Mr. President, thanks for doing this. Happy to do it. I can't start without acknowledging how wrong I was the last time we sat down nearly four years ago. I did not expect the 2020 campaign to go well, and here we are. Well, you know, I'm optimistic, and I thought we could do that well. And remember, in 2022, I thought we were going to do well, too. I think the means in which people are tracking polls now, they've kind of lost their focus, and it's hard to get it done. Secondly, I think that the media's changed a lot. Since you gave your democracy speech in Philadelphia a year ago, we've had orderly midterm elections, no violence, and the beginning of legal accountability for former President Trump and other January 6th defendants, no civil unrest. Could the threat to democracy be smaller than you think? Well, I think the opposite thing's happened, John. I think that this is sort of the last gasp, or maybe the first big gasp of the mega-Republicans, and I think Trump has concluded that he has to win, and he'll pull out all the stops. I mean, the quotes he uses are just, I never thought I'd hear a president say some of the stuff he says. I think that, and you see what's happening in terms of what the mega-Republicans are doing in the House. They don't make up a majority of the House, but they're bringing everything to a screeching halt. As you think about the threat to democracy, do you think of it specifically as the refusal to accept election defeats and peaceful transfer of power, or is it more broadly encompassing some of the long-standing features of democracy, like the electoral college, the nature of the Senate, the gerrymandering process, that sometimes thwart the will of the majority? We should never condone violence in a democracy, but I think it's well beyond that. For example, when I talk about democracy, democracy is sort of what surrounds the underpinning democracy, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all those things that provide for the certainty that everybody gets a shot. And we, the people, I know it sounds corny, but that's what we're talking about. And everything that's happening now is designed to prevent that from happening, the people's voice. For example, he wants to change in the way the civil service works, he wants a whole new category that is not answerable to the civil service rules, but only answerable to the president, those kinds of things. Let me ask you about one specific issue. You've in your campaign and as president supported a variety of tax increases for corporations and wealthy individuals to pay for some of your programs. They're very popular in the polls, but few of them passed even when your party controlled the Congress. Is that a failure of democracy or just politics? It's more politics. Look, when I got elected, remember everybody told me that we're never going to get anything bipartisan, not going to get it done. Well, we surprised some people. With one vote majority, we were able to get a number of things passed. And about half of it was bipartisan. So I don't think it was a consequence of the parties, it was a consequence of the things I'm worried about, the institutional changes that are attempted to be made. Well, speaking of that, Speaker McCarthy has advanced an impeachment inquiry on the basis of innuendo about your son, but not evidence of wrongdoing by you. He's done that partly to try to keep his job, partly to persuade some of his most extreme members not to shut the government down. It's so far has not worked and it looks like they are going to shut the government down this weekend. What does that say about the current Republican Party's ability to govern in our constitutional democracy? I think there's two things. The Speaker's made a terrible bargain. In order to keep the speakership, he's willing to do things that I think he knows are inconsistent with constitutional processes. Number one. Number two, I think it says that there is a group of mega-Republicans who generally want to have a fundamental change in the way the system works, and that's what worries me the most is the change in what constitutes, for example, the idea that we'd be in a position where they're willing to say that it's okay for the President to talk about, he said, I am your retribution. I mean, all these weird things that are being said, they seem to be encouraging it. They seem to be saying that most Republicans are not MAGA, but they're being driven and intimidated by the smaller number who are. If January 6th, a new presidential campaign and a government shutdown does not motivate that majority to regain control of the party, what can? I'm really worried if that's the case, and that's why I think that I want to increase the focus on the fundamentals here, that democracy, literally our democracy is at stake, and it's by altering the institutional structures to protect it. And I think that, I think we're in real trouble if that's not the case, but I'm convinced that part of it is communicating to the American people, this is bigger than political disagreement. It's beyond that. And when you talk to people, like, for example, the speech I recently made on democracy, I made about four major speeches on democracy, initially with notable exceptions, people thought, what's Biden talking about here? Well, that has showed that over 60% of the American people, they were worried too. And that's one of the reasons why 2020 turned out the way it did, 2022 turned out the way it did. And so I think it's important to give people some hope that we can get through this. Look, we're in the cusp of being able to do, not because of me, not because of my presidency, a cusp of being able to do some really big things in America. Speaking of institutions, rule of law is an essential feature for democracy. Do you personally have confidence that this current Supreme Court is upholding and will uphold the rule of law? I worry because I know that if the other team, the mega-Republicans, win, they don't want to uphold the rule of law. They want to get rid of the FBI. I mean, the things they say. And I think that somehow we've got to communicate to the American people, this is for real. This is real if they were to take over, if they were to have their way. But I do think at the end of the day, this court, which has been one of the most extreme courts, I still think in the basic fundamentals of rule of law that they would sustain the rule of law. My colleagues at ProPublica have documented undisclosed gifts for justices from friendly billionaires. And in the case of Justice Thomas, appearances at events for donors of the Koch network, which wants reduced regulation of business in a pending court case. Justice Alito has said that calls for stricter regulation in Congress don't work because the Constitution gives no authority to the Congress to regulate Supreme Court ethics. Is he right? It's a tough call, whether we can, I think we can. But let's skip over that. What does the Constitution call and expect of the court? Of the court. And the idea that the Constitution would in any way prohibit or not encourage the court to have basic rules of ethics that are just on their face reasonable. Do it themselves. Do it themselves. It's just not the case. Another constitutional question. There are some legal experts who say that regardless of the outcome of any criminal case, that former President Trump's efforts to overturn the election in 2020 disqualify him from running again under the 14th amendment. Are they right? That's a, you get a lot of serious constitutional scholars disagreeing on one, on the other side of that. As you can understand, I'm not going to pine on that right now. Richard Haas, the foreign policy advisor, past Republican presidents, says that Trump wants Budapest on the Potomac in his efforts to get greater personal control of the government and pursue retribution of the usebook about yesterday. He says like you that the voters should make protection of democracy the paramount issue, which is another way of saying the only way that voters can protect democracy is to vote for the Democratic nominee. You, are voters going to be comfortable hearing that argument? I don't think it was phrased that way, but I think if it's phrased as if the president, if the former president were to become president again, the things he says he will do are a threat to American democracy. And by the way, it's not just here. As I travel the world, I have had the state asking me, I mean, concern of had the state, look, what's going to happen? Does that mean? Because democracy is in jeopardy in other parts of the world as well. And you know, Madeleine Albert was right. We are the essential nation. If it fails here, Katie bore the door. Given the concerns that many voters have about your age, among other things, why are you the only Democrat who can protect democracy next year? I'm not the only Democrat that can protect it. I just happen to be the Democrat who I think is best positioned to see to it that the guy who worries about taking on democracy is not president. You yesterday in your speech said that voters should put partisanship aside for the larger cause, Republicans, Democrats, independents. What democratic priorities are you prepared to set aside to attract the largest possible coalition? Well, look, if you take a look at all I propose, they're overwhelmingly popular with American people. Nothing I've proposed is extreme. For example, dealing with investing in America and increasing manufacturing, creating jobs, creating a position where we put more money into education, where we just make everybody pay their fair share. Those things have, as measured broadly, they're popular across the board. So the thing that I have trouble trying to figure out is what it is that, other than protecting the Constitution, what is it that these mega Republicans think is extreme about what I'm doing? They haven't been, I mean, I haven't seen any articulation of any of that. Former Senate colleague Joe Lieberman says he is upholding democracy by working with an organization called No Labels to pursue a potential third party candidacy. Is he? Well, he has a democratic right to do it. There's no reason not to do that. Now, it's going to help the other guy, and he knows. So that's a political decision he's making that I obviously think is a mistake. But he has a right to do that. There are millions of Americans who think the country is changing in ways that are harmful to whites, men, social conservatives, small town, blue collar, America. A poll by the Public Religion Research Institute showed that 40% of the people who call themselves Christian nationalists think that patriots may need to use violence to save the country. Is that fear of change where the threat to democracy comes from? When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strom Thurman to vote for the Voting Rights Act, Strom Thurman. And I thought, you know, you can defeat hate. You can bury it. You can kill it. But I learned you can't. All you can do is you can drive it underground. And when you breathe oxygen under the rock, it comes roaring back out again. And I think one of the things that you may recall in the 2020 campaign, I said, I speak to you not from Wall Street, I speak to you from Scranton, Pennsylvania. That was a bit of a populist point, but it was a genuine point that, in fact, I represent all those people. I will represent all those people. But there is a real play, the world's changing, John. And we're going to be, the fact is we're going to be very shortly, a minority white European country. And sometimes my colleagues don't speak enough to make it clear that that's not going to change how we operate. That's not going to change them. You focused on delivering economic benefits to some of those voters who are afraid of change. What is the evidence that, in this current moment, it's economic benefits that will diminish their grievances? It's not so much the economic benefits, it's treating them with respect. Treating them with respect. You may remember, because you're barely old enough, but you may remember back in 72, we ran a campaign, the Nixon won overwhelmingly in 72. He won over 60% of the vote in my state, and I won by 3,100 votes. The issue then was that we were limousine liberals. We weren't paying attention to the problems of ordinary families and speaking to their immediate needs. Well, I've never not done that. And I think the Democratic Party in the past has, on occasion, spoken less to the needs and fears and concerns. And so I think a lot of the guys I grew up with, it's Claymont Delaware and Scranton Pennsylvania, they feel like they're not being respected. Not so much by policy, just by the failure to talk about their needs. And that's why, John, I think the reason why I was able to get my economic programs past is because I'm talking about building the country from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, and that includes everybody. And embracing the blue collar workers. As you noted in your speech yesterday, the specter of violence has become increasingly visible in Republican politics. What can you law enforcement decent Republicans do to prevent incitement to violence? Another January 6th or something worse than that? Not legitimize it. Not talk about it like it's appropriate. Not talk about that there's never, never, never, never a rationale for political violence in America. That's not who we are. And speak to it. Speak up. It matters. Do you think that right wing media outlets, Fox News and others that have spread lies about the 2020 election, do they drive the threat that you're concerned about? Are they simply reflecting sentiment that already exists in the country? They do both. Look, there are no editors anymore. That's one of the big problems. There's nobody telling them. And I gave my word, I never would reveal who I am, but I've spoken to at least half a dozen serious reporters over the last six, eight years who say to me, I'm worried. If I do not say and do something that gets me, raises the issue up, I'm not going to get a hit. And if I don't get a hit on television, I don't get my pay. I mean, the whole dynamic has changed. I'm no expert in the press, but it's changed. What about what Elon Musk has done to Twitter, lowering guardrails against misinformation? Does that contribute to it? Yeah, it does. Look, one of the things that I said to you when I thought I wasn't going to run, I was going to write a book about the changes taking place. And most of us directed over the years for these fundamental changes in society by changing technology, Gutenberg printing and the printing press changed the way Europeans could talk to one another all the way to today. Where do people get their news? They go on the Internet. They go online. And you have no notion whether it's true or not. You said in your speech yesterday, you want average Americans who share your concerns to engage, to stand up for American values. How would you advise those people who do share your concerns, but maybe worry about talking to a MAGA parent, neighbor, coworker? How would you advise them to do that? Vote. Vote. Look, I was saying to my staff, I never thought I'd see a time when someone was worried about being on a jury because there may be physical violence against them if they voted the wrong way. I never thought that would happen. Maybe a mobster case. Think about that. But a lot of average people think those are really difficult conversations to have with people and maybe reluctant to engage. Well, they are. And I think if you don't want to engage, you just do what you think is right. And part of that is just showing up, showing up. But I also think that we should be engaging people more and not be worried about our neighbor. Talk to them. Sit down and say, what do you think? Well, I'm not getting arguments, but say, this is what you say this, but how about this? Force people to get in a two-way conversation. But it's hard, John. But the biggest thing is, look, I really do believe that the vast majority of the American people are decent, honorable, straightforward. I mean, I think it's a minority minority. And I think they have to, though, understand, one, what the danger is if they don't participate, and two, show up, show up, show up. Mr. President, thank you very much for sitting down. Thanks for having me. I'm quite frank. I'd like to do more of it with you, but I mean it sincerely.


A-Track with Falcons has produced a really great song with performances by Young Thug and 24 Hours Hey everybody, my name is Eli Morgan-Gessner and I am the style editor here at Uproxx and today we have the wonderful story of a young Canadian boy who took his OCD and bad posture and used it to become one of the greatest DJs of all time Ladies and gentlemen, it's my old friend DJ A-Track Hi!  You were a five-time? World Champion, yeah DMC World Scratch Champion It wasn't all DMC I started scratching and messing around with DJing at 13 and then at 15 I was world champion and I kept entering more battles and I accumulated five of these world titles I didn't see much sunlight from the age of 13 to 15 We all grew up listening to classic rock and through Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill that was the funnel to get into hip hop I really fell in love with hip hop around 94 with Wu Tang, Biggie, that whole era So I'm listening to hip hop and I'm hearing scratching on records I tried playing the piano and I wasn't very good at it I just didn't feel like my instrument and one day I tried scratching a record on my dad's record player and I discovered and then I showed my brother and his friends one day and they were like, yo, what the hell? You can scratch. We can't scratch.  And I started practicing every day and I would come home after school practice, have dinner, do homework after dinner and then that was my day, every day I had this sort of general idea of making a skate video I ended up making the video with them The concept being that because of our relationship back at Zoo York in the 90s I, on the one hand, was like, oh, let's use the old high-eight video camera that we shot all the original Zoo York footage with It's the impossible video. Thug showed up on time but there was a lot of hangout time in the van At one point, you opened the door and said, guys, we're losing sunlight They ran right out We did the video for the song I hit you up.  Can you help me figure this out? And then you hit me back with the super-duper dream reply of like here's a test cut of like 20 seconds of the secret footage that no one's seen before that I just happened to be digitizing How about we do that for your video? And I still have the camera and we filmed Thug with that camera and I'm reading my email and I'm like, drain explodes Okay, okay, okay Can I call you Eli? One thing that me and you have been talking about and this is the current state of media and culture and music which I've been a little bit like, uh, I don't know guys It seems like the idea of we're trying to make something original has become secondary to, I know y'all like this so here it is again Like that's kind of where I feel there's a shortcoming in culture It's not like, oh, there's clearly Biggie Smalls and there's clearly Tupac and there's clearly De La Soul and that's clearly public enemy but you've always been more optimistic about it all What I would say is that in fact right now in hip-hop there is something for everyone for sure and maybe you're referring to what a lot of people will call maybe SoundCloud Rap or just like a certain form of sort of druggy, very free kind of abstract rap but there's that but you can also go and listen to some rap-ity rap too Neo Soul is back, like there's something for everyone for sure So I don't know, and by the way when you were saying that, you know, maybe that type of rap you seem to be hinting that it's less original That's not really what I'm getting at I'm sure like anything it's like people being like, you're a DJ, like on the radio DJ contest Now people will be like, oh, you're a rapper, do you sibling and is your name little something? Yeah, that's what I'm saying But by the way, part of what's cool even about that scene is that being weird is celebrated and it took hip-hop a long time to break through to that Then when people are like, oh, this work to that guy? I'm going to do something quite similar But I don't even think people approach it with that much of a sort of sheepish sameness I think it really is legitimately that this is a culture and you know, if someone's listening to certain kind of music and then they have aspirations to make that music maybe their first couple records will sound like what they listen to One of the differences between now and the 90s is that that first song that someone makes, the whole world gets to hear it whereas back then you had to get a record deal and you wouldn't hear it until they honed their skills But a lot of the guys that get dismissed now for being samey a year later develop their own identity It's just that the removal of the gatekeepers and everything just being posted on SoundCloud by the way you get to see that development stage You know, another thing that's fascinating by the way is like a lot of the rappers who seem to have basic skills are actually a lot more skilled than they give off the impression and they choose to make this kind of rap because there's an immediacy that is super punk rock and undeniable So it's funny hearing some of those rappers who might get popular from having a song where they're just going over like a distorted 808 And then you can interview one of these guys and he'll be like Oh, but I also have, what's the term? It's not backpack rap, I'm trying to think of the term that's... Lyricist rap? But it's funny, like I saw an interview with XXXTENTACION where he was like, oh, I have like Earl-type raps because Earl Sweatshirt is lyrical and then I've heard those records and it's true So a rapper who might be known for blown out, distorted and kind of ignorant records is also fully capable of making I'm sure they are So when some of the old heads will just say like Oh, what happened the skills? It's more, it's deeper than that It's a conscious decision to make records that translate in a live setting And by the way, live rap is blowing up too Let's talk about the oldest molecules Me and you both have had the distinction of working with Mr. Kanye West Yours was far more successful than mine was but he was smart enough to pick you Damon, at that point in time was starting a sort of offshoot imprint that was supposed to be their literally rock label and the day before Kanye saw me in London, Damon Dash saw me and he wanted me to DJ for Samantha Maybe not knowing that she was actually a DJ as well and they kept trying to pair us for about 24 hours until I met Yay He was really heavy-headly trying to be like, Samantha, this guy, A-Track, he's a really good DJ He's gonna DJ for you, it's gonna make your show cool and she was like, Dane, I'm a DJ I know DJs, but she didn't really want me to DJ for her And I was just sort of like, wait I think I know your brother and this whole thing And then next thing you know, I met Yay and he was like, you're gonna DJ for me And then as it turns out, we're having this conversation at this whole Rockefeller thing, Shindig And so Dane's also somewhere and Samantha's also somewhere and Kanye and I are talking and we're making our master plan He's like, I'm gonna take you on tour and the crowd's gonna do this and say that Take this guy's number, he's my manager and then Dane sees what's going on and I'll always remember this He screams, he goes, Samantha, you see what's happening? Kanye is about to hire A-Track That's why he's Kanye West I was trying to have you work with A-Track but Kanye West is stealing A-Track from you right now, Samantha It's so damn... And both she and I knew that this Kanye thing was probably best for everyone Oh my God What up, this is A-Track and you're on Uproxx


Good evening aspirants. Welcome to the Hindu news analysis by Shankar A.S academy for the date 14th of August 2023. Displayed here are the list of news articles that we will be going through today. And before getting into the discussion, I have an important announcement to make. The much awaited Shankar A.S academy's pre-storming problems test series is about to start. The test series will start on 11th September and the first test will be on 18th September. The details regarding the test series are displayed here. So make note of it and make use of it. Now let's get into the discussion. Now take a look at this editorial article. Recently the central government introduced three new bills in the Lok Sabha. These three new bills will replace three existing criminal laws or codes in our country. They include the Indian Penal Code 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act 1872. See the IPC is said to be replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023. Then the CRPC of 1973 will be replaced by the Bharatiya Naharik Suraksha Sanhita 2020. And the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 will be replaced by the Bharatiya Sakshya 2023. See this editorial here is written in this context only. This editorial highlights the issues with these three new bills. So in our discussion today we will first understand the key highlights of the three new bills and we will look at the issues with the bill. This is the plan for discussion. Before getting into the discussion, I have highlighted the syllabus regarding this discussion. You can go through it. Now first let us understand the background for replacing the IPC, CRPC and the Indian Evidence Act with the new legislation. See the majority of these three criminal codes were enacted by the British. After the independence also, the Indian government did not make any major changes to the criminal laws. That means till now the Indian criminal justice system is functioning as per the laws made by the British. Because of this concern, many of the stakeholders like legal experts, courts and various committees have recommended the government to bring reforms to these colonial era criminal laws. For example, the parliamentary standing committee on home affairs in its 146th report recommended the government to review the criminal justice system of the country. Apart from this, the parliamentary standing committee also highlighted the need for reforms in the criminal laws through the enactment of a comprehensive legislation instead of amendments in the existing acts. Considering these recommendations, on May 4th, 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs constituted a committee headed by Professor Ranbir Singh. This committee was constituted to review the criminal laws in our country. See the main mandate of this committee was to recommend reforms in the criminal laws of the country in an effective and in an efficient manner. Later, the committee submitted its report to the Home Ministry and based on the recommendation of this committee, the Home Ministry enacted three new bills to replace the criminal laws. This is the background of the issue. Now let us understand the key highlights of the three new bills. First, let us take up the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanjita Bill 2023. This bill seeks to replace the Indian Penal Code. The bill aims to repel nearly 22 provisions of the IPC. The bill also proposes changes to 175 existing provisions of the IPC. Additionally, the bill introduces eight new sections to the IPC. Now first, let us understand the changes to the existing provisions of the IPC. Firstly, the punishment for all types of gang rape under IPC has been enhanced.  Secondly, the punishment for rape of minor under the IPC will also be enhanced. As per the bill, the person who is involved in raping a minor will get a death penalty. And thirdly, for the first time, the bill introduces punishment for the offence of mob lynching. The bill states that the offence of mob lynching would be punishable with seven years of imprisonment or life imprisonment. Fourthly, the bill proposes to omit the provisions of the offence of adultery. This is in line with the Supreme Court's ruling. See, in 2018, if you can recall, the Supreme Court, in the case of Joseph Schein, the Union of India, declared that section 497 of IPC was unconstitutional. Note that section 497 of IPC dealt with adultery, where the section declared adultery as a criminal offence. But now, this section has been omitted by the new bill. And this is as per the Supreme Court ruling. This is a positive aspect of the bill. Moving forward, these are the important changes brought out to the IPC under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanjitha Bill 2023. Now moving on, let us see the new provisions that are to be included in the IPC. Firstly, the bill introduces section 1-0 time. Under this section, organized crimes like drug trafficking, smuggling, and other aspects will be dealt with. The next one is section 110. This section will deal with petty organized crimes like automobile or jewelry theft. Then section 111 will deal with offenses related to terrorist acts. Section 302 will deal with chain snatching. And finally, section 150 will deal with acts of a person that endangers sovereignty, unity and integrity of India. See, actually section 150 has been introduced to deal with sedition. Because if you can remember, section 124A of the IPC dealt with sedition. This bill removed section 124A of IPC. And it is now replacing it with another name called section 150. Although the government claims that the sedition law is removed, the sedition is indirectly dealt with the new section 150 of the bill. Okay, since we are talking about section 150 of the bill, now let us understand section 150 in detail. See, the section 150 says that any act of a person that attempts to excite armed rebellion or subversive activities or encourages feelings of separatist activities or endangers sovereignty or unity and integrity of India, then the person who indulges or commits such an act will be punished with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine. To put it in simple words, if any person commits an act that endangers the sovereignty or unity and integrity of India, then such person shall be punished with imprisonment and he is also liable to pay a fine. Overall, the new bill ripples the vague sedition law under section 124A of the IPC, but it retains the sedition in the name of sovereignty or unity or integrity of India under section 150. Okay, this is all about Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill 2023. Moving forward, let us take up Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill 2023. This bill will replace the code of criminal procedure of 1973. The bill seeks to repel nine provisions of CRPC. The bill also proposes changes to 160 provisions of CRPC. In addition to this, the bill also introduces nine new provisions in the CRPC. Now, let us see some of the important provisions of the BNSS Bill. Firstly, the bill seeks to introduce a new section called section 230. This section mandates that a copy of FIR is made available to the accused and the victim at a free of cost. Section 230 further states that the FIR shall be made available within 14 days from the date of protection or appearance of the accused. This provision ensures transparency in the investigating procedure of the police. Secondly, the bill permits the filing of zero FIR from any part of the country. Now, what is this zero FIR? See, when a police station receives a complaint regarding a alleged offense committed in the jurisdiction of another police station, initially the police station that receives the complaint has to register an FIR and later it transfers this FIR to the relevant police station for further investigation. This is what is called zero FIR. See the new bill now permits filing of zero FIR from any part of the country. Thirdly, the new bill allows for the examination of accused person through electronic means like video conferencing. This will help expedite the investigation process. That is, there is no need for the accused person to be physically present near the police to conduct investigation. These are the important provisions or the important changes brought about by the Bharati Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill 2023. And finally, let us talk about Bharatiya Saxa Bill 2023. This bill, as we all know, will replace the Indian Evidence Act of 1872. The new bill proposes changes to 23 provisions of the Act. The bill also introduces one new provision to the Act. Now, let us see some of the important changes made by the bill. Firstly, the bill permits the use of electronic or digital record as an evidence. As per the bill, electronic or digital record will have legal validity or documentary evidence, so it can be used as a evidence under the new bill. Secondly, the bill expands the ambit of secondary evidence. For example, the copies made from the original evidence by mechanical processes like photocopying can also be considered as a secondary evidence. Like this, the bill expands the ambit of secondary evidence. This is all about the Bharatiya Saxa Bill 2023. See, these are the key highlights of the three new bills. Finally, before concluding this discussion, let us see the issues associated with the three new bills that is highlighted in the editorial article. Firstly, the author of the editorial states that there is no significant changes made to the existing colonial era criminal laws. The author also noted that the government has only changed the English names of the Act to mere Hindi names. This is the first concern of the author. Secondly, the author welcomed the deletion of sedition law that was provided under section 124A of the IPC. But he also highlighted that although the sedition provision is removed, it is again introduced in the new bill in a disguised form under section 150. Earlier in this discussion, we clearly saw the issue with section 150. This is the second concern raised by the author. See, these are the two main issues highlighted by the author of this editorial. See, right now, these three bills are in the Lokshoba. We just have to wait and watch whether changes are made to the bills or not in the forthcoming days. That's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion, we saw the background about the three new bills. Then we saw the major highlights or the major provisions of the three bills. And finally, we saw two issues highlighted by the author in this editorial. Now with this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Take a look at this news article. This article is from yesterday's newspaper. This article speaks about the study that was conducted on coral reefs in Hawaii. As you all know, Hawaii is a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean. It is located west of United States and the Hawaiian highlands are currently administered by the United States. Recently, a research paper was published in a journal called Nature. The research found that the mitigation of human impacts has reduced coral loss in Hawaii, despite there was an unprecedented marine heat wave in 2015. See, in 2015, Hawaii experienced an unprecedented marine heat wave where the temperature of the ocean near Hawaii reached 2.2 degrees Celsius higher than normal. As we all know, the corals get impacted by prolonged heat waves and this heat wave can cause coral bleaching and resulting in coral death. But despite the marine heat waves in 2015, there was a significant reduction in coral loss in Hawaii. This is because there was no frequent human impacts on the coral ecosystem in Hawaii. This is because the human impacts on coral was controlled by the government by taking necessary steps. This resulted in the containment of the urban runoff wastewater induction into the ocean and marine pollution. Apart from this, fishing restrictions were also imposed by the Hawaiian government. These activities helped to reduce the coral loss despite marine heat waves. From this point, we can observe that integrated land and sea management will help us conserve the coral reefs despite the impacts of climate change. This is all about the news article given here. Now, from the exam point of view, let us see the steps taken by the Indian government to conserve coral reefs in India. Let us start with the basics of coral, corals which are also called as coral polyps or marine invertebrate animals. Note that the corals occur with an algae called zooxanthole. Zooxanthole are microscopic algae that generally reside on corals and they have a symbiotic connection with the corals. The zooxanthole through photosynthesis provides food to the corals and the corals in return offer protection. See, normally the corals are white in color. The bright color of the corals that we observe is due to the colorful zooxanthole. During periods of heat wave or increasing sea temperature, these zooxanthole might leave the coral or they might die off. This result in a condition called as coral bleaching. This is the basics about coral reefs. Now, moving forward, let us see the steps taken by the Indian government to conserve coral reefs in India. Firstly, the Indian government included all corals that are found in Indian marine waters to the Scheduled One of Wildlife Protection Act 1972. This move accords highest protection to the corals in India. For example, if any person indulges in harvesting of corals as per the Act, the person shall be punished with imprisonment and a fine. Secondly, the Indian government enacted coastal regulation zone under the Environment Protection Act 1986. This is done to protect coral reefs. See, the coastal regulation zone 1 covers the area that are ecologically sensitive and important. It includes areas such as marine park, sanctuaries, reserve forest, wildlife habitats, mangroves, coral reefs and so on. As coral reefs are covered under CRRZ-1, the mining of coral is prohibited in India. Apart from this, the CRRZ-1 regulation puts restriction on the construction of structures such as building or resorts in such zones. So, the CRRZ regulation also helped to conserve coral reefs in India. Finally, the Indian government has declared certain marine ecosystems as marine protected areas. In such areas, the exploitation of precious marine resources like corals are prohibited by the rules. For example, the marine waters of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Gulf of Manal in Tamil Nadu are declared marine protected area. So, exploitation of corals from these areas are prohibited. This also helps in the conservation of corals in India. So, these are the some of the steps taken by the Indian government to conserve coral reefs in India. Now, with this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Now, look at this article from yesterday's newspaper. This article talks about the effects of El Nino and El Nino Southern Oscillation, that is Enso. Again, this topic is in spotlight due to a study conducted by meteorologist last week. According to the study, the temperature of Indian Ocean has increased drastically due to anthropogenic climate change. Due to this increased temperature, the Enso will affect vast regions of India. This is about the article given here. In this context, let us quickly revise important points about El Nino and Enso. First, let us take up El Nino. See, during normal years, the eastern Pacific, which is the coast of Peru, has cold Peru current running along it. During El Nino years, the warm waters of the Central Pacific Ocean slowly drifts towards the South American coast and replaces the cold Peruvian current. Such appearance of warm water of the coast of Peru is known as El Nino. In simple words, El Nino is the extension of warm equatorial current in the Peruvian coast. El Nino has three major impacts. Let us see the moon by one. Firstly, it distorts the equatorial atmospheric circulation. Secondly, it causes irregular evaporation of seawater. And finally, it results in reduction in the amount of plankton along the coast of Peru. Due to lack of plankton, the fish production of the Peru coast takes a no-stave. These are the three main effects of El Nino. See, the frequency of El Nino is quite unpredictable. But through empirical observation, we have noticed that El Nino appears once every three to seven years. And when it appears, it brings drought, flood, and other weather extremes to different parts of the world. El Nino leads to warm weather on the Indian subcontinent in the winter season and dry and inadequate monsoon in the summer season. For example, in 1990-91, when there was a El Nino event, the onset of southeast monsoon in India was delayed. It was delayed by 5 to 12 days. This is all about El Nino. Now, let us take Enso, that is El Nino-Southern Oscillation. See, the El Nino event is also closely associated with pressure changes in the central Pacific and Australia. This change in pressure condition over Pacific is known as Southern Oscillation. The combined phenomenon of Southern Oscillation and El Nino is known as Enso. In the years when Enso is strong, large-scale variations in weather occur over the world. For example, will the arid west coast of South America receives heavy rainfall, drought occurs in Australia and sometimes in India also. On the other hand, floods occur in China. So, this phenomenon is closely monitored by weather experts to predict the long-range climate of the world. See, we all know that India is a monsoon-dependent country. Monsoon accounts for 80% of India's annual rainfall. And Indian monsoon is mainly dependent on two broad factors. One is internal factor called the monsoon trough and the other one is Enso. See, Enso has a huge impact on Indian monsoon. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation influences the trade wind and their ability to carry warm and moist air towards India during the monsoon period. So, it also has a major impact on how much rain that India would receive during the monsoon years. This is about the impact of Enso. So, that's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion, we saw brief points about El Nino and El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Now, with this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Look at this news article. This news article talks about new scheme called PM Musa. So, in our discussion today, let us see the important points about this scheme in detail. First, let us see the background. The Rashtriya Uchatar Siksha Abhyan, that is RUSA was a centrally sponsored scheme and this scheme aimed to fund state and unilaterally education institutions. The vision of this scheme was to attain higher levels of access, equity, and excellence in the state higher education system. The first phase of the RUSA scheme was launched in 2013 and the second phase was launched in 2018. Now, in the light of the national education policy 2020, RUSA scheme has been relaunched as Pratamantri Uchatar Siksha Abhyan, that is PM Musa. PM Musa was launched this year and it has been re-resigned for rationalization and higher impact. The scheme basically aims to work with over 300 higher education institutions including the state universities and their affiliated colleges. The main aim of this scheme to raise the quality of education provided in these institutions. Additionally, the scheme focuses on improving graduate employability through funding for promotion of market link recourses, industry connections, student internships and etc. Now, let us see the important objectives of the scheme. First is creating new economic institutions. Second one is expanding and upgrading the existing academic institutions and finally to develop institutions that are self-reliant in terms of quality, education and greater inclination towards research and development. These are the three main objectives of the PM Musa scheme. Some of the major difference between the earlier version and the current version PM Musa is given here for your reference. You can pause the video and go through it. Now, let us see how the institutions and the districts are selected for funding under this scheme. It is a three-step process. In the first step, the states and the unitary sign an MOU with the Union Education Ministry. Under this MOU, the state commit themselves to implement the national education policy 2020. In the second stage, the state government will shortlist universities, colleges and districts. In this, the states mainly give focus to aspirational districts or the backward districts and note that 50% of the districts that are chosen by the state governments have to be aspirational or backward districts. And in the third stage, the Union Ministry will evaluate the proposals and approve the projects that is proposed by the state governments. This is how the districts and the educational institutions are selected by the government under the PM Musa scheme. Although this scheme has major positives like giving necessary impetus to the state higher education institutions, the major issue with the scheme is that the funding under the scheme is based on norms and outcome. See the outcome from social infrastructure like higher education institutions are realized only in the long term. So funneling funds based on the outcome would be counter productive. This is the important issue associated with the scheme. So that's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion, we saw the important provisions of the PM Musa scheme and we also saw the issue with the scheme. Now with this, let us conclude this discussion and take up the next news article. Now take a look at this editorial article. It talks about the issues with the new appointment procedure for chief election commissioner and the other election commissioners. See, we have already covered these topics on the 11th August Daily News Analysis. This article here gives a fleeting reference about Dinesh Goswami committee and the Justice Thakunde committee. So in our discussion, let us try to restrict ourselves to the recommendations proposed by these two committees. First, you have to note that these two committees were formed to give recommendations to reform the election process in India. Now let us see some of the recommendations of these two committees. First, let us take up Justice Thakunde committee. The first important recommendation is that it recommended the election commission should be a three-member body. Then it mentioned that the minimum age of voting should be 18 years. Thirdly, it said that the TV and the radio should be placed under the control of autonomous statutory corporation. Finally, it mentioned that the voters council should be formed to keep the election free and fair. These are some of the important recommendations of Justice Thakunde committee. Moving on, let us see some recommendations of the Dinesh Goswami committee. Firstly, the committee recommended that no candidate should be allowed to contest in elections from more than two constituencies. It also mentioned that the age of the candidates for assembly seats should be reduced to 21 and for council to 25. Secondly, the committee recommended to allow proxy voting. Here, military and paramilitary personnel and diplomats who are placed outside India should be allowed to vote in election via proxy voting. Thirdly, the committee mentioned that the electronic voting machine should be used in elections to prevent tampering and manipulating of votes. Then, the committee placed a six-month time limit for holding by elections. Finally, the committee mentioned measures should be taken to check on advertisements on newspapers to make the election process more conducive. These are the recommendations of the Dinesh Goswami committee. See, these committees that is the Dinesh Goswami committee and the Thakunde committee were formed in 1990 and 1975 respectively. So, most of the recommendations of these committees are already implemented. But you have to make note of this recommendation because you can use this in your main answer. So, that's all regarding this discussion. With this, we have come to the end of the news article discussion session. Now, let us take up the practice prelims questions. We have two practice prelims questions today. Let us see them one by one. Let us take up the first question. Here, three statements are given. We have to find how many of the statements given here are the steps taken by the government to conserve coral reefs in India. From our discussion, we know that all three statements given here are correct. So, the correct answer here is option C. Moving on to the last question, which one of the following is not an objective of Rashtriya Uchatar Siksha Biyan? The correct answer is option A to improve overall quality of private educational institutions. This is not an objective of RUSA. The rest of the statements given here are the objectives of RUSA. The main question based on today's discussion is displayed here. Interested aspirants can write the answer for this question and post it in the comment section. If you like today's discussion, like, comment and share it with your friends. For more updates regarding UPC preparation, subscribe to Shankara IS Academy's YouTube channel. Thank you for listening.


Hey everyone, welcome back to the Python image library module series I'm returning this series after a long hiatus right now I'm on Windows and that's kind of actually why I'm gonna have to teach you what I am teaching you now I'm also very surprised didn't end up showing this to you guys earlier in the series But I mean there's a lot with this series that I'm just not happy with so anyway what I wanted to show you in this tutorial was the save function which is super easy super simple and Again, I really don't know why I didn't show it to you earlier because it's kind of necessary for your image manipulation Stuff if you at least want to save your file and use it for later use So it's the image object that you've got created with the image library You've opened something up or you've created a new image or anything it's really just your image object and it's simply safe like that's it that that's the function and It takes one argument just a file name Typically you can pass the file name that you've opened it with if you want to overwrite the you know The file that you've been working with to begin with but if you don't want to do this change it to be whatever you want Like anything a PNG or dot jpeg it's entirely up to you Now these there is another argument for the mode and you can supply this I don't know if it's a string or I don't know if it's a type You can probably find it online in the documentation if you Google that I would encourage that but Actually, if you don't supply the mode the image library will try and understand it based on the file extension that you save here so if I did Simply file name and I'm gonna actually prepend like modified to it because I don't want to overwrite the file that I'm working with and That's exactly it now when we run this I've got on my desktop modified pi.png and The only reason that I wanted to actually show you this in this tutorial whoa Was because I can't run image.show under windows If I comment this out now if I run this It'll try and load it And I don't think it will actually ever get to it So that's why I wanted to hit the save button and at least show you the save function here So okay. Thanks for watching guys super duper simple tutorial moving on to other stuff with the Python image library But got to know this save function Thanks guys. See you in the next tutorial


about five years ago our church eldership or the board started to look at the possibility what will the next season of hungry gen look like unfortunately not a lot of churches are for sale and a lot of other places that were for sale they were not very good and so for many years we were looking at it looking at it and then what took place is that in on June 25th 2021 so that's about a year and a half ago we purchased a building in Kenwick for 3.1 27 million dollars and this is that place it's off of Edison and canal drive and so this is the place where it's going to be the future home of hungry generation it used to be I think a skating arena and then it became a welfare place the beautiful part about this place is it does not have supporting beams in the sanctuary in the building it's pretty much just a clear open box which allows us to do whatever we want to do there for the glory of God so it's really close to kamaikon it's really close and Edison street there's a potential bridge being built from Edison to pasco potentially it's in works and so this is the building that we have purchased the problem the good thing with this building is that we can have more people there but the parking lot as you can see is very small so we were presented with a problem and that is we can't expand fully there unless we have parking lot the next to the building a land was for sale we purchased the land a year or that year for a million two hundred forty uh hundred thousand dollars so this is pretty much how it looks is this is the building that we have purchased and then next to this building we purchased the land the land came also with a parcel for a triplex and we felt that it would be very good to have an exit on both sides on Edison because Edison is very busy and canal is busy and so that we can have exit and entrance on both sides so that we can have a large parking lot and so that we can have a housing in the future for the internship the two forplexes right here the owner was already willing to sell them to us but he went back on it which is good because we don't have the money and so but they will be available probably in the future and we'll be able to by God's grace this is kind of a dream don't tell this to the alveress guy yet yet but we're gonna buy out these forplexes we're gonna buy all of this out and have a new sanctuary that will seat about two thousand or two four thousand people right here the city will pay for the bridge to pascoe and then hungry jen will be in the center of what is happening in our region so that's the future and also we'll buy also this thing behind but just please don't tell them that yet and stuff this is I'm just letting you know but for now this is where we at and this is giving gives us enough space and enough time to to do this thing for our church now here is how it's going to look as you see a parking lot a house that will be here in the future the church and the playground for kids this is the aerial view of the facility the sanctuary will have an arise of like bleachers type looking so that it will give a really good view for people who are sitting on the back instead of only looking at the screens the colors will be different this is just an example of what this will look like the sanctuary will seat about 900 people which is a very large increase from 200 we can technically only sit 198 or 99 people here so this will give us a really large opportunity for that we will be able to have 400 children in one service in the kids zone because we'll be able to have 18 classes for children and about 16 offices at the same time our challenge with this building plan was not only to create a plan where we can seat as many people as possible but where we can have a spacious lobby where we can have also a hangout place with coffee shop and also where we can have enough space for children on Sunday morning as our church is growing more people are having children which is children are blessing from the Lord and so we want to have a lot of space for children but we also want to prepare everything in such a way that we can build a private school there as well so we were in console consultation with churches that have schools and in consultation with people who know who do this for living and they advised us it took us a long time to finally make a plan where everything is already going to be pre plumbed and made where a private school can happen with the switch everything is there already the playground the classes everything is set up for a private school if the Lord gives us the finances we'll be able to launch the private school as soon as we move in until then we're just gonna have everything ready so that's why it took us so much time to develop all these plans because we didn't want to develop a plan for church and then two years down the road as we see the woke agenda is really advancing in schools and then we're like oh we want to do a school and then we have to redo the whole thing again and try to redo a construction so we wanted to do it one time and do it right instead of redoing it later on so this is the first floor as you are seeing this is going to be the sanctuary the entrance there will be two entrances one is for the main entrance for the church and then the second entrance is going to be for the children this will be the check-in area it's going to be pretty spacious and then the toddlers room the nursery rooms and then parents will be able to drop off their children and actually go into the common area or into the coffee shop straight through the building or they can go from the outside we will have two floors in there which is one of the reasons we're raising the roof and i'm going to mention to you in a second is that because this space is not really big we wanted to optimize it for our classes and in order to do that we had to find a way to fit a lot of classes in a small space without sacrificing the sanctuary spacing so the main floor as you see will have six classrooms two offices two multi-purpose rooms what i'm excited about is not only the really nice spacious lobby but we will have a large multi-purpose room that almost could be i could fit about the same amount as we have right here in the sanctuary so we'll be able to have two of these rooms one in here and one on the second floor for internship where we have almost like two small sanctuaries that we will have straight within that building not including the rest of the 18 classes so we will have a lot of space to do a lot of good stuff come on somebody how many of you excited now this is not how this is going to look we will not have these fans i can guarantee you that and these collars this is just to kind of give you a baseline of how this will look it will be extremely spacious 19 feet so about from here to to the ceiling over there it's going to be very spacious there will be three entrances inside there will be a coffee shop and then we will have a hangout area in there if you go upstairs you can go into the internship or a multi-purpose room that is going to be there this is going to be media overseeing into the sanctuary so they can see what's happening out there the sanctuary as you have seen will have we will be able to enter in there will be the room for the mothers with children right there and then we will have a really nice kitchen for that as well and a seating like a balcony seating on both sides this is the view from the stage this is going to be the view from the back into the stage now we will have rooms on both sides we'll call them green rooms where people who are ministering or who are preparing to preach will be on both sides either worship team on one side and ministers on the other side we will have a second story also for some storage we are developing some underground tunnels under the stage secret passages and so we will do some secret stuff like hiding wires and and then we will have a water baptism right here where we pretty much instead of going in there it will just open up you'll go get baptized we close it down and and the service will continue and the incredible part is the dream that I've always had and failed at it for the last 19 years we'll finally be able to bring a car from the back straight into the stage a Porsche or a Tesla I don't know and so we will have enough space in here where we can actually bring whatever production that we need to do on the stage whatever that we choose to do as a ministry right now like we're so limited with these tiny doors but we'll be able to do very large productions if we need to we can bring camels if we want to on Christmas so we can finally do what what we can without the limitations amen really excited for that can only imagine the creative ideas the Lord will give me upper floor the second floor will have classes as I mentioned and also it will have offices on the second floor now one of the challenges that we have with this building and that is this is that we cannot we cannot raise the roof from the ground to about the ceilings 19 and a half to about 20 feet the foundation of the building is not strong enough to raise the roof and beams of the building are so low because these beams are so heavy they carry so much weight therefore the building doesn't have support system so the beams are five feet into the ceiling that you can look at and we can't raise the roof which means that we're limited with the amount of classrooms we can have or the amount of people that we can fit in the sanctuary and so we honestly toiled and work with the city with engineers what can we do and so we found a nice loophole around it is actually to take these five feet beams that hold the building and instead of raising the roof to lift these beams up so it frees up extra five feet doesn't seem a lot but it actually becomes a lot when it sits freed up what that allowed for us to create a second floor for the kids zone and what it allowed for us is to create just a wider spacing in the sanctuary so now the challenge is of course to create that we got the permits and in fact as we speak in this week or next week the first beam is going to be going up and so there will be these brackets which our team really worked very hard paul and the team to save a lot of money on these brackets so these brackets will hold these beams so if you're seeing that these this large beam is going to be elevated small beams connected to it are held back right now until this beam goes up and then the small beams will be connected through the new brackets to this large beam freeing up more space and creating room for second floor for kids zone without us putting more weight on the foundation on the outside this is that beam it's covered right now with the with the facial what's going to be happening is that these beams will stick out five feet the brackets will hold them and then it will create a cover all around so our building will look taller even more taller on the outside as well as you're seeing it's happening right now so this is how the building looks from within we got all of these things supporting the small beams because as we lift the tall beams so that the building doesn't collapse and then we are going to attach the small beams to the large beam as well and thus we're going to free up extra five feet the reason that we are getting into a new facility it's obvious but i still want to kind of remind us is that because of the larger sanctuary extended parking lot the future private school more office space internship chapel and housing for interns as this building has become a place where we have grown we have seen god do great things for us building is a means to an end the end is the purpose and the call of god there's so much activity that happens at hungry gen monday through friday and if you ever want to do just simply come in at any time and just look at what's happening here there's parking lot is full there's always somebody running around doing something this person praying this person sometimes you walk by the office somebody screaming out somebody's saying who are you somebody is interviewing another student somebody's counseling somebody's praying somebody's just eating donuts um somebody recording videos there's always an activity that is taking place we're impacting hundreds of students through this facility it literally is like a training ground it's like a home for a spiritual family it's a training ground for discipleship training ground for youth and the training ground for the next generation the board of trustees and you can go on our website and see who are the board of the trustees the older men are overseers of the finances and the process of construction i do want to let you know that our churches finances are um are under oversight of the board of trustees and the eldership the construction project is not being done by the prophecy it's being done by the wisdom the console of people who know what they're doing in this area okay so and i am not involved in it in the sense i'm just aware of it but there are people who know this very well and they are deeply involved which frees me to do just more of the ministry and make sure that we have the finances that's my number one job and so but we have other people who are running this and doing this really well and i'm really grateful for that because building projects usually drain pastors like crazy because there's so much work that is involved in there the person that runs the project for construction is the person with the baby face which makes me honestly be very concerned about the future of our church now but actually that's the problem okay so i feel better now so but paul paul is the general general contractor for him for paul this is not a job it's like building a home for himself and this is why i love the person not only that runs it but even the whole team for us this is not about building for the church we treat it as we would build our own house so we try to honestly paul is doing his best to try to find best deals but we also don't want cheap stuff that then the ceiling collapses on us all right so we want good stuff but we want for good price so sometimes they would call and they would ask different companies hey what about you know could you give us a discount for hungry jen or this and then they found really amazing already deals with brackets and so much stuff leveraging their connections in the community for the sake of building god's house and i'm super excited for that amen


Okay, so we're winging it today. I will kick it off for topics that folks have that they intended to raise today, but may not be on a written down agenda quite yet. And I will, while that is happening, look for a couple of PRs I know went out for added conformance tests since our last meeting. Anybody have topics to raise silence? All right, seems like this might be a quick one. One, I know off the top of my head there was a watch conformance test added in API machinery. That one is particularly interesting. And I will send a note if I can't pull it up quickly here. But that is essentially to ensure that the watch, asynchronous watch works in the conformance test suite. And are there others that went in in the last couple of few weeks that folks are aware of? Mostly I just wanna make sure there are no surprises. So I wanna over communicate on what is added to the conformance test suite. There are mechanisms for you to self discover that, but this is just another mechanism for doing that. In other lands, before our next meeting, I believe we will have a feature complete for 112. And our agreement at the conference working group meeting in Copenhagen was that we would make an effort to have a better plan for what conformance tests were intended to be added in 112 by the feature gate, which is an existing gate we can add to rather than creating a new process timeline. So I would encourage folks if you intend to work on conformance tests to collaborate on that effort and Aish or Mitra will send out some more communication on that in the next few weeks, I think. I think the only PSA I have is that we typically lag release cycle for doing Sonobui updates just because that's what happens. So we might have a release around Julyish timeframe. There was also a separate request for me to do an update for the instructions. So I might do a PR against the CNCF conformance repo around that time to update instructions. I've got a few slides or updates from Aish as well and had one of the get some thoughts on some of the API's new direction that we're taking. I was looking at the conformance working group area and the notes, are we making a new section or the meeting minutes? Feel free to make a new section and add that. All right, I'll do that real quick. So updates from Aish and API Snoop update. I'm gonna go ahead and try to share my screen with API Snoop slides. Are you able to see my slides? Not yet. I think so, unless it's just a black slide with no text on it. No, that's not the one. I've been having some issues with my screen sharing. Let me try. I think you're equal in this laptop. Try again, share screen. Sometimes if I reshare it'll show up. I'll drop the link into the channel and maybe someone else can try to move the slides. I'm gonna drop this in for everyone. Just progress through it, if that's all right. Sounds great. All right. Aish is actually updating this live, so thanks for that. She's at a conference internal to Google so they've got lots of watch tests that were added. There's a PR for that. It's on slide two. There's also some ADE aggregator tests where they're waiting for some review there but they're in scope for 112. And there's a conformance guidance PR. It's almost ready. And the link is there on that slide. On slide three. There was two main groups that I think she was working with ABA Machinery and the note within API Machinery. This is the list of the ADE tests that they were able to promote. They've also got a tracker sheet for that. She's gonna be working with the vendors in particular to make sure the flakiness improves and they're not skipping particular providers. And they're about to do some promote these cases via PRs for API Machinery SIG before looping in with the SIG architecture. I just actually editing the slides, hopefully it's getting there. The link is restricted, so. Sorry, that's not useful. Okay, I'm just giving you that feedback so you might give more context than you would otherwise if you think people are following along. Sure, sure, I appreciate that. Anyone, I'm gonna update it so it's public. All right, I've re-updated that. There's some improvements for the POT APIs. That's, I'm gonna focus both for API snoop and for age. SIG node, they've identified a list of APIs inside client Kubernetes Go to focus on for 112. There's a link there to that particular issue. This is on slide four. She's been working with us to correlate the ETE test to the API calls that they make. It's helping particularly in SIG node to be able to see which endpoints are already covered but the tests aren't promoted. We're looking to try to provide a matrix for each of the endpoints to all of the tests. We have an initial dump right now inside ETE correlate. See if I can drop that into the chat real quick. So there are the initial outputs. If you run, if you look at that file, it's sorted by the API calls per ETE test so that you can see for each ETE test, here's the list of all of the endpoints that it hits and the sorted by the number of times they hit it. Where ICE is also working closely with the Globont vendors to understand what they're doing, particularly at how different API and verb combinations are being exercised. And moving a bit into the POT API spec it's a little bit different than just the ETE test and so we're digging in a bit further to see how we can include that in API stoop as well to see which of those are worth promoting. I'm still a bit unsure how we look at ETE test and conformance with regards to POT API spec but the initial findings are in a link here and I'll drop that in the channel. I think this may have to request permission for that one. And for next steps, they're gonna do an API analysis for the API verb combination and take the results to signal we'll be doing something similar within API stoop going beyond just the simple dump of the correlate we have and hopefully be getting something on the web. That looks nice. With an API stoop we've got a couple of open tickets and that might be of interest. I'm gonna drop our issues link in here. One of the things we're looking into right now is trying to augment client go so that every time any application uses client go to connect that we could somehow correlate that call to an entry in the audit log which provides some really interesting data to analyze for all applications instead of we are currently working to do it within just within the ETE test space. And that's been some interesting things. We also updated the API stoop. So if you look at apisnoop.cncf.io it's working but it's kind of a mock up of where we think things should go in the future. I'll drop that link as well. If you look at the web portion the data portion is not there yet. This is where we're talking about having the actual data for each API call in a bit more in depth and possibly within the ring when you see a particular API call being able to click on it and seeing all the ETE tests that hit that particular API call and possibly all the applications at some point including all of the data that flows through it so we can get a better visualization for how we're using our API. There's also been some work on the capture to make that easier. I think that's another ticket where we were looking at using advanced audit web hooks. No, that's not it. Yes, using admission web hooks as an alternative to audit logs. Yes, audit logs are where we will go and be long term and there is that cap. If you haven't seen it to add support for audit logs to be added dynamically but right now this might be useful to get us a good way there as far as the call itself. We won't get the results. We won't get some of the other data that's there but I'd love some feedback on all of these different components as everybody has. Yeah, I'd just be really valuable. I think that's it. Thanks for both for being a proxy for the update from Ayesha on that stuff and for the API Snoop. I followed a few at just haphazardly as I look at activity in the Kubernetes repository that the feedback that you're giving on audit logging is actually driving that feature in a more useful direction. So that's a lot of appreciation is due there. Thank you. I'm stressed. Thank you for that feedback. Others have questions or comments on update? Just in time slides passed off to someone else to present that was a takes a village. I didn't realize that was a fully community ever right there. Okay, anyone else have any PSAs or updates or questions or comments? Otherwise, rather than continuing an open discussion, I would suggest we call it and come back together with a better agenda the next time around. All in favor say aye. Aye-aye. Thanks, Michael. All those say nay. And we all have it. All right, thanks guys. Bye. Take care. Cheers. Thanks.


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So this is the news. CLC receives Canadian 129,000 purchase order. This is what we've been waiting for. We've been waiting for revenue. And this is just the beginning for distillate oil from a licensed producer with distribution in multiple Canadian provinces. Christina like cannabis CLC in Canada, CLC-FF in America and CLB in Frankfurt, Germany is pleased to announce that has received its first purchase order for a commercial quantity of distillate oil valued at 129,000 from a Canadian licensed producer whose products are distributed in several provinces. Under the terms of the purchase order, the identity of the purchaser cannot be publicized for competitive reasons. The distillate oils are to be used for production of vape formulation, a category in which the purchaser is an established player. And the company has now consistently maintained potency levels in the 90% range for the distillate oils it produces. CLC's management is confident that it could continue supplying to the purchaser on an ongoing basis, which means we could see some ongoing revenue with the opportunity to provide greater quantities as needed. In 2020 growing season Christina Lake cannabis is inaugural crop grow naturally under sunlight amounted to nearly double its initial forecasts with 32,500 kgs 71,650 pounds of dried cannabis ultimately harvested in a press release dated January 13 2021. Company announced it was beginning to produce its first ultra high potency distillate oils which typically contain tetra hydro cannabinoidial THC concentrations of 90% or greater and are used as ingredients in a product formulation as opposed to being used as a standalone cannabis product. In a March 31 2021 press release company also announced it had nearly tripled its capacity for extraction with the cannabis industry's first installation of the Vitalis Consolvent Injection System. This enhancement enables the company to consistently process more than 250 kgs 551 pounds of biomass per day which is an important consideration in light of CLC's pivot towards fully integrated production from cultivation to extraction. This is what it looks like after its inaugural growing season Christina Lake cannabis has made its first sale of commercial quantity of distillate oil in the amount of 129,000 Canadian. The purchaser is an established industry player in several cannabis categories to include vaping which is one of many potential applications for distillate oils. As part of the company sales efforts following its inaugural harvest last year CLC has recently delivered product samples along with corresponding certificates of analysis to prospective buyers who currently have open dialogue with CLC's experienced sales team. In addition to distillate oils the company sales team has also been offered an offering winterized oil and keafed to prospective buyers. Christina Lake cannabis chief executive officer Joel DeMars commented, distillates are in demand in the Canadian cannabis market because of their versatility. There are possible applications in medicinal products, food and beverages, personal care, vaping and many other categories. The purchaser has a broad reach in various cannabis segments to include vaping for which they are an esteemed player. Through our industry relationships we're able to come to an agreement with the purchaser in which they recognize the value in both our product and our fully integrated operations which can enable them to receive a consistent supply of high quantity distillates grown under sunlight using our unique cannabis strains made with proprietary genetics. We look forward to getting feedback from the purchaser and their end user clientele and aspire to form a long-term supplier relationship with them as we begin to build a market position as a supplier of cannabis extracts with complete visibility from soil to oil to ensure top-notch quality of our finished product. I brought it to you guys first and I'm not surprised they've been a big winner. Let's take a look at their website you can see right on their website what they're doing. Take a look at this. You've got to be of age. I'm definitely of age. I'm definitely of age. I'm aging myself here. But yeah, you definitely need to be of age to even go into the website which is good. This is the age verification and this is what the website looks like and this is their property. I mean look at this property. Isn't that impressive? You can go to their website Christine Lake cannabis and download the investor presentation. Once again, looking at the stock, we've seen here that when I first brought it to everybody's attention, it was actually at 38 cents, went all the way to $1.10, came all the way back down where we've literally found the bottom and anyone who bought that bottom, congratulations. I think we have a really good chance that we go back up now that the revenue is coming. Revenue is always the key milestone that everybody needs and this is a company now that is growing in revenue and based on this press release, this might be just the beginning. About Christine Lake Cannabis Corp, Christine Lake Cannabis Corp is a licensed producer of cannabis under the Cannabis Act. It has secured a standard cultivation license and corresponding processing sales amendment from Health Canada, March 2020 and August 2020, respectively, as well as a research and development license early 2020. CLC's facility consists of a 32 acre property, which I showed you guys, which includes over 950,000 square feet of outdoor grow space, offices, propagation and drying rooms, research facilities, and a facility dedicated to processing and extraction. CLC also owns a 99 acre plot of land, joining its principal 32 acre site, which enables the company to grow at a much larger scale. CLC cultivates cannabis using strains specifically developed for outdoor cultivation and in its inaugural harvest year produced 32,500 kgs, 71,650 pounds on its existing facility before developing an adjacent 99 acre expansion property. Such an expansion will ultimately bring CLC's annual cultivation footprint to over 4.35 million square feet, which would enable at least 150,000 kgs, 330,693 pounds of low-cost, high-quality, sun-grown cannabis to be produced annually by the company. Once again, this is our website, christenolacanabis.com, a premier producer of high-quality, low-cost, sun-grown cannabis flower oil, cannabinoids, and hemp-based extracts and derivatives, serving domestic and international markets. You can download the investor presentation and learn more, but I mean look at that beautiful property. Have you ever seen a bigger and better outdoor grow? Probably not, christenolacanabis, put on your watch list, put it on your radar. If you're not winning, you're not watching, we're bringing the winners, we're bringing the news, and we bring them to you first. What do you guys think? Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for education and information purposes. Do your due diligence, do your research, consult a financial advisor, ask them what they think about christenolacanabis, tight flow, early stage, company, now starting to have revenue. This could be a major catalyst. What do you guys think? If you like this video, please smash the like, comment down below, share the video everywhere, and subscribe if you're live. This is your boy, Rich from Rich TV Live. Like I said, we're bringing the winners, we're bringing the news, and we bring it to you first. CLC receives Canadian 129,000 purchase order for distillate oil, big news, guys, really big news. We'll have to know what you guys think, distillate oil from a licensed producer, which they can't name, with distribution in multiple Canadian provinces. Once again, the symbol in Canada, CLC, symbol in America, CLCFF, and in Frankfurt, Germany, CLB, this is just getting started. You're boy, Rich from Rich TV Live. We're bringing the news, let me know what you guys think, comment down below. What do you guys think? Do you own it? You thinking about buying it? Let me know. This is your boy, Rich from Rich TV Live, and I'm out. Peace.