Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Reyes Academy. The displayed articles have been chosen for today's analysis from Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad and Tiruvananthapuram Editions. Now let us start our discussion. This news article speaks about the evolution and the application of randomized controlled trials and their effectiveness in the field of social sciences. The syllabus linking of this news article is given here for your understanding. Note that the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Benerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer for their experimental approach to alleviate global poverty. Note that they have introduced the new experiment-based approach in the field of development economics. It is to be noted that the development economics focuses on improving the economic and social conditions in the developing or low-income countries. So what was their approach? In simple terms, this approach breaks down broader questions about any issue into smaller and more manageable questions. Therefore, rather than relying on big-picture questions, they divided the issue into smaller, more manageable and measurable questions. The new method involves randomized controlled trials, in short known as RCTs. In a RCT, the subjects of study will be randomly allocated into two different groups, then they will be separately treated and analyzed, and the final outcomes are compared. The randomized stars, who are the proponents of RCT, claim that this method helps to analyze the cause of the problems and formulate the interventions that are required to achieve desirable outcomes. The article mentions the evolution of RCT. According to the author, the instances of RCTs can be traced back in the 16th century. However, the statistical foundation of RCT was developed about 100 years ago by the British statistician Sir Ronald Fisher. The author discusses the two important constraints of RCT, such as control and randomization. The control is essential to get an unbiased effectiveness of a treatment, such as a clinical trial. For example, the group of people under the study of a new treatment would be compared with the another group of people receiving no treatment or receiving an existing treatment. The next is randomization. It means the task of allocating the patients among two treatments. The author says that if the patients are aware of the treatment they are going to receive, they would be biased. In randomization, the patients are allocated using a random mechanism. It ensures that neither the patient nor the doctor would know the allocation. The article also discusses the application of RCTs in social sciences. The social sciences have slowly converted from non-experimental to experimental methods of understanding. The article also mentions that the randomized tasks took the control of development economics since the mid-of-1990s. Note that this year, Nobel laureates have done about 1,000 RCTs in about 83 countries, including India. Their main areas of focus were to study various dimensions of poverty, including microfinance, access to credit, behavior, health care, immunization programs, and gender inequality. This shows that now RCT is an established technique in social sciences. Now, RCT is regarded as the simplest and the best way of assessing the impact of a program. For better understanding, now consider the basic income experiment of Finland, which was conducted in 2017-18, in that case, few unemployed Finns between the age group of 25-58 years were randomly selected across the country. They were paid an amount monthly instead of basic unemployment benefits. Then the outcomes were compared with the control group comprising the individuals who were not selected to know the effectiveness of the scheme. Now let us discuss the criticism of using RCTs in economic and social experiments. As we have discussed earlier, RCT involves breaking up of a broader problem into smaller ones. Here, the criticism is that the conclusions obtained are questionable because of limited sample size and its opaque necks, considering only limited variables and neglecting other factors. Therefore, with reference to this news article, we have discussed the evolution of RCT and its application in clinical trials and also in economic experiments. Note that though its application in economic experiments is being criticized, but its effectiveness in alleviating the poverty will be visible in the years to come. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion of this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of this session. Now let us move on to the next news article. These news articles mention about Future Investment Initiative Summit. Here the syllabus relevance for the analysis of these news articles is given here for your reference. First, we will be discussing about Future Investment Initiative. Then we will be discussing these news articles in brief. Note that the Future Investment Initiative is an international platform for debates that happened between the global leaders, investors and innovators. They are the experts from various fields and they have the power to invest money. So this Future Investment Initiative is focused on utilizing the investment to drive growth opportunities then to enable innovation in order to address the global challenges. The main aim of the summit is to explore the new trends, opportunities, challenges and emerging industries that will shape the whole economy and investment environment over the coming decades. Kindly note that this initiative was launched by the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2017. The Future Investment Initiative is being organized in the context of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. The core principles of the event are aligned with the strategic objectives and the targets of the Kingdom's National Transformation Plan which is the key to achieving Saudi Arabia's ambitious vision 2030. The Future Investment Initiative summits are connected every year to attract investments this year's summit that is Future Investment Initiative Summit 2019 is happening at Riyadh which is the capital of Saudi Arabia. This summit is also known as Davos in the Desert.  It is in this forum the world political leaders and business people meet. Similar to old economic forum this Future Investment Initiative Summit is being held every year in Saudi Arabia which is a desert nation hence it is called as Davos in the Desert. This forum is also seen as the most important economic forum in the Middle East. Now look at the front page news article. Here note that the Prime Minister of India has delivered the key note address at this summit. The Prime Minister Modi has announced the formation of strategic partnership council between India and Saudi Arabia. It will be led by the leaders of both the countries. This strategic partnership council will have two parallel tracks. One track will focus on political, security, culture and society. This will be headed by the foreign ministers of both the countries. The next track is on economy and investment. This will be headed by the Minister of Commerce and Industry of Government of India and the Energy Minister of Saudi Arabia. Note that India is the fourth country to form a strategic partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The other countries are United Kingdom, France and China. Now look at the news article that appears in the business column which mentions the address of the business personalities in this Future Investment Initiative Summit. They have noted that the slowdown that has happened in the growth of Indian economy is temporary only and also shared their opinions that the reforms brought by the Government of India will reverse the slowdown trend in the coming months. Therefore, with respect to this news article, we have seen about Future Investment Initiative Summit and the strategic partnership council between India and Saudi Arabia. Now have a look at the practice question which will be discussed at the end of the session. Now let us move on to the next news article. This news article is based on contract forming and legislations based on contract forming. The syllabus that can be linked to the discussion is given here for your reference. The news article mentions that the state of Tamil Nadu has enacted a law on contract forming and President of India has given his assent to it. With reference to this news article, we will be discussing why this law is required and its important provisions. Kindly note that the law is named as Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce and Livestock Contract Forming and Services Promotion and Facilitation Act 2019. Note that Tamil Nadu is the first state in our country to enact a law in contract forming. This act will provide for improved production and marketing of the agriculture produce, livestock and its products. This will be done through comprehensive contract forming. The act will facilitate the contracting parties to develop a mutually beneficial and mutually efficient contract forming system. The act will also promote services contract. Note that the services contract means the agreement between the former or former produce organization or former produce company and the services contract purchaser. In this services contract, the producer supplies the produce and the purchaser provides the post-arvest management and the marketing services to the produce. The post-arvest management and marketing services include storage, primary value addition, marketing linkages to organized retailers, processors, exporters and so on. Now you should note that this legislation is based on a model law prepared by the central government. Note that Union Finance Minister announced the preparation of a model contract forming act in the 2017-18 budget. Based on this, the final model act was prepared. It is named as the respective state or union territory agriculture produce and livestock contract forming and services production and facilitation act 2018. Now let us see some of the salient features of this state legislation. In line with the model act, under the state legislation, the ambit of former is extended to all kinds of formers. Under the act, former means a person who is engaged in production of agriculture produce or rearing of livestock by himself or by hired laborer or otherwise. Formers also include former who have leased a land, then tenant formers and sharecropper are also included under the act. Then the term agriculture produce includes all produce of agriculture, horticulture, apiculture, sericulture, animal husbandry or forest or any other such activity identified for contract under this act. Kindly note that here horticulture means is the branch of plant agriculture dealing with garden crops, generally fruits, vegetables and other ornamental plants. Apiculture is the scientific method of rearing honeybees. Then sericulture is also known as silk forming. It is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. As envisaged by the model act, this law will safeguard the interest of the formers during the times of bumper crop or when market prices fluctuate. Here bumper crop means a crop has a yielded and unusual agriculture productive harvest during the peak arrival period that is during the peak harvesting period and the prices will fall to very low level because of this unusual yield. So normally formers are affected by this bumper crop and the price fluctuations in the market will happen and as they get paid very less for their produce. Now this act tries to mitigate this loss as according to the act a pre-titanmin price or pre-aggrid price will be paid to the formers. This pre-aggrid price will be fixed during the time of signing the contract forming agreement between the formers and the buyer. This agreement is only valid when it is resisted with the designated registering and agreement recording officer and another feature of this act is that the act mandates the support of the formers for agriculture production and the rearing of the livestock. This support will be provided by the contract forming purchaser by way of inputs, feed and fodder and such other technological support. Next feature of this act is that it provides for establishing an authority as demanded by the model act. The authority here is known as Tamil Nadu State Contract Forming and Services Promotion and Facilitation Authority. This authority will ensure proper implementation of the act and it will make suggestions to the state government for the promotion and the better performance of the contract forming. The next important feature is that the contract forming produce or the contract forming product is also covered under the crop insurance or livestock insurance scheme of the central government or either the state government that is in operation. As envious by the model act, this legislation also prohibits the contract forming purchaser from rising any permanent structure on the contract forming produces land and premises. In addition to this, the ownership or the possession of the land and the premises cannot be transferred to the contract forming purchaser and the purchaser has no vested rights on the land and the premises. This provision will help the farmers to save their land from getting occupied by the purchaser. So far we saw the silent features of this state legislation for contract forming. Now you may be thinking about what is meant by contract forming. As per the model act and the state legislation the contract forming means forming by a contract forming producer as specified by the written agreement with contract forming purchaser. In this the agriculture produce includes livestock or its product shall be purchased by the contract forming purchaser or by his duly authorized agent. In other words contract forming refers to forming under varied formal and informal agreements between producers and the processes or buyers. Now based on the legislation it is a formal agreement only. The essence of such an arrangement is the commitment of the producer or seller to provide an agriculture commodity of a certain time at a time and a price and to provide the agriculture commodity in the quantity that is required by the buyer. Then in turn the purchaser who is usually company will undertake to support the farmers production and agrees to buy the product at a price which is established in advance. So contract forming usually involves some basic elements such as pre-agreed price, pre-agreed quality, pre-agreed quantity and time to provide the produce. Now let us discuss why we need contract forming. First is that it is needed to reduce the load on the central level and the state level procurement system. As now private entities can procure the goods for their use. Second is to increase private sector investment in agriculture. Next is to generate a steady source of income at the individual farmer level. Then it is also to promote processing and value addition to the commodity. Then to generate a gainful employment in rural communities in particular a gainful employment for landless agricultural labourers. Now let us discuss what are the advantages to the farmers and the purchaser. With respect to farmer, this type of forming gives exposure to old class mechanized agro technology. The farmer obtains an assured upfront price and assured market outlet for his produce. The farmer can sell bulk supplies as compared to small supplies which is required by the fresh market. Then the farmer has the advantage of crop monitoring on a regular basis and also the farmer will get technical advice free of cost. Now with respect to trader, the advantages are that the trader will get uninterrupted and regular flow of raw material and the trader will have protection from fluctuations in market pricing because he has to pay the pre-agrid price even the price of that commodity increases in the market. Then it gives a possibility to make long term planning for the trader as he can expand his business. And finally the trader will have a dedicated supplier base. With this we have come to the end of the analysis of this topic. With respect to this news article, we have discussed what is meant by contract forming, why it is required and its advantages with respect to the farmer and with respect to the traders and with respect to the purchaser and also some of the important aspects of Tamil Nadu Contract Forming Act. Now let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about the new estimates on the number of people who could be affected by climate change and rising sea level. This article is based on report appeared in a scientific journal. Before discussing this news article, now let us discuss few terminologies like high tide line, low tide line and the definition of shoreline for better understanding of this news article. Now let us understand the high tide line. The high tide line can be defined as the line of intersection of the land with the water surface at the maximum height that can be reached by a rising tide. Now the low tide line can be defined as the line of intersection of the land with the water surface at the minimum height reached by the falling tide and the land between the high tide and the low tide is known as shoreline as shown in the figure. This means that people living below the high tide line are prone to the flooding and the rising sea level due to global warming. This news article reports that at present estimates on risk posed by the flooding are based on the maps of earth taken by the shuttle radar topography mission in short SRTM. Note that SRTM is a mission of NASA that is national aeronautics and space administration. The objective of the mission is to get high resolution digital elevation data of the entire earth. So it will give high resolution topography data of the earth. It was launched by the space shuttle Endeavour of NASA in 2000. Now let us look into the news article. It says that the recent study is based on the new modeling approach for measuring the topography of earth. The study used a new software called coastal dem meaning coastal digital elevation model. Kindly note that a digital elevation model of a surface gives the three-dimensional graphical image of the surface. The authors of the study claim that the mapping based on SRTM overestimates the elevation of land surfaces. This means that the actual elevation of the land surface is actually less than what is shown in the maps based on SRTM. They also claim that the data based on coastal dem is more accurate as it uses more variables such as vegetation cover, population indices to estimate the actual land surface and more sophisticated modeling techniques. Note that the study says that globally about 110 million people live on land below the current high tide lines and about 250 million population lives on a land below annual flooding levels. Kindly note that this data is in contrast with the SRTM based estimates of about 28 million and about 65 million respectively. If this data is accurate, then many more people are prone to the rising sea levels. Now let us come to the India specific facts. According to the author, the number of Indians who could be affected by rising sea levels may have been underestimated by as much as about 88 percent. Because if global emissions continue to rise, in India almost 36 million people would face annual flooding by 2050 and about 44 million by the end of this century. According to the author, earlier estimates reported that about 2.8 million Indians are expected to be living below the high tide line. But the new study says that this figure is around 21 million. It is to be noted that this report is in line with the draft report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in short IPCC of United Nations on Oceans and AIDS Frozen Jones, which was published earlier this year. The report has emphasized on the impact of global warming on melting of glaciers and the resulting floods. The report also mentioned that even if the oil manages to limit global warming at 2 degrees Celsius, the global ocean water line will rise enough to displace more than 250 million people. It also said that this large scale displacement could happen before the end of this century. Now let us come back to the news article. It mentions that due to climate change, the global mean sea level could rise by about 11 to 16 centimeters in the 20th century and is expected to rise as much as about 2 meters by the end of this century. This indicates the potential of rising sea level to inundate the low-lying areas and displace the people living there.  This is not far away as some reports tell that this might happen by the end of this century. So what can be done? First is to adhere to the Paris climate agreement. The important aim of the agreement is to keep the rise in global temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level and pursue efforts to limit it to about 1.5 degrees Celsius. Then we have to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. And this is the most effective solution to tackle the climate change. This can be done by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, shifting to electric vehicles, creating more carbon sinks through intensive afforestation, increased water use efficiency, formulate adaption and mitigation policies to help the most vulnerable and sustain the agriculture and use of climate resilient crops to ensure food security. So with respect to this news article, we have discussed the important terminologies like high tide line, low tide line and the definition of shoreline and the recent study about the potential impact of global rising sea levels. So with this we have come to the end of this discussion of this topic. The displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of the session. Now let us discuss the practice problem questions. Now consider this question. This question is given with reference to randomized control trials. And they have given three statements and we have to choose the correct option. And one says that it involves the randomization of the trials under controlled parameters. You know that RCT is mainly revolving around the randomization of the trials. Here the trials means experiments which are conducted under controlled parameters. Here controlled parameters mean considering the limited sample size, considering only the limited parameters that are influencing the experiment. Therefore the statement one is correct. And it is to be noted that the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Benerji, Esther Dufflo and Michael Kramer for their experimental approach to alleviate global poverty. You know that they have introduced the new experiment based approach that is known as RCT in the field of development economics. Thus the second statement given is also correct. Also look at the third statement. It says that the government of India now using the RCTs in order to reduce the number of 100 trials in the jails. Here the third statement is given to confuse the aspirants and nothing relevant to the RCT. Therefore option A that is one and two are correct. Now let us proceed to the next question. Now consider this question. This question is with reference to future investment initiative summit. They have given two statements and you have to choose the correct option. The first statement mentions the aim of the summit. And the second statement mentions about who has launched the summit. Now see the first statement. The main objective of summit is to explore the new trends, opportunities, challenges and emerging industries that will shape the whole economy and investment environment over the coming decades. This statement is correct. This is the aim of future investment initiative summit. Note that this initiative was launched by the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Arabia in 2017. And it has not been launched jointly by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Government of India and the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as given in the second statement. Therefore the second statement is incorrect. Note that this summit is also called as there was in the desert. Now for this question you have to choose the correct option. Since the second statement is incorrect and first statement is correct therefore option A one only is correct option for this question. Now consider this question. This question which is based on IPCC here two statements are given and you have to choose the correct option. And the first statement reads that the objective of IPCC and second statement it is an intergovernmental body of United Nations. Note that IPCC was established by United Nations Environment Program and all meteorological organization in 1988. Therefore it is an intergovernmental body of United Nations. Thus second statement is correct. You know that IPCC provides reports on climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. Also note that the important objectives of IPCC are assessing the scientific information that is very relevant to human induced climate change and its impacts on options for adaptation and mitigation. Here the first statement reads that the objective of IPCC is to assess scientific information that is relevant to human induced climate change and its impacts. Thus the given first statement is also correct. Therefore for this question option C that is both the statements are correct. With this we have come to the end. Thank you.


Hi, this is Yoastabli Bhatia and welcome to another episode of Tifa Let's Talk. Dynatris recently of course are host at its annual user conference and as expected they made a ton of announcements including the expansion of real data lake house, automation edge, App Engine and a lot of other announcement there and to go deeper into these announcements today we have with us Bob Vanbak, VP of product marketing at Dynatris. It's great to have you on the show. Pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Let's talk about the event. How was it because due to COVID there are a lot of restrictions and now events are opening up people cannot travel so talk about what was the experience like? I think the energy at the event was amazing. Everybody was happy to be in person again so you could really feel that excitement, you could feel the energy. The first day we offered a hands-on training and that was sold out and people were super excited to just be there working with other people, learning with other people so we did have a slew of great announcements at the show but I think part of what people were just customers talking with other customers and sharing best practices, challenges, talking about the macro-net economic environment so just the ability to get out there and network I think was huge for a lot of people so it was a fantastic show. You folks made a lot of announcements there can you share? It was the biggest set of announcements in the company history so from a technology standpoint last October 2022 we introduced Grail Data Lakehouse that's a massively parallel processing lake house that takes advantage of the economy and scale of public cloud resources so significant enhancements to that to consolidate observability security and business data with custom and exploratory queries that was a very big announcement especially since Grail has been so well received by the market and then we also announced some other technology enhancements including automation engine, app engine and then industry partnerships to unveil a new generation of applications on Dynatrace so it was a very packed conference with announcements. You folks made a lot of announcements there can you just pick and choose hey these are some of the major announcements that you made there? I think the most timely announcement was the Grail Data Lakehouse enhancements and the reason why is customers today there you know it's no question everybody is moving to cloud for agility and for the perceived cost advantages but in the cloud things can be much more complex especially if you think about Kubernetes implementation where you have additional layers of abstraction so you have a lot of flexibility but it introduces even more for many customers even more monitoring tools and now you have this rapid expansion of monitoring tool sets that show you a fraction of the whole story where you're not getting a complete end to end observability of and understanding of what's really going on so Grail Data Lakehouse takes that really you know that challenge and addresses it specifically by consolidating all the data with full topology and dependency mapping context so you know instead of doing you're trying to correlate information from different tool sets you really can consolidate all of these tool sets or many of these tool sets at your own pace and customer decision down to a single platform that all the users for all use cases can use to simplify collaboration and sharing and it it has embedded smartscape topology and dependency mapping so now you have causality between events you actually know what was the root cause how that may have cascaded to other items so it allows people to quickly identify issues or identify you know issues before they become major outages so to me that was really the most timely announcement because everybody's trying to do more with less nobody's asking for additional tool sets they're typically looking to reduce the number of tools that they have which of these announcements were kind of most timely looking at the current market situation where companies are trying to focus on cost efficiency smaller teams and they are looking at things like automation to to help their teams well I think if you start with the basic thesis of of it's really um you know revolutionary and disruptive to a number of adjacent industries to have all the data in a single place with full context think of that as like there's this gold mine of information with context that you never had before how do you unlock the value of that data and that's really what automation engine and app engine are all about it's making it easier for people to collaborate easier to bring that information and insights to other platforms that are central most large companies have it service management solutions that that dictate the processes for how you make changes or they may have orchestration platforms like redhead ansible and with the value that we have using automation engine you can bring these insights to make these other solutions even more powerful you make ansible more powerful if you're bringing a bunch of answers from your data to it to be able to automate more workflows and do that better you mentioned earlier about this migration to cloud in the cloud you do have agility but what you really want in the cloud is a balance of of resilience performance and efficiency or cost and in the cloud as people rush the cloud if you don't have the right observability into your applications into your underlying resources what you tend to do is over allocate significantly and you are therefore overspending perhaps not even assuring your performance levels of resiliency that you need but you're wasting a bunch of money that could be preventing you from investing in other areas or slowing down cloud migration as a whole so i think this automation engine and then app engine and we introduced a couple of apps on app engine including site reliability guardian and carbon impact that will precisely help you make things more resilient or carbon impact being able to measure all your carbon impact and then you also have the utilization levels how much performance you have it allows you to reduce your carbon impact but that also means that you are generally spending less money when you're reducing your carbon impact so cloud optimization all of these things become much more ai driven when you have access to it through things like automation engine and app engine. As we're talking about these different personas you know SREs DevOps platform engineering how do we look at these tools or how do you perceive the things which are changing in the market so that as you earlier said to help team no matter where they are in their journey i would also talk about the role of automation and AI but let's talk about like that from engineering and DevOps a bit. Yeah well first i think that shift left is a real thing and it's a real important thing. If you look at the role of platform engineering of DevOps, DevOps becoming dev sec ops and becoming biz dev sec ops all of these things are expanding so the role of SRE in my view has never been more important but it's involving more stakeholders and bringing more ownership into pre-production into the application development cycle so that you are able to prevent bad code or security vulnerabilities from actually getting into production by identifying them earlier so in my mind these roles are actually becoming a little bit more broader a little bit more influential and able to address a greater number of use cases and it all comes with you know what's the you know it's there's no longer i do observability you do security maybe you do business analytics all of these things really are converging right so this is what i i think is so exciting about the future that we're we're heading toward is it allows everybody to collaborate more to learn more about different disciplines to share information more easily and to drive better business outcomes through technology can you talk about the the importance of you know intelligent platform solutions AIML you know all these things which help also the fact is that we also talk about bringing back the developer experience here developer will solve creative problems in creative way they don't want to do mundane things and mundane things should be handed over to AIML and they are not going to take our jobs AIML they will just take over a lot of things that are boring we don't want to do that so talk a bit about the role of you know intelligent platform solutions as you're talking about you know moving the whole thing forward what do you see there i think that what we find in our install bases we've gone through is that is that employees um who embrace change embrace AI make themselves more valuable to the company they have more rewarding work they get more opportunities um and their job satisfaction increases right we i mean this is one of the you know i would say consistent things we saw from analysts and journalists reports is that the dynatrace customers that perform uh really enjoyed being dynatrace customers the longer you are a dynatrace customer the more you like dynatrace and that's not always true of of some companies some companies longer you're you're a customer the more you wish you weren't a customer so i think that's i think that's the the number one thing is everybody as an individual is thinking what's in it for me and i do think that the role of AI has an important role to play and and making our our lives better and of course there is there's a lot of potential downsides to AI especially when you think about how it's used in media how it can be used in advertising but when we talk about end to end observability um you know machine learning is is uh understanding the past to predict patterns and that has a role it's very important but in very dynamic environments um where you are constantly changing the environment you're encountering things that you've never seen before and that's really where causal AI um which is really fundamental to to dynatrace i think gives customers a leg up on understanding things that they've never seen before and knowing what to do about it so that to me is uh one of the most exciting things about the path forward at the event as you said you know last i mean different players of the whole ecosystem they came there you had a lot of discussions with them what are some of the pain point that you still see customers are facing of course beyond the economic condition situation that we are going through like in general with the adoption of clouded technologies what are the challenges that you think that hey they are still facing which are also that are our dynatrace that hey we have to solve these problems for our customers i think if you look at our number one competitor is still do it yourself all right and what is do it yourself it may be that you're you have a bunch of teams that want to do their own monitoring they want to you know um do bespoke you know for for specific applications and they're very siloed organizations and in some cases they may be using um what are considered platform companies but those platform companies really have siloed data um or if they've consolidated data it's all based on correlation and they can't do what what is commonly referred to as needle in the haystack queries or ask me anything without you know re-indexing rehydration so what i see is common pain points is i am so busy now how do i save myself right how do i get time to save myself how do i get everybody on board and that's not a simple answer because at its root it's uh it's a leadership and cultural thing amongst customers you have to have really the the willpower to change and frankly there's the reason you have early adopters early mainstream late mainstream and laggards is companies move at different paces and i think what what you've seen over the last few years is that companies that are more aggressively adopting technology and this is bearing out with with um Gartner and a bunch of their reset resources is is the more you adopt these and then observability solutions the better it is for your business so i i think it's just a a natural thing of how quickly can we change what's the right pace for our company bob thank you so much for taking time out today and of course talk about the larger ecosystem the challenges and how dynatrace is helping and also how perform is kind of bringing as you said you know different you know players of the ecosystem together to reconnect and to also talk to each other and sometimes bringing them together solves a lot of problem either way so thanks for sharing all those insights and i would love to have you back on the show thank you thank you so much for having me it was great uh it was great getting to know you better and would love an opportunity to come back at another date


Calvin was born with a very rare genetic condition. When we first started coming to Children's for his appointments, I actually got lost quite a few times. Everyone understands that need for technology to help families navigate this really large medical center as well as the care of their child. That's our mission, you know, and that's what we're always looking for and how do we enable better patient care at Stain Children's. So Karen is that digital concierge that our patients and families interact with through a mobile app. We knew we were going to need a platform that provided agility and allowed us to move fast, and so Azure was a logical choice in that. We didn't have experience with mobile apps before, so this was kind of our real step into Azure. We got to be able to stay in a language space that we were familiar with, which was C-Sharp and writing on the .NET stack. By going with the Xamarin.Forms route, we were able to leverage code reuse as much as possible. One of the things we got to try new was the Azure Function, and this was our first serverless project, so this shifted our mindset of how we wanted to approach Karen as a platform. So we looked at how do we decompose Karen into the respective pieces. We knew we needed a fast database, Cosmos-TV rose to the top. With Karen, one of the features that we wanted to include was a chatbot. By leveraging the Microsoft bot code samples and also Lewis, we didn't have to worry about building out a language model, maintaining it, training, and that sort. So when our work with our Karen app, we're really proud of the fact that it's working. Patients are already seeing value from it. That's what Matters does. Cincinnati Children's has been amazing in our lives. Having the app definitely gave me a new perspective on the hospital. I can know what's going on with my child because I have the Karen app, and I think that it's helped me be a better mother to my child. Thank you.


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Hey guys, welcome to SSUnitech Society site and today we are going to see about the aggregate transformation in Azure Data Factory. So what is aggregate transformation? So the aggregate transformation defines aggregation of columns in your data stream. Using the expression builder, you can define different type of aggregation such as aggregate functions, sum, min, max, count, group by existing and computed columns. So computed columns as we have already seen inside the derived column transformation. Then what is the group by? So for example, if you are having three columns and we want to do grouping based on two columns and the third column will be having the aggregated values. So this is the group by. So select an existing column or create a new computed column to use the group by clause for your aggregation. To use an existing column, select it from the drop down so that we will see in the practical. Don't worry. So go to on the browser and we will try to implement this in practical. So here go to the blog stories and under the blog stories we have this file. So this file is containing the information of the employee like employee ID, employee name, employee address and employee department. Similarly, if you can go and check inside the payroll file. So payroll file is having the information for the salary amount, tax amount, payroll month and employee ID. So what we want to see? We want to see the data as per the employee department and pay month. So first we have to join between employee and payroll table and after that we can use the aggregate transformation. So first we have to use the joint transformation so that we have already seen inside the joint transformation in this playlist. So first go to the data flow and try to create a new data flow here. And let me quickly call this data flow as aggregate transformation now here we are required to add the source. So first source which is the employee. So here we have already created the data set for the employee. So I am going to select that one. Similarly we need to go and try to add the payroll data set here. So we have already created the payroll one so this is the payroll data set we can select. So we have selected for the employee as well as the payroll. Now we need to click on this plus symbol and need to add the joint transformation to do the join between these two. So here under the joint transformation we are required to use the inner join. Left stream is source one and right stream is source two. So we can select it and the joint based on the employee ID. So we can select the employee ID from here and employee ID from source two. So this is all about the joint transformation. Now we are required to add the aggregate transformation but before aggregate transformation let me quickly go in the source two and here we can go under the projection. Here we can see the salary amount and tax amount values as string. So these values should be in the integer not string. So we can change it from here because we are going to do the aggregation based on the salary amount and tax amount. And that can be done either in the decimal or integer data types. So that is why we have updated. Now in this joint transformation let me click on this plus symbol and here we can see the aggregate. So we can add this aggregate here. Now here we can see the incoming stream that is joint one that is okay. Here we can see two options group by and aggregates. So under the group by we are required to select the department name the first one and second on the payroll month. So we can click on this plus symbol and we need to select the payroll month from here. The payroll month is available in the source two. So we can select it from here. So we are doing the group by based on these two columns and aggregate. So we can go under the aggregate and here we can select the column which is the salary amount and here we can see the expression. So under the expression we can open the expression builder. So we want to check the total amount. So we have to use the sum of the employee salary. So that is the salary amount. Now click on save and finish. Similarly I want to see another column. So we can click on this plus symbol and here the add column. So this will be adding another column and that column is tax amount. So we can select it. Now here we can open expression builder and let me use the sum here of the tax amount. So we can select the tax amount and save and finish. So we have done for the aggregate transformation like this is doing the aggregate based on department name and payroll month and whatever the salary amount and tax amount. So the total of that. So we can go in the data preview and try to refresh it. So under this we will be going to see four columns first two from the grouping and last two for the aggregate. So as we can see the IT department in the payroll month of this the total salary which is this one and here we can see the tax amount which is this. Similarly in the HR here it is 15 and the tax amount is 14,000. So this is not the correct data actually. So don't worry about that. Now we need to load this data into the destination. So we can select here the sync part and under the sync I am going to use the inline query select it like in delimited text file. So we can select that in the link service we can select it go to the settings and here we are required to select the output folder. So we can go in the output folder and after that we can click on ok. Below of that we can use the first row as header so that is true. Now here the file name option that is output to single file. So the output file name so this should be salary by department. So that's it. Now we can go under the data preview and here let me try to check this. By using the refresh. So this should be having the data which we have seen in the aggregate. So that's it. Now we can publish this and ok. So we need to go in the sync part again and here go to the optimize and this should be partition option should be single partition. Now let me try to publish this. So it will be published. Now we can add a new pipeline to execute this data flow. So in this pipeline we can use the data flow activity so we can drag and drop it here as we can see it is published completed so we can go in the settings and under the setting we can select the data flow for the aggregate. Now we can try to debug it. So once this will be completed your blob storage output folder will have one file that is salary by department. So it is executing we can wait. So it got executed successfully. Now go back to the output folder of this try to refresh it. Here we can see salary by department. Let me try to open this file and we'll see the data under this. So go to the edit and under this edit we can see like the department name per old month and salary amount and tax amount whatever the data we have already seen there. Let me close this. So this is all about the aggregate transformation. So thank you so much for watching this video. See you in the next video.


Hi, everyone. Welcome to our panel. I'm Hawk. I help run a lot of Rising Sun. I'm more of the publisher side of things here. I'd like to introduce you to some people. This is Bill Nendro, our writer on what we're about to talk about here today. And we have David down here, and David is an editor inside of this, helping me run this thing. Yeah? No? So, today we're going to talk about Adventure Team. Everyone's excited about Adventure Team. We've got something special we want to show you. Hopefully you'll like it. We're going to crank the music on this thing, and let's see what you think about it. So, this project got started in 2020 by Tim Ellis. Tim Ellis did this art. And Hawk noticed it on the interwebs and said, that's an interesting idea. Let me talk to you about that, Tim, and see what we could do. And they worked out an idea, and Hawk brought on me as the editor for this project. And we brought on Bill Nendro to be our writer for this project. It is basically a reimagining of the Adventure Team, and a continuation of the Adventure Team, both. What is going to be going on is there's a new threat that forces the Adventure Team to come back to the forefront of where the military is to fight this new threat. The name of that is going to be the Apex Event. And it is a worldwide, planet-wide event that they have to come together to fight. And there's other people on the earth that is also fighting this event. But we're focusing mainly on the Adventure Team. So, there's some familiar characters and some reimagined familiar characters that you'll notice if you're familiar with the old Adventure Team and their characters. So, the first character we're going to... I want to talk about this art real quick and then get into it. Sure. So, you can see here that what Tim Ellis has done is this book is intended to be a nostalgic throwback. It has a lot of cues, like a piece of artwork that is very loved and read over and over again. A lot of people get this confused and they start asking, is this a real thing? And the question is that if it wasn't then, it will be now. So, we're going to try and keep a homage to that 70s style of storytelling. And there's going to be a lot of foldback into that kind of idea of what comes down to this Adventure Team comic. This is a concept of work in progress and all projects involved. So, we're going to go through some characters and let you guys kind of talk about story and characters and everything else. We're going to try and do come out in 2024 with it. We'll see if that holds still. And we're going to talk about the Adventure Team now. So, we want to talk a little bit about story and then we can go into character. Sure. Go for it, Bill. Yeah, I was brought in after they had spoken to Tim. And it was initially, or instantly, really kind of gripped by the idea that they had going on here. These are some characters that I hadn't had a chance to kind of play with in the 70s. So, it was great to kind of, like you said, reimagine them a little bit and kind of figure out where they fit in this new world. I'm really excited as well because I've been knowing a lot of kind of realistic military fiction. So, this kind of gave me a chance to flex my wings a little more, do more of lean into some other things that I haven't been able to do in my writing career thus far. And really instantly kind of fell in love with a lot of these characters, which is part of the joy of writing. You get to see these characters grow and evolve and see how they're going to respond to these threats that form the context of this world. We're ready for this first roundout of character here. We're going to talk about the Commander. I'll let you take him from here. So, the Commander existed prior. He was part of the original Adventure Team. And so, we've kind of taken a kind of a new tact with him. We made him a career military person, and we're also connecting him to the larger GI Joe continuity that has existed. And some of what we're doing is going to leak into a real American hero, but not huge, just little tidbits, little teeny tidbits. But the Commander is the leader of this team. He brings this team together, and he's the one that's in charge of making sure that they combat this new threat. And he's very strong, he's very dedicated, he's very committed, and he's in control at all times in the story as you go through. You know he's the leader. It's been interesting to read from a character perspective, because nominally he appears to be maybe the weakest of the characters in terms of power set, but as David said, he's got skills that more than make up for that. So, it's been a lot of fun to read. And you can see here, of course, where we're playing off of the black American adventurer, you know, bearded adventurer, you know, that came out in the 1970s. We wanted to, you know, rather than do, you know, the Commander or Joe Colton as something below him, we decided to kind of go a different route, you know, allowing us to explore and be able to tell stories a little outside of maybe some of the content news that are already there. And our next character is Eagle Eye. Now, for you fans of the old G.I. Joe, you may remember that there was a figure of Joe Colton, Eagle Eye Joe Colton. We're reimagining that character as a completely new whole cloth character that is more of a Native American character that has skills in that vein, but also part of the adventure team. So he's in the military, he has those skills as well, and he's a very unique character, and the writing process has been a little bit of a pull and tug on how far we want to go with the Native American aspects and how far we don't want to go. So we've been playing with him. He's been our toughest character to try to develop. I'll let you go. I'm just going to say, yeah, there has been some challenges, but what's been really exciting is, personality-wise, he's characterized one way, but when we meet him, we meet him in a situation where that's being very much tested right away. So there's instant conflict within him. It's been interesting to kind of explore that and see how he's responding to these challenges that we're immediately introduced to. Our next character is Bullet Man. Everybody knows Bullet Man. Everybody loves Bullet Man. He's basically the Bullet Man that we all remember. This is a younger Bullet Man in that vein, so he's more impetuous. He's going to be one of the action characters of the series, and so the commander is going to have to try to reign him in because he's so gung-ho. But we really love playing with this character. He's been a fun character to incorporate into the series, and I think all the readers are going to enjoy him as well. Yeah, he really fits that archetype of the youthful exuberance. And again, just because of when we're meeting this team, some of that nae-de-tae is kind of starting to tarnish a little bit. So it'll be interesting to see how he responds to that and how he grows over the course of the run. And our next character is Power Man. Now this is a reimagining of Power Man, because that was also a Jill Colton toy, Power Man was, and so we reimagined this character as a kind of a military scientist type character that incorporates different technology into the physical aspects of himself, and there's struggles that he has to realize the limitations of those technological advancements that he's incorporated. And every one of our characters has human aspects to them that will be developed through the stories that will show that they are not just one-tone characters. There's levels to these characters and levels in the stories, as we tell these stories. And this is a character that you're probably going to shed a tear as the story goes on, because he's going to struggle that he's dealing with. One of the first things we did in the process was sit down and start to develop a character bible and look at what these characters could and couldn't do and really flesh out what made them human and would make them relatable and synthetic to the readers. I'm kind of proud of where we have them at the moment. I think this character, out of all of them, he has the most human arc, I think, beyond all of it. So I think it's something we can all relate to, you know, as we went through this. And our next character is Cheetah. Now this is a character that was in the original adventure team. He didn't have a name. He was just one of the versions of G.I. Joe. He wore the red jumpsuit. So we're kind of reinterpreting him. Part of this adventure team and this new threat is some of these characters end up with skills because of the Apex event, and those skills are incorporated into the characters. So this is another character that is kind of new, but kind of existing with new kind of attributes because of the Apex event. I don't want to give it away, but you can look at this piece of art and kind of have an idea of where this character is going. And I don't want to give too much away of what happens to this character. But this character is an integral part of this series, and you're going to want to keep reading to find out what happens to this character. But I don't want to give too much away. Yeah, I think I'm not going to add anything to that just so that, yeah, nothing is ruined. I want to talk about the design element because I've looked at this black and white, and I was looking at it black and white for a while. And then whenever the color come on, I was like, well, okay, you know, we're definitely going there. It's bright, it's really quite fun. I love the leopard print, you know, kind of like the engagement between it. So I'm really happy with how that came out. We'll move on to our next question. I do want to say one thing. Tim Ellis is our designer and artist that brought this project together. He's designed all these characters. He's designed the new adventure team logo. And by the end of the panel, if you haven't already gotten a adventure team pin, come up and I will give you an adventure team pin. He developed the new logo for the adventure team for this new project as well. Tim Ellis is a toy designer. He's also worked in packaging. He works with automotive. So he's definitely has a design degree. And I think, you know, you can see that throughout his work he's really thinking about spaces and all of those aspects and how they're merged together. His artwork has been really, really useful when we first started talking. We had names, we had some kind of ideas, and I was starting to get to know these characters and see how to write them. But then seeing this stuff just kind of breathes life into them, so that when I sit down and write, they just kind of are living things on the room. And our next character, hmm, wonder who this is? This is going to be a little bit of a question mark. That's all I'm going to say. His name is Black Oni and that's all I can tell you about this character. But looking at him, it's going to be interesting to see where he goes. So he's a very important character within the story and he affects the characters and the adventure team in this story. And that's all I can tell you. Bill, you want to add anything on that? That's all that will let me tell you now, but lunch is right after this, so if anybody wants to take me out, we can. I'm going to be following behind him. All right, let's move on. I want to show, go ahead. This is the first cover for issue, we're calling issue zero, but it's actually going to be issue one of a three-issue miniseries to start and depending upon the popularity of the series and the impact of whether you guys want more down the line and if it's something you're excited about, we are ready to continue on with this. It's being published by Rising Sun Publishing and it is going to be distributed, I believe at this time through Diamond Distribution which is a comic book distribution company that's worldwide so we're going to try and hit as many eyeballs as we can with this project to get that popularity up so we can make more of these for you if you guys want to see it. It's been a very fun, enjoyable process working with Bill, working with Tim, working under Rising Sun and I hope you all enjoy this and look forward to talking more about this next summer when we plan on having issue one by Joe Fest across my fingers. Everybody's working hard. Bill? I'm going to be less vague. I think if you're sitting here right now you are going to enjoy it. The question is going to be whether we can get enough people kind of seeing it and enjoying it as well. I want to know where these characters and I want to know where they go so hopefully who's planning on me getting Joe Fest? Holy, great. Hope to see this issue there. Hope to see you guys enjoying it and spread the word so that they call me back. I think what I want to say is this is still in Congress we're still working out the details we've written the stories and as you see this issue is zero here the reason why that issue is zero is we actually wrote a much bigger story which was much more in depth and we felt like we needed a little bit lighter getting in off the ramp so Bill's actually working on a revamped lighter story to get us through the hoop and onto some bigger storytelling aspects so that's why you're seeing an issue zero instead of one as we're going through our process and the hope is that we get an end diamond and we hope that everyone approves and we're hoping that our pitch is well received to all of those in charge and they like it and that's really involved with you guys as to whether or not you guys want to see more of this kind of comment coming through so I think that's got everything all of us done back to the original concept Do you want to watch the video again? Do you guys want to see the video one more time? Okay, we're going to do the video one more time for the people that came in a little bit That covers awesome by the way Thank you Yeah, we can talk to you That's what we're going to getting into I've got a hiccup in the party go again so let me fix that If you can't I'll hum over the So we could start with a couple questions maybe Just unplug it, just be careful it's going to pop I have to unplug it every time I I think so, they were trying earlier once they got it coming Who ever wants a question? Yes So you mentioned you were working on with Tim Seeley for the new logos and stuff Did he do the layoffs and then did you did he do the layoffs like the cover and the cover design as well Yes Okay, really good Yeah, he's a really good designer and he's been working really hard with us to develop this concept and we've had to try to reimagine some of this stuff and we're going back and forth with some things Like I said earlier Igor has been our most difficult character to try and bake Hock likes to use these cooking terms all the time like bake this and cook that and this, so we're trying to bake this character, trying to make him real and make him not stereotypical, so he's been the hardest one Any more questions? I was going to talk a little bit about our color process very briefly Have you noticed that we're using textures and tones because we want to pull back that idea of the four color process planning that was done in the 1970s So we're really trying to push that idea of 1970s storytelling and we really want the book to have that feel and so we're going for that idea you know, that this is you know, that you could have picked this up in the 70s and it would have been like yeah, this would have been total and we're going further with that I don't know if I should let this sneak by yeah, wait, tell them we're going to have some ads in the back of the comics, gag ads that are going to be like 70s stuff that you're going to be like selling Twinkies, that type of stuff, but gag versions of those that will be all done in this style as well, to have fun with it to really show you that this was possibly out at that time frame you two can be like Power Man with your see-through C-munk C-munk, exactly Make it like some sort of a play on it, like Sea Otters or Sea... We have an idea, we have an idea I can't reveal it yet, but we have an idea in that vein, Jason The one that everyone tells me no is you know, I want to do one of get your own radioactive chemical set, you know, complete with plutonium and they're going, oh no No, you should do that put like crazy disclaimers like 100% non-responsive So they're going to be really fun So we're trying to make this as fun as possible and nostalgic as possible Who's next? Who had a question? Is this the first time you've shown anything for We had a quick reveal at Joe Fest during the Rising Sun panel, but there were so many things in that panel, we didn't feel it got the notice that it needed so we wanted a full reveal and this is our first full reveal I think it was fairly well received then, and you know hopefully the word gets out and we're still getting a bit more interested as we move on Any other questions? Yes Can you go into some detail about Tim's background, what's he known for or anything like that? Is there anything you can discuss about that? He's not a lot of design design work designer primarily is what he's done, but he's worked on a little toy product with oh gosh, I can't remember their name they do these subscription packages stuff so he would do, he would work for a Funko Pop So some of his work is like Funko Pop related and things like that but he also works a lot in the car industry so he would go to shows and he actually designs the show booths stuff like that for the automotive industry and so as a freelance designer, he keeps him on the move quite a bit and his design aspect would go quite far if you look at this, then you look at something else that he's worked on for automotive night and day, completely different completely different concepts and I think he's been there for quite a while, maybe 20 years or so in doing pop up displays and things like that He doesn't have like a comic book resume or anything like that? He has a little bit of a toy resume but no comic book this is his very first comic book of all time She's one of that contents We're also looking at some other artists that join him in that may help out with some of the stories as we're moving forward we won't reveal any of those names yet but we'll see whatever we get there I think you guys would be pleased if we get a few of those guys we've been talking to We're trying to get that aesthetic of the 70s style art the way that the panels are set up the way that the pages are set up so you can look at this and like oh, this could have come out in 1976 or something like that as a comic book that's the whole idea the whole premise of this whole project and I think it's coming along really well There's no better way of getting there I'll say this, there's no better way of getting there than asking someone that worked in the 70s Any other questions? Yes, Martin Is the idea that this would be a sort of a non-profit thing? This one's going a little bit different this time so we are going to seek out where we're gauging the, you know, field response seeing what people really think about it that we're really interested in what we're doing here and then we're going to go for more of a formal aspect in order for diamond distribution things like that I'd like a little bit to share a few minutes to apologize for the cover for the book, are you doing a pre-order or is it going to be something that just diamonds can distribute up front and go in Maya wherever it is I think what we're going to do is we're going to be shooting for official licensing and like I said, we're going to try that first and see how it goes hopefully it's really well received and, you know, if not this may get buried deep down in the depths of Hasbro and Baltimore who knows but the idea is we're probably going to go straight to diamond and I'm not going to be surprising some pre-orders with exclusive content we'll never get that far so there's a couple other things that we're working on adjacent to this that may unfold as we're building up to it Any other questions?


There are a lot, a lot of heated debates that come up around the topic of moral and ethics and a lot of people think that they're very cut and dry. So when we look at people like Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, as well as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, we can see how they have a separate set of morals, but coming together with similar ethical values, they can get back together and help defeat Thanos in endgame. And there's a lot of lessons that we can learn from this. What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. And sometimes I like to take different topics from pop culture to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So a couple of things real quick. I wrote another blog post this morning. It'll be linked down in the description as well as in the pinned comment. If you want to check that out, I kind of threw back to the Civil War. I'm going to touch on some things in this video from that blog post. But if you want to get more of an outlook on the Civil War aspect of it, between their different morals between Captain America and Iron Man, go check that blog post out. Second thing is, I freaking love superhero movies. I love the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm going to be doing a lot of character breakdowns and mental health topics going into the Avengers Endgame, okay? So if you're not an Avengers fan, bear with me. I'm going to be covering a lot of really important topics. So just watch, learn a little bit about the Avengers, as well as learn a little bit about mental health. And if you have any topics that you think might be interesting moving forward, let me know down in the comments. Things such as survivor's guilt, right? Like we're going into Endgame with the surviving Avengers trying to avenge the fallen Avengers and things like that. There's also some relationships, you know, between Tony Stark and Peter Parker and that kind of relationship. I want to talk about Black Widow, all sorts of stuff. All right. If you have any topics that you want me to cover, let me know down in the comments below. Okay. So anyways, let's talk about morals and ethics. Okay. This is so important. So, so, so important, especially with some of the things going on around the topic of mental health on YouTube. Like there's so many things where I see people saying this is ethical. This isn't ethical. That's not ethical. That's not moral. Duh, duh, duh, duh. And one of the things I struggle with is a lot of people believe that these things are very cut and dry and they're not. All right. They, they're often like our set of morals are often formed based on our own experiences, our life choices, our own personal values. Like they vary from person to person. Some examples I want to give you before jumping into the topic of the Avengers is like think about these topics. All right. Sex workers. Okay. Some people might find that immoral veganism and vegetarianism. Think about what those people find moral and immoral. Okay. Then look at the topic of polyamory. Okay. Someone who's monogamous might find polyamory immoral. So like I want you to just kind of broaden your mind and open it up just for a minute to realize that these things aren't so cut and dry as they seem. So in the Avengers end game and we saw in the Avengers Infinity War, we saw Steve Rogers and Tony Stark come back together. Okay. They, they got into it a little bit in the Civil War. So let's talk about why that is. All right. You can say that, you know, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark had different sets of morals and we can look towards philosophy for this to philosophy covers a lot in the realm of morals and ethics. So I'm reading an amazing book right now. It's actually called like the Avengers and philosophy. I love it so much to kind of do what I do where they take pop culture to teach a lesson. Absolutely loving it. So anyways, you have Steve Rogers. Steve Rogers follows a philosophy of deontology. Okay. What is right is right. Do the right thing. No matter what have your set of right things to do and do those things. Okay. That's one of the issues that Steve Rogers had with Tony Stark. So Tony Stark, his moral philosophy is something of utilitarianism. Okay. This is more an idea of logic. So a great way to kind of explain these two different types of moral philosophies. Deontology is looking at right versus wrong. Okay. Where utilitarianism is better or worse. So somebody like Tony Stark in the Civil War and I explained this more in depth in the blog post. He was looking at this. Okay. Based on the circumstances. This is the best possible outcome. So people who have that kind of utilitarianist moral philosophy, they are looking for net, net positive. Okay. Like this is best case scenario. We need to do this based on the best case scenario. Somebody like Steve Rogers who stands firmly in his ideals. He's not going to waiver. All right. I another way to kind of look at this is a philosophical thought experiment. All right. So let's say that you are on a runaway, a runaway trolley. Okay. And if that trolley stays on the track, there is a group of people on that track. And if it stays on that track, it's going to hit them. Kill them all. Okay. Now you have a choice. There is a lever that you can pull. This is the only thing you do. So you can't get off the trolley or anything like that. Nothing crazy. The only choice you have is to pull that lever.  Okay. So which one would you choose? Okay. Think about that for a second. Maybe leave the comments down below. Would you let the trolley go and run over a group of people or would you make the decision to pull that lever and hit that one person? Okay. So when looking at Tony Stark versus Steve Rogers, we could probably say that Tony Stark would pull that lever. Steve Rogers probably wouldn't pull that lever because he would have to make the conscious decision which would kill people. Okay. He would make that conscious decision. So this is something where these two, these two differ. Now, I don't know. I've never had these two do a thought experiment because they're fictional characters. All right. But that's where these two butt heads. Now, when Thanos comes into play in the Infinity War, how do morals come into play there? Okay. So something that's always fascinated me is that everybody is the hero of their own story. All right. Like if you think about it, nobody, nobody does what they think is wrong. Right. Everybody does something thinking that they're the hero. So when you look at Thanos and what he's trying to accomplish throughout the Infinity War, he's trying to get these day infinity stones so he can wipe out half of the universe population. Okay. He believes that that is the best thing possible since they're struggling with overpopulation. So he needs to wipe, wipe out half of the population. So you might think, okay, well, does Thanos have a utilitarian point of view where he's looking at best case scenario? Like even though you have to sacrifice half of the population, let's do this. And now if we look at it like that, does Iron Man have that same view? When you think about that, well, if Iron Man is utilitarian as well, why didn't he agree with what Thanos is doing? And this is where we can look at Tony Stark and Steve Rogers coming back together to defeat Thanos. Because I would argue that although Tony Stark has a utilitarian philosophy of morals, he's looking at that and the ends don't justify the means. All right. So the means would be wiping out half the population in order to save, you know, the rest of the population. He doesn't believe that that's justified.  I would imagine somebody like Tony Stark would do the best he possibly could to try to come up with new resources, to, you know, try looking to see if life can be sustained on other planets. So that's where he disagrees with Thanos. And that brings up the ethics of the Avengers and how Tony and Steve were able to come back together because the difference between morals and ethics is morals is like your personal system that you follow, right? Ethics are more of a set of rules. Okay. And the Avengers, when you have all these different personalities coming together, it's hard for them to have a set of rules. You know what I mean? Even though, you know, Iron Man and Captain America are two of the figureheads, they're going to have some differences, but they're coming together to defeat Thanos. So what does this mean for all of you? When it comes to mental health, one of the biggest things is we get so furious with people who disagree with us. We get so upset when people disagree with us and we get so selfish and self-centered in our thinking. We think our way is the only way this is right. This is wrong. And the reason why I say I say it selfish and self-centered is because we completely neglect another person's experience or reality. And my personal, my personal opinion and outlook on this is like, it's explained in the blog post. Okay. Go check that out because I don't want to get into that too much here, but I'll go back to the original topics I gave you. Okay.  All right. There are many people who think that's a moral. They think that this is a moral. You shouldn't be doing that, right? But for a sex worker, that's a hundred percent moral. Okay. Then you get vegans and vegetarians. All right. I'm vegetarian, but I'm not like one of those like moral high ground vegetarians, but vegans and vegetarians sometimes think that any meat eater is being a moral, but there are meat eaters who believe what they're doing is moral. You see what I mean? And then you get into the whole dispute of vegans versus vegetarians because vegetarians like myself still eat dairy products, right? Still eat eggs and things like that. And then you look at the subject of polyamory versus monogamy. There are people who think it's morally incorrect to be polyamorous. You should be with one person. That's it. No polyamory and they're against like open relationships and all those things, but in all of these scenarios, who's right and who's wrong? Like is it hurting anybody? Like what's the net gain out of it? Right? And some of these situations, like it's, it's overall happiness that you're looking for. That's kind of what utilitarians look at is overall happiness. What's going to satisfy the greater good? You know what I mean? Let's look at gay marriage. There are certain people who think that's a moral. Who's right? Who's wrong? Now, I know you have your own beliefs on these things, but is it fair to really say that this person is immoral because they were raised a certain way because they follow a certain religion, you know, things like that. And I understand that in an honest debate, people can make cases for these things, but that's why I encourage debates rather than arguments. And that's why I think this really affects our mental health. I feel that we live in a time where people no longer debate. They just argue and they fight and they get pissed off when someone disagrees with them. It's my way or the highway. And I think that's one of the reasons why so many things like politics are just so polarizing. You know what I mean? And at the end of the day, people just have different paths that they want to take to reach the same goal, which is overall happiness and, you know, the betterment of mankind. So I just want you to think about that.   All right, like I want you to think about that stuff. But anyways, like I said, leave comments down below. Let me know your thoughts on this topic. Let me know any suggestions you have for mental health topics going into the Avengers end game. Like I said, I have a bunch of ideas. I'll put them down in the description below. You can take a look at them and then come up with more ideas. All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing. And if you would like to sign up and become a patron, you can click the top right there. 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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2021 Ram 3500 Crew Cab Long Box Dual Rear Wheel Limited Level 1 is stock number 13920Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 Ram 3500 has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel engine. It puts out 420 horsepower, 1,075 foot-pounds of torque. It's paired up with the Ice and Heavy-Duty 6-speed automatic transmission. This truck can tow up to 33,974 pounds and has a max payload of 5,042 pounds. I found those numbers on Ram's tow guide website, I'll link it in the description below. This particular truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the truck possible. Delmonico Red Pro-Code is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com. Click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do, each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle, and specifically truck walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the polished aluminum wheels, these are 17-inch wheels, and it has Michelin LTX-AT tires, these are LT245-75R17s. I would say they have 60-70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean. This is a one-owner, clean title history, clean car fax, and if you couldn't have guessed it from the bumpers, it's from Texas. Speaking of those bumpers, you get these ranch hand, or I'm sorry, these are tough country, grille guard and bumper in one. Still has the LED fog lamps, LED headlamps and LED running lights, we'll turn all those on at the end of the video, so you can see just how nice and bright they all are. The hood is in fantastic condition, I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and you do get the cab lights up top. Passengers side front fender is absolutely perfect, no dents or dings on there, and the passengers side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there, looks really good. This little Monaco Red has just a little bit of metal flake to it, look how clean that paint is. A lot of metal flake there, and as you go down this side of this 2000 and 21 Ram 3500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that bread sent you. Very clean down this side, love this shot, no dents, no dings. The front dually tub looks like it's in really nice shape, does have the 3M tape on it yet, nice fender flares, back wheels are just as nice as the rest. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, this one does have the auto-leveling air suspension in back, see that lever right there, it pushes up, tells those airbags to pump up so it'll level out your truck with a heavy load on there. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean, what you'd expect from a two-year-old truck from Texas has all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way and this one does have the power running boards. Rest of the dually tub looks really good and see any dents or dings on there, has the LED tail lamps, the rear bumper is the same brand as the front bumper, no major dents or dings on there, it does have the four pin, seven pin wiring and the receiver hitch right there, tailgates in really nice shape as well, has the power drop down tailgate, spray it in bed liner, fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package, get LED bed lights back here, four pin and seven pin wiring as well as a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in, beds in really nice condition and that spraying bed liner goes on to the tailgate which is really nice as well. Going around to the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the box, paint is in really nice condition and for full disclosure this back wheel is in excellent shape as well, all the wheels look really good. Down the rest of the side the truck cab and doors are in great condition, does have the enter and go system, the heated fold up tow mirrors, blind spot mind, built in directional signals, 360 cam, they do fold up, you also get LED side lights and they fold up and fold in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats, they are in fantastic condition, it's the tan and indigo blue I believe, interior or light frost, power slide and rear window with the built in rear defrost, you can see those seats are actually blue, looks really good.   Hop inside here, quickly check out the seats first, no rips or tears on them, they look really good, I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in, smells very clean, both these front seats are heated, cooled and power, driver side lumbar factory floor mats up here as well, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks and mirrors, you get the wood grain trim, the leather and stitching insert there, bolster, these mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly and you get the power blind spot mirror so you just have to select which mirror you want, if you look at that outside mirror you can control that which is really nice especially for the passenger side if you need to adjust that one. Hop inside here, the interior is pretty awesome, you get the 7-inch LCD display, 32,623 miles on this truck, you get the 7-inch LCD display digital spinometer and spin clusters, very nice and clean, you can adjust each corner to read different informations about the truck, has the heated leather wrapped and wood grain trim steering wheel, this one does have adaptive cruise control, regular cruise control, gear selector, Bluetooth and information center controls, nice blue wrapped steering wheel, indigo blue, there's your shifter, this one has the Uconnect 4C 12-inch radio, you get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, very heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your cameras, we'll check those cameras out here, you get the surround view camera obviously with the grill guard on there, the front doesn't work the best but you can see all the other cameras do and you get the cargo cam which is pretty nice, you can also just zoom in on your receiver hitch to get hooked up to your boat camper trailer first time every time, this is my favorite camera so if it's going down the side of the truck if you're backing up a camper or trailer or boat imagine how great that would be and then you can zoom in on which side you're backing up to, that would just be ultra handy, I wish my truck had that feature. Anyways, back to the radio, so you get AM, FM and Sirius, you get all your different apps on here, you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, we actually did a demo on Android Auto, you also have your off-road pages, they take a second to load so while they're loading I'll tell you that you can check out that demo in the upper right hand part of the screen to Android Auto, factory brake controller, you get six auxiliary up-fit switches, you can also, you also have your alternate trailer height so if you got different weights of trailers or different heights of trailers you can adjust that using that auto leveling rear suspension, tow-haul mode, factory exhaust brake, front and rear parking sensors, here are your off-road pages so you get your different steering angles right there, you can see as I turn the steering wheel that angle changes and the tires move as well, you get your accessory gauges as well as pitch and roll and then you have your latitude longitude and altitude right there. Down here is your two USBs, two USB C's and an AUX jack, 12 volt, I'm sorry, wireless cell phone charge pad, 115 volt, 400 watt plugging down there, keyless entry, remote start and power drop down tailgate, look at this interior it is just really really cool, I like the whole dash layout, the gold trim on everything looks really good and you get cup holders and coin holders right there on that sliding tray, lots of storage underneath, passenger side glove boxes and seat and floor mat are in fantastic condition and this one does have the power sunroof, headliners in nice shape, you do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems, map lights, assist in SOS buttons and power drop down tailgate right there, power sliding rear window and sunroof controls as well, it also has the rear view mirror camera so that's a video display of what's going on behind you, now if you just want a regular camera or a regular rear view mirror you can do that or you can do that and you can raise it or lower it, brighten it or dim it, it does have the Harman Kardon sound system, you get the speakers and the ceiling in back and that's everything, let's go start it up, take a look under the hood, this is a long video, there's a lot to show on this truck and everything is really nice so definitely want to make sure I give you the most accurate representation possible, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that and before I forget you have the tire and loading information sticker as well as the VIN sticker, all right there are those LED side lights, they are super bright, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out and just a really nice ride, all those lights are super bright, all the lights are working nicely too, cab lights all work good, under the hood we have the 6.7 liter high output coming diesel engine and to base very clean ones very smooth, once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and is 100% ready to go, there's the emissions sticker and I would highly recommend this truck for make quality and condition standpoint considering the age of miles on it and the type of vehicle it is, it's in really really nice shape and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it we got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and specifically truck walk arounds on YouTube 8,000 videos and counting in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left, link to more Ram 3500 truck videos I've done in the upper right link to this vehicle on our website lower left and a link to one of our latest two videos in the lower right, click those check us out we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2021 Ram 3500 crew cab long box dual rear wheel limited level one Intel Monaco red Perlko, thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share on the YouTube channel I really appreciate it thanks again