Good morning, and welcome to the fifth meeting of the Pou of Enchafry and Drainage Commission's Scotland Bill Committee in 2018. The only item on our agenda today is to screen the amendments that are lodged to the bill and apply to tests. The first test is whether the committee is of the view that any of the amendments adversely affect private interests. If any such amendments are identified, the committee will then apply a second test to consider whether any of those amendments have sufficient merit that there is a possibility of their being agreed to after further scrutiny. If the committee is of the view that any amendment passes both tests, then the consideration of the amendments will be paused to allow for a notification and objection period. I would like to invite members of the committee if there are any amendments that they wish to identify as adversely affecting private interests. Amendment 9. I would agree with that. It appears that amendment 9 is agreed to. Are there any other amendments? No. The other amendments are sensible amendments and amendments that would be working with the promoters, which will strengthen the bill. Okay, the committee has agreed that amendment 9 is the only amendment that adversely affects private interests. This is an amendment that relates to the new land plans that have been dropped forward by the promoters of the bill. I would now like to invite members to comment on whether, on the second aspect of the screen process, on whether they believe that amendment 9 is of sufficient merit that there is a possibility of it being agreed to after further scrutiny. Yes, I would agree with that. That would be the case. Okay, I can confirm the view of the committee that amendment 9 both adversely affects private interests and has sufficient merit that there is a possibility of it being agreed to after further scrutiny. As amendment 9 was lodged on behalf of the promoter, it is the promoter's responsibility to notify those who are affected by the implications of the amendment and, indeed, how to lodge any objections. However, the committee may specify how this should be done and how long the objection period should be. I would now like to invite members to consider the suggestion in paragraph 13 of the papers, which states that all heritors whose private interests would be adversely affected should be contacted by the promoters. So, heritors who are new heritors and who are seeing a substantial increase, potentially, in their sensible approach, convener. Okay, I'm content with that approach. With regard to the objection paper, we've found members to paragraph 14 in the papers, and given that the committee is not scheduled to meet again until 12 September, the committee could consider allowing a 60-day period of objections, which mothers the preliminary stage of the bill period for objections. Okay. Well, that concludes our consideration of the amendments. The clerk will liaise with the promoters of the bill accordingly, and the committee's webpage will be updated. I further wish to update committee members that a letter and updated schedule of heritors has been received from the promoters and has been published on the Parliament's website. The next meeting of the committee will be on Wednesday 12 September 2018 at 10am, at which we will take evidence on any objections lodged to amendment 9 or, if no objections are lodged, begin with proceedings on the amendments lodged to the bill. In fact, I close the meeting.


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the practice which are more secular than religious so here these practices are very very common and helping to the masses this paper has revealed that some open boundaries of ahinsa were not discussed in traditional package of 5 mahavratas 12 sravak vratas and higher religious practices like pratimas still these packages are ongoing in the jain practices interestingly the customary terms such as karan are not used in the new terminology of ahinsa protection though the process of secularization broadening the scope of application of ahinsa by incorporating various elements from science and psychology is made a modernistic approach of mahaprakya ahinsa protection is a fourfold system of training and encourage and develop the known violent principles both through heart and mind and extremely through one's conduct the first two limbs of this system are change of heart and change of attitude mahaprakya taught that practice of anupriksha is the means of replacing negative thoughts and emotion impulses with positive instead these inner foundation work in the inner cultivation of restraint and the third limb and fourth limb change in lifestyle which means discerning between wants and need and reducing and legitimating limiting one's luxuries this is the reinforcement of the last limb a change of livelihood which requires that jobs involving access violence like industrialization and globalization should be avoided thus mahaprakya attempted to ensure that development of a training encompasses both inner mental and emotional aspect and external behavior and action which is very important and the function of individual family unit society, local, national and global I quote from um prasna vyakaran sutra there is a interesting veneration of ahinsa sabbhuya khe mankari ahinsa so here we can see ahinsa projection is a pragmatic and concerned with worldly need while ahinsa is transcendent and addressing the big question of existence and the prasna vyakaran sutra um the known violence is best over of well-being to all living being and here the use of a as in gen terminology prana, bhuta, sattva all are bhuta but I would like to see in a different light bhuta is also materialism also so where there is a limitation of the materiality that is also leading towards peace and non-violence so I finish here but I would like to discuss my slide little bit um Mahapragya presented full course and the possibility of the cultivation of ahinsa is very very visible in his lessons and module of ahinsa projection. Interestingly in 1991 university university introduced the department of peace research and non-violence and the courses are offered BA, MA, MPHIL, PSD PG diploma and certificate course and so on and also um the training center for the known violence so vocational training centers were started throughout India and I have a study of um really from 2001 to 2017 so more than 18 states of India have these centers so the graph shows that highest centers of peace and non-violence in Rajasthan 1958 and then Jharkhand 66 and Bihar 31 but all together 16 states of it and also on the assignment of ahinsa and non-violence there are seven 12 international conferences also organized by Anu Vibha which is a body and finally the ahinsa yatra carried out by Mahapragya and also Acharya Mahasraman so connecting India, Nepal, Bhutan so more than 50,000 kilometers ahinsa yatra by the leader of Tirappan sect was organized and carried out so ahinsa protection at grassroots for the school level also and then ahinsa at at the training centers is available in India so this module is presented and training centers are opened and many centers open the heart for the employment because hunger and unemployment is the biggest cause under the violence and Mahapragya seen it and try to solve this problem through ahinsa protection thank you Thank you very much for this interesting and visionary inspiring lecture I think we may have maybe we can take one question but then I think we have to go on with Petrus final lecture here any question any comment I have a question I just wondered the point that you made about healing as a community endeavor I wondered if there were any if Mahapragya draws that theme from any textual point or if that's his own development the concept of healing as a community endeavor it is first of all it is Mahapragya's own experience and normally the behavior when the abnormality occurs might be ill health or an scarcity so these are common reason so looking at the common life I think he has taken into account for this ahinsa protection okay thank you very much once again Peter are you there yes you're there okay so I'll now speak about Mahapragya is of course our dear friend and great colleague etc Peter Fliegel and Peter you're going to talk about you have a very cryptical title the non-violence of non-violence so you have to explain that in your lecture now so please what is critical about that no cryptic cryptic maybe not we'll see is is the slide visible yes yes very good okay right references and so on read a bit and then I move on to slides to save time he who knows the violence done for the sake of special objects knows what is free from violence he who knows what is free from violence knows the violence done for special objects this is one of the oldest verses in the Shwetambara scriptures in the Ayuranga and it shows obviously that violence and non-violence are intrinsically connected in the theorizing of the genes the parent paradox recognized in this and other canonical passages that cognition of violence is a condition and hence integral part of a religious system aimed at the maximization of non-violence can be explained to help of the theory of auto poetic or living systems of Nicholas Luhman as a consequence of the fact that all social systems constitute themselves through selective self-referential mechanisms based on binary codes programs and routines which constitutes the elements that function as its parts the paper presents the theoretical interpretation of the Jaina tradition arguing that as a social system the Jaina tradition reproduces itself with reference to a combination of an asymmetrical ontological code jiva-ajiva and an asymmetrical moral code ahimsa-himsa implemented through programs that is criteria for the allocation of objects and processes to one or to the other side of the constitutive asymmetrical distinctions Jaina philosophy itself highlights the significance of binary categorizations the method of binary classification is not just a tool of modern structuralism but a principle used in Jaina epistemology the canonical aniyogadwara discusses various forms of categorization using the term dunama name as a designation for any binary distinctions informing the method of taxonomic classification such as monosyllabic versus multi-syllabic jiva this is ajiva vishesha meaning genus and species though the distinction between violence and non-violence or injury and non-injury harm and harmlessness or rather the positive value of non-violence alone is nowadays taken for granted in Jaina culture its dominance as a root metaphor is the outcome of a long history of scholastic systematization as Klaus Brun has shown only with the consolidation of the ahimsa reductionism predicated on the mushrooming of synonyms of synonyms ahimsa words and himsa words described also by Kulat Kaya and the crystallization of a central binary code medieval times the Jaina tradition was able to develop a stable semantic system as well as auto poetic social systems predicated on such religious semantics because all systems are predicated on reductions of complexity here you can see that this is often cited first from the Dasha Vaikalika refers to dharma rather than ahimsa which of course plays a role there just as an example by reinterpreting the insides of Brun in terms of lumen theory of social systems the paper argues that the crystallization of a central moral code by himsa and insa through processes of semantic duplication and self-referential reduction was the condition for the development and integration of networks of relations between supplementary codes and programs which stabilize the Jaina system over time because the late emergence of a central code of the Jaina religion must be considered as a relatively recent development as a self referential social system as evident in the absence of generalizing self-designations such as Jaina Sanga such terms are fairly recent the proposition that the Jaina tradition like all established semantic systems consolidated itself through the reduction of initial terminological complexity to dominant asymmetrical codes such as ahimsa and insa is both simple and complex all philosophers will agree that avoiding pain is desirable Suyagada 2279 demonstrates by way of a narrative thought experiment though they evidently do not anonymously agree on the status of ahimsa as the one supreme philosophical principle as proposed by the Jaina philosophers here someone asked assembly of all philosophers who believe in different things to take into their hands a vessel full of holes and hold them from it all philosophers refuse to do that and then it is changed why are they not doing this because it's painful of course because you're afraid of pain you hold back so all creatures averse are all creatures are averse to pain this is implication and then it is said this is a maxim of general application it is a true principle a religious reflection this maxim principle religious reflection is good with regard to every living being the word ahimsa is not mentioned there at all just the avoidance of pain at the heart of the matter is the philosophical question of the ontological status and the function of the distinction itself that separates the semantic realms of nonviolence and violence which distinction positive and negative and with the help of additional criteria unstable collection should enable observers to sort all phenomena in two distinct sets sets in set theory and you should remain the problem is that in practice not all phenomena can be sorted into either one or the other set but maybe classified as both end or neither nor this is recognized in the tetra lemmas of Buddhist and Jaina logic Chatur Shkoti and Chatur Bangi additionally the attribute indescribable avyaktavya is used thus rendering lists of more than four irreducible alternatives such as the Jaina Sabta Bangi classification de facto the classification of intermediary categories between is and is not recognizes the practical difficulties implied by the distinction itself in practical context I do not believe evidently that Jaina logic is ultimately concerned with problems of logic per se but with practical problems in contrast to Jaina philosophy the second century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna taught in his Madhyamaka Karika that all factors of being Dharma and all mental cognitions judgements Vigna and linguistic distinctions Vikalpa that is the dependent designations Prajnapati Upadaya that are responsible for the identification of distinct phenomena Prapansha in mind and language are empty Shunyata Triharsha the distinguished 13th century Advaitin a hidden Buddhist believed at least consciousness to be real if not the world if not the world as the Jaya Vasheshika in Jaina was presupposed which is critique of the philosophical method of distinction targeted with explicitly following Nagarjuna Shri Harsha argued that while all philosophical systems are rooted in fundamental distinctions and networks of relations every distinction carries the seat of its solution within itself for this reason alone all phenomena of this world whether empirical objects or objects of thought are ultimately inexplicable by the method of distinction of discriminative insight as the Jains would say only consciousness that is ultimately Brahma is real an intriguing timeless analysis based on first principles he demonstrated that all acts of distinction are ultimately self-defeating and either in paradox or in an infinite regress and here I cite a summary of Das Gupta the concept of difference can hardly be defined Shri Harsha said if it lies involved within the essential nature of all things that differ then difference would be identical with the nature of the things that differ if difference were different from the things that differ then it would be necessary to find out some way of establishing a relation between difference and the things that differ and this might require another connection and that another and so we should have a vicious endless series this difference may be looked from different perspectives I mean this is from Nargajuna on difference I skip this so here are the perspectives as the nature of things understood or perceived this difference as part of the nature of things as understood or perceived this implies that all other things are implicitly related to as different without consideration without apprehension apprehension of their distinctive nature if the distinction is to extraneous to things then an infinite regress emerges as just described the distinction between the distinction and the object requires another distinction to be explained and so on another form of distinction mentioned by Shri Harsha is the mental negation of other things so the book is not the table this then leads to the problem of class attributes imaginary objects etc. the unicorn I'm not a unicorn something like this finally opposition Vidarmya that also involves an infinite regress of what we are of course mainly interested in if difference is regarded as the possession of opposite characters Vidarmya then also it may be asked whether the opposite characters have further opposite characters to distinguish them from one another and these again others and so there's a vicious infinite again it may be asked whether these distinguishing characters are themselves different from the objects which possess them or not one may again ask concerning the opposition opposing characters which lead to this difference and then again about other opposing characters of these and so on so they're very interesting observation here infinite differences require infinite time but objects are finite limited in time that creates problems and we could discuss endlessly about Siad Vada and so on if differences come in all at once and not one after the other in time there would be disorder and no clear determination conceptual determination possible except for hypothetical omniscient it can therefore be said that our perception of differences has any such has no such intrinsic validity that it can contradict the ultimate unity in the Japanese attic text very interesting indeed in European scholasticism also different types of distinction where differentiated conceptual real distinction between conceptual and real itself so much as introduction now the distinction of involved in the cultural codes and I have argued that Ahimsa is a cultural code which constitutes the Jaina system and is ultimately self-defeating on logical grounds whatever one thinks about the practice of course in the history of let us say Indian sociology of India and Indology this is an old hat you know has argued that Hinduism is basically structured by binary code pure and impure and Padmanabh Jayini has argued the same for Jainism just that Jainism defines it differently so I instead of pure and impure which may equally work I put violence and non-violence up but I have a slightly different sociological theory in mind to say that in the beginning I pursue that Dimo has a neocontinent value manifestation theory you know levels of value when you have a dominant value and then lesser and lesser value so purity would be the dominant value whereas I follow human and say the distinction so the empty space between the two can never be transcended by a single positive value you always have the opposition in any of these religious systems so the distinction itself is contingent as a certain arbitrary to it which is absolutely unavoidable and just a feature of semantic systems coding systems are constituted by the re-entry of a distinction in the unmarked space between that which is distinguished generating a state of systemic system specific indeterminacy that is the oscillation between positively and negatively evaluated operations and between self-reference that means the system can only be constituted if it becomes self-referential in my case it is if nonviolence is related to nonviolence or the distinction between nonviolence and violence is related to itself here is what Padman Abjani said anything that was not shoulder was considered to be a shoulder activities which were not productive of salvation now this is of course part of Jaina philosophy the concept of a shoulder is needed to make clear what is shoulder so it is an absolute essential component it's not outside the conceptual system or negated completely we are not interested in this at all we are only interested in shoulder it works that would not be forming a stable semantic system now a bit of social cybernetics semantic systems let us say a code is a model which relates to information pulls up information distinguishes actions that are violent and nonviolent according to binary code with these distinctions regulates an action this is only if the model is practically used if it is ignored it has absolutely no relevance whatsoever but this is if a system works then it works like this and it is basically an informational system which may have repercussions for systems of actions that means communications that produce communications and produce communications until they stop and then the system is finished religious systems as living systems these are auto poetic systems not as some static social structure or your 4-4 community or something but as living systems which need constant reproduction through actions that connect with other actions and here the theory of Luhmann comes in all social systems including religious systems constitute themselves through selective self-referential mechanisms based on binary codes, programs and routines which constitute the elements of a system that function as it parts human beings are not part of social systems or religious systems it is their actions or other attributes processes in which they are involved which become parts of systems this is something counterintuitive but in systems theory this is how it works and this produces a non-essentialist approach to social let us say sociology of religion in our field which gets away with a lot of problems of I don't need to go into that as a social system a chain tradition that produces itself with a combination of ontological and moral code etc. this is my argument to make this clear this is the logic of Spencer Brown which Luhmann has popularized British mathematician Laws of Form is his book and he pointed out that every distinction basically is a combination of distinction and indication that means there is a marked state a state that is indicated as pointed to and an unmarked state which is the outside as it were and well let me leave that for another day the crux of the whole matter is that systems of distinctions can only be produced by re-entry of the distinction in the unmarked space that is the distinction itself or marked by the distinction itself which is drawn by an observer of course this always implies two types of reference one Spencer Brown and explicit one the value of the marked side and implicit one the outside observer which is not named the outside is the side from which a distinction is supposed to be seen so you have it looks like this if you apply it to a distinction between violence and non-violence or the other way around the outside observer that is you and me I suppose is implicit without it nothing could be seen this is associated with social systems theory environment of course the chains turn this round so the re-entry of the distinction into the space of the distinction itself can be as an article of Paul Dandas and in the title can produce the non-violence of violence relationship so the question is always how to designate this characterise the distinction itself we know what the two distinguished elements are but what is the distinction it could be anything the entire world is implied here so if you then the distinction to itself self-referentially then you have the non-violence of violence as part of the system differentiated from the outside of the system where you could write violence here again if you like and this is how a system is constituted that means the outside has been incorporated into the inside of the system and violence in this case becomes part of the system and not something that is outside it and this is the scandal the logical scandal in Jaina architecture literature and philosophy violence is constitutive for the Jain system which of course values non-violence higher than violence you can also have the violence of non-violence this is an article of Phyllis Granov she has this in the title so just the sequence has been changed here and this is sort of the standard version but you can also have the non-violence of non-violence and this is my my take on the thing you know if you want to have a purely self-referential non-violence that would be the perfect Jain system of course but the violence is always presupposed that is quite clear otherwise you cannot have the non-violence and here Klaus Brun comes in he shows how the Ahimsa reductionism produced a mushroom of synonyms is predicated on a mushrooming synonyms of Ahimsa and Himsa words he and Kaya have traced this in the literature and you can see that Ahimsa becomes self-referential you know if you say this term is synonymous with that term and so on and then you generate a system of terms that are related to each other and the same with Himsa words and these words sequences however of synonyms do not form a system unless they become self-referential as a whole and so this is a stable system this happens if a central binary code can be crystallized and this has a case in medieval times only and I refer to the work of Brun and so on and the Ahimsa reductionism and the Karma reductionism which Brun has traced so Ahimsa reductionism is if Ahimsa is declared to be the sum of vows the vow of Ahimsa is declared to be the sum of the vows XYZ etc and the Quint is declared to be the Quint Essence of Jaina Doctrin to quote Madame Kaya very early text where this term appears although not Ahimsa as such so that would be maybe a case of Pan-Ahim-Sism term which Brun introduced that everything all the prescriptions in the Jaina text are interpreted as manifestations of Ahimsa so Satya, Steya, Brahmacharya, Parigraha these Patanjali terms all are just basically same as Ahimsa so if you apply this to ethics and so on you can see how a one level let me call it proto-system is turned into a system if several levels through self-references are internally generated so between referring here to the title of John Kord's book are similarly Mahiyas Convivalia Deliverance so this is liberation and well-being are opposed as values and then well-being can be incorporated into the Jaina system so if within the system of Jaina values say the rebirth in heaven becomes an aim in itself although it is distinguished from liberation so this shows how through self-reference through re-entry of the distinction in the distinguished systems develop and these are dynamic processes according to social theory which I cannot get into closely I don't read this it's clear that a large vocabulary was useful to mark communal differences and then to develop the self-referential mechanisms which Pruin did not analyze but he didn't want to take that step because he was distrustful of binary, of reductive language although all the building blocks were there but he gives examples like these how one term explained with reference to two others and this is of course a conceptual self-reference or systems building like in semantics this I would argue is an elaboration of Hempel and Oppenheimer's work in logic terminological dynamism in dogmatic systems and all this I move on rather quickly the Jaina part of Salvation so Moksha Marga this is what the main distinction ultimately has to explain your Himsai, Himsahokan this contradiction be resolved it is resolved by Moksha Marga and through further distinctions this can become clearer so you can see how through this logic law form type of logic the problems which Brun and others in Indology have addressed can be revisited there are two systemic roles of a Himsah as an all-encompassing of Himsah as an environment of the Jain system and as a constitutive part of the Jain system and this is what I'm interested in compare also Jiva Ajiva, Beidekian discriminative insight all these issues they face the same paradoxes basically of distinction I think I have said enough like Satan and God Christianity, Himsah and Himsah mutually constitutive as non-religion and religion is if any of the opposites would be eliminated the other would lose its meaning so is I think I'm talking already too much so there is a question of oscillation between value spheres which you find in some field studies which perplexed people you know are Jains, Jain lay people oscillating between Hinduism and Jainism different gods at home are they pursuing well-being in business and liberation at the same time they're torn in two directions and the term oscillation is often mentioned and also of course the ambiguities in terminology designating both of the two distinguished elements to fix this of course you can't fix it it leads to an infinite regress you know that and this is a value realization type of theory and but in the theory of living systems it is quite clear that coding regulates the oscillation between the positive and negative value that is the contingency of evaluations that means for a person it's always the question how to sort an event is it violent or is it non-violent this is what the system demands you to do you have to take decision and decide to ultimately commit to is drinking milk violence or non-violence you're familiar with these debates but its system determined is nothing else this is the interpretation I'm offering so the oscillation is typical for all distinctions distinguished if something is distinguished you can you have to consider both elements are distinguished and the distinction which creates this determinacy and allows for choice is the positive aspect if there would be only one value being non-violent then there would be no choice and no system really so ultimately social systems including religious systems can therefore be made understood to be always selections processes that are selective in time they're not fixed entities but dynamic relationships which can never be understood by looking at them statically okay close here thank you very much Peter I'm sure I have some comments and the questions but I think I have to listen to the lecture once more so there's so many things that came up to my mind when I listened to this interesting lecture so there is one question from Roy Russell here can a person inhabit more than one value system at the same time of course sure that is an old sociological hat I thought that may come up yeah I'll show it to you oops this is something else anyway I tell you it's in the you can't see the slides which I just showed that is anything can be related to one system that's the whole point of it I mean what we are saying us sitting here discussing something it can have a scholarly aspect it can have psychological aspect this and that different for each individual so whatever there is can be related to different systems it has no intrinsic value but is significantly determined in context and we all in multiple contexts at any point in time and the same with Jainism it's only one aspect of say human beings who are entertaining this system or are related to it in one way or another by others maybe even the answer is yes of course I refer to Max Weber and people like that who have already played over this bear there is one question from Jay Soni would it be helpful to justify Ahimsa metaphysically through the concept of Asrava where the ideal of Shubha also comes in on request I try to switch off the back thing so where is Jay would it helpful to say Ahimsa metaphysically through Shudha Shubha comes also I mean these are supplementary distinctions of course there is not a single distinction but this is just as the argument this has developed historically into the dominant distinction to which whole networks of other distinctions are linked in specific ways and the image I showed at the end which maybe I can show once more this is a reconstruction of how one can look at say the social historical development as a differentiation of initial distinctions forgive me the German here its external internal so within each category further distinctions are inserted in a historical sequence it's not pre-designed in retrospect one can maybe constitute it like this maybe there are other ways of representing it but I just wanted to explain the principle of differentiation of differences I think we could close with a question from Brian Donaldson and that would be the last question so please great thank you Peter your visage is also quite cryptic because we just see some floating eyes I actually really love this because I feel like this is actually where a lot of my work is trying to think about juxtaposed ideals and I'm actually right now writing a grant for a John Templeton foundation to do a conference in dynamism where inviting people to look at dynamic dualisms so this is right there also my first book creaturely cosmologies looked at I used the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead to think about the process of unification of poles I wanted to ask you I've been thinking that activity or ethics is kind of the fusion of these dipolarities so like the real and the ideal and that activity is sort of the coordination of these you're using different terminology because you're coming from sociology and systems and I think I'm thinking more metaphysical theory but I wondered if you could say something about this asymmetry that you're talking about what is the asymmetrical part of the binaries as you're seeing them well these are evaluations that are put on top and also perspectives you know if you draw a distinction I mean if you want to know what is nonviolence you have to distinguish it from something and so that you put the priority of nonviolence it's completely arbitrary in the end but usually some one of the two relata is evaluated positive and the other negative so two distinctions are superimposed but completely symmetrical distinction makes no practical sense that is of course the underlying issue just one follow up Ben why would you call it totally you just used the phrase completely arbitrary because it feels to me that when we think about let's say if we put like it wouldn't seem to me totally arbitrary because there's a telos the very concept of or the very concept of restraining karma the very sense of the possibility of the seed that right pure perception without obstruction this doesn't seem arbitrary it seems like that is the value claim that gets integrated in the system right is when you say arbitrary you mean arbitrary kind of system all life all society's wide the giant tradition seems like it's trying to not be arbitrary at all but to say this is the value that we're imperfectly kind of folding into every activity well historically it is not so clear that is the one point why not what it shuba you know why not privileging this and there is an internal pressure generated by the system itself once established it creates its own problems which then produce you know fitting solutions and then this creates this kind of differentiation this dynamic of differentiation which always can go in different directions at any juncture and people can just drop it you know you are just distinctions start something new thank you very much


Hey guys got a special treat for you Jade and I once again did a video collaboration talking about the season finale of the series finale of Supernatural And just kind of our thoughts about the fandom and the season and the show itself the discussion Which I originally thought maybe would have taken no more than half an hour went on for an hour and a half I'll either be splitting the rest into another or maybe two more videos depending on how it goes and how our conversation went through It otherwise enjoy the conversation enjoy what we talk about and you'll be seeing us talk about more throughout the week Hey guys new surprise to you for 2021. Jade and I are back once again And we are doing a little bit of a long overdue video, but we're finally talking about the finale of Supernatural What our thoughts about it were and just There's a bit to talk about but first off Jade. Thank you for doing this again considering you you've moved and all the All the adventures you've been on the last little while. It's nice to do a video with you again Thank you. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to Talk about Supernatural Well, I appreciate you dealing with me and my like sometimes very bad getting back to you at the emails It's it's okay because I do the same thing It was it was an yeah, well 2021 was a sorry 2020. Sorry. I'm already writing 2021 into it but Last year was certainly an interesting year Of everything but amongst that was the end of a show that some of us have been watching for 15 years a show that had gone on for 15 years and To say that there is a divide in the response to it is a bit of an understatement The INDB reviews are a plethora of emotion But there doesn't seem to be a lot of people who There's very very few who appear to be in the middle if you were to say it like that And I feel that you and I are kind of in that middle ground. Yeah, we can see what's good But we also can see what's really bad Yeah, so like when I made my first video about the finale I titled it Everything I wanted in the worst way possible Which I feel like was very no, that's a good. That's an accurate. Yeah, cuz I I have many issues with the finale. It's just like On one hand, it's like this I've loved the show so much over these past few years It's been hard for me to be like critical of it because I'm just I've just been so like oh my god I love it so much but like now that it's over and like that's it. It's like damn There's there I just feel like there's a lot more that they could have done in this finale that They had the opportunity to do and they didn't do it. Well, it's you can kind of almost say that with the entire season, right? Yeah, the fact that we waited we waited half a year for seven final episodes and of those seven episodes Ten the first three were filler episodes Especially the one where they went I can't remember which one it was Carrie dragged me to hell or something the one where they went to they got that phone call from that person that they apparently met as kids and There was that Baba Yaga thing which I remember sitting there going Why are you doing a retread of something that we've seen a billion times now? Do something that's actually meant to be about the finale and then they did unity Which was a actually not a bad episode and I felt that every one afterwards despair was garbage and then inherit the earth was It was passable at best So the spares episode 18, right? Yes, that's the one where things just went to do-do so My with my like opinions on the finale and like the last few episodes I feel like I liked episode 18 mainly because Castiel's confession to Dean But like aside from that like Um, I didn't really think that there was like I At that time I was really hopeful that this finale would turn out How like I would picture it kind of obviously I've never been able to like picture supernatural ending in general But it gave me like a for me personally it gave me like a little bit of a hope that hey, maybe this finale won't be garbage um and like after they took cast and Billy episode 19 and that that one's inherent to earth. I I Don't even know what to think because I know that was like supposed to be like the end of the series arc Another series the season arc for season 15, which like I could get behind But then with episode 20. I kind of feel like They just took everything Just oh, it's it's hard to even put into words Yeah, it was essentially it was them like The majority of that is just Like little fan service fan service fan service and then an incredibly over long death scene followed by a Montage where you could see that them the the seams were splitting like they were trying to cut as many corners as possible in terms of budget and The wig oh the wig is it is I was showing it to some ladies who Were on the show that I worked on and one of them happened to be the woman who gave Crap one of my Crowley's mother. Why am I completely blanking on the name Rowena? Yeah, she was the first one to do her hair She was the one who gave her the hair that would be used for the rest of the show And she was when I showed her Sam she's like, oh my god What did they do? So it was being passed around work. It was being my it was being made fun of amongst On fun for Vancouver film groups. It was it was horrible. It got destroyed on Twitter, too Oh, I bet you're on. Yeah, I don't know if you're on like Twitter a lot, but that's I do know that Destiel was trending when episode 18 came out above the US elections and above Putin resigning So like Twitter was up in flames, which yeah, and that that too like I'm I'll be honest I don't think that's I think that was as close debating as they could possibly get I've I'm not really a shipper of it. It's just not my thing. Yeah.  I think that that's the that's Andrew Dab Holding the carrot as low as he possibly can but no one can actually reach it and that's why I said everyone's like it's confirmed They're like, no, it's not it's it's it's baiting that is bait. Well, what's from? Oh from Mad Max. That's great Yeah, I know Misha actually like He like kind of confirmed that it was like that steal was like kind of a real thing But also he's not the writer of the show No, and I and then Misha Misha is is a little kind of interesting himself admittedly like I Like the guy and admittedly he is he can be a bit Sometimes he's a little bit much, but I the fact that there was that weird Spanish or was it Italian Italian? It was a Spanish dub. So I actually mentioned this in my video. So What people were like upset about and I I understand this because I do ship Destiel And I feel like it's up to everyone's interpretation of the show to come to their own conclusion on that Even though I feel like there's been a lot of subtext that leads to deaning cast You know being a little bit more than bros, but again, it's up to interpretation But where was I going with this they yeah, so the Spanish dub the Spanish dub version that was released I think in South America After Dean after cast says I love you to Dean and I you Yeah, he says and I you in Spanish back and then caskets taken by the MD but in the English version Dean just like sits there like So like He called them rogue translators Which I mean Everyone I know people on Twitter were saying that they're gonna take the Spanish dub as them confirming. Yeah, so like I stand it It was it was kind of just odd that Like one that's a really kind of an odd thing But again that does happen when things are translated admittedly like when you have dubs are different translations There's always a little bit of change in the dialogue But I thought that was kind of a very very impactful one But I thought the thing that made me kind of a bit about it was just how pointless It was not pointless, but I guess more underwhelming because this has been something that Dab it at had teased for a long time and it was like that's it That yeah, that's it baited. He baited And I thought I just I think someone had made a comment that it was kind of funny that death was knocking on the door But I just I think I hated I didn't hate but I thought that Billy's character was just so Boring at this point that I couldn't give a crap. I was more interested in the empty But then we had just seen the end. Well, this was one of the reasons why I hated despair It's because Jack died again, and he was brought back Again all of in the span of like five minutes and yeah And and I think I was like that I I thought that that was just so ridiculous It made the Jack character just even more pointless and then the whole Ex machina thing with him being a power vacuum which oh and then my oh then when Michael portrayed them Lucifer came back killed a reaper then killed death as this there was so much in That last episode that I was like, okay, you're you're you're trying to give a lot here Yeah, that Honestly episode 19 like I When I think about it I kind of like forget about that happening just because it was like so much Because they bought back Michael and Lucifer and like oh that was that was a yeah I was very disappointed with Michael too.   I just knew that that probably had to do with it I just didn't know what was gonna happen And then when that did happen, I was actually genuinely shook and I I I'll admit I liked how I can say that the fact of removing Chuck of all of his powers I thought that was a good idea But it keeps him alive. Yeah, but I feel that you could have used him in carry-on Which is what I guess The the essay that I'm talking about that's kind of one of my side ideas is that Chuck could have been used as an adversary in the final final episode rather than Random random vampires that that cameo to Yeah, but obviously I think COVID stuff probably did affect some of it some of it not as much as people think it did Um, yeah, no, um someone pointed out like oh well like look like in my comments. I made a I Remember the comment exactly but in my video. I had mentioned how like People were using like COVID as the excuse for not bringing back certain people which is valid Yes, there is some valid credit some points to that. Yeah, yeah And but the one thing I mentioned was the fact that in the last scene after Sam and Dean have their little bra moment in heaven it cuts to the whole cast and crew and oh, yeah That they're not wearing masks. Yes, there's like one or two who are you can see there's a few of them But some of them aren't in the middle of that probably wasn't the best like they shouldn't have done that but yeah you know I went back to work right at about a month before supernatural dead and Yeah, everyone on set has to wear masks. We get temperature checks There are certain shows now that like they do like a nose check.  Yeah, they do that about every some big Netflix ones do two a week There's a building that they bought Netflix in particular. They spent a million dollars on it It's going to be their own COVID testing center building So they don't have to hold up life-lapse because admittedly when the film industry went back to When it went back into action the amount of tests in BC went from something I'd like maybe a few thousand every day to 70,000 But yeah, no COVID did affect certain things, but it may or so meant production The reason why most people one one of the key people who's not there is Eileen which Nipped a lot of people myself included but What they would have had to have done is Have her come up from California Isolate for two weeks because this is what we're doing with all American actors They isolate in their hotel room for two weeks Then they come to set they do their thing and then they go back home again But then they have to isolate again for another two weeks and production has to pay for almost if I'm not correct all of that So as we saw with the final final episode, they were cutting so many fucking corners in terms of budget Like they couldn't even give Dean blood as he's dying like they gave it a little bit on his back But if he's supposedly dying he should have been like from the mouth to But And then the masks to the vampires weren't wearing masks because of a COVID They was just because they didn't want to do the CG effect that that a hundred percent why they did that Oh, yeah, and like a whole concept of the vampire mimes just For a finale that aggravates me a lot just because I feel like yeah It's like Sam and Dean like have been fighting vampires all their life But I just feel like for like their last hunt. It should have been demons Yeah, or like something I don't know That's Cuz like on one hand It's like supposed to show us how like they take away the God how like they don't have the God armor anymore Which even then that's kind of like leaving a lot up into interpretation That doesn't like I Don't know. I feel that it I Understand what he was trying to signify with like the ordinary rebar, but it is It's a bit of a stretch in terms of what they're asking the audience to accept I I honestly Part of me just wants to forget that episode 20 even happened. I'll take episode 19 as the ending of Supernatural Any day over that just cuz I personally feel like you know with With Sam and Dean it's like hard to picture them having a conclusive ending and I feel like if they had left it open Not only could they come back and do a reboot or a movie or something like that in order to like give them a proper ending Not like this But it's just I feel like it would suit their characters more if you know what I mean Just because like we don't have to know what happens until like their very last moment of being alive But on the same hand like I do like the fact that Sam and Dean ended up in heaven together I just don't like how we got to that Oh, well, that was something that I feel like instead of spending 10 minutes with Dean dying from slightly irritating back pain You should have spent more time on Sam like Figuring out his life like yeah, exactly because he yet the episode and or that the part ends on the montage of him Walking up the stairs looking at the room looking super depressed like oh, I guess I'll just go on killing things Uh and then all of a sudden he's got a kid.  Yeah, and speaking of um before you mentioned Eileen And I under it like um I know that like bringing her back would be like a difficult thing to do But they could have like Done subtle things in order to photoshop her into a photo or some shit Yeah, or maybe even have Sam teach his kid, uh Dean jr Sign language. Yeah, exactly show the faceless wife have him sign or something like that It's just like they have the opportunity to one include her. Yeah to acknowledge that it's her Yeah, and especially to have like representation for people who are hard of hearing Yeah, I make I make that exact comment actually in my essay that's going to be coming um But uh There was something else that oh the other thing that kind of I felt was such a cheap take away was when Bobby said that castiel he brought he brought castiel out of the empty and then they fixed heaven us No No, we didn't even get a voice dub or anything.  He's just gone like white from existence my whole issue with um with castiel in this finale is not like uh His confession I felt like was very you know heartfelt and true to his character It's everything that happened after that. Um because you know he disappears. He doesn't matter. Yeah and you know Dean maybe mentions it once and It's never addressed again until you know They it just never gets addressed and he isn't even in the finale, which is something that I've I I take issue with the fact that castiel wasn't in the finale just because I feel like as a um one of the main Obviously, I know that like with covet. It's really hard to get more actors on set So I try to keep that in mind, but sam dean cast right If that like the show has been about Family and like the family that they make that isn't their blood family And it just kind of felt like If supernatural if I watched the first episode of supernatural I could tell you exactly what I could like the ending would be Because it just kind of threw 15 years of character development out the window And because you don't even get a name drop of like half of the people Oh, I feel bad for um, oh for Kim Rhodes For her uh for oh man. Why am I blanking on her nat?  Oh that that just Uh, what's felicia day felicia day never came back Alternate bobby never came back like it was it he I think that when dab did the whole apocalypse thing and he brought the people over he's like Oh, wait a minute. I actually have to do something with them.  I'm just gonna forget about him I yeah, no it there was so much opportunity for season 15 to actually have things but instead they focused on I don't know. I've actually to be honest I've have In speaking with people like on this show that I worked on not only was the makeup department part of it But there was some ad's that were actually on the show one of them actually in fact was an ad who had been on the show for Literally half of its existence And he did come up to me to ask me was like, oh, what did you think of the last episode? He thought he asked me about 19 and I was like Oh But um I've heard a lot of different interesting stories that I I don't want like or I really want to preface. There's no It's just from what I've heard from these people which admittedly there's a lot Like the word of mouth passes very very strongly in the in the film industry, but Apparently Jared and Jensen actually had a lot more creative control than what I've from then from what we've seen Um, they are the reasons why the show is going on as long as it was um, apparently also that and then uh It was robert singer and then who said we're done We don't want to make this show anymore and you're not going to get anyone who's going to want to continue to kind of I hate to say the word but feed your ego um But yeah, it was It kind of was a little bit tumultuous at the end of the show like there was that one episode What was the one I hated the most last call? Which was essentially a giant homage to Jensen eckles like the episode was all about him and his beer and singing and whatnot And I was like, this isn't a supernatural episode. This is a Jensen eckles tribute episode see I um You know with the narrative that that's been kind of pushed in the fandom from what I was aware of was that um Jensen and Jared didn't really have a say in what happened in the end of the show and that it was their decision to come to it but I I actually didn't know that You tell me it's kind of like it's it from what it's Well, because it was a very contained family like there was what was it? Some people had been working on that show not there wasn't many left who had started at the beginning But there were some who had been like the transport crew apparently were the same team for four like the last 11 years Um, there was grips and lx departments that have been working on that show for 10 plus years Um, and a lot of them were like, well, what the hell did we do after this? But that's why that that's feeling of kind of I would make the comment in the ladders And how the seasons went on like it just felt like it was getting lazier or more more complacent Like there wasn't as much interesting camera work Like I'm seeing from the first four seasons so far is there was a lot more effort put into it Yeah, and it just kind of was like, oh, let's go to work do the thing and go home um But once you go when you go on for something like that long Complacency is going to happen whether you want it to or not It's um, you know, I yeah I I agree with that throughout like the seasons like the show has gone on longer. You can tell that the effort that they put into Everything, uh, you know the story and the camera shots and all that stuff. It's like they have like The opportunities to do so much more with it And like especially with this last I what where my issue mostly is is the last episode. That's where I um You know, I could like swallow all of season 15 and the entire In like the entirety of supernatural had The last episode not been what it was Yeah, I I find it funny that it was like I I remember saying was like I think this this is going to this show Is going to end with the brothers dying I didn't think it would be that way like dean. I was anything correct, but sam I was not um, but I don't know the There are some like there's some elements. I don't mind like I think the part where when dean all of a sudden says You remember when I came and got you from your dorm Like I saw that throughout that entire scene that I was balling my eyes The first part of it was just like, oh god. He's so hammy. Oh And then he said that it's like, oh Hey, that's relatable because he said I was scared. I was too. I was scared to ask you for your help But then and then there's like, okay, you can go now and then he's like by sam and I would just remember going So it was so hammy um But I don't know like the pie thing was It's it's hard to kind of talk about dean dying for the third time and having it mean something like And I say third time like I'm meaning legit legit death Because he legit died in three. He legit died in 10. Sorry nine, which um something that I keep going back to when I'm doing my essay is How he died in season nine is technically how he should like that's how he should have died in season 15 They're just trying to regurgitate that death Very poorly Yeah, um, I get that because I I feel like with um, I don't When I was thinking about like what the supernatural finale would entail of I knew that I was gonna be hurt And I knew there was gonna be things that I wouldn't like about it and there was gonna be things that I like loved about it um And with like dean's death I just kind of felt like that was a cop out because there were You know, they could like you said before like they could have had chuck come in maybe like I don't know. I don't really think Chuck could like really hurt sam and dean but like if well without his powers, but like They could have brought him in and like I don't know made something that like follows the like what they just dealt with off season instead of just Oh, they die on a vampire hunt and it's I've always pictured The like their death if they were going to die.  Yeah, they went out fighting. Yeah, that as well as what was something else You, uh, I think you were in in your comp in your list of things to talk about You think that if jack was had become what he was don't you think he would have rid the world of monsters? Yeah, so that was something that um, you know when I think about um I this kind of feels like a chuck ending. You know what I mean? um like tragic so I think that like if jack was to become god Why did he bring back cast? Why did he leave all of these monsters still there for sam and dean? He fixes he fixes heaven, but that's it Yeah, and he says hands off, but he's clearly not hands off Mm-hmm. So I don't know. I thought it was I again though like for three three years of building up a character who was essentially a child um I don't know. I just I never got behind the the the jack thing. I just It I felt I kept waiting for the character to have like an actual importance above being What he was and it always teased at it and then like, oh This is it. This is what you've been like, I don't know if you would actually been building towards this with with chuck I think that you Had an idea and you're like, oh shit But then again dab proved over the years that he didn't have a consistency in terms of keeping to the ideas that he had um he couldn't he was almost like a A dog like that could easily be distracted by something else I felt that Thanks for watching the video My name is nitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic tv show undergrads It's been a while But i'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign But we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie Be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads facebook page and with any luck. We'll see you guys soon


Hi, I'm Mike Murphy and welcome to the short, the news roundup from IBM Research. Announcing the winners of the 2023 IBM Quantum Open Science Prize. Since 2020, the IBM competition has brought together a community to find open-source solutions to big problems in the field, and the judges have selected this year's winners on the theme of quantum state preparation. The submissions were judged on performance, scalability, but most importantly, creativity. First place went to a group of researchers from University College London, and in case you were wondering what the actual task was, teams had to prepare the highly frustrated ground state of a Heisenberg spin half-model on a Kagome lattice using the variational quantum eigen-solver algorithm on an IBM Quantum Falcon device. Try saying that twice fast. IBM WatsonX is getting drafted into ESPN fantasy football. IBM recently announced new features made in collaboration with ESPN to the popular fantasy football app. Thanks to the power of AI built on IBM's WatsonX, 11 million fantasy football users now have access to new personalized waiver grades for their league and trade grades that evaluate the potential benefits of a trade. But unfortunately, no amount of AI power will be able to fix if your quarterback has the seizing and ending injury in the first quarter that they play though. I'm sorry. And in case you missed it, let's learn a bit more about generative AI. Artificial intelligence has gone through many cycles of hype, but even to the skeptics, the release of chatGPT seems to have marked a turning point. It's one of the most popular examples of a generative AI system powered by a large language model. Generative AI refers to deep learning models that can take broad data like all of Wikipedia or the collected works of Rembrandt and learn how to generate outputs when prompted. For more on the latest research from IBM, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter, Future Forward. Until next time.


Once you pick the academic or professional discourse community you are interested in exploring, there are a few places to look to start learning more about your community. A good place to start is by finding a professional association related to your community. Association websites are where members of these communities go to communicate about things going on in their field, like issues in the news, job openings, and publications. It is easy to find associations. Just Google it. If you were thinking about becoming a teacher, you could Google Education Association, or narrow it down to English Teacher Association. If you click on National Council of Teachers of English, you can explore this community. If you click on tabs such as Professional Learning, you can explore issues people in this community are interested in. Another place to find out about your discourse community is by exploring the Occupational Outlook Handbook, found on the library website. To get there, go to the library website at library.usu.edu and click on articles and databases. Since you know the name of this database, you can click on the O. The first result, Occupational Outlook Handbook, is the one we want. Here you will find information on careers within your discourse community. If I search the website looking for anthropologists, I get details on the job itself. What anthropologists do, what training or education it takes to become one, how much they get paid, etc. You will also be able to see similar occupations and related larger and smaller communities within your discourse community. If you need more help, just go to library.usu.edu and click on the ask page or stop by the information desk.


Residents, now continuing with the previous last two modules, this is the third module add the data access layer. In this module, I will very briefly touch upon XML, but I will spend some more time on five design considerations. The purpose is as before to have a wonderful high performance experience and you should retain the visitor on your website. So let me very briefly talk about XML. XML is used for interoperability of data structures across different databases. And when you are designing using XML, I will not get a lot of details, but you should take into consideration the XML reader writers and careful when the data sets are very large and you have to take into consideration indexing also to give performance. So these are some of the considerations for XML. Now let's go at those five design considerations. So as you can see, we have these manageability considerations. Manageability considerations ensure that how you are going to manage and maintain your web-based database applications and performance considerations also, which is obvious. Security considerations are obvious. Deployment considerations. How do you place, engage, install, deploy your wonderful web-enabled database applications and finally the technology considerations because I will show you a table also with reference to technology considerations. The point here is that being a web-based database designer, you should be able to translate, transform, convert the requirements into the technology that if this is the requirement, this technology should be used. If this is the requirement, this technology should be used. This of course will become clear as I show you the table. So manageability considerations use common interface types because if you create your customized interface types, everybody is not accustomed to it. So when you have these common interface types, then it becomes easy to manage your applications, to maintain your applications and use custom entities. Now you see that there's a difference over here. That over here we said common, over here they are custom. They are not the same. Why? Because for certain cases, for the entities, you will use the customized entities to manage, to have your application more manageable, derived business entities from base class. Because the system has been designed based upon certain requirements and your business entities should be based upon those base classes that will make managing your application more manageable, kind of circular. Performance considerations, connection, pooling and simulate load. Now remember one thing, when you pool the connections, the benefit of pooling the connections is that you don't have to repeat certain things. That is one benefit. Simulating the load, I have seen in real life that people come up with very tall claims about how their application is going to perform, theoretically. But simulate the load, please put the load in terms of the number of users, in terms of the data transfer, in terms of the number of requests and so on. That will give you an idea about how your application is going to perform. You are not going to wait till deploying your application and seeing it crash in the worst case. Tune isolation levels of the queries, batching the commands. This I've already mentioned in the previous module also that if you are doing something like this again, again, again, okay, this will take more time. But if you batch them together, then the overhead is amortized across these requests, gives better performance, use optimistic concurrency, try to have execution in concurrency and use the ordinal lookup. All of these things add to a good high performing web-based database applications. Of course, details are there in the notes. Security considerations use Windows authentication. Now a lot of smart people have a lot of time invested into ensuring authentication, which is in the Windows. So a better approach is use the Windows authentication, encrypt the connections. I'll have more about encryption in the subsequent modules. When the encryption is there in the connection end to end, it will, of course, ensure the integrity and the security and the privacy of whatever is passing between the receiver and the sender. I'll have more in the subsequent modules. Use sort hash. Hashing you may have covered in a course in data structures and algorithms. Sort hash adds, uses random numbers to increase the randomness and to distribute the data which is being hashed. And caller should be providing the identity information so that it is ensured that the connection is made from an authorized person or entity. And the data is going to an authorized person or entity. And of course, use string, use parameterization instead of string concatenation, because the string concatenation has the security issues. Deployment considerations, data access and business layer on same tier. When they're on the same tier, there is less traffic across the tiers. And for remote data access, use the TCP protocol because the TCP protocol was built is a transmission control protocol. And data access layer not on the database server. Database server is on the last tier, the third tier where and the data access layer is on not on their tier. Because that not only affects the performance, but the deployment is separated from the bridge between the application layer and the database server itself. So these are the consideration. And the last one is the table which I was mentioning. Earlier, and you can see over there that for the basic support application like this, you need edu.net. And for data driven web application, ASP.net, these are Microsoft specific. Of course, there are other vendors also, which have their own solutions. But I am talking about this ecosystem because there is a lot of functionality and technologies which are available for these types of applications. So you can see that depending upon if you have this requirement, you can use this. If you have ASP.net user interface, you can use a data reader and so on. So as web database application developer, you should be able to translate the end user requirements into the technologies. So that's all I have for this module.


Good evening. My name is Nyam Gul Aghadi. This is News Now. The legal team of the Labour Party, LP, headed by Livy Uzorku, has met with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the commission's headquarters in Abuja to inspect materials used for their February 25 presidential poll. The presidential flag bearer of the LP, Peter Obi, had said in an interview with correspondents that he was not interested in challenging the outcome of the election, but in the process leading to the declaration of Bola Ahmad Tinugu of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the president-elect. The Court of Appeal had granted Livy to OB to have access to all the sensitive materials used by INEC for the election. On Saturday, however, the Labour Party accused INEC of refusing OB's lawyers access to the materials despite the court ruling. We have not received any electoral documents from INEC that will enable us to fight petition on behalf of our clients. And as you all know, election petition is time-sensitive. We have 21 days to file petition on behalf of our clients. Out of that 21 days, we probably have about 10 days to go. And up to now, we have not received any documents. Let's attend this. We have written to INEC requesting for the documents. Apart from that, the Court of Appeal made an order on the 3rd of March ordering INEC to release those documents to us, but we haven't received any. Hence, we requested for a meeting with the chairman of INEC. He graciously granted us that audience within a very short notice, and he has given us assurance, concrete assurance on record, that all documents we require will be made available. And if possible, some of them will be made available to us today. So, and we believe that that will happen. And we are living here, rest assured that, I mean, out of this hall, by the time we leave INEC premises, that the documents, at least we live with some documents, and the rest could then come from tomorrow, next and so on. Get the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


At Audiology Associates at Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. A four-day class was held at Floyd County Emergency and Rescue to teach workers from local organizations how to properly install car seats. On the last day of the classes, a two-hour free car seat check was held for those who wanted to make sure their car seats were properly installed. So today and this week, we're certifying different people from different departments to become a nationally certified car seat technician, which Intel teaches them how to explain to the caregiver how to install a car seat properly, which about 98 percent of car seats installed in the United States are improperly installed. Prestonsburg Police Department, Pikeville Fire Department, Pike County Health Department, as well as other out-of-county and out-of-state organizations attended the classes and assisted in the checking and installation of car seats. Well, you know, child fatality is one of the big things that everybody wants to focus on. We don't want no children to get hurt. And like I said earlier, 90-some percent of the car seats are installed improperly. It's nothing against the caregiver or the parent. It's just these seats sometimes can be a little difficult to install. And in this class, we discuss the importance of different types of seat belts, which in turn works with the car seat. If you have a car seat, you suspect it's not correctly installed. You can visit your local fire department, health department, police department, or KSP posts to get it checked. You can also see where certified car seat technicians are located at SafeKids.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Deen.


Hey guys, Thunder E here, and this is all about the OnePlus 10T. This device right here, because this is a very different approach for OnePlus, especially with the price point, which you guys already know. The 10T starts at $649, which is quite impressive, honestly, for the 8G 128. And of course, that price goes up, as you can expect. But for that price point, you're getting a lot with this device. And as a mobile gamer, that is something to be quite impressed with. Let's start off with the display. 6.7 inches, this is 120 Hertz display, LTPO, you expect that, but you know what, the screen refresh rate is at 1,000 Hertz. Nothing comes close to that, currently on the market that I can think of, mentally. Even the ROG 4 and 6, I don't think so. So which means while you're gaming, it feels really smooth, it glides, it's really comfortable. And honestly, it is super, super impressive. Now, of course, you've got that, the in-built fingerprint sensor is super fast, very responsive, but we flipped to the back where we have this new design. Kind of feels like Saturn in a way, you can hear that. Looks like something, of course, that wouldn't keep fingerprints. I love it, kind of reminds me, of course, of the Kevlar back, but I really like the feel of it. You've got your camera set up on the back with the 50 megapixel main, the Megapixel ultra-wide, the flash. You know, this really, this is all a camera system, but it's not focused on camera, and we're not looking at that in this video. The other videos, you can check out on that. But this houses a couple of things in here. Let's start off with the very first thing, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor. So this is the latest Snapdragon processor, something we saw in the ROG phone 6, which we see here in this device. What does that mean? It means that automatically you're getting better performance than anything that had Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. But it's not just the processor, it's also the cooling they've actually included into this device. You've got the next generation 3D cooling, and you're gonna see temperatures and performance that absolutely blows your mind. So let's just put it this way. I'll just tell you this, I did not get any temps past 109 degrees. Yes, I said that. I'm saying that really important because your Galaxy, your iPhones, all went to 116, 117. Any phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 did that. Even the ROG phone. So just hold that for a second there. So you've got super cool, super great cooling with the 3D cooling system. I'm gonna just tell you what it actually means. It says, this is what OnePlus says about this. It's got the largest vapor chambers with eight dissipation channels, aligned for just better cooling with 3D graphite, up to 50% improved heat dissipation. That's what they say. And you're gonna see the numbers. To get those numbers, we have to play some games. And let's start off with our very first game, Call of Duty Mobile. Call of Duty Mobile, running this at 60 frames per second on the highest settings, and this thing runs really well. Smooth, 60 FPS, you can see it, and that's good. Now we use a game bench, that's our benchmark tool. If you want to, you guys want to use it, use the link down below. So it's running cool, and that kind of reminds me of our wallpaper, right? You saw that earlier, fifth captain, you know, with his eyes sword coming out. It makes a lot of sense. Then we move over to PUBG Mobile. PUBG Mobile, we played the two settings we usually play. First of all, it's smooth extreme. That did 60 frames per second, no issues all the way through, and that was nice. And then we went over to Ultra HD Ultra, and we did a solid 40 frames per second. Again, you can definitely do more with updates. We'll see if developers will actually open this up to actually give us higher frame rates. But before we get to Genshin Impact, let's go over to Apex Legends Mobile, which does a solid 40 frames per second. You can crank it to do 60, but the recommended setting said it was, you know, ultra and high, and that gave us 40. Game played well.  That's probably why I'm winning. But it's a great game. I love it. It played really, really well. Now you're thinking at this time, what kind of temperatures was I getting while playing? Well, playing those three games, my average temperature was around 99 degrees Fahrenheit, roughly around 35, 36, for playing PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, and Apex Legends. Now here's the big one. We went over and played some Genshin Impact. Now Genshin Impact we know is poorly optimized. When you max out the settings, this thing runs really hard. It ran hard on the ROG Phone 6, clearly ran hard there. And this we played for about 30 to 40 minutes. Actually, 30 minutes was what we used for the recording, but later on we played for another 40 minutes. And we got an average frame rate of 46 frames per second. That is better than your Galaxy S21 Ultra, better than the iPhone, better than almost any other device other than a gaming phone. Mind you, this is not considered strictly a gaming phone. It's someone plus 10T, right? We got 46 frames per second and our max temperature here was about roughly 106, to 190 degrees, that's pretty much it. Didn't get any hotter than that. And that is truly impressive. Now, I was excited to see this because while gaming, my hands didn't burn up. It didn't feel super hard. I didn't need to cool the device down. That cooling absolutely works. And also, the game engine works because they have a lot of game features that really go a long way to helping you game properly. They've got a hyperboost engine and they've also got this really cool game center in there. So when, which is pretty easy to access, you go into your game itself, you swipe down from either the left or the right hand corner of the screen and this gives you your game center, right? And here you've got a ton of new features. You can go ahead and set your performance settings. You can do game focus. You can also look at the system stats to show your benchmarks on screen. There's a voice recorder orientation and you can also see your temperature. So you can see the temperatures on screen while you are playing the game. And also use my temperature gun as well, but you can clearly see that there, which is good. Now, this device comes with a dual cell 1,400 milliamp battery. It's a dual cell 7C battery, which allows for faster cooling because it also comes with a 160 watt charging block. Now, the charging is rated 125 watts, you wonder why 160 when it's 125, simple. It's because it allows you to charge effectively at 125. So we did that because one plus said it would take you 20 minutes from 1% to 100. We did zero to 100 and in five minutes, we were already at past 50%. In 10 minutes, we were past 75 and 20 minutes, it was about 98%. But finally it finished at 22 minutes and 37 seconds. Now you're also wondering, what about the device that runs super hot? No, the device stayed at around 93 degrees in terms of temperatures while the charging block did hit up to up to 122. So that is something to take note there.  Say what you want about the one plus 10T. Maybe the camera and some other features for the things that I like when it comes to gaming, this is the best regular smartphone to game on in 2022. It gives you the best gaming performance. It gives you a super fast charging and it does that at a temperature that is acceptable to game for a long period of time. Plus, it starts at 649.  Anyway guys, let me know what you think. If you disagree, leave your thoughts down below. 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