Hello, welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. Our topic for this episode, Forward Forever, where communication meets innovation. Our discussion for today, Black History Month, Juneteenth, and the Black Panther movie, Wakanda Forever. Remembering the past embracing the future. Today, Sister Power is excited to welcome our VIP guest. Akimi Glenn is a Honolulu-based scholar and culture worker. Akimi is the founder and curator of the Popolo Project, a multimedia exploration of blackness in Hawaii and the larger Pacific. David Goldberg is an accomplished Hawaii-based writer, teacher, programmer, and media developer who has used a lifelong interest in our culture, art, and technology to transform the means by which people access, assess, and organize knowledge. Akimi and David, welcome to Sister Power. Thank you for having me. Thanks for having me. Oh, thank you. And David, you've been on before. Yeah, it's good to be back. Thank you. And Akimi, this is your first time. I'm happy to be with you. Oh, I'm so happy. And these are our two new members for the African American Film Festival, which was a great success. Tell me your take on the, from February 3rd to February 10th for the Honolulu Film Festival. Do you want to start? Sure. Well, this was my very first festival as part of the organizing committee. And we had a wonderful week of films and events. We started off with a fabulous opening celebrating Andre Leon Talley, who is the renowned art fashion critic and happens to be from North Carolina, where my parents are from, actually went to high school right down the road from my dad. But it was a wonderful opening night. We kind of had a little bit of fun, had a little gala opening. And then we continued through the week. The very next day, we had a really interesting conversation thinking about the Me Too movement, how it applies to Hawaii after we screened Anita, which is a documentary about Anita Hill and her experience during the Clarence Thomas confirmation. And then we were able to show some other films throughout the week. We saw Boom for Real, which was about the young life of Jean-Michel Basquiat. And we also saw Mudbound, which was an Oscar nominated film that is a lot of people saw on Netflix, but it was really great to see it on the big screen as well. Yeah, I think we had a really strong opening. We had Full Houses for the opening event. And the discussion and energy behind both the world accordion to Andre and the Anita film in particular was really, really great. We had local representatives that were there that were sharing their stories. So we got to see a very intimate look at how women in Hawaii in particular deal with the issue, you know, sexual harassment. So it was really great to be able to connect this amazing, you know, look back at what Anita Hill went through to our immediate concerns in Hawaii. So I'm really proud of being involved in putting that in front of people. And I think the reception was really good. I mean, people came out for all of these films. My mother-in-law went and saw Mudbound and then watched it again on Netflix. She was like, I was really good movie. I'm gonna watch it again. Family affair. Yeah, it worked. It worked. You know what I enjoy about the Honolulu African Film Festival? That's how we're kicking off Black Hicks Street Month. And I wanted to show the audience what I like about Sister Power. We're always educating. We're always motivating and we're always empowering. And we have a rare footage that we would like to show the audience. And Akimi, I want you to talk a little bit about the rare footage of Queen Elizabeth. So this is a photo. I'm not sure the year this is Queen Elizabeth II of England. I think it was in the 1800s. Okay. And Prince Philip. And this is them visiting Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, and his wife Empress Menin Asfal. And they're bowing before them. So this has kind of been circulating in social media during Black History Month because this is a visual example of one of the largest and most kind of pervasive imperial powers in Europe bowing before African royalty, in this case Ethiopia, which has one of the ways that Ethiopia has talked about itself is having not been colonized by Europe. And so this is a really striking image of these monarchs paying homage to each other. And I love that. What I love about this is just showing respect. And that's how each and every one of us want to just show respect for one another, enjoy each other's culture, embrace it. School is a never out. That's one of my husbands saying is we can always learn from each other. And since we're talking about Black History Month, the Honolulu Film Festival, that was phase one. And what I'm enjoying about it, we're having a phase two and a phase three. And so phase two is about Juneteenth. What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is the label that Black folks have given the rough period of time that the word of emancipation spread across the country. So because we didn't have exact timekeeping mechanisms, we didn't have our own communication networks back then. People knew that they were free or emancipated is probably a better word. They were emancipated, but they didn't quite know when. So since we don't have a precise date, like the birth or death that you usually associate with history, the teeth gives us a kind of nice fuzzy time and space to deal with that. And I think it's actually very appropriate to understand that like, you know, that fuzzy logic is actually in a lot of ways more powerful than that precision of saying this day, this time, because it gives us more room to celebrate and think through things. I like that. And I know that the Honolulu African American Film Festival, along with the Museum of Art, we're partnering with the Popolo Project. First, if I want to know, tell us a little bit about the Popolo Project. Sure. So the Popolo Project is a local homegrown organization that serves Black folks here in our community. We're really interested in being able to amplify the voices of Black people here, because we are an integral part of the community here and our stories are interesting and inspiring and challenging for all of us and for the larger community too. So the Popolo Project, we have a website, thepopoloproject.org. And we do a lot of events last year. Folks might have heard about us because we did Black August. We had a series of events bringing the community together to think about what self-determination looks like for Black people here in Hawaii in particular. This year, we're doing a couple of February events for what we're calling Black History and Black Futures Month this month. We were able to do several earlier this month. We have one tonight, actually, at the Arts at Marks Garage. At 6.30, we're going to be showing a film and talking about what are some of the politics around language as they affect Black people and Hawaiian folks. You know, being able to actually be able to realize who we are and our identities through language. So the project itself is kind of brand new as an organization, but we have a wonderful group of folks as our staff and our board of directors. We've put a lot of energy and resources in making sure that we can be visible here. And so in addition to doing Black History, Black Futures Month in February, we're also going to be doing some things around Juneteenth, including a big party at Capulani Park that weekend right before the 19th. And then we're also going to be doing Black August again with full programming. Well, I know that the Honolulu Film Festival, we just received a memo yesterday that our event is a one-night screening and the film will be determined Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 7.30 p.m. Now, I have two questions for you. How old is Popolo? And tell me about the day and the activities that are going to go on for Juneteenth celebration. Sure. Well, the Popolo project in some ways is very old. I think it's been kind of germinating for a while with me. As an organization, we've really only been doing stuff for the last year and a half. So we're still growing and learning exactly what our community needs here. On the 16th, though, we will be doing kind of a community, we've been calling it a kickback because for several of us who grew up in the South, Juneteenth is a really beloved holiday. One of our board members is from Texas and they celebrate on June 19th. That's their Juneteenth there and that's a state holiday. And for us, it's just a time to really celebrate our emancipation, our ancestors' triumph, their perseverance, and really celebrate community. So as David mentioned in the history of Juneteenth, there was kind of a ripple going through the United States as people learned that they had been emancipated. And there was a moment there where our communities, our ancestors, were able to really imagine what freedom might look like for them. They were joyous, they wanted to be together, and for many of those folks, their vision of freedom was about celebrating and about building and about being creative. And mobility, we'll finally move around without restriction. So reuniting families, recovering connections between folks that might have been separated due to having been sold off and things like that. So there's an energy of reconnection that's also a part of Juneteenth, which I think being in Hawaii as a place that attracts people to it about travel and reconnection, I think that there's some really beautiful resonances about celebrating Juneteenth here. That's also a part of that park when you just think about Capulani Park serving so many different communities from powwows on some years to you know, you see folks that are dealing with yoga and addiction counseling. I mean, so to even think about that park as a site to empower people, I think it's really great. So the fact that you guys are doing it at Capulani is really special too. And it's on the side of where the water, the Pacific Ocean is right there. So that really resonates with Juneteenth's celebration because usually the NAACP, the Martin Luther King March, we're on the other side near the bandstand. So it's going to be on the opposite side. Yeah. And on the day we're planning to, it really is going to be a celebration. So we're talking with some musical acts and performers. We're looking at different vendors who are going to be there to really just celebrate with us. And as David said, this is really an opportunity for us as a Black community in Hawaii also to reconnect with our larger community. There are a lot of people when I talk about Juneteenth who have never heard of it. I know that other folks in the past in Hawaii have tried to gather and do things. So this is not, we're not the first ones here to do this. And I want to make that clear. But this is an opportunity for us as a Black community to really celebrate with everyone else who's here too. And we really do welcome the entire community to be a part of it. That's part of Hawaii. You know, all the festivals welcome everybody. Love it all. Now you said vendors, you're going to have vendors there. We are. How will someone contact Popolo Project to, are you renting the vendors or the vendors? How much are the booths? That would depend on the size of the booth. Rather than give out all the information if folks are interested, they can get in touch with me. You can email me at info at thepopoloproject.org. You can visit us on the website, Facebook and get in touch with us that way. I'm excited. I definitely definitely want to put sisters in power in Hawaii. We're all about motivating and powering and educating all women. So definitely you can count sisters in power in Hawaii on that. Now we mentioned Black futures. Let's educate the people about Black futures. Well, I mean it's inevitable. As long as we're still here, there will be a future. Exactly. So the question becomes what kind of future do you want to shape? Isn't this our first to celebrate here in Hawaii? Is it? The second year, right? I mean you've done some Black futures last year, right? Yeah, we've done some Black futures things. Where was it? Various places, various locations, yeah. You were on the windward side last year, right? We did do some things on the windward side. All over though. I like that. So tell me, what is so special to you? What would you like, we're waiting on grandchildren and pretty soon you'll have your children of your own. What is your takeaway of celebrating Black History Month? Well, I mean I have a 14-year-old son. You do? I do. What's your son's name? His name's Primo. Oh, I like that. And he is Afro-Filipino. Okay. So Black History Month becomes just another layer of his heritage that's important. So him growing up here, I think, makes that learning process that's that much more rich because you know, because the Black population is so small here, it's not the same as if we had stayed, say, in the Bay Area raising him there.  But I don't treat that as a, like he's an empty vessel that needs to be filled with enough Blackness. It's not like that. It's just more about, right, you know, so it's about just him understanding who he is, but then also what makes who he is special being in Hawaii in particular. You know, so for him to be able to, on a certain level, relate to Obama as someone who grew up here is a very interesting wrinkle in his identity as a young Black man and as a young Filipino man, right? So for me, it's always, as a former hip-hop DJ, I like the idea of having different records that I can mix and play for him. That would be you a hip-hop DJ, would you say? Yeah, yeah, I have like 700 pounds of records sitting in the garage that I haven't been able to use. There's your entertainment. There we go, we're going to send you out. That is wonderful. Who is a culture worker? That's a very good question. That's a great question. In your file, tell me about culture worker. Yeah, so for me being a culture worker means that I'm actively not just thinking about culture as a scholar, but kind of changing how culture moves throughout our community. So I'm a linguist by training and a lot of the work that I do is around language revitalization and also looking at languages and the way that we engage with language as a political act. So my research is mostly focused on the Pacific working with Polynesian communities who are trying to revitalize their language like Olalo Hawai'i or Te Reo Māori, or the language that I work on most which is called Tengāngana toke lau and I run a language program. Tell us a little bit about that, take it, it's a beautiful word, break it down to us. So one of my jobs, one of the hats that I wear is I run a language revitalization program that's federally funded and we work with a very small community here called the toke lau and community and they are Polynesian folks who come from the islands of toke lau that are north of Samoa and I run the school. So I teach the language and run the program there. So that's one of the many hats I wear as a culture worker. All right well we're going to take a break and we're going to come back and we're going to talk about Wakanda Forever and the Black Panther movie. I'm excited about that. We'll be right back. Hey aloha, standing energy man here on Think Tech Hawai'i where community matters. This is the place to come to think about all things energy. We talk about energy for the grid, energy for vehicles, energy and transportation, energy and maritime, energy and aviation. 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Welcome back to Sister Power and our episode Forward Forever where communication meets innovation and my special VIP guest is Akimi Glenn and David Goldberg. Now we're just sitting here so excited because now we're going to talk about the Black Panther movie. Do you have a chance to see it? Yes. I've seen it twice. You've seen it twice? Yeah, I'm trying to move back to it and see it again. We're going to go back and see it as well. It's worth that. I was so impressed about the research with all of the African tribes and the young men, the 31-year-old Brian, Ryan, he's a Ryan Cooler. Cooler. Tell me your take. It blows me away. I'm speechless. I'm stuttering. Where do you want to start? I mean, we can start from the opening with the waterfalls. Well, that really wasn't an opening. That would caught my attention. But the twist that I enjoyed was that... Spoilers ahead. And here we are. We're showing it right now. And let's talk about this picture right here, what I love about this picture. Well, there's a spoiler. It's right there. And what I loved about the film that the strong women protected the king. So take this from there, David. Okay. I mean, we can start with the fact that... Where do you start with this film? I mean, we can start from the comic. We can start with the various authors that have carried the comic over the years, ranging from Christopher Priest to Reginald Hudlin to Coates, who's handling it now. I mean, we can get into comic nerd arguments about what was left in and what was left out, and where did the writers borrow? And we could start with the cataracts themselves. I mean, the waterfalls. We can talk about the humor, the budget. I mean, there's so many. I mean, the production design being handled by women, the costumes being inspired by Filipino stuff too. I mean, there's so many ways in. But I think if I were to start any conversation about it, I think the idea that this is probably one of the first major films that gives a sort of new mythology to black people in the sense that you're dealing with a very old story, which is the struggle of a king and resources and someone that's challenging the throne. And those stories go all the way back to all through Africa. And obviously, Greek folk have the... I mean, everyone has these myths, you know what I mean? And until we get an Orisha movie, you know what I mean? Which, you know, or like Bezzurro, we get a good Capoeira mysticism movie, then I'll take Black Panther for now and to understand that these struggles of royalty and power are keys for talking about a lot of deep issues, you know? So for them to have really started from this power struggle and then women playing this key role all around it really brings fresh energy to some really deep topics. Yeah, and you know, going off of what David just said about the mythology, I think there's something really impactful about this being a visual medium. So people being able to see themselves on the big screen and portrayed in a very beautiful way, I think, has been really kind of fascinating to watch ripple through the pop culture because people are going to see it two and three times. People are calling themselves part of the Dora Milaje, who probably are not comic book readers but can connect with the story and kind of the power of the myth that comes through. You know, the picture that was up earlier that Ray was showing and it's about the Dahomey Amazons. And Ryan did his homework and it was about understand that female soldiers in Black Panther is based upon the most feared women in history, like for real.  And what I enjoyed about Black Panther, there was no slavery, no oppression, no racism, and there was some humor there that I really enjoyed and they did bring some modernization into it. And so moving forward, I mean, what's next? It's just St. Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker was one of the people with the mentor for Chadwick. Yeah, you want to go for it. Yeah, I think the question of what's next is really exciting. Just financially, this movie has pulled in huge numbers over the weekend and folks are really excited about it. And I think one of the things that that means is that there might or there will likely be more resources for being able to pursue some of these stories and for us to not only just see some actors that we love and respect on the screen and be able to have the support that they need, but really being able to imagine what will these other installments of this myth look like? What are other takes that we can have on the Black Panther and the world that he inhabits? And how does that open up a lot of spaces for us to have this Black imagination together across the diaspora, across the African continent, across the world? And I think for everybody, I think the care that Cougler and the writers put into making this story for Black people that are accessible to everyone, mainly because racism is still the problem on the planet right now. So there's probably no better mechanism for getting the whole planet start thinking about it than this narrative, which was about, well, what if you had an uncolonized high-tech African civilization that had to decide was it going to stay insular or was it going to share? And I think that everyone, I think, can relate to that question no matter where you're coming from, because everyone's being confronted with these ideas of do we close our borders? We're dealing with it right now in this country. Are we going to build the wall to keep ourselves in? Because that's what it's for. It's not to keep other people out. The wall is to keep us in. Well, you've just exposed it. That's right. I don't think it's an accident that the narrative of dealing with race and colonization and leadership and trusting women, right? I don't think it's an accident that people are responding so strongly to this. And I think it'll be interesting to see how much further they can take it, because Black Panther is an Avenger. Superhero. Yeah. And we get to deal with the Infinity War even before the next Panther movie. So he's going to deal with cosmic stuff is going to be going on in the next films. I mean, it's a major piece of intellectual property and creativity. Wow. And you know, this is it. We are done. I don't want the last word. I don't want the last word. I don't want the last word. This is just so phenomenal that, again, we must do a part two. And I want to thank you, Akimi, Glenn, and David Goldberg. We have so much more to cover.  And I can't wait to hear more about Juneteenth celebration. And I want to leave with Know Thyself. Where'd she go? All right. Well, kind of forever. Right. Love it. Thank you so much. Oh, this was wonderful. Thank you.


I used to spend every weekend smoking Shisha, having coffee with my friends and enjoyed it. And one fine day, I got like really, I got this chest pain in the night and I was in Bandra at that point and it was really uncomfortable. Like I never had that kind of chest pain or acidity. So I said, let me go to the hospital because something's wrong. This is not me. Today on Candid Conversations with me is Luke Coutinho. He is a health and fitness and lifestyle coach. And if you ask people from any age group, whether they are teenagers or whether in their 20s, their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, whatever, this is one common name which will keep cropping up that, you know, I saw this on a Luke Coutinho video and he said this in his YouTube or in his Instagram channel. So Luke, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much. I'm going to start off right at the beginning. You know, of course, as far as the tips and all of that is concerned, there's so much of information already there. I want to get a little bit more into the back story. So people get to know more about you. Stop, they didn't know. Some interesting facts which I got to know when I was researching about you. Like, you know, when you were just starting college, one of your friends, his dad was the GM of Arj Goa, right? And because of that, you wanted to get into hotel management. So why exactly was that and how did that matter? Yeah, so I was having the best time in college, as usual, you know, the college life. And then my dad sat me down one day and said, listen, you need to be serious. What do you want to do? And I had no idea what I wanted to do. All I remember was one of my best friends, his dad was the general manager of the Taj. So since I was best friends with him the weekends, we would be at the Taj, free food, free room, use the swimming pool, attend the sports. So I just thought, oh, wow, I want to be a GM because that's the kind of life I can have if I become the general manager for the hotel. So I just want my dad, I think I want to do hotel management. And so he got me into hotel management. So I moved out of, I was in St. Xavier's College, I moved out of Xavier's and I moved into hotel management and that's how I got into that subject. Nice. I like that swimming pools, tennis and the good food. I mean, I still love that. I'm always going to love that.  You also had an input meeting.  So tell us about that. What was that experience like really? So when I was in my hotel management, we had internship. So I used to intern as a waiter at my uncle's restaurant. My uncle's restaurant was in Anjuna. It's a place called Alco. But at that point, it was the hippie era. I mean, it was the hippie time, the proper hippie time. So there were a lot of parties that used to happen at Disco Valley and Bamboo Forest and all of that stuff. So I was very in tuned into that kind of music. Of course, I never smoked. I never did stuff at that point. But I used to sit with the DJ and I could because my uncle would be part of all of these parties. And so the DJs were all from Israel and Russia and different places. And we became good friends. They would show me their music, teach me how to use the mixer. And then one fine day, there was a party supposed to happen very close to my uncle's restaurant. And the DJ didn't turn up. He was sick. So my uncle just said, hey, listen, you need to play for two hours until the next DJ comes. And I was like, he said, just play music, man. Just do it. So I threw myself into it and with the little knowledge I had, that was my first party. I did two hours set and it went off really well. So I started playing regularly through my college days. And that's how I got into the scene. And I would play a couple of sets almost every weekend night for almost three years that I was in college. And yeah, that was it. That's how I got into the whole college. I was usually the DJ, not the person dancing, but making people dance. That's how it was. Right, right. And now moving into the fitness aspect of things, there was a time apparently when you said in one of the previous interviews that you couldn't run for more than 10 minutes. You'd run out for the jog and then you started panting. And also, how did you get into the physical and mental state from that position which you heard? Actually, I was always fit. But I got into this habit of smoking Shisha with my friends over the weekends. Okay, so I used to spend every weekend smoking Shisha, having coffee with my friends. I enjoyed it. And one fine day, I got this chest pain in the night. And I was in Bandra at that point. And it was really uncomfortable. I never had that chest pain or acidity. So I said, let me go to the hospital because something's wrong. This is not me. So I went to the hospital and I met a nurse. And the nurse, she checked me out. She said, you're fine. And at that point, she just pushed my stomach and I burped. And she said, have you been smoking Shisha? So I said, yes. I said, how do you know? She said, I can get the smell.   Why are you filling your lungs with smoke? You know, what's wrong with you? This is detrimental. And the way she said it shifted something in me. She said, are you regular with your exercise runs? I said, yeah, I am. She said, go for a run today and tell me how you feel tomorrow. So I went for a run. I went up the Mount Mary slope down Bandstand. And I couldn't even do it for 10 minutes. I was like, and I went back to her and she said, that's because you're decreasing your lung capacity. She said, is this what you want to do? I was 22 years old. And that five-minute talk, the way she assertively spoke to me, changed my life. You know, I just never smoked a Shisha after that. And because it was self-realization that if this affects me at 21 and I can't even run for 10 minutes, I was fit. I could lift weights. I could do all of that stuff. I never went back to it. So that was my change. I don't have a story where I was sick and I got healthy and stuff. We were always brought up in a culture of great health, my family. But this 10-minute run that I struggled to do was a shift in my life where I said smoke isn't for me and it shouldn't be for most people because it has this negative impact on our lungs. And that's how it is. That's interesting because that actually shifts the focus also to Shisha. Normally, smoking is something we just talked about a lot. Shisha is not. And I think Shisha is something which people do very casually also. Also, like I mentioned in the beginning of the video, you are considered a celebrity in your own right. What do you make of that? I don't like it. I don't like the word celebrity at all. I believe it's overused. I mean, it's right for the people who should be celebrities. But I look after the health of people. My job is with patients with cancer, Alzheimer's. I don't like that word celebrity being used because I've never understood why it's being used on me number one. And number two, I just think it's the wrong term. I don't like it. People out there see me in a different light. They think I only handle celebrities. They think I only treat celebrities. So it changes the perception of the market. And I believe that everyone's equal. Everyone is equal at the end of the day. I'm excellent at what I do. I'm good. I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate all the goodwill and the blessings I get from people. But I like to stay on ground. And so I don't like that celebrity word. I don't like that celebrity treatment. I like to be on ground with what I do. So yeah, I don't like that term. Okay, okay.  I think Netflix has a documentary on them. It's still a mystery on how they died.  But how did they inspire you really? So I think I grew up on gangster rap when I was in college. I mean, my friends listened to it. And yeah, I think Tupac and Notorious Big, I mean, they tell a story of truth. They tell a story of being yourself.  And I connect that with most health problems today. Everyone's trying to be someone else and to carry that facade of being someone else. They're so stressed out. That stress makes them eat differently, spend, live beyond their means. And because they live beyond their means, they can't sleep at night. They're stressed. They have large credit card bills, makes them sick. Diabetes, blood sugar levels. So when I go to gangster rap, what I see in them is a message.  But every, every, every piece of rap by Tupac and B.I.G. has a story which you can take. If you're trying to be a self-righteous individual, you'll always be judging. But if you're open to seeing what story people are trying to tell, there are lessons. There is wisdom in gangster rap today. There's also the bad part of it. But there's a bad part of everything in life. We don't take it. We only take what's good. We take what makes sense. And that's why I still look up to them for inspiration from their music. Nice, nice. Now you have literally, and you've been an empire, right? I mean, I've got the names written down over here. I have to read them all because I can't remember them. There's UK, there's UK lifestyle, there's cancer care, there's UK and so many other things and your upcoming projects. So, you know, how long did all of this take to build how many employees do you have? This is something which, I mean, tell us about that. Yeah, so I really honestly never plan to build an empire. This is the story I keep telling people. I'm not a businessman. My job is with the patient in front of me. But because I've done that with consistency over the years, multiple businesses have grown out of it. I never planned to do this. I planned from day one when I realized I had a gift to help patients that this would be my life. But as I continued to do that, you know, more business opportunities came. So I hired the right people to grow those particular businesses. Some businesses were great. Some of them we decided to close down because they were not suiting my vision or the integrity of what we want to do to promote human health in a healthy way. So everything that we have today is an ecosystem that has grown out of my consultancy. You know, you also mentioned that you're working globally. You've got a lot of people working under you all over the world. So Dubai, America, all these other markets, how do you like, are you traveling over there? How do you manage it? Yes, I travel over there because we have patients over there. So we're building small teams to manage those patients when I'm not there. But usually I travel every month, mostly to New York, Dubai, London. These are places where we have a lot of patients and it's a growing market for us, you know, with what we do. So currently we're building teams over there, but majority of our businesses manage from India. And patients have got kind of comfortable with that. The beauty is we have our largest team sitting out of India managing patients globally across the world. Right, right. And where are you headed off to right now? And where exactly are you? Right now I'm in Bombay. I just got back from Dubai and I leave in a few days for New York. So that's the plan. That is fancy, that is fancy. Well, Luke, Luke, thank you so much for talking to us. There's a bit of an internet connection, a lot of other things which I wanted to ask you, but probably we'll continue that in the discussion later. But yeah, just keep the post coming and all the best for the future. Thank you. Look forward to meeting you at some point. Thanks for being here. Thanks a lot.


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Good morning, everyone. My name is Mahendra Parmar and today I'm going to talk about this overview of T10KT and ESOS project. So, T10KT stands for train 10,000 teachers training program and ESOS is educational services on outreach at scale. My today's presentation is scenario and teaching profession, how we started this T10KT program, the technologies and platform we used and the achievements and the blended MOOC methodologies we have done in this. So, the current scenario in India in teaching profession is that there is increase in number of engineering colleges and students opting for engineering courses. But the problem is like there is shortage of qualified and experienced teachers and also it was observed that not every college has that proper infrastructure which is required for the engineering courses. And due to this lack of access to good quality education and there is a scarcity of opportunities for teachers from smaller regions. And because of this students motivation is low, the teacher salary as there are number of engineering colleges are some more. So, teachers like they are being paid less for their work. And we at IT Bombay, we wanted to train them so conventional way of training them was not possible like calling all the teachers at IT Bombay is physically not possible. So, we have to come up with some idea. So, we have used this ICT methodology through which we have trained the teachers. So, in the first phase, we have started in 2009 where we have started with 1000 teachers training program. In this phase, we have used edu-sat facility. In this like the remote centers, I should say the engineering institutes, they were connected through satellite. Not every institute could afford this. So, we have came up with the other idea which I will talk in the later slides. So, in first phase we have done this 1000 teachers training program. We had about 70 to 80 remote centers all across the country. In the second phase from 78 remote center to now 512 remote centers, we have trained 10,000 teachers at one workshop. So, this is what like we used to do from here. And in the second phase, IIT Kharagpur also joined this initiative and IIT Bombay has conducted 28 workshops and IIT Kharagpur has conducted 9 workshops. And we have trained about 160,000 teachers in this T10KT program. So, the technology used like I was talking about this edu-sat, we have used this AVU platform. In this AVU, it is an audio-video transmission like the full form for AVU is Amrita Virtual Interactive Educational World. Since there is not lot of cost involved in this, many remote centers or many engineering institute could become the remote center here. And we have like covered 32 states and unit because of AVU facility. And the learning management system we have used is Moodle. Moodle has a limitation like it cannot grow about 2500. So, we have used this IIT Bombay X which is developed on OpenEDX platform. And we have also created this management information system for the teachers which I will tell you in the later slide. And we have developed the registration web platform. So, the methodology used is like firstly we have created the remote centers all across the country. We have asked the remote centers to nominate some representative from their remote centers. So, whenever we plan for the workshop, we used to call their representative to IIT Bombay. And they used to be trained at IIT Bombay. And once they go back to their institute, then the larger workshop was conducted. Like initially we started with 1000 teachers training program and later 10,000. So, we have like let's say in a in a particular workshop, we have our 200 to 250 remote centers in one workshop. And 200 into 30 if you do, you can understand like 6 to 7000. And if it is 250, 250 into 30 if you do, it is like 7500 teachers at one go. So, the key statistics from here is like 472 remote centers. This is as of 31st March 2018. We have reached 4,582 institutions. This states I have already talked about 28 workshops is conducted by IIT Bombay. 160,000 plus teachers were trained. And apart from teachers training program, we have conducted some programs for the students also. Which I will tell you in my later slides. And 38,685 students are being trained. So, this is a snapshot from one of our coordinators workshop. You must be seeing like so many teachers sitting at one place. This teachers are being trained and these are the nominated teachers. Like we have conducted various types of workshop like computer programming, signals and systems, engineering thermodynamics, database management. We have conducted various workshops in this. And this is a snapshot from the main workshop where IIT Bombay used to be hub and this remote centers. All these nominated teachers, we used to connect to this institution. The nearby teachers of this remote centers used to attend in this remote centers. So, this is a snapshot of this. So, the benefit from this workshop was like it is straight away used to benefit to the teachers. As we used to reach to the large number of teachers at one go. There are female participants like not every teachers could come to IIT Bombay. So, since this training was for two weeks. So, they cannot leave the family and come to the longer distance like to the distant place. So, since this workshop was conducted in their nearby places or at the near bearing college. They just have to go back go to their colleges and attend the program. So, female participants were more inclusion of rural colleges. They were feeling good about like yes they could connect to IIT Bombay and learn the standard which IIT Bombay is training to the students. There was uniform training as you can understand like since this is going to all the colleges at one go. Everybody was getting the same what IIT Bombay is transmitting. And since this program is to connect through internet there was reduced cost. There is no logistics. There is very minimal cost which they have to handle it. And since it is a scalable thing like reaching out through internet connection it was scalable. And it is convenient for the participant to go to the nearest remote centers. And many younger teachers were getting the opportunity from this. As you must be saying like you may be aware that teachers from the engineering colleges. The new teachers do not get much benefit if there is some faculty development improvement program which they have to attend. So, it is basically the seniors who get benefited from this. But from our T10 courses they were getting benefited directly. One of my slide I will show you like how this statistic has come. So, now we have moved from T10 KT like from teacher's training to training to the students also. So, we have come up with ESauce educational services outreach at scales. And we are not only conducting faculty development program that is teach MOOCs. We are also conducting skill MOOCs for students. We have conducted one program on soft skills and workplace communication for students. And there was also a course with the help of JP Morgan one of our sponsors who wanted to do this corporate social responsibility under CSR. They have conducted one program and through which we have reached out to about 38,000 students and many students have actively participated in this. In the initial stage we used to have this training program for two weeks at one go. But we have observed that not every teacher is comfortable leaving their colleges because of their administrative and academic pressure. They could not leave their colleges for two weeks. So, we have come up with an idea where we have this program, this workshops split into four weeks. Where we ask them to do the online activity and then come for the face-to-face session. So, this face-to-face session at that like when you must have seen this photograph where teachers are attending. So, they used to come for two weeks here instead of days. We were calling them only for on weekends which is like four to six days. And they have to this face-to-face interaction was more related to doubt solving rather than just a lecture from IIT Bombay. So, it was very effective as teachers were aware of like what is going on and what they are being taught. So, we have this MOOC part is the online part which they have to do. And apart from teachers training program in blended mode, we have also conducted this blended MOOC for students. So, students are being trained it is a semester long course which we have conducted. There were three courses which we have conducted one is signals and systems, second is computer programming and third is engineering thermodynamics. So, in this students are directly benefited from this. So, in 2015 when we have launched this IIT Bombay website, we have called the remote centers to IIT Bombay. 60 to 80 remote centers agreed to participate in this semester log blended MOOCs. And the scores from this IIT Bombay X which the students are participating, they were being considered in their internal grading. So, we have this college faculty with whom we were coordinating this thing and everything was hosted on IIT Bombay X. So, if you see this diagram, this is the IIT Bombay X website. There are students who could attend this program, but they are independent students, they are learning on their own. So, for them there is no inter, there is no marks like whatever they score, if teachers are not agreeing to participate in this program then this marks were not considered for them. But if the students comes under this blended MOOC where since blended MOOC you must be aware now that there is a face to face online activity also. So, we have this guided group where teachers know like what the students are doing in IIT Bombay X. We have made the MIS platform for them where they could see the performance of their students and if something is required they could help the students like how they have to do and all such stuffs. So, this is a flow chart like before the blended MOOC what we used to do with remote centers, we coordinate, we do their registration, we map the students with the teachers so that teachers can see like how many students have come under his group. We introduced the teachers to the MIS site because there are various ways to check like how a student is performing in individual quiz or individual question and how is the overall like marks of the students. And during the blended MOOC we have this face to face interaction with the teachers and students so that if there are any queries from students they could ask to the IIT Bombay faculty and after the blended MOOC we have given them the certificates, we have taken the feedback from the students and teachers and we have analysis. So, this is the map of India where we have remote centers all across the country 32 states and union territories. Yeah, so 44% of participation from female teachers. So, this is like a achievement for us like we have almost is like half of female and male. And in the location wise distribution if I see 40% rural participation. So, otherwise it is not possible to reach out to the remote places and train those teachers. So, through ICT use of ICT we could do that. And this is almost 50 to 60% of these two teachers are either newly joined or they have less experience. 49% of these teachers are like 2 years to 10 years of experience. They are like newly joined and they do not have much of exposure. So, because of this workshops they could participate and learn from this. And we have got many feedback from these teachers and they really appreciate the efforts taken by IIT Bombay. Thanks to Prasafatak for this noble initiatives. Thank you very much.


Before we get into today's video, I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and if we can get there by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we will be giving away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. You get that steel book, that art book, that poster, the pin set baby. It's really, really exciting. Hopefully we can get there. So what are you waiting for? Why don't you subscribe to the channel. Today is an interesting day in the history of video games because Sony has outed themselves and their true intentions when it came to this Activision Blizzard deal. Remember throughout this deal they have been bad-mouthing Microsoft, bad-mouthing Nintendo. Nintendo actually originally got dragged into this because they tried to argue, Sony did that Nintendo is not an actual competitor in the video game space, that their system isn't a competitor, that they can't get games like Call of Duty and well, Microsoft has a direct response to that today despite, you know, they signed a 10-year deal which Sony dismissed and said doesn't really matter because you can't run it and the CMA was initially agreeing with them out in the UK. In fact, here's what Microsoft has said about this whole thing in documents released by the CMA yesterday. The Activision development team have a long history of optimizing game performance for available hardware capabilities. The parties are confident that in addition to Call of Duty Warzone, Call of Duty buy to play titles such as Modern Warfare 2 can be optimized to run on the Nintendo Switch in a timely manner using standard techniques which have been used to bring games such as Apex Legends, Doomy Turtle, Fortnite, Crisis 3 and more to Switch. Activision estimates that this could be done within a period of redacted months. The benefits will be substantial. Even taking into account any technical limitations of the current Nintendo Switch, Microsoft estimates on a highly conservative basis that the net present value of the benefits to Nintendo customers for having access to Call of Duty over 10 years to be at least blank million dollars. By widening access to Call of Duty, the merger will have the added benefit of increasing the pool of gamers able to play the game, improving the cross-play functionality of the game and enabling more gamers to play with their friends. So the big takeaway obviously from there is that yes, Microsoft does think that they can bring Call of Duty and Activision as well. They both think they can bring Call of Duty to Switch without much problem and that it would be native. This sort of ends the cloud debates on if they would come to Switch, what would they do? It wouldn't be a cloud version. It would be a native version of the games that would again have that feature parody. So that includes cross-platform play by the way, which is a pretty interesting aspect of Call of Duty. However, Sony isn't okay with any of this and they had their own responses in these documents. First up, it says swiftly detecting any diversions from and ensuring compliance with a commitment as to technical or graphical quality would be challenging. For example, Microsoft might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and errors emerge only on the game's final level or after later updates. Even if such degradations could be swiftly detected, any revenue would likely come too late by which time the gaming community would have lost confidence in PlayStation as a go-to venue to play Call of Duty. Indeed, as modern warfare 2 would test, Call of Duty is most often purchased and just the first few weeks of release, if it became known as the game's performance on PlayStation was worse than on Xbox, Call of Duty gamers could decide to switch to Xbox for fear of playing their favorite game at a second class or less competitive venue. What Sony is doing there is accusing Microsoft of trying to sabotage Call of Duty on their platform even though there is a self-admitted 80% of the player bases on PlayStation in the first place from At Division and Xbox. So they would be hurting their own reputation far more than PlayStation's reputation to do that. So it's a very interesting accusation of something that hasn't happened with anything else Microsoft has brought to PlayStation. Ori runs the same, Minecraft runs the same. There's no real reason to assume they would do this, but they're trying to get every legal argument they can to block the merger. Sony also went on to say this, so as the CMA is aware, Sony Interactive Entertainment made it known it's concerns about the transaction to Microsoft almost a year ago. In the intervening period, Microsoft has not shown any real commitment to reaching a negotiated outcome. Remember that line, Sony is claiming that Microsoft is not playing fair and not trying to actually negotiate fairly with Sony. Keep this in mind as we're about to learn something very important about these negotiations. They have dragged their feet, engaged only when sensed by the regulatory outlook was darkening and favoring negotiating in the media over engaging directly with Sony Interactive Entertainment. Microsoft's most recent proposal, which Sony Interactive Entertainment received, and then this is redacted, is telling. That proposal fails to provide adequate protection for PlayStation's access to Call of Duty or for competition. Instead, it reveals Microsoft's lack of commitment to ensuring full and equal access to Call of Duty confirms the risk of the behavioral remedy outlined in the guidelines and reinforces Sony Interactive Entertainment believe that Microsoft intends to use Call of Duty strategically to dominate the gaming sector. More than this, Microsoft came back to say the remedy will actually provide the wholesale price of Call of Duty games offered to Sony and then this is redacted because they're not going to give us any extra financial numbers for the equivalent version of the game on Xbox platforms. So they're saying it's the same version subscription and streaming rights. So this has been a point brought up by Sony that they're worried about, you know, Microsoft doing this whole, hey, it's on, it's on Game Pass. We can't compete with that because we won't be able to do something with it like that. Any Call of Duty game in a Microsoft multi game subscription, which a game pass is eligible for inclusion in Sony's multi game subscription service at the same time in the same duration. This comes directly from Microsoft. Microsoft basically say, Hey, if we put it on Game Pass, you can put it on PlayStation Plus. We're not stopping you. OK, Sony didn't like that. Microsoft's proposal in MGS services, this is game services, is even more troubling. Microsoft proposes to license blah, blah, blah, blah. It's it's redacted. If Sony Interactive Entertainment agrees to pay because obviously you would have to pay money like you wouldn't any deal for it to be on your service under the terms of the proposal, that amount and then redacted. We don't learn a lot about the numbers, but this would commercially destroy Sony Interactive Entertainment's MGS business model. A yearly subscription to PlayStation Plus extra Sony Interactive Entertainment's mid tier MGS service is priced at around $100 and the buy to play retail price of Call of Duty today is around $70 under Microsoft's proposed terms. Sony Interactive Entertainment would therefore be required to pay X amount of money that they're not going to reveal as the chart shows this will leave Sony Interactive Entertainment only with blank the full 100 annual subscription. So obviously it would eat into some of their profitability and Sony's argument is basically they're not willing to lose money on their subscription service and to add Call of Duty would probably lead to them losing money in comparison to actual game sales. But we're not done because Lulu Cheng mess survey. I probably butchered the name. So I do apologize. She is the EVP of Corporate Affairs and CCO of Activision Blizzard and she did not take kindly to these things coming out publicly stating that Microsoft has not been negotiating in good faith with Sony that they're that it's all a bunch of hogwash. Well, she works for Activision. So here's Activision site because throughout all of this we haven't heard anything from Activision. So she responded on Twitter and says Microsoft offered Sony the dominant console leader for over a decade with 80% market share a 10 year agreement on far better terms than Sony would ever get from us. She literally just said you're talking about how this is not a fair business agreement. They were offering you better terms than we've ever offered you when we were independent. Activision Blizzard would never give you these terms for them. It's insane to offer the terms that that that Microsoft is offering. So how can you call it not fair when you signed worse agreements with Activision Blizzard? That's the part that Activision Blizzard doesn't understand. Microsoft's offering you way more than we ever did. And you're just like, nope, it's not in good faith. Really? Who's not negotiating good faith? We're about to find out in a moment. We've also offered Sony guaranteed long term access to Call of Duty, which that implies beyond the 10 years. The 10 years just like a starting point. But Activision came in and said, hey, we'll make sure that you always have Call of Duty, but they keep refusing. Why? Well, Lulu Cheng knows why because Jim Ryan told them back at the end of February, she points out that the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment answered the question on why they wouldn't sign the deal in Brussels. In his words, remember, this is Jim Ryan. I don't want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block your merger. Let that sink in. Let that sink in what Jim Ryan just said. All these accusations of, oh, Switch isn't a competitor. Oh, Call of Duty can't run on Nintendo Switch. Oh, we're worried you're going to give us a worse version and create a competitive advantage. Oh, we're just, you're not negotiating with us in good faith. We can't sign the deal with you because the contract you're offering is not fair, even though it's probably more than what they offered Nintendo. And he just said, I don't want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block your merger. Who's not operated in good faith now? The truth shall set you free. And the truth is that Microsoft in the middle of February last year put in a legal request for Sony to have to unveil all of their documentation about the contracts they have made to create exclusivity of DLC and exclusive video games like Final Fantasy 16. Their platform that created a competitive advantage for Sony. Sony has been doing what Microsoft is doing for years on a different scale because they're not straight up buying up companies, but they've been buying rights to massive video games and exclusive DLC and exclusive perks in games like Call of Duty for decades. And it has helped them maintain a stranglehold in their position. And Microsoft called their bluff and said, you're going to talk about us. Let's talk about what you've done to us in this space and what we don't have because of you. And the moment that Sony was going to be legally required to air their dirty laundry, the truth comes out. This wasn't about Call of Duty. We just want to block your merger. This is the line of not only someone who is very full of himself.  You know, his job is to make Sony money, his job is to keep them number one. And he's done a good job at that. So it doesn't really matter what he says. He's not getting fired, but these words are damning. It's an admittance of defeat to update you guys in the way things are going right now. It is leaning towards the FTC is going to end up approving the sale. So they're not really going to have to worry about the legal process as much in the US. They were waiting to see the European one play out. And recent reports out of the European Union is about to approve the sale. So all that's left is CMA and CMA was already starting to slowly turn away from the arguments that Sony was making leaning more towards Microsoft because when all of the evidence is laid bare, even the government looks at it and goes, you're not even arguing about this being a monopoly anymore. You're just worried that they might gain ground on you. And that is not anti competitive. That's pro competitive. You're just worried that Microsoft is going to gain ground. But you own so much of the market, especially in the UK, that this can't be true. And then all of your arguments that we initially heard for why the other competitor in this field, Nintendo, don't matter. There's working with Microsoft and getting Call of Duty. My Activision straight up says we can put Call of Duty on switch. Of course, at least people to wonder why they haven't been doing it this whole time, it was probably just a business decision, not really related to the ability to run it, just them being like, whatever. I know some people say, oh, a switch runs it. It's going to, guys, just wait. We're probably going to get at least one Call of Duty game on switch. Maybe it's just Warzone and it's probably going to run just fine. It's not going to be the prettiest looking game or anything. It's going to run just fine. Look, we've already seen games like it run on switch, right? I just think that in all of this. It's weird to me that the trillion dollar company that most people would be against corporate acquisitions comes out looking like the good guys. Well, Sony looks like the kid who had his lollipop taken from him on the playground but then reminded that he never owned that lollipop and he stole it in the first place. It's really weird watching Sony react to this and it's really weird hearing these words come out publicly. It's what we all knew. We all knew that really all this was about with Sony wanting to block the merger because they didn't want to lose any possible market share and they just want to hurt Microsoft's position in the gaming market. We all knew that's really what it was about, but to have them say it publicly after making all these other arguments about, oh, they're not negotiating for Call of Duty in good faith, Nintendo doesn't count as a competitor, blah, blah, blah. And then you get to the end when Sony is literally forced to play their hand and have to show all of their exclusive marketing deals, all their exclusive ways that they've actually kept Xbox down. Like Microsoft's like, look, we're not, we're done. We're done. You've been keeping us down for decades.  Hey, why is Final Fantasy 16 only coming to PlayStation 5? Can you explain this? What's your exclusive deal for that? Sony backs off. It wasn't about Call of Duty. We just wanted to block the merger. We're tucking our tail and going home because Sony doesn't want to do it. Sony's at this point, I think, completely backed off. So because if that stuff comes out, we might find out some very interesting ways that Sony worded their contracts to ensure Xbox was always at a disadvantage. Pot calling the kettle black, huh? Anyways, folks, let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. I am Nathan Ruffa-Jance and I'll catch you in the next video.


Welcome aboard station 204. That is enough vacation for me because it's time to come back and school you a little bit about China, talk about SpaceX blowing up some more things, cover the past week's launches, and fart back at the sun during our space weather report with Dr. Tan on his go. Now before we officially get started, don't forget to like the video, smash that subscribe button and hit the notification bell so that it's louder than five F1 rocket engines at full song. I'm Jared Head, and this is your Space News for February 3rd, 2020. As China prepares for an upcoming flight of their heavy lift Long March 5 rocket, which will test its capabilities in lofting space station modules in a new crewed deep space vehicle, the standard line has been trotted out, which is that the United States and China are locked in a space race. But let's be realistic about that. That's not real. The Long March 5 is a critical part of China's space ambitions. It'll loft a lunar sample return mission, China's first homegrown Mars mission and a future modular space station. Yeah, China has said that they have a long-term goal of getting their own astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars. But much like the United States over the past two decades, China has been in no rush to do this. The Long March 5 is about to take its next flight though with upgrades and a new crew vehicle to test in space. China is looking at making this capsule its workhorse for flights to its upcoming modular space station and further out into deep space. Planned to be reusable, it'll be flying a mission profile similar to Orion's experimental flight test one in 2014. Launch to above low Earth orbit, then return it speed similar to what you'd expect on a return from deep space. Albeit instead of three hours like Orion, China will be letting their capsule fly for a couple of days. It's an interesting time to be a space fan or about to see the beginnings of a space station from a country that has only flown modules solo in orbit around the Earth. On some nights, you'll be able to look up and see the International Space Station as it orbits above you. And then maybe a little bit later, you'll actually be able to see China's space station as well. But when we look up at the sky and see that, is that something that we should be concerned about? In my opinion, no. China has ambitions on the record of Chinese astronauts being on the moon in the 2030s, which is a timeframe that will likely see private companies already there, and hopefully NASA and maybe a private company on its way to Mars. I mean, China has still gotta get its Long March 9 Super Heavy Lift Rocket set first. And that's not gonna fly until 2030 at the earliest. And we all know that the very nature of aerospace means that will most certainly slip to the right. Now China has expressed interest in using the moon and asteroids for resources, but the grunt work hasn't even started for them while a multitude of companies in the United States like Blue Origin are underway in earnest to make CIS lunar space economically viable. Even for scientific missions, China is pretty well behind. They're about to launch their first mission to Mars, and we all wish them the best of luck and we're hoping all the data it returns is amazing. But NASA did that in 1976 and made it a core tenant of its robotic exploration program starting in the mid-1990s. That's not to say that China is some kind of a pushover. They certainly are not. You could make a very valid argument that China is actually the global second power in space. But when it's compared to what the United States are doing, China is not really a threat if you even would wanna use that kind of a word to describe it. China's ambitions and schedules and methodologies, they're just not the same as what the United States does. Now when it comes to China's military space ambitions, well, that's a whole other can of worms and I'm not sure I'm ready to go fishing with that yet. And earlier, I talked about blowing things up in SpaceX. So let's go ahead and hand it over to Ryan for this week's SpaceX update. SpaceX have been blowing more stuff up this past week, but don't worry, it was all intentional as they were testing the pressure capabilities of the second Starship test tank. At the test stand down in Boca Chica, Texas, the second Starship test tank was doing an over pressure test to see if new building and welding techniques could help give it more leeway pressure-wise and allow it to reach the 1.4 bar safety limit required for human flight. Elon Musk and SpaceX have said on Twitter that the test was a success as it was meant to reach 8.5 bar. However, I really hope that it was a success as it will take us one step closer to seeing the enormous Starship and super heavy combo reach for the sky. Even the launch animation makes me excited. SpaceX have also launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites this past week, adding to the 180 launch on the test launch back in May 2019 and Starlink 1 and 2. They weren't testing any more special coatings to try and reduce the Albedo effect through ground-based astronomers. However, as always, the Falcon 9 booster did perform a flawless landing on the drone ship. Of course, I still love you. This booster was also used on demo mission one, which was the first orbital flight of the Crew Dragon capsule, and it was also used for the radar-sat constellation launch back in June of 2019. But the booster wasn't the only piece of flight hardware SpaceX safely brought back down to the Earth, as they also managed to catch one of the fairing halves on the fairing recovery boat named Miss Tree. Sadly, the other fairing half didn't land on the other recovery ship, Miss Chief, so it had to be fished out of the ocean. But at least the fairing half they did catch from this mission did end the five-month streak of not recovering any fairings from Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy missions. Anyway, with SpaceX not blowing anything up this last week, it's time to see what else has been happening in the world of aerospace. Thanks, Ryan. As the wise data once noted, if you're not blowing things up, you're not testing. Now talk a little bit about that deployment of the Starlink satellites as well, with 60 of them added on to the fleet, that means that there's now a constellation of 240 in Earth orbit, which actually means that SpaceX is now the largest operator of commercial satellites. And to talk a little bit about the launches that happened this week, let's get right in to our Space Traffic Report. Leaving the beautiful Launch Complex 1 on the Mejia Peninsula in New Zealand, Rocket Lab had its first electron launch in 2020 on January 31st at 0256 Universal Time, carrying the NROL-151 payload for the United States National Reconnaissance Office. No purpose or design was discussed, but we do know NROL-151 is a part of the NRO's new Rapid Acquisition of Small Launch Program. Rocket Lab continued their experimental tests of electron stage one recovery with a successful survival through atmospheric entry. Now Lisa suggested to call it a flopping drop, so much like Turn and Burn, which I quite like, it's staying. We wrap up this week's traffic on orbit at the International Space Station, where Cygnus SS Allen Bean departed from the ISS on January 31st at 1436 Universal Time. It tested a new position to release Cygnus cargo vehicles from, and also was the first ground control drillers. After leaving the vicinity, over the next few days, SS Allen Bean will conduct science experiments and deploy CubeSats, while operating for about a month on orbit. This will allow Northrop Common to learn valuable information about what it takes to operate long-term in space. At the end of that time, it will be safely deorbitant.  And to cover this week's space weather, here's Dr. Tamatha Sco. We're calming down from a solar storm that we've had over the past couple of days that has brought us up to active conditions and brought Aurora down to parts of the UK and even some over Canada, but the fun isn't over yet. As we switch to our front side, son, you can see we have a bright region that's region 2757. We're saying goodbye to it as it rotates to the sun's far side, but we do still have the active region from solar cycle 25 to contend with. And we're keeping an eye on it to see if it's gonna give us any solar storms. Now, right behind it is a finger-like coronal hole that's gonna be rotating into the Earth strike zone here in the next four or five days. And it could give us yet some more fast wind and give us another chance for some aurora. So stay tuned. Now, as we switch to our far side, son, well, there's not a lot going on on the far side because this is stereo. He's looking at the sun kind of from the side here, but we do see as of the 31st, we do see a couple of bright regions that are rotating into stereo's view. Now, they're not doing too much right now. So it looks like things are gonna stay pretty quiet and that's a good news for all the space traffic up there and especially for space launches. And now for your Leo, Mio, Geo orbit outlook. As we switch to our low energy particle environment, these are the particles that charge up the outside of spacecraft, including the solar arrays that then can cause discharges and electrical short circuits. You can see strong fluxes in and around the Geo orbits that even penetrate down into the Mio orbits. And you're continuing over the past couple of days to see these injections and the pre-dawn hours. So you satellite operators, especially in the pre-dawn region, expect to contend with these surface charging issues and that could easily extend over the next couple of days because we have yet to get maybe some more solar storming. Now, as we switch to our higher energy particle environment, these are the particles that actually penetrate to the interior of the spacecraft and can cause electronic upsets and anomalies. We are also seeing some enhancements in inside of the Geo orbits and these are gonna continue. We even see a little bit of enhancement at the Leo orbits. So you satellite operators and anybody dealing with space traffic expect to have to contend with both internal charging and surface charging issues easily over the next couple of days before things begin to calm down. For more details on this week's Space Weather, including when and where to see Aurora and how radio communications for launch and space traffic is going to fare, come check out my channel or see me at spaceweatherwoman.com. Wrapping up this week's Tomorrow Space News, we just wanna give a huge thank you to all of the citizens of tomorrow. Without your help, we wouldn't be able to make these shows possible. Each and every one of you who does so, you're amazing and it's greatly appreciated. If you would like to help contribute to the shows of tomorrow, you can head on over to youtube.com slash T-M-R-O and see how you can. But remember, watching our shows, liking, subscribing, setting up notifications and sharing us everywhere you can is also an incredible help as well. And that officially wraps up this week's Space News. It sure is nice and comfy to be back here in station 204 and we'll catch you on our next episode. So until then, keep exploring.


I'm in a valley once known as Little Switzerland. Any ideas? No, I'm not in the wind rivers of the Tetons. I'm in Star Valley. Star Valley was once likened to Switzerland because of its thriving dairy industry. Star Valley is located in extreme western Wyoming, south of Jackson, and west of the Salt River range on the Idaho border. The valley has short, cool summers and amazing views, and for a good part of the 20th century was well known for its dairies. Daring began soon after white settlers reached the valley, and at the industry's peak there were hundreds of dairies and at least nine creameries. Because of the distance from major markets and the travel involved, Star Valley dairies produced large quantities of cheese, which was easier to store and transport. Swiss cheese from Star Valley was shipped throughout the U.S., and other Star Valley cheeses also appeared throughout the country. Due to consolidation, falling prices, and changes in transportation, daring in the valley has declined over the years. The last cheese factory in the valley closed in 2005. So next time your travels take you through Star Valley, remember to keep an eye out for one of the remaining dairies and appreciate western Wyoming's cheesy history. From the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Mae Smith, exploring the nature of Wyoming.


Hi, everyone. Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com coming at you with the Atlanta, Toronto, Washington, Oakland, and San Francisco random number block randomizer for one box picker team number 41 of 2021 tops diamond icons baseball. That's how the number blocks work. Big thanks to these two right here for getting into the action. Appreciate it. There are the numbers here and let's go. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it four and a six, 10 times for names and numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and a 10th and final time. After 10, you got PJ, down to PJ. Four and a six, 10 times for the numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six. And good luck, 10th and final time. Remember, zero gets any and all redemptions including one of one redemptions. Disclaimer says in the description, but just have to remind people it's a rare occurrence. It hasn't happened and you probably count on one hand how many times that's happened, but just in case. All right PJ, you have all the numbers except for three. Oh, and one, interesting. So PJ remember zero gets you any and all redemptions for that group of teams there, but El Guapo you'll still get live one of ones. So let's see how that storyline plays out when we do that diamond icon's break a little bit later tonight, jaskyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you for that.


Are we good? We laugh? Alright, so I mentioned yesterday's video that I'm trying to go seven straight days here on the reaction channel We're uploading video and ask y'all to send me links and Thomas Lee sent me today's video Which is NBA players on fire part one. It's an older video So it should be a lot of stuff that I don't remember when I say older video this video came out in 2016 y'all 2016 so I'm gonna see a lot of players catch fire that ain't see catch fire in the wild So let's get into it shout out to Thomas Lee. Here we are Starting off with cow quiver here Chicago some of us call them hot sauce Somebody somebody called him when he played for the Bulls if I'm not mistaken the whole twilight stuff was going on So he was calling him like Edward is that makes sense anybody here watch watch the twilight movies or read the twilight But I think Edward is a character the vampire character because he's super pale good-looking dude And here we are he on fire. That's two foot. That's two for two It's earth sign He's not hot. He's not hot Find cow quiver. Y'all know what cow quiver is an all-star replacement for the Wayne Way. Oh That's just a heat check. That's just a heat check coming off the screen. He didn't care He didn't care bro. That's not that is the definition of a heat check as you're still going This is when you have to find that man Off the screen again double team over Yanis over Michael Carter Williams. He's on fire Yes, sir And there's like five different parts of this series alone And if we don't get if we don't get to see Clay Thompson catch a fire in that third quarter I'm gonna be really upset Alright, so we got LeBron. He just hit his first three Second three for LeBron that's already close to a career, huh? I'm messing I'm messing I'm messing LeBron James two for two for three He came he wanted to have time came out of half time and still was on fire. I Hate that this footage is it's so great We've been spoiled ladies and gentlemen with great footage great HD footage and in reality every awful it ain't like that no more But yeah, what is that? Quick cement that's quick 11 points for LeBron Quick 11 and you see he's on fire because he's trying to push the pace He's like give me back the ball because I'm feeling it right now No way brahni. Oh He's as hot as a below towards 14 straight for LeBron hold on give it back to him No, he did it. Yes. He did Just like in the summertime. He's knocking down shots like nobody is around him that this is a good commentator Some good top commentator. I wish I could see who's actually guarding him No, he didn't I've never seen this before I've never seen this for this before I'm waiting for them to tell me how many straight he's he's hit because I lost track He's got 39 total in the game the second half just started and he's still going. I thought the clip was over He's got at least one more And it's the midi Man, I've only seen LeBron play live one time in a regular season game against the Bulls this season And he definitely puts on the show every single time he hoops, bro All right, now we got the we got some playoff action Easter conference finals. We get a little heat tech JR Smith action Okay, that's two for two That's two for two and they needed to hear they needed to hear they were already down So they needed somebody to catch on My boot hoes are upset. They're either Swiss defenders now They got a better defender and can base more on them and it just did not matter Give it back to him, Brian. He's wide open way. I know LeBron got that vision He's gonna find the open shooter. He waited for the defender to get that and still knocked it down My boy, yeah. Hey, man, what's a yacht is on? He's one of the most fun players to watch bro as far as role players go He's one of the most fun players to watch when he's on complete microwave Ridiculous Ridiculous 7-3 is there are we making an 8 we are making an 8 It's nothing you can do Kim base wants to see his whole body just look defeated because it's nothing he could do more That's great defense. Oh, yes, give me some Steph Curry catch a fire, bro We can probably watch a 30 minute video of Steph Curry catch a fire and here's the first one That's we got one three already Steve Blake on me. Come on, man. That's torched This is young him to this baby face assassin For real for real Find them find them. So where's Steve Blake? Where's Steve Blake? Oh, he's nowhere to be fine. It's three for three Coming up court now They put Ron our tests on them a better defender matter where a piece is here way better defender the Steve Blake Then we get our boy on the screen.  That's four I'm trying to figure out what season this is here go five Steve Blake Look at home Kobe like Steve probably what's Kobe reaction to Steve Blake getting lost on the screen? Call me like bro. What is you doing? What is you're doing right now? That's the great He's a great shooter. How are we going on the screen steal? What an angle What an angle bro? Another one Steve Blake How is coasts letting Steve Blake still play basketball right now he is getting whopped All right. I miss a close game still even with Steph Curry catch a fire. Look at Steve Blake still on them Three steps behind actually it's like one step behind the Steph Curry's trigger is so quick that one step behind is still still too much How how is Steve Blake? This far away on this play. Why are you diving down here? This man has hit seven three pointers in the video We've seen how were you doubled doubling down on fesses is Ely? To leave Steph and Curry They didn't hit they didn't read the scouting report Steve Blake a read the stop scouting report just under way crazy On JJ ready coming off those double screens. They did ready is nasty. It's nasty, bro He's one of those players soon. I love the shoot see the great shooter shoot I love this is great shooter shoot I mean, it's not like I'm taking months away from it because my jump shot still broke But you know I'm saying the man's stroke is so nice cause What you give what I'm saying Man JJ look at look at the Chris Chris Paul finding the high hand and JJ driving You thought he's gonna pull up a three because that's what he's known for but he got a little bit of everything in his arsenal except for Supreme athleticism and one And one I love JJ Reddick's podcast man. Yo If it was not for JJ Reddick's podcast, I would not personally have a job with House of Highlights right now Isn't that crazy? If it wasn't for JJ Reddick, I would not be working with House of Highlights right now So it's set up to JJ man set up to JJ actually told him that and he said congratulations or something like that. Oh My god, he's a shot and he was looking for the past. He's like, I'm gonna fire. Why not shoot it? My bad is all my sharp shooter bad is all They lose him again his feet aren't even set. He's leaning away from the rim Make that seven James. Oh, this is the back of James Harder was known as a one of the worst defenders in the league This is what he knows one of the worst defenders in the league. Yeah. Yeah, JJ Ridiculous, bro JJ Reddick show Hala Parsons hit 10 threes and a half Then right here 10 threes and a half, bro. That's one And now he's out of the league man, that's crazy to think about That's two. I never really noticed how far he jumps forward on his jump shot. JJ Reddick does the same thing We're like, that's why JJ Reddick was terrible in a three-point competition.  I'd love to see an NBA player hit a shot and start smiling I love to see it. James Harden find cello Parsons again Ridiculous 10 threes in a single half It's crazy. And now he is out of the league. I know he's in a car today recently But even before the car today he was he was like jumping around different places not really getting PT and Atlanta He spent a lot of time in different places But young cello Parsons is real man second round pick came in and immediately was a decent player Look how much he jumps forward on his jump shots. That is crazy Six three quarters in a quarter. That's what's up But they didn't know that the man's gonna come into the fourth quarter and steal hit four more of them and How do you I can't tell who 22 is in this situation, but how do you see a man hit six straight threes? Six straight threes and you don't step up on a hard the white Howard screen, but if I'm a coach I'm I'm upset. I'm real upset at these boys. There's no way he should be this over There's no way he should be this over Defensively, I'd be so mad as a coach. There's no reason for you to be that far. Look at Robert Covertin There's no reason. Okay. Now. They got Tisha Prince on him a better defender He was old in here and didn't matter though. Whoo. They're still losing though. Did they win this game? Did they win this game? We have Patrick Beverly trying to help Nick Calatis. Yeah, I remember that name Nick Calatis because I do you guys suspended for using PED's I do remember that Another one how was he that was it they call foul, right? They didn't even call foul That's crazy. That's crazy. That's not a foul. The man got mold and they're still down, bro That's crazy. They couldn't get a stop on Nick Calatis and people 10 threes in a half In a half of basketball The day MJ became the goal Sounded like an interesting title if you enjoyed the video leave it alive. 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Small-scale fisheries play a strong role in sustaining millions of livelihoods, food security, nutrition, and income globally, while at the same time experiencing high levels of vulnerability and processes of marginalization due to several factors, including natural, example, natural disasters, ecosystem change, and anthropogenic, example, policy change, hydrological interventions, aquaculture, pressures. These pressures have resulted in the degradation of water quality, which has had a negative effect on fish populations leading to decreased fish catches, making it harder for fishers to make a living. Poor water quality also has indirect effects on the social and economic vulnerability of small-scale fisheries, such as contaminated water sources resulting in fewer fish species, reduced fishing time, and lower market value of fish products, all of which lead to decreased income and increased poverty. Understanding the interconnectedness between water quality and vulnerability in small-scale fisheries requires consideration of both environmental and social factors, as well as the complex feedback loops between them. This study provides insight into how water quality affects vulnerability in small-scale fish. This article was authored by Navya Vikramanair and Pratip Kumar Nayak. We are article.tv, links in the description below.