good morning everybody we're here in Winnipeg loading up some lumber it's gonna take us down to Lakeville Minnesota which is southern Minneapolis St. Paul just south of the city there and we'll probably deliver that in there tomorrow and see what they have for us after that I was supposed to pick up some glass but apparently they needed a flat bed and I have a step deck behind me so they might have to find me some other fancy freight to haul they said they'll take care of me so they'll find something for me I'd like to get some miles in I mean I get paid by the load I get paid percentage right so miles don't always mean the most to me I like to see how many nickels are attached to the load that's what means a lot more to me than the miles attached to the load sometimes you can you know have a 2,000 mile load that pays less than an 800 mile load depending on what the freight is but I need to keep the truck moving this truck has been nickel and diamond me this year so far and we're just gonna hope and pray for good things to come in the future so as soon as this truck in front of me here moves I'm gonna move into his position and they're gonna start loading me up I'm gonna tire down and head south this is a familiar road within Southern Winnipeg that I'm pretty familiar with Bishop Brandon countless times when I lived in the area my sisters both used to live in the area too in some of these apartment buildings off to our love 500 meters turn right on St. Mary's RTE 52 Karen you don't know Winnipeg like I do no I'm gonna keep going we're gonna take Lige down why would I take St. Mary's down and you gotta go all the way back down there down the perimeter yet Bishop takes us right to Lige no GPS understands Winnipeg you got to live here to understand the road systems they don't make sense they're starting to look the new developments they're starting to make a little bit more sense but this city was like seven or eight ten different cities that all sort of merged into one at one point and none of them communicated with each other until that point they all sort of built their own built their own road systems and once they sort of bumped into each other they I guess we're gonna figure out how to connect these things now so no freeways or anything running through it like a normal city that would have required planning from the beginning Dakota Street delivering pizzas delivery job now you want me to do it on St. Anne's I can understand that logic but it's still slower cuz St. Anne's is 60 kilometer an hour all the way down to the to the perimeter Bishop is 80 kilometer an hour up to Lige which is 80 kilometers now I don't want to go on St. Anne's I'm trusting Karen any other city makes more sense in 500 meters turn right on St. Anne's Road RTE 150 this road is also taken up beating since I lived here this road was not that bad when I lived here I think they just redone now look at this thing it's a little bit of TLC a little bit of love and attention I've noticed though that they have a lot more walking paths in the area we got to our left over there a lot of nice walking paths that were not here when I lived here not that I was interested in going for a walk when I was like 18-19 I was much more interested in other pointless useless things to waste my time on got all our paperwork and all this road for nine kilometers what a peg but back to our own yard grab the paperwork I needed so it's all clear for the border up through the perimeter here to highway 75 still got their spring weight restrictions on the road so I can't go on every road especially when I'm fully loaded with lumber like this 71 kilometers to go under 500 miles like I said just south of Minneapolis from there turn into I 29 in about 20 minutes for somebody near Minneapolis somebody down there wants to build something I got some wood for I'm gonna bring it to us so they can build it building stuff okay keep building stuff keep doing stuff it gives me something to do this is all farmers fields here and I bet the farmers are hoping to get out there soon start seeding every year every year so we'll see how far we get today yet I'd like to get as close as I can down in Minneapolis but we won't get all the way there we'll go until we get tired while we're down here in the US of a right now Marca you not a straight super Marca look at it look at it doesn't look so much different than canadia look at it tell you one thing the road looks a lot better but that's the only difference I see right now but very nice very very nice and notice how all the water is gone here see the water flows north in this region and we're headed south so all that water that was down here a couple of weeks ago that I was showing you is now up north in canadian surging towards the Lake Winnipeg I believe and then from Lake Winnipeg it drains out down a bunch of rivers towards the Hudson's Bay and then into the ocean and then it starts all over again what a journey what a journey but here we are looks like the farmers are getting their fields back pretty mucky over there still very mucky indeed they're gonna have to wait a few weeks before they seed them guess them but I've noticed further south down in central Illinois where we were at last week farmers were already on the field seeding seems pretty early but I'm used to I guess later seasons because we live up a little further north so gotta wait a little longer yeah the farmers will be itching to get out there I'm sure they're all pulling their air seeders out of there out of their big garages or their barns whatever you call those things air seeders out you know stretching them out making sure they all work properly make sure they're all tuned up ready to go getting the old four-wheel drive versatile going right right some of you farmers down there what are you doing you getting on the fields already or what getting excited give her bud go to town have fun Ross say you see that sign or common stops on our first night I'm gonna be pulling in here and finding a spot to park and calling it a night it's only about it's about five hours from where we started so this is my first day is usually a little tiring on the road I don't know I get used to being at home very quickly there she was oh it's full today oh wow all right okay we'll figure this out usually this full at all do we'll go over to Fergus past Fergus Falls and park at the big chief looks like my spot is still open right here though well we've got our spot I've set up my bed this is where I live for those of you who have never seen my channel I've never seen a truckers sleeper before this is my home a little TV there I got a second bed up there in case the wife wants to come along with me then I sleep up there and she gets the comfy bed down here naturally and now I'm at home a second ago I was at work there now I'm now I'm at home so the commute is pretty bad pretty not bad pretty good not much traffic on my commute but I kind of like it I'm gonna go to bed here now thanks for joining me today short little day but tomorrow be a bit of a better day we got to go deliver this lumber and head towards our reload which we don't know what it'll be yet but we will find out tomorrow so don't forget to join us hit that subscribe button and we'll see you then


loved it, it was great. And then as soon as the game ended, Twitter drama exploded, just exploded. It's like, Elon, I think, was in Qatar to watch the game, because he was showing videos of the Game Plus, there's pictures of him there.  But it was like, I want the attention back on me. It was unbelievable what happened last night and the pace at which things developed last night. So let's talk about that, because that is, I think the number one news story coming out of this weekend is Twitter. Twitter. So, you know, let's talk about it. So I also think I was tweeting about it a lot yesterday and last night, and the response of people is pretty amazing. So again, I've talked about this, that Elon Musk can do no wrong.  All the people who said that about Trump now are saying it about Elon Musk. It is this personality worship that is very, very, very dangerous. And I think it's that mentality that so many people in the US have. And it's not just Trump and Elon Musk, it's also people on the left, I think have it towards figures on the left, certainly they have it towards Obama. And very authoritarian or very in line with authoritarianism and therefore very, very susceptible to authoritarianism. I'll excuse everything that they do. All right. So let's start. You know, I'd be critical of Elon for using polls on Twitter to make decisions. I'd be critical about that for weeks now. I don't think it's an appropriate way to make decisions even for a social network. I think it's not serious. It's not strategic. It doesn't convey a clear policy, a clear agenda. It doesn't convey a clear mission that he has. He's leaving it up to the masses to make crucial decisions. And this happened at the end of last week. It happened, this is December 17th. This is on Saturday. Elon Musk tweeted, the people have spoken. Accounts to dox my location will have their suspension lifted now. Now, it wasn't accounts to dox this location. It was accounts of reporters who reported on the fact that he had banned the people, the guy who doxed his location. Their accounts were restored, at least most of them, not all of them. But that was like, why are you making that decision based on a poll? Why do people's views on this matter? Why don't you have a policy, stick to the policy, and convey that policy and run with the policy? This is my whole argument about needing objectivity on Twitter, on the management of Twitter, on the guidelines of Twitter, on the policy of Twitter. Anyway, instead of that, Elon Musk ran a poll and that poll said he should return the journalists. So he did, for the most part, and he attributed the returning to the poll. So he's elevating now the polls as the way in which decisions are going to be made at Twitter. Then, I think sometime on Sunday, not clear when exactly on Sunday because he didn't tweet about this, sometime on Sunday, another policy change at Twitter, and again discovered because people were canceled suddenly on Twitter. Their accounts were suspended suddenly on Twitter. And then a policy came out explaining the suspension. And this new policy on Twitter was that you cannot use Twitter to advertise or to link, not clear exactly, the terminology wasn't clear. And it's not clear who gets suspended, who doesn't. You cannot link it to, if you're linking to your other social media accounts. So if you say, hey guys, you can also follow me on Facebook, MasterDone, YouTube, I don't know, other accounts like that, you are going to get delisted from Twitter if you do that. Now nobody knew this beforehand. And some of the people got suspended, and then the policy got introduced. The policy came after the suspension, which is bizarre. Anyway, a number of people got suspended, or their tweets got suspended as a consequence of this, because they let people know about the fact that their MasterDone accounts, or they had these other accounts or not. Now maybe this is a justifiable policy.  I mean, it's possible. Again, they can do whatever they want. I'm not saying they can't do it. I'm saying it's fine for them to do it. I'm just saying, I won't like it. And I don't think this is a good way to run a business where you start having these policies without warning people in advance, and then delete them. I mean, let us know objectively what we can and cannot do, and we, if we want to stay on Twitter, we'll try to follow that. I mean, a good example of this was Paul Graham. I don't know how many of you know Paul Graham, but I've been following Paul Graham for, I don't know, a few years now. Paul Graham was one of the most thoughtful, and it turns out respected, venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. He's also a huge supporter of Elon Musk, huge supporter of Elon Musk, and Paul Graham writes these blog posts, again, very thoughtful, very interesting. Don't always agree with them, but always interesting. Anyway, he tweeted yesterday that he was kind of, not yesterday, yesterday or Saturday. Why did, why is this, I had this account, right, I'll get it, I'll get the, I'll get the exact stuff in a minute. Here we go. Why is this all blanked out? Oh, because Fortune, it's a Fortune article and I don't have a subscription, so they, they blanked out the text. All right, luckily, no, I read it earlier, so I know what's written there. I just can't access it again. Huh, interesting. All right, basically, basically what's happening is Paul Graham got suspended from Twitter for saying, look, I'm tired of all the drama on Twitter. I think he was upset at what happened with the doxing and all of that and the suspensions of the journalists. And he, and he basically says, look, I'm a little tired of Twitter right now. I'm taking a break from Twitter. I'm over at Master Dome. Here's my link. And he got canceled. He got suspended. Now, when people let Twitter know that it was Paul Graham and Paul Graham's a big supporter of Elon Musk and after all, it's Paul Graham. He's a big shot. You don't want to do this. I guess his account was reinstated, but that's only because he's connected. My account wouldn't be suspended if I had anything like that. Anyway, so that happened like on, on, on Saturday, maybe Sunday morning, maybe during the game on Sunday, not sure exactly when, but sometime on Sunday. And that's a big policy change. And people were upset, including Paul Graham and including I think a lot of friends of Elon, Elon Musk. And we still don't know exactly what the policy is. So we're still trying to figure out what the policy is. And for example, can I advertise my shows that have been broadcast on YouTube on Twitter? Okay. And then at seven PM Puerto Rican time at least, who knows what time, Qatar time, probably sometime in the morning or maybe from his private jet. I have no idea because I'm not tracking his private jets. I don't know where Elon Musk was at seven o'clock PM Puerto Rican time yesterday. Elon Musk tweets, going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies won't happen again. Now I'm not sure my apologies refers to the doxing, my apologies, policy change, my apologies refers to the advertising of the social media policy change. No idea what he's apologizing for exactly, but I'll repeat going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. So now Twitter is a democracy. It's CEO is going to make policy changes based on the votes of the masses. The reality is it seems that most people on Twitter are still maybe, we'll see in a minute, maybe not philosophically aligned with Elon Musk as you really want to hand them the reins. Is it possible that maybe if you hand the majority of the reins, they would return Twitter to its old ways? Isn't the whole point here that Elon Musk is coming on to imprint his vision of quote, free speech onto Twitter? And that's what everybody is all excited about. Even I was excited about Elon Musk taking over Twitter. And now he's handing it over to the mob. Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. That's Elon Musk, not me. And it's not just about one issue about policy changes. Then that was at 717 p.m. Then at 720 p.m., three minutes later, he posts a poll. Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll. Well, I assume he'll abide by the results of any poll he keeps saying he'll abide by the results and he has so far, at least to a large extent. He might have known the result in advance and he wanted to, you know, Twitter's a headache and Tesla stock is going down and a lot of investors are complaining about he's not paying enough attention to Tesla. And maybe this is a way for his graciously to leave by popular consent.  It's still unprofessional. Is this how you make again, make crucial important decisions in Twitter, including whether you as CEO will remain or not? Is this fair to his investors? Is this fair to the bankers who gave him a lot of money? Is it fair to all of his supporters on Twitter who are being excited and thrilled and anticipating the massive changes he is going to bring to Twitter?  But is this moral? Is this rational? Is this making any sense from business perspective or even from personal perspective? Is this how you manage your life? Now, it turns out that 57.5% of the people who voted want him gone, want him to resign, to leave as head of Twitter. 57.5%. That's a pretty strong, I mean, presidents don't win by that margin. Even popular ones don't win by that margin. That's a big margin. That's a big margin. Twitter is overwhelmingly wants Elon to leave. Now, not everybody on Twitter voted. Only 17.5 million people voted. That's a lot. 17. Now, it could be bots. Some of the speculation is it's bots. But again, why is Elon Musk putting his fate in bots? Now, he was going to leave anyway. Maybe? I don't know. Nobody knows. I know his adoring fan crowd who think this is 4D chess, think he was going to leave anyway. And he's just having fun. No. I mean, again, three minutes earlier, he said, going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. This is the way he believes Twitter should be run. Thank God, or thank Elon, that this is not the way he ran SpaceX. I'm so glad 99.9% of companies in the world don't function this way. And I'm so glad the great innovators in history do not function by vote in determining their fate. Imagine if Henry Ford has asked people if they wanted an automobile. Most of them would have said, no, we just want to bet, you know, if you could improve the breeding of horses and get us a better buggy, that would be great. And I'm so glad Steve Jobs didn't ask the masses whether they wanted an iPhone or not. I don't know. I mean, this is sad. He then, by the way, at 743 tweets, again, this is all in sequence, right? As the saying goes, be careful what you wish as you might get it. Then more revelations about, you know, the Twitter files at 823 from Matt Tibi. And then as people are tweeting, oh, I'll be CEO, I'll be CEO, please have me as CEO. He writes, those who want power are the ones who least deserve it. Does that apply to Elon himself when he bought Twitter? It's just the inconsistency here, the flippancy is flippancy a word. I don't think flippancy is a word. The lack of seriousness, given the importance that Elon Musk has said Twitter represents in the public square, in the square of idea debate, in the position where we discuss and debate. And it's just disappointing. Flippancy, flippant nature. Anyway, flippant nature is probably better. It's just unserious. It's flippant. It's Twitter. It's Twitter. This is why you don't, I don't think you should run a business on Twitter. I don't think you should make decisions about Twitter on Twitter. Twitter might be a good place to announce and then link to the document where you explain what you are actually doing. Twitter is a good marketing place. It's a good trolling place. It's a good poking people in the eye place. It's not a good place for intellectual debate, intellectual argument. It's not a pretty, it's not a good place for decision, for robust decision making. There has to be a backup. There has to be documents and documentation. There has to be thinking. Twitter does not encourage thinking. Twitter encourages responding.  Somebody did that today to me. And my immediate response is, I got to attack, I got to put them down. I got to make them feel as small as possible. Now mostly I resist that. And maybe part of that resistance is, I'm not very good at necessarily putting people down like that. But that's the instinct. Some people can refrain from it and some people cannot. I was told today on Twitter that I have an incredibly narrow-minded and simplistic view of economic demand. All right. And then somebody wrote, well anyway, I won't even read that. Let's see. All right. So that's the story of Twitter. I hope if he leaves, that he has a succession plan in place, that he has an idea of who he would like to be the CEO of Twitter. I hope he brings in somebody serious, somebody strong, somebody who has a real vision for how to creating a platform and how to change Twitter in a way that encourages real debate and discussion and conversation. And who understands the role of Twitter as a platform for marketing, including marketing your, what do you call it, social media elsewhere? One other comment I want to make is the other story that came out just this morning, just as I was starting the show, was another episode in the Twitter papers, in the Twitter files about the Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden files, which I think give another spin to the story. The more I read the Twitter papers, the more I read the Twitter papers, the less I blame Twitter for what happened, and the more I blame the government for what happened. What the government has been doing and what the government is doing and what the government is involved in doing. I think this started with the Patriot Act. It probably started way before that. My guess is that the FBI and the Hoover got involved constantly in the media and in putting pressure and stories and tracking us and violating our privacy in a whole lots of ways. But what happened post Patriot Act is in the U.S., is I believe the government got involved significantly starting with the issue of terrorism in monitoring media, in monitoring social media, and then in telling, and then with the 2016 idea that, you know, the whole idea of fake news, but the whole idea of a foreign power manipulating our election is I believe a bogus idea. If a foreign country creates bots that fill our news feeds with fake news, I mean, the only entity that should be in a position to stop them is you, as a consumer of that news, the social media company, but the government has no business. There's no violation of rights here. Lying is not a violation of a right. Creating fake news is not a violation of anybody's rights. It's not thought because it's not clear what the value you're getting in return is. So I think Facebook and Twitter needed to do a much better job in screening out Russian, Chinese, Venezuela, and Iranian bots, but the government has no job here. And as soon as they took that responsibility on responsibility that both political parties embraced and both political parties thought was their responsibility, on both sides to screen out what news we get from where, once that happens, once that happens, it's a disaster because then they start, you know, so what happened was a Twitter. The first thing that Twitter gets is the FBI, or not the FBI even, the intelligence community, the amorphous intelligence community, telling them that Hunter Biden's laptop might be fake and might be a Russian thing, a Russian plant. So of course they hesitate. Of course they try to bury the story. Of course they're going to act in that way. They get fake information from the intelligence community. They're going to act on it. They don't know it's fake. And as the days evolve and they discover that maybe this is wrong, they are torn and they struggle to make a decision and they struggle to decide what to do. It's not easy. You've got the government breeding down your throat. And again, I go back to what I said the other day on my show. This is not Twitter's fault. This is the government's fault. This is not Twitter censoring by proxy. This is government censorship. It's the government censoring. It's the government censoring through threats.  It's the government censoring through basically, you know, implicit threats. And that needs to be stopped. That needs to be canceled across the board. And that goes for the president of the United States, not telling a businessman that he will go after his business if he doesn't get his newspaper to change his tune about him. Again, both parties are guilty here. Even if it's true, the FBI is dominated by people on the left, and therefore the FBI is much more likely to be in favor of the Democrats and Republicans and use this power in favor of them versus the other party. That's a reality. But it's the government that needs to stop. Separation of government from media needs to happen. You think of free speech. It's not the company's responsibility to have a gun placed at its head and say, okay, but we're sticking to, no, I mean, why don't you have a gun placed at your head? You're not the one to blame. Somebody says the poll was for show. There's no such thing as polls for show when you say explicitly from now on, all decisions are going to be made by poll. And 24 hours earlier, you use a poll to decide who to bring back onto Twitter. That concedes the whole idea of using a democratic means that ruled by masses for decision making. And it is wrong, wrong for business to function this way. It's wrong for politics to function this way. Absolute democracy is wrong all the time. And it is a sanction and a legitimization of that, whether you know what the outcome is going to be or not. It's wrong of him to do that. It doesn't even matter whether big media wants the separation from government or not. I think they do. I think they all do. I think Facebook would jump at the opportunity for the government to stop bringing them in front of Congress and harassing them.  So this is not, that's not the issue. The issue is who is to blame and who is to blame here is government, not business. Any one of those channels, also if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Satya, what plans do you have for the upcoming KubeCon U2023? I'm seriously excited by what we have in store for a KubeCon this year and I think it's going to be truly transformational in this ecosystem. We talked about this in earlier conversations. Today, majority of Kubernetes users are early in the journey of utilizing Kubernetes. They are utilizing the default option, which is the free and open source technology that Verero is built. Verero is an exceptional backup and bare-bone backup and restore solution. It is fantastic, which is why so many of the Kubernetes users are using it today. But it is also probably in my 16 years of being in this industry, I could easily point out this is probably the most complex free solution that has been available to a user. It doesn't carry support. It doesn't carry multi-cluster management. It doesn't carry multi-cloud management. It doesn't carry monitoring and alerting capabilities that people are used to expecting from a backup solution. So if you're an SRE team, these are things that you expect. If you're an enterprise, these are things you expect. But the rest of the world is effectively running that Verero workload today. So how do we meet both these bifurcation in the industry? What we saw is less than 1% of customers are actually running a commercial vendor solution. So that's the 1% that is switching away from Verero. The rest are sticking with Verero and trying to tool their way out to success. At KubeCon, our focus is going to be on delivering a value add to this customer base by meeting them where they are. You are running Verero with success for a small install infrastructure. Perfectly fine. Continue running it. And as you grow, we will help you grow. You do not have to change your product. You do not have to change your process. We will add the layer of monitoring, alerting, multi-cluster management, recovery into cloud, recovery from one cloud provider to another cloud provider, recovering from on-prem to cloud provider. All of these cases that we have built, we are going to enable Verero users to actually take advantage of. So at KubeCon, our focus is in how do we get closer to where Kubernetes users are today? That is undoubtedly using Verero today. So now we're going to figure out how to add value to that customer base and tell them you do not have to switch to get enterprise capabilities on top of Verero. We will add that for you and we will give you the peace of mind and guidance you need to be successful with the Verero install. I think it's unique in our ecosystem and it's the first time someone is getting closer to the free and open source community that is actually deriving plenty of value and threatening traditional models of data protection so far. We're happy to be doing that and taking the first step towards it.


Good afternoon. I'm DAB National Legislative Director, Joy Elum. And I'm Deputy National Legislative Director, Shane Learmith. With us is Representative Mike Bost of Illinois, a Marine Corps veteran who now serves as ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee in the 117th Congress. Today, we're honored to present Representative Bost with DAB's 2021 Outstanding House Legislator of the Year Award. The exemplary leadership and bipartisanship on the Veterans Affairs Committee, as well as his efforts to improve VA benefits and services important to service disabled veterans, their families and survivors. Ringing Member Bost, DAB greatly appreciates your unflinching commitment to tackling a number of key veterans issues which resulted in the passage of the Appeals Modernization Act, as well as the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act in the 116th Congress. You've also championed reform to the Service Disabled Veterans Life Insurance Program, ensured that veterans and survivors receive adequate annual compensation increases, and advocated for changes to the VA's debt collection process. For all of your hard work and dedication to our nation's veterans and their families, we are proud to present you, and personally, from one enlisted Marine to another with DAB's Outstanding House Legislator of the Year Award. Good afternoon, Ms. E. Lim and Mr. Learman, as well as disabled veterans and members, everyone watching this video and virtual meeting. It is a privilege to be with you all today. I hope that we can all meet face to face again very very soon. In the meantime, I'm humbled to be named the DAB House Legislator of the Year, and I want to thank you for the recognition. I appreciate this tremendously. It means a tremendous amount, and as many of you know, this is not my first Congress on the House Veteran Affairs Committee, but it is my first year as Ranking Member. As a proud Marine Veteran, it was an honor of a lifetime to be selected by my colleagues to lead this committee. The DAB has been an invaluable partner the entire time I have been serving in Congress, and I will continue and looking forward to having you work with you as a Ranking Member. I can confidently say that our past legislative accomplishments like the Blue Water Navy and the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act and more would not have been possible without the support of you. Your feedback is critical. That is why I'm grateful for your continued commitment and advocating on behalf of all Veterans, their families, their survivors, especially those from the disabled Veterans community. Without a doubt, there is more work to be done to keep this ship moving forward. This Congress, I want to strengthen services for women Veterans. You're our fastest growing group of Veterans. Find more initiative ways for Veterans to receive mental health. I want to improve the transition from DOD to the VA, and I want to create a pathway to care and benefits for toxic exposures and conduct strong oversight of the new initiatives that we put forth in previous Congresses. I look forward to working with the DAB and our entire VSO community to achieve these goals. Once again, I want to say thank you. This means a tremendous amount to me to have this honor. Thank you. Thank you, Member Bost. Well, we wish we could have been there in person today to present the award. We do appreciate you coordinating with us for this virtual presentation.  I look forward to continuing working with you and your staff to ensure more legislative victories for Veterans in the future. Thank you.


Nobel Prize has done havoc for the subject. And then these top five journals in the top ten. But if you read Francis Ferguson's chapter on Bentham in her book on pornography, the theory, pornography, the theory, she talks of the importance of labeling. To sell something you must have a label. It must be commodified. And research must be commodified. We must be commodified. So there's a lot of pressure on the young, but the really talented young who are not there just as commodities and who are not willing to give up their agency and who are seeking empowerment as scholars. They exist. They exist in great measure. My name is Ali Khan and I am at Johns Hopkins. I have been there since 1973 except for a period of four years. So this question of what is mathematical economics and what has it accomplished is not an easy question to answer because the subject by bringing in two words mathematics and economics has a very fluid identity and is constantly evolving. But if you talk of really not the creation, because the creation comes in the 19th century with Cournot and Walras, but the modern period really begins in the 50s. And so we are talking of the last 70 years. And the econometric society has as its, founding slogans so to speak, was to bring the importance of, was to underscore and develop economics by using fully the techniques of mathematics and statistics. So it was in some sense formalizing economics and mathematics in that sense was a servant to the subject. And then that evolves, that evolves into a technical register and a substantive register. And of course you also attracted mathematicians who use economic problems to pursue the mathematical structures. But economists then relied on mathematics to pursue economic substantive questions. So it is a subject that is constantly tilting to one side or another. And that balancing act is very difficult. And both the importation of the technique and the substantive questions, the technique more than the substantive questions keep evolving. What theory can or cannot say and what mathematical economics has accomplished in making theory speak? And I will not go into what theory is. It is very, it is, it is a very, very interesting question. You see I, Paul Samuelson's dissertation is titled The Foundations of Economic Analysis. And it has an epigraph. And it has an epigraph of Gibbs. And I was recently told that it goes back to Galileo. And it is that mathematics is a language. That is the way Gibbs stated it. And Samuelson writes there is a redundancy. The article is redundant. And mathematics is language. So to the extent that mathematics is language, it is not a recipe. It is, it has all the slippages and the ambiguities of language. And you can have the same object being looked at in different ways. So in some sense, it is formalization of economic questions, more than formalization. It is representation. But as soon as you use the word representation, you are trying to understand something by representing it and giving it linguistic expression. And to the extent that you do so, you are not on firm ground. And there are ambiguities. The same object can be expressed in different ways. A probability measure can also be regarded as a function on the, on the space of continuous functions. An integral can be regarded as a measure. And so it brings, if you are open to its lack of monolithic identity, it allows you to formalize basic ideas, similarity, closeness. It is almost in that sense akin to a photograph or a painting or a novel. Because it must have, and I am now already slipping from mathematics into theorizing, it must exclude and it must focus and include. What it includes and what it excludes can also be theorized. So this is a second order theorizing. And there is no theory for what you exclude or include. Or there is no theory for the theory of what you include or exclude. So there is a cutoff point. Now we are squarely into worlds which mathematicians understand. And that is a recursive dimension and so on. So you say, what has that got to do with economics? Theorizing in economics. And I am now talking of understanding, not prediction.  But understanding, but to understand you have to, you have to represent and the market, what is the market? What is negligibility? Economic negligibility? Numerical negligibility? Numerical negligibility. Strategic negligibility. These are words. These are nouns and adjectives. But mathematicians are adept at nouns and adjectives. Topology. Differential topology. Algebraic topology. Topological algebra. There is play of nouns and words, but different registers. Different registers are opening up. Different perspectives are opening up. You are in a kindergarten. Who gave you the right to play in the kindergarten? Why should we pay you for playing in the kindergarten? Painters later on are paid for their work when golf was not paid. And that is a problem. So that is a problem. So what does you like? You would like just prediction? Marx was learning mathematics. As a way of expression, you must read the sacred book of mathematical economics post-war. There is your ad-debro. But you must read it as a farce. You must read it as a possibility or an impossibility. There is nothing in the book which will tilt you to this way or that way. You are after all human. So it allows representation. It allows reflection. It invites you to think of what is it that you are doing. And because I am a, I am a, I, I might be myself have several identities. I was born as a Muslim in India. And then I was brought by my father, my parents migrated. I was born in Hyderabad. I was raised in Karachi. And then I went to boarding school in Abbottabad, which has now had had some notorious, notorious part to play, especially in the American psyche. But I went to school in Abbottabad. And then in that sense, very linear trajectory. But this playing with identity, so professionally my identity in Pakistan, I was a Urdu speaking Mahajireen who had come from India. But my father originally went to India from Deir Ismail Khan, so from Masiristan. So it's migration upon migration. And there was this, this, this whole business of different identities. And so for me, mathematical economics is precisely that. So there are these registers. So who am I?  I'm not a Valrasian equilibrium theorist. But yeah, in that sense Hopkins has been a very, very formative experience for me. My education really began after I got tenure at Hopkins. And before that I was straight down Frank Hahn type for mathematical economist. But Frank Hahn type, Frank Hahn himself was not a Frank Hahn type mathematical economist. Because Frank Hahn always always talked of my boy, I am a socialist for inter temporal reasons. Because over infinite number of commodities, the welfare theorems don't hold. So the fact that the welfare theorems don't hold in an infinite, in a setting with an infinite number of commodities is the final nail in the coffin of capitalism and so on and so on. And they're very charismatic men. I had two great teachers. One was Frank Hahn and the other was Alan Stewart, the statistician, the famous statistician. And they are so different in personalities. And so that, that was the road. So it's a long, long, long answer to your question of what is mathematical economics and what has it accomplished for economics. Or indeed for human sciences. For human sciences. What has it accomplished? Because now the political science, sociology and I used to rebel against it. But they are using mathematics. And then why not? Because if you have this pluralistic, open-ended, lack of closure aspect to the subject, come. This is, there's no room for fundamentalist dogmatic things. Like I say, you play in the kindergarten. I am amazed at my own recklessness. Because there was this new tool discovered, mathematical tool coming from logic and from modal logic and modal logic. Abraham Robinson's book is dated 1960. It formalizes, gives a rigorous treatment of an infinitesimal and infinitely large numbers, which ironically were used, maybe not so ironically. They're used by Leibniz and Newton when they designed their calculus. And led to Bishop Barclay's comment, which you know better than I do. What are these infinitesimals? Are they the ghosts of departed quantities? And Abraham Robinson said, no, they are like complex numbers. So it comes back to what is Edgeworth's conjecture. And that was part of my dissertation. And Aumann made it precise. Before Aumann Farrell made it precise. It is saying, it's actually a very fundamental substantive claim. If Adam Smith talked of the invisible hand and formalizes in his own way, not mathematics, but in his own way. If you like verbal mathematics, formalizes mandibles, mandibles, private vices, and public virtues, then greed leads to coherence. Edgeworth's conjecture is saying, greed is group rational. Provided you as an economic agent are economically negligible. So what does it mean economically negligible?  What's a large society? There are no large numbers. There is a larger number. You give me a number and I'll give you a larger number. You give me a small number. I'll give you a smaller number. Abraham Robinson says, no, I am going to formalize for you a number system, which is non-archimedean. There are infinitesimals. They can be manipulated. And their reciprocals are infinitely large. So now it becomes an alternative formalization of Edgeworth's conjecture. And I'm now working on a proposal for the Journal of Economic Literature to celebrate the 50th anniversary. The paper was published by Brown and Robinson in 1972. It was at the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, and Koopman sponsored it. And then thanks to George S. Q. Rogan, who regretted it, it's too strong, but did come out by saying these are fanciful constructions. So the Brown, Robinson paper is 1972. My dissertation, 1973. My three first publications are 1974. 1975, I visited LSC, thanks to Moreshima and Amartya Sen and Terence Gorman, Terence Gorman being the main mover. And I remember at the seminar I reported on what was my first publication, one of my only sole publication in econometric. I have been, in some sense, not been part of the top five, so I have been in the interstices. So I was giving a seminar on that. That paper is not part of my dissertation. And Moreshima would not let me speak. And I said, but Michio, let me speak. And he would say, no, because I know what you are going to say. You guys are not interested in economics. You are interested in playing games with mathematics. It's very interesting. It keeps me up at night. Now I am very clear after my turn to the humanities that Michio was wrong. I am now very clear. But Michio was, again, a very fascinating character. He constantly would brag, I have shown Valras as a revolutionary and Marx as a conservative. And so he has a book on Valras and he has a book, as you know. I don't consider myself an economist, really. If I had to, if I had to choose a label, it would be somebody interested in expression, in the human, human sciences, in the human. So my dates at Hopkins are 73 to 82, 83. I went to Cornell in a half and 84 I had resigned. And then I returned to Hopkins 88. After returning to Hopkins 88, I decided I would never closet myself in the economics department. I would never closet myself in mathematical economics. And the first thing I did was to take John Pocock's course. It was not a course in intellectual history. It was a course in methodology where he talked of Quinton Skinner, an intention and meaning. I took a course on Wittgenstein by Dick Flatman. It was all very amusing because I was already, I had returned as a chaired professor. But the graduate students would take to me thinking me, I maybe delude myself but thinking me as a fellow graduate student. And after about three weeks, they would find out that I'm on the faculty and they would consider me on the other side. But those two were very formative experiences. And Sidney Mintz, in anthropology, played a very large part. And it was through them that I went back to my LSE roots. And through them, I then went to history of art and to two language per se. And that has played a very important part of my work. It has enriched my mathematical economics, I would like to believe. I'm not sure whether it's enriched my economics. But history of art and Michael Fried and Francis Ferguson's Sharon Cameron, there is just a whole, just name after name at Hopkins. I'm very much after that a creature of Hopkins. On the engineering side, Reds, Woolman and so on. Interdisciplinarity is in the Hopkins DNA. And in some sense it's now, we are very fortunate that we are going into it with full steam, so to speak. But that's already always been the underlying thread. My teachers were not part of the game. Terence Gorman withdrew a publication from Econometrica because he said, I don't want to use space. Howtaker has done essentially the same thing. They were not using the journals to push the agenda. In that sense a Nobel Prize has done havoc for the subject. And then these top five journals, the top ten. But if you read Francis Ferguson's chapter on Bentham in her book on pornography, the theory, pornography, the theory, she talks of the importance of labelling. To sell something you must have a label. It must be commodified. And research must be commodified. We must be commodified. And yes, so there's a lot of pressure on the young but the really talented young who are not there just as commodities and who are not willing to give up their agency and who are seeking empowerment as scholars. They exist. They exist in great measure. I have never worked with a group as talented as I am working with now. And I remember one of them. I say you must do macro, you must publish in the top journals. And for one year we remained close friends and he tried to do his dissertation in macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics. Finally he said, I can't take it anymore. I don't know what he saw, what pressures were on him. So I want to because some of my colleagues in macroeconomics I found very open.  And he said, I don't want a job. I can always go back as a primary school teacher. He's now tenured at a very good theoretical department and doing very well. But there are people who and you know it goes back to the painters. There was something you painted for the market and something you painted for yourself. So yes, but there is a lot of pressure. And in that sense economics is exercising a negative effect I think.


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Okay. And I'll move that out of the way because everybody doesn't want that. There we go. All right. So first of all, I guess what we should really talk about is why do we want to publish it all in the first place? So to do that, we're just going to do a quick review of what publishing involves and why we would do that. So I've got a very simple console application here and it's a targeting.NET 2.2. Now I know this is about .NET Core 3 and we'll upgrade this project very soon. And so the target framework is .NET Core 2.2 and in the global JSON we're targeting the 2.2 SDK. So if we bring up our command line and we just do a .NET build of this project. It's using the 2.2 SDK and it's building that. And if we have a look at what we get with that, we'll look in the bin debug directory. We've just got our DN3 DLL, our assembly, and we can do a .NET run as well to run this program. And there we go. It's not that complicated. We're just outputting some information about the environment we're running in a hello.NET comp in ASCIIART. I'll just show you the source code there. This is all going to be up on GitHub. We're also referencing a third-party assembly called FIGL here, which does that ASCIIART rendering, which is nice. Okay, so we can run stuff locally. We didn't have to publish anything. So what would we want to publish? Well, let's jump back to our console. And what I've got here is in Docker, I've got some instances of Windows Server nano running. And my D drive in here is mapped to the output directly that I just compiled to. So those timestamps correspond to the current time for me. So I can do .NET and DN3.DLL and oh, it doesn't work. And the problem is that, first of all, this FIGL assembly isn't there. So when I did a .NET build, it didn't copy that dependency in. So let's jump back and do a .NET publish. See what happens this time. Jump back to my server core. Sorry, server nano instance. And now I've got a published directory changing to that. And let's try it again. So .NETDN3.DLL. And this time it thinks about it for a second and it runs. So .NET publish makes sure that we've got all the reference assemblies that we need. The other scenario we might want to use .NET publish for. Well, first of all, before we do that, we're still having to run the thing by calling .NET and then the DLL. So one thing we might want to do is create what's called a framework dependent executable. And the way I do that is I do a .NET publish. Now I need to give it a runtime identifier. So it's going to be win10x64. And I'll just say self-contained. And this time it still outputs to the same directory. If I jump back to my nano image, do a do. And it's not in that directory anymore. It's now in the win10x64 publish directory. And we'll see we've now got an executable there. So we don't need to run .NET. We can just run .NETDN3 and it all runs. So that's a bit of a nicer experience. Okay, what about this other image over here? This is also a nano image. And I'll change into that win10 publish. I hope if I could spell. All right, we've got our executable there. We try and run it and it doesn't work. And why doesn't it work now? That's because this instance of nano doesn't have a .NET call runtime. So the other instance here has actually got the core 2.2 runtime already installed. Whereas this one's just a vanilla Windows nano image. There's no runtime there at all. So what can we do about that? So what we can do is make it self-contained. So turn on true. Let it build again. And now we come over to this machine. We've got a whole lot of files there now. And if I run .NETDN3, it now runs. Because it's got all of the runtime files there as well. Okay, so that was a brief introduction to publishing and what some of the value when publishing in the first place. Now let's see what's new in .NET Core 3. Now that we understand what publishing does. So first of all, let's have a look at .NET build. Jump back to my console. And I actually, before I even do that, Core 3, I need to upgrade my project. So I'm going to comment out 2.2 and uncomment that. And my global.json, I need to uncomment version 3 and comment out version 2. And because this is such a simple application, that's all I need to do. So .NET build. So I'm not even using .NET publish yet. Let's run that and it builds. And let's have a look in the output directory for that. And we'll see some differences straight away from when we did our initial build for .NET Core 2.2. So in 2.2, the build just created the DLL. We've now seen we've got this XE here. The other thing that's different is we've also got the dependent assembly. So we don't even need to run .NET publish to just get those benefits now that .NET Core 3 is providing for us. So that's kind of nice. Okay, if we then... And we can still do .NET publish and it'll create a publish sublet tree. And you can see it's pretty similar. The only difference there is it doesn't have that dev.json file. Okay. The next thing we're going to have a look at is single file executables. So this is something as far as making it easier for you to distribute your application. So rather than end up with a whole lot of files it's going to create one XE. And then when you run that XE on the target computer it self-extracts. Kind of like a self-extracting zip file if you like. And then runs the application and it's smart enough that if you run that XE again the second time the first time it'll take a little while to extract stuff the second time it'll be fast because everything's already extracted. So let's have a look and see how we can make one of these. Okay. So first one is going to do some cleaning up so that you can be confident that there's nothing up my sleeve. I'm just going to clean out my destination directory okay. And so I'm going to do .NET publish and I'm going to set that run time identifier and I'm going to set another property called publish single file. Okay. And then so if we jump over here we're going to jump into the .NET Core 3 there and .NET publish. And so there we go we've got one XE there and so if we run that it runs. And if we run it again it's ever so slightly quicker. It's only a console app so there's not a lot for it to do but the second time around and subsequent times it's a bit faster. So that's kind of convenient. It means that we've just got one file to distribute. Next thing we're going to have a look at is assembly linking. So this is a feature that actually comes from the Mono project originally where we can end up with some pretty large number of files especially when we start including run time files. So it would be nice if there was a way for us to figure out are there some of these assemblies that we're not actually using in our application. So that's what assembly linking does. It analyzes the IEL and static analysis of all the dependencies and figures out are there things that I can trim out and make things a bit smaller. It's something you do need to test because sometimes it may think you're not using something when actually the application does use it by reflection. So it's not obvious via the static analysis that it does. So let's see how we do that. So I'll do that single follow. I'll do that again and I'll pass in another parameter which is publish trimmed. That's true. And just so that we remember, so previously it was 69 meg. And so we're going to do a trim now. We'll also see the extra output on the console here. Just reminding us we've done this optimizing, do some testing just to make sure we haven't broken anything. So it was 69. It's now 27, so it's just over half the size. Does it still work? The answer is yes. I'm not doing anything too tricky in my application so that's not surprising. Whilst we're on the subject of making things smaller, this is not a new feature in .NET Core 3. It actually came in 2.2, I think. Globalization in variant mode, but it's sort of related to making things smaller potentially. So I thought it was worth mentioning here. And so this is something we can turn on in our project file. And so if your application is not making use of globalization sort of different cultures or languages, it's just happy to run with the invariant culture. Then you can turn this on and theoretically by doing that, you can end up with a smaller number of files. So if I run this again, actually I might need to do a clean first before I do that. Let's just see what it did. So it was, sorry, wrong one. Let's scroll back up there. So it was 27, 9, 8, 4, 5, 3, 2. And it's actually a tiny bit bigger in this case. So in my instance, it doesn't really benefit me. I'm not actually doing anything interesting as far as formatting or sorting or that kind of thing. But it's something to try out. It could be useful just to be aware of. The next feature is tiered compilation. So this is a new feature that's enabled by default in .NET Core 3. So now the runtime is able to adapt the just-in-time compiler. So initially it'll do a fast pass through all the code and basically to try and reduce the startup time for application. And then it's able to go back and when it identifies certain code paths that are being used a lot, it can re-jit that code and spend a bit more time optimizing that code as it runs a bit faster. The things to be aware of that is that you can change. So it's on by default. You can also opt in to enable the quick-jit for tier zero. The other thing is you might do some testing and discover actually the tiered compilation in your situation makes it worse. So you want to turn it off. And it's possible to turn it off by setting this property to project or build script as well. Okay, next feature is ready to run. So this is a new feature in .NET Core 3. And what it's going to do is it's going to use ahead-of-time compilation. So rather than relying on all your IL in your application being just-in-time compiled on the client machine, we're going to do some ahead-of-time compilation at build time and include the machine code, if you like, the runtime inside the assembly. So let's see how we do that and see what happens. So first of all, I'm just going to do a clean out. I'm just going to do a .NET publish minus R win 10x. The reason I'm doing this is because I want to be able to show the difference between just the IL assembly and the assembly that has the native code in it as well. So let's have a look. And there's a lot of files in there, so I just want the dn3. Okay, so the current file dn3.dll is about 5K. So 5120. Now if I go out and do another build, and this time I'm going to pass in the p ready, ready to run equals true. Run that, and so now that file has changed to 8K. So the difference there is that we're now including native code, and that native code, because I've done my compilation with the runtime identifier of win 10x64, it's going to be runtime code for that platform. The IL is still included, and so the .NET runtime can still choose to replace this sort of pre-generated native code with better jittered code later on if it wants to. Okay, here's a little comparison I put together. I've got a larger solution than the one I'm demonstrating now. And just to see the size differences with using the different options. So on the left, it's just a simple .NET build, and that produced 46 meg of output. Then when I wanted to produce a single XE, so that also includes the runtime, then we went up to 131. If I just use the trimmed option, then I've got it down to 88. The single XE and trimmed was about the same. If I went to ready to run, so it's then doing that sort of ahead-of-time compilation and generating native code as well, we went up to almost 160 meg. And then if I trimmed that back down again, we got down to 142. So it gives you a bit of an idea, obviously it's going to vary on your application how much different trimming is going to make. But yeah, sort of a bit of a perspective on some of those different options. Okay, we've still got a little bit of time, so one more thing to have a look at is MSI-X deployment. So we've just been looking at sort of plain .NET up until now. But one nice thing that's been added in .NET Core 3 is the ability to have WinForms and WPF applications. And one thing we can do with those now is produce MSI-X packages, so they can be deployed onto Windows 10 and into the Windows Store. So I've got a very simple WinForms application here. It's so simple that all it does if we press F5 is bring up a blank form if we wait for it to build. There it is. Can't get much more simple than that. So if I want to create a MSI-X for this application and I want to deploy it onto my local machine so it appears in my start menu, what I need to do is add a new project. And that project is called a Windows Application Packaging Project. If you go looking for this project type and you don't see it, it might be because you haven't added the UWP workload in Visual Studio. And if you've only just been working with desktop apps, you may not have had that option. So install that extra option in Visual Studio. You'll see this. And then we're going to add one of those. And I'm just going to name that core app before. And you can decide what range of Windows 10 you want to target. The default is fine for me. I can then add a reference from the package project back to the actual WinForms application. I need to make some other changes here as well. I need to set a runtime identifier. So runtime 4. I also need to make sure that when I'm building, these are all x64 as well. So they're all the same. So I'm just going to make an x64 platform there. The other thing I need to do, and I've got a link to this in the sample code that I've published to GitHub, is this last line here. It's placed in different MS build code there. That's also on the docs side. You can read about that. And while I'm here, I'm just going to customize my application a little bit. Now obviously there's a whole lot of stuff here to do with Windows Store. And I'm not going to worry about that because I'm not actually going to publish one. I'm just going to set the package name there. Now let's build that and see if it builds. Thinking about it. Yep, that all worked. So I can now right-click on my package project and I can deploy. Now I'll just show you... I'm going to have to bring my menu back here. So in my Windows menu at the moment, nothing up my sleeve. And jump back to Visual Studio and deploy. I've successfully started and succeeded. If I now go to my Windows menu, I've now got my core app package that's been deployed. And I can run it. That's an amazing application. And just to prove that it really is packaged up as a MSIX or like an Apex package, if I go back to my console and just query using PowerShell, then there is my package there. I can also go back here and uninstall it. So that could be something you might use to submit applications to the store. It also could be used for something to ship stuff around inside your enterprise if you want to use that packaging method as well. All right, so we're coming up to the end of my talk. And so that's the link to my GitHub repo where I've just pushed up the sample code that I've been demonstrating in this talk. Thanks for listening and watching. And if there's any questions, I'm happy to take those now. So we're going to try something here. All right, we're going to do the audio thing. David, can you hear me? Yes? All right. But I can't hear you for whatever reason. That's fine, we're doing... Can people hear me on the stream? Can anyone let me know? Bueller? Bueller? Yeah, can you hear David? You can't hear David. Okay, so echo time it is. So David, I'm going to... All right, cool. Can you hear me now, David? I can't hear you. Can people hear David out there? I'm talking. The ring in Spain falls mainly in the plane. What was that? That's from my fair lady. What accent was that? Oh, I don't know. That's just me speaking. No fancy accent there. I thought you were trying to explain. Perfect. So, hey, there were no questions. Cool. So thank you so much for taking the time to present. It was pretty cool. People were talking about the awesome ASCII graphics you were having in there. So if all that's part of the demo, like I told everybody, we're going to post this. Yeah. And we'll go from there. All right. Thank you so much. We'll hang out. Thank you. And we'll get Surab, our next speaker, going up. Thanks, everybody. Great work, David. Thanks. Bye.


Well, I'm delighted to win this award. A few months earlier I completed 45 years of my working life, but I must say I still feel very young. I think thanks to our young advertising industry. And I would like to tell the young people who are in advertising and in media that there is no better place than to be in India and in advertising and media. It's common knowledge and the whole world believes that the next decade is the decade of India. It's also common knowledge that India is an under-advertised economy. The advertising spend is less than 0.4% of the economy and is bound to at least double over the next maybe a decade or so. So everybody who's in advertising and media in India is in a very good place. There may be a few challenges here and there. There may be temporary pressures. But I would advise them to have patience and the fruits are going to be really rich.


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On 1st November 2017, the NTPC had its biggest accident ever when a boiler furnace exploded at the Unchahar thermal power plant in Uttar Pradesh. The death toll from the explosion has risen to 37 while more than 80 people have been seriously injured. Sources say that unit number 6 of the plant where the boiler exploded was put under commercial operations hurriedly on 30th of September 2017 when even the trial operations were not over. It is alleged that the hurry was because the Prime Minister was supposed to inaugurate the unit on 9th November. The question is how could this boiler explode when both the BHEL which built the unit and the NTPC are familiar with these units for the past 40 years or more. Let us look at the sequence of events leading to the blast as pieced together by news click from various sources. This is a boiler and this is the bottom ash handling system from where the non-combustible residue is released as hot ash. According to sources, there was a problem of clinkering taking place in the boiler. Clinkering is when the ash becomes solidified almost like blocks of cement. The clinkers choked the bottom ash hopper leading to a huge buildup of ash inside the boiler. As a result, the pressure inside the furnace started increasing. So, the NTPC officials tried to bring down the load. At the same time, they attempted to remove the clinkers manually by inserting steel rods through the manhole doors and the bottom ash hopper, a process known as double poke. It is crucial to note here that at this point, it appears the NTPC officials bypassed the boiler protection by disabling the master fuel relay trip which cuts off fuel supply when the pressure gets very high because they wanted the boiler to keep running. As a result of the double poke, huge mass of clinkers fell down creating unstable conditions inside the boiler because of large pressure fluctuations. This led to the water walls being cracked and unburned coal particles got carried over to the rear pass of the furnace. In the rear pass, the unburned coal particles caught fire leading to an explosion in the economizer. Hot flue gas, ash and steam came out of the economizer area causing extensive burns to the 300 odd people who were working in the vicinity of the boiler. Why was the boiler protection bypassed? Why were there so many workers around the furnace? Is it because work on the unit was still pending, as sources say? Why was the unit put under commercial operations when it was not yet ready? Only the NTPC has the answers.


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