Good evening and welcome to Adafruit show and tell I'm Liz. I'm gonna be your host this evening If you'd like to join the stream You can access the link in our discord chat on the live broadcast chat channel, and that's at Adafruit IT slash discord So first we're gonna hear from folks from Adafruit and then here from folks in the community and we're gonna start off with Pedro Hey, hello everybody. How's it going? We're doing alright So yeah, this week's a 3d printed project is a little snowflake so we designed a little holder for the LED noodles and I Designed the back cover to kind of secure the coin cell so it has a built-in on-off switch. I can quickly turn it on There we go So they're for the LED noodles. We got two different colors yellow and warm white It's so bright that it's kind of blowing out the camera, but it's gonna make some nice light So this this makes it good the kind of ornament or something you could put on the wall or Other decors, but it was fun to kind of come up with a shape It uses for the noodles and then because it's a snowflake the center hexagon That's where I actually have the wiring kind of hiding and it's behind the battery I'm not gonna take it apart, but I also added a JST cable so that you can swap it out so there's JST cables you can always swap it out and put in a different battery or Like a wire in a USB cable so you have a wall powered But yeah, just a kind of a quick kind of three printed noodle sign. We've got a bunch of Neon signs. We've been doing that a lot this year and Yeah, that's that's this week's project And got a learn guide up so folks can build it and wire it up and 3d print the the bits Oh, don't forget to plug the layer by layer on yeah If folks want to use fusion 360 to design with these we have a little tutorial on how you can make different shapes Yeah, get some nice fittings in that. Yeah, and then a sneak peek of what we were working on A took apart an iBook and we put an iPad in it to do some like retro like a case This is definitely something that Brandy wanted so I was like, oh, no, I got to work on a thing Cuz anytime your kid or your spouse wants to work on a project You kind of got to do it. So yeah, this one's been blown up on like the socials Everybody's making like a cool like a case for these so it's pretty cool Turn in the 3d hangouts that happened early in the morning You can see how I set up the the keyboard for it and the cool thing about it is you don't have to 3d print Like I see the way that most people do it They like completely print the entire like a lot of the body to get the like the keyboard and stuff like that to Fit we could not find one that would fit in there But the one that we have in the shop fits perfectly so Using like the magnetic right ankle dongle for the USB C Converting it to the regular USB a is making and everything work perfectly. So yeah, we'll release that next week Very cool. I'm impressed at how perfectly the iPad fits in there. I Didn't think it would work. Yeah, I was like, okay. Yeah, I'll do it, honey And then she orders it and the next thing I know she's taking it apart gutting it I'm like, okay Apple's plan all along, maybe Recycling this whole time. Yeah, and they're pretty cheap. I think it was like a hundred bucks for like a it might have worked I don't know. Maybe you can get it back up and working but just for the case and stuff itself. It's nice. I think right Yeah, yeah, very cool looking forward to seeing that and that snowflake is very nice as well. Yeah, it's a good tree topper, too All right, thanks folks Next we're gonna go to Jeff Good evening We've been talking about it for a long time and teasing it but the next keyboard converter is finally here So this is one of those classic 90s computer keyboards Interesting thing about it. It's got this plastic gasket that goes all the way around and the same styling is on the mouse and I don't know if that's a useful thing or it is just how they styled it But anyway About ten years ago Lamar wrote a guide with Arduino and I'm like now we have circuit Python and Qt Pi Qt Pi RP 2040 here in a 3d printed enclosure and the code is in a guide and some discussion and background and Yeah, so just continuing with the keyboard projects And I was really excited to get to do this on literally Lamar's next keyboard So she entrusted that with me for oh wow for the time being that's a big deal. Yeah, it is Yeah, and so if you want to come back around to me in a little bit I've got another funny thing to show you all right sure and we'll be sure have folks check out your new guide on that keyboard Yeah, very cool. Thanks, Joe So next we're gonna go to Scott's Thanks for hosting thanks for coming and thanks for having me So I've been working on this weird thing. I think it's pretty weird So micro dev is a community member and they added a co-processor Support so on the ESP 32 s2 and s3 the s3 has two main co process main processors And the s2 has one, but they also they have another one. That's an ultra loud low power processor That is there to be able to do like very basic things for you without turning everything on And micro dev added support for this I wanted to re kind of rework the API for it and now I had to figure out how to test it and This idea of having some helper code on another processor with circuit Python has like been kicking around in my brain for a while I think I showed like I developed these stem aqt boards here. Oh, yeah, and have Cortex M0 plus is the STM 32 G-zeros on them. So this is another thing I've been thinking about where you have some code running on another Processor that that circuit Python is working with And similar to the ULP on the ASP chip. So If you could pull up my screen So this is the complicated part Okay, this is the complicated part. So this is C code that is What runs on the co-processor? Okay, and the cool bits you can ignore all of this stuff This is like writing registers directly or setting me up to do that. But one thing that's cool is I you have Variables here that are globals and C And there's two different kinds there's these ones where they're not volatile and then there's these two that are volatile and Volatiles a hint to the C compiler that says like hey like if you load this from memory Don't like make sure you load it every time you use it rather than storing it in like a CPU register Okay, and you need that in case something else changes its value And so in the case here. So what I'm doing is I'm I'm taking the C code and I'm packaging it into Python Okay, look at my Python here You can kind of ignore this. This is To read and write memory But now what you can see here is in blink our class we have two Attributes, so these would be like function or object dot setting object dot count And these are the things that are volatile and see so this is Accessing that same memory that the C programs accessing but from Python So you'd be able to like dynamically Read or change what the program is doing while your Python's running as well. And then that third one That is not marked volatile is Here as a parameter into the class when you construct it So what this class is actually doing is it's controlling the ulp It's Constructing a version of the program. So these are the bytes of the compiled Program But then it patches it so it's patching that that third number the pin number into the program before it's Copied over to the CP the other CPU and run The idea being that you could pick a different pin that you want to blink on without having to do a full compilation of C code Which is I know it's complicated, but the goal the goal is that Yeah, the goal is from the outside, which we're looking on the inside here from the outside You'd be able to say I want to blink on the ulp and I want to blink on this pen And then you could also set like how fast you want to blink or whatever And treat it as if it's like this Python object that works a little weird Under the head so I'm playing around with that Unfortunately, it doesn't actually work. Otherwise, I would show a demo. I'm trying to figure it out It's actually like very hard to debug. I can't tell like What like with a normal microcontroller you can say like hey, what's your program counter? Where where are you at? Right, there's no way to do that with the ulp that I can tell Yeah, so that's that's your weird But the pitch here is that you could do some like very simple logic in a low-power processor to like complement Circuit Python, that's very cool. Yeah, and people always want to do multi-core multi-tasking stuff and this is kind of that Yeah, so I'm playing around with that and hopefully we'll get it working tomorrow Cool. Awesome. I'm excited to see where this goes and excited to try it out. What's out there? Yeah, thank you It's yeah, it's a weird one Awesome. Well, thank you Scott. Thanks Liz Okay, next we're gonna hear from some folks in the community We are gonna go with Flavio See you so I just wanted to do a show and tell You know journey sent out to show you a cool project. I did over this weekend And it was basically I had an ARP I had an RP 2040 and then I connected to a real Ethernet, you know to get it over the network and The reason yeah, the reason I needed it. Yeah, so yeah show my screen because it's probably I Pictures there, but I had an alarm and then I retrofitted with the ring alarm and I had these ports available But the emotion sensors didn't work on it So what I wanted to do is connect some little relays on it to pretend I'm opening and closing the doors And that's what this little gizmo here drives So I just took that RP 2040 loaded Circuit Python and I played a lot with the async IO Which is really great on circuit by Tony and it works great So I guess a little bit of in line with the scots talking about Multi-processing of having multiple things running at the same time even though they aren't really yeah, but anyway, so This I the code is here and then I guess I'll just show you real quick The part of it that I really enjoyed Which was the async IO and with a sync IO you just basically rate those little Subtests right and and it works seamlessly. It just works beautifully and I can have it changing colors and Do things so the the part that was kind of fun on it is that I am I So I started with my board right so I have some pictures in here And I started with the board and then I started soldering which is normally what we don't do much these days anymore But right it was so satisfying doing all this soldering and of course end up looking like a spaghetti at the end But it all worked, you know, and then and then a buddy of mine show me this this thing Which is kind of like I don't know how it took me so long to figure out the liquid electric tape Which basically allows you to seal, you know, all the soldering and everything so there's nothing exposed And it's really as good as electric tape except it's just super, you know, it looks like a little piece of rubber You know like right all the mess that I did is all gone Yeah, and then yes, so he just looks like that and these are the relays, you know, and this is that and then how I connected I connected to the little ring box Plugging in like that and and in that shirt off He was happy to look at the new doors and everything as if you know It was just connected to the real Sensors that I had originally and then I then I I'm always inspired by Pedro and You know as in and I 3d printed a little box for it, but I use I use the I'm not very good with fusion 360 I use a thing called on shape. Oh, yeah And yeah, and I guess some of you guys use that so yeah, so that was really fun And then I just use that and yeah, I could just Connect to it and 3d printed and any came out great Anyways, I'm all when I do little projects like this I'm always thankful to you guys because I'm able to pull this whole thing off within a weekend You know, we're just using circuit Python and all the awesome Libraries that you guys have to offer and then by the way, I controlled it using MQTT Also connects like super seamlessly with it. So anyways, it's great About um like the tutorials helping folks to work on their own project So thanks for coming by and I'm so free to drop any links in the chat too So folks can get a closer look at your project We'll do all right. Thank you guys. Awesome. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye Okay, next we are gonna go to DJ Devin Hello Hello, Liz Hello, Fabio speaking of spaghetti I have a whole bunch of nudes. This is the stuff that that goes into uh, the my dragon mask Well, this is a demo circuit of what is in my dragon mask. Okay, uh, and this is actually what was part of the the dragon this is another demo This is the original demo circuit of what went into the dragon mask, but it uses a proto board as ground So I had a big issue trying to find enough grounds It doesn't show it on this one, but on the actual dragon mask every single ground is like cut In a tiny little area and then soldered and spliced all the way around one wire that goes to one ground Oh Yeah, so if you need a whole bunch of grounds, uh, that that becomes a problem Especially in an enclosed space Um, so what I came up with was a little pcb for the cutie pie call that i'm calling the parent because it grounds to the bffs Uh, I don't know how well you can see that Yeah, we can see it Very cool. So every single one goes to ground on all the the Inside proto area. Uh, isn't a proto area. These are all grounds all ground. Okay. Yep So Let's see if I take apart This is all modular. So this is the inside of what it looks like when you need a bunch of grounds so these all Go to ground and then I've got the uh, the lipo bff And all of this ensures that it's all in a tiny little footprint so that I have more room to breathe than a mask That's basically what that comes down to And uh, oh yep and for my major project That I've been working on for a while that a lot of people know about Are my tr cowbells. Very cool. Yeah, this is a midi controller based on Todd botts. Uh pico step sync sequencer And basically it's just a large linear macropad and I do have it Lighting up in the sequences and it should function. I don't have any of the music stuff working yet And I was supposed to ship these out to a group of beta testers Monday and last minute did some more testing found a big problem The mcp chips and also in the guide it doesn't mention this. Uh, the mcp chips Have to have either three grounds Or have to have three positives three v three Um So that threw me for a loop because I treated it as a regular i2c And only uh, soldered the one ground Which left these two floating and I was getting all kinds of weird results because It does not like that at all. Yeah So that was an interesting thing that I found and um, so finally show up my board and this is the v2 Very cool. Great art on there too. Thank you. Uh, totally stolen from the internet I mean more cowbell. So we have more cowbell and uh, my name and papyrus font for filthy Excellent There you go. Well, thank you so much. You do Devin. Well, thank you. Have a great day. Thank you too Next we are going to go to make it hack in Hi, can you hear me? Yes, you can. All right. Um, I'm going to present my screen. Okay um, so let's see Boom, can you see it? Yes, let me add to the stream okay, so, uh We're gonna get to the hardware later But I am showing off a bot that I wrote for the digi key digi wish So what is going on here is uh, if you guys didn't know, uh, digi key is doing a digi wish Contest during the month of december and every day you can wish for a new product and they randomly pick someone So I thought it would be fun to write a bot to do that. So this is today's Wish um, and if you're on twitter still, uh, if you want to go to this one and comment down below What it does is uh, people can comment down below and the bot will pick a random Reply it'll then search the digi key uh catalog for that and then um And then pick one that's you know, it has to be under a hundred dollars and it has to be in stock Um, so I'm gonna demo that now and hoping that the demo gods are with me So here we go It's running off a pi zero wireless. All right, so I'm gonna run it. Um I'm gonna run it. Let's see. I want to actually upload the tweet. So hit one and um So it picked the magic smoke uh tweet um I don't think so it kind of if it doesn't find the first one it'll go through the other tweets and find one um, so this one actually Let's see I'm gonna refresh mine my twitter Get my profile see which one it picked So this is the one it picked. Um, it's actually an ate fruit product. So that's cool Um so Yeah, it kind of it just it picked the one it links the tweet right here that it that it shows And uh, yeah, so um my plan for uh the future is to Go on to get that on to like some microcontrollers So I have my pi portal I have a mag tag and if people want to like comment in the discord Which one they think would be better Funhouse and the matrix Portal, uh, I think I'm kind of leaning towards pi portal. Uh, I need to be able to save the Image from digikey in order to upload it to twitter. Um, I can't just like link the hyperlink I have to actually like download the file. So I don't know if all those are possible With all those devices, but um Yeah, so I might have that by next week, but um, if everyone wants to go comment And see if they get chosen for tomorrow. I would ever like to see uh, what gets picked Very cool. And I think you should get did you wish just for building this bar? That's very cool. All right. Well, thanks so much for coming by but Next we're going to go to mark gambler and then we'll go back to jeff to get a fun treat afterwards Say hey mark. How's it going? Hey pretty good. So I'm going to re aim my camera again at The giant led Matrix I still have so this is updating a project I uh worked on A couple years ago, but have now updated it for the new Uh libraries that just came out for the core For the fast pixel mapping And that jeff and tim both spent a lot of time working on Nice. Um Yeah, so now I could take what I did a couple years ago The tree animation doesn't really need the frames per second But in a second the giant scrolling text was not possible two years ago, right? Yeah Uh, so Yeah, and this is slowed down as I think to demo a couple weeks ago. It just flies by if it's not Uh Since I showed it last time added in some of the fading text um This hasn't been running long enough to really show but This is and then it's the icicle demo that was originally done by phil b in arduino That I updated a couple years ago I had about half the icicle showing last time and as they grew in length The frame rate just dropped now. I can run 15 strands No problem Uh I tweaked the original code that the icicles will grow over time as well and eventually break Uh like real icicles Excellent Yeah So after show and tell next step is putting this in my uh window and Getting ready to show it off It's great. I can remember I think when you did the tree a couple years ago. It looks really awesome. Um now I some big and Animation going so smoothly. So it's been cool to see this grow over time Yeah, it just worked out that uh The rate changes are done to speed everything up and make a lot more stuff possible Excellent. Well, thanks so much mark. Thanks a lot So good night And now we're going to go back to jeff So I've been spending a lot of time playing with this website called chat gpt from open ai And people have a lot of different opinions about it and I find that it's really great for playing with it and like Making up sort of fiction because it can make things that really look like You know like real things, but it's entirely made up. So if you want to bring up my window Yes, I thought well, can it do aida fruit and now I have to tab over to the same Uh window. So, you know, I asked it. Are you familiar with the electronics company aida fruit? And it is so I thought Can it get me fired from my job by doing a better job than I do I I have to admit earlier today about it the thought they crossed my mind like could you put in like a lurg guy job? That's that's funny. That's yeah, so that's Exactly what I did. So I asked it to write a project to use a sensor to detect when a bird is present And release bird seed using a servo motor. So just informal poll ask yourself. How do you think it did? Based on what I've seen there's price and words that sounded correct and So I mean, it's it just gives you the whole thing. Um materials needed tools Setting up the hardware programming the trinket So I didn't actually try this code, but this really looks like arduino code to me. I'll tell you um And oh and it it tells you how to test it and suggest further improvements And we really like this one at a microphone to detect the bird song. That would be fun That would um, but then I realized looking at this program It's going to read the pin and the first time the pin is high It's going to open the seed dispenser And so that's not going to work out all the all the seeds just going to come out because there's no close Yeah But you can come back and you can ask it follow-up questions And so I said well, you need to close the door again, and it says sure. Here's how you do that And I think this is right This looks like good arduino code to me and It explains everything what's going on And then I realized well wait It'll be oh, it'll be open the whole time the bird is there You want it to open and then let the bird eat and the bird has to leave and come back So I asked it to do that to him. It's like here's how you do it. You use a static variable. It was like a whole See lesson, and I was just so astonished Did this well Yeah, on the other hand I had to have a fair amount of knowledge to Evaluate what I was seeing and say oh here's a problem And it could maybe rewrite things to solve it, but it didn't recognize those problems Itself right and of course i'm anthropomorphizing it even to a degree that's inaccurate So then I said well, you know, I work on circuit pythons. So this was an arduino project Let's do the circuit python version and You know this kind of looks like python, but This doesn't exist. This this never existed. I researched it just in case it did so it invented this This never existed Yeah, this looks okay Delay is not python delay is arduino So yeah on the whole it didn't do as good a job at circuit python as it did at arduino And I really wouldn't recommend, you know, if you are not Experienced this is going to give you code that it explains exactly why it should work, but it's going to be wrong Yeah, and the explanation is going to be wrong and you're going to get tripped up But as an exercise for somebody who was more familiar I thought this was a lot of fun and I was super entertained and I I hope that all of you are are entertained and not Dismayed at the idea that computers are are writing code like this. Um, Well, I use it responsibly y'all Yeah, it's you know, great power comes great responsibility and I saw one artist who is talking about The whole thing all the ai stuff has come out. I feel like recently in the past couple days and they're kind of referred to it as almost like, um the equivalent of like microwaved food so And basically like, you know, if you're if you're having a hot pocket every once in a while, like it's fine But you shouldn't make a steady diet of it. So I thought that was a good analogy for it Entertaining definitely.  Thanks for showing that. All right. You have a good night. Thanks for running this. It was fun Thanks for coming by And that is going to do it for show until the night everybody. Thanks for showing your projects in two minutes John park will be here with his john park's workshop. Have a good night, and I'll see you later. Bye. Bye


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How much fun here, how much energy was there as you guys were kept getting to the quarterback, kept cutting back down balls, and you also got to pick six. What was it feel like to the defensive side of the ball? Oh yeah, man, it was awesome. You know, I feel like KB said the best man in the locker room. He was like, we're not out to prove people wrong, but prove ourselves right. Like, we know how talented we are in that locker room and the group of guys that we have, man.  And we come out here and play our brand of football. And we know stuff like that can happen. You guys are 6-0 against playoff teams from last year. I mean, how vindicating is that based on what you said Kevin's message was in the locker room? Yeah, nah, I mean, I feel like that's just the expectation now, man. Like I said, how hard we prepare, man, and how much focus we have throughout the week. It just shows on game day. And when we go out there, and like I've been saying, and like Brave says all the time, we play our style of football. We're a hard team to beat, and I feel like we proved that tonight. Is that maybe as well as you've collectively swarmed the quarterback since you've been here? I'm sorry, what? Is that maybe as well as you guys have collectively swarmed the quarterback since you've been here? Shoot, I mean, probably. I didn't watch the film yet. I just know I felt like everybody on our front was out there just impacting the game some way and consistently throughout the game. And it was just awesome to be a part of. I saw you had a quick convo with Jarrell before the game. Would he say anything special to you in this game tonight or with him? Yeah, I was shocked to see him, but nah, he's always cool to be around. He was one of the more awesome vets, man, coming into the lead to be able to have as a teammate. And he was just saying how he was proud of me and how I'm having this start to the season. And just to keep going, man, just stay focused and keep grinding and everything will work out.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we're going to be talking about the leading nuclear energy supplier, Westinghouse, which has filed for bankruptcy in US and what are the impacts it's going to have on the nuclear industry. For this we have with us, Prabir Purkayastha, NewsClick, chief editor and also an energy expert. So the leading nuclear reactor manufacturer, Westinghouse, has filed for bankruptcy in US. How is this going to impact the nuclear industry globally and in India? The nuclear industry has two major problems. A, the cost overruns keep on growing, mainly because as we learn more and more about nuclear power, we seem to need more and more protection, we need to see more and more engineering changes to be made and as a consequence the cost goes high as well as you get what are called time overruns. So nuclear projects, wherever they are, whether they are Arriva doing a set of projects in Europe or it is Westinghouse doing a set of projects in the US, both have seen very high cost and time overruns. So as a consequence, both for the companies who are building this nuclear power plants, the construction companies, Westinghouse which was the reactor supplier or the ones who are going to own this companies, both of them get into a lot of financial difficulties and this is also today coupled with the fact that you have a lot of gas available. The hydrocarbon price, gas and oil prices have fallen dramatically and particularly gas prices in the US are such that nuclear power really cannot compete against it. We also have what are called renewable power, solar being the prime example, wind also is another of the renewables which have seen considerable development recently. All of it show that there is a continuous loss of competitiveness of the nuclear industry vis-à-vis other energy sources. So really we have two sides of the coin, one side the cost of nuclear energy is rising, other side the cost of renewables are dropping and dropping drastically including the cost of non-renewables like gas which have also dropped. So we are seeing really nuclear power not being competitive. This is something that we had warned well ahead of its time in India itself that this is not going to work. The worldwide this has been a continuous set of messages given by different set of experts, unfortunately nuclear industry is a very powerful lobby because also backed by a whole set of political forces have disregarded the clear evidence of this and has pushed this argument because of climate change, because of carbon emissions being high in terms of impact on the global climate therefore nuclear should be brought back. I think this is the end of that story. So does that mean that the nuclear renaissance and the nuclear power industry revival that has been talking about that was talked about is coming to an end it's over? It's clearly over. You can see what is the impact for instance on the two major nuclear reactor suppliers in the west. One was France Arriva. If you remember France's history it had at 1.80% of its energy needs being met by nuclear power. It had a very strong nuclear industry which created this nuclear reactors and invested a huge amount of money in this. Arriva for the last 8 to 10 years has been struggling to build one nuclear reactor in Finland and in fact the project has seen such huge overruns that now the construction companies again and Arriva and Siemens who have all involved in the project as well as the owners of the plant the Finnish electricity utility are against each other in courts who is responsible for the losses. It's a huge cost and price overrun. The cost of the plant is increased by almost 3 times. The cost of electricity as a consequence would go up really again almost by 3 times and the time overruns means that this project which should have been on stream 4 years back has not come on stream even today. So this is Arriva. You have General Electric which is another major builder of nuclear reactors. It's also pulling out of this business. Westinghouse was acquired by Toshiba about a few years back and Toshiba thought that the nuclear renaissance means that with Westinghouse and Westinghouse it said the Westinghouse designs and built reactors are about 50% of the world's total reactor population. So it was probably the most important player in the nuclear reactor business. So Toshiba acquired Westinghouse about a few years back in the belief that they would be able to hold in the pole position in the revitalized nuclear industry which the thought would take place because of the climate change pushing carbon emissions on the back foot therefore coal would not be popular. That really hasn't happened and last of course we had the Fukushima disaster which made also clear the dangers of nuclear plants and not that they cannot be made safe but the cost of making them safe is prohibitive and consequence of not having a safe plant means that you could really open yourself out to huge losses not just for one year or two years but you could also create a condition where saving for instance what we saw in the Fukushima disaster saving that area being able to bottle up the plant and be able to prevent radioactive fuel and waste from leaching into the sea and nearby waterways underground water this is really prohibitively high. So we are really seeing the consequence of the bad economics of nuclear industry bringing it down it's not that nuclear per se is something that we cannot do the nuclear energy is something we cannot do but the cost of doing it against other forms much safer much lower in price today particularly with wind and solar I think nuclear is something that need technology something we need to mouth ball interestingly enough the two other nuclear vendors apart from India who are still active are the Russians and the Chinese and they is because the state supported they also are able to do certain things other players are not able to do because they are supposedly trying to survive commercially. So if we talk about India the left in India opposed the nuclear deal of which Westinghouse was a part so how is this bankruptcy going to effect when it comes to India the nuclear industry? The US Embassy has made a declaration after the bankruptcy of Westinghouse that this is not going to affect the India-US nuclear deal or the Westinghouse reactors in India. I think this is complete mangan. It's very clear that this Westinghouse 6 reactors which was really a part of the India-US nuclear deal it was originally supposed to be built in Mithi, Vidhi in Gujarat then it was shifted to Srikarpulam in Andhra this has been going on for 10 years this discussions it's very clear that this deal is now going to hit the rocks. So I have no doubt that the Westinghouse project is dead and whoever says it is not things are going to continue is really just whistling in the dark this is not going to happen. It also brings out what the left had said left had not only opposed the India-US nuclear deal from the point of view of a strategic alliance which India was trying to seek with the United States and the consequence of that but it also said the nuclear energy particularly with important reactors is not going to be viable. We saw earlier the ARIVA nuclear reactors the costs were going to be something like 28 to 30 crores per megawatt which is at least 6 times that of coal or even today solar plants. So given those kind of costs we had said whether it's ARIVA or whether it's Westinghouse or it's a G reactors that these important reactors have no chance of being successful in India and also their untested reactors and therefore wherever you try to build untested reactors the time and cost calculations go completely awry. If we want to see why Westinghouse is facing bankruptcy primarily because it was trying to build reactors at fixed costs they had taken fixed cost contracts both in Georgia and South Carolina the two places where they're building two reactors each and the fixed price contracts that they had meant that whatever was the increase in cost they had to absorb that. Now the kind of changes required the kind of cost escalation that took place meant that they're facing a loss losses to the amount of something like 10 billion dollars and that's what finally Toshiba could not absorb. Now if India wants to bail out Westinghouse bail out the nuclear industry in the US by taking those losses reaching not fixed price contracts but variable price contracts then it's theoretically possible for Westinghouse to still survive or at least continue the Indian contracts but I think Indian people are not going to be so stupid that they will allow this to happen. It's also clear that the liability laws we had in the country again left had worked very hard in the parliament to get this liability laws which actually puts the responsibility of the of accidents etcetera false equipment on the nuclear supplier nuclear suppliers liability which the United States opposed and the United States companies opposed that is what held up for a long time this contract from taking shape which is what is saving us today. In fact only in 2016 2017 that US and India tried to absorb the liability of the supplier or to the Indian government which is what the Modi government really did but unfortunately for Westinghouse it's come too late. Thank you very much for joining us and this is all the time we have for NewsClick keep watching us.


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Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and it's Monday, so that means it is meal prep day. I am back for my trip. I am back to meal prepping and I am really, really, really stoked for this week's recipe. So if you're excited, give this video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. Turn your bell on because I do a meal prep every Monday and I do upload five videos per week. Check out the description box down below where you will find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. This is how I've lost 140 pounds. I highly recommend and I have one-on-one coaching for accountability or if you just wanna talk with me directly, links, discounts to my favorite things as well as my Facebook group. Come join us there. Are all down in that description box. So let's make a breakfast, a lunch and a sweet treat. For breakfast this week, I'm actually making a savory breakfast muffin. I am so excited about these. They're packed with protein and we're getting in some fruit and vegetables. So let me show you what you'll need. First you're going to need baking powder and baking soda, light butter, spinach. You could use frozen or fresh low-fat buttermilk, all-purpose flour, salt and pepper. I will link my gravity-fed salt and pepper grinders down below. Love these, got these off of Amazon. A couple of eggs, an apple, some light shredded cheese and then I'm actually subbing turkey breakfast sausage with just ground turkey just to save on points and calories and really get in a good amount of protein. So I'm just going to fry up a pound of ground turkey. So I added my pound of ground turkey to a skillet. I didn't mention, but this is 99% ground turkey and I'm going to allow this to brown. So my ground turkey is browned. So now I'm actually going to add in about three cups of spinach. I went ahead and allowed my spinach to well down. We're going to remove our ground turkey from the heat and let's put together these breakfast muffins. So to put together the savory breakfast muffins, super easy. I'm going to add two cups of all-purpose flour to a large bowl, two teaspoons of baking powder and then half of a teaspoon of baking soda and some salt and pepper. I went ahead and stirred up my dry ingredients to get them incorporated. Now I'm going to add one and a quarter cups of low-fat buttermilk, two eggs and six tablespoons of melted light butter. And then we're going to slowly mix that in. It doesn't have to be fully, fully combined. Then we're actually going to add in our ground sausage spinach mixture and then my diced up apple and a cup of light shredded cheese. And now we're going to stir until fully combined. Look at how delicious this mixture looks.  And then using a cookie scoop, I'm going to add the mixture to my sprayed with non-stick cooking spray muffin pan. This is a little bit thicker, denser mixture so you can pack it into each of the muffin cups. So before our muffins go into the oven, I'm going to sprinkle them with some dried chives. I really wanted fresh chives, but I couldn't find them. Sprouts didn't have them and Walmart didn't have them. So dried chives, it's going to be, but you don't want to skip this step. It's really going to add a punch of flavor. And then these are going into our oven for 20 to 25 minutes. So the muffins are out of the oven. These are huge and they smell so good. It's definitely a biscuit vibe, which is perfect for breakfast. I plan on pairing one of these with some fruit every day. So let me go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. They should down in stars since night before. Waiting for someone to come and knock on my door. Looking for someone who'd be the Venus to my Mars. Why does love always have to be this hard? Come and feel the love. I put together the pork carnitas portion of my lunch in my crock pot. It's got about three hours left, which will work out perfect by the time I finish prepping the rest of my meals for the week.  I did kind of speed through putting it all in the crock pot this morning, but we're going to make the rest of our lunch side. So we're going to do a cilantro lime rice, which I'm very excited about. And we're going to make kind of a corn salad. So for the cilantro lime rice, I'm going to go ahead and get my rice going in my little dash rice cooker. Game changer, I love this thing. Even Troy operates this thing flawlessly. It's so easy to make rice. You throw the rice, the water in it, turn it on and it comes out perfect. Every time I bought mine on Amazon, so I'll link it for you. We're gonna need some salt, some rice of course, lots of water, lime juice, garlic powder and fresh cilantro. So I added one cup of uncooked rice and then two cups of water, throw the lid on it, turn it on to cook. There's a little switch that says cook and keep warm. I'm gonna flip it to cook and in about 20 minutes we'll have perfect rice. We got our rice cooking in the background, but I'm going to put together my corn salad and this is going to be part of my meal prep. So for the corn salad, you're going to need fresh cilantro. So I did just chop up that entire bundle, salt and pepper, apple cider vinegar, lime juice, smoked paprika, regular paprika, a can of corn, cojita cheese and a red onion. So for the corn salad, really easy to put together. So I have a medium sized bowl. I did drain my can of corn. I'm going to add two tablespoons of lime juice of a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a couple of tablespoons or so of fresh cilantro, about a third of a cup of really small diced up red onion, third of a cup of the cojita cheese, about a half a teaspoon of paprika and some salt and pepper. Give that a quick mix and I'm going to toss it in the fridge while the pork shoulder is cooking and the rice is finishing cooking. By the way, look how amazing this looks. So my rice is done. It is super duper, duper hot, but seriously look at that perfect rice. So I'm going to go ahead and transfer that from the rice cooker bowl into a medium sized bowl. I'm going to add about a third of a cup of lime juice. You can always add more to taste. A couple teaspoons of garlic powder, salt and then about a half of a cup of chopped fresh cilantro. And then stir that all together and we have cilantro lime rice made at home, controlling what's in it, nice whole ingredients and this is going to be the perfect side with the pork carnitas and that amazing corn salad. And there's our cilantro lime rice also going into the refrigerator until the pork is cooked. So the pork is done. I will tell you that it smells pretty darn amazing. I did use a pork loin rather than a pork butt. It was a lot less fatty. So a lot less points, a lot less calories. So mine isn't going to be as fatty and shred up as easy as if I would have used a butt. It's definitely tender and cooked through.  So here's what the bowl's going to look like once it's completed. I'm just going to have this for lunch today. So like you saw, I put everything into storage containers and then I took out four ounces of the pork tenderloin, one eighth of the corn, one eighth of the rice. It makes eight servings or eight bowls total and that's going to be my lunch. That is a great lunch. We've got a carb, veggie, lots of protein, lots of flavor. So I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for the carnita bowls. For a sweet treat this week, I'm making pecan protein bars. I love pecans. I love nuts in general for a good healthy fat. So I'm super excited for these. So let me show you what's in the recipe. First you're going to need vanilla protein powder. As always, I'm using my Ascent micellar protein in vanilla bean. I buy this off of Amazon. It is great for cooking, great for baking. I will link it down below for you. You'll also need all-purpose flour, sweetener of your choice. I have Lakonto granulated. As always, I do have a 15% off discount for Lakonto so I'll put that in the description as well. Some vanilla and then some pecans and you'll also need a little bit of water to get the right consistency. So for the pecan protein balls, I'm going to add half of a cup or a little over a scoop of my Ascent protein. Basically a heaping scoop. Two tablespoons of my Lakonto granulated. And two tablespoons of all-purpose flour. Quarter of a cup of chopped pecans and then set six pecan halves aside and a couple teaspoons of vanilla. And like I said, we will need some water, probably a couple tablespoons to get the right consistency. Stir that together until you have basically a dough formed. Now I'm going to go ahead and roll these out. The recipe makes six pecan balls. Actually, the recipe says bites. You can do balls or bites. We're gonna do balls, so we want six of those. And then we're going to top each one of our balls with the pecan half. So I like to kind of squish it in and then kind of push the sides up around it so that it will stay in place.  These look so good.  I'm going to pop my lid on. I have these nice glass containers with wood lids. I'm going to throw them into the refrigerator, store them there so they'll last for the week. But I'll go ahead and put all of the information here on the screen for you. Thank you for joining me for this week's Meal Prep. I hope you are as excited about these three recipes as I am. As a reminder, all of today's recipes are on my recipe website. I will link that at the very top of the description box for you.  Again, subscribe if you're not. Turn your bell on so you never miss a future video. Check out that description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And of course, come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.


Well, this might take it as far as I'm supposed to, but I'm just going to say this before I minister. Good morning, gentlemen. I'm going to be lying in the right-of-hand living room of my team. We added the foreigners, because he had his nose out of it, so I'm going to hold that. It's William, the President of the Hanoi community, of Justice and Friends. How are you? Good to see you. How are you? I'm good. Good to see you. How are you? Good to see you. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. I've already noted that they are political rioters, and my fellows just tell me, tell me it's much tougher and much more decisive than it's tendermans who have been a little flaky at times, and he had been Prime Minister before. You all have a half hour meeting here, followed by, and then there's a dinner with the Vice President that represents you and the government. Tendermans remain for three days after Mark was departs, and I think we'll do some further economic work during that period. There are several things that should come up. I know there was concern here. How are you? Good to see you. How are you, sir? Nice to see you. How are you? Good to see you, sir. Good to see you. generous hospitality, the Belgian delegation fully subscribe to the statement that the president has just made. In my capacity of prime minister of Belgium and as chairman of council, I had the opportunity to explain to our American friends both the Belgian and the European positions. The discussion with the president and his advisers all they will be pursued right away with the secretary of state have proved very useful in fostering mutual understanding. The western economies are going through very difficult times and all solidarity is being put to a test. I have always been convinced that the partnership between Europe and the United States not only can meet these challenges but can also come out stronger after open and frank exchange of views. I am today confronted in that opinion and I am sure that the will exist on both sides of the Atlantic to pull our efforts to cope with the difficult situation we are facing. Our two countries have the same goals, peace, prosperity and the democratic ideals of individual freedom. The differences when they occur are more on tactics than on substance. I am looking forward in pursuing this conversation along with other allies when we will meet again at the next NATO summit in June. I thank you. The press conference tomorrow will be indoors.


Hortgaas the Ace is one of the most beloved characters in the series and his execution at Marineford was the catalyst that brought together some of the best names and most powerful characters to one place becoming the biggest war scene to date where Ace eventually lost his life protecting his brother but what would have happened if Ace survived the Marineford War? How would the events influenced by his death in the main storyline be different had he continued in his pirate career? With the truth out in the open that he is the son of the late pirate king Goldy Roger How high would his bounty of being with the entire sea vying for the glory of taking his head? And how strong would Luffy be currently? Considering that Ace's death was the biggest reason that led to Luffy training and becoming stronger Keep watching because in this video we're going to discuss how Ace surviving the Marineford War would change the series and how this impacts a number of key characters such as Luffy, Sabo, Yamato, the Whitebeard Pirates, the Straw Hats and potentially many more So let's say Ace doesn't get provoked by Akayunu's comments about Whitebeard and that he and Luffy escape along with the rest of the Whitebeard Pirates Whitebeard will still eventually die at the hands of the Blackbeard Pirates but this time Ace is there to witness his proud father's back protect him from death with Ace surviving his execution The Marines would definitely immediately significantly increase his bounty given his lineage I believe Ace's bounty would increase from 550 million to at least 1 billion berry giving him a bounty amount which at that point had never been seen before and making him the first character we see with a billion berry bounty in the series The most obvious impact of Ace surviving the war will be how Luffy develops as a character Firstly, Luffy wouldn't have gone into a catatonic state after seeing Ace die right in front of him This means that he wouldn't need to be dragged away from the battlefield by Jinbei saving both Luffy and Jinbei some extra damage from Akayunu This will in turn mean that Luffy will not have that big X burn mark on his chest and with seeing Ace's death being his biggest motivation to get stronger This could also have an impact on Luffy's current strength However, Luffy does still have another huge reason to train and that is the fear of losing his crew for good So I believe Rayleigh will still train Luffy to prepare him for the New World But the question now is, is the realization that he and his crew are not strong enough to take on the opponents that await them in the New World enough motivation without experiencing the pain of Ace's death and a desperation to get stronger so that he won't have to see anyone die again Ace being alive also means that Luffy does not go into a coma and Jinbei never had to save Luffy from his self-pity or hurting himself by telling him to think of the people he still cares about which is what made Luffy realize that he hasn't lost everything yet Luffy of course would still feel gratitude towards Jinbei for helping him save Ace during the war but their relationship might not have gone deeper than that since Jinbei would never have had to see Luffy at his worst and therefore doesn't play the crucial role that he did in Luffy's emotional recovery Garp and Sengoku would likely not retire to uphold the Navy's reputation After all, they just led a failed execution and allowed a criminal to escape their grasp and so the Marines would need to keep face and a strong front and what better way to do so than keeping perhaps the two most famous Marine names in history as their leaders Sengoku not retiring will mean that there is no vacant Fleet Admiral position to fill so Kuzan and Sakazuki don't fight for the position and the original three admirals remain the same Also, since there's no need to replace any admiral position there would be no military draft meaning that neither Fujitora nor your Kugu get picked to join the admiral ranks and Isho and Aramaki not being picked as admirals will further impact the story in a much bigger way as we'll see later But for now, let's go back to Ace With his increased bounty and with the entire world knowing that he is the son of the late pirate king Ace's life would be in a lot of danger even for a pirate and Ace will turn from the hunter to the hunted Ace being alive will almost definitely mean that he will join what's left of the Whitebeard Pirates to participate in the payback war against the Blackbeard Pirates However, even with Ace's help, the outcome would still be the same with the Blackbeard Pirates victorious since it was mentioned that the Whitebeard Pirates suffered an overwhelming defeat and I don't see how one person could make an impact substantial enough to change the original outcome even if that person is Ace However, if other commanders such as Marco and Isho were able to come out of that battle alive I think Ace also has a high chance of survival as well as the fact that his crew members would have likely ensured his safety so as not to waste Whitebeard's sacrifice of giving Ace a second chance at life But following the result of not only losing his father but also the payback war Ace would realize his limited strength and would likely train during the time skip similar to Luffy Perhaps he trains with Rayleigh alongside Luffy with the Dark King now aware that Ace is Roger's son or perhaps Ace even trains with Shanks who saw Roger as a father figure Consequently, there is one course of action that Ace could take that would make him involved in the big events that happened in the main storyline and that is to visit the islands that were once under Whitebeard's protection Ace, in honor of his adoptive father would likely visit those islands to ensure the well-being of its citizens With this new mission in mind Ace would have likely been a part of the Fishman Island arc helping Luffy and the Straw Hat save the island from the new Fishman Pirates Ace being there would likely result in the difficulty of that battle being a lot easier than it already was for Luffy and his crew There's even a possibility that Luffy wouldn't have had to lose as much blood as he did and therefore wouldn't need Jinbei to give him some of his blood And if you remember, it was during this symbolic scene that Luffy asked Jinbei to join his crew However, even if everything plays out the same as per the original story With Luffy needing a blood transfusion from Jinbei Ace surviving will still reduce the likelihood of Jinbei joining the Straw Hats because Ace, who already has a relationship with Jinbei could also seek to form his own pirate crew now that the Whitebeard Pirates have gone their separate ways and as a former formidable enemy turned ally both of whom have strong ties to the late Whitebeard Ace would likely ask Jinbei to join his crew offering him the position of first mate Jinbei would like this idea because it means protecting the islands that Whitebeard once did But since Jinbei is still a part of the Big Mum Pirates at this point in order to protect Fishmen Island Jinbei would postpone joining Ace until he officially leaves Big Mum's crew The Straw Hats and Ace would part ways after the events of Fishmen Island with Luffy and his crew continuing their adventures and Ace moving on to another island once protected by Whitebeard At Punk Hazard, the next major change with Witness is the consequence of there being no changes to the Admiral ranks with Aokiji still one of the admirals This would mean he would not have been wandering around Punk Hazard as he was when Dothlamingo attacked Smokar meaning Dothlamingo would have killed Smokar and likely the rest of the G5 units There is also a consideration of what would have happened if that 10-day battle between Aokiji and Akainu never occurred therefore never changing the geography of Punk Hazard and all the different changes that would result out of that Ace surviving will also have a great impact on how the events of Dressrosa would have played out with no Meromero no Mi as the prize for winning at the Colosseum Both Luffy and Sabo wouldn't enter the competition and therefore would not be reunited here meaning Sabo also doesn't end up getting the Meta Meta no Mi nor being known as the Flame Emperor later on but Olamayo would also not be in the tournament since the only reason he joined was to win the Meta Meta no Mi to give it to Luffy therefore missing out on meeting his idol Burgers who is a part of the Blackbeard Pirates seeking strong devil fruits would also likely not be in the battle and this means that Burgers doesn't sneak onto a revolutionary ship to end up at Boltigo so the revolutionary army doesn't get attacked by the Blackbeard Pirates meaning they will more than likely continue using Boltigo as their base This also means that Luffy will not enter as Lucy and meet future allies pivotal to taking down the Don Quixote family that will later on form the Straw Hat Grand Fleet However even if Luffy doesn't personally meet them there is still a high chance that these warriors who entered the arena and later turned into prisoners and toys would help their alliance because after all it was Usopp's godly action that turned them back into humans and their gratitude towards Usopp was one of the main reasons they joined the fight The revolutionary army would still go to Dressrosa as part of their mission to investigate the Don Quixote Pirates' Black Market dealings So there's a possibility that Sabo would reunite with Luffy after discovering his presence at Dressrosa once Doflamingo broadcasts Luffy and his allies' bounties After all, Ace's survival wouldn't greatly change the impact on his other brother Sabo compared to the original storyline Even without Ace's death the events of the Marineford War would have been reported worldwide with Ace and Luffy's names being on the headlines possibly in connection with Admiral Akainu's real name Sakazuki as well Sakazuki being the word for a ceremonial exchange of sake cups in which people form a family bond which is part of what jolted Sabo's memory So following the Marineford War Sabo would have regained his memory undergone his rediscovery of who he is as a person the only change being his desire to now reunite with both Luffy and Ace And so Dressrosa will present the perfect opportunity for him to reunite with at least Luffy and even work together in fighting Doflamingo Not only to help his brother but also to take down the birdcage that imprisoned the citizens of Dressrosa as well as helping Robin who's a friend to the Revolutionary Army and was also given a bounty therefore giving Sabo and his group another personal reason to help the alliance But him having not been a part of the tournament means that he plays a more covert role and will more than likely not receive a bounty himself And here's where the absence of the two new admirals has another major impact because it was Fujitora's ideals and dislike towards the Seven Warlords that meant he didn't help out Doflamingo more than he did He also took his sweet-ass time before taking any real action hanging out at bars and watching the fights at the Colosseum before heading to Greenbit where it was then he found out that Doflamingo did not actually step down as a warlord but if Fujitora is not at Dressrosa the Marines would still send an admiral to the island upon hearing of Luffy and the Law's alliance and that Doflamingo has left the Seven Warlords and depending on who they send the story could go very differently For example, if Aokiji is sent then the events would likely play out similar to as it did in the story First, he would likely have a grudge against Doflamingo for killing his colleague and friend Smokar at Punk Hazard if he somehow found out But even if he isn't aware the fact that Doflamingo is keeping an entire country hostage would mean that he's reluctant to assist the warlord against Luffy and the Law's alliance If it was Kizaru, he would probably carry out his role as an admiral lazily but dutifully and just get the job done Whereas if it was Sakazuki, he would have blasted everyone upon arrival No wasting time like Fujitora he would arrive much earlier at Greenbit too early to hear the news that Doflamingo leaving the warlords was fake and so would have gone after Doflamingo who for all intents and purposes was supposedly no longer a warlord at this stage If he had also found out what was happening to Dressrosa's citizens he would have swiftly carried out absolute justice and then promptly go after Luffy and Law and their respective crews and who knows what that would result in At Hawkeek Island, I think the events would play out the same except for the iconic moment when Jinbei swears loyalty to Luffy because Jinbei will still help the straw hats escape and still declare his intentions to leave Big Mom's crew but this time to join Ace whereas the events of Wano would have some major changes had Ace survive For one, Luffy would have probably happily revealed his relationship with Ace to Tama resulting in a special bond early on but more significantly, Ace's new mission of helping islands formally protected by Whitebeard means that he would likely also visit his late captain's hometown Sphinx Island and keep in touch with Marco and given how Marco decided to make a pit stop to bring Iso along after hearing from Nekomamushi he would have also likely invited Ace and Ace definitely wouldn't pass up the reunion of helping his allies taking down Kaido which is a promise he made to Yamato and also help free Wano which he promised to Tama with the added benefit of reuniting with his younger brother meaning that when we see Marco and Iso's arrival at Onigashima Ace is there too and so is his new first mate Jinbei and Ace would have definitely been a big help during the raid Had he been involved, the fight would have been much different First of all, if he arrived at Wano with Marco then there's a big chance that they would fight Big Mom together or even take care of Kaido's top officers King and Queen as well instead of Marco trying to hold them off 2-1 until Zoro and Sanji take the stage Having his own personal score to settle against Kaido Ace would have also likely been at the rooftop to help Luffy and the supernovas fight the Yonko He would have been a big help especially when Luffy went down and Yamato had to deal with Kaido one-on-one Ace would have been able to assist the Alliance by some time until Luffy gets back up and might have even awakened his own Devil Fruit during the battle against Kaido if he hadn't done so already However, I think Luffy's gear 5th form would still need to be what's needed to defeat Kaido After the war, Ace would celebrate alongside everyone else allowing us some amazing interactions Add him to the bath house scene with the men and having reunited with Yamato and Tama during the war Sometime during or after the party we would also likely see two very important conversations With Tama, Ace will reaffirm his promise that he will take her along on his crew once she is older and an official kunoichi Ace would ask Yamato to travel the seas with him and would know Ryokugu there to attack Wano Yamato wouldn't have been worried about leaving making it easier to decide to travel and join Ace's new pirate crew and so now with the addition of another powerhouse in Yamato Ace would go on to continue collecting strong combatants who share his views and ideals having read of Sabo's exploits at the Reverie and with confirmation from Luffy first hand of Sabo's survival Ace would be concerned but also look forward to the day that he will also be reunited with his long lost brother Now leading his own crew the former spade pirates rebanded as well as any remnants of the whitebeard pirates who decide to join him and his notoriety only continuing to increase as he continues to be involved in these major storylines Ace has enough influence to be considered a yonko fulfilling the same role that whitebeard once held not holding any intention of going after the one piece but a flame emperor protecting islands and citizens unable to do so themselves while also ensuring the utmost safety of his family with events concerning Sabo and the Revolutionary Army coming to the fore as well as Blackbeard's inevitable clash with Luffy to come Ace will continue to play a major role in the story being involved in that final battle that we're about to witness because he certainly has his own reasons to join the fray a score yet to be settled with Blackbeard and another exciting reunion with his brothers if only had Ace survived the war at Marineford but did you know that Ichiro Oda already showed us Ace and Sabo's reunion? Oda released his own version of how Ace would have survived at Marineford and his own What If scenario, titled Special Episode Luffy is a short three-chapter storyline that showed what would happen if Sabo rescued Luffy and Ace at Marineford but what about you? Do you have your own scenarios? What did you think of this video? And do you see any other ways that the events would have played out had Ace survived the Marineford war? Let me know by leaving a comment below Don't forget to subscribe Thank you for listening to another one of my rambling thoughts This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon