or sound check. Do I have sound? Do I have sound? That should be fine. I don't need to keep monitoring. As long as I don't mess around with the USB connections. Should be fine. Should be losing my microphone or anything. That's the chat as well just in case someone joins in. Let's seem to work. So finished this web application yesterday. CgSyntheticSignalGenerate.go. Check it out. It's on the website. This page. I'll share it in the in the notes. In the comments. And that's working fine. There's no refresh button, but you can just refresh the page. And the other thing we would like to do is to... Yeah, so that's our IntelliQzG. What we would like to do is have a feature extraction from it. It's essentially something that labels the PQRS, PQRST waves. It actually puts them in, labels them in separate colors. That would be nice. Let's see how well. We had something previously working. We have the description for it. And a video as well. To look like that. Yes, it will label... This is my 30 second signal. Yeah, it will label ECG as such. It was working nicely. Unfortunately, due to technical issues. To reboot the whole, restart the whole server so we don't have that backend. Therefore, this doesn't work anymore. But it's okay. Because we have JGPD to make a similar tool for us. So let's just polish this. What was that T7 coming from? To remember what the range, minimum maximum is this? No, that's okay. I think we need the range. At least not yet. I don't know why would we need one? So we have those as outputs. And we'll have a ECG shot as per usual with different waves in different colors. We use American, American English. None of that. You, rubbish. PUF, QRS, DWAVE, ECG. Then we also have measurements for heart rate, mean, PR, interval, time, interval, mean, cure, ISO, level, mean. I can use... So we could use Neurokit, which actually allows simulating ECG waveforms. Flask, so it's available for you to play with. And numpy, this relevant paper. We have a scroll, do we need a scroll option? Just get away with window size. So this will be, oops, another input, outputs, Python packages, that paper might be not so relevant. We have this description that we wrote a while back. We already punched something into just checking my mouse. I realized all my previous streams didn't have the mouse cursor visible. That's not cool. I'm checking that I actually see the mouse cursor all the time. I seem to be able to see it okay. Please let me know if I stuff something up like that. I would like to improve your feedback would be very valuable. Congratulations. What else do we have? Hitch extraction, clean ECG signal, maybe type classification. It's not really about type classification. But let's read our own requirements. We'll not really sweep this quickly. The ECG feature extractor is a prototype tool designed to analyze and label different components of an electrocardiogram ECG waveform with distinct colors, enhancing visual clarity and facilitating accurate interpretation. By splitting the ECG wave into T wave, QRS complex, NP wave, the extractor effectively segments and highlights each component, allowing clinicians and researchers to easily identify and analyze specific features. The color labeling provides a clear representation of the different ECG components aiding in the identification of abnormalities and regularities. Yet that description is okay. In addition to segment labeling, the ECG feature extractor provides valuable quantitative measurements for several important parameters. It calculates the mean values for crucial metrics including heart rate, PR interval, QRS time, QT interval, and isoelectric level. These measurements offer valuable insights into cardiac activity and provide a central information for diagnosing and monitoring heart conditions. By automating the extraction and analysis of ECG features, this tool could streamline the interpretation process, save time, and help help their professionals making important decisions based on accurate and standardized measurements. I am right. We have the file structure. Can we put all that north order? It is. We have the folder structure as inputs. Essentially, it will be something similar to this, but this will have each wave labeled with a different color. It is probably done with this. We don't want to display this anymore. I have a folder. Let's do this again. The tool complies with the relevant medical and ethical guidelines and regulations. Well, this is a good reason why this is synthetic ECG. Based on the information you provided, you are looking to create a Flask web application using Python that can process and analyze ECG signals. That's right. The users can input ECG signals and select a window size in the ECG signal type. Yep. The application will then output an analyzed ECG chart with different wave components color coded, along with other statistical metrics like heart rate mean, PR interval mean, etc. Yeah, that's right. We have the requirements file. Copy pasting is a skill, isn't it? Requirements. Yeah, we should have a New York hit NumPy Flask pandas modplotlib. We should have all of that already. This is mainly for reference. We'll deal with the Flask settings once we have something working. Yeah, New York hit. What was the sample application structure? Yes. So, it's the main Flask code. Handles the routes and the main functionality of the application. It will import the required libraries, load the ECG data, process it and send the output to the front end. That's nice. That's the script. Yes. Handles any client-side JavaScript for the application, for example, to make asynchronous requests to update the ECG chart dynamically. Bigger. Yeah, we know what CSS does. And the index HTML. Yeah, we would not have any. Let's close this for a sec in CSS. Let me actually copy this CSS. Should we copy everything from the previous project templates. My app, the WSGI file. We don't need that. Copy in features, extraction. So the data should be empty for now. It will remain empty. That's the old HTML file. This one doesn't work anymore. It's the one we are changing. We have JavaScript, CSS and the main app application. So we can use, we can start off this app application in Python code. Essentially, it will be a more advanced version of this. So this one, it's this tool here. So just generating synthetic signal. It's not doing any labeling. We want to do labeling. By the way, if you have any comments, suggestions, improvement, please do let me know. Just by the way, my YouTube analytics, if anyone is interested, I can talk more about that. You have provided a Flask application that receives ECG parameters from the client-side, generates a simulated ECG signal using the Narokid 2 library, and returns the generated ECG signal as a response. The parameters include BPM, window size, various types of noise, and ISO actor voltage. Here, I'll provide a brief review of your code and suggest any necessary improvements. I didn't mean to just ignore what I was asking about before. I didn't upload it. I did upload it. Let's do this again. Requirements. I should give it the JavaScript first. Let's do this with the JavaScript first. Your JavaScript code is for a web page that allows users to input parameters to generate a synthetic ECG signal using the Flask back-end. When users change any input field in the form, it makes a post-request to the Flask back-end, retrieves the generated ECG data, and uses Plotly to plot the ECG data on the web page. Give me some example improvement. Is that all about? Here's an example of how you can add a loading spinner to provide feedback to the user when the ECG data is being fetched. Assume you have a less than div8 equals loader, greater than less than div greater than in your HTML that contains a loading spinner, which is hidden by default. Now that's okay. I'll do it later. Mainly working on different applications. Given the provided information and requirements, I will focus on enhancing the app.py and script. JS files to include features for analyzing and labeling different components of the ECG waveform with distinct colors and to calculate mean values for crucial metrics. That's right. It's modifying the Python code. We will modify the class gap to process the ECG signals and extract features such as P-Wave, QRS complex, and T-Wave, then send these features to the front-end to be plotted. Doing everything in the same function. Okay, let's close all for a sec. We need to modify the JavaScript code to receive the extracted ECG features and plot them with different colors. Right. So using the same libraries, we have generate ECG as we had before. The code remains the same. We have the actual ECG generation over here. Okay, let's see. So it uncommented this. Didn't actually mention anything about it. Okay, it's extracting here, but it's not actually saying how it's done. I think this will actually work. I'm turning into all this into JSON file. I think this will work. Okay, the JavaScript should have update plot there already. Added all this stuff in constant data. Copy the whole constant data and you plot the CG plot data layout. This remains the same. ECG analysis. Ensure you have thoroughly understood the Narokid 2 library and how it processes and analyzes ECG signals. The extraction of P-Waves, QRS complexes, and T-Waves should be validated with actual ECG data to interact with ECG. Getting 500 error. Why? Failing to load resources. Failing to load. I really understood what's different in these errors here. Load them open. If six errors, this one says some problems, no longer generate consumers, it just puts service as an issue. Okay, obviously having trouble with the HTML in a template might well pop the styling. Let's put this in. Expect some variables to have different names or something like that. The HTML code you provided is a template for a web page that uses a form to gather parameters for generating an ECG waveform. It then passes these parameters to a backend service which returns the ECG data to be plotted on the page using Clotli. The form includes various controls for manipulating the ECG waveform including sliders for BPM, window size, and different types of noise. Your HTML is well-structured and you've made effective use of semantic HTML elements like less than header greater than, less than nav greater than, and less than form greater than. The inclusion of open graph meta tags at the top of your document is a nice touch for enhancing the shareability of your page. Your web page is well-designed with interactive elements for generating custom ECG waveforms. Enhancements in code cleanliness, accessibility, CO, and user feedback can make it more user-friendly, accessible, and discoverable online. Yeah, that's fine. That's not what we are worrying about. Yeah, the demo length is too small. Right, I've seen this error before. What's the problem? Can you solve this one for us? Please? Generating two responses. I want the one that I can read out loud. It's pretty much the same, pretty much the difference. Suggesting logging stuff. Unlike when it says final thoughts as if it's finished working. Pretty sure I have all the packages installed. I think it is the syntax error. Pretty sure we are printing the error. Oops, sprint data. The length is too small. 25 seconds seem to do the processing. Still get 500 for the generate ECG. That's not cool. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we don't actually have the ECGP wave. At least not yet. I'm not sure why it's even trying to plot it. I'm not sure if Neurokit can label individual waveforms. I don't think so. The main question. Does it even have an option to extract B wave? Pretty sure it doesn't. It says it does. This is a general approach for using Neurokit. ECG processing. Process the ECG signals using nk.ac underscore process which will return a DAF frame containing various process signals and a dictionary containing useful ECG features. Extracting waves. You can extract individual waves from the signals DAF frame which contains various processed and filtered versions of the ECG signal including the RPX. Visualizing the ECG signal you can use nk.ac underscore plot to visualize the process ECG signal which will display the RPX and if processed appropriately other waveforms as well. It's a nice code. This actually works. Oops. It seems I made a mistake in the previous example. The nk.ac underscore plot function does not take a sampling underscore rate argument. You should be able to plot the ECG signals and RPX just by passing the signals DAF frame dead. This poses some problems with the pandas library. This error is likely occurring because of changes in the pandas library where multidimensional indexing is no longer supported. It usually arises when you are trying to index a pandas DAF frame or series in a way that would return a multidimensional object. You know the source. It appears the error is emanating from the internal workings of the Neurokit to library particularly when it tries to plot the ECG signals and is not something directly related to your code. This could likely be due to a version mismatch or some changes in pandas or other dependencies that the Neurokit to relies on. This is not a recommended approach as it involves changing the library's source code which could lead to more issues online. However, if you're in a hurry and need a quick fix, you can trace back to the file and line number indicated in the error message and make necessary adjustments such as converting the pandas object to an mp array before indexing. But this should be a last resort and done with caution. Wait for a touch. Okay, so be sure a Neurokit doesn't have an option to extract features. So I have to do it in a different way. If the error occurs during the plotting step and your main goal is to extract ECG features, you can bypass the planning for now and focus on extracting the features you need from the signals and info objects returned by nk.ac underscore process. Pre-show Neurokit doesn't have an option to extract individual waves. We might have to use a different approach. Apologies for the confusion. Yes, you might need to resort to a more manual approach to extract the individual waves if the library doesn't provide a straightforward way. You can do this by utilizing the indices of the rpx, ppx, tpx, etc, which can be computed from Neurokit to and then slice the ECG signal accordingly. Here's a basic example of how this could be achieved. Note that this approach involves estimating where the pnt waves are relative to the rpx, which might not be extremely accurate and may need further tuning or a more sophisticated approach depending on your specific needs. Right, so this is more manual. Yeah, Neurokit wouldn't have automated any functions extracting individual waveforms. So I have to do it with ECG, ECG simulation. I mean, we still want to keep this essentially what we want. What do we want? We have a ECG signal generator. What do we want? We want to label a different parts of the signal. When do we want it? We'll deal in 10 minutes. That's how long we have in this stream. Okay, so it's ignored. Everything I said in the beginning is actually not a flask application, just a still testing mode. See if this works. It's surprising it does. Okay, how did you do it? That was quick. Okay, there's a problem. Just extracting the qrss. You ideally want something similar to this video that we had. Where is the quality low? This is better. Yeah, one day p qrss t in separate colors. This is something else. It's only in this example, only qrss peak is being labeled in different colors. Instead, can we use all colors and label p wave separately q notch separately r peak in a different color r in a different color and s peak wave in a different color at a deal with the message text. Yes, certainly. You can achieve this by specifically segmenting each part of the ECG waveform p wave, qrss complex and t wave and plotting them in different colors. However, you would need the precise indices of these components and that might involve more sophisticated signal processing or machine learning methods to accurately identify each component. Here's a basic example of how this could be achieved with simplified assumptions. Yes, I'm just a basic illustrative example. And for real world applications, you would need more accurate methods to determine the exact boundaries of each wave component. That's why explanation of the code. We're using the rocket to get the r peaks. We then use these r peaks to estimate the locations of the p waves and t waves. Yeah, this is a rough estimate and should be refined for real world data. We plug these separate segments in different colors. The by underscore label dictionary is used to eliminate duplicate labels and legend. Remember, the accuracy of this approach depends highly on the precision of the p q r s and t wave detection and this code provides rough estimations. You may need more advanced algorithms or models for precise and reliable wave delineation, especially for real world noisy ECG data. This is more like get the labeling off the labeling is a bit off. I understand your concern. The labeling of ECG components can be refined by identifying specific points for p q r s and t waves individually. However, this would require a more advanced approach than the simple estimation used in the previous example. Here's a more detailed example using artificial indices to label each component individually. Please note that these are still estimates and in a real world application, you would need to employ advanced signal processing techniques or machine learning models to accurately identify these components. In this revised code, I've adjusted the indices for segmenting the ECG into p q r s and t waves individually, and each of them is colored differently. I've increased the total window around each our peak to accommodate individual labeling of all five components. I've made sure to make the indices relative to each our peak so dynamically adjusts based on the position of each our peak. Remember to replace these estimated indices with the actual indices of each wave component for precise labeling. This can be achieved using more advanced signal processing methods or machine learning models trained for ECG signal delineation. This last labeling is a bit messy. Can we assume that so we're finding our peaks? Can we then just assume that the peak beforehand is q and the peak after that is s and I json to the our peak, you have q and s. It's by the way not quite right, but certainly we can simplify the labeling with these assumptions. Here's the updated code to reflect those changes. Okay, we have like four minutes to turn it into a flask application, publish. Can we do that? In this version, the segment just before each our peak is assumed to be the q wave and the segment just after is assumed to be the s wave. The p wave is assumed to be before the q wave and the t wave is assumed to be after the s wave. Please keep in mind, these are simplifications and for a real world application, you'd likely need a more sophisticated approach to identify these components accurately, especially in the presence of noise or arrhythmias. Also, the current code will plot the s wave and the r wave with the same color because they are in the same range, you may need to adjust the indices accordingly based on your specific requirements. Yeah, the previous one was better wasn't the previous code was producing better results. Can we keep the r peak label as a dot? Once we have that, can we assume that the negative peaks on the left and right are q and s? Can we also assume that before q, we have a positive t wave? Can we assume that after t negative peak, we have a positive t wave? Certainly. We can improve the labeling by marking our peaks with dots and making more important assumptions about the positions of p, q, s and t waves. We will search for negative peaks around the r peaks to identify q and s waves and assume the positive peaks before q and after s waves are added as p and t waves respectively. Here's an improved version of the code.  The labels are added as dots to make the graph less cluttered. This approach should give you more accurate labeling of the ECG components. Make sure to adjust the window sizes and thresholds according to the specific characteristics of the ECG signals you are working with. Apologies for the confusion. It looks like the distance underscore min parameter isn't available in the version of Narokid 2 you are using. We can still proceed by just using the height underscore min parameter to filter out the smaller peaks or we can implement an alternative method to find the peaks. Here's the corrected code. I removed the distance underscore min parameter and kept the height underscore min parameter to filter out the peaks based on their heights. This should help to avoid smaller peaks that are too close to the r peaks while still identifying the q, s, p and t waves effectively. e wave and t wave are mislabeled. They should be local maximans before q and after s. Can you fix this? Certainly. I apologize for the oversight. I'll fix the code to correctly identify the p and t waves as the local maximans before q and after s respectively. Here's the revised code. In this revised code, I've added a check to ensure that the p and t waves are positive peaks. The p wave is identified as the highest positive peak before the q wave within a given window. The t wave is identified as the highest positive peak after the s wave within a given window. These modifications should result in more accurate labeling of the p and t waves in the ECG signal. Adjust the window sizes and thresholds as needed for your specific ECG signals. Not messing it up. Why? This number is potentially too small. Okay, let me know if there's any suggestions or anything I can improve. What am I doing wrong? Over one hour, there's nothing in the chat. Take a break and see you in a bit.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. The second phase of the Bihar elections is scheduled to be held on November 3rd. Now these elections are important not only for the state of Bihar but also for the country, a lot of key issues at stake. And one of the key aspects of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's campaign has been his claim of good governance. He said that over the past 15 years he's brought about a lot of economic change to the state, brought about a lot of administrative change to the state. But how much of this has really happened? To talk more about this, we have with this Praveenja, Professor of Economics at Jahlal Air University. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Yes, so my first question was regarding a very curious phenomenon as far as Bihar's finances are concerned. Now, it looks like Bihar actually has a revenue surplus and when the states are talking about having no money for development, no money to spend. But how does a state like Bihar actually end up with a revenue surplus and what does it indicate about the government spending? Two things. Firstly, you have to contextualize it and situate it in the larger trajectory of center state finances and in particular the neoliberal turn which was manifested largely through FRBM Act, which then tied whatever states get from center by keeping their fiscal deficits, in particular revenue deficit. The idea was to do away with revenue deficit and fiscal deficit could have been in the range of around 3 percent or so. So that was the larger sort of context and it is basically around 2000 or so that this thinking got into action 3, 4 was the period when it gets implemented. So basically from 4, 5 onwards, you will notice that a large number of very poor states in India, they get into this business of revenue surplus, whether it is Orissa, Bihar, whichever state you are looking at, the so-called Bimaru states, it is a phenomena which is there and it seems a bit odd, a bit bizarre, somewhat as you said curious and so on. But it is fully understandable, now there are only two ways that you will have revenue surplus, one you actually raise more resources. Now clearly that is not happening on any significant scale, in case of Bihar in particular, in fact the larger part of what Bihar gets as resources or gets in its resource kitty as resources comes from the center. So the state in any case does not have too many things from which it can raise resources, the share of direct taxes is very small and so on in case of Bihar. So you essentially then think of ways by which you curtail the expenditure. So essentially that has been happening. If you look at the long-term trend for about roughly fifteen, sixteen years, in almost each one of these states, which then basically means very key areas which should receive attention as part of the development trajectory, get neglected and in particular social sector I mean I will give you one example for instance. If you look at the situation in Bihar with respect to let us say what is supposed to be requirement at the health centers, primary health center, local hospitals and so on and so forth. Community health center, the required number of specialists is supposed to be four. Now that in itself may be on the lower side because the number of health centers that you have is not adequate and the reaches if anything has worsened over the years. But if we take this as the state's stated requirement then as per the most recent estimate from the official stats, the position occupied is 121, vacancy is 483. Now you know it is obviously a grotesque kind of situation and I am giving you only one example relating to the health sector. We can get into the nitty-gritty of it, we can get into education and so on. We can look at the requirements that we have of trained teachers, etc. So if you look at the overall priorities of the state government, somewhere it is to keep your expenses in a functional state by addressing the most urgent needs. What are the most urgent needs then? Salaries. I mean you can't run a government without doing that and that too is of a nature where there are lots of questions being asked. So for instance if you look at the workers on the ground, the most critical workers you know Anganwadi workers, your Asha's and so on or look at teachers what has been done in case of Bihar is basically you have the overwhelming cadre of para-teachers. So through that also you compress the overall expenditure. So basically this has been the situation over the last almost three decades, has different phases and so on. In case of Bihar, 2004-5 onwards I mean it was already you know in 4-5 the revenue surplus was 1076 crores and in the last fiscal it was 19173 crores. What happens in case of Bihar and most people probably do not pay adequate attention to it is that there was a massive expansion for about roughly 10 years of resources through alcohol. So there was a very, very indiscriminate spread of outlets, most of these so called tekhas, villages etc and then it became a huge problem. So village after village started complaining and so on. So earlier with respect to alcohol you had a more careful strategy you know you did not have this kind of indiscriminate expansion etc. What happens then you decide to have a basically 180 degrees, you go to the other extreme what has happened on the ground essentially the state has been criminalized. So it is not the case that alcohol is not available easily in Bihar you know as it happened in Gujarat earlier the other prohibition states and so on. So it is why it spread availability which is of course a cause of concern but equally importantly use of Bihar they find that a very, very easy option to get into because there is no employment. So it is a kind of employment which the state effectively has put in the category of criminalized employment. So you have to look at this particular aspect how Bihar's resources grew and it did grow for a while you know its own resources and so on up to 15, 16 or so. But after that I mean if you again look at some numbers as regards own resources you know last 4 years or so the situation has been pretty grim. So that is the kind of context which we need to keep in mind but I took some time explaining this simple answer is that the claims are highly exaggerated of addressing issues of development and doing various things and so on. Bihar continues to have the lowest per capita income amongst all Indian states yes indeed if growth figures have to be believed and I have had serious reservations about growth figures not only for Bihar but almost in India last 5, 6 years in particular. But during the decade of 2010 we did not have enough information to calculate growth rate of agriculture right. You know for a while you did not have the requisite information in economic survey. If that is the case then of course we can sort of be excused for being more cynical for Bihar's growth figures. But even if you take those growth figures as they are and they have been higher than average all India and one of the you know higher GDP state GDP growth rates and so on. Yet as we mentioned before we are talking of the lowest per capita income right. If you look at various indicators you know whether it has to do with health, education, employment, unemployment the last data that we had from PLFS you know which showed that India had the highest unemployment rate in its 45 years for which we had the comparable data right and in that Bihar's share Bihar's percentage was higher than the national average. So clearly if growth is happening why is it not translating into certain kinds of options which will generate livelihoods, employment and so on right. So basically my sense is that to the extent that this spending or the expenditure has to happen these happen on areas which are very critical areas. For instance you have to repay your loans I mean you cannot get away from that you have to pay salaries and so on forth right. Real good quality expenditure for expansion of the economy that unfortunately is not happening so there is no puzzle you know there is no curiosity why is it that so partly it is driven by the center what the center insists and so on and partly it is a kind of choice that a poor state has to make. So in this context I just will come to the COVID aspect as well but I wanted to ask one more question regarding the state's overall debt and one of the figures that has come out in recent times is that there's been a huge increase in the amount of debt it's sustained. Now one would understand it if it's for instance a state which is in say peak economic development there's a lot of industrial growth there's a lot of investment happening but given the circumstances you described in Bihar that doesn't look to be happening either. So how has it accumulated this massive increase in debt as well. You see this debt is to a large extent because of expenses that you cannot avoid yeah and it's basically for running of the system so to say that the state has indeed got into this situation on the other hand to be fair to the what was very popularly known as Sushasan Babu's regime they have been certain areas for instance capital expenditure if you look at that there was some increase there was some increase in rural development roads electricity and so on. So part of it is explained by that yeah but given that it's basis of resource mobilization is so limited you can't do it any other way no it has to it has to rely to a large extent on that yeah and the options for borrowing also for state governments tend to be limited. So you know sort of what happened earlier for instance till I think 2007 a to so you had certain kinds of options which will happen to be there that changed subsequently all this has obviously cost implications yeah so then that keeps getting added to your debt right. So if you are raising debt at higher cost and so on. So we need to explore all these issues so as of now if you look at the debt situation it is 2,00,000 crores and if you are looking only at public debt that is 1,65,000 crores in the current financial year it has increased since 2005-6 by 500 times yeah and if you look at between 2010-11 the increase is 300 times. So where this borrowed money has been put as you asked I have been asking the same question as I said part of it I can see part of it is invisible is not quite clear you know what kind of priorities the state set up for itself if it was very carefully spent on social sector expenditures and the necessary infrastructure physical infrastructure we would have seen in fact very decent kind of returns also right but why is it that we are not seeing that clearly the answer lies in the fact that the way it was spent in ways which possibly were not productive which should not have been prioritized and so on right absolutely and this context you had mentioned the policies of the center now one of the major claims of Narendra Modi in his campaign has been that there has been a double engine the governments of the state and the center have been in perfect sync and that is the reason for all this development. So over the past few years what has been the state of Bihar with respect to the union government you see it is indeed the case that barring 18 months or so when JDU decided to be part of the so-called grand alliance and was with RGD Congress and so on if you take that out it has had a good equation with the the center yeah earlier also with the NDA 1 and then subsequently NDA 2 and NDA 3 Modi 1 and Modi 2 right so that of course has helped things a bit but not very much you know for a variety of reasons Bihar has not been prioritized by the union government right go back to the election promises of 2015 none of it was full filled right from the overall resource envelope that was talked about two small things now it is amazing that in 2015 you talk of medical college in Darbhanga in 2020 you talk of a medical college in Darbhanga right so it is partly because of certain kind of I would say uneasy equation that Nitesh Kumar may have had with the the center to in center scheme of things it doesn't figure right to the same extent that let's say Uttar Pradesh figures of course Gujarat figures and so on so that is the primary reason why we have this kind of situation so you know there was a demand of you know this special category state and the requirement which would go a long way why is that not being honored you know I mean assurance is given right it was never agreed but assurance yes election time of course you can expect that all kinds of assurances are given but post election you know you have had occasions when it has been said that it would be considered seriously and so on but no special package right so I would say that in general this relationship between Bihar and the center has not been at the same level in terms of comfort in terms of synergy and so on in terms of give and take which some other states have had basically BJP ruled states in the last six years so that's part of the story the other factor you know since you talked of the synergy and so on forth it is indeed the case that there is lot of rhetoric about cooperative federalism but on ground it is anything but cooperative federalism in fact if you look at the economic processes on the ground basically it's a kind of what you can call competitive federalism right so it's like a race to the bottom and each state trying to sort of do many things labor laws are a very good example and the way that kind of drags down a very large section of the population in each state so it's like a race to the bottom and so on in fact the phrase which I would prefer for this is predatory federalism I don't even want to call it competitive federalism because the union government the center unleashes forces and that has been the hallmark of the current prime minister if you look at his policies etc right so at the level of rhetoric you know you can talk of anything and everything but the processes which have been put in motion once you start analyzing them you find that we are in a deep hole yeah and that has been the reason how things got messed up right and that is where I mean you have to for instance look at demonetization was any state government taken into confidence right okay you might say that since this was supposed to be a shock and all thing and the state governments could not have been taken into account etc think of lockdown yeah it was a huge sort of decision which the states had to implement you know and states not only had to implement but they also had to be responsible for a whole range of policies that are required to try and ease the pain of this lockdown you leave all that to the states without taking them into confidence if you think of GST and the way it has been implemented and you know states have been crying horse we see what was happening in the last roughly 7-8 months yeah the payments which were due for the previous year right that were paid only after April so this whole sort of talk of cooperative federalism and synergy between certain states to my mind is completely misplaced and finally professor one last question so we talked about the government and its various failings now the opposition has a very ambitious agenda they are promising a huge number of jobs they are promising of course and a completely new model of development how are they what are the possibilities for financing this if they do come to power for a state like Bihar which is very limited in terms of mobilization of resources the challenges will continue to be huge because the architecture of resource mobilization in the country has changed for the worse and there as I said GST played a terrible role right in fact the 10th finance commission had brought many areas in terms of you know raising resources etc within the ambit of state governments what happened yeah with GST was a real retrogression right so we need to keep that in mind okay so broadly you sort of are very constrained very challenged right but you know if we look at the choices which the state government has any state government of course one is that you say listen FRBM is something which is hurting us quite a lot so what has been done for instance in the context of the covid pandemic there was some rethink on that okay that instead of three you can go up to five and you know the provisions were outlined and so on again conditionalities I mean the union government was behaving like as if it's the big brother and the you know like a landlord and so on but I would argue that for many states which are lower down the development ladder there is nothing wrong in saying okay you can choose to have this kind of arrangement so that you know your resource kitty can be strengthened right but that's a huge political decision whether that happens or not you know is difficult to say and one would be right in being pessimistic about it given the overall neoliberal climate etc. borrowing so you know you have to think of how to use your borrowed resources more judiciously there could be some improvements there in terms of prioritizing so whether it is your social sectors or basic infrastructure these could be pushed you know so for instance good quality education not only creates good quality education but it also creates huge employment right so you have a large number of young people train them properly and so on why is that not being prioritized okay so these things can be done then you have and I am being very careful when I propose this the option which had been foregone which was given up in 2016 and I am thinking of alcohol right what is this utterly shall I say retrogressive moralism which you want to impose on the state at large so can we think of taking care of that can we ask and this only we have cannot do as part of many other states insist on if you are not giving us anything else at least give us a share in says which is our right I mean why is it that this says becomes a right of the union government so these will have to be very important points of negotiation right and any progressive trajectory is to my mind almost impossible without some hard contestation some difficult choices so it would have to be a mixture of all that and that to be hard wouldn't be able to do it alone it has no no certainly not so but we have certainly can go back on its decision on prohibitions yeah and you know I talk talk to anyone from Bihar yeah and it has become possibly one of the biggest illegal industries in that state now do we want that right if you want to enforce it then that is a kind of expenditure which itself is extremely skewed kind of option no yeah instead of having teachers you want to have maybe five inspectors every village is that what we want to do so you know I think possibilities are there no easy options sure enough yeah I mean of course whatever slack is there in let us say resource utilization I am not talking of mobilization now that again can be used but yes if we can do some of these things I think it should be possible to move ahead but the larger challenges how to get a more progressive kind of federalism in place again yeah to my mind as I said earlier no this GST was anti-constitution and of course it has been adopted by all states now you can say that it has been passed how can you say this but the spirit of constitution I think this was completely against that you know very good arguments have been given why as per the constitution it was a disaster and as an economic arrangement there is nothing which can be claimed for it to my mind you know it's all rhetoric so if you want to be in the happy world of Alice in Wonderland so be it okay but possibilities are there they have to work much harder thank you thank you so much professor for the pleasure it was a pleasure talking to you that's all we have time for today keep watching news click


Welcome to the Pyramid Insider. I'm Tyler Patner and today we are gonna give you seven reasons why you need to check out the best PCP pistol on the market the Ataman AP16 So for those of you that are not familiar with the Ataman AP16 This is a Russian made PCP pistol available in 22 caliber packs Plenty of power for small game past control things like that But it's a very unique pistol in the PCP market Just because of its size and some of its features and it's really a phenomenal gun We've done a full review of this in the past But there have been some changes in the last year or two that we wanted to kind of update you with so let's get into it Reason number one Accuracy Ataman uses Lothar Walther barrels in these pistols and they are fantastic Typically with your JSP pellets your 15-8-9's your 18-1-3's These guns are capable of shooting out to 50 yards and that is saying something considering you've got a small barrel Now this is a customized one here But you're talking about a standard length barrel is what you see and then there's also a compact addition Which is about an inch shorter So you're not having a lot of barrel there to work with so getting that kind of accuracy is very impressive Reason number two is power the AP16 whether you get it in the standard length or the compact is putting out Depending on pellet weight between 12 and 17 foot-pounds or so and it does so very well like I said with great accuracy So you're gonna have plenty of power for those small-game interactions And of course good enough accuracy to take head or vital shots on any of those small-game animals squirrels chipmunks Pest birds whatever you want the AP16 is gonna get it done Reason number three the Ataman AP16 is fully regulated now that has not changed one of the nice things about this gun Actually as you can swap cylinders and because they screw directly into that regulator you can actually swap them under pressure So no real issue there You know if you run below the reg pressure you can unscrew it swap another cylinder on really easy to do But gonna give you extremely consistent velocities. This is a 300 bar fill gun So it does fill that higher pressure You don't have to fill that high, but that's where you're gonna get your max shock count now with the compact cylinder that you See here you're gonna be looking at about two to two and a half mag So 14 to 18 shots or so and with the full-size standard length cylinder you're gonna be looking at about three mags So 21 shots roughly and it does so with great consistency guys That's the important part and that's gonna lead to great downrange accuracy Reason number four the AP16 while this is a custom version is offered in two sizes So if you do want a more compact pistol you can buy the full compact gun Which the barrel ends right where you see the air cylinder on this guy? Or if you want a little bit better performance in terms of velocity and power and shot count you can swap the standard length Parts onto it, which you see the standard length barrel you throw a standard length cylinder on there And you're gonna get roughly another mag mag and a half worth of shots So that's one of the nice things about this and the parts are all interchangeable So if you buy it as a compact you can buy a longer barrel or a longer cylinder and swap them when you want Reason number five is the sleek side lever just looking at the gun here at the profile You would never know where the side lever is. Let me give you a hint. It's right here So it's kind of dished out you go ahead you reach your finger in there Operate it like so We've had tons of people give us calls on the phone and say how do I make this gun work? Right because people don't read the manual anymore We know that but the side lever super easy super simple and this sleek design and placement of it Really sets this gun apart and doesn't detract from the looks That's one thing that a lot of other manufacturers of PCP pistols kind of lack Where you know you get this big side lever bolt action type of deal hanging off of the gun Adamin has done a really fantastic job of integrating it into the gun nicely Reason number six and this is one of those new features I wanted to tell you guys about as you can see I've got some gold parts on my black pistol And I have some nice black pearl grips as well We actually started offering custom builds of the AP16 last year in 2020 So you can build this out to your heart's content you can swap the grip frame you can pick from different color Actions you can get different color trigger guard cylinders and barrels and of course as far as barrels and cylinders are concerned You can swap the colors as well as the sizes so you can do what I've done here and go with a full-size standard barrel on a compact cylinder or you can flip it so that you have full compact full standard we won't let you do the standard cylinder and the compact barrel just because Well, I don't know why you'd want to do that. It looks funny But anyway, you've got definitely a lot of grip options as well I think there's four or five right now So a ton of different stuff you can do with this and really get an AP16 that is built for you and last but certainly not least Reason number seven is this beautiful P2C kit now The P2C kit stands for pistol to carbine and that is really the kind of chassis housing that you see here lots of Picatinny rails and of course one of my favorite features Folding stock this makes the AP16 the probably one of the better backpacker guns out there You get yourself a compact scope you throw on you know your extra mags like I've done here with these 3d printed holders We don't sell these but they're out there. You can find them You could put lights by pods lasers whatever you want onto this thing We sell the Donnie FL suppressor adapter so you can throw a can of your choice onto the gun as well And you can really turn the AP16 into a beautiful compact little pesting rifle That is still very very small very easy to backpack and really just enhances the experience Now I know we told you guys said this was gonna be seven reasons why you need the AP16 But I'm gonna give you an eighth No matter what you think of Russia or Russians in general Our good friend Rustam over at Adam and is a pleasure to deal with one of my favorite people in the industry He's a really nice guy and hooks me up with sweet swag and vodka at shot show Which is a reason in and of itself why this is being included because he's the man and we like to support good people So by the AP16 because it makes everybody happy Rustam is happy. I get vodka. I don't see the problem. It's great To close out the video today We must say thank you to our good friends at etamin and really again seven well eight reasons why you should check out AP16 next time you are Peter midair dot com We appreciate you for watching and hope to see you again very soon As always hit like button because this is how I get paid and get the vodka Don't forget to comment down below as well and as always subscribe See you later friend


Funding for Painting Journeys is provided by Veritas. Financial knowledge is power. Be empowered. God's beauty is all around us and my goal as an artist is to capture and interpret that beauty on canvas and to take you, the viewer, along with me on this painting journey. Hello and welcome to Painting Journeys. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and we're going to journey across our canvas today. But first of all, I want to talk to you about the painting that I was doing on our last episode of Painting Journeys. And thank you for joining us. That's great that you tuned in. I hope you like it. Okay, here is what I was painting on our last show. This is Springtime in the Garden. As you can see, I've made a few changes. I changed my background a little bit from what it originally was. I think I had something a little more lavender in the background and less leaves. And in my home studio, I punched up some of the colors and with a gold frame on it, I really like it. I think it looks like spring in the garden. Great. So anyway, I had the occasion to go to Suamico, Wisconsin. Now that's north of Green Bay. There's a zoo there. It's called the New Zoo. And they have quite a few animals. I was particularly taken with the giraffe. In fact, I think on our next show, that's what I'm going to paint is a portrait of the giraffe. But as I was leaving the zoo and getting into my car across the street, I looked out beyond the parking lot and here was this beautiful view. Well, I had my paints with me and I thought I'm just going to do a monochromatic sketch. And then I'm going to finish it on painting journeys. So this is my monochromatic sketch. This is the photograph I took afterwards. I'm not in this exact same location, but that doesn't matter. The subject matter is still the same. But this is what I painted on site while I was right there. And I did it all in shades of brown and white. And this is called a monochromatic wash. I have all my subject matter in. I don't have a lot of detail, but that's okay. So now from my photograph, I'm going to paint color over this. I know where my darks are and I know where my lights are, my water, everything. So it's all right there for me, ready to go. So this is my palette. It's the same palette I usually use, basic colors. I think I did add today, for today's segment, I did add a little bit of this cerulean blue. And you have two choices when you work with cerulean blue. They have a cerulean blue hue of which is not as strong. The tinting power is not as strong. But this is true cerulean blue, so it has a very strong tinting power. Just to show you what I mean, I might take a little bit of it right here. I hope you can see that. And I'm going to add a little white to it. See how pretty that is? Really pretty. And it's a great start for our sky. So today we're in Suamico, Wisconsin, north of Green Bay. We're just outside of the new zoo and we're in the parking lot. And we're going to, actually we're here in the studio, the station. But we're like on a journey in my mind. So let me get back into this. Alrighty, let me mix up a little more paint and away we go. It was kind of a cloudy day. As you can see from the photograph, there was a lot of clouds back there. But I think I want it to be just have some of this real pretty true blue. I am going to put just a touch of green in it. Just a touch of the Viridian. Warm it up a little bit. I like a warm sky. Springtime here in Wisconsin. And so as you can see, your evergreens are nice and green. But the rest of the trees haven't quite leafed out. And the residue of what was left over from last year in this patch of natural grasses here, it hasn't greened up yet. I would imagine within the next few weeks that's all going to change drastically. Alrighty, I see a little bit of this blue right in here. Oh boy, look at how pretty that looks when you just pop that right in there onto that brown. And I'll probably be eliminating things as I go. I like to do that because you don't want to show everything that's not necessary to show everything. As you know, I like to start in the back with the sky and come forward. Sort of a layering effect that makes you feel like if you're painting like three-dimensionally, then it has a better chance, I feel, of appearing three-dimensional when you look at it in the, when the finished work is, you're looking at the finished painting. Oh, I'm liking the way this looked, kind of a marbled look there, where the lights are in there mixing with the darks. That's very nice, I like that. So anyway, let me tell you about this giraffe.  Well, actually there was two of them, a male and a female, they were a pair.  It's the craziest thing. And they will like beg for food. There's like a high place that you can walk up to kind of where you're at the same level as the giraffe's head. And you can purchase food and give them this food. When I was there, they were feeding them kale and vegetables, which is very good for their diet. So the fellow that was the volunteer that day was telling me how the female giraffe had already had two baby giraffes right there at the zoo. And they didn't want her to have any more. So they actually have her on birth control medicine so that she can be in there with her mate. And there's no problems. And I was kind of astounded by that. I never thought about an animal being put on birth control. But it made sense because he said that all of the zoos in the country all have plenty. There's enough giraffes to go around and why let them give birth to more than what are necessary. So I thought that was pretty nice. Now I'm going to echo this sky down here in my water.  Not these two. It was the way they wound their heads around to be fed. And they were all entwined. It was almost like one giraffe with two heads. It was really kind of wild looking. They were very, very sweet, gentle. I love giraffes. And then a good friend of mine sent me a video online about a hotel in Africa. Well, it's an inn in Africa, you know, resort. And where you can actually go and the giraffes stick their heads in the windows and dine with you. And I thought to myself, a giraffe isn't my favorite animal. I love giraffes. They're always sticking their heads out and I love that anyway.  I think that's so cool. I would love to see that. I think I died and went to heaven if I could go there. Well, if I went there, we'd have to do a painting journey segment on it. That's for sure. So anyway, all right, I'm getting a little bit of that. I want this a little bit darker down here, getting a little bit of that in there. And you'll see how I handle the water a little later. You see how in the picture I've got all of this reflection into the water where I stood and as I did my mock up here, I didn't see all that reflection. I must have taken this either earlier or afterwards because it does look a little different. But that's OK. We can work with that as we journey across this canvas. So there weren't too many animals that were up and around at the zoo. The day I was there, they have a goodly amount of animals. But it was a very hot, one of the very first really hot days we've had this spring. And most of them were asleep, called the big cats and everything. There's a darling little groundhogs that all stood up and watched me. We had attention. They're so funny, little critters. See, I think I'm a little bit right in here, right there, OK? All right, now let's get some of this green in the background here for these trees. Well, first of all, I want to make the brown that is behind. It's a soft, all these soft branches that you see back there. That's very soft, so we're just going to suggest that. Kind of suggest it like I had done when I did the monochromatic onsite. OK, mixing up a nice, soft kind of a brown. Going to lighten it up a little bit with some on my sky. Turn kind of green. OK, what can we do to make it more brown? I'll put a little bit of blue in it. OK, there we go. You have to pardon me while I talk myself my way through this. It's a work in progress here to sometimes get the color that you want to show up. And then you never know until you put it on the canvas. When you put it on the canvas, sometimes it's too late. Then you have to take it off. OK, we've got a clean brush. That's not the right one. Let's use this one. OK, now I just want to go up in here.  I want to go up in here. And I just want to suggest these other trees and things that are up in there. Not anything that's real. I may put some trunks and heavier branches on them. But for right now, it's that look of trees that are in the distance that haven't leafed out yet. So they're not really green, but they're back there. They're back there behind those fir trees. Spring is such an exciting time in Wisconsin. The season is so beautiful as things start to bud and bloom. When I first moved here from California, I wasn't real crazy about spring. Fall was my favorite season because it's the most colorful. If you're just looking at just scenery outside. But now that I've been here for a few years, well more than a few, and gone through the winters and everything, I realize the importance of spring and how wonderful it feels to see the new buds and the new growth and the completion of the cycle, the death and then the rebirth, the death during winter and then the rebirth in the springtime is so wonderful. I'm just going to put just a few little trunks on these and a few little branches so that we know that they're there not too much. Just trying to give the effect or something in the background a little bit here. There we go. You need a small brush for this and just little quick narrow strokes that are very light. There we go. Now we have the feeling that there's some trees back there. And they all are about the same height. I'm going to bring this one up a little bit though because it's kind of redundant to have everything the same height in your painting. So we raise that one up and we'll put a little more stuff up here. You probably can barely see this, but it's not supposed to be very dark. It's supposed to look very far away. Now then, yes, okay, that is what I wanted. Now then we're going to put the green. Now the trees in the background are, they're lighter and golder. They have the yellow highlights on them. They're actually lighter than these over here that are closer to me. And I think that's because the sun is hitting probably right in this direction, what sun there is. This is not a shadow. This is a window that they open up I think in the summertime. That's not a cast shadow there. So I have to take that into consideration and try to remember, now where is my sun coming from? And I see this shadow here and the reflection coming down here. So yes, I'm right. The sun is coming right like this. Okay, so the sun is hitting these big time. All right, so then we need that to be just to have a little bit of a brightness to it back there. Well, everything in the distance is going to be just a little lighter, a little bluer. Okay, I'm really glad you joined me today. This is, this is so such a wonderful treat to be able to share my little journeys with you. And we'll put a little dark in there to give it a little more punch. Then there's a little one right in here. And he needs a little yellow on him. Okay, and then we have another one right here. Now you see what, by, when I start putting these in, you can see why it was important to put those trees in the background in. It was so funny. I drove all the way up to the zoo. I thought I'd paint in the zoo.  Oh well. I think what captured my imagination was the covered bridge. You know, covered bridges in the United States are becoming a thing from a bygone era. There aren't many of them anymore that are in good shape intact. And even though this one looks in very good shape, I don't know if it was refurbished or, you know, fixed up if it was an old one or if it's a relatively new one. It's kind of hard to say. But I was still enchanted with it because it was a covered bridge. And I know that they're going the way of the wooden barn soon there. They will not be. I won't see any more of them. Okay. Darn it. I don't want my trees to get too Christmas tree-like. So I've got to get a little messier here. Get down in here with some darks. And that one needs to be a little bit darker. As you can see, I'm not real, real careful to paint things exactly as in the photograph. You know, if I wanted to look like a photograph, then I've got a gorgeous photograph right here. I'll just look at that. I want it to be my interpretation of it. And we do have a little baby tree right in here. He looks like he's a little darker. Now that looks like we've got tree on top of tree. And over here, we just have its trees and they're just sort of, we have to get those in and then we'll have to use our wipeout tool and wipe out where this dead, well, I don't think it is dead. I just don't think it is butted out yet. But maybe it is dead. I don't know. But I thought it was kind of interesting. And this right over in here, you can't see it on the photograph, but it was really a little inlet of water. And so these are the reflections down into the water that this cast of which was really kind of neat. So, all right, let me see here. So we are going to have, whoops, oh, we don't want that red. What are we doing with that? So I want to paint, try to paint behind this a little bit. And two, this is in here, another tree back here. Now I'll probably come in with the sky and poke some holes in this. Right now, I just want to get the idea that there's dark behind the light here. These dark trees are behind the light so that I can show the lightness of the broken looking stuff here in the foreground. Marguerite, bear with me. I know you're probably thinking, gee whiz, kitty, that's taking you forever to get that. But this is all what we have to put in before we can, you know, start working with our stuff in the foreground. My camera girl today, his name is Lacey. And Lacey is going to let me know what time, how much time I have left and keep me on task. So that's a good thing. All right, a little bit of dark in here and in here. All right, now, that's looking pretty good. We'll make this more tree-like later, maybe. And then maybe not. Okay, let's see here. Okay, so now then we've got some more of that brush lake looking stuff right in here. We're in here. Here. Let's see. We'll put our little building in. Let's see. It's kind of a gold. Let me see here. You know, I really thought that this would be really very easy to come over this. That's not orange enough. And paint over the, over what I have here, I thought, oh, this is going to be a piece of cake. It's not. It's not. Everything always turns out to be a little more difficult than you think it's going to be. I think my door needs to be a little bit bigger here. I know it does, okay. So that's going to be some nice dark. This and then down. Now we would put a little light in there because we have to show that we can see in there. Let's get that rough on. Rough is kind of a brownish. You ever do that, you ever drive along and go someplace and you have a dense destination and you think that all you're going to find there is one thing.  That's the way I felt when I saw this scene. I just thought, oh, this is just beautiful. I want to paint this. I want to share it with you, my viewers. And I do hope you're enjoying today's show. Sawamako. Isn't that an unusual name? So many of the names in Wisconsin are from the Indian, different tribes of Indians named the different towns are named after them. I think that's really interesting. Just like in California where I'm from, so many of the missions are named after the missionaries. Light on there. Now we have to get in here and get a little dark and make a little shadow right under here. Be careful here. Now we'll soften this edge right in here a little bit because we don't want anything to be too hard. We don't want the hard edges. I like things that are nice and soft and more painterly looking. This is coming down right here and it's going across. Boy, my hand church can't draw a straight line. I have people all the time come up to me when I'm painting in public and say, oh my goodness, I couldn't draw a straight line. Well, you know what? I can't either. I can't and I can't paint a straight line either. But there's always a second chance where you get to go back over it and try to fix it. That's the wonderful thing about painting with oil paints. You can fix them. They're fixable. Okay, let's see here now this dark little window thing right in here. There we go. And I think it could be just a little darker right there. Usually when I say okay and I think and then I go back in, that's when I goof up. But does it stop me? No. Okay, there's our covered bridge. That's good enough for now. Maybe we'll put a little highlight on it right down in here. Now this is dark underneath it there. So I have to get that dark again and go right under there with it. The water is actually going underneath this. So it's really quite dark as it's coming down right in here because the water is going under there. And then we have some slate right back here like rock that's right in there. And we've got kind of a golden brown. Let's see, that's better. Talking to myself, aren't I? I know. Working hard, working fast. I want this to be just so for you. And this is coming around over here. Ready? Now then darker right in here. And it's darker right down where it touches the water right back in here. Very dark. And right in here. We just kind of bring that up a little bit to kind of make that look like the water line. Okay, now we'll go back to the bright orange of our shed as it reflects into the of our covered bridge. As it reflects into the water. And so that's going to be right in here. It's not going to be quite as bright. It's going to be coming down right there. And then we have the dark right in here. Right, and then this water over here is a very dark. It looks like it's a very dark green. I better add some blue to it. Okay, a little blue on top. No, orange. We've got that reflection of the of the grass is coming down in here. And then here we have the reflection of the trees coming down into the water. And it's going to come down just a little bit more into whoops. You need a darker green kitty. There we go. Come down into here. Okay, now then we're going to take a clean brush and we're going to move our water to make it look like water. And back and forth stroke gives us the feeling of the of the water right on the water. Okay, right in here I believe we need a little bit of the water color. And it's probably a little, let's see here. Let's make the water just a little bit bluer right in here as it's coming in. There we go. Okay, all right. Now this right here is a little piece of land that's coming out. It's kind of a violet color. So we'll get that in there. It's a little lighter than that. Let me see here. Boy, the time is really, really just racing by. Let's see here. Where do we want to go next? Well, let's just do this. Let's just get these guys in here. So we can at least see that part of it. If we don't get this done today, we may have to make this a two-part show. There's nothing wrong with that. You'll tool back in I'm sure to watch me finish. Alrighty, let's see. And this is, we're just going to let this come right here like that. And this is coming up here. We've got one going up there. And it's coming down here. Now you can't see that because I'm over here more on this side to the left of the photograph. When I was painting this, there was some pretty good sized trees right in here that I put on my value study for you, so you can't see it. But I do know that they were there, so I'm going to put them in. And there was one right in here. And he was kind of crooked. Everything seems to be kind of like gnarly and crooked back in there. Now this, of course, has got a lot more of these little things sticking off of it that need to be put on. Now we're going to try to get some of the grassiness in there. And that's really quite light. Okay, that's back there. This is back here. Oh, that's too light, kitty. Too light. Let's see here. Let's try this instead. There, that's a little better. We've got a lot of stuff that's growing up. And this is all back in here, and it's growing up. Some dark water coming right in here. When I was there, there was this lovely little family of ducks sitting right on this area right here. In fact, you can see them still in the water here. Anyway, they were sitting right there on this little area that's kind of like a little beach-like area that was jutting out. Okay, now we've got lots of the yellow down in here. It would really be nice if I could get the, oh, I didn't do this water here. Okay, that water is quite dark. Let me get a bigger brush here. Yeah, that water was quite dark in here, especially right under here. Let's see here. All right, Lacey just told me that I have ten minutes. I really don't know where the time has gone today because I certainly have not been wasting any time. I've been working full out, and yet the time has totally gotten away from me. Then we'll just finish it and bring it back, and you can see it at the beginning of our next episode. I will have the completed covered bridge in Suamiko to show you. On our next episode, I don't think I'm going to have to do a two-part show. On this one, it seems to be close enough that you can kind of see where things are going here. This is supposed to be the reflections in the water. Let's get some dark in here, right in there. A little dark over in here on this side and in here. That gives it a little more definition. I always like that definition there. There we go. We'll clean that up later. Okay, now we'll take this and we'll make the water just ever so lightly. We have to suggest that the water is kind of moving so that it doesn't look so... Okay, let's see here. Well, we didn't do this right here. I know that it's really getting close. By golly, I'm going to get this covered if it kills me here. There's our road. Okay, now then, we have the grasses and more grasses, more green grasses, some reds and some oranges. Have you ever seen anybody paint on television when the camera has been speeded up and you think, oh my God, there's no way they can paint that fast? Well, that's me. I've got the speeded up brush right now. Okay, so I think I'm just going to finish it up with a little bit of this blue and green water right in here. And because I know I am running out of time, so I can always put those reflections in there later, but I just want to give you an idea of what that's going to look like. We have a little bit of a thing coming here. Okay, a little sandy business coming there. And okay, I just got the five minute signal. This is like a race. Who's going to win me or the clock? Hmm. Well, I think we're coming along pretty good here, though. I think we're going to be okay. I think we just need a little definition here for our sand. And then we'll go ahead and put in a couple of those. I think I want some real, real bright blue right up here in the foreground. Nice, clean blue right in here. Touch there. Whoops. See, one touch too many kitty. Go back to your dark and make that darker right there. A little light. Highlight the little roof. Just a tad right there. And as I said, we were in Suwamako. That's north of Green Bay, right outside of the new zoo. And next, our next show, I'm going to do a portrait of that gorgeous male giraffe that I saw at the zoo that day, because he was really something. And I want to share him with you. So I think we're getting really close to the end here. A little light right there. Just a little too much. Okay. Well, you know what? We have to be done for today. But I really and truly hope that you've enjoyed the show and that this very, very fast rendition or journey across the canvas has made you feel good. So once again, this is Kitty Lynn Klisch. The name of the show is Painting Journeys. And thank you for being with me. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye for now. Thank you.