Okay, it must be already clear that our software for blender animation change is used by really two kind of people one is the animator and that thing had has already been shown in which the animator selects all the objects which can be changed and the Ranges in which the each object can be changed and all that logic and everything that that part is done by the Animator the one who can operate the blender thing Now we come to the lay user the people whom we are targeting the people who don't know blender and those who want to change the animation and Make a new avi file. So the working satisfy Okay, we have a dialogue box which asked for the password for the my skill database which is on that particular user system or To make it clear our object our complete GUI interacts with only the database We do not interact with the XML thing the XML output is given by the animator So this increases the flexibility of a complete software that way See if an animator had made some Changes and he made it he made an example file Then we could have transferred that XML example file along with the software that way the user can be any In fact in simpler words, this is the software can be made a distributed Okay Fine first of all all we need to do is to import the XML file the XML file contains the Brenda the name of the blender file and all the Attributes and all the objects which had been defined changeable in it So we go on the file and import and put we have to locate the XML file Which has just been made by my friend This is the one XML file which we had shown you a big click on and it's imported. So Just a second Yeah Right, see you can see the blender file which has had which has been imported right now Now what we need to do see we have a search engine along to It what it does is it searches for the blend file name, whatever blend file name you put in it It has a filter mechanism inside it And it selects the particular blend files which are relevant and shows them to you. Next we need to select the blend file and click on okay The next window pops up These objects had been selected and made a changeable in the previous presentation which we see which you showed you so we can select any one object right now and It shows the frames the particular frames in which we can actually change the Animation see the animator decides on which frames the user can actually access the animation It is not that user can Like access any frame or anything any object that he wants. Okay. First. He selects the frame See this is these are the present Location x location y location that all those attributes which you had seen earlier These are the present value the minimum and the maximum value So all these not changeable things which you are seeing these are actually because the animator Define the minimum and maximum range of that object of that attribute of that object as same So you can't actually do anything about it. You can't change it. So we go on to what we can actually change Okay, so This we have a particular minimum and maximum value. So we try to yeah We try to go below the minimum value though it it points it out and corrects the value We try to go above the maximum value like for it collects the value and puts it three Next what we need to do is we need to define the particular frames in which we want the animation to be rendered the The frames which have been the complete set of frames like which are in the animation the animation Which we selected the numbers animation it has one to two seventy five frames in total So obviously you need to select the start frame as greater than the first frame and Let end frame should be less than the last frame and the end frame should be greater than the start frame Okay, wait before that we also Show that we can actually put some Logic in our animation and we can make the logic thing changeable. So we go and add it and we go on logic Okay, see this logic has not been defined in in this particular animation right now. So In a separate file Okay, see go and edit logic These these logics have been defined in another blend file a complete different blend file logic when we go and Same search engine works over here to same logic and then we go on the logic. We want to change and click on okay These are the objects which have been Chosen for the logic thing like if if it is four plus five So four and five are the other objects which we need to describe to the user so that he can actually change the Operating between them the user is not allowed to make any changes in these objects And so all you need whenever you click on a particular object you get the type as well as the value So this describes the objects on which the logic is being acted upon there after There is a list of the operands which which the animator had decided that you can you have the option of changing Plus and minus the current value which has been set in the blend file is plus. So we'll try changing it to minus Whenever you click okay button all it does is that the value which has been chosen by the user It's put in the database. So as I already told you before That's only with the database thing. So we click on okay and the minus value goes on to be saved in the database We're gonna okay Okay, fine next Yeah, now we start now we put the start frame and the end frame So All this we had already done before we start the start frame as three and end frame as 233 okay, and we go and save and exit now these values are actually put on Have been put on the database so databases thing is converted into an XML by the database to XML converter which is a python script and That external thing is read by the blender and it starts rendering. See you can see that everything happening Telling you a fact that rendering of one frame takes five minutes So we selected actually about 200 frames out there. So it will take you can calculate the time it takes for rendering So we can't actually render and show you right now But we can show you an AVF file which we made by rendering a very very small number frames Maybe five frames. So it took out took us about 25 minutes to render But we made an AVF file to show you what the actual final output is Yeah, this is it This is a very small area. This is because the number of frames is only five in it first one Exactly it's only five frames so we can't do much about it Like if you had to completely render that it would you have to put it for one whole day or something Sir, it's a it's a blender thing. It takes very long for each frame to get All right, and I think this sums it up Thanks a lot to professor DB Fatuk for giving us such an wonderful opportunity. I think we did just this enough for this project Good evening all of you. I'm Prajotiyo Agmaraya, and I'd like to give you a short introduction about our project As you can see our project is the design and development of a scalable e-learning portal Let me give you a short introduction the really critical prop the early critical aspect of Indian educational system Is that it still follows the chalk-and-talk method of delivering education? But in the 21st century we have the capability to combine online learning and face-to-face meeting in What we call the blended learning. This has already been implemented in MIT scores where under the Sakai project a Our main objective is to provide an environment in which different Hierarchy of users such as students teachers professionals and educational administrators can all work together in order to enrich quality of in order to enrich quality of education and The and it also aims to affect the construction of knowledge with reference to individual experience next Thus we came up with the idea of creating an e-learning portal after a lot of research We decided to use jumlah and moodle for this purpose Jumlah is a open-source content management system used to publish content over the worldwide web Now why did we choose jumlah? basically the Let me list the some of the features of jumlah first of all it is open source That is we can use it and edit it according to our requirements Then we have decentralized editing on any browser. That is the administrator can edit it and save the Save the portal From anywhere in the world at any time We have over 5,000 different plugins available with jumlah Then there is a building feature for multiple languages Jumlah has been efficiently used worldwide over many professionals. Thus its efficiency is tested and proved It is highly easy to use after After installing it even a non professional can Use it can handle it actually next Let us get acquainted with moodle moodle is a learning management system using which we can create dynamic learning environment Some of its features are that first of all it is open source then There are activities like assignments tutorials forums polls news We have authentication system by username and password. There is enrolment system for students Various graphical themes are already there in moodle. We can give different roles to different users like teachers and students We have integrated the features of moodle and jumlah using J fusion in a single portal Next We have the features of visual integration moodle actually seems to be a part of jumlah using this Then the single sign-on feature Which will ensure that if a person is logged into jumlah, he will be automatically logged into moodle as well as vice versa Then there is feature of user user synchronization and centralized user profiles the intended users who will be using our Portal our teachers students educational administrators professionals alumni and guests There are some extra features given to teacher group and they They are they can handle a course. They can submit article videos create forums chats and blogs Teachers students are given some less privileges. They can just participate in forums Submit assignments and quizzes and in the jumlah front end student can submit articles web links and respond to forum and polls Other users like professionals and alumni can submit articles and upload their videos from the jumlah front end We have also integrated certain course modules like available module available courses In which there is a it will be listed all the courses in moodle will be listed Then there is my course module in which there will be a list of courses in which you have already enrolled As you can see there is the available course module and the my courses module was he left next We have a jumlah wiki as well as moodle wiki in our portal Registered members can submit the article and the article will be posted Reviewed and posted we have version control feature also with jumlah with moodle Some of the features in in our portal are flash We have used use this feature to to display news then we have moodle chat There is a message box in jumlah if you post a message it will be displayed on the side to everyone then There's the gallery feature Let me call upon Rakesh to give a short demo of our site Pajoti for giving us in short description of the project. Well, I'll Well, I'll give a short demonstration of our portal Just after it's done Configuring well now.  I don't know why it's coming. So Disorganized but this is basically the front page of our portal where we have the top menu and The side menu and the over here we have in the front with different articles when the users post the articles It will be automatically reflected on the front page on the top menu We have the about features knowledge portal refers to our moodle site Which will open a wrapper about is basically about our project and features are different features. We have on our side and The top menu We have the knowledge portal which refers to the moodle site wiki and gallery In the main menu, I'll show you just a login because Here we have defined different user hierarchy where different users will have different access rights and permissions And they will have different features as they will access the different features as per the permissions granted to them we can create an account in this registration page the Fields which are marked as star at the field necessary for the authentication of the users as well as the teachers and There are different rules. These are the rules defined in our hierarchy and The different colleges and we have this capture to prevent the automated mail Which will create spam and the registration on our website After this we can my colleague can log in with my account Okay, after we log in we can see that my courses will be reflected on my front page This is the content integration. We have done with the moodle and On the top we have the available courses and the moodle courses will have all the courses which are stored in my Jumla in my moodle site, which is the learning management system. We can see the user details My role will be reflected Here I can modify but this is not the final modification if I change the rule over here This will be registered. This will be changed as a registered user Then it will be up to the administrator who is sitting at the back end To authenticate identify that this is a valid user and he's a teacher or a student Then he will change the role as per the need of the situation Then we can have different this chat box. This chat box is a Jack based chat box to stimulate chatting of anybody who is online at that particular moment Then in the top we have In the top we have forums Forums are an essential part in these online educational system Because the student gets ample time to think of a responses and this can give rise to a healthy response system Between the student and the teacher here. We can check out the different discussions Which are going on and the student can take part in any of the discussion with your IT Bombay and any of the thread and My colleague will show you how to Post anything create a new thread or different things. We have this reply to topic or new thread and These will be posted and for the different things. Please go back to the home page We have articles articles can be posted by different Users as per the permission granted by them the articles after we have posted this This is posted by the users who have been given the editor rights after Editor has published something it needs to be published by the administrator There are set of administrators at the back end and we have a super administrator who will Ultimately be the guidance of to all the people and these things will be reflected on our Articles where we can submit an article at the Rakesh. I've logged in. So I've I had the Privilege of a non-teaching staff Where I'll work under a teacher to administer his work Then I have pole polling feature. This is how you can submit an article and then you can go to polling feature In the polling feature, we have different polls going on polls and effective way to Generate feedbacks and to collect them from the students as to how they are getting a comprehension of the materials given to them But these feedbacks we can generate a statistics based on the bar graph or the pie chart as per the need of a situation Where the by bar graph and the pie charts need to be changed from the back end that will be done by the administrator and We have the different web links web links refers to a teacher links and Student links they're redirected to the different pages of the different colleges or the educational sites which will be needed by the teachers or students then we have news feeds and I Like to show you after these the download and upload features we have on our website Here's a download and upload section where there are different videos on different sections like data structures and different lectures Here the teacher or the students even the students can with those privileges can upload those videos and different things Which will be needed for the spreading of educational in a better way and after this I will put more stress on Go to my courses Here you can Upload this is the way you upload anything you can upload anything and after it is verified by the user administrator that it is not something Unworthy of being put it on our portal you will dismiss it or you'll publish it Then we have comments and discussions where the users can take part in any comments or discussion going on and we can Participate with the different posts and articles. It's like a blogging feature on our portal This is the way you submit an article it will be directly be done by you it did not be Administered by the administrator like we had in the article section Now we can go to these are the courses in which I have enrolled Please go to any of the courses The model courses reflect all the courses created in our model section Well, we all know that Moodle is a learning management system I don't mainly made to assess the grading system so that The chalk and talk method to be supplemented in a better way It was never meant to replace the chalk and talk method, but just to add augmented Here you can enter into the courses you can check the course teachers and You can go back see parameter When you enter into the courses you will see the features of Moodle wrapped up in a wrapper as Moodle is not a Jumla content. We have to integrate it in a wrapper Well, these are the different features or activities we have in our moodle like we have the discussion forum Feedbacks wiki wiki's are specific to over here. The wiki are specific to your courses and Here you can put on your syllabus. This is the different formats you put up in wiki This is one of the formats. We have imported not specified in the moodle section But we made a model for it and here you can have different lectures Excuse me As you can see that different features you can also have the chat boxes over here private messaging so that it can stimulate better Interaction between the teacher and the student usually there are remote students who do not get enough time to interact with the teachers in the classrooms And when you can shift your quizzes and forums and your assignment reviews over here You can save ample time for your classrooms by this you can save ample time for the classroom for the classroom discussions Problem-solving which normally in India we our course time is very limited and we do not get enough time to Give ample time to each and every student we have now colleges Well after that we can go to the wiki feature wiki for our This is the wiki for every user here. We have the version control mechanism You can check out the different go-to index or there's a search You will find what are the things we have? Pertain to see and here you can check out what is the article written on them You can as you have wiki is a dynamic web content It can be changed and modified as per the user, but the these things are not final They will have a different version versioning system so that if the changes made by the user it's a necessary it can be resolved back and For different things we have old revisions. It will be often generating the old revisions I'm telling you that this was a time it was modified and for now These are the features and we also have Jalil and for the minor project we have one of our colleagues who need had made a XML parser for the question bank We also have question banks for In Jumla in Moodle where you can import questions in different format. I then XML format or an icon format where now XML format you have different question formats like subjective objectives and Like true and false different formats He has made an XML parser just for the objective and subjective part using Qt 4.5 which is a library for C++ and These are the different features of our side and I like to wrap it up now by giving my thanks to Fataxer for such a Project just five minutes like scalability as in we haven't done those hardware testing because we never had Those kinds of resources it requires a type of black box and white box testing but with the present With the present requirements and the present things which are given to us I think this will work fine for more than thousands of students and users Actually our ambition is that the first portal that we launch within about two years time could be used by about For three to four lakh students and about 20,000 teachers So what we want to do is to begin with as a part of the national project We first want to expose it to only teachers in so far as ability to post is concerned and We will expose it to students in so far as any download or reading or anything is concerned so in in Jumla Where I Essentially, I won't be running any courses through the portal to begin with If I want to give access to a very large number of students in what you may crudely call a read-only thing No chat no nothing. How could I restrict that as a guest or I they could still be registered, but There their ability to do any insert is restricted Here you can have the guest feature You can make the materials which you need for a large number of people to be accessible by the guest features like we have in the MIT Satay project. Yeah, the problem is we would also like to monitor who is downloading what? So that we know what are the preferences what people find useful, etc. For that you have to go through a registration process This station back-end is a my secret database. Is it? Yeah the back-end is reflected in a GUI interface because in Jumla, which is a part of WCMS it provides us with a front-end which is administered by the users and the different visitors and at the back-end which is administered by the Administrator himself. There are several administrators. There can be several administrators and there can be several publishers and editors and Must be just one super administrator to head all this and What was the other question that I had in mind almost it's script huh effectively if I have Insulted me or let's take a professional from TCS who has insulted some very nice article on programming I was actually Uploaded a piece of Java code that he or she had written for something else and I would like to make that accessible To let's say students who are registered on Moodle, which is part of the Jumla thing Now do I have to replicate that again by copying it in Moodle or Moodle users can access The contents which are available independently in Jumla presently we don't have any such feature we have provided the user hierarchy at the professional user Okay, the professional has the same rights as the Teaching staff assistant. Okay, where you can post articles on the Jumla But this article cannot be posted back without the help of the administrator on the Moodle side I should be done by the administrator. We find it relevant or If we think that in this particular course this article will be needed for the students Then he'll post it on that course. Thank you. Thank you very good work Very good. I am impressed. I was Not very sure because many of my colleagues felt that I am assembling too large a workforce and usually As you add people it becomes counterproductive because the focus is lost But I'm happy that you have done a lot of good work And I'm encouraged to continue this next year because the Dean R and he was asking me Whether we'll continue that he might formalize this scheme back again as a part of the DNR and his position Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed your stay and you'll learn something useful So go back and do something still more useful that's the idea and Maybe I would like to see some of you coming here for your master's courses. I Got a mail from a student from VRC Nagpur anybody from Nagpur here. No, it's called VNIT, right? He was a part of the Clicker team last year which had built the clickers and the mail says that he has he has just finished his beta He has got admission to IISC Bangalore where he was to go. He said when I went to visit my department I found 50 clicker devices there because VNIT is a remote center Where teachers are participating in our workshop? I don't know that you are aware the main workshop for the main project has just started and We are in the third day. I think a fourth day and we will be using the clickers version one in a distributed fashion now There are about 900 teachers who have assembled at 30 remote centers So that that is working and now all the contributions that these teachers will make or me and my colleagues will make Would have to eventually go into this website So each and every project activity that you are doing in one way or the other will find or will make inroads into Into this collaborative effort Hopefully there would be some teachers from your colleges attending The workshop or some of them are organizing these workshops most of the NITs are our centers, right? So anyway go back and Please do two things give our greetings from IIT in my personal regards to your department head and your director Tell them that Fata was extremely happy with the kind of work that we have done We'll most probably write letters to your issue directors saying that we we enjoyed having you work here and Keep in touch do not forget to get a Small snapshot of yours with a small description Because it should not happen that we release everything in open source and you are royally forgotten Whatever little work of your work in the totality of the scheme might be a small percentage But still important work because that is what is furthering this cause So thank you once again Enjoy life


In this presentation, we will discuss change in estimates related to the calculation of depreciation. Remember that depreciation is the allocation of the cost of property plant and equipment over the useful life. Therefore, when we purchase the equipment, even if we paid cash for it, we're putting it on the books as an asset rather than expensing it at the time of purchase and then we're going to allocate the cost over the life of that asset in accordance with the matching principle, trying to match up the expense with the related period in which it helps to generate revenue. So, as we consume the property plant and equipment, we want to write off the expense when it has been consumed to help generate revenue. That gives us the best matching principle, the best comparability. Now, to do that, of course, we have to use an estimate to do that. So, it's not perfect when we make this estimate and our estimating methods might be something like straight line or an accelerated method like double declining balance. No matter what method we use, however, it is just an estimate and if it becomes clear in the future that our estimate is off or we think that it's clear that we need to update the estimate, then what are we going to do? How are we going to do that? First, note that there's a couple areas where the estimate could clearly change. So, when we have depreciation, the cost is the cost. We bought it for what we bought it for. That's not generally an estimate. What's an estimate is, one, the salvage value could be an estimate, meaning how much do we think it's going to be worth at the end of its useful life? How much do we think that we can scrap it for at the end of using it during its useful life? And two is going to be the useful life itself. How long do we think this thing is going to last and how long are we going to be using this thing in operations? Those are the two things that could change. If there's a significant change in these, then we would want to go back and we want to take a look at it and say, okay, how are we going to deal with the fact that we have new information that now makes it so that one of these factors or both are now changed. When recording a change in estimate, we typically do it at the point in time that the change has taken place going forward. In other words, we typically won't go back in time and change the estimate back to the prior periods which have already passed. One reason for that is that it would change things within the past. It would be difficult for us to go through the books that had already been closed and then change the income statement which would change retained earnings. So oftentimes we'll just draw a line and say, okay, we think that this estimate has changed at this point in time and then make the calculation in order to change the estimate at this point in time moving forward. Let's take a look at this with an example. So here's going to be our data down here. We've got the cost of property, plant and equipment at 50,000 salvage value, 1,000 useful life starting at three years. Then at the end of year two, we decide that the useful life actually has three at the end of year, at the beginning of year three, the end of year two. We think the useful life at that point has four more years to go. So that's a change in estimate and we believe the salvage value is going to change from 1,000 to 500 as that change takes place. What we'll do is we'll use this original data here in order to record the depreciation and then we'll consider what that change will do when it happens at the end of two years. So the original data, we're just going to say we had $50,000 cost, we had a salvage value of 1,000. This is just a straight line calculation. We're going to be doing straight line calculation. Then that gives us the 49,000 to be depreciated 50,000 cost minus the salvage, what we think we'll be able to get for it for scrap at the end of its useful life gives us the amount we're going to depreciate over its useful life currently three years. So if we had 49,000 divided by three years that we're going to depreciate over that gives us our 16,333 this is an estimated number here it's really 16,333.333 we're estimated to the nearest dollar. So if we take a look at our book value calculation always important to do this by the way because a book problem even if we're doing this for a book problem will generally always ask or could ask something other than just the depreciation. So being able to calculate depreciation is not the full not everything you need to know we need to know how to calculate the accumulated depreciation and how to calculate the book value because those are going to be common forms of questions and just to understand of course the concepts. So the book value at the end of year one is going to be the cost 50,000 less the accumulated depreciation which is only one year at this point being just the 16,333 subtracting out the 50,000 minus the 16,333 we have a book value after year one of 33,667. If we had a straight line method which we calculated here and we did that for year two we would still have a cost of 50,000 and the accumulated depreciation now would be that 16,333 from the prior year plus the current years 16,333 or 32,667 then the 50,000 minus the 32,667 would give us that 17,333. Now we would do this for another year and if we did that under the normal method we would get down to a salvage value of 1,000 the useful life having been completed and we would have fully depreciated. However we have a situation here where we're saying at the end of year two at this point in time there is a change in estimate we think it's going to last four more years. Now if we were to just end it off in year three then we couldn't extend the useful life because there would be nothing left to depreciate. In other words at this point in time we're not going back to the original 50,000 we're not going to update years one and two what we're going to do is go from year at the end of year two beginning of year three forward in order to make our adjustment. Part of the reason for that is that this depreciation has already been included in the expenses for years one and two and then has been closed out to retained earnings. So it's basically the expense half of this calculation is gone it's already passed it's timing the time has gone so in order to change it we'd have to go back retroactively and recalculate the prior year's income statement and then roll forward and reclose out the income statement to adjust retained earnings going forward. It oftentimes might not be most useful to do that what we can do instead so we can say okay we figured out the adjustment at this point in time we're going to say this is where we stand at this point in time this isn't the cost it's the book value as of the end of year two and then take that and adjust it going forward to allocate it out to the four years and the new salvage value. To do that we're going to do basically just the same type of straight line calculation however instead of starting with the cost we will start with the book value of where we're at the 17,333 at the end of year two then we'll subtract out the salvage which has changed now to 500 from 1000 if we subtract that out to 17,333 minus 500 gives us 16,833 useful life we're going to say is four years now so it's four more years it's already been two years and now we decided at the end of year two it's going to last four more years four years 16,833 to be depreciated divided by four more years gives us depreciation per year for the next four years 4,208 so now if we calculate the depreciation or our book value we get the 50,000 cost still and then the accumulated depreciation now I won't go back to the prior slide to pick up the prior one but we'll see it going forward it would be the accumulated depreciation for the last time period plus the 4,208 which gives us the 36,875 subtracting out the 50,000 plus the new accumulated depreciation brings it down to 13,125 so in essence this is where we stood book value wise in the prior year now we're at 13,125 going forward we have the same 50,000 then we're going to take this prior periods accumulated depreciation 36,875 plus the current year's depreciation that we have calculated using a straight line method 4,208 to give us 41,083 the 50,000 minus the 41,083 gives us 8,917 if we do this again we've got the 50,000 then we're going to add in the accumulated depreciation 41,083 and the 4,208 to give us 45,292 the 50,000 minus the 45,292 gives us 4,708 we'll do this one more time we've got the 50,000 then we got the accumulated depreciation being the 45,292 from the prior time period plus the current period's depreciation 4,208 giving us 49,500 subtracting out the 50,000 minus the 49,500 gives us the 5,000 so you can see as we start from this point in time we can arrive at the 500 our stopping point that being the salvage value without having gone back and made the changes to the original estimate we didn't make this calculation based on the 50,000 cost we basically took the book value as of the point in time that we thought the estimate had changed that being 17,333 then moving forward with that based on the new information that we have


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major news developments from across the world. Our headlines. All four police officers involved in George Floyd's death have been charged. Over a dozen homes have been demolished in the occupied Palestinian territories. Argentinian feminists and LGBTQI movements commemorate the Ni-Una Menos anniversary. We begin with an update from the United States where protests against police killings and racism continue. All four of the expelled Minneapolis police officers accused in the killing of George Floyd are to be indicted under various charges of murder. The announcement was made by Minnesota's State Attorney General Keith Ellison on June 3. Derek Chauvin, the prime accused in the case, will now be charged with second-degree murder. Earlier, third-degree murder charges had been pressed against him. The other three police officers will be charged with different counts of aiding and abetting a second-degree murder and homicide. The police officers killed Floyd while trying to arrest him. Derek Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. The announcement of the charging of the officers comes after eight days of country-wide protests triggered by Floyd's death. The four police officers were expelled within hours after video footage of the violent arrest attempt at his death went viral. However, only Chauvin was initially charged. The US is reported anywhere between 900 to 1,000 cases of police killings annually since 2015. In 2019 alone, law enforcement officers killed over 1,100 people while on duty. In the past six years, however, prosecutions took place in only around 4% of these cases and less than 1% ended in convictions. In the entire state of Minnesota, where Floyd was killed, only one police officer has been convicted in this period for killing someone on duty. However, the protesters are determined to seek justice. The number of arrests in these protests has risen to nearly 9,000. In our infocus section, we bring you an interview with Abitit author Vijay Prashad in scholar Norm Chomsky on the protests as well as the policies of President Donald Trump. As we are talking, the streets of the United States are on fire. People have decided that they're just not going to take it after the murder of George Floyd. And even liberals seem to be losing patience. I read George Packer, he wrote an article with the title, We Are Living in a Failed State. It's quite astounding to see a liberal write about the failed state. And of course, it's heartbreaking to see the murder of another African-American, but then to see people come on the street.  Well, actually, what's happening does give a sense of hope. First of all, the murder of George Floyd is not an unusual event. I mean, events like this used to happen pretty frequently, and nobody paid any attention to them. What's encouraging, hard to say this in the midst of these horrors, but what's encouraging is there is a reaction that shows that there has been a kind of improvement in the level of civilization in the country. Things that passed under the radar before, at least a lot of people notice. No, they didn't protest before, but they're protesting now. But let me say a word of criticism about it. I don't understand it, sympathize with it, good thing. But notice the focus on the few policemen. One of them is a murderer, three others stood by and did nothing. And there's a lot of denunciations of those three who stood by, but it's useful every once in a while to look into the mirror. Can you think of anyone else who stood by for actually all of our lifetimes long before while all these things are happening and didn't do anything? People like me, for example, and the rest of us. What have we done to alleviate the circumstances that lead to this? I guess we can certainly blame the policemen for standing by, but there's a deeper problem, deeply ingrained in white society. Even people who are activists and protesters, we pretty much stood by. The protests today are very reminiscent of others. So in 1992, after the Rodney King murder by police in Los Angeles, and after the policemen who killed him were released from the court without any punishment, there were huge protests, a week of protests. I think about 60 people were killed, federal troops were brought in. The effect, as usual, was to shift public attention to rioters. We have to have more law and order, more force. That's the typical response to protests that become violent. We're reliving it, except now there's more protests. And I should say this raises a question that activists should ask themselves. They should always ask themselves. You have to distinguish between tactics that make you feel good and tactics that actually do good. The ones that make you feel good are easy. Like if I can break a window and show how angry I am, it makes me feel good. Is it doing good? No, it's a gift to President Trump and the right wing. They love it. And though it's maybe hard to restrain yourself in times of bitterness and horror and crisis, if you ask yourself, what am I trying to achieve? The answer of what to do is quite clear. Over time, consistently, nonviolent protests, which are hard to encourage or restrain, these have shifted opinion in support of the cause we're advancing. Violent protests consistently have been a gift to the harsher, more brutal elements in society. And you have to think about that if you're serious about the cause. It's hard. It's not easy. It's easy to sympathize with special blacks at the boot on their neck for 400 years. You can't criticize any reaction. But on the part of others, they should really be thinking about these things. More than a dozen Palestinian homes were destroyed by Israeli occupation forces in various parts of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Most of the demolitions happened near Jericho City, where occupation forces destroyed seven homes and animal shelters. Another affected area was the Masafariyata neighborhood in the south of Hebron. The neighborhood falls within the area's sea jurisdiction of the West Bank, which is solely controlled by Israel. It has been targeted by the Israeli military and settlers in the past. The demolition drive is taking place in areas which are part of the proposed annexation of the Jordan Valley by Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex these areas by July. On June 1st, the occupation authorities issued an order to demolish more than 200 Palestinian structures in the Wadi El Jaws area of occupied East Jerusalem. Allege lack of permits, perceptional security threats and various other excuses have been used as a justification to demolish these homes and property. Palestinians are also being arrested in large numbers ever since the annexation plans became public. Such acts are intended to force these Palestinians off their land and have been compared to ethnic cleansing drives. And finally, this Wednesday, Argentine social media was painted with pink and green, colors of the country's feminist movement. June 3rd marked the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Ney-Unamayors or not one women-less movement.  Thousands of citizens, feminists, LGBTQI activists, leftists, social movements and trade union members joined the virtual demonstration. People shared messages over social media to raise awareness on violence against women and trans persons. Ney-Unamayors began in 2015 as an initiative by a group of feminist journalists, activists and artists, who felt the need to organize against feminists, sexual abuse and other forms of violence against women. With overwhelming support, the movement quickly expanded and became a collective campaign for various women, LGBTQI people and social movements. Data from June 2015 to May 2020 shows that around 1,450 feminists were reported throughout the country. In other words, a woman died every 30 hours in Argentina. The data also showed that 45% of the women were murdered by their partners, 31% by their ex-partners and 15% by family members. It also indicated that 64% of these murders occurred inside the victim's own house. 25% in public places and 3% happened at the aggressor's house. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. To know more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching.


Tom here from Lawrence systems and just because we have to socially distance ourselves from people does not mean we have to sacrifice our privacy Say hi Brett So this is signal messenger and I'm gonna hang up and you and start a video now And I'm gonna dive into how to have truly private conversations and not worry about a lot of the other Software out there that may have causing some privacy concerns So if you want to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you'd like to hire sure project There's a hires button up at the top if you want to support this channel in other ways There's some affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services that we talk about in his channel And I have talked about signal before it's a great tool and we'll start here at signal org speak freely Say hello to a different messaging experience in an unexpected focus on privacy combined with all the features you'd expect now Signals free, but let's cover this real quick. It's a foundation. That's why it's free They're not free because they're monetizing your existence and selling your data to some third parties They're not taking vc money that's influencing them to try to monetize and etc. Or etc. The usual pitfalls you find with a lot of different Uh programs out there that are free. They're free because you're the product I would we've certainly all heard that before and it's true in many many cases It is a very full featured system. So security without insecurity It's a messaging platform. So easy to message easy to say whatever you want You can share voice text message photo Animated gift signal uses your phone's data connection So you can have your avoid sms and mms fees, which some carriers still charge for Speak freely make crystal clear voice and video calls of people Live across town or across the ocean with no long distance charges Yeah, you know pretty basic stuff because you're not actually using your phone number years using the data plan So this uses data not actual like normal sell your voice And make privacy slick at a new layer of expression of conversation with encrypted stickers I think they took the time to encrypt the stickers think about that Which I think is pretty cool get together with groups group chats make it easy to stay connected with your family and friends and co workers No ads no trackers. No kidding. There are no ads no affiliate marketers and no creepy tracking for signals So focus on sharing your moments that matter with people That matter to you and this is one of the things that I think is really important is we do not have to sacrifice privacy Just to have a private conversation online. So I've been working in the online space for years This is something I think a lot about in signal messenger being one of my go-to's now the good and bad of signal messenger Is it uses your phone number? Why do I say good and bad good? It's really easy It's easy for to take non-technical people get them to sign up for signal They it sends them an sms message I can now instantly have a private conversation when they have signal loaded I have seen a loaded we already have a common thing we knew about each other Which is the phone number The bad thing is if I want to have a private conversation with a stranger And I don't want to give him my phone number specifically my cell phone number Well, that creates a challenge with signal. So I don't see this as the you know The worst problem they have because it makes an easy way to do identity management But you know it it's a sacrifice to be able to have to Do that So, you know, if you got to give someone your phone number to have a conversation with them I don't think it's the most terrible thing But obviously there are people and people who just want to have an encrypted conversation with me There are other methods There's a pgp key on my website for those of you that really want to send me an encrypted message And some people have used that I do offer that as an option But that's obviously much more technical than having my friends and relatives I've told to the signal legal this was easy now What about if someone clones the phone? What if you cloned my phone wouldn't they be able to get to my signal because there's no username No password no registration other than verifying that you own the phone number Well, that's where signals already thought of a lot of these And what they do is they offer a system by which if my phone gets cloned or changed It will automatically notify everyone a signal that my safety number has changed as in Because my safety number changed they will know that another phone another device was added and can be notified of that So that's an important piece that signal has is they do have mitigations against that now as far as the protocol itself The entire thing is open source and if you understand cryptography you can read through all the source code the cryptography the entire methodologies It's 100 published. It's been audited by other cryptographers Not just moxie marlin spike who came up with all this But they have an entire breakdown of every little piece of how it works So it's completely been well vetted and if you don't Believe those who have vetted it you can vet it yourself if you understand cryptography It's a lot of reading but they are 100 open source and do everything in the clear So it's one of the tools I think is really handy to People to use it's really handy for the average users that want to you know Because pretty much everyone has a cell phone these days you want to have an easy encrypted private conversation Signals a great way to go now the last thing i'm going to cover is it's not a replacement for a video conferencing app You do not have group conferencing. It is a group chat app But it's not a group conferencing app so you can build a group you can have a group of people You exchange messages with but there's not a way to call and conference all those people at this time I'm not positive that'll be a future um Feature or not But from a standpoint of being able to directly call someone and make a private completely encrypted phone call works great From the standpoint of being able to have a one-on-one video chat with someone 100 private and encrypted Works perfectly good for that. So those two features make it very ideal and it's very easy to use Like I said, there's no more than just have a cell phone whether it's ios or android Yeah, it works on both platforms And you can start having a private conversation with someone granted It is going to use your data plan, but it also will work over wi-fi and things like that Now they do also have the desktop app Which does not support any type of the videos or phone calling But it allows you to keep continuing the conversation from your desktop Whether it be windows mac or linux and carry on with that conversation I'll leave a previous review. I did a signal down below If you are interested in diving a little more into it I've covered things a little bit more in depth. I think in the other video, but I just want to throw it out there It's one of the easy tools to recommend. It's free, but don't worry. It's not free as in Charge is monetizing your existence Just a great application to use if you want to have a private conversation And with everyone kind of being on lockdown here in april of 2020 Don't need I just want to remind people you don't need to sacrifice your privacy to have your private conversation. 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But I'm curious, you know, what is your view on how money plays a part or should it not play a part in this whole psychedelic renaissance? Because money, of course, becomes this big argumentative place, you know, like, oh, all these bad companies, but then people need healing or maybe people don't need healing or how do you make it accessible? Yeah. So there's a lot of issues here. One of them is, here's the system as we know it and how do we interface with that system? Practically speaking and not try to be so pure that we end up not being able to do anything at all. Like you could apply that same thinking to lots of issues, like, well, you know, fossil fuel combustion is killing the planet, so, but are you going to live with zero, like go off in the woods and live off grid and like not, even if you can do that, is that the best thing for the planet? So that issue comes up, but really like there's the core of the critique is a very legitimate disturbance at the reduction of the sacred. Anytime something sacred is wrapped into the money world, bad things happen. It ends up getting desecrated. So I personally like to use gift economics in my work when anything sacred is involved. I don't insist on it, but it is a viable business model and it doesn't mean no money is involved. I have some friends who are setting up a psychedelic retreat center and I said, okay, here's how it should work. All right, just a modest proposal. You charge for accommodations and food at the center, but the medicine is by gift. So somebody will pay for a room and board and then they decide what they would like to pay as a gift in gratitude for the medicine itself and for the time of the people serving the medicine. And it comes from a place of, wow, thank you so much for doing this work. I would like to support you in doing that work. So in that way, the medicine itself is not being bought and sold. But it is appreciated and those who are serving the medicine are supported.  It's not from an energy of withholding, but it's from an energy of trust. I trust that if I give this to you, that you or somebody else will support me in turn because my contribution is recognized by the universe. And if I am sincere in my gift, then the flow to receive is also open and I have to receive that too. And I'm willing to receive that. So it's not like, ooh, I'm not going to touch money. It is, it is, I trust and accept the inflow and the outflow. So this is, you know, I've used this model for retreats. I haven't been serving psychedelics, but, you know, I've been serving whatever medicine I carry through my words. And I do it that way. Like I used to teach at Esalen before, you know, I was, I don't think I'm welcome there anymore for various reasons, but having to do with my opinions on COVID issues. However, when I was teaching there, I made an arrangement with the institution that the normal faculty payment would, that would be taken off the participants' bill. So they would only be paying for Esalen itself, not for the program. And then they would choose how much to give me. And that meant that like some young person without a lot of money, you know, or some, you know, like they wouldn't have to give anything. And that would be welcome. And then if somebody was more established later in life, had had more financial wealth, then they could give me an amount that expressed their gratitude. And if they weren't grateful at all, and were like, Charles, this kind of sucked. I wasted five days. Then I didn't want them to give from that energy. And that rarely happened. But you know, like it's not for everybody, you know. So this is the principle of gift that people just have to understand. It's not like when I when I talk to people about this and suggest it for their business, they're like, oh, well, that might be fine for you. But I have to, I have a mortgage to pay. I have to make money. I'm like, you don't understand. People want to support you. They want to show their gratitude. You will be supported. And not just in intangible things. People will give you money. If you are doing good work in the world, they will be grateful. They will want to support you. And because psychedelics are so sacred, I think that this is a prime arena to use gift economics. So hopefully, you know, some practitioners are out there listening and will give it a try. And it's, you know, I'll just also say like to make it work, often there's a lot of inner work that has to happen because you'll get confronted. But well, so-and-so, I know that they're wealthy and they didn't give very much. And OK, so are you actually doing it? Are you actually in gift? Or maybe, yeah, like all kinds of resentment comes up, all kinds of fear comes up, control comes up. Let me kind of guilt them into it. You don't have to do that. And the more you let go of that, any kind of control, the more you trust generosity and gratitude, the more you animate generosity and gratitude. When you stand in that reality, you become an attractor for that reality. And you don't have to go into like magical New Age, you know, the secret law of attraction stuff to believe that. People can sense if you're trying to milk them for money. People can sense when you say, trust yourself. Any amount is welcome. Choose what feels good and right for you. We're good, like people sense that. And again, like it doesn't always work. And in fact, I can guarantee you that there will be a moment where it looks like it doesn't work because that's you're being asked, are you serious about this? And also maybe you're being shown ways in which you're not actually doing what you think, what you tell yourself you're doing. But I just want to tell everybody this is a viable business model. And it is the business model of the future as more and more of materiality enters the realm of the sacred in our perception. Not that it isn't all already sacred, but in our present historical moment, we tend to divide the world into two, the sacred and the profane. And therefore we treat the world as profane, the material world. No wonder this is part of the old story. No wonder we're trashing nature if we see matter as just matter. So really this business model is tied into the perception of the sacred. And as we step more and more into the sacred and into seeing our work and our labor and all materials as sacred, the gift model then becomes more and more natural. And that's why I say it is the future of economics.