This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including John Atwood, Pat, and DeGrasia A. Daniels. Coming up on DTNS, Bodie from the Kilowatt Podcast tells us the hot EV trends he saw at CES and how satellite internet is poised to sweep across the world. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday the 13th of January 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Denwood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, the host of the Kilowatt Podcast, Bodie Grimm. Welcome back. Hello. Thank you so much for having me back. Thank you for surviving CES and making it back. Oh, I loved CES. It was great. Yeah. Dude, your feet are okay. No feet issues. No feet issues. Good. That's great. Well, I can't wait to talk to you about what you saw there, so let's get right into, oh, by the way, yes, we know Twitter third-party apps are having a problem, but we don't know what it is either. So if we find out, we'll tell you here are the rest of the quick hits. Reuters sources say the cyberspace administration of China and other Chinese regulators could allow DD Global to resume new user registration and relist its 25-band mobile apps as early as next week. Sounds like China is relaxing on the tech as China's government eases those restrictions. It's also adding a slight bit of control. The government cyberspace administration also acquired 1% of Alibaba and got a board seat on January 4th. China's government had already acquired stakes in Weibo, the messaging company, and ByteDance subsidiary Duyan Information Service. It's in talks with Tencent to acquire a similar 1% stake in one of its domestic subsidiaries. YouTube confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it is in talks to create a hub of free ad-supported TV channels. YouTube told the Journal that it is running a test of such a service for a small number of users. Lionsgate, A&E Networks, and Filmrise apparently are among those participating in the test. If they move forward, it could launch later this year. Now, y'all probably heard that Tim Cook got a pay cut. Here's what happened and why in case you don't want to be misled by certain headlines. Cook makes $3 million a year. That's actually his base salary. He's going to get that no matter what. That didn't get cut. He also can get a bonus of up to $6 million. That is also unchanged. He's probably going to get that bonus. What is changing is the stock he gets awarded. That's the largest part of those big numbers you hear. According to a Thursday filing, the amount of stock that he could get will fall from $75 million worth of stock in 2022 to $40 million worth of stock this year. The percentage of that stock that is linked to Apple's performance is going up. In other words, the amount he wouldn't get if Apple performed badly. The amount linked to performance will rise from 50% last year to 75% this year. According to the Financial Times, there was some concern about the increasing amount of equity that Cook was getting. The value of his pay because of stock rose 500% between 2020 and 2021. Filing said the adjustment was made because of shareholder feedback and, I quote, a recommendation from Mr. Cook to adjust his compensation in light of the feedback received. The filing also noted there was, and I quote again, overwhelming support for Mr. Cook's exceptional leadership. NVIDIA broadcast added a new eye contact but made a feature which uses algorithms to overlay simulated eyes on a person's face to make them align with their camera. Eye contact will try to match eye color and automatically disconnect if you look too far away. Apple offers a similar feature in FaceTime and Microsoft added a feature to Windows 11 for PCs with neural processing units. Medium has launched its own Mastodon instance at me.dm. It began testing the instance with a few of its authors and will eventually make it a perk if you're a paying member of Medium. Medium claims this will offer users reliable infrastructure, consistent moderation, an interesting local feed, and a shorter domain name for sharing. As part of the instance, Medium will create a sign-up with Medium interface to ease onboarding. Don't forget, Medium started by former Twitter co-founders. And that is a look at LiquidKits. Alright, before we get into EVs, let's talk a little bit about satellites. Satellites in low Earth orbit are close enough to handle fast Internet connections and the promise has always been that they could provide Internet everywhere on Earth. The hold-up has been the cost. Costs a lot to get them up. Costs a lot to get the service going. But the idea is, like once you make it ubiquitous, those costs would start to come down. The war in Ukraine may be helping satellite Internet get over that hump. The Economist's tech podcast Babbage had an episode this week discussing how SpaceX's Starlink satellites have become the main means of transmitting info for Ukraine's military. Why SpaceX, Rob? Well, SpaceX brought down the cost of rocket launches, making launching lots of satellites more cost-effective. Starlink has 3,500 satellites in orbit and aims to eventually have 20,000 to 40,000. The Falcon 9 rocket can launch 50 Starlink satellites at once and SpaceX's Starship rocket can do 400 satellites at once and costs less than it does with the Falcon 9. Ah, so they're able to do it cheaper, basically. That's what's going on. Starlink's commercial service has seen slow adoption, though. Even at $600, they're losing money on each piece of equipment they sell people and they haven't got as many people to sign up as they'd like. However, two days into the war in Ukraine last year, the country's Minister of Digital Transformation asked Starlink for help and within a couple days of that, receivers were rolling into the country. Starlink's reception dishes are small enough and rugged enough to go mobile and the Army has taken advantage of that. They can be powered off cigarette lighters and batteries, which means citizens can use them, sometimes even in places where there's power outages. Ukraine has added them to drones for piloting and for showing live video and because of the connection coming from space, anyone can take advantage of the 100 megabit per second connection as long as they have a receiver and some battery. As a result, communication has become ubiquitous within the Army. What was once available to senior officers, satellite transmissions from big expensive satellites, is now available to every soldier who has a phone. All this usage in Ukraine has demonstrated the benefits of space-space internet, especially for militaries. In fact, Starlink has created StarShield, a division that markets its products to government militaries. Starlink isn't the only company getting into the business. Jeff Bezos' Khyper has plans to launch a network and one web owned by an Indian company in the UK government has launched its own satellites. Countries are also looking at launching their own systems since they want to control them. Taiwan is in talks with investors, Russia announced plans to launch 270 satellites and China is well along in its plans. China has plans to launch 13,000 low-Earth orbit satellites. The effort is centralized under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's Giao Wang entity. While it is now and will likely remain state controlled, they are getting dozens of private startups to act as suppliers. Rest of the world estimates that around two dozen satellite constellation projects are underway in China. Galaxy Space is one of the most successful. It's already a unicorn. It says it can offer speeds five times faster. But Chinese automaker Geely is also in a month game. They've got a few satellites up in orbit already and they're planning to offer service to the centralized entity. Two percent of Starlink users are outside of North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. So that leaves a large part of the world open for the Chinese-owned internet service to eventually get traction. We're talking Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. We're going to have a lot of people competing. We're going to have a lot of militaries putting these services up. The military put up GPS, which now is used by everybody and is also, you know, been replicated with Galileo and Glonast and things like that. Space and War often end up developing technology that advances everybody's uses. Here we have both at work. I'm curious what y'all think. Boney, let's start with you. Do you think this looks like we're going to end up with just fast connections from space for everybody? If you can put it on the back of a drone and you can still fly and still get internet, then yes, I think so, yes. My family back in Alaska is actually using, or some of them anyway, are using, oh man, it is blanked, Starlink. My family back in Alaska, they use Starlink. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yes, I hope so. Like as a person who grew up in a very rural area where you didn't get a lot of any modern convenience, I think that this is a good thing overall. Rob, what do you think? So, yeah, I think a couple of things. Number one, this is a new type of space race. We are getting back into that. But I think that we eventually are going to get to the point to where we're living in like a Star Trek world, to where you literally can just pull out your tri-quarter and you have connectivity pretty much anywhere on Earth. I think this is brilliant. I've actually just within the last probably six or seven years had coworkers who lived in remote areas and they had to use like site to site microwave to get high speed internet just because there was just no cell service out there, there was no broadband service. So, I do see Starlink and other companies like it actually just making internet access more available to more people. And it looks like at less cost. It's expensive, but it's not as expensive necessarily as having somebody dig a trench to bring broadband to your house. The thing is, if all of these start to take off, there's going to need to be coordination because yes, low Earth orbit is big, but when you've got multiple services with tens of thousands of satellites, you don't want them to run into each other. One of the advantages of this kind of service is it's hard to take out with a missile. If you just have one Telstar satellite broadcasting, you could conceivably shoot that down. That was a worry during the Cold War. If you try to shoot a missile into a crowd of, you know, 20,000 Starlink satellites, well, yeah, you could have an effect, but you're not going to bring the whole network down. However, you could create enough debris that it causes everybody's satellites to have problems. So, there's going to have to be some kind of international cooperation on this. Yeah, Space Junk is becoming a real problem to where there's just, I mean, there's literally thousands of pieces of metal just floating around.   And that stuff, and that actually happens fairly regularly. Yeah, when Russia tested a missile bringing down one of their own satellites, there was a lot of anger over them, you know, breaking the word, breaking treaties, possibly, et cetera, et cetera. There was plenty of worry about like, we don't care whether you broke your word or a treaty or anything else.  So, it's a big part of this, too. Wednesday, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Director Jennifer Hommendy told the Transportation Research Board in her keynote address, I'm concerned about the increased risk of severe injury and death for all road users from heavier curb weights and the increasing size, power and performance of vehicles on our roads, including electric vehicles. EVs can be heavy because of their batteries. The Ford F-150 Lightning is 2,000 to 3,000 pounds heavier than its non-electric version. The GMC Hummer EV has a curb weight of 9,053 pounds. Its battery pack weighs as much as a Honda Civic, and that's a problem. Yes, because a heavier vehicle causes more damage in a crash. And if you've got two heavy vehicles, that's a lot more damage because they're both heavy. And then that is made more complicated by speed because the faster they go, the more damage that happens there. Vehicle power has increased 20% since 2004. Meaning you've got more potential speed, not just more potential weight. A vehicle's kinetic energy is equal to half its mass multiplied by the square of its speed. So, Rob, would you like to do the math? I would do it, but fortunately for us, ARS Technica's Jonathan M. Gatlin did the math for us. A 4,000 pound light duty truck delivers 112 kilojoules of force at 25 miles per hour, increased speed 40% to 35 miles per hour, and you get an increase of force of 96% to 220 kilojoules. So, Bodie, is this really a problem or is it a problem just for trucks and hummers? Okay, so I'm going to preface all this with saying that I don't want to see anybody get hurt or die. Sure. So I'm going to go maybe to some darker places here. Car accidents happen all the time. It could be a semi truck versus a regular car, a train, a bus. These things happen all the time and it will always surprise me on how much damage is done to the vehicle and how the person who was in those vehicles or the people who were in those vehicles were able to either survive or come out uninjured. So, all of this depends on, like you said, speed of the car. Where was the impact? Where were the people sitting? What are the size of the vehicles involved? Were they wearing their seatbelts? Did the airbags deploy safely? Was there already damage to the car before the accident? All this stuff plays a factor in this. I used to say that there's a good chance if a GMC Hummer hit a smart car that's not going to be so good for the smart car, but in reality, we don't know because weird things happen all the time. I was actually on a call a couple of years ago where a BMW ran through a stoplight and hit a pickup truck and unfortunately the driver of the pickup truck died, but it separated the cab from the bed. It was a horrific accident and the cab was a long way away from the bed and the BMW actually continued on and hit a brick wall. The people in that car, while they were injured, they weren't seriously injured. So, all of this stuff is almost like magic. You don't even know what is going to happen. You can guess, right?  Safety equipment adds to the weight, maybe not as much as batteries do. The Ars Technica article makes a good point of talking about how even the weights of things like, not PT Cruiser, maybe PT Cruiser, but those small little cars has been go Mini Cooper, I think is what they were talking about, has been going up. I think what Jennifer Hamedy is saying is not, we shouldn't make EVs, but she's saying these increased weights are going to make things just that much more dangerous and we need to think about that. We need to think about, is there a way to bring down the weights and still have the power efficiency? Are there other things we have to do?  It's dangerous enough out there already. This is something we should also be thinking about, in addition to all the other safety concerns we think about. Yeah, and these cars, I'm sorry, Rob, go ahead. Look, I was just going to say, I wonder if part of this too, is it really everything? Or is it just, when you start looking at that Hummer, that thing weighs almost 10,000 pounds. That is different than the Ford. Granted, the F-150 is much heavier than a non-electric F-150, but it's not over 9,000 pounds. So is this really a Hummer thing or is this a all-trucks thing? I still don't think it's an anything thing. I think that there's so few Hummers on the road right now and even when they get up to full production, there's going to still be not that many. It's a very expensive vehicle. Now that's not to say that we shouldn't be worried about concern or concerned about accidents. I agree 100% with this person.  And the reason why is because that's how they absorb that energy to keep the occupants in the car safe with the addition of airbags and stuff like that. To your point, Rob, the 93 Mini Cooper was 1,400 pounds. The 2023 Electric Mini Cooper SE, 3,144 pounds. So you have the weight issue. The weight issue is going to be there for a lot of cars, not just for trucks. But yeah, whether that is as significant of an issue or not, as all these other things. I'm listening to you, but hopefully it's something we're adapting to and that we're planned for with our current safety measures. Hopefully the technology in these new SUVs will be there so that they can help you avoid accidents, or at least avoid more of them. I know that that's never going to be a complete remedy, but hopefully when these things are giant robots driving each other, they will know how to not hit each other. I agree. Yeah. Well, folks, let's lighten things up and chat away on social about what we had for lunch. You can get in touch with us and the rest of the DTNS crowd at DTNS Show on Twitter. DTNS Show on Twitter, available on your third-party app whenever it comes back. Daily Tech News Show on TikTok and DTNS Pix, DTNS PIX on Instagram. Tesla cut prices of its vehicles by up to 20%, depending on which model you're looking at this week. There are loads of reasons why they did that, of course, but one of them is competition. There are more competitive EVs out there than ever, and you could see a lot of them at the Consumer Electronics Show last week.  Bode walked the floors looking over the latest EV developments. Bode, what are some of the things you found most interesting? Well, first of all, last time I was on, we talked about Vinfast, which is a Vietnamese company that brought an electric car to the United States within a year. They actually delivered 999 in 2022, so that's pretty impressive. They released the specs for the VF6 and the VF7, which are the more affordable models of the Vinfast SUV line for the electric vehicles, and I was able to drive the VF8, which is their bigger sedan, or excuse me, their bigger SUV, around a tiny course outside of the West Hall, and it was a lot of fun. That car was a lot of fun to drive. Unfortunately, the range might not be exactly what you would want for a $57,000 vehicle. The range, according to the EPA here in the United States, is 178 miles, Vinfast is saying 260. I don't know exactly who to believe, probably the EPA. All right, so Vinfast is still real, still an option out there. That's good to know. What about the reality of solar-powered cars? We've talked about Lightyear before as well. Yeah, Lightyear is a Dutch company.  I think this is a cool car, but I'm super disappointed that this thing is so expensive. And he said, well, we only built this car so that we could build the more affordable car, the Lightyear 2. And that is what spurred me to actually get an interview with this guy because it changed my whole perspective of the company because I want everybody to be able to own electric vehicles, not just people who can afford a $250,000 vehicle. So the Lightyear, like you said, has solar panels all around the vehicle. It also has in-wheel hubs on all four wheels, which means that the electric motor is in the hub itself and you don't lose any efficiencies transferring power from a motor to the tires. The motor is in the tires. So these solar panels will also provide up to 43 miles of charge a day. And in, you know, the Netherlands, it's quite cloudy and they said that this number is pretty accurate for them. The practical range is 621 miles, which is 1,000 kilometers. And when they say practical range, it means you're going to charge up the car and then you drive around and as you drive around and parked outside the grocery store, it's charging up.  The battery will only let you go 347 miles or 560 kilometers. But as you're driving, you'll add range by the sun. That's cool. Yeah. And I think Apptera is another company that does this and Sonno is a company in Germany that does this as well. And they offer a $35,000 affordable car. So we, none of us are on this show anyway. Well, maybe Rob are going to pay for the $250,000 car. But how much is the light year two going to run us again? The light year two is $40,000. And they actually had it, it was like behind this wall and you could go back and look at it. And they had these slits that were about a half an inch. So you'd have a half an inch of wood and then a half an inch of blank space so you could look at the car and then another half an inch wood. So you really couldn't get a good look at the car. But the very small amount that I could see, it looked like a good looking car. All right. All right. And did they have any idea when? This summer, I believe, is when they're planning on coming out with that. All right. What about motorcycles? Speaking of hubless. Yes. So I spoke with the CEO of Finnish company Verge Motorcycles and they have a hubless tire as well, it works me a hubless motor as well in the rear wheel. This vehicle looks like it should be owned by Batman. It is awesome looking like I am not responsible enough to own a motorcycle. I know that. But if I was responsible enough, it would be this motorcycle. The batteries actually sit in where the ice, the internal combustion motor would be on a normal motorcycle. So this is just a very nice compact bike. And it is sporty. Yeah. Very jealous of people who get to ride motorcycles. It'll give you, it starts at 107 horsepower. Do you want me to give you the ultra specs or just the regular specs? Well, yeah. Give us the range in the dollar amounts. Okay. So for $26,000, $26,900, you'll get a 107 horsepower, 155 miles of range for the next model, 137 horsepower, 217 miles of range, and that will cost you 29,900. So probably worth upgrading there. But the ultra specs, this is a 201 horsepower, 233 miles of range, and that will be 44,900. And that also gives you 1,000 nanometers of torque. So it's zero to 60 in 2.4 seconds or something like that. I was going to ask you where that extra $14,000 was going because you didn't get a whole lot more range. But it's, yeah, that makes sense. You're wanting this for other purposes than going a long way. You're paying for the thrill. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How are these prices for, because I haven't followed electric motorcycles at all. I'm not even sure how many are out there. How are these prices compare? I think they're up a little bit. But from what I can tell, the product is quality. So I can't tell you exactly. I don't cover electric motorcycles all that often, but this one was so compelling to me when I saw it in real life. I was like, I got to talk to these folks. And I waited for about 25 minutes to interview the CEO. I can't remember his name off the top of my head now, but yeah, really nice guy. Yeah, nice looking bike. All right. There were also not cars, not even motorcycles there. You saw a boat. Yes. The Candela C8 is a 24 foot electric boat. And it has hydrofoils. So normally when a boat is traveling through the water, it has to push that water out of its way. And it's not going to get very good range. It's not very efficient that way. So the hydrofoils actually are deployed and they act like wings. And so as the water flows over to the hydrofoils, it lifts the boat out of the water two to three feet. And through the computer, it's able to steady itself. So it's not, you're not going to get that choppy ride. You're going to get a nice smooth ride in up to four foot seas. And also because it is up and out of the water that causes, that creates more efficiencies. And at 28 knots, you're going to get about 52 miles of range with this. And this is a very small 48 kilowatt hour battery. And it's, this is a 28 foot boat. It has in the, in the bow, it has a cabin that will sleep too. And it's sizable down there. This is, this is a big boat. So it does feel at 52 miles that this is for like going out on the water for the day, not, not for like traveling. This is, this is for recreational use. Is that right? This is for people who could afford a, yeah. They could afford to bring back a dodo and eat it for dinner. This thing is $395,000. And tops out at like $550, I think. It's not a cheap boat. That's a reason to go for the, the, the light year model too. So you could save money for your boat. Right. Yeah. No, but, but the, the, the Candela, I was actually very surprised. It's got a carbon fiber body in it. It's just really pretty. I actually got excited when I saw it. Like a, like a school girl. Nice. Nice. Well, I do want to talk to you about some of the other electric related stuff. Like, like the super bass five. We'll talk about that more on good day internet. But if you had a real quick top line on that, what should people know? Cause we talked about the eco flow, but we didn't talk about this one. So this is a battery system that is portable and is modular so you can build up as you get more money. All right. Good to know. We will have links to all of that in the show notes as well. DailyTechnewshow.com. Let's check out the mail bag. Shane emailed us regarding the story of CNET using some algorithms to write their stories. And in fact, CNET, Connie Guglielmo, the editor in chief of CNET wrote up a nice explanation of like, here's what we were thinking. This is why we're doing it. We're trying out technology. This is how we're evolving our thinking about it. You should go read that as well. Shane says, in reference to your discussion on uses for AI in titling and menial tasks related to podcasting, I was mentioning we use it on Sword and Laser as well. He says, I run an Instagram account for my bird photography and my least favorite part used to be writing the captions. Now I use chat GPT to not only generate the captions for the photographs, but it also does a very good job of generating relevant hashtags to go along with them. It has freed up a considerable amount of time and lets me build up a catalog of ready to go posts that I can keep in my back pocket. Thank you all so much for the work you put into the show to keep us all updated on what's happening in the tech world. Your show made me much cooler at parties. Shane, we're putting that on the masthead. Made Shane cool at parties. Yeah, that's good. That's good stuff. And this is great. What a great use of it, creating captions for your bird photographs, hashtags and all that stuff. I feel like Rob, you could do something like that. I tell you what, these large language model, AIs are changing how we do stuff. And I know that there's people, oh, you're taking jobs away from copywriters and writers and all this kind of stuff. When the case here, Shane was not hiring a writer to do this. He was agonizing doing it himself. And now he does not have that problem anymore. So I think that these things are here to stay. They're only going to get better. And we're just going to have to adjust to how we start to use them and our day to day work. Absolutely. All right, somebody who will never be replaced by a machine learning algorithm is Len Peralta. He has been illustrating today's show, possibly with the aid of AI. I have no idea. Len, what have you drawn for us today? Thank you so much, by the way. No, you know what? So EVs are getting too heavy. You know, here's the thing. It's only two weeks into the new year. Can you give these guys a break, please? They haven't even gotten a chance to really work out their resolutions. That's a good point. Yeah, just give them a break here. This image is called Heft EV. And you can, if you're interested in this, you want to hang it up in your cubicle or whatever. Maybe you work for Ford or something. Or for the National Transportation and Security Board, too. Safety Board. You can pick this up at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len. Just become a member there. Or do the old-fashioned way. Go to my store, lenproldstore.com, which, by the way, I'm open for commissions. If you're looking for me to draw for you, think about it because it is a new year and I have my own resolutions as well. You and the heavy EVs also have... Heft EVs. Heft EVs. Sorry, my apologies. Rob Dunwood, a pleasure as always, my friend. What do you got going on to tell folks about? It is always a pleasure being here on DTNS. And you guys can find me pretty much everywhere on the web at Rob Dunwood. And please check out my SMR podcast and the Tech John podcast. Those are the two things that I work on pretty much every week. Yeah, do not miss them. Bode Grimm, folks, should find more of the great information you bring us at your podcast. Where can they go? You can just search for Kilowatt in their podcatcher of choice. I have all the interviews of the products that I talked about today up on the podcast now. I think I have two more to do tonight after we get done with this. And then I also had some non-EV stuff that interviews that I recorded. I gave those to Allison for the Nozilicast. So if you're interested, go and subscribe to her podcast and she'll release those when she feels it's time. Yeah, go to podfeat.com for even more Bode and Allison. Two of my favorites together. A special thanks to Dale Guadagna, who is one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. Thank you for all the years of support. Dale, you could be the next Dale. Just head on over to patreon.com. Because if you do, you're going to get the extended show, Good Day Internet. We're going to be talking to Bode and Rob a little more. You can also catch the show live Monday through Friday for PM Eastern 2100 UTC. More about that is at dailytechnewshow.com. We're live. 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So what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to play around and I'm going to look for neutral. Really when I'm riding I'm always thinking about how can I keep my joints whatever joints I'm talking about in the middle of its range of motion because then it can both open and close and I can follow my horse's movement much more easily and readily.  So here hollow back, neutral back, back pushed out, thigh away from the saddle, neutral back, thigh in contact of the saddle because I'm in my middle neutral position and then front of the rocker, hollow back, pinching thigh, leg swinging back.


Now we are going to discuss about transport and warehousing. So for a retailer, transportation is very important, transportation is the key also and at the same time warehousing because either as a retailer is going to warehouse centrally, decentrally and what are the different aspects which the retailer should keep into consideration. Now we need to see the different questions which is more relevant to it. Let us discuss one by one. So first of all the retailer will see how often will merchandise be shipped to the retailer. So the first part. How frequently the retailer will get the products for example from the supplier so it would be different for every supplier. If the products will be delivered maybe from other city, if the product will be delivered maybe from other country, if the product will be delivered maybe from other territory. So depending on the nature of the product how frequently the retailer will get the product. product. So it has to be clearly defined to the system at the time of registering a supplier. It has to be delivered. It has to be clearly mentioned that how frequently in a week in a month the supplier will deliver these products to the retailer. For example, if it is about the fresh fruits, if it is about the fresh meat, if it is about the anything which is more fresh, which is required maybe daily or maybe twice a day. So in this case, what would be the frequency? How per supplier is going to deliver? How frequently at what time the supplier is going to deliver? So it would be different supplier by supplier, but it should be addressed immediately. Second is about how will small order quantity should be handled? If for example, you have retailer has ordered to the supplier, but it is not a big quantity.  So it should be addressed at any point of time, especially at the time of contract that how the small quantities if should be identified. Normally, I have seen the practice that minimum order quantity which is MOQ is defined at the time of the contract that what should be the minimum order. If the minimum order is let's say 5 units or 10 units or a pack or a carton, then accordingly this the retailer has to comply that. So all the minimum quantities the should be addressed properly at the time of contract and of course on the basis of the requirement. So the third question is about what shipper will be used? So what kind of shipping mod will be used? It will be by air, it will be by train, it will be by bus, it will be by shelf carrier, it would be so what should be the mod because again it depends the product quality, it is it will result into the product time availability for every single thing. So this should be clearly identified agreed between the supplier, between the shipper and between the retailer. Next question is about what transportation form will be used? Very clearly you have to spell out which type for example of vehicle you will use. If it is fresh product, so you have to clearly identify, clearly define that maybe you will be needing temperature controlled vehicle. For example, if you if you see practically countries like Pakistan, if you want to ship meat from the butcher shop to the butcher shop, then ultimately you have seen practically that it is being delivered on donkey cars, horse cars, and rickshaw. But for a retailer who is going to do this complete HACCP and complete protocol, what is the need for that? That he needs the delivery of the products in the temperature controlled vehicle. So what transportation will be used for what product and which form it has to be clearly discussed defined agreed with the supplier? Then are multiple forms required? So again different types to deliver this product, different forms to deliver the product would be available. For example, if you are looking for a gently some product, then maybe some other medium would be and if you are looking for a product to be get delivered in a normal time, so what medium would be used? So there has to be a flexibility for different mediums. Then what are the special consideration for perishable and expensive product? For example, specially I normally give an example of let's say if you are going to deliver, let's say some mobiles. So is that perishable products also expensive products and of course easy to steal, easy to thief theft. So in this case, you have to easily clearly identify that what kind of transportation, what method you will use. Also for the perishable, for fruits, for vegetables, for meat, for all such things you have to clearly identified what kind of vehicle, what consideration you have to do, special mark, what temperature guidelines you have to follow and what type of vehicle you will use for the purpose. Then is about how often will special shipping arrangements be necessary? So for example, if you have promotion on some articles, of course that promotion will not last for let's say 12 months. It will last, for example, for a few weeks or maybe a month. So in this case, how frequently you will be needing some special arrangement because if you are looking for special arrangements 365 days in a year, not possible for the supplier. Supplier will never be able to fulfill or commit any such special arrangement. So it is always defined while having the agreement or consensus between supplier and the retailer that what would be the frequency of this special arrangement. How frequently you will ask me to do that favor. So if I'm going to do that favor, let's document that favor so that everyone should know it. Then how are shipping terms negotiated with the suppliers? So shipping terms should be negotiated, should be in the favor of the retailer, should be in the favor of the supplier. So it has to have the win-win situation because if the supplier will deliver more frequently, of course his shipping cost will increase, of course his cost will increase because that is more effective efficiently, is more effective for the retailer. But if the retailer will keep inventory for the longer period of time, it is harmful for him. So you have to make a balance between the two. Then what delivery options will be available for the retailer's customer? So for example, if there is any customer who is going to bring that product to his home, for example, a person, a customer who has bought refrigerator from the retail store and now is going to deliver that product, take his product to the home, then will that product, there is some facility available, where there is some solution, transportation solution available so that the customer can take this product to his home easily. So customer delivery solutions should be addressed properly. That is also the main component of it. So now we have discussed about the transportation and warehousing. Transportation and warehousing is the key. The customer has to see about what warehousing solution you have to do, what transportation solution you have to follow. So let me discuss with you one example of it also, about this, especially about the central warehousing. So what the major retailers do normally? They have a central warehouse. They ask supplier to deliver products to that central location and then from central location, they deliver, they disperse to the different retail stores who store one, two store, two, two store three. So two different stores normally deliver to the central warehouse. It is more effective and efficient way of delivering the product because now you have the product, you have the stock available into the warehouse, you charge supplier for that warehousing, you charge supplier for that delivery from the warehouse to the store. Ultimately, supplier will pay for it, but then you can easily remove your gaps. You can easily eliminate your gaps. You can easily improve your shelf availability and that is only possible if you have the central warehousing. But of course, you need to have multiple stores for it. You need to have such scale for it. You need to have such business for it. Otherwise supplier will not give you that facility and suppliers will not pay for it.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video. First of all, we'd like to thank you all for the support that you've given us. Psych2Go's mission is to make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone, and you definitely help us do that. So, thank you. Now, back to the video.  Do you think you may be asexual? Trying to figure out what your sexual orientation may be, especially when you're growing up, can be a daunting and frustrating experience. You may feel uncertain, afraid, and even overwhelmed when you approach the subject or read up on the topic. So, to help you out, here are six signs on what it means to be asexual.  Some may identify with all or some of the signs we mentioned. Others may relate to a few or none that we've listed. Our list is not definitive, but are only some of the key aspects we've chosen. Number one, the lack of sexual attraction.  Asexuality refers to a lack of or low level of sexual attraction to others. So, instead of sexual attraction, asexuals are more likely to experience other forms of attraction, like platonic, romantic, and so on. More on that later. However, some asexuals do experience sexual attraction sometimes. Demisexual, for example, is a type of asexuality. If you'd like to know more about demisexuality, you can check out the video we've made on that topic too. Number two, asexuals could crave relationships just without the sexual element. While some asexuals don't experience any sexual attraction, that doesn't mean they can't experience other forms of attraction, which include romantic attraction, the desire to have a romantic relationship with someone, aesthetic attraction, the attraction toward someone based on how they look, sensual or physical attraction, the desire to touch, hold, or cuddle someone, platonic attraction, the desire to be friends with someone, and emotional attraction, the desire to have an emotional connection with someone. Number three, they get over crushes easily. Are your crushes short-lived? Sometimes asexuals may put an end to their relationships with another person when the relationship becomes too intimate. They value more romantic or physical attractions over sexual attraction. So if these values don't align or agree with their crushes' values, then they're likely to let go early on in the relationship. Number four, not having any celebrity crushes. Speaking of crushes, have you ever had a celebrity crush ever in your life? If you haven't, that's totally okay. In fact, a lot of us have aesthetic attractions toward celebrities based on how they present themselves, whether on the red carpet or in movies and TV. So while asexuals may have a preference to which celebrity they like or admire, it's unlikely that their preference is based on a sexual attraction to them. Number five, some asexuals may only experience sexual attraction in certain circumstances. Asexuality has a wide spectrum. Some may only experience sexual attraction in very limited circumstances, while some may experience none at all. For example, people who are demisexual, which falls under the asexual umbrella, experience sexual attraction only when they have a deep connection to a person. This means they might only feel sexually attracted to people they have deep romantic relationships with. And number six, sex depends. Is sex a must for your relationships? Most asexuals often don't need sex to satisfy themselves over the course of their lifetime. They may feel that there's an abundance of activities and events waiting for them to enjoy, other than focusing on intimate relationships. However, some may want sex due to hopes of conceiving children to satisfy their libido or to feel physically close with their partner. Did this video help you learn more about asexuality? Let us know in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, be sure to like and share this video with those who might benefit from it. And don't forget to subscribe and hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever Psych2Go posts a new video. The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in our next video.


Roadside carcasses may not accurately reflect the true number of animals killed in road accidents due to the fact that they only represent a fraction of the total number of animals that have died. A study conducted in Australia showed that the death rate could be up to 12 to 16 times higher when compared to the number of carcasses found. This suggests that more attention needs to be paid to the gross casualty rate rather than accepting the net number of casualties as an indicator of loss. Factors such as predators, prey species, road type, traffic, season, time of day and weather all play a role in determining how many animals will die in a given area. This article was authored by FM Slater.


So, welcome to the 18th discussion that we are going to have together and here we are going to answer the question that we posed at the end of the previous discussion, namely what happens when I take the derivative of the input applied to a linear shift invariant system. As I said, we are going to use the notion of a derivative that we know from calculus but with a slightly different interpretation, more signals and systems like if you please. And that will help us answer the question very easily. So, let us get down to business right away. So, I have this linear shift invariant system that we call it S and I have given it an input x t and it produces an output y t. Now, let me do this step by step. So, I will take the same S and give it x t plus delta and I shall invoke the shift invariance of the system and conclude that the output would be y t plus delta. Now, let me invoke additivity and homogeneity. So, first let me invoke homogeneity. So, I have applying minus x t to the same system S should produce minus y t and then additivity, this is homogeneity for you homogeneity with a scaling of minus 1 and we now invoke additivity. So, x of t plus delta minus x t should produce y of t plus delta minus y t and I once again invoke homogeneity now by multiplying by 1 by delta homogeneity again with a scaling of 1 by delta. So, I have x of t plus delta minus x t divided by delta or multiplied by 1 by delta applied to the system should produce 1 by delta times y of t plus delta minus y of t and now I have a very simple job. I just take the limit as delta tends to 0 on both sides assuming that that limit operation makes sense that means I have a limit on both sides to make delta smaller and smaller and then the conclusion is very easy. In fact, limit as delta tends to 0 gives d x t d t here and limit as delta tends to 0 gives d y t d t here. So, there we are this is a very important very simple principle actually. It says taking the derivative at the input of a linear shift invariant system results in the output also being subjected to a derivative operation. Now, we are all set to find out the unit impulse response of the RST circuit that we had put down in the discussions that preceded this. So, let us do that. The unit step response as we had it here for this RC circuit let me you know kind of show this RC circuit inside that block linear shift invariant system. We had agreed the RC circuit is an example of a linear shift invariant system. We gave it the unit step and we know the unit step response. The unit step was ut and the unit step response st as we called it was 1 minus e raised the power minus t by tau times ut where tau is equal to RC r is the value of the resistance in ohms and c is the value of the capacitance in Farad's. Now, applying the derivative principle take the derivative here and that should give me delta t a unit impulse. That should result in also taking the derivative here and now let us take the derivative. What is the derivative of st? In fact, dst dt as it were can be found by the chain rule or the product rule. So, it is dt of 1 minus e raised to the power minus t by tau multiplied by ut plus 1 minus e raised to the power minus t by tau multiplied by dut dt. But we know what this is. This is the unit impulse and this is easy to find. It is essentially minus minus 1 by tau times e raised to the power minus t by tau. So, there we have a very simple conclusion that we are drawing. dd t st which is also the unit impulse response is essentially 1 by tau e raised to the power minus t by tau times ut plus 1 minus e raised to the power minus t by tau times delta t. Now, let us look at this expression carefully. This expression essentially puts an impulse multiplied by an expression. Now, when you multiply a continuous expression by an impulse, you need only see what that expression assumes as a value at the point where the impulse flies. Everything else about that expression is irrelevant. So, going back to this expression here, this is the same thing as 1 minus e raised to the power minus 0 by tau delta t. And this is essentially 0. That is because this is 0. So, 0 delta t is essentially 0. So, that you know expression multiplied by delta t is not required. There is really no impulse there. Impulse has been scaled by 0. So, it is destroyed. So, we have a very simple and beautiful expression for the unit impulse response of an RC circuit. And let us write that down. That is the unit impulse response of the RC circuit is 1 by tau e raised to the power minus t by tau ut. Let us sketch it. It looks like this. There is a sudden jump and then there is a drop. And how much is this height here? This height is 1 by tau. You know, we need to understand this. What is this 1 by tau height here? We are talking about a unit impulse response to a unit impulse voltage, you know. So, what is a unit impulse voltage? There is a unit area contained in that voltage. And I am applying this unit area all at once at an instant. And you have a sudden. So, what this sketch shows is that the capacitor would record a sudden change of voltage. That seems to be rather contrary to what a capacitor normally does. That is why I had said we should postpone the discussion of what the unit impulse response is until we have established some of these corollaries or auxiliary principles. Because you know, this is somewhat counter intuitive signal systems is for good reasons and for the betterment of us going to be counter intuitive at points. A capacitor suddenly undergoing a change of voltage. How on earth can that happen? That can happen only when there is a sudden amount of charge pumped into the capacitor. And you know, think about it. You applied a unit impulse voltage to the RC circuit. That means, when there is a unit impulse to the sudden change of voltage in principle, that cannot go to the capacitor. It must go to the resistance. That means, the resistance must see an impulsive current. And that impulsive current must of course, go to the capacitor 2. And when there is an impulsive current, it must integrate into a finite amount of charge. And that finite amount of charge is what suddenly puts a voltage on the capacitor. How on earth can you get a jump of voltage on the capacitor? Only by suddenly pumping in charge. And that is what you are doing. You are putting an impulse of current onto the resistance which has no choice but to go to the capacitance. And once it goes to capacitance, it puts in. You see, what is an impulse? An impulse holds finite area. So, an impulse of current means a finite amount of charge. That charge has got pumped into the capacitance suddenly. And it has suddenly elevated the voltage of the capacitance. And we know by how much? You see, how much is the current in the resistance? It is the voltage divided by the resistance value. And that current integrated captures a unit area of that means, you know, the area of that current is 1. That means, the charge is 1. A charge of 1 divided by the resistance, remember, current integrated over time gives you the charge. Current is delta T by R. So, charge is 1 by R. And 1 by R divided by C gives you the voltage. That indeed is 1 by T. We will come back to this in the next discussion. Thank you.


Welcome to this course on computer programming. In this session, we shall see how to create a direct access file from the data available in a text file that we created in the last session. You recall that we wrote a program which handled CSV files and created a mark data dot text file. We note that a file on disk is like an array of bytes. So, just as an array element can be accessed through an index value, one or more bytes can be directly accessed by giving the position of the starting byte. There are functions in C plus plus which can be read, which can read or write a number of bytes at a specified position in the file. In this session, we are studying a program to create a binary file in which there are fixed length records. Later in the next session, we will see how these records can be directly accessed, read and updated. First, we recall the format of the marks data dot txt file which we created through a program last time. We had the roll number, we had the name, we had the batch and we had the marks for every student written in a line and there were as many lines as there were students. Note that we had actually created text data with values separated by blank spaces. Each line contains a record of one student's information. Each line has four pieces of information. These are called four fields or attributes. These fields are roll number, name, batch number and marks. Now each field and thus each record has a fixed length in bytes. What is important is this fixed length. If we know the record size or number of bytes in a record, say s, then if data for say 10,000 students written in a disk file, then we know that the file will contain 10,000 into s bytes. More important, if we know what is the relative position of a particular record which we want to access, let us say that position is r, then we can directly read the data for that student by simply going to r into s minus one-th byte because this will be the starting byte position for the record of that student. The next s bytes will contain the record itself. So, this is the great advantage of using fixed length records in direct access files. Of course, in this particular session, we are merely going to create a binary file amenable for direct access. To begin with, we define a record structure so that we can collect all different attributes of a record in one place and refer to all of them by a single name. We also note that there is no need to store all values in a text format in the output file. We can as well use internal format to directly store values. Here is one good way of defining a structure. We say struct student info and define these four elements in role care name 30 int batch float marks. Notice that this structure struct student info acts like a new type. It is now possible to define a structure variable s by saying struct student info s. The moment we define this variable, individual elements of s now can be accessed easily as we know by s dot role s dot name s dot batch and s dot marks. The size in bytes of a structure can be found by a special operator called size of. So, if we say size of struct student info, it will return the number of bytes allocated by the compiler inside internal memory. This can be assigned to an integer variable say rake size. Notice that this is integer it will take 4 bytes, this is integer it will take 4 bytes, this is float it will take 4 bytes. These three fields together account for 12 bytes. The name is 30 bytes. So, we would expect the length to be 42 bytes for this record. Unfortunately, most compilers will count the size of our record as 44 bytes because elements need to be allocated at what is called word boundary. That means every new allocation must begin at a byte which number is divisible by 4. That is why although s dot name is only 30 bytes, 2 bytes will be added as padding bytes and s dot batch will be allocated at the next word boundary. The program logic for creating a database file is very simple. We open the input text file and output binary file. Now we read as before one line from input text file into 4 variables. We set up a file loop. We again test for not end of a end of file of input file. If the file has not ended, I have got the right line. All I do is assign values to elements of structure variable and write the entire structure variable to output file. Again, I read the next line in order to go back to the next entry. So, please note that in this iteration, I need to do only two things. From the line that I have read, assign values to elements of structure variable and write the entire structure to the output file. To begin with, I read a line before entering the loop and then before going to the next iteration, I read another line. At the end of this file, I have to close files. That is the simple program logic. Let us look at the program itself. After the include statements, we look at the structure definition, struct student info. We have already seen this definition. Please note that this defines a new sort of data type or abstract data type called student info. In the main program, we define a variable S of the type struct student info. We define the rec size. As mentioned earlier, we find out the value of rec size by using size of and we output it for our own information. The size of record is so and so. We define two files, fp input and fp output. As we already know, to begin with, we have to do some necessary housekeeping, namely, open these files so that they are associated with appropriate external files. We know that fp input is to be associated with markdata.txt file, which we have created last time, but this time the file is opened in read mode that is an input file. Of course, if the file pointer is null, we give an error message and return. In exactly the same fashion, we associate the fp output file pointer by opening another file called student db. Note the parameter wb. W means for writing, so it is an output file. B means binary file. By default, this is a text file, but when we write b, it means a binary file. So, in short, a binary file will be opened with this name. Of course, if for some reason the file cannot be opened, I will get a null pointer. I will put out a error message and get out with a return minus one. Having done this housekeeping, I also define four variables r, b, care n, 30 and float m. These are temporary internal variables to hold values, which I read from the input file. So, these are attribute values for a record. I start with initial value of 0 for account and do the following. I first read from the fp input file the values for r, n, b and m. Notice that I use pointers except for n, which is a character error. Notice the format specifiers d, s, d, f. These will suffice because I have exactly four values separated by blank spaces. So, having read these numbers, I will start the file iteration as long as fp input file has not ended. So, not f e o f of fp input, I will continue to iterate like this. And what do I do in every iteration? Simple. I have got values of r, n, b and m, which I assign to elements of my structure variable s, s dot roll, s dot batch, s dot marks are all assigned values of r, b and m. As far as s dot name is concerned, I use a simple string copy function, which will copy from n into s dot name. Having constructed the values for elements of the variable s, I simply wish to write this structure as is onto an output file. I use the f write statement. Please note I have passed the structure pointer and s. fp output is the last parameter to which I have to write the file. Notice these two parameters. Rec size comma 1. This indicates the number of bytes to be written, which is the size of the record and this indicates the number of records to be written. So, number of bytes in a record and number of records. Usually, I will be writing one record at a time. Please note that I am writing the output file sequentially. So, after this write, I of course, print that record for my own benefit and read the next input record.  So, as I read records one by one from the input file, they will get written in terms of the fixed length structure s into the output file here. At the end, I do my standard housekeeping. I print out messages like marks, data file read, database created. I write the total number of records written and more importantly, I do not forget to close the fp input and fp output file. This ends my program. Let us look at the execution of this program. You will recall the c out and print f statement that we has used in our program. So, first it outputs the size of record that is 44. Next, it will output each record. Please note that account is also printed there. So, we know the record number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10. We knew that there were 10 records. So, we know all 10 records have been read and have been written. At the end, the messages say marks, data file read and printed, database created for students and total number of records written there. In short, our program has worked correctly and has created a database file. We call it a database file. Please note that the word database actually refers to a completely independent body and field of study. In plain English, database is any base or any collection of data. So, we call this a database file. In summary, we have studied how to create a binary file, how to write fixed length records containing students data. In the next session, we will see how to access and update these records using direct access to our binary files. Thank you.


Good morning, my fine friends. We are hauling a whole bunch of long holes, or pipes, whatever you want to call them. We picked these up in Abbotsford, British Columbia. We're taking them to Calgary, Alberta. So they're just going east over the Rocky Mountains. So we're not quite halfway through yet, we're in Kamloops, British Columbia, on the good side of Kamloops, at the Petro Pass out here, sort of on the east side of the city. I think it's the good side, I don't know. Some of you around here might say it's the better side, I think, but I think this whole area is very beautiful. Very beautiful. Okay, well let's go and enjoy the scenery today. One reason I stopped here is because, well, I was out of hours and also I prefer to drive through the mountains in the daylight hours, especially in winter time. So we're burning daylight here and let's get going. I gotta go comb my beard and hit the road. Picked up a muffin for breakfast. It's gonna be a good day. We're rolling out 614 kilometers to go. So far, so good, not gone wood with the truck. So far, so good. Okay, so this is sycamus, where if you're not good, they're gonna stick their mousse on you. No? Maybe not? Don't look at me like that, Diesel. Come on, I said it. I went with it. It's a good joke. What?  Not funny. Hey, at least I tried. Stopping here at the Esso Husky. Gotta add some washer fluid into my washer fluid container. Gonna take a little break, check the straps. Freaking spot here for me. I've got some in the back here. Place used to be a lot bigger. What happened to it? This place used to be a lot bigger. Okay, he's gonna take the spot that I was gonna go for. Okay. Used to be parking over here. Okay, so there still is. Gonna back in here beside this guy. Very much because I just got passed a very slow tourist in a motor home. I don't know why they're touring in winter time, but they're scared and they're doing less than half the speed limit with no hazards on, no flashers, no beacons, nothing. Just pictures, I'm sure. I finally got past them. I don't want to stop and let them get past me again. I don't want to stay in front of them until I'm out of the mountains. That was ridiculous. This Columbia is always full of tourists in motor homes. Summertime is terrible, terrible. Welcome tourists, don't trailers. I've had them just stop in the middle of the lane to take a picture of wildlife in 60, 65 mile an hour and you're stopping dead in the lane. Just take a picture of a bear or something that happened to me. I'm glad to make a decision, either crash into the car head-on or just smoke them. Just rear-end them and totally destroy either one of the vehicles or drive off a cliff. You drive through BC in the summertime, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You know exactly what I'm talking about. All those motor homes taking pictures and why they want to take pictures. If you look at this place, I want to take pictures too, but lots of convenient little stopping rest areas where you can stop off the road and take beautiful pictures. Some people need to be told. What? Some people need to be told. You shouldn't stop in the middle of the road. We made it to Calgary. You have arrived at your destination on the right side. We are at the automatic truck wash again. That'll wash this load off for the customer. It's just the way it is. You get a truck wash at the same time too. And it's automatic, so that's fun. It's the only automatic truck wash I've ever been through here. How many of you have gone through this already? How do you like it? I just thought it doesn't do the best of the best jobs, but it does a pretty good job, I think. Oh, I've got someone coming out here to help me. Right on. All right, here we go. I'm going to do the undercarriage here first. There we go. Woo! I guess I should close my window, eh? Made that mistake once already. Where is he? I can't see him. Don't want to stop here. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to stop and wash is under that part of that. Woo, got a lot of steam from the bottom part of the engine getting wet. Okay. Diesel, you're ready to get freaked out. This is going to knock your socks off, man. So, it's going to measure the width of my vehicle. Spray some soap on it right away. Automatic truck wash. If you're wondering how much, it's $85 for the basic. I think it's $125 and it gives you something fancy and special. I don't know. Wash this off and then we're going to go find a place to park and go to sleep. I'm going to go ahead and spill the beans to you and tell you that that truck wash is not worth $85 plus tax. It came up to just under $90. All it does is it rinses your truck once. It spritzes a little bit of soap on your truck, lets it soak for like 10 minutes. By the time it turns on the jets to wash it off, all the soap is long gone or it takes way too long. And then it just goes around your truck with the jets twice. It doesn't get all the nitty gritty dirt off. It'd be worth maybe like $45 in my opinion to wash the whole unit. $45 plus tax of $50 tops. But $90? It doesn't do a very good job. It is not worth that. So, don't even bother. I'm not even going to mention where it is, but it's right by the Flying J in Southeast Calgary. If you find yourself there and you recognize it, don't waste your money on their automatic truck wash. It works really good for me because it just washes my whole load for me, makes my customer happy. But if it wasn't for my customer who wanted the whole load washed, I would never use that. That's the only reason I use that. And I just take that out of what I get off the load. So, that's the only reason I use the automatic. But don't waste your money on that. It was garbage. I don't even want to know how expensive that automatic truck wash was to install and how expensive it is to operate. It must be if they're charging $90 a truck. It doesn't wash a truck.  And it does a pretty good undercarriage wash. But, yeah. Let's go to a Blue Beacon. Just go to the White Terrier in the U.S. and go to a Blue Beacon. Way better for the same price. With that, I'm going to end the vlog here. Thanks for joining me today. We are in Calgary. We went to the Flying J just down the street. We're going to stay here until morning. I'm going to get up probably around 7 in the morning and go bring this pipe to the pipe people. And then we're going to go to the lumber people and pick up some lumber. And we're going to bring that lumber to the Americans in Minnesota. Someone in Minnesota wants the lumber. I'm going to bring it to them. It's got to be there next Monday. So, I'll be able to stop at home for a day on the weekend. Which will be nice because I haven't been home since I spent $10,000. So, it won't be too long of a home time. That's for sure. We've got to keep moving now. But the truck today, knock on wood. The truck has been running fantastic. Everything seems to be fixed in working order. Please, if you're a praying person, pray that it continues that way because I can't afford any more big repairs right now for a while. And if you're not a praying person, maybe just, I don't know, positive energy. Is that what you send? Whatever you send if you're not praying, if you could send something, I'd appreciate it. I could use all the help I can get from anyone who will help. We're okay. Don't get me wrong. We're fine. I just can't afford another $10,000 a month this quarter or this half year. I can't afford it again for a very long time. Not complaining. I feel like I got my money's worth. So, there's that. And the shipper loaded me late last night so there was a silver lining to the dark gloomy cloud. And we're just going to keep trucking. Good thing I really love what I do. And good thing I have you guys here. Keep me company. We'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe. I'll click one of the links around here. It'll take you to other videos of mine. The picture of me right there, the cowboy hat unless if I change my profile picture. The center link there. That'll take you to my page where you can subscribe. So I've made it very easy for you. I'd appreciate it if you did subscribe. It's free. It's completely 100% free. And if you want to, you can set the notifications. You get a little ding at 4 a.m. Central time every day when my video goes live.