Russians not paying their frontline soldiers, robbing and looting of locals likely to rise. Desatisfaction is spreading among the Russian military in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk Oblast, due to delays in their payments, the National Resistance Centre of Ukraine reported. Russian soldiers have been receiving payments irregularly and with delays with some units not having received any payments at all since December 2023. The delays stem from insufficient funds in Russia's budget, corruption among officers, and logistical issues hampering timely cash delivery to operations areas. The lack of payment enrages Russian soldiers on the front lines who resent risking their lives in vain. As a result, some have started refusing combat orders the National Resistance Centre reported. The morale of the Russian occupying forces is declining as evidenced by the fact that the Russian command can no longer motivate its soldiers with money or ideology, the National Resistance Centre said. The National Resistance Centre has warned Ukrainian civilians in the frontline areas to be vigilant as the payment delays could cause a rise in looting and robbing by Russian soldiers. The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories is deteriorating. With the economic and social spheres continuing to be the main problems, the National Resistance Centre said. Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine and their families have increasingly been complaining of delayed salary payments. Sirsky throws the best trained reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to defend Avdiyevka. Ukrainian Armed Forces commander-in-chief Oleksandr Sirsky has sent the last of the Ukrainian Army's trained reserves to defend Avdiyevka, the first city that the Russian Army could capture in nine months after taking Bakhmut in May 2023. According to Forbes, this refers to the third assault brigade of the Army, which has been in reserve in Kramatosk since December. The brigade consists of about 2,000 people in armoured vehicles. We are strengthening the defence line, creating additional firing positions and deploying fresh combat forces, confirmed Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria group of troops in Avdiyevka in his Telegram Channel. Meanwhile, the defence of Avdiyevka, a key Ukrainian Army stronghold in Donbas, has reached a critical point. Russian troops, who have been besieging the city for four months, have begun to break through the Ukrainian defences and are one step away from cutting the main supply route for the Ukrainian forces. The situation is tense. If we said a few weeks ago that it was difficult but controlled, now it is very difficult. And we can even say that in some places there is a critical situation, said Vitaly Barabash, head of Avdiyevka's military administration. According to Forbes, the Ukrainian Army forces had two options, to withdraw the remnants of the 110th brigade from the unprotected eastern part of the city and consolidate the defence line in the centre of Avdiyevka or near the city, or to send in reinforcements and try to push back the much larger Russian forces. As a result, Ukrainian troops decided to stay and fight, which poses a huge risk for Kiev, the newspaper notes. Russian oligarchs may want to bail out Donald Trump. Amid Donald Trump's growing debt among his legal cases, Russian oligarchs may want to bail out the former president, according to US National Security lawyer Mary McCord. Newsweek reports about this. It is noted that in an interview with MSNBC, McCord, who previously served as acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice, was asked by host Simone Sanders Townsend if Trump's financial exposure poses a national security risk. Yes, we are talking about how difficult it might be for him to post this near half a billion dollar bond, but he has certainly plenty of people who might want to bail him out on that. Some of those might be foreign, some of those might be Russian oligarchs, some of those might be people right here in the US, McCord said. McCord added that Trump's fondness of Russian president Vladimir Putin is also cause for concern, saying that there may be other countries that see the possibility of Trump becoming president as a way to earn favours from him. Anytime you are talking about someone who is running for president or holding any elected office and potentially could have some indebtedness or feeling of owing somebody else something, that's very dangerous. Particularly here, as we know his fondness for Putin, his continuing praise of Putin and the way he governs Russia and that's something I could very much see people there who have the means to help him out. There's plenty of other countries that would like to get some favours from Donald Trump, should he become the president again, she said.


You're welcome back. We're still talking things that are affecting us as a people and right now we're concerned about food security. But a reverse way of it if you ask me. Renewed rice smuggling threatens local production is what we're looking at right now. It means that a lot of rice will come from outside the country and local production will be affected. But it's a possibility that it will become cheaper for people to buy. And so we are between the devil and the dark blue sea or the deep blue sea. All right, we're being joined by Abraham Great, a public affairs analyst on the program this morning. Abraham, good morning and welcome to the program. Good morning. Nice to be with you again. Okay, like I was saying in the introduction, this we are between the devil and the deep blue sea because smuggling like they say has returned. And local production may be affected. But on the reverse side, it will mean that maybe rice will be as cheap as it used to be before the blocking of the borders.  Because if the borders are opened, it does not mean smuggling has been legalized. Why is this even an issue at this moment in your opinion? I think Nigeria needs to be a lot more strong on our foreign policy. One of the first things that a country needs to secure is its own border. And the security of our border does not just mean that we put gates there or that we put personnel and gun in there. That is part of a strong, you know, border reinforcement. But even the policies, the penalties, both for smugglers and for custom officers or anyone or police officers that are involved in enabling struggling in itself. So all of that needs to be a lot stronger or a lot. We need to look more into that to make it really, really difficult for people to be incentivized to be able to smuggle. There is no direct proof that the price of rice will reduce because it is being smuggled into Nigeria in the first place. Yes, the proliferation of it means that it might be a lot more surplus. But what is the data behind that? The fact that it is significantly, really significantly cheaper than the rice that is being produced in Nigeria. What we have in Nigeria is mostly greed. When I mean greed, I mean, people find quick ways to make money. People find quick ways to bring any product and services into the country. And because there is no per se, I've been recommended that we have a tribunal that government set up to regulate price. There is no evidence that shows that the local rice produced in Nigeria should be any more expensive than the one that comes from abroad. Okay, but it's not actually that it is because it is produced in Nigeria. Rather, it's because at the time that the federal government stopped the importation of rice and other commodities from outside Nigeria, the supply was grossly inadequate, so it made the price to go up. That's my thinking. But the government, my problem now is the government has said that they invested so much in rice production within the country and now smuggling threatens that local production even in spite of their investment. Do you think the federal government did enough for the production of rice, local production of rice? Because if we have enough in Nigeria, there wouldn't be any need to even smuggle any more in. As I said, Nigeria in many cases, we're beginning to have data, but we still lack the ability to curate accurate data in the country. The federal government has done a lot in incentivizing agriculture, fertilizer in the past government, and I'm sure the current government is going to do a lot more. But I'm saying to you that there is a causation between price-fixing and scarcity in Nigeria, because it is not evident that more production in Nigeria itself, and I'm saying this because I'm an investor in Nigeria also, even in the sector of agriculture, there is no direct evidence that shows that when there is more production of rice in Nigeria, that the price will reduce. The Nigerians' people set prices a lot on their own. And I'll give you an example. You go out to go and buy suya, ordinary suya. The man selling suya will tell you that the price of dollar has gone up, and so he's going to reduce the meat he cuts for you. The one that is selling ram will say to him also that the price of dollar, but when you look at the causation between the transportation or where they raided ram and where they set it, there is no forex. Somebody will argue with me, oh, look, transportation, most of it, there is very little cost in them transporting. Some comes from the north and stuff like that. We need a very stronger policy in price regulation in Nigeria. How will that impact on the economy? Because it seems to be like the price control that we saw in the first coming of Muhammad Abu Hari when he was a military head of state. Price control, army will go into the market and set a price for commodities and all that. How will that, will we separate that from interference on free market? So there is a need. It's not going to be a quick fix. There is a need to re-engineer the public infrastructures in Nigeria. There's also a need to re-engineer the economy and to automate as many things as possible in Nigeria. The lack of automation means that people can just wake up. The market itself, I understand people will want us to have the concept of a free market, but a free market should not be a frivolous market. Free markets should not be abiding on the pockets of the people. There is a need for there to be a central regulation of price of commodity. That means that we have to impute nearly every commodity that is produced in Nigeria into a central system that has to be monitoring to be able to know what is the cost of production, what is the cost of transportation, what is the cost of maintenance, I mean the holistic cost of operation. So the science behind that, as it's been done in Switzerland, means that the government will then know instead of subsidizing fuel, or what have you, the government can then say, you know what? As it's been done in Switzerland or in America, we have a problem here, a shortfall here. We can actually subsidize food, because the most important thing in every country I've always referred to Mansloura Iraqiov need, physiological need, which includes food. If government must subsidize anything in any country, it must include the physiological need, which is food and electricity. Well, I don't know how that will work in Nigeria, I don't know. Everything seems to be tied to the other. For instance, you're talking about the Ram and the Suya and someone telling, challenging you that the transportation and all that. Yeah, okay, what about even the dollar? A farmer goes to farm and he cannot buy farm imputes anymore, because the dollar is up and everything that we are using in the farm is imported. So it affects how much he puts into production of rice, for instance. So rice that should have sold for like 20,000 Naira, because he spent like 10,000 Naira on one bag, it will now sell for like 30,000, 40,000 Naira, because now he's spending up to 25,000 Naira to get that one bag of rice. So everything is interwoven. But in your opinion, where do we start from to begin to curb some of these things? Where do we start from to make ourselves self-sufficient as a country? Because that is what it boils down to. If they're smuggling into the country, it means that we are not self-sufficient, we are not having enough. Where do we start to make Nigeria self-sufficient in terms of food especially? We have to go back to what I said first in terms of, you know, we have to reduce the incentive for people to smuggle in the first place. What is the root cause of struggle? Part of the cause for smuggling, rather, in Nigeria that I have found is that people are greedy, people want fast money, people want to. You know, I'll give you an example of Canada, where I am at the moment. It is extremely difficult for you to bring in many things. Even from America, if you travel, I live about 36 minutes away from the side of New York here. And even in cases, the stress you go through as a custom just to bring in just a little thing. You know, I was coming from the UK just a few days ago, about three days ago. And the custom had to stop you to be sure that you do not have goods that is more than $200 from the UK, including clothing. I was going to bring in, you know, a Range Rover from the UK because I'm just so used to the car and the BMW. When we moved here, the price that they put on both cars was nearly 16,000 pounds for us to be able to bring it to Canada. They're not making it easy for you to bring anything into Canada. Now, what does that mean? That means that at some point Nigerians will have to temporarily eat what they grow. What that also means is that maybe some food, maybe combi or what have you, may not be available in the market for a while. There may be shortage of things that have been imported because there has to be an element of intentionality. You don't only deter people from bringing things in.  Economy should be part of the major, one of the major hub of prosperity in any country. I mean agriculture. Agriculture should build a source of prosperity for many citizens in a country. So we need to be intentional about securing our borders. We need to be intentional about price fixing. We also need to be very intentional about creating consequence and deterrent for people to be able to smuggle banned products into the country. Okay, Abraham, great. Thank you so much for your thoughts this morning. It's been a pleasure having you on the show. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, we've been talking with Abraham Great, a public affairs analyst, talking to us from Canada. And that is how we wrap it up. But before we go, as usual, let's give you the quote for the day. Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the best part of life. That is according to Kari Ryan. We do hope that you're going to have a pleasant meeting. Let's do it again tomorrow. My name is Nyamungu Aghaji.


I have a battery connected to a bulb via a switch. I close the switch, the bulb glows. Open, bulb doesn't glow. Close, bulb glows. No surprise over there. But now let's attach a coil wrapped around some metal in series with the bulb and see what happens. Ready? Three, two, one, close. Ooh. Now we see the bulb takes some time to glow. Why is that? Well, let's find out. Wait, did you see that? Seriously, what is happening? So with the coil in series, we saw that when we closed the switch, the bulb takes some time to glow to its full brightness. From this, we can infer that the current takes some time to grow to its max value, the value given by Ohm's law. Maybe one ampere. Let's say that's the maximum value, which means the coil is for some reason dealing, it's slowing the rise of the current. But why is it doing that? Well, let's investigate. If you pause the animation over here, we know that there is some current running in the circuit. It's not maximum value yet, but there is some current. And that current is, of course, going through the coil. And we've seen when we have current circulating through some coil, it generates a magnetic field. We've seen this enough number of times now. Now what's interesting over here is that this current is increasing. Remember, we are not at the max value. We have paused the animation. The current is going to increase, which means the magnetic field that is produced over here also tends to increase. Ooh, this means the flux is increasing. And we know from Faraday's law that whenever there is a change in the flux, the coil will induce an EMF trying to oppose that change. So over here, in this coil, there will be an EMF induced opposing that change in flux. Okay, that's a lot to take in. So let's slowly write this down. So what we're seeing at this moment is that there is a changing current. Let's call that Di or Delta I. Because of that changing current, because current is producing magnetic field and there is a magnetic flux, there is a changing flux over here. The flux is changing. And we know from Faraday's law that that changing flux causes the coil to produce or induce an EMF, and that EMF always tends to oppose the change. So what does this all mean? Well, if we get rid of this middleman, then this basically means that whenever the current changes through a coil, the coil will produce an EMF trying to oppose the change. Which means if you try to increase the current through the coil, it will produce an induce an EMF and tries to decrease it. If you try to decrease the current, it will induce an EMF and will try to increase it. Remember, the coil has no problems with the current itself. Once the current reaches the maximum value, the coil does not induce any EMF. The coil is happy. It's the change in the current. That's where the problem lies. So whenever you try to change the current through any coil, it will induce an EMF and tries to oppose that change. And this ability to resist changing currents by inducing an EMF is often what we call inductance. And that's why coils are often called inductors. To be more precise, we should call it self inductance because the changing current and the opposition, they're both happening in the same coil. So the coil is sort of kind of like opposing itself. And that's why it's called self inductance. So more inductance means more ability to resist the changes in the current. So it's kind of like an inertia. In fact, that's why inductance is often called electrical inertia. Resistance to change, but change of what? Change of current. Now before we get back to our story, let's think about how much EMF or how much voltage is this coil inducing due to the changes in the current. We can figure that out using Faraday's law. Faraday's law says that the induced EMF in any coil equals negative N d phi over dt, where phi represents the magnetic flux. You can call it d phi b over dt. This basically says that the induced EMF depends upon how quickly the flux changes. If the flux changes very quickly, a very high EMF is induced and it opposes the change in the flux. Now in our case, the flux is generated by the current. More current, more magnetic field, more flux. So we can say that in an inductor or in a coil, flux, magnetic flux is proportional to current. So you know what we could do? We can write this to be equal to negative d i over dt. We're basically saying that the flux is changing because the current is changing, right? And it's proportional, so there should be some proportionality constant. And that constant we often like to call L. And that L represents the self-inductance. So this means if the current changes very quickly, the EMF induced is very high. If the current changes very slowly, EMF induced is very low. If the current doesn't change at all, no EMF is induced. And for a given change in current, given rate of change of current, notice the EMF would be high if the inductance is very high. So if the L value is huge, it means very, very high resistance to changes in the current, very high EMF induced. If the inductance value is low or zero, notice it doesn't matter whether the current changes or not, there will be no induced EMF. So this thing represents the inductance. And very quickly we can work out the units of the inductance. Feel free to pause and try figuring out yourself. So the unit of inductance becomes EMF, which is volt divided by amperes per second. Divided by amperes per second and the second will come on the top. But we often like to write this Henry named after Joseph Henry, who was another person who independently discovered electromagnetic induction. And just like capacitances or resistances, which only depend on their geometry and the material used and it does not depend upon the current and the voltage. Similarly, inductance also only depends on the geometry. Depends upon the number of turns.  The material used over here, but it does not depend upon voltages or currents. And in future videos we'll calculate, we'll see how to calculate the inductance of a coil or a solenoid, but it does not depend upon voltages or amperes. With that now we can get back to our original experiment. So what happens the moment I close the switch? Well, the battery says, hey, I want to increase that current from zero to one ampere as quickly as possible. So there is a DI or DT coming. And the inductor says, uh-uh, I hate changes in current. And so it opposes that change. And the way it does that is it induces an EMF or it produces a voltage. And since it's opposing the battery because it doesn't want the current to increase, the voltage comes this way with a plus on this side and the negative on this side, which opposes the current. But then the battery says, all right, okay, I will grow the current a little slowly. So DI by DT reduces. And as a result, the induced EMF, the voltage induced starts reducing. Not very carefully. I did not say the current reduces. The current is zero to begin with. How can it reduce? But DI or DT, the rate at which the current is growing, that slows down. The battery basically says, okay inductor, I will increase the current a little slower. So the inductor gets a little less mad. And as a result of that, now the current starts growing. And as the current keeps growing, the DI or DT starts reducing more and more. I mean, it becomes smaller and smaller. And as a result, this induced EMF starts becoming smaller and smaller. The opposition starts becoming smaller and smaller. And that's why the current can start becoming larger and larger. And that's why slowly and steadily the bulb starts glowing. And eventually, eventually once it reaches that max value of one ampere, the current no longer changes. DI or DT becomes zero. And once that happens, there is no longer an induced EMF. The inductor is happy because the current is not changing anymore. Remember, inductor has no problems with the current. It's the change in the current that the inductor has a problem with. Yes, I'll keep saying it until you get it. Because this can be confusing. Okay, and I hope you agree that if the inductance value was very high, if this was a larger inductor, then it would take longer time for the current to rise to its maximum value because the opposition would be so much stronger. Okay, so now the current is running at its max value, no longer changing. The inductor has no longer any effect on the circuit. And now I try to open the switch. What do you think is gonna happen? Based on what we learned, can you pause and ponder upon this and think about what's gonna happen if I open the switch now? All right, let's do it together. Let's open that switch. So, so far the inductor was calm. The moment we open the switch, the battery gets disconnected from the bulb and the battery says, let's get the current back to zero. And the inductor goes wild. The inductor says, are you kidding me? I hate changes in current. Now, the DI by DT is negative. The current is trying to reduce and that too, it's an incredibly high value. The current is trying to go to zero almost instantly. The inductor gets mad. The inductor induces a much higher EMF, but this time in the forward direction. Can you see that? Negative times negative becomes positive. So this time the inductor is trying to support the current. Remember, inductor never had a problem with current. It always has a problem with changes in the current. So the inductor tries to maintain the current. But wait, the circuit is broken. There is air in between. There's so much resistance. How can it do that? Well, it generates a huge EMF. Huge, huge EMF is now coming. And as a result of that, it's trying to maintain that current. But wait, where would the charges go? The charges don't have anywhere to go. The circuit is broken. Because the inductor is pushing, pushing, pushing, the charges get accumulated over here. A lot of positive charge gets accumulated. A lot of negative charges will get accumulated over there. And eventually there will be a spark. But the inductor can't maintain that. Eventually DI by DT goes to zero. This goes to zero. And the current dies off. That's the story. And during that last second when the inductor caught really, really mad, the voltage that it generated was incredibly high. It can be hundreds or even thousands of volts. And therefore it's incredibly dangerous to try and switch off a circuit where there are huge inductors involved. It can cause nasty sparks. And so that's the story of inductors. They hate changes in currents. The quicker you try to change the current, the more stronger EMF they tend to induce. And so one of their many applications is to maintain a steady current. If you have some devices which are sensitive to current changes and you don't want them, put an inductor in series with that. It'll take care of it. And we'll talk about more applications when we learn AC circuits.


Are the Nephilim in the Bible? Are they giants? No, not those kind of giants. I mean giants that are formed from the union of angels and human beings. There is a fascination with Genesis 6 to try to figure out is this speaking about actual giants that were the result of human beings having sexual relationships with angels, the Nephilim. Well, I want to tell you what I think, why I feel this way. But I want to say this in the beginning. I am not married one way or the other.  Although I do feel convinced that what I'm saying is true, at least I believe so. But there may be those who disagree. It's not a reason for us to have any issues or any real schisms. Because neither of these views, whichever way you take it, should be an issue that affects someone's soterological views. Now, that being the case, I want to start off in Genesis 6. There are some questions that we have to ask. And there are also some things, some questions, some even more questions that will probably go unanswered. Because unfortunately for us, if you want to get to the bottom of this, there just is not enough to come to a conclusive understanding whichever side of the argument you're on. So because we don't want to violate what Paul says to do, not to exceed what the text says, and we don't want to add or take away, let's just be comfortable with saying, in the end I believe this, but I'm not totally sure. So that being said, let's go to Genesis 6. Starting off in verse 1 says, Now it came about when the men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he is also flesh. Nevertheless, his days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were also, or I'm sorry, the Nephilim were on the in the earth in those days and also afterward. When the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them, those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Now a couple of questions immediately come up and we're going to address these and try to, you know, be as detailed as we can. But again, there's just not as many scriptures to conclude one way or the other as we would like to, but we'll do our best. So let's go back to it, chapter 6 verse 1, and it came about when men, so we're speaking about men, that's where I die, so we never talk about men, when men began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, daughters were born to these men. I think that's important. He says that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Now the question is going to be what is meant by the sons of God? And so when we look that up, there are times most often sons of God does refer or sons of God does refer to angels, but does it also refer to human beings? The answer to both is yes, and yes, it refers to angels as it also does refer to men. Now we're going to have to ignore the passages in Genesis 6 because that's what's debated. Is Genesis 6 speaking of angels or is it speaking of men? And so let's type in sons of God and let's go and look at the different accounts where the Bible brings up this term. We go to Joe 1.6 and says, now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. Now is that referring to angels or could it refer to men? And I've heard it done both ways. Most folks, most guys will believe that it's speaking of angels, but there's also the possibility of this being men bringing their offering before the Lord. Is that possible? Well, the Scripture doesn't conclusively say one way or the other, just that Satan shows up. Remember, this is a time where Satan has been put out of heaven, and so that could follow. Here's the other thing that we need to ask ourselves as we're thinking about this term, sons of God. Where in the Scripture does God, would he ever refer to fallen angels or demons as sons of God? Because to say sons of God implies or refers to God himself being of God derived from or in with or of God. And so to say demons, these fallen angels would also be considered sons of God. That can be a little bit problematic. Going back to it, Joe 2.1 also says again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. So now, is this him them bringing gifts? Could be or them just showing up or just them being there or could be angels? I don't have a problem either way. But again, if these are angels, these seem to be good angels. These seem to be the angels who have not fallen. And so to call them sons of God, that makes sense. Whereas Satan would be distinct from sons of God. There's a reason why I'm bringing this up and I'll come to that point in just a little bit. Also, Joe 387, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Are these angels? Again, I believe these are angels. I'll go with that. I won't be in the minority and think that sons of God's early refers to men. But I can see where they're coming from. But in this case, I do believe that just like the first two examples, I think these are actual angels. Now, there are also examples in the New Testament where this term shows up.  Those who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. Same thing in Romans 8, as well as Galatians 326. Someone might say, yes, but that's New Testament. Now remember, God doesn't make a distinction in terms of what he calls someone, whether it's in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Now, we might think so because the books have an actual division, but God does not. Now in the Old Testament, there's also a couple of other passages that we need to look at as well that also bring up this term, sons of God. In Psalm 291, it says, and ascribed to the Lord, O sons of the mighty, ascribed to the Lord of glory and strength. And so here we see the sons of the mighty. Well, this term, sons of the mighty, or the word, the word that's used here, the word mighty is elhim, which is the same word for God. So here we see the term, sons of God. And this is clearly speaking about men. Also, if we look in Psalm 89, 6, the same thing for who in the sky is comparable to the Lord, who among the sons of the mighty is like the Lord. Now the word again, the word for the, the Hebrew word for the word mighty here is the same word for God. So who among the sons of God is like the Lord? So there are cases, examples where the term son of God or sons of God relates to human beings and sons of God relates to angels. Well, I think the point is though that if you are a son of God or sons of God refers to those that are following after, it's always referred to those who are godly in their behavior or at least are ascribed to be and should be godly. And so that goes back to the point that I asked earlier. Where do we see in scripture fallen angels, demons ever being called sons of God? So that doesn't bode well if someone wants to think that Genesis 6 is referring or calling these fallen angels, these demons calling them sons of God. Now as we go back to it, let's go back to it again, he says that now it came about when men began to multiply on the face. And I said, we need to focus on or remember the fact that he's speaking about men, Adam. And he says they were born to them daughters who were born to them. So as men multiplied, daughters were born to these men. The question is what's happening just prior. And I think it's vitally important that we look at that. It's important to see what's happening before we get to chapter 6, what's happening in chapter 4, chapter 5. Remember, this is after the fall, and then we are dealing with this man named Cain, obviously Adam and Eve's child who kills his brother. So then now as we get back to chapter 6, we see that mankind is multiplying on the face of the earth. He says that the sons of God saw the daughters of men. We're beautiful now. Are these angels or falling angels who would kind of oddly be called sons of God? Or are these men who are falling after the godly lineage of Seth, who are seeing the ungodly lineage of Cain and saying that they are beautiful and then marrying them? Because remember, God always has a principle where he does not want his children, those who are following after him or who he wants to follow after them. He didn't want the godly line to go and marry the ungodly line. Remember, he didn't want the children of Israel to enumerate with any of the kentazites, the genusites, the hittites, canaanites, amalakites, any of those folks. And there's a reason why I brought up this term, kentanites, because that's going to also help to kind of maybe understand a particular point, but God has never wanted the ungodly, I'm sorry, the godly to marry the ungodly. So the question is, is that possibly what's happening here? It's possible. Regardless of whatever side you're on, you'd have to say at least that's a possibility in what's being spoken of here. He says, saw that they were beautiful and took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. The question is, took wives for themselves? We're going to deal with that part in just a little bit as well. Then the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever because he is also flesh. Nevertheless, his day shall be 120 years. Interestingly enough, it seems though God's main focus, his anger is, or his disappointment, is towards mankind, towards flesh, and not so much if these are actual angels, not so much with the angels, these fallen angels. That didn't really kind of seem like it's in keeping with God. Could be wrong. This is just me, you know, just noticing something, making an observation. But his issue is with the flesh, with mankind. He says, My spirit shall not strive with man, Adam. That's why I made the point earlier in verse one about Adam, about man, forever because he is also flesh. Why would you bring him? He is also flesh if this is an issue where demons, fallen angels are interacting, taking women who are weaker and who are less than angels, who are taking them and abusing them or taking them as wives. Why would there not be this description of God's anger towards them? That's also just at least an observation interesting. Verse four, the Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward. That's another interesting point. They were there before, or at least in those days, and they were there afterwards. And so I don't want us to miss that point that they were there at that time, but also afterward. We're going to come back to that in just a little bit. He says they were on the earth in those days and also afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old men of renown. This question right here, this statement, mighty men who were of old men of renown. That's odd. That is odd. No, by the way, the word that's used here for men is for the word male, and this is plural. So that's another indication. This is why I lean towards this could not be. These are not angels because he's speaking about these were the children that were born of them. These were men. These were men of renown, mighty men. The word that's used here is gabbarim, which is the word for a valiant or mighty man of old. That doesn't seem like he's describing angels or fallen angels or the offspring just regular men because he says these are mighty men, men of renown, men of old. Could be, maybe he's speaking about the offspring and just calling them that. I don't see how that could fit though. And as we go forward, verse five, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man, and the word here is Adam, man was great on the earth. Not the wickedness of these fallen angels, these demons, but the wickedness of man and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually about these men. And I think he's also impugning even those from the line of Seth. The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart. And so he says that I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land.  Is this a result of or also a byproduct of angels having sexual relationship with women, with human women? Now a couple of things that need to be brought up because it says that they were on the earth not just at that time, but they were also on the earth afterwards. How could that be? That just seems like a question that we need to explore and answer. How in the world are these giants, these Nephilim, how do they also live afterwards if the flood comes and all of them are destroyed? Well, let's go before we figure this out. Let's do some investigating. Let's go and look at the scripture. Let's look at numbers 1333. As a matter of fact, no, let's start in 32. This is after they get this report. It says, so they came out of the sons of Israel, a bad report of the land which they have spied out. Remember, they're going to the land to spy on the land they're going to go into. But there's someone or something or some big people that they see in the land. And the report says that the land which we have gone in, spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants and all the people whom we saw are in are men of great size. That's important. There also, we saw the Nephilim. So the Nephilim are still there when the children of Israel are going to go into this land. How are they still there? Notice what it says, the Nephilim, the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim and we became like grasshoppers in our own site and so we were in their site. So the Nephilim are still there. But wait a minute, I thought that the Lord destroyed all of mankind and then which would include the Nephilim during the flood. The only ones who could have, who lived was Noah and his wife, his three sons and his three daughters, and their three daughters, their three wives. So how then do we still have the Nephilim? Well maybe the Nephilim are not byproducts of angels and humans cohabitating or having relationships. Maybe it's just a byproduct of men and men having relationships, wicked men and supposedly or those who were intended to be godly men having these relationships. Maybe it's just human beings getting together and there were some giant human beings. Which probably shouldn't be too hard to believe because yes, it's hard to believe that there were large human beings of this sort at that time. But then again at that time we also had people that lived a lot longer than. Remember the lifespan of human beings starts dropping but it hadn't dropped totally and completely. But here though we're talking about at the time of them going into the land and we're seeing giants still. Now the question is, are there any more descriptions of these people from Anak? Well let's go and look and see. We're going to type in the word Anak and let's just see where the word Anak is. In numbers 1322, we see it there, when they'd gone up into the into the Negev which is the south, they came to Hebron where Ahimun, Shishai and Taomai the descendants of Anak were. Now Hebron was built seven years before Zolan and so we're going to see. So we see these Anakim, these people of Anak there as well. Let's drop down same thing in numbers 13, 28 and 33 also in Deuteronomy. People great and tall, the sons of Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said who can stand before the sons of Anak. These people are now they are they are known for again these are mighty men just like we see described in Genesis 6, Joshua 15 same thing and we see let's go to the middle of it according to the command of the Lord Joshua namely Kirath Arba being the father of Anak that is Hebron and Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak. These are those three names that we mentioned earlier in numbers. Joshua also 2111 same thing judges 120 then they gave Hebron Hebron to Caleb as Moses had promised and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak. So the Anak, Anakim they're still there. So we see these giants these large people still in the land after the flood and there is no mention of angels or fallen demons fallen angels or demons coming into or having sexual relationships with women. We see men and women human beings and then the offspring of them still being these giants obviously that everyone everyone wasn't a giant but we see a lot of them and they are known of they are valiant men mighty men just like what was spoken in Genesis 6. So now the question still needs to be answered. Where do they come from? How are they still there if they were destroyed in the flood? Well remember I made the statement that the sons of God would be those who would follow after God who are basically faithful obedient to God just like the angels to call the angels who are faithful and obedient to God we call them sons of God we call men on the earth who are faithful and obedient to God we call them sons of God but then we have the sons of men where does that term come from? Is there a should we look for the Bible in the Bible where the term sons of men shows up as well and maybe that will help us to get an indication as to what perspective because we focus oftentimes in Genesis 6 on the word sons of God versus the daughters of men daughters of men sons of men it would be the same thing so what does the Bible have to say about those sons of men? The first place we see this term sons of men again this is also parroting off of the daughters of men in Genesis 11.5 and notice none of these are speaking highly of these people sons of men the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built and this is important to understand who are these people that built this tower who are they descended from these are sons of men these are wicked people and that is important as we go down even to 2 Samuel 7 14 because I will correct them with the right of men and the strokes of the sons of men 1 Kings 8 39 he says um then here in your head in heaven you're dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways whose heart you know for you alone know the hearts of all the sons of men again not speaking highly of them he says uh you uh you know for you alone know the hearts of the son of men the second chronicle 6 30 speaking about Israel Psalm 4 2 oh sons of men how long will my honor become a reproach and on and on and on we see the term sons of men this derivative of men is to imply wickedness not godly but when we speak about sons of god it is to to imply obedience and faithful to god in other words godly now I asked a question as we saw at the very beginning just 11 5 who came who built who's in charge who's who are these people that he's speaking of in just 11 5 that are the sons of men well obviously these are ungodly people we hear names such as Nimrod and so forth we hear these names we hear the name Tubal Cain um these descendants ways that weren't they destroyed yes and no this is where we're going to do a little bit of fleshing out some of the Hebrew this word here you heard this name before in the English we'll say Cain but over on the right his name is Cain this is Cain this is how you say his name in Hebrew oh by the way and by the way if we as we keep looking at it Cain Cain Cain why am I bringing up Cain Cain was destroyed well it doesn't seem a little bit odd and we've covered this before in the Bible said it but it seems odd for us to even mention people like Cain people like Tubal Cain people like his descendants people who were metal workers or shepherds or or artists why would we mention those people if every last one of them and they were were going to be destroyed because anyone that would do the same thing thereafter didn't get it from them they would have to start this all over why are they being mentioned well it seems to be seems to be that there must have been something about them that still survives in some way shape from a fashion something about or something of Cain still survives how do I know so well let's go to numbers 24 21 and I want you to look at this this word that's why I used this this name of these people earlier numbers 24 21 and he looked at the kinnite and took up his discourse and said now I don't want to go any further I just want to look at this word kinnite the word for kinnite is the exact same word for Cain Cain the reason why that's important because that's how we that's how we get these names the kinnite the amalekites amalekites are derived from amalek same thing with the Moabites from Moab Amalites from Amal this is where this name kinnite comes from but wait a second Cain is not around how could there be oh by the way I just want to show it again go back to the word Cain so that you can see the word Cain is the same three words three letters that are used for Cain are also there for the kinnites put it back on the screen for the kinnite the same three words with the uh with the uh the yad at the end to indicate the ight part so we have Cain and Cain's descendants how in the world could that possibly be because all we have we do have Noah and his wife and we have Noah's three sons but the question is where did Noah's three sons get their wives from and oh by the way who are the people that are building the the tower of Babel who have inhabited this city these are descendants of Noah's son Ham who yes they're from Noah and his wife but Ham's wife is not so is it possible that Ham's wife is a descendant of Cain remember God was upset that the sons of God if this is a godly line of Seth which uh is where Noah would come from is which is where Ham would also come from began to see the daughters of men which would be Ham's wife who may have possibly been a descendant of Cain some way some shape from a fashion a kinnite legacy is still there some way shape from a fashion and so could this be what God is referring to in Genesis 6 because remember all throughout Genesis 4 5 6 the issue is marrying or being with people who you should not be the godly being with the ungodly and so it's just interesting of note now am i being super definitive about this no but it's just pretty interesting the fact that Cain and Cainine are the same names and you get this kinnite from Cain kinnites not kinnites but kinnites comes from Cain it's just interesting and so that might actually be what God is speaking of in Genesis 6 now before we deal with this more I don't want to leave Genesis just yet I want to bring up something that God brings up and you'll see why in a second but in Genesis 1 20 as a matter of fact all throughout Genesis 1 but as he's speaking about plants and vegetation he says that they're going to bring forth vegetation after its own kind and then same thing when it comes to animals in Genesis 1 20 then God said let the waters team was swarming swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of heavens God knows what he says though God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves which uh with which is the water swarms after their kind and every wingbird after their kind so everything that was created was created after its own kind therefore it could reproduce after its own kind what's the point of that that means a snail would reproduce another snail a giraffe would not reproduce an elephant but after its kind another giraffe same thing with human beings after its own kind now why would I bring this issue up also about something being after its own kind well there's a question that's brought before Jesus in the New Testament so let's go there to Matthew I'm sorry mark 12 24 uh and he says the the question is regards to a man who a woman I'm sorry whose husband died and she ends up marrying the other brothers and the question was in heavens whose wife will she be and she's answering verse 24 um is this not the reason you are mistaken that you do not understand the scriptures or the power of God for when they rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven so he seems to equate that angels are like or men are like the angels in heaven women men and women are like the angels in heaven neither marry or are given in marriage which means wait a second if we go back to Genesis 6 then do we also extrapolate that and apply that to the angels then they neither married nor are given in marriage and what does it say in Genesis 6 that the sons of God saw the the daughters of man and they were beautiful and took them as wives how was that possible that these angels would marry these daughters of men the and then have them as wives that doesn't seem in keeping is that I guess kind of in a funny way that they want to sit down they want to settle down with these with these human women I don't think that's the case but even more vividly Jesus makes this the same statement but as further clarified uh or more detail is given in Luke chapter 20 let's go to verse 34 Jesus said to them the sons of this age marry and are given in marriage but those who are considered worthy to attain to the age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage why for they cannot die anymore because they are equal to angels and are look what he calls them and are sons of God being sons of the resurrection so he calls these godly people who are in heaven he calls them sons of God speaking about human beings and he says they are equal to the angels they neither marry nor are given nor are given in marriage and so the question is how then can someone come back and say that these other angels they do marry they have the DNA the ability to procreate and one of the questions that has to be asked is if angels could do that then why can't they do that now and were they doing so even up to the time of David when we see him fighting these philistine giants who by the way are related to the anarchy who related to anarchy we see this also when they go into the land we see anarchy who's also the Nephilim and so what's going on then were they still did we still have angels procreating with human beings this is why it doesn't seem at least for me this is why I don't believe that he's speaking of angels having relations with human beings as a matter of fact other than this particular passage we don't see any angels having interest in human beings sexually now we do see humans having the same interests actually but the angels that were there in Sodom and Gomorrah they had no interest in the human beings so we just don't find it spoken of throughout the scriptures and that can be a problem now there is a passage that people do bring up that say you know what I think this is speaking of angels who did the wrong thing and God has now cursed and which is why we're not seeing these these angels having sex with human beings anymore look what it says in Jude 5 now I desire to remind you though that though you know all things once for all that the Lord after saving people out of the land of Egypt subsequently destroyed those who did not believe and angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper boat he has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day is this speaking of fallen angels well if this is chronologically speaking he's saying this is after coming out of the land of Egypt so that so this is after what we read in Genesis 6 let's keep reading just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them since they were in the same way as these indulge in gross immorality and went after strange flesh and this word strange flesh it's it's the word strange is used here is the word heteros which means other so they went after other flesh and exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire I can see where someone would think or say that these were angels who left their proper estate and then went to human beings I think more unlikely what actually happened was because we know that there are demonic influences I think there was some demonic influence here in Genesis 6 just like there always is just like we see in the garden in Genesis 3 I think these were men who did have some sort of demonic influence obviously and these sons of men I'm sorry these daughters of men and their fathers and their mothers and their whole civilization these were people who who live in a demonic sense in a demonic way and then the men or the sons of God human beings would also have these relationships so these this interaction between the two would occur and I think you would see this this ungodly offspring who do not serve the Lord but again there's far more questions that need to be answered to come to any sort of conclusive proof as to what they are but you're hearing the reason why I believe that they were not angels because again God would have to get God would have had to been the one to give them the DNA to produce angels are not like us they have totally different bodies they are not physical in nature like us they can take on different appearances and so forth but still they are not human beings because God says that we were created after our own kind and so the question gonna be well the question is gonna be something that we don't have a lot of the answers for and so for that reason I see that now I know there's a lot of people who are kind of in a hubbub about large beings being found or being seen and so forth no no actual conclusive proof no footage and so forth and people wondering are these actual nephilim running around for me the answer is no there are no nephilim running around I don't think that there are any angels who would do so I know there are a lot of folks who want to say that demons are still sleeping with human beings today but again to me that's just not in keeping with the scriptures I could be wrong but for me this is the reason why I believe so not love to hear you always reason I'm pretty sure I'm gonna hear a lot of reasons as to why I'm wrong which is fine but just remember whether I'm right whether I'm wrong whether you're right whether you're wrong or your neighbor is right or wrong this is not an issue that we're gonna fight over because none of this has any sort of salvific inferences towards us amen


Good morning everyone. Myself, Dr. Navish Sharma from the Panagan Medical College and Hospital. I'm here to present my paper on city finding in COVID positive patients. Ames and objective of this paper is to estimate the typical and the typical chest findings in the COVID-19 RTPCR positive patient for better assessment of the role of the chest in the COVID-19 management. Introduction to the novel coronavirus first reported in the Wuhan China in December 2019 and the disease is rapidly spread throughout the world and declared pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 7 2020 on 12 March 2020. It is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome that effect both upper and the lower low and present cases are typical or the organized pneumonia. And for diagnosis for rapid diagnosis early treatment of the patient and more importantly for quick isolation of patient to stop the chain of the transmission. Standard technique for diagnosis of COVID-19 patient is the RTPCR but because of its unavailability or because of its false negative results and many countries do not have any resources to conduct RTPCR on a large scale. So imaging finding has to be done and imaging finding can be done in RTPCR negative patient and result can be achieved significantly faster and offering a potential role in supporting rapid decision making for the treatment and a solution of that patient. And the choice is also a debate whether we have to do chest x-ray for the CT but chest x-ray having a screening modality because it not only giving the faster result but it also reduce the exposure to the other patient in the staff. However chest x-ray having its own limitation it does not rule out the COVID-19 pneumonia. CT on the other hand show more sensitivity than the RTPCR chest x-ray and it help in the early diagnosis better assessment of the diseases change and all the findings that we'll describe later can be seen very early in the disease course so it will help in isolation and treatment of the patient in a very early stage. Material and method this is a prospective study that is done in our college and total 100 patients were taken and all the patients underwent for known contrast just sitting in a radiology department using semen 16-scopes channel scope and all the volumetric chest CT were assessed at the lung window 1500 ww and 1500 length and medicinal window 400 window window width and the 60 window length with using 2D coronal and societal plane for better assessment of the extent of the disease. Imaging findings are analyzed by two radiologists with experience of the 10 years and the six years respectively findings we will describe later. And this is the CT severity score based visual score will give score of 0 to 5 and this describe the involvement of the lobes from 0 to 5 score and total score is from 0 to 25 0 there is no involvement 25 there is a maximum involvement is there and this is a result 100 patient out of 100 patient the range of the age is 22 years to 86 years and the mean age is 850 years of age and this table describe the age and the sex distribution of the patient and this table describe the characteristic findings that we will find in the chest CT of the patient of the covid positive patient most common is ground glass opacity followed by the consolidation followed by the reticulation crazy paving appearance sub plural line and like findings like mediation lymph adenopathy not used literally fusion inverted hello sign hello sign and pericardial infusion they are less commonly seen and in our study usually hello and the pericardial infusion is not even seen in our patients and this study will show the involvement frequency of involvement this table show the frequency of involvement of the lobes and the CT severity mean a number of lobe affected and gg and consolidation relation whether they present along with each other or they present separately most common finding is gg usually peripheral predominance and less commonly have central predominance and sometime neither have central and the peripheral predominance like in this image we can see there is a peripheral predominance of the gq and in this image we can see in first image we can see there is neither a peripheral and the central predominance and in second image we can see the gq along with the problematic changes and in this image we can see multifocal patch involvement of the ground glass opacity and arrowhead show the sub plural linear opacity and this is an image exit in the coronal image which will show a diffuse involvement of the gg of the all the lobes of the lung and giving the total security score of 24 out of 25 and washout appearance is given consolidation is the second most common involvement in the disease of the covid positive patient and it is usually a lower lobe is involved with posterior in the peripheral predominance like shown by the arrows and arrowhead blue arrowhead will show the vascular enlargement now the discussion with discussion will see that rtbc is the world standard but chest it is a vital component in diagnosis allows them for patient suspected of having covid-19 infection indeed rtbc are having limitation using some center and the possibility false negative results the national health commission of people republic of china have encouraged diagnosis based on the clinical and the chest city finding alone chest it is more sensitive diagnostic tool in our symptomatic patient with sensitivity 98 percent as compared to rtbc are in the chest x-ray it is also in better assessment of serative covid-19 pneumonia by cities for the school findings that are consistent with our study and they are described by the various study will giving the name of that study which conclude every finding we will find in our patient like most common finding that will find in our study is the gg usually gg usually show bilateral peripheral and patchy involvement of the lung that is also seen in our study like in this we will show the bilateral patchy peripheral involvement of the lobes by the gg second most common finding is the reticulation it is mostly caused by the lymphocytic infiltration of the interstitial tissue with interlobe and the septal thing other finding is the crazy paving pattern crazy paving pattern is the gg along with the interlobular or interlobular septal that is superimposed over the gg like in this we can find the gg there is along with the interlobular septal in in this exhale city we can see the ground glass of basically superimposed septal thickening giving the crazy paving appearance by shown by the arrows consolidation is the third most common finding which is seen in our study and this is an exhale city we will show the consolidation shown by the red arrows involving the bilateral mainly the lower lobe with posterior and the peripheral predominance this is also exhale and anansity which will show the sub pleural curvilinear lines as shown by the arrows and arrowhead above show the ground glass opacity and there are bronchic tessus also sub pleural transparent line and vessel enlargement is also seen in our study and this exhale and anansity will show the bronchic tessus changes shown by the arrowhead and that second exhale and anansity will show the sub pleural transparent line between the area of the gg and the visceral pleural consistent with sub pleural transparent lines and this image will show the vascular enlargement other finding that is medecinal lymph adenopathy halosine pericardial effusion were not noted even in our patient and there are also limitations that most of the patient will be doing city already received their treatment and patient underwent our CT is mostly the ill patient that will undergo that image to know the severity of the disease like in those two CT we can see the reverse halosine thank you that's that's all from my side these are my references


Bihar has witnessed a series of criminal tensions recently. To understand the dynamics of the flare-up, we have caught up Mr. Ganeshwal, senior journalist, who runs his own web portal called CityLife. What is the dynamics? Who have taken advantage of the situation and who lost their political career? Let's understand with the senior journalist. Sir, can you tell us about what has happened in Bihar? Who has got the political advantage? Who is sandwiching in the middle of this whole episode? Which two beneficiaries do you think? Mr. Ganesh, what kind of a state has been peaceful with no history of such violence? It was very close. The conspiracy to spread tensions was very ingenious. It was made as a conspiracy. And it was made as a political conspiracy. And it was chosen by the people in 2019. It was not possible for the country to do such a thing because it was not allowed by the government, the state, the state and the government. So Bihar was made as a soft target. And no one designed this way to spread in Bihar. And it is not like the government did not know about this. Mr. Ganesh got to know about this. Mr. Ganesh started saying this a few days ago that Bihar has to save himself from being pushed into tension. He had a hand in the paper. Yes, he was saying it with a strong hand. And he was sitting with him. He was also saying that I don't know what people are thinking next to me. So that means he was doing all this in a difficult way. This is a political thing. So now you are seeing how the political conspiracy is going on. About the sand beach and the political benefit. If you look at today's struggle, you can say that the struggle is of India versus Bihar. Bihar is of Mahagatvandan. But in these days, you are getting to see something else. You have to see how the future is going to be. But one thing is that the political parties of Dharmik Dhumikran tried to play the Hindu card in Bihar. And they want to take advantage of this in 2019. Because at the end of the election, all the basic issues of the country want to be gone. And the HMQ, which we call Hindu-Muslim questions, Hindu-Muslim debates, they want to fight it. So you know who needs to be benefited and who needs to be defeated. But Bihar's people have disobeyed this conspiracy. And this is why they disobeyed it. And this is why they disobeyed it. Because the majority of the people of Bihar, the majority of the people of Bihar, the majority of the people of Bihar, didn't support these riots. These riots are at their place. And the people are standing on their stand. If the population of Patna is 25-30 lakhs, and 5,000 people go down the street, then you can understand that they are not getting support. And this time you must have seen, that wherever there are these types of riots, I am saying again and again that they are engineered. They were in a district where there was no expectation. And Rangabad, there was nothing. How could it be there? Roshra. A very small city. Anumandilga. So many family members. Not at all. But you chose there. Navada was a little focused. Because of other political reasons. Munger. But you will see that wherever the government is in power, there, there is no tension. The tension was stopped after increasing. And one more thing you will see, people are fighting to fill the tension. Someone's marriage was going on with the police. So they took it out of anger in a different way. Someone's marriage was going on for the land. Someone's marriage was going on to build a temple. Someone's marriage was going on to reach near the mosque. So all these things were engineered. Where to speak, where to put the slogan. But the people of Bihar should be thankful. They have saved Bihar from burning. And the people of Rajniti have given a sign that Bihar is not going to come to your house. You said a very simple thing. An engineer was manufactured. He was made to polarise the society. You keep an eye on the state of Patna's Bihar. What do you think are the forces? Who will benefit from such tension? What is the role of Nitish Kumar in this episode? What is the benefit or the loss of Nitish Kumar? And on the other hand, there is an alliance of Congress and RJD. What is the benefit or the loss of Nitish Kumar? The word of Nitish Kumar is that he is a gang member. He tried to stop the gang, and try to stop the gang. The political mindset of the others, and those who take time and effort, you don't think about it as much. But Nitish Kumar understands the mind of Bihar. And at least he is not a gang member. And he is in this matter with power. Now, as far as the benefit and loss of Bihar is concerned, you also understand that the Hindus who play the Hindu card, they were trying to polarise it. And on the other hand, there are the people of Mysamikand, and the people with them. So, the attempt was that the communal tactic was like this. As long as Jai Sri Ram was said, nothing would have happened. It was because of Jai Sri Ram. As long as you used to say Jai Sri Ram, it was very love. As long as you engineered and said it, it was very love. Where did you say Jai Sri Ram, with a garada, a fruit, a sword, you used to say it. As long as Ram is the name of God, who did you stop in your mind? As long as Ram is the name of God, where do you stay? Sir, you are pointing to indirectly, Bijapi, that he wants to polarise the society of a communal card game. He will get an electoral gain in the election. There is a Lok Sabha election around the corner. He has started preparing for it. Why do you think that, since you keep an eye on the ground, is that Modi wave, which is said to be a phenomenon, that Modi is a phenomenon, is he gradually fading? Look, Modi is not a Mahal wave. In 2014, people used to call Modi blind love in 2014. But that love is over. Now love is with the principles, with the questions. Now people have started asking questions. What happened to Ruzgarh? What happened to Mahangai? What happened to Vikas? So when questions start asking, people start looking for other ways. Is that the same way of looking for other ways, to trap the Indian-Muslim debate, and get a political gain? Sir, there is a quick question. Netish Kumar has been quiet for a long time. He was very critical of his opposition. Two days ago, he gave a strong statement to his coalition partner, that we broke an alliance, because of our policy of zero-tolerance corruption. So our zero-tolerance is also in communalism. In a way, he directly attacked his coalition partner. He used a very strict word. What kind of statement is this? RGD or Congress as opposition party, is not so aggressive in Bihar. So is this pointing towards a new election? As soon as the new elections come, you can see that Siuswena ran away. TDP ran away. So in 2019, the vision that is being seen, has changed a lot. So in such a way, as much as there are regional parties, they will show their strength, and the threat that is being given, is that there has to be a very big debate about seat sharing. And this debate about seat sharing has not been solved. In 2014, Netish was not there. But in 2009, Netish was with BJP. So he was in charge of the big brother. Now, BJP is not going to believe in the big brother. If we believe in the big brother, if we believe in the older brother, this will be a big issue. So for this, the debate about seats, this is the same problem with Ramilas Paswan, this is the same problem with Upendra Kusbaha. So the debate about seats has also started. So for this, the pressure to be made, many excuses will also be made. But still remember, Netish Kumar is not the one who is going to make a mess. Netish Kumar is the one who is going to make a mess. Sir, I just remembered one more thing. You talked about Bajrang Dal. Bihar is a society, it is called an inclusive society.  So Bihar is a society, an inclusive society. There is no problem with Mr. Ahmad Sharma. And there is a lot of interdependence between one community and the other. You can see it in different fields. So this taunt of a society here is very strong. In this situation, all the French groups, who are being made the main stream group, are they accepting the same secular people of Bihar? No, Bihar people have answered. You have done a lot of engineering. And you couldn't do anything. Remember, Bihar has not given any casualty. You have done a lot of things, but there was no bloodshed in Bihar. So the people of Bihar, whether they are in Hindu or Muslim, have answered that we will not fight because of your saying. Mr. Sharma and Mr. Ahmad will be with you. And Bihar is going through peace. And Bihar is going through such tough times that he is not going to be influenced by the elections. Will Bihar keep giving the message of peace? So here we wrap up our discussion with the note that the major take away of this interview was Bihar's society has not been ruptured on communal lines. The entire effort to engineer that right was for political gains and nothing else which has been rejected by the secular people of this state. Thank you.


Welcome to the Jenkins documentation office hours today is May 4th, 2023, and this is the US edition. Today we have myself, Mark, wait, and I think we're going to be joining us he was here briefly but will most likely be reconnecting. The agenda is fairly short today. Right now, the agenda includes there's an issue at the moment where the pipeline steps references has some areas where the nested options and information is not present. Mark and I have been reviewing this and investigating all morning. We were just talking about this. We seem to have gotten down a timeframe from when this happened, what exactly caused it we don't know yet we're still trying to figure that out. But there could have been in one of several different places which is the biggest thing. So it could have been the pipeline step stock generator could be doesn't appear to be the Jenkins that I oh site. Mark has been able to figure out that has a working and non working repository so he does have a control to test out with, but we're still looking into this and figuring this out this is. Yeah, not ideal, of course, but Yeah, we'll go into that more Google summer of code. So the only update here is that they will be sharing their announcement for accepted projects today at 18 utc so keep an eye out for that really really excited and yeah just keep an eye out for that and then further communication from the Jenkins project as well. I wanted to highlight that we just published Bruno's latest blog post in his series on janker Android development with Jenkins. So, really exciting stuff it's really wonderful and I just love being able to read the different ways that this has been that Jenkins have been utilized and seeing how mobile app development can go through it it's really cool. So definitely be sure to check that out. And one of the other blog posts I wanted to highlight that I don't have on the list here but CD con is next week so we have a blog post that shares and highlights a couple of the topic the Jenkins, Jason topics and the fact that Mark weight is going to be participating in a couple talks so really excited to have that and have the representation there. I'm going to be sharing a couple other things so recently had a book submission guidelines this is something that I just figured we could put in and have outlined there we've gotten more book submissions lately so having some guidelines is just some structure that we could use the most recent LTS which was yesterday of 2.387.3 released successfully. There are a couple of interesting things but we've noted them in the 2.403 changelog so XML handling of null values is something that's going to change. And so just be aware of that again we have documentation all sorts of stuff around these and your tickets are not your ticket sorry get hit GitHub tickets that provide more context as well. So, there's lots of information for that. The next LTS baseline right now is currently voted as 2.401 that's scheduled for a May 31 release so keep an eye out for that more to come on that. I'm now working on a working on the Jenkins documentation to transition installation guidelines Java requirements system requirements from Java 11 to Java 17 as the preferred method. We're still supporting Java 11 we just want to show people that Java 17 is the way to go and that is the future. So, faster testing edge testing functionality development everything is just better in Java 17. I encourage people to hop on that. Yeah, so, Mark so I did want to spend more time on the pipeline steps reference since that is relevant to what's going on today. So, what would be the next steps that we could look at for this or I was when I was trying to do some testing and figuring it out backtracking. I wonder how I could gently test some of the pull requests on other areas like the docs step generator. Yeah, well I so okay so let's let's describe first what I think we know and maybe maybe by writing those I'm going to I'm going to try to type some some ideas here in terms of things that I think we know right so what we know right is the current shows no entries for the checkout step. Or know what would you call it no nested entries for the checkout step. All right, and that's, that's our test case. So maybe Kevin what you want to do is open that up in your web browser so that we can see it together let's just look at it on my current Jenkins site so Jenkins.io. And this way we show it to each other and be sure we understand okay this is what's broken. So pipeline steps reference search for the word checkout yeah and then that very bottom one. Notice that here nested choice of objects right is is very brief, whereas in the actual production site, or in the in the, the working site. And now let's bring up let's bring up one that was working let's see we had notes on one that was working right it was. Yeah, here's one so this is. Yeah so pull request 6323 its prototype site has this as its presentation of the SCM nested choice of objects. And get the screen so I can share it. Okay. So, so yeah so this is the deploy from 6323. So we've got this is this is looks good. And then the other one was the looks bad. Now what we see what what I see in my development environment is, I've got a, a working repository and a bad repository. The working repository and, and the thing that generates this page, the thing that generates the content in this page is this file all ASCII dot zip. Maybe. Maybe what we ought to try is. Well, here's an idea. Okay, so we've got on my system I've got two conditions one that's good and one that's bad. And one theory is that the whole problem is in this data file called all ASCII dot zip that is generated by the pipeline steps doc generator. Right now that data file is the current data file size is about 290 K in the broken state. Yeah, that's good. Let's make a note of that. Okay, so marks working site working. Good working copy has a has has the master branch checked out so the current, the current tip of the master branch, but with an older all ASCII dot zip. The pipeline steps doc generator data file. Sorry Bruno that we're debugging live my bad I was late. This is a struggling with what what is a really terrible hit to the Jenkins documentation that we need to fix. But first we got to understand what broke it. Okay, so the bad working copy has with the latest all ASCII dot zip. Exactly. So current master branch with the latest all ASCII dot zip. And now what I thought was what if I swap one for the other is to try to confirm for us that the real difference between those two things is just exactly that one file all ASCII dot zip. And then that means pipeline steps doc generator that creates that file is the thing we have to diagnose. Now the problem is, I don't, I'm not expert enough on all of the detailed steps here so it may be that moving those files around won't actually change anything, because I don't know if all ASCII dot zip is actually used during site generation, or if it's unpacked once. Let's see how would I guess that. Mark, I know, do you know if it's do you know if it's possible to extract like the date or date and time for the, the older all ASCII zip. Sure. Absolutely. Because when we were looking at the two pull requests where it was good to bad I think the time frame was very early on the 20 on the 25th and then very late on the 25th. So, if the older all ASCII is from around that timeframe that might point us in that direction. Yeah, well so that's a that's a good thing to check because I've got that. I've got both files. And so let's look at. So, Kevin, I'm going to share my screen and we can stare at the contents of the file together. Okay. All right, so looking at my screen here. So here's what I've got. I've got that's not useful. Here. No, where did it go? Where's my terminal? There it is. Okay. So this has content underscore temp all ASCII dot zip is the actually it just look at them. So the bad one is in Jenkins IO bad so the left hand side, the one that's working is on the right hand side. So now and of course they're not sorted alphabetically by file name so let's see is there a way to sort them by filing. No. So, when all this fails we look at them side. Let's try to take it dot a doc. Here it's 893. Here it's 89. So they are exactly the same size in in the two places. The one that oops reading again. Okay, the one that provides workflow the workflow step what is that one that is help me out there Kevin you've got it on your on your screen in the URL. If I look at the pipeline if I look at the steps reference. If I search for check out, check out. Here it is. It's a pipeline as so workflow SCM step so let's see if there's a difference between those two workflow. SCM step 1290. 94. Well that's a difference. Okay, all right that that gives me some hope. Right so here we've got in the working one on 94 k bite page. And in the broken one we've got a 1290 bite page. Okay, so obviously there's a difference between good and bad. So really it is. It's got to be in the pipeline steps doc generator. Okay, that's good. This means we don't have to spend time in this meeting. I can go separately and do diagnosis on pipeline steps doc generator. That that already thanks for the insights because that already has shown. This is so if I, for instance, if we look inside this file. And look at the look at the text there for checkout now if I look inside this one. Code okay now let's this is where I love my ediff ediff. Let's look from bad to good so I'm going to put bad on. Well, let's do this ediff buffers from bad to good. Let's go backwards. Okay, notice that the yellow block down at the bottom of the screen is addition. And it's enormous. So the nested choice and we see it there nested choice of objects has nothing beneath it. So, so, okay, so the problem really is in whatever is generating that all ask you dot zip. Okay, that's that's a very testable condition now I can I can go do the do the bisect to find where all ask you dot zips workflow SCM step file is too small. Because that's that's what's happened right it's, it's that. In fact I should be able to even see it here. I've got two directories. Oh no I don't apparently. But it's that's a that's a doable bisect so what we need is workflow SCM step should be 90 kilobytes not two kilobytes. Good. Thank you Kevin. Thanks Bruno. I think we've got we've got a next step and mark that the pipeline SCM. I mean, it would not be coming from the plug in in this case then. Well no or actually you good point it is coming from the plug in. But for some reason, the tool that extracts it from the plug in is no longer doing the extraction. Okay, so it's it's that something changed in the pipeline steps doc generator source code so so the process that happens is the pipeline steps doc generator. It downloads all plugins extracts them all, and then pulls out their help files and formats them into ASCII doc. And somehow in that process of extracting and formatting to ASCII doc. This thing is being lost. And that that loss has happened in a fairly recent change. It's fairly recent because I, we, we, we saw the yeses and the nose in our in our earlier analysis and there's some oddity there but we got some rough timelines that we can use to check to see where where did the which change or changes to the pipeline step stock generated caused it to stop generating correctly and, and then we write some tests to be sure that this problem never happens again. Thank you very much Mark I appreciate that and thanks for looking at that during talks hours that helps a lot. All right. Of course Bruno. So, since I know you were having some audio issues is there anything that you've wanted to share bring up put on the agenda talk about today. No thanks for asking Kevin. Okay, yeah no worries just want to make sure I can also highlight your newest Jenkins and Android blog posts since we just got that published the other day. Yeah, thanks for your help. And always, of course, and then. Yeah, we're just talking we're just sharing that the Google Summer Code announcement will be later so thanks to you, Alyssa jump our crystal and for all your work being more guidance on that and spearheading all this. Everyone's very excited and can't wait for it so yeah, thank you. Okay, so that's all I had for the agenda today if that covers everything for everyone. We can go ahead and call it early today no problem at all. And yeah, thanks as always for joining. Again appreciate all the work and contributions and assistance and everything. So take care. Have a great rest of your day. See you later. Recording will be available in about 24 to 48 hours. Thank you.