let's see ways It's like five forty right now Let's see So I'm doing personal training with daylight who's my Pilates instructor. So our personal training isn't gonna be Pilates but um Then I'm doing it at the same place and then I'm taking the hot Pilates class at seven I know I'm gonna take after it So that is what I'm doing today. I'm very excited because I'm training with daylight But um, yeah, I need to go because I need to get there Okay guys, I literally am listening to country music now. It's 5 a.m Um, but I'm gonna leave now for training wish me luck everyone. Um Yeah, I have sessions until the end of february because she goes on like two week sessions, but there's eight Um, so it's gonna be a new thing But honestly like I'm really awake and it's like wasn't as hard as I thought it would be I always work out at seven and I remember when seven used to feel like forever Like used to feel so early and now I'm like, oh, that's just kind of like the normal So it's not really anymore, but it used to be like so early. So now I'm like, okay. Maybe it's not that bad, you know Okay, we're gonna go inside Hey guys, so Um, I'm listening to music. My like roof is down. So I'm so sorry. My hair looks crazy. The workouts were great It's 8 a.m. And I've already finished two workouts. So I feel really good Anyways, I'm going out for it to get coffee to friend not gonna vlog that but I will vlog after Um, I feel like today was kind of beginner's luck like the first time I do any workout It's the easiest and then after is when I like die So updates come um, but we're going to Alfred and studio city and just catching up for a little bit, which would be good And yeah, today is a chill day because it's quintons last day in town So like today and yesterday I kind of blocked off to just kind of help him and hang and stuff So that's why these days have been a little bit more relaxed But my hair looks crazy. I have to kind of freshen up. Um, and then go All right, just last I got an iced americano with oat milk. I'm actually freezing. It's 9 30. So I'm gonna go home Hey guys, I moved to the kitchen. I'm watching Brooks vlog. I'm about to make a video public Um, and then I'm gonna make some breakfast. It's like 10 at 36 and Um, I didn't really have like a breakfast that Alfred. I just had coffee. So Okay, I'm just looking at amazon stuff. Um, but As you guys actually you may not know. Um, I've been working on an email newsletter. So I am Very very excited. This will be I'll have like info in the description box if you guys want to be on here Basically, I'm gonna send out like my favorite podcast. I've heard reads lately Um, and then I'm gonna do like my top product So I'll link it and just tell you guys what I've been loving all that stuff Which is just super fun to get a little email with like a cute quote and whatever I've been working with I'm a graphic designer who's been helping me a lot, which is really awesome So I'm really excited for this and then I need to keep paying really quick for our Coachella house So I'm gonna do that And then get to work All right guys, my phone keeps Going off So, um, it's 12 30. I'm ready for the day. I My nose keeps bleeding But other than that the meds have helped my skin a lot. Um from The infection or whatever just literally sounds so ridiculous But anyways, I'm not gonna like get ready or anything. I'm gonna let my skin breathe for another day I haven't really gotten ready in a bit, but Um, yeah, it's like honestly very good now It was kind of like a breakout my besides like around my nose Which just keeps bleeding like this is all pretty much gone and it's like really helped honestly So glad I wasn't the dermatologist when I did because I could have waited almost until just yesterday Would have been so much worse and taken so much longer. So yeah, I still have like a week and a half of antibiotics but anyways, um, I'm just wearing some Really comfy clothes because I'm going over to West Hollywood to help Quentin pack up and move, but also Here's my allergy so much merch if any of you guys want it Um, just DM me and I can send you guys a little secret link and stuff since it's not like posted publicly anymore But you guys can still order if you would like to link for me But yeah, um, I'm about to get ready and head out I'm gonna order some food from grand veggie girl and then pick it up and then go to his place It literally feels like it should be 5 p.m By how much because I've already done two workouts Had a coffee day over the front. Um, and then I did a bunch of computer work and stuff That doesn't actually that would not be my what my day would consist of until 5 p.m But it feels much later and it's only 12 30 so I can only imagine I'm gonna be tired by 6 p.m So yeah, I'm gonna head out That is that All right, so I finally made it to veggie girl.  That's what I meant to do In salary. It's so freaking good Morning guys. It's the next day. It's 5 30. I'm gonna head off to training. I'm only going to training today I'm not gonna go to pilates after so I'll be done with my workout by seven Um, but today I'm taking Quentin to the airport at like 11. He's off to texas Which is exciting and then um, I didn't go to the studio Honestly, I need to film like we're gonna see I still am not feeling 100% I woke up and like there's my nose is still rough skin up a looks so Much better than it even did yesterday. So um, yeah, I'm just wearing a phabletics bra phabletics Um leggings and you know, we're gonna head out to I'm gonna head out to training and then I'll be done by seven Working up this early is actually really great because you have so much of your day like yesterday If I knew and I feel like I'd lived a whole day. So yeah tonight. I have like prayer night later I have a long day So I just figure all that out and I'm gonna get like completely ready today and hopefully film This afternoon and go to the studio too. I don't even have that confirmed. I'm just thinking out loud. So Yeah, good morning everyone. Um, so it's 7 a.m. I'm out of training I'm not doing pilates this morning after because Dale. It's not teaching pilates. So I don't want to eat the class. Um, but Anyways, happy wednesday. Quentin's currently pumping my gas. This is his last morning in la We have to leave in a few hours to take him to lax Um, he's moving to dallas. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen instagram and stuff, but it's like all over But yeah, I'm not gonna like I don't know. It's like his thing to talk about.  I stayed up so late watching scandal Like by so late, I mean 10 40 p.m. But like scandals literally the best show to ever exist And I'm so hooked on it. Anyway, so I stayed up late already I was already tired at like 6 p.m. And then I had to wear like the long sleeve I wore long sleeve for most of the class and it was like 97 degrees in there already. It was really hard. So Just drinking my water And hopefully we're going to blue bottle a second last morning in la last morning Wow going to blue bottle He's sick. This is not good. Yeah, we had some amazing texas barbecue yesterday, but I didn't but he did Oh, yeah, she's getting you fasting I don't know I ate a lot of really bad food yesterday. This is my last. He just ate unhealthy and now he's like sick. Anyways, I literally I'm wearing this long sleeve blue top. I think I'm mom. I hate wearing stuff like this But anyways, didn't have a shirt. So here we are. We're going to blue bottle My favorite area Okay, so he's got breakfast. Thank you. Quentin got a breakfast sandwich. I look so good. I'm so jealous organic egg Wow Something cheese po-ball and bacon. So, oh great. I started vlogging as they're literally leaving So Quentin's bringing stuff down. I literally got ready in my car um I like couldn't shower.  I forgot that I'm literally I'm gonna put my suit on Literally a pro at getting ready in my car because of the last semester of workouts and stuff, but I have misplaced my wallet I'm a little bit stressed about it because I have a flight like I'm going out of town and like a week and a half And that's my only form of identification So I'm a little bit stressed about that because my ID is just gone missing with the wallet And I used it yesterday at alfred Because I had to pay the meter, but then I've used apple pay on everything since then or ordered online And this bag as we know like the flap thing so though I found I forget it out later like it would have had to have been It's either at quintons Which he's there. So he's gonna go look or Some hot to afrit which thank god. I know every barista there So I texted one of them and he said he was on his way. So he's gonna let me know And then I just like literally don't know going strong Um, this is definitely not been my month There's been like it's been like a good time Like I'm not saying it hasn't been like a good month or anything, but like wow my life is really falling apart. So anyways, um Yeah, I just kind of changed from the time being I need to go into the studio after I drop off for the airport But they haven't confirmed my booking So Hey, I'm just like really hoping and praying and my wallet is just gonna show up And I'm just saying this right now that it will show up and it's gonna be great and Yeah, all right guys, we're at lex quintons about to be a Texan You know, I never thought I'd see the day. I know but here we are All right, we're dropping him off guys Add some new songs to the yeehaw bob's So I have so much of quinton stuff in my car to download to donate Just dropped him off. Um Yeah, I'm really happy for him, but yeah, I'm on my way to the studio Yeah, we'll talk more about this later But I'm like very happy for him and very excited and it's like a good time in life So anyways, I'm on my way to dear media. I need to record intros and ads Um, I realized too. I actually already have a dmv appointment for the 24th, which is friday It's it is wednesday to get a new id So I might as well just take that and then quinton gave me one of his cards for the time being until I get one of my cards replaced Um So that I'll be fine. I can just like transfer money there and then use his cards for a second So we're good, but uh, it's still so annoying like I'm still like, where could this have even gone? It's just bizarre that it's disappeared So anyways, I'm listening to this kind of confidential. I'm gonna go record an intro and add then go home I thought that my film for my film camera messed up. It did it. So we're good. Anyways leaving. Bye I should reach out to because she was super nice and very very nice is the ceo and the owner of drunk elephant Oh, that's like one of my favorites in caroline. She was so cool. That's so nice No, that's like literally one of my favorites in caroline I should email her because I was like the first not the first but like I was posting about drunk elephant way before they even did like influencer gifting Like I was like one of the first to get influencer gifting from them because I talked about them so much But like it forever ago. I use I have the luxury facial oil on my face right now I'm gonna email her and ask because she was super nice. All right guys. I hope you enjoy this episode I hope it gave you a little bit of motivation for the new year. I know that we're Well into january almost february at this point But I think this is the perfect time because it's really easy to be motivated All right guys. So it's the first time. I think I'm just ready in this vlog Um, it's currently 4 p.m. This afternoon. I got home. Well, I I think I last vlogged at the studio, but I dropped off some film. I went home. I showered got completely ready Um, I've just been doing computer work and sending some stuff in probably the past like three hours And now I'm about to film a very exciting video But I'm sure a lot of you guys are like just asking you about or whatever.  I'm still recovering and then I'm waking up really working out and stuff Um, but yeah, I'm gonna film this video. Okay, so I just filmed a video This video, um, will be up sunday or saturday or monday I don't even know honestly. So it's currently 6 p.m And I'm exhausted like I'm so green tired. I wasn't gonna go tonight. I don't think I'm gonna go because I actually I just think it's gonna be one of those things where I go because I think I really want to go Which I do want to go But I spend the whole time just like wishing that I was home So I think I was not gonna go and I'm gonna go to bed early tonight because I have to wake up Really tomorrow and I have so much to do so I don't want to like whatever But I've gotten a lot of like random things that are kind of boring done today And filming and I have more filming yourself tomorrow, but yeah, um, I'm gonna go put like Switch my laundry over and then I'm gonna make some dinner. So that's what we're doing right now Currently making dinner. I'm just making some brown rice pasta And then I used to make this all the time last summer But honestly, I stopped because I always eat with quentin and he doesn't like mushrooms But mushrooms just were my favorite. So I have kale mushrooms olive oil You normally do like travel like I just don't have any and then I put a little bit of seasoning on It's so freaking good. Just putting it with brown rice pasta. It's the easiest meal Let's just have it for dinner All right, so my pasta is ready quentin is FaceTime me. I'm watching Lauren's vlog Um, but I'm so excited. Very exciting day. I got a little cute Um, like video camera cam corner thing I'm I don't I'm holding this camera fire in hand so I can't show you but it's at the vhs It's not vhs, but it's like an old like kind of like vintage vibe, you know, oh my gosh So really cool. I got this one ebay for like a hundred dollars, but I'm very excited about this Okay, I think I filmed a lot. So I'm gonna put this in my room Um, but that is going to be it for this vlog for the past few days. I hope you guys enjoyed this was really just Like life has just been like kind of weirdly honestly, but I'm gonna wash my face I literally put makeup on just to film a video which I would have not done had I not realized that There's no way that I'm making it out of my house today, but hope you guys enjoyed Love you guys so much and I'll see you guys soon. Bye


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