Two o'clock rock here on Think Tech and on Friday means likable science and it means Ethan Allen, all those things are connected and he's with Prell, he's the chief scientist for Think Tech Hawaii and we're talking about water which is his favorite subject, we're going to call this update on water but you know what's really interesting is we're facing shortages, certainly we're facing shortages in fossil fuel. We had one guest a couple days ago that suggested in 50 years we'd be scratching for oil. We had to figure something out, it's not just not an option, it's a requirement and there's so many other things but water you know we have taken for granted especially in Hawaii where it is so cheap per gallon still but in a few years it won't be, all these forces are bearing on it in other places it's much worse so we need to have an update on water. Water is critical to life and including ours you know you can't escape that but other people in the world they'll be wars over water one of these days and we'd better get smart about it. Not for you and me Ethan but for the next generation, that's you guys, you better be thinking about this, no kidding. So one of the things that Ethan does it takes his travels all across the Pacific Ocean like Mitchner, seeing all the places that Mitchner has seen, saw rather he's gone but water is among the things he does. So what's your latest water for life as a project you're working on, what is that? So in my main water for life project funded by the National Science Foundation we work with communities across Micronesia from eastern Micronesia that is the Marshall Islands through the Federated States of Micronesia out to western Micronesia Palau and help communities build better access to good drinking water, to good high quality drinking water for their for their communities and at the same time we use water as a very effective hook to start getting people interested in science education because water has all kinds of science, there's physics in water, there's chemistry of water, there's biology of water, there's geology, hydrology, ocean science, the atmosphere, and the science of making water. Exactly. Which is going to be really important. Exactly, exactly or purifying water really is the big issue right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway so what does that program do? Is it all about science? It is it's fundamentally a science education program although as my my program officer at National Science Foundation sometimes says to me it sounds like you're doing more community development than science education. It's part of it though. It is, very much. You know I mean it had to be on the ground you have to show people and I think we need the same kind of education here actually you know it's nice in Micronesia but it's also useful right here. Well yeah and this is this is the thing I really wanted to talk about today is a related project and I got a supplemental grant from National Science Foundation to look at the sort of the nexus of food, energy, and water and if you think about it places like the Marshall Islands are very interesting they have a bunch of water surrounded by salt water right but it's not not usable water. Rising salt water. Rising salt water, that's going to affect the water table for sure. Right they have very little water table in the Marshall Islands, a very thin lens of water a foot or two deep some in most places and not very good water because it's often been washed over and that's a ship it in or do something else. But they also have abundant solar energy right it's just constantly bright and sunny there and so the question sort of is why can't they do solar power desalination right and it takes a lot of energy. Yeah they've got a lot of energy they've got a lot of solar energy. It's a lot of money. Well no that's not a lot of money. Yeah that's a trick it doesn't take a lot of money. So we worked with some folks from the University of South Pacific and from the College of the Marshall Islands and these and particularly these kids from what they call it Life Skills Academy. Life Skills Academy is sort of the Votek High School in the Marshall Islands. So the kids who can't make it into high school because their academic background isn't good enough to get them into high school and they're based really hard on the community to have people don't go to high school. Yeah exactly it's a lose-lose situation but we've got these kids now building these solar stills and I'll show you a little bit we'll show a video on this but so these are devices that use the sun's energy and you feed in salt water into them and they basically desalination they run the water cycle they basically cause evaporation condensation and then you gather up the fresh water that's condensed. So here we've got this video running and this shows the leader of the project there he's talking to the kids there and starting to build the still and I'll walk you through this. It's not a lie but you make me think of the south you know the deep south and they got stills there maybe they know a lot about desalination too. So these PVC putt frames and this housing which is just tubing really just to support the external framework you'll see so building this big long tube with these rigid supports on it made out of as I say just simple plastic housing held together with duct tape and string I mean nothing very elaborate here and then they take this plastic clear plastic sheath basically and string it over the whole thing you can see it so it's a long tube now right and you see the black plastic trays inside of it they set it on a on a slate tilt and into the upper end they pour salt water which runs those four trays and then they close off the salt water evaporates out of those trays condenses on the clear plastic settles to the bottom and at the end of the day you can pull fresh water out of it even if you had dirty filthy salt water going in you get absolutely clean pure for to maintain it I mean do you have a build-up of you have to empty the salt water itself out you know periodically and rinse it you know that kind of stuff but nonetheless basically you see you were talking at the expense of it how much is that PVC pipe that bit of hosing old duct tape and the plastic sheathing on the cost yeah and now they get where they get how do they take the energy from the the solar and make this process happen you put that device out in the sun you just leave it outside just leave it outside yeah there's no expense at all you don't need panels or anything like that no that's it's a how much capacity you know can I live off that thing that basically that device they showed there you put about six or eight gallons of salt water into it in the morning seawater and you can take about a half a gallon of nice clean fresh water out at the end of the day so if you had two of those you could live off of that so you probably need a couple of those or a bigger version of it can I put things in perspective because before the show began you gave me this infographic right she a Loch Ness isn't it so Loch Ness has some stats for us on exactly how much water it takes to do this and that and although the print may be a little small for me maybe you can help people by telling them how much water it takes to do this and that well so it's funny you know we think how much water you really need you need roughly half a gallon or a gallon a day to drink basically it doesn't sound like very much you probably should be drinking probably should be drinking more particularly in a hot climate probably a couple gallons a day would be really a better guess still not a lot of water but what people don't appreciate often is how much water is used in making other things so for instance this is like energy yeah how much energy do we use to really create have make a cow right you know make a cow that we eat or right or that gives milk it's a lot of energy right exactly so one of my favorite current examples is if you have a nice glass of wine that represents 32 gallons of water that one glass of wine your glass of orange juice maybe only 25 gallons why so much well because you've got a water the grapes you've got to wash things off you've got to process it you've got to clean the bottles I mean there's a bunch of water that's the fresh clean water are you but you're not knitting out for what's left as you know used water drain drainage water great great all that water has been used and has been we get some of it back really not lost for a while but you're talking about the fresh water we use you know the first stage of these processes right but I mean water never goes away the water molecules that you and I are drinking today that are in that bottle the water you're drinking are the same water molecules that were here in the age of the dinosaurs and dinosaurs drank those same somebody drank that water many people tell me who it was I'd like to know I want to remain clean on this I might have been somebody I don't like no but I mean literally dinosaurs were drinking that same water and cockroaches before the dinosaurs and I like the dinosaurs the cockroaches I'm sure so you know the water is just sort of goes around and that's the beauty that actually solar still design really shows you that nice thing that is you put salt water in the salt water evaporates off of out of the pan condenses on the clear plastic dribbles around the sides collects in the bottom and your you've got nice clean freshwater and doesn't matter what was in that salt water with it there could be heavy metals there could be pesticides there could be bugs and all kinds of marvelous isn't it but none of that evaporates out you don't have to filter it you have to process it you don't have to heat it up or anything it's the purest posses H2O exact that's only thing that evaporates out it's only then condenses are you missing something I mean water off water from the spring right water that they advertise this really good bottle water is not just H2O no there are all kinds of other there are small minerals and this right there are small amounts of other things indeed if you get very very pure water doesn't really taste very good to most people if you if you try to drink distilled water it tastes sort of exceedingly bland most people you want a little bit a few little salts a few little odds and ends a thing you'll come up with a little little envelope a little a little pouch or something and you pour these you know granules in there and whoa it tastes great well I mean by the time actually of course the water has run around in this in this plastic sheath that's probably all actually got a little salt spilling some of the earlier ocean water in it and so it's gonna not be absolutely pure actually just one numbers so one of my favorite statsman's well let me sit like I said 32 gallons for a glass of wine 70 gallons sorry 700 gallons to make a t-shirt 2,000 gallons to make a pound of beef or a set of tires that's about the same thing but one of my favorite stats in this is that they give you some some messages by saving water in this and they point out that if for a year each day during the course of a year you forego a glass of milk which takes like 52 gallons or 65 gallons to make a glass of milk and instead drink a glass of beer instead of that milk over the course of a year you will save this planet over 15,000 gallons of water you'll save 15,000 wonderful I know I tell my wife we'll have beer in the house forever it's gonna say get get the kids off of a lot of knowledge I'm doing beer early why is that why is beer so cheap in terms of the input of water well because beer all you're really doing is the water to grow the hops and things and then the water put in to make the hops for the milk you've got to raise the water for the grass water to raise the cow then water to sterilize the milk and pressurize it you know I mean there's a bunch of water used in the in the process every every step of the process is making milk you know I compared this to energy because you know people make the same kind of analysis for energy how much to raise a cow but you know what it's kind of the same thing because what the difference between water that's fresh and beautiful and water that is not so fresh and beautiful is it costs energy to make it fresh and beautiful again it's there as you said but you have to put some effort energy in to recreating the original purity right I mean if that's what you're looking for yeah yeah exactly and I mean nature does it for us all the time the water cycle in nature right water constantly evaporating out of the ocean pure pure H2O through the atmosphere condensing into clouds of course when it condenses it's condensing typically around a little speck of dust a salt crystal something like that so it's no no longer quite pure and then it falls and as soon as it hits a surface then of course it picks up whatever's on that surface any dust any salt any minerals that are soluble and begins to get polluted again right away basically so it's you know but then eventually it finds its way back down into the water table into a lake or a stream then into the ocean then evaporates out again and it just goes on and on forever well the more pollution that we put in the water seems to me the more energy we have to you know invest in clean water exactly I remember when I first heard about Lake Baikal you know Lake Baikal in Siberia one fifth of all the liquid freshwater on earth is in that one place fantastic yes and you know I I mean for a long time for well millennia this was a huge and beautiful source of fresh water but recently and I don't mean more than 10 15 years it's it's had some factories along the coast along the shore and it's not so pure anymore and it's a real tragedy that this huge source of pure water that serves all of Siberia that part of Russia that part of the world is now under attack so I mean I think it all plays it's symbolic all places all freshwater sources are under attack in one way or the other humankind is taken over the planet in every corner and so we have to figure out ways to you know preserve conserve and ultimately reprocess it right and that to me is the beauty of what I showed you there at the start of the video here is a simple cheap low-tech way any anyone can basically make those deals you once you've seen that design you realize oh yeah there's nothing to that right I could I can scratch up some sheet of plastic some something to hold that plastic out into a tubular shape something to make a tray for the middle of it and then I've got it I mean as long as you got some sunlight here's that that's the best kind of technology yeah it's it's not high-tech reverse osmosis kind of stuff although and later on we can talk a little bit about some very exciting developments in that in that line too one one short reference though I remember we did several shows with them this is a local company that went out into the developing world with a device that included just regular plumbing equipment sort of like you know the device we're talking about although it had one valve that was patented and the idea was with regular plumbing pipes they could run water that was you know contaminated on somebody's roof and use a solar old-fashioned solar panel to heat it and and that you get clear water clean water and and this was unavailable in many places in the world but it was only a few pipes that's all it was really no moving parts except this valve which was you know didn't require any maintenance and they saved a lot of lives I think by providing fresh water where fresh water was not available I'm not sure if they're still in business but it was a wonderful idea it was really a community contribution by them they're very interesting things going on still with that kind of technology Dean Dean came in me anything to you sir us first the founder of us first robotics competition yeah guy who invented the syringe pumps basically segway right segway right so hi segway we're gonna take a break we're gonna take a segway we'll be right back you'll see Aloha I'm Kirsten Baumgart Turner and I'm fortunate to be able to host sustainable Hawaii at think tech Hawaii calm I hope you'll join in with us every Tuesday from 12 noon to 1 p.m. to see the interesting people we have to share with you their information Aloha Aloha my name is Josh green I serve a senator from the Big Island on the Kona side and I'm also an emergency room physician my program here on think tech is called health care in Hawaii I'll have guests that should be interesting to you twice a month we'll talk about issues that range from mental health care to drug addiction to our health care system and any challenges that we face here in Hawaii we hope you'll join us again thanks for supporting think tech hello I'm Marianne Sasaki welcome to think tech Hawaii where some of the most interesting conversations in Honolulu go on I have a show on Wednesdays from one to two called life in the law where we discuss legal issues politics governmental topics and a whole host of issues I hope you'll join me one thing I went back we're back after that really lovely segue you wanted to say something more about Dean came in and segues right so he's also now beyond the segue has developed this machine he calls a slingshot and it's a it's a device size of maybe two or three refrigerators a bunch of piping basically nothing really revolutionary but a very clever heat exchange system in it and basically with a using about the power it takes to run a standard hairdryer it can produce a thousand gallons of fresh water a day if you feed it seawater basically wow so it's really an incredibly energy efficient machine because you should be able to do that with solar power or whatever that kind of technology is going to make somebody rich well again Dean came in he is rich he is rich but he doesn't really need the money he's actually trying what he's trying to do is get enough of these machines around the world so that he can afford to produce them en masse and produce them cheaply enough that they'll hopefully only cost a few thousand dollars each and then yeah basically any little remote Pacific Island can probably get one and something to have a thousand gallons a day for not for an island of a couple hundred people is plenty of water you know yeah this is really this is the kind of thing we have to do now exactly we have to you know it'd be terrible to see people dying of thirst she's thirst leads to disease and all kinds of problems and quality of life there is on that list I sent you this morning they point out something like every seven seconds in the world a child is dying from some water-related illness yeah I mean the cost the economic cost of water-related illnesses are astronomical many cases around the world water scarcity is causing far more deaths than wars and and we'll continue to do that the technology is so important and profitable now we spoke before the show about who is it graphene yes graphene if you don't know about graphene it's time you looked up graphene graphene is a what is it it's a layer of carbon atoms right one atom thick and it recently discovered and people are trying to commercialize it now why because it makes for a way better battery so you're going to see maybe not in our lifetimes but you're going to see graphene batteries everywhere and it's really going to change you know we were waiting for some extraordinary development of battery technology it's here and it'll get rolled out and you know it's a sort of nanotechnology kind of thing very much possibilities are unlimited but you mentioned to me that graphene is not the only thing we deal with we are going to deal with that's one layer thick there's also this perforine a membrane that's one what one atom thick one molecule one molecule right basically and it basically is a sort of a specially structured graphene sheet that has pores built into it that are just the right size that they allow water molecules to slip through very easily but because of the properties it doesn't allow the charged salt molecules of the sodium or chloride to go through and so because it's so thin literally they say compared to a traditional membrane if you're graphene if you're purple if you're graphing membrane or a stick of the sheet of paper a standard ultra-thin membrane would be a stick of a ring of paper standard standard today's membrane so I mean that that's the difference is 1 to 500 so and this means it's drawn the whole together and industrial uses exactly and plus you don't need much pressure to push the water through the water flows very easily and that means it doesn't foul up and all the contaminants can be washed off of it very easily because they're not being jammed into it so it lasts longer it's cheaper for San Diego they just put in I like ten billion dollars in your big reverse also some machines yeah I'll be able to use these filters and probably cut their energy use by okay so San Diego is not yet lost no no in fact they could use this yeah they're probably looking at it right now and then I mean the big place where this is going to come into play is in China China has committed in China needs desperately to do desalination China has this huge population on the coast very limited water supplies particularly the north part of the country they're way behind what where they projected they would be on doing desalination and they desperately need to be doing this now to get enough water to run their industries to keep their economy going to keep their population healthy and so they're also and yeah it's interesting that one of our defense contractors are the people who came up with this yeah well sure you know I controls the water as a huge strategic advantage oh yeah and the Marshall Islands will benefit by it and you know as you described them right what about Hawaii what about Red Hill what about you know all we are going to have shortages to our aquifer is not doing that well one of the beauties here is of course UH just got their new EPSCOR grant from National Science Foundation this is a big grant to improve the whole research infrastructure and for five years and 20 million dollars they are gonna actually find out how much water we actually have on a lot of how much fresh water which no one knows that we how many employees as a statement we have we can find that out today all I'm not sure we can all we know right now about water here we can tell you pretty actually how much water we pump out of the ground but we don't know how much water goes in the ground we don't know how much water is sitting in the ground especially because it's porous you know your lava rock is part of the porous parts that are impermeable and no one quite knows how big those porous reservoirs are you find this out yes they're now these guys are gonna be mapping this modeling it and really we'll be able after five years we hope to give a really good much more accurate estimate on it you people say now oh we've got enough water for the next 30 years what do you want do you want to be sitting here 29 years from now one like huh is tomorrow the big day yeah suddenly all the seats are dry so let's let's work hard tonight right try to fix it by the morning yeah no so we should know we should know you know how much water there is and we should be you know every home should be putting these same old kinds of home simple solar stills in you know so you know you can be you off the grid for water for least your key drinking water you know it's very interesting that we have this conversation because the same thing is happening in energy you know it used to be still is mostly is a it's a centralized system right where you have a utility company is sending out energy in various right produces and distributes it now they call distributed energy you can do it yourself yeah and I think more and more it's inevitable more and more people can do that and same thing with water right and it's great I mean and you see this in the electric grid now is a distributed grid here and that's great much more resilient it's much less prone to single point failures single point failures don't mean as much because you've got multiple sources of input now yeah same thing with water systems people should wherever possible now it's not always possible when you're living in a high-rise building clearly you sort of got to rely on that the building's water system which is hooked in the municipal system but again even there there are things to do they can set up catchment systems so at least you're not using good clean pure city water to water the shrubs in the yard right you're using this rainwater and don't have to process it that's water you're saving there are a thousand ways to save water and we need to make that much higher in people's consciousness you bet and you know the problem as in energy is going to be people don't like change they have assumed all these years that the lights would always be on that the although the prices were high they weren't going to get much higher we never any special bills to pay the same thing with water we have good clean water and it would always be there not true and it's not it's not our fault individually even as a community it's just the way things are happening in the civilized right so I was talking a few months ago with some people from southwest of England and they said it was just a couple of years ago they started getting in their communities water bills before that water was free that there was enough water around basically the city the community provided water to all of its residents at no charge and finally they sort of like oh hey like this this stuff is costing us money to get this out get it clean get it to the people we need to start making them pay for that yeah get used to it yeah but you know just like energy the cost of new grid equipment the cost of all that technology that will make it more resilient as you say and give us a more reliable system better quality power which we need for our better quality you know appliances and computer equipment same thing with water we're gonna have to go and buy this equipment and some of this could be high-tech and the more high-tech the more you know the more water it can produce but the more it takes to make the more water extra run more power involved yeah it's not going to be cheap and I think people have to get used to the fact that right now it's cheap but coming you know coming soon it'll be more and more expensive because that technology doesn't come free yeah I mean you watched what happened with the price of oil right it used to be low low low and suddenly it spiked right up back in the 70s think think of water right now as being the pre-70s oil you know and we're coming to that arrow and suddenly that spike is gonna hit yeah okay well the lesson of the show I think is number one drink beer but not too much and you have to be you know the right age for that you know let's not get carried away we're not recommending that anybody not qualified to drink beer should be there we go and to don't drink petroleum it's no good for you absolutely and three be prepared for shortages in water and an increase in cost of water going forward but cheer up Ethan will have the technology he'll help us out we'll have regular updates on the status of water in Hawaii thank you so much Ethan thank you Jay I've been talking to you as always


A clergy in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capitol Archbishop Emmanuel Powerson, has commanded the military for rescuing Major C. Elder Tong from the hands of bandits and calls for collaborative effort in rescuing Lia Sherubu and the remaining Chibok girls kidnapped over seven years ago. While addressing the media after a concentration service held at his church, Emmanuel applauded the gallantry by the military and France at the slow pace in rescuing Lia Sherubu and the remaining Chibok girls. The Bok girl was a test to see if the nation would react, if the world would react. The nation refused to react, the world refused to react, so it has to continue, there's no way you can stop it. The only way to stop it is change of government. The challenge in the misplaced priorities set by the military and government peristals over the years, he said it is never too late for the government to, as a matter of urgency, prioritize the lives of every Nigerian irrespective of position or status. The conflict of interest, that's why the nation is messed up, all the family of the big guns are safe. It doesn't mean that they can't rescue those girls, but they are children of nobody. I'm sorry to say, one man for one month, isn't it a shame, if I feel like crying, if those children were children of relevant people, they would have been rescued.


Various mythologies are being presented as science and the exercise of science and scientific research seems to be exploring the correctness of the mythologies. So we have the cow science which now, IIT Delhi has become the nodal point which will a priori accept that cow's milk is different from all kinds of milk. So the species as the bovine species the number of members of the species milk is same for all of them cows urine which of course if it is not infected should be sterile cannot have any other property. Each of these are being presented not in terms of whether it is valid or not but to find the usage of these things. So we are only to see that it is correct that has to be proved by science examination of the validity of beliefs is not the purpose of research. This seems to be now what is being done budgets are being created for this purpose. There are all kinds of budgets in for instance in Madhya Pradesh the yoga funding will also can be for vastu shastra and for purpose of treating patients. So instead of sending people to hospital we are now supposed to send them to yoga stands and the government is going to fund them. So what it is essentially doing is to also move away from the public commitment it has to health, developing science, developing education and instead of that substituting it with essentially superstition and mythology. Fundamental research actual development of knowledge is being ignored and if you see the institutions today what we had in the 60s we at least had 6-8 institutions in science which are the cutting edge of technology and science in the world. Today we really the kind of budgets required for science for building the IITs bring them up to a certain standard which will be global in terms of research is just not there. What we see in the press today is the scientist cannot speak about science or the scientist is not in a place to adjudicate on matter scientific. All kinds of other constituencies which have little to do with science are given as much space as scientists are and I think this is particularly scary because science is not just very is a very specialist activity. I mean although it is done in very private spaces it is public activity while acknowledging that to ensure good science I mean one has to follow the norms of validation of science itself and this requires a particular kind of expert knowledge. And I think that entire regulatory system of science is being undermined whether it comes to evaluating proposals or whether it comes to evaluation of the work of scientists. The March for Science is a global movement. There is a larger onslaught on science everywhere whether it is Canada. The Scientific Workers Association two years back in England had to come together to basically oppose the fact that you were not allowed to make the findings of scientific research published by I mean sponsored by government organizations. You were not allowed to make them public. Under neoliberalism funding for science overall is declining everywhere. The old enlightenment idea you know Libre Ponce meaning to think freely. Those kinds of restrictions are now being placed on the scientific community by shifting priorities more and more towards economically beneficial and profitable science. Look at the statements made by other groups of scientists from different countries in this March for Science. This is the point they are making that please don't come down on the autonomy of science. Don't reduce budgets of science because if we are really moving towards a knowledge society and then well you can't undermine the knowledge production system. The research system in India was not built by the colonizers. It came out of 40 years of struggle between 1870 and 1905. There seems to be a perception in the present government as to where funds could be spent usefully in research. Basic science research has been pushed way to the back. It's not considered important at all but even if one looks at what is known as applied research or research in the engineering disciplines. That has also receded to the back with neoliberalism comes the idea. This has been with us for several years now close to a decade and a half but has intensified under the present dispensation. And that is why spend money on research when you can buy the technology from abroad. So more and more even in a critical area like defense which this government takes great pride in as being at the forefront of doing. You're not spending money in defense research. You're not directing that research in directions. You have more or less now committed yourself to acquiring technologies and hardware from abroad. Almost 200 billion dollars worth of imports are now in line. And if you do all these imports for the next 15 years there is no scope for any domestic research or development in any of these areas. The Niti Aayog has come out with a three year ten year and a 15 year program which also highlights priority areas for scientific research. And I was amazed when I read that because it highlights things like rainwater harvesting, rainfed crop research. Many areas of this kind which you would not consider research at all which are activities which would spin off from laboratories as extension activities based on knowledge that you already have. The march for science in different cities in the country depending on our strength, depending on time that different organizations have. But almost certainly all the major capital cities of the states they are big marches planned and we will be participating in them along with other organizations. In some states we will be going much beyond the state capitals and going into district towns and headquarters. In any science forum when the issues and theories come then you can question it but there is no scope to question it. What they're placing in the name of science actually there's meddling mythology with science in the ministers also talking in this way which is very much unscientific. They're saying that cow excels oxygen like these types of things are coming. Plains were invented some 7500 years ago which can move not only forward but also backward which can move from one planet to another. And these type of things actually now are propagating and in the name of science what the students will learn, what the ministers are preaching and some yoga have come. Yoga we are not against yoga but all is curable by yoga. These type of things are coming in the name of science that's not true also. So the voice must be raised. You are instructing the institutes that you arrange 30% funds from your students. How can it be possible? Already the people from the common people or the lower middle class people they are out of the higher education and if they will impose it what will be the situation. So the people will join in the marches and the question already they have got the answer. More than 30 cities they will march. They will march in Bengal, Kolkata, in Siliguri, in Guwahati, in Jorhat of Assam, Agartala of Tripura, Elabad and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Meenagar of Uttarakhand, Chandigarh in Delhi, in Gopal, in Pilani of Rajasthan, Rachi of Jharkhand, Patna and Bhagalpur of Bihar and in Chhattisgarh in Durga. In Mumbai there will be marches in Pune and in Mumbai in Maharashtra and Hyderabad and in 8-9 cities of Bangalore till so far we got the news. And many cities of Kerala including Tiruvannapuram and Mysore and Bangalore also will be there. And Chennai and Madurai of Tamil Nadu they will also hold this science march. The students will join and they will be present in this rally in Delhi also. The students from IIT, students from JNU, students from Delhi University and the science organization doctors from AIMS and professors, research scholars, scientists from CSIR from IGIV like that they will come and join and we hope that there will be a big rally. The rally will start by 4pm from Mandi House and it will culminate to Jantar Mantar where it will be converted into a meeting where our scientists who have addressed here they will address there also and we expect that a large number of their colleagues they will come also and speak for the science. The march that is taking place in Delhi on 9th August for this one and a half week earlier we formed a committee India March for Science Organising Committee Delhi in which we also had some people from breakthroughs Delhi Science Forum and some general scientists. We formed a committee together and this is a call from the committee on 9th August in which all the places from IIT, CSIR, lab, JNU, DU from all the places will participate. This is one thing. Second, this is a solidarity with the world community, scientific community. Because this march happened on 22nd April. We were not able to do anything because of some organizational problems. But along with that we also want to express that the problems that developed countries are facing, we are facing the same problem in India as well. So, Indian scientific community are facing the same problem and we are in the solidarity with those people. We are holding the India March for Science Delhi on 9th August. So, already our four demands that we have presented in the leaflet also that allocate at least 3% of the GDP of scientific and technological research and 10% towards education. And the second is stop propagation of unscientific, obscurantist, religious intolerance, develop scientific temper, human values and a spirit of inquiry in confirmation with article 51 A of the Constitution. Ensure that education system imparts only ideas that are supported by scientific evidence. Inact policy based evidence based science.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Power Trading Hour with your host, David White. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, David White. And welcome all to another excellent edition of the Power Trading Hour. As always, it doesn't matter where you're at as long as I'm here and you're on time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. So what do we have going on today? We're up a little bit on the S&P up 14 points although we dipped back to almost unchanged on the bond auction just after 1 o'clock Eastern time. We also have the NASDAQ off about a tenth of a percent down 20 points or so. Dow's up 160, crude oil's up 43 cents, gold's got a $15 pop in it. What doesn't have a pop is, of course, a lot of volume. About 6 billion shares as we get up through these highs. Everybody's got a little bit of fear of missing out, I think. But what is very interesting is we're back up to these highs. The VIX is in the 15s. That generally is a good sign to say that even if you're going to be long or short, you're probably much better off playing options anywhere. You start getting to 18 and they start looking fairly good. And you get down into the 15s here, good. I mean, we had a couple of years where it was like 12. And if you were playing options, they really worked out well. They're almost cheaper or were cheaper in a relative sense of risk than owning the equities. Especially at new highs, everybody thinks the market can only go higher. Generally, if the VIX was going up at these highs, I would suspect that we had maybe a lot higher to go. But a lot of big moves in the market these days are based on people on the offside side of being bearish. There's just not that much left in the tank for bears out here. Everybody's really too scared to pull the trigger on much of those. I've been a little bearish here. I've got a position pretty much in line. Maybe just down just a tad or something. We'll find out. I didn't want to give it much, but today is Options Rollover Day. The end of Options Rollover, generally Monday and Tuesday, was kind of looking for some kind of downside today. Not quite getting it. The question is whether or not they're going to try to drive it up one more time with the very big lack of volume that we have. But just so many stocks not participating, we got a little bit of that in the Summation Index where we saw the market kind of spread out and broaden a bit. But we're kind of back to a great deal of what we've seen before, which is just very, very narrow leadership in the market. We've got a lot of stocks to look at. Give me a call today,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And that's it. Okay. Okay. Two to up 15 points on the S&P cash. Kind of just weakish here, but or up on a lighter volume. Earning's not all that exciting. We'll go through the big ones. We're going to do a little history, get that out of the way, and then get ready for some charts, because we've got a lot to look at. And it's all just a little bit of history repeating. On this day in 1906, Lee DeForest, Dr. Lee DeForest, not the guy from Star Trek, by the way, although it's the only other one I've ever heard of, announces this three element electrical vacuum tube later known as the triode. The triode was able to produce a large voltage amplifying effect when used to amplify weak signals. It will make long distance communications possible for the first time and even loud speakers.  What it does do is take a low signal and turn it into a big signal. There's no extra power that comes out of the ether. It only allows you to really control a bigger valve with a smaller one. And that's all that generally most of these things do. Of course, why this one was used for power soon, they would be using for switching. And that's really where we started to see computers start to develop in the 40s when they were more used digitally. But of course, they didn't last long before transistors came to supplant them. But being able to switch stuff is the heart of everything we do today. And it started all with the triode on this day in 1906. And I have a deforest radio, by the way. It is absolutely a art deco piece of work. The wood is out actually being refinished. And I've got all the electronics sent out to be refurbished. But man, those deforest radios, just a thing of beauty and engineering for its time. But gorgeous. Okay, we're going to get into charts already in progress over most of TFNN. Probably the most interesting one for me technically is that you see T-Mobile and Verizon popping. They are going to offer us a alternate possibility for internet connections. Right now, I'm stuck with a fairly low speed version of Frontier and a higher speed, which I'm using now from Spectrum. But you know what? Not a lot of competition. Prices continue to go higher. I'd like an opportunity to do something different. And of course, T-Mobile and Verizon are announcing today that they have over-the-air 5G, seem to be 6G connectivity for home internet. Haven't seen the pricing quite yet, but this gives them yet another big move for them to go forward. Again, you're not going to make a great deal of difference, I think, in the stock price for a while, because all that stuff takes money and no one likes anybody spending money. They only like people making money in the stock market. But when we look at this, you can see both of them have a nice bounce. But, you know, I used to have in the early days of my trading a load balancing router. And that is that I had two different internet connections, one that was a kind of a lower speed, one a higher speed, because it was not uncommon to lose your internet connection for a while back then. Anyway, it would automatically switch to whatever provider. I'm going to have to start looking for that. That would be very nice to know. I don't have a lot of problems right now with Spectrum. They're pretty good. But that wireless one may come in handy the next big blow. That is a hurricane. Those in boots comes to Florida. We'll be back in a minute. We'll be back in a minute. Educating Investors What's separating you from the most successful men and women on Wall Street? That's right. Information. Having all the information gives us the perspective we need to place the right trades at the right time. The TAS Profile Scanner is the premier market profile based scanner. Powered by its acclaimed TAS proprietary algorithms, this feature rich scanner instantly filters over 2,500-plus global financial markets, such as stocks, ETFs, commodities, futures, and forex. This powerful suite of tools leverages instant trade filtering and strategy formulation to show you emerging trades before they happen.  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Watch online at tfnn.com or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be, TFNN. Educating investors. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. As we return, the wonderful break, of course these breaks probably in the internet age probably aren't a big deal but if you're talking straight it's nice to get a couple of minutes off and get a drink or do something. I'd hate to be on stage for an entire straight hour although I could but you'd probably then have to watch me open up something to drink and maybe even get a snack probably just better off taking a small break. Anyway, Ron wanted to know about Ulta. As I said when it was going into earnings, I was kind of surprised that it missed because man down here they've got lines out the door. So I don't know what's going on, maybe it's different up north. Maybe there's northern kind of all that. Dr. Ma, four little ladies, but you know what, not a big deal. I think, I mean it would have been a nice to be in it, but you might end up with some nice support out here. A great deal of these stocks, like I said on this one before it went in. We're going into a three million share high on August 26th with 700,000 shares. So it didn't come in like a lion. It came in like a lamb and so got slaughtered. Al says as far as we'll be able to get internet about nine miles, about a mile to the tower, I've had bad cell service with the old GSM, but the four LTE is good of a new Galaxy A. Yeah, just depends on what you want. The nice thing would be that you could take your internet with you, I guess, unclear. The antenna, I've got somebody else asking, Joe asking about the size of antenna. My understanding is that it would be about like a small pizza box outside, but you would have to have something outside. It's not going to work inside. And as far as I know, if you are fairly close, one of the big difference between old internet, old cellular packet kind of stuff, and this is 5G, is that you're going to have to be much closer to a tower. And you know, those towers are popping up everywhere. I've got one that's maybe 50 yards from the house. So like I said, I know that it's already a T-Mobile Verizon capable. So I'll be waiting to see and probably try it out. But you know, next big hurricane comes out. The only problem I have with that is that generally these things have battery backups that last about a day. So if we're out of power for very long, you're still going to lose your internet connection and lose your cell service. We had that last time about two years ago now, maybe a little over two years ago. There's been three. I remember that TFNN's office was still in downtown Clearwater and Cleveland Street. So maybe that sets the time better. But yeah, there you go, Al and Joe to two. So we've got that. You've got about half the volume. Generally when you get on Ulta, generally when you get these big moves out here, they're a big exhaustion move. Maybe you get one more day. But when's the last time you saw one just continue down straight? Doesn't happen a whole lot.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Another question. Who do I have for internet service? I went with Mint Mobile for $200 a year. It seems like it. It's incredibly cheap, but it's the data has been there and everything else has been there. And of course, I'm using a 5G phone. Maybe when more people get to 5G, that'll be a problem. But right now, it seems to work fine. And I got that phone that I think a few guys got after my recommendation. Everybody seems to be happy with that so far. The Nord. What was it? Nord something. I can't remember now. Nord one plus. I'll think about it. I'll go back here.<PHONE_NUMBER> is the number. Path at tfnn.com. If you want to send it to me, I am looking in the junk drawer in case you guys get hit by the spam weasel. But we'll keep an eye on it. Anyway, other things going on. Anthem healthcare. Nice pop up here. Again, the government stepped in has been a boom to these healthcare companies by paying for the anybody with COVID at all. You get the big rubber stamp that whatever happened to you. Man, I think Colin Powell had like four different things that was going to kill him. And of course, the headline was died from COVID.  Maybe he had two or three cancers. I don't know what it was, but of course, headline is he died from COVID or complications with COVID and everything else. But, you know, these people were nine tenths there already. But if you stamp COVID on it, guess what? Government's going to send you 40 G's. And it doesn't come out of it. Of course, that whole deal was made to make sure that everybody, you know, all the healthcare system didn't instantly implode with everybody showing up. But what it's really done is make these guys' lives very easy. Because they just put that big stamp on it. And guess what? They cash out. Anthem, A-N-T-M. So I don't know if that's going to change much. Eventually, this is going to turn around. And they're going to be going back to afterpay for people that died from the flu and pneumonia. And probably going to go the other way. But we've got to wait for that, I think. We talked about ASML, a great deal. A little bit down here today. They weren't able to deliver a couple of machines. They said, you know, maybe they make 24 or 30 or 35 of these things a year. They're all $150 million or $200 million. So if you are short a couple of parts, you don't ship them. Kind of a big deal. Long-term, it doesn't change anything. They just deliver them a little bit later. But the question is, do you still have parts shortages? And they still do. And why it's down a little bit. But you know, 709, probably a good place to come back here and take a look at it. What do we have here? Bookings.com. I didn't look and see exactly why be in BKNG. Was it earnings? Couldn't remember. I didn't see any. Any more restrictions and mandates about how high we can jump? Don't know. Maybe someone else knows. Down today, volumes about what it was already yesterday. Are you having fun trading the markets but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with? Become an Apex creditor in the trading markets and join the Tiger's Den trading room only at tfnn.com. The Tiger's Den is an exclusive trading room where successful traders from around the world come to exchange trades and ideas. Join the Den and surround yourself with the sharpest minds in the trading world. 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Okay, we've got lots of stuff going on. A question about AFRM. So we have that from Eddie. From Holdings, Ordinary Shares. What do these guys do? Those guys don't do. Digital Mobile First Commerce in the United States company includes point-of-sale systems. I don't know much about this company. Of course, there's another Silicon Valley firm. Chart looks good. You've got some decent volume in this rise. But the question is whether or not that's everything or nothing. I guess that's as old as they are, which is what, a little over a year. This looks kind of extended. I'll go back to 133 to know if there's anything else. We talked about NVIDIA the other day. What's it like to be able to sell as much as you want and still have four times more than you could ever produce?  In the meantime, you're in this big kind of consolidation where everybody's kind of ready for that. So I don't think there's anything new there. Just look for a test of 230. But I think as time goes on, more and more people are going to chomp on the bit and try to get out front of that. Again, options are incredibly cheap now or should be incredibly cheap. I don't know on NVIDIA. I haven't looked. But I would say you're up at highs. If you're playing for a breakout, go ahead and buy the calls. They're probably going to drop your risk by a fourth of what you have. If you're really looking for the big move, if this breaks 230, it's probably going to 300. I wouldn't be long a lot of these equities at highs, but if you're trying to get the breakout on this, VIX is low, which means your options probably ought to be fairly inexpensive compared to the movement of the underlying. LRCX. Of course, you're not going to probably find a lot of semis that are incredibly cheap with options. This one actually looks fairly good. I still would want this to come underneath, maybe back to 560, and then the next move higher above the 3x3 would be where I'd want to buy it. But that's just me. I kind of like that Wycoff pattern of having it pull back down and signal a low with a retest of the previous low down there about 542-ish. So you got a little bit above bounce. As Wycoff would call that, that is an automatic rally, it's a rally that happens without preparation. Generally, a much better trade is waiting for that to come back a bit. And of course, if you miss it, you miss it. But the idea is to have it pull back at very light volume. Somewhere around 550-550-5-ish. It looks to me, if you get back to a light volume and it starts turning up, you want to hop on. Resistance comes in at about $610, Zach. So we've got that. Get on the line, but at high speed internet for just $50 a month, nothing more with autopay. Okay, that's good. See, hey, someone got it. I haven't seen what kind of equipment you have to have to get the internet and whether they charge you for that. Maybe someone can let me know if they have it. I didn't have a chance to chase it down. Okay, got a few more things here. Just wanted to go through them all. So we got that. Got that, got that, got that. Thanks. Got a couple of those. Got that cleaned up. We'll go back to look at some of these others. I wanted to look at Brinker. It's not on my list. Baker Hughes got up to that high. We've been talking about this one doing well because everybody back on it. They're still having problems. Big dip out here today on this one. But they had been kind of leading the, that offshore well drilling cycle back higher. I got to get something here. Is that a little better? No, it's not for me. Maybe that's better. There, I can hear myself a little more. Anyway, just back to support on this. You did break the previous high with some volume. So you have a chance of going at least and retesting 2766. I don't think anything changes anytime soon, but we'll do that. Got a question from Ben who wants to know about Facebook. Will it change anything by them re-changing their name? In fact, we should have a good contest here. You can email me at path at tfnn.com. What you think Facebook's new name should be? Now that their name is Mud, I don't know where that same came from saying, but I remember my mom saying it. Your name will be Mud. Anyway, you've got to think that, I like to call it fascist book or fake book or a lot of other books, but not Facebook itself, but now that they're in the same kind of league that tobacco companies have been for the evil they do.  They just take their rights. So a lot of what they're doing, you got a little move up here. Is it going to make any difference? No. How many times, what is it? Altria used to be they get together. I don't think it matters at all. It certainly looks like several of the big executives, including Zuckerberg, lied to Congress. The question is whether they'll ever go after them or they can just continue to lie with impunity. I suspect the second is correct. But he lied about what they were doing in the way that they were doing stuff when all the documents leaked from India on how they were doing stuff. And of course, same thing with Amazon.   Anyway, Facebook going to change the name. I've got a few of them. None of them are suitable for the air though. But yeah, I think you're just in a bouncing to downtrend for Facebook. You got a lot of people hating them both on the left and right for different reasons. But you're standing in the middle of the road and somebody going one way or somebody going the other can hit you. We'll be back in a minute. If you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value or you're in the market for a second home or investment property, Tiger Realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the Tampa Bay area to help buyers and sellers make the most informed decisions across all price levels. 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So, yeah, I think you've got a bunch of support back at 304 and 297. So, yeah, I think that's probably more likely that you get a little bit more on the ball here, maybe 350. That sets up a 50% retracement for back. Through to today, you've done a 40% retracement of that big move lower. Are they going to have earnings problems? No, but I think a lot of the lawsuits that are working their way through are probably looking at late October, maybe mid-November before these guys start getting, well, it's not really indicted because you can't throw a company in jail, but you can certainly take them to court. And I think that a lot of these things are just around the corner. I think that's why you already got to pull back on what's fairly good numbers for Facebook, mostly going forward because, guess what? A lot of these things that they did, they're not going to be able to do to make money in the long term. Okay, got any more? Okay. Got a few more things. Got everybody is live. Go back. Okay, we're up 16 on the S&P cash. 158 on the Dow. NASDAQ's down 12. Russell's up 13. Crude Oil's up 89. That's going to be a tough one. Gold up 15 bucks. The big thing that we're looking at there was the bad bond auction, and of course it dipped a little bit earlier, but it had been going down for a couple of days. Coming back a little bit, my guess is the Fed probably coming back and trying to support the bond market a little bit yet today. I suppose I'll take a look because I turned this off so I can get a little bit better look here at the TLT. You're in a downtrend, even with the Dow G today, that suggests you're kind of in the halfway move down. So if you say three bucks is the move and you're 143, we've been looking for this to come back to 140. And that's just a little dip below this October 11th. So whether you're going to go retest the 140, 145, or 140, which is a longer term projection on the TLT, that gets you back there. But there's that gap at about 140 and 50 cents to $1. That looks like it could be an easy, but these Dow Gs tend to be halfway markers in a move if they don't occur at the highs or the lows. And so we shall see. But 140, 66, my guess is we get in there, there'll be a route at least to 139-ish. And that just takes us back. But we've had this big move by the Fed pushing back against that May 12th low. And the Fed has just gone after it and after it and after it. But they're at the point where they're really going to have to be moving back. Powell probably is not going to be reinstated. So if he needs to make the tough decision to be a little bit more hawkish in the next couple of months, I wouldn't be surprised to see that. I'm thinking that he's on his way out already, that he'll do a good job for whoever comes after him by getting a little bit of the excesses out of the market now. But keep an eye on that. Other things going on? Okay. We looked at Branker. No, we looked at that. I wanted to look at Branker. Eat is the symbol on it. E-A-T. Guy was out commenting earlier and none of it good. Owns Outback. Outback? Chili's. I think they own Chili's. Some of those other chain restaurants. Gap down. Higher expenses. Lower customers coming in. Although they made a lot of money. People aren't throwing it at Dash and Dine anymore. But you've got, you know, fairly decent high volume move lower out here today. And, you know, I think they've kind of done it a little bit to themselves. But saying that they have to pay a couple of extra bucks an hour for helpers. That's the kind of times I was out there. They actually, the reason I haven't been back is they made the portions much smaller. I thought, yeah. So I didn't come back. It's probably been six weeks since I've been to the Chili's, although I kind of like their lunch specials. But just haven't gone back. Other things going on out here. CNC. Centine. Nice little pop. A little bit higher. I got to $67.73 on its way to $72. International paper. You never like to see this stock going lower if you're talking about the S&P because this is a company that really makes the bulk of the money on packaging and paper goods. If they're going down, generally the economy is headed lower too. People are not wrapping the stuff up to go somewhere. At least that's been the thought for a number of years. You had higher volume, low yesterday, got a little bit of reversal, but no volume today. My guess is that's going to continue to go on the side. NASDAQ. Big disappointment talking about lower trading volumes going forward back underneath the trend line higher today and on volume. $197 is support, which we've got into today, but just a little bit above. Been in a long-term uptrend, but they're seeing why we continue to see a euphoric market. They're worried that some of the things like Robin Hood and those guys are actually taking volume away from them that they would normally get. What can you say? Maybe there's a little more to it. I didn't go through it, probably go through it tonight, but it's never good to see the indexes turn south on you for their stocks. Did we talk about Netflix? Not much of a move other than it was higher last night. They're getting into a little bit of a walkout and some PR flag, but I don't know how you can let your employees tell you what you can do and know what you can't do. This is my thought. Pinterest and PayPal look like they may have some kind of merger. Pinterest higher, PayPal lower. You're right back into what should be fairly decent resistance, and that is halfway through any big gap like this. They blew up back on July 30. Back in here, probably glad getting cash back. They're talking like this is a done deal. I'm not so sure. We'll come back, we'll look at the PayPal. We'll come back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. 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Hello everyone, I'm Hidetoharashima from Japan. Today I will present on course sharing facilitated by learning tools interoperability tongue twister or LTI, better known as LTI. Sorry to say my research partner Mr. Tom Ross and couldn't make it down to Sydney today. So I'm alone. Anyways, Tom and I have been engaged in a lot of projects. And Tom and I have common desire or needs that is to link moodle size together for various purposes. For example, we want to share resources between each other. We wanted to realize online communication and collaborations between students studying at different educational institutions. Or we wanted to have group instructions of teachers, team teaching, or grade transfer. We want to transfer our grades to each other's moodle sites. So in order to achieve these goals, we've been using moodle networking or Mnet for several years. In most cases around the world, moodle is usually used as separated and isolated situation like this. But if we link these separated moodles together, we can have a power of linked LMSs. This is much powerful and sophisticated than just individual moodle sites. So we've been doing a variety of Mnet activities since 2010. These are some of the projects we have been doing. But around the year 2014, moodle headquarters decided not to support Mnet anymore. That was a shock to us. What? What should we do without Mnet? We can't do all these activities. So we started to look for another tool to network moodles. And we found more sophisticated way of linking moodle sites together. That is LTI. At that time, LTI was a third party plug-ins, but now with moodle 3.0 up, moodle LTI has been incorporated into the core of moodle. So we started using moodle LTI, but for those of you who do not know what LTI is about, well it's an industry standard proposed by IMS Global Learning Consortium and it allows objects to be published and consumed across different LMSs. And this uses a secure link to an external tool and it supports cross-platform integration between different online learning environments such as moodle to Blackboard or vice versa, moodle to edX or moodle and moodle. So these different LMSs can be linked, connected to each other as if they were just one system. Isn't that great? Now we just fell in love with this LTI thing. So in a nutshell, advantages of LTI over MNET are, it's a more secure networking system and activity grays are automatically transferred to your local courses from a distant provider server and it's a cross-platform linking. It makes cross-platform linking possible. It's a great system. And we set up a LTI provider server and both Tom and I let our students get connected to this LTI provider. Then started doing activities such as this, Grand Canyon Project. Here, students from two different schools competed against each other by proposing the best possible travel plan to the Grand Canyon and these students peer evaluated each other and these peer evaluated grades or marks are transferred to our own local grade book. Such as this, these grades comes from the LTI server and it's embedded inside our local grade book. So we are very satisfied, now we are very happy with this thing by sharing one activity through LTI. But we are not perfectly satisfied. Activity sharing is simple and easy, but we wanted to see how a whole course can become an LTI project and shared between different Moodle insights, I mean Moodle institutions. And also we wanted to have greater control of student behaviors and progress through the course. In order to do this, we have to become a course manager. So we started our course sharing project for 2016 and we designed a shared remote course which is consistent of these four components, one pre-questionnaire and one lesson on TOEIC activities. TOEIC means English proficiency test which is very big in Japan and two forum discussions and one post-questionnaire. This is the design of the course. And the beef of the course is the lesson part which consists of vocabulary lessons and warm-up activity and textbook lessons and practice tests and all these grades are accumulated into the total course grades. And this is how the course looks, okay. Daily life activities, daily life is the topic of this lesson. We did two subsequent shared discussion forums.  And this is the second shared discussion on drug sales regulations. Why drug sales? Because one school major in pharmacy and the other school major in economics. So we found the common ground and we had a very excited discussion. And this is the breakdown of the course, great book. Questionnaire 20% and TOIC study 40% and discussions total 40% all together 100% by simple weighted means. And we confirmed that this whole course achievement, grades are reflected back to our local Moodle great book. Moodle great book. This is Tom's grade book. And these are all different activities that Tom is giving to his students. But this here, this one column is coming from a shared course, which is provided by LTI. And as you can see here, the course grade are behaving as if it is just one item in the whole local grade book. This is the beauty of using LTI. So what all these imply are, it was found that LTI works well with not only activity sharing, but the whole course sharing as well. By sharing a course, a team of teachers can give instructions and supports to all the participating learners simultaneously and have control over student behaviors throughout the course. So this opens up to the possibility of team teaching across the universe. And also it makes possible for learners to exploit courses from different LMSs. So we can exploit courses offered in Blackboard or edX. And we can utilize these courses and the grades are boom transferred into your course as just a part of your course. And students shared course grades automatically fed back to the grade book of local course consumer sites as one grade item with preferred waiting. So if you want to give 30% to this course grades, you can set a waiting as 30%. Or if you want the course to be 20% of your own course, you can do that. You can change waiting as much as you want, the way you want, whatever the way you want. And lastly, it is a much easier and more sophisticated solution than sharing courses using a course sharing hub system. Many of you know Moodle Hub or hub courses where you upload your course and then find another course and download into your Moodle. It's cumbersome, it takes time and trouble. But by using LTI, you can so easily exploit and utilize courses offered in different places, remote places. And your students will enjoy collaboration and exchange with students who are living far away from your place. Thank you very much.