Hello and happy holidays. I'm Kristen Folletti and thanks for joining us at Newsdesk on Silicon Angle TV. As 2012 comes to a close, we're spending some time reflecting on the stories this year that have had a significant impact in the tech world. Join us today to provide a review on the top mobile and consumer trends of 2012, along with predictions for the year ahead is Silicon Angle Newsdesk editor, Kristen Nicole. Welcome back, Kristen, and thanks again for joining us. Absolutely. One of the major announcements in the tablet market this year was the introduction of Microsoft's Surface. What are your reactions to the Surface's slow adoption and what are your thoughts on the Surface's impact on the BYOD trend? I think that there's been a lot of expectations for the Surface, specifically to the BYOD trend. We spoke earlier about Mark Hopkin's theory about how this combination of Windows 8 and tablets that support it could kill BYOD because it can provide businesses a device that they can purchase on behalf of their employees and control the experience a little bit more in installing that security that they have kind of lost, not lost a grip on, but had faced some challenges with the iPad entering the workplace. Microsoft Surface is, of course, an answer to that. It's just a matter of how long it's going to take to become a fully integrated option. One thing that is concerning about Windows 8 is it's a new operating system. There's a learning curve. It's going to take a while for businesses to completely replace all of their existing Windows devices or whatever other devices they may be looking to replace with a Windows 8 tablet or a hybrid, whatever the case may be, and then also it's going to take some time for people to get comfortable with it. So even though it's Windows and a lot of us are familiar with Windows interfaces, it's still new. And especially when you talk about the tablet experience, there's some things that are inherently better about a mobile device and a tablet. Windows can, Microsoft, rather, I think they need to work a little bit on how they can take advantage of the fact that this is a mobile experience. One thing that is good for them, they've included this new Metro UI. It's a little bit fresher, a little bit more modern, but then you also have the traditional Windows interface that we've grown to knowing love from the desktop experience. So a lot of potential, I think. What are your predictions for Microsoft's market impact in 2013? One of the great things that they're doing is looking at the hardware and the software side of the market and trying to combine that as best they can. So they've come out with their own device. The Surface is their first real entry into the mobile hardware market and even though they've made other hardware in the past, you think Xbox, there's also a range of peripherals that they've manufactured over the years, but for the mobile market tablet, this is their first go at it, and they also are ensuring that their software is accessible on as many devices as possible. That includes partners like HP and Dell that also includes rival platforms like Apple and Android. So I think that on the mobile side, their strategy, it sounds like a good strategy to me. Then they've also broadened this beyond just the mobile market and even beyond the enterprise. So they're rolling in all of their consumer offerings, looking to take over the home entertainment space even more so than they already have with their gaming console and bringing it all together into a unified experience. So whoever can own that complete user experience, the whole consumer package, Apple's trying to do this with they have iTunes and iCloud and they also have their own devices, the iPad and the iPhone. Google's doing this now as well so they've rolled out with Android and they've also come out with their own tablet and smartphone and home entertainment device. There's a lot of huge land grab right now and everyone's kind of making a play for it. Going back to Google, their first hardware device, the Nexus 7, had a successful launch and was followed by Google's smartphone, the Nexus 4. How has Google done in establishing themselves in the consumer electronics space thus far and what are your predictions for their future in this area? They've done pretty well so far at least from market demand. I don't think they've released any exact numbers on how many devices they sold but at least they have the bragging rights of selling out their inaugural devices very quickly. So the Nexus 7 sold out pretty quick. The Nexus 4 I think it sold out even faster within 24 hours across two countries. So there's demand for these devices. They've included some perks like offering unlock devices, worked with some partners like Samsung to create devices that are in a comfortable price range for a very broad consumer base. This has been a good strategy for them so far and as they're entering the hardware space they're going to really find more opportunity in that regard. And the thing about Google, they don't necessarily have to rely on their hardware efforts as much. They're still they're still very strong on digital content, software content and offering up their Android platform to other partners. Moving forward my predictions specifically to Android's operating system I think we're going to see it become available for even more connected devices in the future. So that will really give Google yet another opportunity to create these points of interaction with their consumers and tie that data back into some of the things they're doing with personalized data services and recommendations, things of that nature. Nokia made some interesting mobile plays this year in an attempt to re-enter the mobile market with their here mapping app and the launch of the Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone. What do you think about Nokia's stance in mobile and how did they do in 2012 overall? It's debatable how they did from the consumer perspective. You don't see too many people with the the new Nokia devices on the global scale. It seems they've done pretty well in the Google zeitgeist that came out early in December, mid-December. They were on they made the list of top 10 for consumer gadgets. So there's been a great deal of interest in what Nokia is doing. They remain a significant force on a worldwide scale and they've teamed up with Microsoft to try and regain some of their dominance in the mobile marketplace. They still have some really great devices, great cameras on their smartphones and it's clear that they do put a lot of effort into the devices that they make. It's just a matter of how quickly can they catch up with some of the other offerings from Apple and Google's OEM partners. So it's going to be iffy for them moving forward. They've had some other issues they've had to sell some of their their property in Finland. They've also had to let go of a lot of their workforce. It's an opportunity for them to restructure. Working with Microsoft has been an opportunity for them to restructure their partner channel and figure out the best strategy moving forward. Something we've discussed regularly on our program is the idea of the post-PC era. Mobile chip advancements are becoming extremely important as companies like HP and Dell look to save their PC businesses with hybrid tablets and tablet targeted for the enterprise. What new strategies do companies need to adopt to stay afloat in 2013 and how has the post-PC era impacted BYOD trends? It's significantly impacted BYOD. HP and Dell, they've seen some of their primary markets have gone, seen a really big decline in the past 12 months and even a little bit longer than that. So you've seen HP and Dell completely reshift their thinking, their strategy. They've anticipated this to a certain extent. They've spent a lot of money on acquisitions and product development kind of getting ready for the post-PC era. They've targeted the enterprise with storage solutions and software services consulting. This is an end-to-end solution that's really built out their portfolios and hoping to take their businesses to the next level. Now you look at a company like Dell, they're still really bullish on their PC. So they are looking to things like hybrid tablets to really become the best of both worlds and represent that transition that we're making into the post-PC era. So even though we're not having PC purchases and behavior like we used to, there's still a lot of things that we need PC functionality for. So the post-PC era, at least from HP and Dell's perspective, is hopefully going to be something where we have full PC functionality in a more mobile experience. It's an evolution of the PC. And I think that's a good thing. There's lots of things that you can do. When the iPad first came out, I was hoping I could ditch my laptop and just use the tablet. But there's software that you can't put on your tablet that you may need for work purposes. And there's several things that as much as the tablet can do well, there's just as many things that it can't do at all. So really combining these the best of both worlds, it's going to be a great strategy for companies like HP and Dell. And it could completely reshift their position in the consumer market. In terms of the post-PC era, who's winning in the global market right now? I have to say that Lenovo has been a really, really staking their flag in the land here. They've taken over, they've unceded HP and Dell as far as PC sales go. So while Dell is saying they're bullish on PCs, they've still seen a decline in that market while Lenovo is still just kind of forging ahead. And Lenovo's also taken a very diversified strategy in incorporating smartphones into that mix. They've got really strong positioning in some of the Asian markets like China and they're just for the smartphones in particular. And they're really looking to push this on a global scale. Kristen, the Samsung Apple legal battles over patents were a hot topic we covered with you this year. What kind of impact have these ongoing legal battles had on the tech world? And what do they mean for the future of innovation? Innovation is the key word here. So Apple is really pushing that they're the innovators and to the point where it's gone to court. The presiding judge for many other cases in the United States, Lucy Ko, she has really expressed her frustration with these ongoing legal battles. She wants them to make peace, figure it out, find a way to work together. You're in the same industry. You're actually partners with each other. You've got to find a balance here. So this is really going to ultimately set some precedence as to how the patent system works out legally. It's also setting some precedence on what we consider innovative. There's competitions, always a good thing when it comes to the free market and consumers, they vote with their wallets. What do they end up buying? Samsung had a great year in 2013. They came out, they're their flagship Galaxy S devices in its third generation now. Some stats and some instances they've been able to overtake the iPhone. So it's really going to be, this is kind of setting the stage for how a lot of these legal battles will proceed in the future, how companies are going to be able to work together, particularly in consumer electronics. Prior to the launch of Windows 8, the blogosphere was buzzing with negative reviews and criticism surrounding Microsoft's latest platform. Now that Windows 8 is in consumer hands, what are people saying and what do you think about Microsoft's strategy and what will be in store for them in 2013? Hopefully we'll see some usability improvements in 2013. I've gotten a chance to play around a little bit with some of the Windows 8 devices and it's like I mentioned earlier, it's a new experience. They actually come with little manuals that give you a cheat sheet of how to do things like share media and as far as their interface goes, there's I think their dual offering strategy between Metro UI and the traditional, I think that's probably smart. It really appeases to the consumer that's grown up with Windows and their strategy for cross-platform access is also going to be extremely important. I think it's good for them. They're not really trying to force the consumer or the business to have Windows software and Windows devices and with these rivaling platforms right now, Google, Apple, Microsoft, there's some others on a global scale. There's several others, other platforms that we're going to have to to consider here. I think that similar to what we saw with social networks like Facebook and Myspace and YouTube and Twitter and Google Plus, the days of the wall gardens is over and we're really going to see this mentality break down in the mobile space as well. So software is going to kind of reign here. Devices will become less and less important. Like which device do you have will become more a matter of consumer preference and software is going to be software and services even at the consumer level will become increasingly important in 2013 and beyond. Well, Kristen, thank you so much. Once again, I'm going to stop you for time purposes and I'd love to pick up on this discussion tomorrow. Sounds good. But thank you so much for your time. So for part three of our holiday News Desk segment with SiliconANGLE News Desk editor Kristen Nicole, tune in tomorrow to News Desk on SiliconANGLE TV.


Hello, welcome to the NPTEL course on laser spectroscopy. My name is Anindya Dutta. I am a professor of chemistry in IIT Bombay. This course which is mainly meant for PhD students who are interested in ultrafast spectroscopy is in our institute often credited by our MSC chemistry students in their final year and sometimes by a bachelor of science chemistry students as well. So, the idea here is to understand how lasers work and how they can be used especially ultrafast lasers to understand interesting phenomena in chemistry. You can say that this is following laser physics from the perspective of a chemist. So, what we will do here is that first of all we are going to introduce why we need to study ultrafast processes in the first place. Then we will spend a considerable time in understanding how ultrafast pulses are generated, measured and what one can do with them. We will study several experimental techniques like time correlated single photon counting, transient absorption and femtosecond optical counting. We will also discuss rudiments of non-linear optics because you cannot really do laser spectroscopy without using non-linear optical elements in some form or the other. Finally, when we are done with discussion of the equipment in not in much detail. As I said from a chemist perspective, we are going to discuss some phenomenal experiments that have defined this field. So, the idea of this course is to generate interest among students who might later on want to take up careers pursuing problems that are followed by laser spectroscopy in general and ultrafast processes, ultrafast dynamics in particular. I hope that this course will be a good learning experience for all students. Thank you.


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This is your narrator, the man in black. Again about to introduce tonight's Columbia program, Suspect. The story is The Piss in the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. The adaptation by John Dixon Carr. Our guest is the distinguished American actor, Mr. Henry Hull, who plays the part of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure to hold you in a precarious situation and withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so it is with The Piss in the Pendulum and Mr. Hull's performance, we again hope to keep you in suspense. And now, The Piss in the Pendulum. And her death was a long agony. And when at length they unbound me and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy, indeterminate hum. Yet for a while I saw, but without terrible exaggeration, I saw the soft and nearly imperceptible waving of the sable grape trees on the walls of the room. I saw the flames of the seven tall candles which burned on the table. I saw the lips of the black hooded judges, and these lips appeared to me white, white as paper, white as horror. I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name. John Delbray, Captain John Delbray. Good fathers, gentlemen. We hear you, my son. I am very weak and infirm. I've been confined for many months in a dungeon. I've been tormented by nightmares. Conscience one trusts. Pray silence, sir Antonio. Even now I have no knowledge of where I am or to whom I may be speaking. You are speaking to me, my son. I am Fr. Pedro de Espela, prior of the Dominicans of Segovia and Grand Inquisitor of all Spain. Is this the court of the Inquisition? It is. Oh, then God help me. He will help you, my son, if you trust him. I am a French officer. That is true. A soldier and creature of the art being Napoleon Bonaparte. But a French officer nonetheless. A prisoner of war. But what might you try me in this court? Let the clerk read the charges against this prisoner. Pray silence while the clerk reads the charges. The charges against the prisoner are as follows. Imprimise that he is one Jean d'Albray, a captain of artillery in the army of Bonaparte, so-called Emperor of the French. This means nothing as the prisoner says. It is no crime. Proceed. Items that on the fourth day of September in the year of our Lord, 1888, that Saint Jean d'Albray did wear a spouse and married the most noble lady, and ward of the electorate. One moment. Your excellency, folks. Antonio, will any cheat employed to trap this girl into marriage against her will? No, we have no actual evidence of any cheat. Was the girl of age? I believe so. And wherefore is the prisoner here? This marriage was a deplorable thing, if you like. Bonaparte himself is almost at the gates of Madrid. He is general. Menace is our city of Toledo itself. But lawful marriage, however, regrettable, is no sin or crime. There are other matters in the indictment, I think. Then continue. But give us nothing that is not material. Item that on the 12th of October, 1888, that Saint Jean d'Albray, being in command of a five-gun battery of light artillery, did direct the fire of his guns against the Holy Church of St. Martha the Innocent. What? The fire by of his wicked malice destroyed that church utterly. Captain d'Albray, is this charge true? It is, yes. You admit it? Good Father, hear what I have to say. The church blew up, I think. Would you boast of your opinion, man? It blew up because it was stored with kegs of gunpowder for your army. I had every right to file on it. And that is all the defense you have to make? I tell you, I had every right to file on it by military law. There was military law above God's law? I don't know. I did my duty, that's all. Long live the Emperor! Captain d'Albray, mark what I say. No man, however great his heresy, is ever condemned to be burnt in the fire. The fire? The fire. If he first recant and acknowledge the error of his ways. But for you, Jean d'Albray, there can be no mercy, no pity, no atonement. The only sentence of this court can be death. Death? Yes. The secular, a government arm to which we must release you has devised two ways of punishment in cases such as yours. You hear the tolling of the bell? I hear them. It is the procession of the contempt going to the autotaphe. Soon the yellow light of the flames will stream through the windows and flicker on floor and ceiling. Nun c'et in or amortis into his mandibus domine. Most of those condemned out of mercy will be strangled before they are burned. It cannot be so with you, Jean d'Albray.  Or else, Jean d'Albray, you must die in a certain other way. I've done with this past your sentence and let me go. The Lord does not permit me to tell you now what this other way is. The sentence of this call, therefore... I had swooned. Yet still, I would not say that all of consciousness was lost. In the deepest slumber, no. In delirium, no. In a swoon, no. In death, even in the grave, all is not lost. There are shadows of memory which tell us indistinctly of tall figures that lifted me and bore me in silence down, down, still, down. Until a hideous dizziness oppressed me at that descent into the earth, then, as consciousness swam back to my wits and dark, Beatrice, was that you who spoke? Yes, Jean. You were here in the dungeons of the Inquisition. I am not really speaking to you, my poor Jean. I am only in your imagination. I'm not mad, then. No.  You only think you hear. No, no, no. I do. I do. I hear you clearly. As clearly as I once heard you. In the little church near the Abrow where we were married. Yes, yes, yes. I destroyed that church, Beatrice. I had to. It was my commanding officer's order. I know, Jean. Be comforted. There are those who care. You won't leave me. As long as I am in your heart, I shall be here. I was strong once. Now I am weak. Once I was reckless. Now I am afraid. What am I, Beatrice? What are you going to do to me? I cannot tell. Remember, my voice comes only from your own brain. Are you fetid? Fetid? No. They've not chained you to the wall. No, no. They take it away by uniform. They've given me sandals and a robe of what feels like coarse surge, but I'm still free. Free. Take courage, Jean. Free. And in the grasp of the inquisition, Beatrice. Yes, Jean. It's completely dark. There's hardly any air. I dread to get up. I dread to stretch out my hand. Suppose... Suppose you've buried me alive. Courage. Can you stand up? Then walk. Walk as far as you can. Measure the limit of the cell. If this is not a tune... You're right, Beatrice. That's always... I'll find... Are you on your feet? Yes, now. Now pray. Pray for a poor devil who always meant well. One pace. You are very weak, Jean. Rest a moment. Where are you now, Beatrice? In the flesh, I mean. You know that, Jean. In the old house by the olive grove, scorned of my peat. Yes, I know it. Each morning I climb to the hilltop and watch you.  Sometimes I think I hear gun-wheels rumble in the hills and long-moving collars with the red dust rising above.  First come the heavy cavalry in plume-crested helmets on their flanks, wheeling like hawks, light hussars in blue and scarlet. And behind them, bayonets as vast as light points on the seas, rank upon rank the long grey coats and the tall, bare-skinned cats. The old God of the Grand Army! It is only a vision, my dear one. They do not come. Ah, will they? Will they ever come, Beatrice? I cannot tell. Then I must face what has been prepared for me.  It's rope, it's rope. It impedes me, and the floor is treacherous with slime. But I'll try. Four pieces. Five. It can't be a tomb. Eight. Nine. Look out! My hand is in front of me. It's lower than my face, but I... I feel... I feel nothing. Nothing, John. It's a pit. A circular pit. And I fell on the very edge of it. Oh! They would have made you walk into it. Oh, there's a loose fragment of rock just inside the edge of it. If I can dislodge it. Listen! Rats, it made me. Rats, yes, but something else. I heard it move. Who did I? What is in the pit, John? I don't know. But you're saved! Saved? Saved from the Inquisition? My torture has been merely postponed. A deep sleep fell upon me. Sleep like that of death. How long it lasted, I know not. But when I opened my eyes once again, I could see. Yes, see. My prison was large and lofty. Its walls formed a massive iron place, bolted and joined together. A wild, sulfurous lusker. I could not trace its origin, lit up the dungeon, and the circular pit, and the crudely dogged skeleton figures painted in evil colors on the iron walls. Skeleton figures, demon figures, gargoyle figures. Their colors a little blurred, but from the effects of the damp, it must approach you slowly and force itself into your mind.  When I regained consciousness, I lay on my back in a full length on a low framework of wood. Through this framework, I was securely bound by a long, fastening, resembling surgical bandage. Bound, but why? Why? The bandage passed round and round my body, leaving in liberty only my head and my left arm. With much exertion, I could supply myself with food from an earthen dish on the floor beside me. There's meat highly seasoned, but there was no water. Beatrice, Beatrice, where are you? Your voice sounds stronger. Does it, John? And I, I can see you now. I can see you as clearly as I saw you months ago. Oh, I wish it were true. You're bonnet and a pedestal you carried in summer in the high-waisted blue dress. You are weaker, my dear, and more fevered. I, have I been asleep? Yes, John. They must have been here while I slept. They bound me. Why? Why? Why? Why? Stop those voices! Stop them! Mine, too, John. I am not here either, you know. Don't drive me away. Beatrice, Beatrice, look, look, look. Where? At the ceiling of this room. 30, 40 feet up what you see. I see painted on the ceiling. Figure of Father Tyne. Anything else? But Father Tyne carries no sign. No. He carries instead what looks like the gigantic pendulum from an ancient clock. About one thing I swear I'm in my right senses. I saw that pendulum move. A painting cannot move. Yet I swear that pendulum did move. It swung a little back and forth, just like a real pendulum. Try not to trouble your brain. That pendulum is real. Beatrice, Beatrice, take care. Take care of what? You're not looking at the pendulum now. Take care of the rats, the rats, and the pit. I see them. They're thawing out in dozens. You can see their eyes glitter. One of them ran across the hem of your dress. Did it, John? What do they want? They caught the scent of the meat in the dish beside you. But they'll not get it. Go away, you vermin! Move your hand above the plate, John. Move! Beatrice, Beatrice, where are you going? I could hardly hear you. You are sending me away, John. I am sending you away. Oh, my poor loved one. You can't bear to see the rats running about mightily. I'm with vermin. There are others I'd rather see here. I'd rather see here. You call me Captain Dalbrae. Then, in spirit, I am here. Who are you? You want to recognize me? No, I do not. I am that second inquisitor, Frau Antonio, whom you thought unfair as your trial. But we were not unfair. We administer the law. That is all. Oh, I command you. Oh, not until I have first told you what you already get. Which is? There are two forms of death for such as you. One, death with its direst physical torture. The other, death with its direst mental torture. And I have been condemned to the second. Your guess is good. Listen. Do you hear anything? Yes, yes, I do. I hear something. Turn your eyes upwards. Look at the ceiling. The pendulum. Aye, the pendulum. It's descended. Only a foot or so for the yet. As you notice, it is not really a pendulum. It's on the side, it's a crescent. Formed of sharp, of razor-sharp steel. You mean? A ponderous weight, Captain Delbray. Its movement is slow now. But soon it will take on momentum. It will swing wider and wider. 30 feet, perhaps. Presently, as it swings, you will hear it hiss. And with each broad movement, it will creep a trifle lower. Steel is directly above me. Yes. But the region of your heart lies still and looks up at it. How? How long before? You need have no immediate fear. It will not be too soon. But how soon? Who can tell? In the name of pity, give me some answer. How? Perhaps days. It's beginning to swing wider. I, I can't take my eyes from it. It glitter, fascinates you. See how it shines in that wild light. And this is your utmost refinement in cruelty. The law, Captain Delbray, is never cruel.  It will not be too soon. Minutes, hours, days. Steadily down, it crept. Days passed. It might have been many days before it, it swept so closely. Just a fan made of this morbid breath. Minutes, days. The odor of the sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils. Right and wide. With the shriek of a damned spirit. With the stealthy pace of a tiger. Hurt him lay relentlessly down. I, I prayed. I willed heaven with my prayer of its more speedy descent. I grew fendically mad and struggled to force myself up against that swinging, bittering death. Oh, no real. Still unceasingly, still inevitable, down the sharp steel fast past within three inches of inches. Colling John, I am here. I'm quite calm. You are residing. No, that is the strange thing. Even now I am not resigned. Is there a way out? How can there be? Ten, twelve more vibrations and will fray the surge of my robe.  There will be many sweeps before it bites deep. No, I can't escape it.  You locked me out of your thoughts. If I am here only in your thoughts, why should I fear the rats? Rats!  What is it? Rats! Do they still swarm here? Cross the floor and over the meat platter. They have taken nearly all your food. Yes, yes, yes, of course they are ravelous and they have sharp teeth. Well... The meat is oily and spiced. If I take what remains of it, scatter you famine and rub that meat on the bandages that hold me here. Try it, John, try it. It may be too late because I need my body a fraction of an inch up. Try it, I tell you, try it. Ah, look, look this. Tell her as soon as I do try it. But they are watching you. I can see their eyes glistening. They are creeping back. Can I stand with rats crawling across me? Can the flesh... Where is it? One of them has leaped on the wooden framework. Another follows. They are gnawing at the bandage. Seven, eight more sweeps of the pendulum. Until the bandage give way. Lice still shine lice still. Ten, twelve, a dozen rats now. Is death, I wonder, worse than this distress? A dozen sharp knives could do no better. The bandage is loosened to ribbon. Now if you move sideways, carefully, and drop to the floor. There are bitters I can't move. My arms, my legs are numb. There is no power. The steel has braided your robe. A minute more will be too late. Then with all the sprinklers in me, and all the hate that I bear, my enemies... A frame! A second frame! They are drawing it back up through the loo. Each move I make, they watched.  They will not. No more dallying with a king of terrors. What else can they do? I can't say. See, see how the rats know in silence that bandage? To what food, I wonder? But you escaped the pit. I escaped it once. What do you hear? A groaning. It's grinding as a metal. It was only the cog wheels of the pendulum. I think not, Beatrice. Why not? It seemed to come from behind those iron-plated walls. It seemed to shake the dungeon as a mill wheel might shake it. Stand up, my poor Jean.  I can't, Beatrice. I can't endure it anymore. The paintings on the walls of this dungeon, the skeletons and imps and devils, they seem different. They are different. The colors sharpen and grow bright. The demons' eyes glare. The skeleton hands out stretch. Don't you catch even yet the odor of heated iron? Heated iron? Beatrice, my darling, I... I have been much humbled. But I won't. I won't have you see me in tears. I'll order you to go. John, in the name of heaven... Beatrice! ...you're sending me away. Yes, yes. The forcaging heat pervaded the prison. A deeper glow settled in the painted eyes that glared at me. I could draw no breath of air into my lungs. Against the loom of that fiery destruction, the thought of the pit and its coolness came like a soothing bomb. I staggered to the edge of the pit. I looked into it. The enkindled walls and roof lighted it with depths. Yet for one wild moment, even then, I refused to believe the horror of what I saw beneath me. Does the pit please you, Captain Dalvray? Does the pit merciful God do anything but that? And how shall you avoid it? Look, has changed its shape. That is true. All are closing in. It was formerly a square, and now it is flattening. Sorry toward the center. To force me into the pit. Of course. Ah, well, to force you along with me. Again, apparently, you must be told, Captain Dalvray, that you are speaking only to your own sick fancy. I am not here at all. Farewell. And how? Now, closer and closer, through the red-beburning walls, forcing me into the pit with a swiftness that left me no time for thought. I shrank back with the closing walls, pressed me relentlessly onward, at length for my seared and writhing body that was no longer an inch of foothold. I, I've been one. I started on the edge of the pit. The early walls rushed back, and outstretched arm caught my own, but I was about to fall, creeping into the abyss. It was that sub-general La Salle, the French army had entered Toledo. The inquisition was in the hands of its enemies. The closes posed celebrated story, the pit and the pendulum, starring Henry Hull. We invite you to another adventure of suspense next Tuesday, at the same hour. Until then, this is The Man in Black, saying good night. William Spear, the producer. John Deets, the director. Bernard Herman, the composer-conductor. And John Dixon Carr, the author. Our collaborators on... Suspense. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at an impairment loss exercise that could appear on the CPA exam or in your intermediate accounting courses. I want to make sure you understand. So this is impairment loss for a physical asset because we have impairment loss for intangibles. We have impairment losses for goodwill. So we are dealing specifically with a piece of equipment. So let's go ahead and take a look to see how we would solve a problem like this. Presented below is information related to the equipment owned by Adam as of December 31st 2021. We have the cost of the equipment. We have accumulated depreciation to date. We have the expected future net cash flow. We have the fair value. We are told that Adam will be using this equipment in the future. In other words, this asset is used for operation because again there are slightly different roles whether the assets are used in operation or whether the assets is held for sale. And as of December 31st the equipment has a remaining useful life of four years. So we are going to prepare the impairment loss entry if any, the depreciation expense and determine what happens if the fair value of the asset increases the following period. So let's go ahead and start with the first question. Prepare the impairment loss journal entry if any or simply put compute the impairment loss and we're going to journalize it. Well, how do we know whether we have an impairment loss or net or not? Well, there are two step process, two testers, a test one and a test two. The first test is you will look at your book value and you compare your book value versus the expected future cash flow not discounted. So future cash flow I'm going to put here not discounted. So simply put the first test is do we have enough cash flow coming from this company un-discounted to cover at least the book value? Well, let's find out. Well, I don't see the book value here. Well, the book value is cost minus accumulated depreciation. So we are giving this information indirectly. Eight million is the book value. The expected future cash flow is only seven million. The future cash flow and notice here it doesn't say discounted. So the expected future cash flow is seven million. Well, guess what? This asset cannot recover its book value. What does that mean? It means yes, we have an impairment loss. Now most students they jump and they say, okay, that's easy. The impairment loss is a million. Absolutely not. The first test will tell you whether you have an impairment or not. Simply put, if the first test failed, so let's assume the future cash flow were 9.5 million, then the answer would be no, and you will stop. There is no impairment loss. There is an impairment loss, but it's not a million. Now you go to test two, T2. Again, in T2 you would compare the book value, notice the book value in both versus the fair value. And here's where they would trick you. Okay, let's see. The book value is eight. The fair value is given as 4.8. Now in test two, this is your impairment loss, which is if you take the difference would be 3.2 million. So how do they trick you? They trick you by giving you, rather than giving you the fair value, sometimes they give you the discounted cash flow. Well, the discounted cash flow could be considered the fair value if the fair value is not giving. And remember that the book value is used in test one, but first you compare your book value to the future value of undiscounted cash flow. Simply put, would this asset generate enough cash to recover its book value? If the answer is no, the asset is definitely impaired, but we have to look at how much it's impaired, then you compare the book value to the fair value. And it's 3.2. Let's go ahead and journalize the journal entry. You will debit loss on impairment, 3.2 million, credit accumulated depreciation, 3.2 million. Now bear in mind, loss on impairment is part of your operation operating expenses. So it goes on your income statement. Nothing is unusual about it. It's not special. Companies buy assets and those assets becomes impaired. Now if you don't know what impairment is, obviously go to far hat lectures because I explained impairment loss in a prior session, which what triggers an impairment loss, how to book the journal entry, so on and so forth. But this is an exercise. Now we impair the asset. The question is now prepare the journal entry to record depreciation expense for X2 or simply put, what's the depreciation expense going forward after X1 after we book the impairment? Now before we look at the depreciation expense entry, most likely you are an accounting student or a CPA candidate. And that's great. You are looking for some help. You arrive to the right place. Farhatlectures.com can assist you. I provide you with lectures, multiple choice, through false exercises that's going to help you do better in your classes on the CPA exam. This is a list, a partial list of my accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam. So it's very easy to go back and forth between my material and your CPA review course. I also give you access to previously released AI CPA questions. Please connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. Like this recording. If you're watching, it means it's helping you. Like it. Share it. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and you can join my CPA exam support group on GroupMe. So how do we compute the depreciation expense going forward? Well, here's what's going to happen. We are going to determine the new book value of the asset. What does that mean? Simply put, we have a new asset and that asset has a book value. What is that book value? Well, it's a new book value. Well, let's think about it. The book value was 8 million prior, 8 million prior to the impairment. After the impairment, notice we reduced it by 3.2 million. What does that mean? It means now going forward, if we take 8 minus 3.2, our book value, our new book value is 4.8. Now, this asset will be used for the next four years. We are giving this in this information and this is important. It's used in operation. Therefore, if I divide 4.8 by the remaining life of the asset for years, I find out that my depreciation, my future depreciation expense is 1.2 million per year. Great. I will debit depreciation expense 1.2. Credit accumulated depreciation 1.2. And if nothing else changes going forward, simply put, if this asset is not impaired any further, this entry would repeat itself for the next four years and that's that. Basically, we kind of remove the asset from the books and in a sense that we fully depreciate the asset. Now, let's assume the fair value of the equipment increased by December 31st, X2 by the end of the year to 5.3 million. Notice it was 4.8. Well, something happened. The asset becomes more useful. Now it increased to 5.3. What do we have to do? Well, what do we have to do? And the answer is nada, nothing. Why? Be careful. This asset, as I remember what I told you, it's used in operation. So this asset is continued to be used in the business. It means it's used in operation. What does that mean? It means once you write it down, you cannot write it up. And this is, I'm talking here about US GAAP, United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principle. If you're using IFRS, you might have different rules. You can't write it up. Now, if this asset, so the answer is not applicable, we don't do anything. Now, if this asset was held for sale, simply put, sometimes we have an asset we're no longer using it. It's not useful for us. It's either old, we change our product, we change our business strategy, and we need to sell this asset. And those assets could be impaired as well. If this asset was held for sale, rather than used in operation, and we lost value on it, we had to book loss on impairment, then this asset recovered some of its value, then we can recover, we can book a recovery. Simply put, we can book again to recover the losses. But bear in mind, if that's the case, we can only write it up, up to the amount of losses. So let's assume the asset somehow became very popular and everybody wanted to buy it. Well, that's fine. Let's assume it jumped up to 10 million. Now, the fair value of it is 10 million. If it's held for sale, the only amount you can recover is 3.2. If it's really 10 million, go ahead sell it and book the gain. But don't book the gain before you sell it. But if it's held for sale, the rules are different. Impairment loss is an important topic because you have impairment losses for physical assets. What we did here, you have impairment losses for intangible asset. And the good news I'm going to tell you here, impairment losses for physical asset and intangibles are similar, which is good. You have impairment for goodwill, which is different, which is different. So be careful. Just because you are being asked for impairment, what type of asset am I dealing with? Is it a physical asset? Is it intangible? The good news, they're the same. Is it a good will? And be careful if it's a physical asset. Is this asset being held for used in operation? Or is it used? Is it held for sale? Be careful about this. At the end of this recording, I'm going to remind you again to go to farhatlectures.com now, work multiple choice through false exercises, practice, invest in yourself. If you're not a subscriber, subscribe. Don't shortchange yourself. Accounting is important. Good luck, study hard, and of course, stay safe.


Hello children, good morning. So today it's again German time. So we are going to learn something different today We are going to start with numbers. So today we are going to learn only one to five numbers Okay, so I am going to show you something We will start with number one. So in German for number one, we will say Eins. Eins. So you can see here there's one sign. So in German for number one, we will say Eins. Now two. In German we will say So you can see here there are two butterflies. So we will say How many butterflies? Dry. So you can see here there are dry Cups. How many cups there are? Dry. So Eins Swy Dry. Fear. Fear So in German for number four, we will say fear So here you can see there are four flowers. So in German you will say Fear. There are fear flowers. How many flowers there are? Fear. Feunf. Feunf. There are Feunf candies. How many candies? Feunf. Feunf. Okay, again we will revise all the numbers. Eins Swy Dry Fear Feunf Okay, that is all for today. Dankeschön! Cheers!


All right, it's that time of year and it's time to talk about the best ways to support immune health. Now what the heck does it mean to have good immune health? Well, believe it or not, our immune system is there primarily for two reasons. Number one, to protect you against foreign invaders. And for the most part, those foreign invaders are bacteria and viruses. Now there's all sorts of other very uncommon foreign invaders, but let's keep it simple and our immune system was basically designed to handle foreign invaders, bacteria and viruses. Now the other thing our immune system was designed for was to recognize odd cells and let's call them cancer cells or even pre-malignant cells, recognize that these cells are odd and find a way of destroying that odd cell before it becomes a real problem for you. So bacteria and viruses, foreign invaders and odd looking cells, let's call them pre-cancer or even cancerous cells, those are the two things that your immune system was designed to tackle. An easy way to think of the immune system is your white blood cells. That's really simplistic and almost naive, but when I'm talking to my patients, white blood cells resonates because most of us get our white blood cell count measured. There are multiple types of white blood cells, just as there are immune cells that we don't routinely measure but we can count them as a transplant surgeon and transplant immunologist. I was very interested in measuring the types of immune cells that normally aren't counted in your blood count, but they're all there for purpose and each set of immune cells and let's just call them white blood cells have different capabilities and actually different targets that they can go after. The other part of the immune system is, so let's call white blood cells basically the body guards or even the police force or the arms forces of your body and these are the armed soldiers who attack these things. The other part of the immune system that particularly during cold and flu season that you hear about is the antibodies that are manufactured by your immune system to recognize foreign invaders as foreign and to call in the troops once these foreign invaders are recognized and those antibodies are also produced by simplistically white blood cells in your body. So that's why it's important to have great immune health. Now here's the problem. First of all, I hope most people realize that aging is associated with worsening and worsening and worsening immune health. In other words, aging in and of itself is compatible with a fall off of your immune health. Now as a transplant surgeon, I can tell you that we thought an older patient who needed a heart or a lung transplant was one of the best things that could ever happen to us and even to the patient. Because the older the patient was, the less immunosuppression drugs as a general rule, we had to give that patient to make the immune system eat quiet down even more. On the other hand, if I had a four or five year old child who needed a heart transplant, I had to break out the heavy artillery to suppress the immune system because that child's immune system was hyper-vigilant, hyper-revved up. We'll give you an example. Early in our experience with infant heart transplant, we put hearts into newborn babies and we actually did remarkably well. And we really didn't have to use a lot of immune suppression. But early on in our experience, we would have a child who was on a nice dose of immunosuppressant. We could see that their heart was not being attacked. And then they'd come down with a cold. And all of a sudden, they'd come back into the clinic and we could see that their heart was being under attack and we'd go, well, what the heck? We had this so nice, well, the cold activated their immune system. And their immune system, which was kind of leveled off on our particular level of drugs, broke through that immunosuppression. So we had to give some rescue therapy. So that just gives you an idea of how active a young person's immune system, how vigilant it is. But an old person, we just thought that was the best thing that could possibly happen. Let me give you a personal example that you may have seen on TV.  It turns out that according to the CDC's data, if you're over the age of 65, a single dose of a current flu shot is only about 8% effective. Only about 8% effective. So you may have seen in recent years that there's a flu shot for older adults that basically four times as strong as the standard flu shot. And that gets you up to about a 32% effective. Now, when I say effective, what does that mean? It means that literally your immune system is so weakened that it takes four times the usual amount of stimulus to even get a response, not even a good response, from your immune system in producing antibodies against the flu virus. So that's a perfect example that as we get older, you're less and less able to respond to a challenge. Why do you think that you see literally every night? If you're 60 or over, you're at increased risk for RSV, respiratory syncytial virus. Why do you see every night a commercial for if you're 50 or older, the herpes, the shingles viruses in you and just waiting to get out? And you can be really healthy, but shingles will get you.  Now, there's a lot of ways that I got interested, besides being a transplant immunologist. I was very interested in convincing the immune system not to be active and preventing the immune system from being active. But when I started looking into taking care of patients with autoimmune diseases, one of the things that was interesting in a number of patients through the years who have a chronic low white blood cell count. And normally a white blood cell count in general will be anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000. Let's just use those numbers. So if anyone has less than a 4,000 white blood cell count and 4,000 per high power field, then they're often worked up for some kind of problem. And I used to see, I still see lots of patients who have white blood cell counts of, say, 3,000. And they've had workups, some of them have even had bone marrow biopsies, and they never find anything. When I started looking at these people with tests for leaky gut, lo and behold, all these people with a low white blood cell count had evidence of leaky gut. And all of these people had evidence of other inflammatory markers, whether it was HSCRP, whether it was IL-16, whether it was IL-6, tumor necrosis factor. All of these people had activation of their immune system. And as we started in the program and we saw that leaky gut was being repaired, lo and behold, we saw that people's white blood cell counts were going up and up back into the normal range. Now, how could that be? Well, I propose to you that there's so much of our immune system, all of our white blood cells, there's 70% to 80% of all of your immune system is down in your gut, is lining your gut. Why? Because that's where the invaders come from in the first place. They come through the wall of your gut. And that's where your armed forces need to be stationed. But what's interesting is if you have ongoing attack, then you don't have enough soldiers to put out into your bloodstream. They're all busy defending the wall of your gut. Now, this is called inflow aging or inflammatory aging, but it's a part and parcel, in my opinion and now others, that this is a result of intestinal permeability and leaky gut. And as we saw people's leaky gut resolved, lo and behold, their white blood cell counts returned to normal. So in a season where our immune system is going to be attacked, we want to maximize the available troops that are available to take care of the problems that will show up. What are we going to do for our immune health? Well, let's talk about the worst things for immune health. First of all, sugar and fructose. Now, fructose is unfortunately a real mischief maker in suppressing mitochondrial function. And fructose is hiding everywhere. First of all, table sugar is 50% fructose. So it's half glucose and half fructose. The molecule is called sucrose, but it's 50-50 glucose and fructose. So plain old table sugar is loaded with fructose. And fructose is a mitochondrial poison, and we'll talk about mitochondria in just a bit. Number two, high fructose corn syrup, which has even more fructose than regular table sugar, is in virtually everything. And it's there to hide in what you're eating. Just remember, even if it doesn't taste sweet, it's probably in there. A bagel has 12 teaspoons of sugar, a piece of bread has four teaspoons of sugar, that healthy whole wheat sandwich has eight teaspoons of sugar, and it's not on the label. So these sorts of foods really should not be in your diet. Now, everybody thinks, when it's cold and flu season, that you got to drink your orange juice to get your vitamin C. Well, sorry to say that orange juice dramatically suppresses your white blood cell function for six hours after you drink a glass of orange juice. This is in human volunteers. Why? Because of the sugar content. Sugar suppresses white cell function. So that's kind of the last thing you want to do. How about other immune health myths? Now, I actually am a fan of zinc lozenges for a cold. And there are a number of companies that make zinc lozenges. There was an old joke that I can give you X, Y, and Z supplements for your cold, and it will be over in seven days. If I don't give you those supplements, it will be over in a week. There is a little bit of a good joke in that, but I'm going to tell you in a minute what I like to do, what I like my patients to do. And zinc is an option, but you can do too much zinc. I like to limit zinc to 30 to 50 milligrams per day on a routine basis and limit the time I'm taking zinc lozenges for about three days. Now, everybody I hear says ginger is a great treatment for a cold. And yet, as you'll learn in gut check, that a great number of patients actually react to ginger with a food sensitivity. And quite frankly, this was a real surprise to me. But over and over again, I see in my patient population sensitivity to ginger. All right, so what are some of the best things for immune health? So here are three things that I use to support my immune health. Now, I've alluded to this, but you'll want to not have your immune cells busy doing battle with things coming across your gut wall. And you want to make sure your gut wall is sealed. So my first recommendation is stop swallowing razor blades. And those razor blades are lectin containing foods. So those are all the grains and pseudo grains. Those are all the non-properly prepared beans and legumes. I have nothing against beans and legumes if they're pressure cooked. And the nightshade vegetables, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, potatoes, goji berries, and peanuts and cashews. That's a good list to start with. We can seal your gut wall, but if you keep swallowing razor blades, you'll just open it right back up. And again, we can see this in people's blood work. Number two, the University of California, San Diego, has one of the biggest vitamin D research units in the country. Their recommendation, published recommendations, are that the average American should be taking 9,600 international units of vitamin D3 per day. That's basically 10,000 international units per day. During cold and flu season, I have all of my patients, including me, who were maintaining at 5,000 international units a day, double that dose to 10,000. We've never seen an issue. The University of California, San Diego, has never seen a case of vitamin D toxicity. Up to 40,000 international units per day, chronically. So just going to 10,000 units will be just fine. Some of you may remember the H1N1 flu virus of a few years ago, a very deadly flu. We had a young woman in our ICU in Palm Springs who was in her 20s and on a ventilator and literally dying from the H1N1 flu. Her lungs were white on the X-ray. We could barely keep her oxygen levels adequate to keep her alive. And I knew about IV vitamin C. I had never used it, but I knew the dosages. And so I went to our pharmacy. And I said, I want to give this woman IV vitamin C in high dose. Can you make it for me? They said, well, if you write the order, yes. So I gave her high dose intravenous vitamin C. Within 12 hours, she completely turned around. We're able to extubate her a couple days later. She left the hospital. We stayed in touch for a number of years. She got married. She got pregnant. And I have an anecdote that in that one case, vitamin C intravenously was dramatically effective against that viral illness. So what do I do? So as you know, I recommend taking 1,000 milligrams of timed release vitamin C twice a day. So I take 1,000 milligrams of time release vitamin C four times a day. Never gotten diarrhea from it. Never gotten loose bowel from it. So those are my two regimens. Kick your vitamin D level up to about 10,000 international units a day. And make sure you're taking timed release vitamin C. Again, why timed release? Because we're going to get rid of it too quickly from a standard dose. If that's really inconvenient for you, get yourself the chewable vitamin Cs that don't have sugar in them. They make them. And chew a 500 or 1,000 milligram vitamin C four times a day. What else do I do? Well, I put mushroom extracts in my coffee every morning. I try to eat two cups of mushrooms at least a week. Why do I do that? Well, there's more and more and more evidence that polysaccharides, polysaccharides refer to long chain of sugar molecules, complex long chain sugar molecules. And these happen to be in mushrooms, among other things. These complex sugar molecules are one of the favorite foods of your gut microbiome. Fascinating evidence that algae have lots of polysaccharides. Mushrooms have lots of polysaccharides. And so cook them, please. And please don't, as you'll learn in gut check, stay away from raw white button mushrooms. The brown mushrooms, the shiitake, all of those are portobello or just fine. Kick your mushroom use up during this season. Now, postbiotics do a whole lot for your immune system. And a more recent example on what there have been a lot of very interesting papers published is the postbiotic urolithin A. Now, those of you who've watched my podcast know that I'm a huge fan of urolithin A. And I'm a huge fan for a number of reasons. And we've had the head of research for timeline nutrition on our podcast. We've had the CEO on our podcast. I'm that impressed. I'm not an investor in mitopure or in timeline nutrition. But I'm so impressed with this postbiotic. Urolithin A does several really great things for your immune system. Number one, we should know that the power of your immune system, how white blood cells can actually arm themselves and do damage to invaders is because their mitochondria are really supercharged in producing ATP, which powers them to do this. And one of the sad things we're now learning is the reason our immune system isn't up to snuff as we get older is that our mitochondria become more and more dysfunctional. And I've spent the last four books telling you how to power up your mitochondria and what we've done to damage them. So urolithin A is one of the best ways that I know of, and there are many others, to power up your mitochondria. Number one, by repairing your mitochondria. And number two, to actually make more mitochondria, mitogenesis, the more you have in your cells, the more power you make. And number three, there are some new papers that show that urolithin A stimulates hemopoietic stem cell production, the cells that are made into your white blood cells. So it's really a triple threat. And this data has only come out in the last couple years. The other thing that I've talked about before is remarkably super old people who are thriving in their late 90s, early 100s, actually have a set of bacteria in their gut that produce urolithin A. Whereas most of us mere mortals, only about 14 to 20% of us have the set of bacteria that make urolithin A. So isn't that interesting that these super old folks, they're making urolithin A, and that's helping their immune cell mitochondria to produce energy, to be ready to respond to mischief. Now, that goes with cancer as well. Your immune system is responsible for looking for cancer cells. And your immune system falls asleep on the job. And there's now exciting evidence that giving urolithin A to an animal model of colon cancer shows that the animals that were supplemented with urolithin A had much smaller tumors than the control animals that weren't given urolithin A. That's pretty doggone exciting. The other thing I'm excited about, if you like the mitochondrial dysfunction theory of cancer, and I'm a huge fan of the metabolic dysfunction theory of cancer, then making sure your mitochondria are healthy, are in a repair mode or taking care of themselves. If they're damaged, then they're able to do autophagy, which means self-eat to repair themselves. Then that's a really good thing to do. And that's what urolithin A does as well. One last thing before we go. If your immune system is distracted by damaged cells, by senescent cells, then your immune system cannot be available for fighting off viruses, bacteria, and for seeking out cancer cells. And what's really exciting, and I've written The Energy Paradox all about that, we forget at our peril that mitochondria, the little ATP producing organelles in all of our cells, are in fact ancient engulfed bacteria. And the cell membrane of mitochondria is viewed by our immune system as a bacteria. Now, as long as the mitochondria is inside the cells, your immune system don't see those mitochondria. But if the cell dies and doesn't recycle, a condition called apoptosis, those damaged mitochondria, and that's why the cell is dying, the cell explodes, and spews mitochondria walls all around. And we can actually see the immune system get activated as if it was under a bacterial attack. So long story short, this is the time here where we want a great functioning immune system. Your immune system is distracted by a leaky gut and the war that's going on in your gut. Number two, your mitochondria are inefficient due to our toxic sugar overload and fructose overload. And the more we get those components out of our diet, the more we stop swallowing razor blades, the more we get vitamin D and time release vitamin C in our diet. And quite frankly, the more we can produce urolithin A through good bacteria, or better yet, take urolithin A as a supplement, the better we're going to get through not only this season, but seasons to come. If you found this video helpful, I think you're going to love this one. Elevated insulin levels correlate with developing cancer. They strongly correlate with developing memory loss, dementia, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's, none of which you want.


In today's Cobb highlight we are talking about this awesome carbon fiber intake for the 2015 and up STI It's part of our Cobb premium red line series This intake is something that our our hard parts team has been working on for a while And I've been really excited to see all the stuff going on behind the scenes And I'm even more excited that I can actually show it to you now So I'm gonna break down all the little components and kind of give you an inside look as to what makes it such a cool Intake the most obvious thing that will get people excited is the fact that it is carbon fiber 100% in and out it's a 2x2 Twill weave pattern which gives it the kind of diamond weave shape that's really cool looking another thing that makes it look So nice is that we used a really high quality PPG clear coat not only does it give it the shiny really high quality Appearance, but it also helps a lot when it comes to protecting against fading or yellowing for familiar with carbon fiber parts You know that that can happen over time. You can't always prevent it completely But this will prevent it as much as possible the next part I want to focus on that's really subtle but adds a lot of quality when you think about it and look at them in detail Are these adapter plates? They are billet aluminum that have been anodized black We wanted to use aluminum versus plastic just because it's gonna be better quality over time and it looks really really nice This one specifically goes kind of on the back side It would go right here, and that's what actually connects your mass airflow housing to the main body And so of course you have the hardware that holds those together And then the other similar looking or similarly built plate goes on the front side here Which I guess you could call it the front, but it's on the side of where the fender is And there's this opening that has the kind of a great here like a honeycomb Filter that's optional. You can either put this plate on or take it off It's really up to you whether you want it to be fully sealed or open The main reason you would leave it open is you get more of that cool bypass valve or the turbo spooling noise Even on the stock bypass valve. We noticed a difference as far as the tuning and the performance It doesn't really change whether it's on or off So it's just a personal preference thing some people really like that sound and some people think it's kind of annoying So we leave it up to you But the quality of these adapters is really really high quality Another thing that goes along with them that we included is we have these little foam cutouts And if you look on the back you can see they perfectly match the shape of these adapters as well as our Mounding brackets that we'll talk about later. The reason we included them is one It helps just to seal especially on the backside circular one But it also cuts down on rattling and just little annoying sounds and it helps to kind of protect the clear coat That's on the carbon fiber since you do have these hard metallic components We've also got a brand new filter for this intake It has the good old Cobb logo on the front and made in the US of A it is specific to this intake housing It's 35% larger than the SF intake filter. So you get 35% more SFs I guess speaking of airflow the only part that actually transfers 100% over from the previous intake is this math housing But that's actually a good thing It still has the velocity stack design with the airflow straighteners So you get really consistent readings on your sensor But that also means that our current off-the-shelf maps and future updates that use the same intake as before And if you have a custom tune using our previous intake is going to work without having to change anything It's probably still a good idea to send a data log to your pro tuner if you have a custom map But on the dyno we've tested them and we get really consistent results The last thing I want to talk about is actually one of my favorite things about the design of the intake Our engineering team really simplified the process of installing and uninstalling the part The whole intake is basically one piece that can go in and out of the car together All you need to do are install a lower and an upper bracket that hold this side And then we provide two studs and grommets that hold the duct side And then you use your hose clamps on the post-math hose, and that's it Sometimes you'll either need to or just want to remove your intake while working under the hood Step one unbolt the upper mounting bracket and slide it off the stud Step two loosen the hose clamp from the post-math hose to the turbo inlet hose and step three pull out the entire intake as one piece To reinstall just do the same steps in reverse So to recap we've got incredibly easy installation Super high quality components all throughout excellent sound and performance plus this thing just looks really really good So you combine all that together and the Cobb red line intake is one of the coolest parts that you can put on a 2015 plus STI


Going on everyone, Sam here with late in sports car, dripping 22 Panini impeccable football hobby, three box full case break number 52, random division style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link that's currently in chat. So good luck everybody. Let's do it. Nice, you hit a bar in impeccable last night. Which one, Wahoos? That's awesome dude. Nice buddy. China silver, nice. There's that paper. No, it had a function. Oh, he's breaking the print right now, man. Or it seems to be in the slot. Empty. All right, let's do it guys. I'll call out every division of each card. I'm not gonna do it during the recap, but I will do it on the first bowl. Nice, Kaderis Tony, two of five. Going to the NFC East. Well, let's forget it, two players. Yeah, right, honestly. NFC North, Dalvin Cook, 35 out of 50. And also Amanra St. Brown, 35 out of 75. Going to the NFC North. NFC South, we've got Logan Hall, 84 out of 99. Rookie for the, that is Buccaneers, Logan Hall. Nice one there, congrats to the NFC South. That is Bressy. We've got, nice, NFC North again. That is gonna be John Randall. Hall of Fame Auto, 39 of 99. That's awesome. Brats on that, NFC North is Eric R. There you go, Eric. Nice John Randall, absolute menace, dude. Got NFC North again. Rookie Landscape is Jamison Williams, 16 out of 49. Nice one there, congrats on that. Next up we've got, NFC South is Jonathan Taylor, two of 10, two colored patch auto. This one there, Barry G. with the NFC South. This is JT. Brats on that, buddy. And nice one here, we've got RPA. Two colored, two colored, 12 of 35, Christian Watson. Going to the NFC North, they're doing very well. Eric R with the NFC North doing very well. Grats, buddy. Nice, Watson. 12 of 35 on the elegance RPA. Dude, one of my favorite cards still to date is out of this. Like, I forgot if it was you or Sean we're top loading. Pulled to Trayvon Walker. Bar card, feels like it's in the right place. We're good to go there. Trayvon Walker to five RPA with like part of the Jags. Yeah, that was making house here. That was so nasty. That was cool. God, that was so sick. All right, we've got George Kittle, that is 10 out of 25, for the NFC West, as well as a second year JC Horn for the NFC South, 41 out of 75. JC Horn. We've got NFC North is going to be Lewisine, 45 out of 75. Again, going to Eric R. That's one there, Eric, congrats, buddy. Got NFC West is going to be a Trent McDuffie, 18 out of 75 on the rookie audit. Nice one here, it's going to be on card award winners, Micah Parsons, NFC East. NFC East on that one, that is John M. Grats, John. Got the NFC South again, rookie landscape, 38 out of 49, Drake London. There you go, NFC South, Brett C with the NFC South. Grats, buddy. Little bit of a ding on the corner down there. Send an empty box and wrapper with the NFC South. Like a little bit more noticeable than just like your average impeccable, like your average like patch auto damage. Send that one out to you, Brett. Then we've got Wandaille Robinson, elegance, patch and helmet, 19 out of 35, going to the NFC East. John M. again. Grats, John. Dude, that Parsons, one of the minutes we pulled last night was so fire. That was so sick. Like. We'll send it if it's damaged in case the customary decides they want to put in a request with Penini to try to get it replaced. That's more, that's mostly why we do it, to be honest. Unless it's like unless it's a base card, then there's a chance that Penini will go ahead and replace it, so. Demption on the back. There's a Zach Wilson, 11 out of 75, AFCE East. No problem, Salty. Followed by Danny Dimes, 16 out of 25. That's kind of cool. But John M. in the AFCE East. How about an astravagance of Landon Collins? 49 out of 75, I think it's the first Landon Collins I've pulled out of Impeccable. Cool. Game worn, Landon Collins, too. Nice. Grats on that. Game worn, Elsie. Got NFC North again, 27 out of 75. Lewis Sine. Lewis Sine. Followed by going to the NFC East again. A.J. Brown, 46 out of 49 for the Eagles. Salad. Nice creations, yes, sir. Good time to pull that. Very good time. You were correct, sir. Followed by Rookie Landscape, 40 out of 99. It's gonna be at Johan Dotson. Going to the NFC East. Nice one here for Joseph coming up. We've got, going to the NFC West. How about a Joe Montana, three of five. That's cool. Boom. Illustrious Inc. That is awesome, man. Big time. Joe Cool. God, the foil on this is gorgeous. There you go, congrats, Joseph. There you go, buddy. We'll get that right into a mag for you, man. And then, I think that's on-card Montana, too, which is awesome. I still don't see it. A redemption, elegance, rookie helmet, and patch autos, Tyrion Davis Price. Going to the same team as Montana, the Niners, so the NFC West. NFC West, Tyrion Davis Price. Very nice. All right, let's see a gold bar come out of here. Good luck, everybody. We've got NFC North, Brett Favre, six out of 20, one shroy ounce of fine silver. That is Eric R., with the NFC North. Congrats, buddy. Nice favre. All right, let's do a quick recap. I also have a question for everybody after the break's over about Brett Favre. Tyrion Davis Price, Johan Dawson, A.J. Brown, Luis Sine, Landon Collins, Wondale Robinson, Drake London, Michael Parsons, Trent McDuffie, Luis Sine, Christian Watson, Jonathan Taylor, Jameson Williams, John Randall, Logan Hall. We've got an absolutely insane hit right here is Joe Montana, three of five, a luxurious ink, six out of card, and Brett Favre on the one shroy ounce of fine silver bar card. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got Personals.


What makes identical twins identical? Why does red hair run in families? Why are some traits passed down from generation to generation? For nearly 100 years, scientists had suspected the key could be a single molecule found in every living cell. That molecule is deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. By the 1940s, researchers determined that DNA carried the genetic information for each and every species. But they still had no clue as to what it looked like or how it functioned. That all changed in 1952 when this fuzzy picture gave us the first glimpse of the brave new world of the human genome. Taken by British scientist Rosalind Franklin, it marked a turning point in the quest to unlock life's code. Many scientists were competing to be the first to decipher DNA's structure, including James Watson and Francis Crick. The X-rays confirmed Watson and Crick's insight that DNA had to have a regular, repeating, twisting structure, a helix. It was thought lightly it would fold up as a helix. The opportunity was to just be a tangled mess. Far from a tangled mess, DNA's structure was elegant and simple, a double helix that captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike. DNA is made up of only four chemicals called nucleotides, and known by the chemical letters A, C, G, and T. The real message of the double helix is not just this beautiful shape, not even the mechanism of replication, which is the first thing that drew Watson and Crick's attention. It's that the biological information, genetic information is digital. DNA is digital. Similar to how a computer uses only zeros and ones to create an infinite number of programs, DNA uses only four chemicals to create the astonishing variety of life we see around us. By the 1980s, the laborious task of ordering the roughly three billion nucleotides in the human genome, a process known as genome sequencing, was proceeding slowly in scattered laboratories across the world. That effort received an enormous boost from an unlikely place, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE. At the time, nuclear power was being hotly debated, in part because of concerns about the impacts of radiation on human health. The only way they could get at the heart of the problem, understand those impacts, we needed to sequence the human genome. The goal was clear. The challenge would be how to get there and who should lead the way.