The floor may not be a robot. Blank Room Soup starts quite innocently. A man in a white-walled room hunched over a table eating a bowl of noodle soup. The only feature other than the table, the strip light and chairs is the jet black door on the left hand side of the shot.  After a second or two however, it becomes obvious that the man is crying, sobbing into the bowl and that some of the bowl's contents are spilled around the table before him as if he has eaten swappily or in a hurry. Suddenly a figure spears at the door and enters, looking like some kind of strange teen mascot or oversized pot doll. Clearly, someone wearing a oddly disquieting costume. The silent and ominously cartoon humanoid figure is black and white, wearing a black polo neck with perfectly symmetrical black hair. The only features on his otherwise pure white face are too widely spaced but in eyes. Approaching the sobbing man, the strange figure rubs his shoulder and back, comfortingly. The pair are joined by a second strangely suited character, identical to the first and he joins his companion in seemingly comforting the man. Throughout the video, the only sounds are the man's sobbing and indistinct sound of snickering giggles, mixed with the sobs so that it is difficult to tell what his laughter and what his anguish. Further videos have been released over the years, showing the man retching as if about to vomit as he forces the soup down. In one, the camera cuts out just as one of the strange figures rushes toward him, whether to help or harm isn't clear. The original short clip, with the man comforted as he appears to be force fed was uploaded in 2005 and is the original freaky soup guy video, better known now as blank room soup. Many of the more sinister and gruesome interpretations of the video seem to have originated in the comments sections themselves, with viewers, either alarmed or entertained by the out of context and inexplicable video, venturing their own suggestions or backstories based upon the meager evidence of what is on screen. The same process of fictionalizing or developing a narrative based upon the stimulus of a single video grows out of discussion groups and chat forums where users inquire as to the origin of the video and others reply either with stories of their own invention or urban myths they have heard in other forums, with each new version or twist adding to the mythology. The range of horrific backstories and explanations is quite wide, but there are a few consistent explanations.  These snuff films were alleged to circulate on VHS tapes, DVDs and later as anonymously posted videos on sharing platforms such as YouTube. In recent years, the secondary element of the video having originated somewhere on the dark web was added to lend a sense of legitimacy to the claim, as obviously, YouTube or the larger carriers would not knowingly host a video of this nature. Of course, nobody actually dies in the blank room soup video and indeed there is no violence of any kind depicted. Those supporting or propagating the snuff video theory seem to suggest that this clip is from a longer snuff video and that the scene depicted is one of preemptory torture, the man eating the soup being tormented before his inevitable murder or following the murder of his loved ones. The snuff video theory has other even more sinister offshoots based around this second scenario. One widely circulated version of the story is that the man with the anonymized eyes is actually being force fed the bodies of his murdered family, in some versions his wife and child, in others just his wife. A novel twist on this idea is that the blank faced characters are feeding the man his last meal after revealing to him that he will later become their meal as they intend to cannibalize him. Other variations include the idea that the man is being force fed something that is poisonous or that contains something, like glass or sharpened plastic, that will cause him to die in great pain later. A simpler variation is that the man is in the process of being continually force fed without stock as punishment for some crime, forced to eat continually. Even though he is full until his stomach explodes, all of which scenarios would indeed fit with the snuff video theory as they would make the video a depiction of a coerced or forced suicide. Another even more fanciful version of the myth suggests that this video depicts the afterlife or underworld.  In this scenario, the blank faced humanoids are said to lack any facial expressions because they are denizens of the pit and lack human emotions or souls. Influences upon these folkloric developments of mythology come from popular culture and older sources. Many depictions, both written and visual of the underworld have included penance by a punishment that fits the crime or overindulgence in the sin itself. In this case, the sin of gloggany is often shown to be punishable by being force fed either disgusting things or to the point that the eater is killed or tortured by the effort and overindulgence. Interestingly, this scenario is depicted in a vision of hell shown in The Simpsons, where Homer is forced by demons to eat all the donuts in the world considering later revelations about the identity of the character's creator. This is a curious link. This force feeding as punishment is also a feature of the popular horror thriller 7, in which Kevin Spacey's character force feeds his victim after having tied him to a chair in a scene very reminiscent of the blank room soup video. The motif of feeding human body parts to unwitting guests or feeding someone their own body parts, in this case their own brain, features in the Hannibal Lecter films, with the latter example also featuring the sort of gentle coercion and sweet yet sinister comforting that makes the blank room soup video so disturbing. The punishment fitting the crime motif as well as the perpetrator hiding behind unexpressionless facade, in this case the puppet, is a prominent feature in the Saw movies. Whilst there are three characters depicted in the short video clip, the emphasis and discussion rarely center around the victim and is rather directed toward the strange humanoid figures.  The heads themselves lack facial features other than to circular eyes that are entirely black.  The hands are pure white and resemble maidens in that there is a thumb but no individual fingers. In composition, the figures, clearly human beings wearing vinyl masks and outfits, resemble an amalgam of the pop-hand figures of popular franchise characters and play-mobile or LEGO characters. Other influences could include crash test dummies. The figures also bear a striking and yet rarely noted resemblance to the character Fred, who was for many years the cartoon mascot of the Home Pride Food Company. Indeed, the later advertisements featuring a life-size Fred before the character was discontinued look remarkably similar visually to the blank room soup video. The figures are also vaguely reminiscent of the wide-eyed character Frankside Bottom, who was essentially a man in a suit wearing a paper mache head adorned with an exageratively cartooned and simplified portrait of the wearer. The choice to make the figure almost featureless and deliberately expressionless is interesting from an artistic standpoint as it represents a simple iconic style. This minimalist choice, based on scales explained in Scott MacLeod's understanding comics holds that the more detailed representation of a face or character is the further the observer counts it as being from themselves. So for example, if a drawing of a face is very detailed, then it clearly depicts someone else. However, the simpler and more iconic the representation of the face is, the more likely the observer is to identify with and see themselves in the image, projecting something of themselves onto the character. It is for this reason that people relate more closely and see themselves more in smiley faces and emojis than they would in say the Mona Lisa or the portrait of a president on a dollar bill. The implication of this choice then is that whoever created these characters, intended for the viewer to identify with them and see some aspect of themselves in the character's inability to communicate verbally. Luckily, we do not simply have to beset the creator's intentions, we have his word for it. Whilst it has been claimed on some sites and forums that nobody knows the origins of these strange figures, this simply isn't true. The figures were created by animator, artist, and occasional voice actor, Raymond Percy. The California native Percy worked for some time as a layout artist and even as a director on The Simpsons and now works for Disney. He is also recognizable to some as the voice of Flash the Sloth in Disney's Zootopia movies. The humanoid characters in the clip are known as Ray-Rays and were in fact drawn out of Doodle's Percy developed of himself, expressing his own explorations of the balance between alienation, inhibition, and a deep-seated need to entertain. These two-dimensional characters came to life as three-dimensional incarnations and were depicted by folks in suits as part of a performance art piece during the Burning Man Festival in the early 90s and as part of a collaborative known as Mutator. The suits and characters were used in performance art pieces and on stage during musical performances. Footage of the characters in these non-blank room soup settings confirms their origins and participation in these events. Ray-Ray has had an online presence in videos and profiles on platforms like MySpace and YouTube for many years, with several of the accounts having been created and posting content well prior to the first uploading of the infamous video in 2005. Unfortunately simply knowing the name of the characters creator and that the figures predate, the creepy video does not put the matter to bed, especially when those two elements, creator and creation are separated. When Rainbot originally attempted to investigate the blank room soup video's origins and contacted Percy about the video, he explained that whilst he had created the characters and been part of performances in which people wore the large vinyl suits, the two suits are shown in the video were stolen from his truck prior to the video being filmed. The first he heard of the video's existence was when he received a clip in an email with no explanation. The clip was originally uploaded in 2005 under the title Freaky Soup Guy by someone calling themselves Renaissance Man. Whilst this alias has allegedly been traced back to Percy himself, the stolen suits story and the fact that the video was uploaded with the subtitle, we don't know what this is, does seem to fit with his story of this being a creation independent of him. As the creator seems to be acknowledging the use of his characters by an unknown party, but distancing himself from knowing what it is about or what exactly it is supposed to show. Of course, Percy, ever the mischievous and slightly dark creator, could simply be lying and distancing himself from the video in order to maintain the mystery, build a mythology and create a hoax around its supposedly unknown origins and meaning to boost its popularity. There is another, arguably less plausible, twist to this tale in the form of the enigma hacker story. In a new defunct post which formed the basis of a theory posted in a later video by SuperHorrorBro, the cleverly monikered Mr. or Mrs. Nigma claimed to have been contacted by the hackers who originally stole the Ray Ray costumes from Mr. Perseves RV. The hacker claimed to have stolen the outfits and created the video as some sort of statement about freeing from the restrictions of capitalism. The hacker also claimed, according to Nigma, that Rainbott's original email correspondence with Mr. Percy, through which she and consequently the rest of the world learned of the theft in the first place, was not in fact Percy, but the hacker himself, posing as Percy after having somehow managed to intercept their exchange. Whilst this is a theory that has gained some traction, the story overall remains unconvincing. There are however alternatives. In another later video showing Ray Ray, a man bound up in rope is seen being jostled and led away in an alley somewhere. At first glance, this seems to have even more sinister implications than the speeding video. However, what is notable about this video and what leads the observer to a breadcrumb trail that seems a little more promising, is that the man being jostled is at least arguably, identifiable. His clothes, glasses and face paint identify him as Gil Sharon, a musician in the charmingly named rock band Stolen Babies. A number of photographs from around the same time period show Sharon wearing the exact same outfit and makeup. Whilst this in itself is not a hugely compelling clue, surely anyone could be wearing the same makeup and clothes, investigating Gil Sharon and his band underscores the connection quite convincingly. The video of Mr. Sharon's alleged abduction you see, is not the only connection between the Ray Ray figures and the band. In fact, the blank-faced expressionless characters turn up several times in the band's music video for the song Push Button, posted around a year after the blank room soup video was uploaded. It would seem therefore that the band acquired a set of these Ray Ray costumes or at least had access to them, even after they were allegedly stolen. This could of course just be a coincidence and a product of the band adopting scary imagery they found on the internet into their videos. The Ray Ray character would certainly fit into the sort of dark imagery they tend to employ. More likely however, the link is more explicit and the Ray Ray characters, the videos, and the ensuing mythology was intended as an oblique way of promoting the band and their music. Whilst this might seem an odd theory, the link becomes more explicit and the idea more plausible when one considers that the very music video that features the Ray Ray characters was animated for the band by none other than their original creator, Raymond Percy. This was possibly done as a favor to the band's lead singer Dominique Ledor Percy. Yeah, you read that last name correctly, Percy. The younger sister of Gasu. Finally, whilst the idea that the suits were stolen, that Percy has no idea why or when the original video was made and that it was sent to him later, allows it to remain mysterious and extends its longevity in creepypasta lore. If all that is true, then the blank room super freaky sup guy video creators are still unknown, its purpose and context remain a mystery and horribly it still could be a snuff video after all. Before jumping to that conclusion and taking the reported words of the performance artist as gospel however, I would suggest that it is perhaps worth taking a second to look a little more closely at the man in the video.  Take a good look, especially after having examined a photo of Raymond Percy himself.


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Good evening aspirants welcome to the hindu news analysis brought to you by shankar eyes academy today i'm going to cover the hindu news edition dated 29 july 2022 and have taken these articles for discussion listen to these discussions and you can answer the poll question that i'll post along with this video let's move on to the articles discussion session now look at this news article it says that a chinese ship is expected to visit the Sri lankan port of and india is worried about this see the chinese ship that we are talking about here is yuan wong five this ship is a research vessel that is involved in the space and satellite research now this ship is expected to dock in the hub and totapot of Sri lanka for replenishment and due to this development india is carefully monitoring the situation now to understand why india is concerned about this we need to know few facts about hub and totapot and also its significance see this hub and totapot is a deep water port in Sri lanka and it is also its second largest port now the construction of this port was mainly funded by the export import bank of china that is the xin bank but since its construction the port has remained commercially unviable so the Sri lankan government was unable to repay the loan taken from the xin bank of china on time now to solve the situation china strategically used its debt trap policy and it signed an agreement with Sri lanka this happened in 2017 where a business conglomerate called the china merchant's port decided to provide 1.2 billion dollars to Sri lanka in return for 70 percentage stake in this port so a chinese company is owning a port in Sri lanka so by providing loan now china has infiltrated Sri lanka this is what we call as a debt trap diplomacy of china now another problem is this stake of this chinese company is for 99 years because a 99 year lease was signed okay but why china is focusing on this port what is its significance for china first importance is the control of this port will secure china's trade route see look at this map here two lines are there both comes from europe and reach china now one of them passes through swiss kanal and then reaches china and the other one goes to the persian gulf and then reaches china and crucially they both pass through the malacca strait now both these routes passes near Sri lanka and that is why hamban tota port is important for china because if it has control over this port then the shipping route from persian gulf to the malacca strait will ensure the supply of crude oil to china on the other hand the other route which connects swiss kanal and malacca strait will ensure the export of chinese products to the european market so both these routes are important for china's international trade in addition to this hamban tota is also a part of the maritime silk route developed by china so that is why hamban tota port is important for it other than this the control of this port will also ensure the presence of china in the indian ocean see currently indian ocean is under indian hegemony that is indian leadership but we just now saw that chinese important export happens to the malacca strait and this strait is very close to andaman and nikoba islands so if there is a situation where a conflict has happened between india and china then in theory india can choke the malacca strait and through this india can cause disruption in the supply chain of china now china wants to counter such a situation so it wants to have a military presence in the indian ocean so that if any situation like this happens then it can easily counter india this is the second reason for china's focus on hamban tota port okay now along with these two reasons let us see why it is a concern for india you must have heard about the term string of pearls see this term represents a network of ports in the indian ocean which is developed by china to sideline indian presence in the indian ocean so the aim of string of pearls is to counter india and unfortunately hamban tota is one of the port of these string of pearls you can see this in this image this is the string of pearls so this is a concern for india another concern is by taking over hamban tota port china can easily influence shrillanka see shrillanka is an important ally of india but through the control of hamban tota port china is trying to influence shrillanka and it might turn shrillanka against india in the future which india does not want so that is why a relationship between china and shrillanka is being closely watched by india okay so where can you use the details which we discussed in this discussion see whenever you write about the chinese aggression in the asian region or in the indian ocean you can mention this as an example and you can mention why it is important for china or if there is a question which asks how china is gaining influence to counter india there also you can write about this example okay now let me take the next news article so look at this editorial article as its title suggests this article is about tigers and their conservation it is written because today's international tiger day particularly in this editorial author has pointed to those factors that should be given attention so as to save tigers from extinction so as usual we'll be covering certain prelims related points and then we'll be covering some main related points also in this discussion we'll be talking about tigers about their characteristics about their habitat we'll be also listing out the factors that are mentioned by the author and finally we'll be ending with suggestions to save tiger population now this is the syllabus for this discussion so we'll be starting with knowing about the indian tiger as you know it is the national animal of india and also it is one of the known eight races of tiger species it's a scientific name is pantera tigers tigers but actually it is famously known as the royal bengal tiger see this tiger species is magnificent and it is a striped animal as you can see in these images it has a thick yellow coat of fur with dark stripes now these tigers are top predators in an ecosystem so its prey base is also white it actually hunts even larger species like cheetah sambadia kneel guy gore wild pig even elephant calves leopards and wild buffaloes are its prey overall the species is known for its grace strength agility and enormous power that is why it could even hunt bigger animals now in india if you see royal bengal tiger is found almost throughout our country actually india is home to more than 80 percentage of the global population of adult free ranging tigers as per the latest cycle of all india tiger estimation of 2018 our country has an estimated tiger population of 2967 along with this it is also known that india harbors more than 60 percentage of global genetic variation in the tiger species this is why the tiger population of india is quite special you should also note that in india the tiger occupied forests have been classified into six landscape complexes they are the shivalik hills and the gangetic plains then the central india then eastern guards western guards north eastern hills and brahmaputra plains and finally is the sundarband region now if you ask me whether it is found only in india the answer is no because it is also found in our neighboring countries like napal bhutan and bangladesh now if you talk about its habitat see actually it could survive in a wide range of habitats like in high mountains mangrove swarms tall grasslands dry and moist deciduous forests and also it is found in evergreen and shola forest systems now like any other species tiger also faces many threats i have given a list of threats here you can just go through it now because of these threats the panthera tigers tigers or the royal bengal tiger has been given a high conservation status globally that is it has been listed as endangered under the iocn red list of threatened species along with this even in the sites convention it has been listed under the appendix one and in india also it has a high protection under schedule one of file if protection act of 1972 so remember whenever we talk about conservation status try to learn about the iocn status sites as well as wpa status of that species but why conserving this species is so important we just saw that it is a major predator right this is mainly because tiger is an umbrella species see when we call a species as umbrella species it means if that species is conserved then it is expected to convert protection to a large number of naturally co-occurring species also so any conservation efforts on this species will result in the conservation of other co-occurring species and through this the conservation of tiger ensures a viable population of other wild animals such as certain co-predators its prey base etc it also ensures the ecological viability of the entire area and habitat this in turn ensures the water and climate security of the region so overall tiger plays a crucial role in saving the forest ecosystem now you should understand that more than any other country india has to play an important role in its conservation as i said india has more than 80 percentage of the global population of this tiger so india is more responsible for its conservation there is also one another reason it is because the threads which we saw know it led to a drastic decline in population of this species actually the population was on the way to extinction so the indian government had to take several steps to ensure the conservation of this species and one such important measure is the project tiger it was launched in april 1973 as a centrally sponsored scheme see this project funds several conservation activities like anti poaching initiatives strengthening infrastructure within tiger reserves then habitat improvement and water development is also taken care under this project tiger along with this under the supervision of project tiger the tiger reserves in india have also increased currently we have 52 tiger reserves the latest one was notified this year it is the ramgad vishdhari tiger reserve in rajasthan this is just an additional fact for you so from this what we could understand is due to the efforts taken nationally and globally tiger population has increased see actually according to a recent assessment by iocn tiger population has increased by 40% since the year 2005 this is a crucial fact you can mention this in your main sansa writing right because it could be an example of how conservation efforts lead to population rise of the species you can cite this example but now let us come to the editorial so according to the author just increasing the population would not mean tiger will not go extinct in india it is because increasing population of a species is just one factor there are also other factors that ensures a viable population exist in a protected area and according to the author such other factors are not given enough attention see here just know that a viable tiger population is the one which has 80 to 100 tigers with a minimum of 20 breeding females and they should also have a sex ratios skewed towards females so this is the viable tiger population according to national tiger conservation authority now let me come to the factors which need more attention see the first factor is not having enough breeding individuals having enough breeding population will ensure required population growth correct so according to the author populations which are smaller than 100 breeding individuals have a high probability of extinction and that is why this factor should be given more attention now there is another factor that demands attention which is the process of ensuring that the existing tiger populations are part of larger landscapes why larger landscapes it is required so that they remain connected with other population here connectivity is the crucial part see when a population is small and isolated they face high probability of extinction this is normally we see but why this happens why small and isolated populations have high probability of extinction let me explain now this happens due to inbreeding what is inbreeding see it is a mating scheme where closely related animals mate for example in a species the parent and offspring or the full brother and sister or even the half brother and sister they mate this is called as inbreeding and they will be called inbred animals now such inbred animals are less productive they are less fertile inbreeding also affects their longevity and also they are more likely to have genetic disorders but why this happens why inbreeding leads to all these problems this is because inbreeding uncovers genes that produce abnormalities or even those genes which cause death in the offspring now to understand what is the process behind it we need to understand genetic drift see genetic drift means the random fluctuations in the number of gene variants in our population we focus on the term random it happens randomly this genetic drift takes place when the occurrence of alleles increases and decreases by chance over time what are alleles they are the variant forms of a gene okay they are also a gene now it is a known fact that typically a genetic drift occurs in small populations now in small populations any involved allele is either lost by population or that allele will become the only allele present in the population here both these possibilities are a problem because both of them decrease the genetic diversity of a population that is any one allele is disappearing or any one allele is becoming dominant both will be having negative impact on the genetic diversity so genetic drift can result in loss of rare alleles and even decrease the gene pool let me make it clear for you see I am saying here one particular gene could become dominant or that gene could be lost now assume that there is a disease causing gene what if that becomes dominant that means then that gene will be passed on to all the offsprings of that species on the other hand if that gene disappears then it is a positive for the population right but unfortunately in animal species most often the problem causing genes are the ones that becomes more dominant there is some science behind it let me not go into that what you need to understand is genetic drift happens where certain alleles increases and decreases by chance over time and through this genetic diversity is affected but why genetic diversity is important see this is the one that ensures the survival of a species how the genetic diversity strengthens the ability of species and populations to resist diseases pests changes in climate and other stresses you would have heard about the term survival of the fittest right so whoever is fit will survive now this genetic diversity ensures that but when there is no genetic diversity at all then the survival becomes a question actually this is the reason why we say breeding tigers and captivity is not conservation because there will not be any genetic diversity i could give an example for you here take the simlipal tiger reserve in odisha there we have a isolated tiger population and it is a small population where genetic variation happened and this led to black tiger's population as you can see in these images okay so these kinds of genetic variations will occur it could also be a positive change but unfortunately often it becomes a negative one affecting the population of the species small populations lead to inbreeding this affects the survival of the species and it leads to extinction this is the process here okay now we particularly that is india must be worried about this factor this is because in india many tiger populations are confined within small protected areas and many of them even have a population smaller than 100 we saw that when the population is smaller than 100 then there will not be a possibility of survival rather that population will lead to extinction now these smaller populations are further affected when there is no connectivity between the populations and this happens due to fragmentation of landscapes now how the fragmentation happens this is because we build barriers or landscapes that impede the movement of species here such barriers could include agricultural fields built up areas high traffic roads wide highways etc but if you see still indian tiger population is surviving it is not at the verge of extinction as of now according to author this is because some of the protected areas in india provide an intervening landscape which facilitate the connectivity and movement of tigers so when there is connectivity they will be able to move from one landscape to another landscape and they will bring in genetic diversity thereby saving the species so in this regard what needs to be done for the other landscapes first they have to safeguard the existing wildlife and tiger corridors or they should also build new ones see these corridors help the wildlife to move freely without any human intervention so these are necessary then another suggestion is constructing and underpass this will also allow the wildlife movement and connectivity another suggestion given is genetic rescue what is genetic rescue it is a new term take note of this term here see this genetic rescue is defined as an increase in population fitness due to the genetic contributions of immigrants here fitness would mean the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce so a genetic rescue increases population fitness and how that happens it happens due to the genetic contributions of immigrants immigration means a species from another region has moved to our region now the benefit is that this process improves inbreeding depression and it also restores genetic diversity of inbred populations through gene flow so here what is happening is a species from another region is moving to my region and it will be bringing a different gene flow to my region and this will be creating genetic diversity so basically genetic rescue works by adding genetic diversity to small population now such genetic diversity as i said could be added to immigration that is by introducing specific individuals there is also another way it is nothing but a scientific way which is gene editing but i don't think as of now this method is used but in the future there is more potential for gene editing and saving the species which are at the verge of extinction okay so genetic rescue is an important suggestion to save any species from extinction along with this if there are steps that could be taken for protecting the pre-base of that species then this will also help so these are some of the points that you have to remember regarding tiger conservation today we saw about tigers that is the royal bengal tiger or panthera tigers it is a striped animal it has yellow coat of fur it is a top predator it has wide range of diet it has home to more than 80 percentage of tigers and we also have a greater global genetic variation and there are six tiger landscapes shivalik hills and the ganchitic plains then central india eastern guards western guards north eastern hills and brahmaputra plains finally sundarbans then we saw the threads and conservation status endangered in iocene then schedule one in wildlife protection act appendix one in sites then we saw that tigers are umbrella species and few facts about project tiger also that was initiated in 1973 and currently we have 52 tiger reserves in our country the latest one was notified in rajasthan and according to icn there is an increase in tiger population by 40 percentage since 2005 and according to author two main factors have to be given attention for safeguarding any species especially the tiger species first is having enough breeding individuals in a population and second is making the existing population a part of larger landscape this will provide connectivity and the connectivity will reduce inbreeding and when inbreeding is reduced then there will be more genetic diversity and when there is more genetic diversity then that species will survive and finally we also saw some suggestions first suggestion was to safeguard existing wildlife corridors or building a new one second suggestion was to construct an underpass third one was the genetic rescue and fourth one was protecting the prey base okay see in this discussion even though we saw many points related to tiger you can use these points with reference to any other species also especially the suggestions part and the factors that are not given in a retention part because it is almost true for every other species that is on the verge of extinction so using a single discussion you can answer questions like what steps could be taken to safeguard a species from extinction then you can mention these four points of suggestions which we just saw or if there is a question that asks for the reasons for extinction even though there is a increase in population then you can mention about the factors that are not given enough attention so these are the areas where you can use the points we discussed in today's discussion okay now let me take the next news article look at this news article now it says that in a recent event a party president has said that India can become a Vishwaguru only through SARC see here Vishwaguru means a global teacher so through SARC India can aim to become a global leader this is what has been mentioned in this news article now to understand how this can happen let us see the significance of SARC for India before that SARC stands for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation it was established in 1985 after a SARC charter was signed in Dhaka of Bangladesh see it consists of eight member states all of them are neighbors of India it includes Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Maldives Nepal Pakistan and Sri Lanka and also India its secretariat as well as its headquarter is in the Nepal it is at Kathmandu see one of the objectives of SARC is to promote the welfare of the peoples of South Asia it also aims to improve their quality of life along with that ensuring economic growth social progress and cultural development in the region is also one of the objective and finally by building mutual trust SARC aims to build collective self-reliance now let me tell you why SARC is important for India see as an organization SARC reflects the South Asian identity of the countries both from the historical point of view as well as from the contemporary viewpoint in addition to this the SARC countries also share a common geographical identity so using this commonality India can strengthen its relationship with its neighboring countries that are members of SARC why strengthening relationship is important because it will help in addressing the regional issues and if India can do this then India can become a global power and also global teacher as the news article mentions so that means to address the regional issues SARC will act as an important forum also note that SARC countries have many common features so their problems are also similar therefore a common forum like SARC is also necessary to address such problems for example take the problem of open defecation it is a problem in all the SARC countries except Bangladesh so via SARC Bangladesh can share the best practices with the rest of the SARC nations and they can use those practices and end open defecation similarly if you take the cross-border drug trafficking here also only through cooperation the problem can be solved so for ensuring such cooperation a forum like SARC is required for India another significance of SARC is the regional stability see by establishing cooperation through SARC regional stability can be maintained and for this mainly India and Pakistan must not bring their bilateral issue to this forum here we should learn from ASEAN nations because even the ASEAN member countries have various bilateral territorial disputes but when they come to a common forum like ASEAN they ignore the differences and focus on common good but if you take India and Pakistan in SARC they keep on fighting so what we have to do is we have to learn from the ASEAN nations and we have to follow their principle and we should focus on the common good and enhance the regional cooperation and this will be helpful in ensuring the regional stability also and finally SARC will also help in ensuring economic growth for the region see the SARC region is one of the most densely populated regions in the world along with this even the region has the significant arable land in the world arable means fertile in addition to this all the member nations are also witnessing an average GDP growth rate of five percentage and India is currently focusing on act east policy so by combining the act east policy of India with the SARC platform connectivity can be established between South Asia and South East Asia through this economic prosperity of the SARC nations including the prosperity of India can be ensured so because of all these reasons SARC is important for India okay in addition to this I will also mention another point because in the Humboldt discussion we saw that Chinese influence can become a problem for India in Sri Lanka so through SARC where China is not present India can become close to Sri Lanka and can also strengthen its relationship and counter China whenever there is a conflict between India and China okay so with these points in mind now let us get to the next discussion now let me take this last news article for discussion it is about the suspension of MPs from Rajasabha you would have heard the news that three more members of Rajasabha has been suspended totally 23 members have been suspended so far from the house see they were suspended because they were holding placards in the house see placard is nothing but a poster like thing a sheet which they hold so today we are going to see under which rule or which statute the suspension has been done and what are the conditions that would lead to such suspension we'll also see the procedure that must be followed during this suspension see in a house proceeding the role of presiding officer is of utmost importance because the presiding officer of the house has to ensure the orderly conduct of the business in that house as you know presiding officer in Lok Sabha is the speaker and in Rajasabha presiding officer is the chairman so like in any other office even in parliament the business of the house should be conducted in an orderly manner then only the house would function smoothly now for this both the presiding officers that is the speaker as well as the chairman they have been given certain powers to force a member of the house to withdraw from the house they can do this when that said member is disrupting the functioning of the house but they do not have this power just like that just because they are the presiding officer it is provided by a statute in case of speaker the speaker's power to suspend the member is derived from rules of procedure and conduct of business of Lok Sabha this rule book provides this power to the speaker of Lok Sabha under rule number 373 374 and 374 a the speaker has the power to suspend the member to ensure order in the house similarly for Rajasabha also there is a rule book it is the rules of procedure and conduct of business of Rajasabha and under the rule number 255 and 256 the chairman of Rajasabha has the same power to suspend a member from the house okay so the two rule books of Rajasabha and Lok Sabha provide the power to the chairman and the speaker to suspend a member from the house respectively but note that there is something common between the power of the speaker and the chairman that is both can suspend the members on two conditions first condition is when a member's behavior is grossly inappropriate and when that behavior is willfully obstructing the business of the house this is the first condition the second condition is when the member does not respect the authority of the presiding officer and the rule book okay so these two conditions are common for both the houses so on both these conditions the speaker and the chairman can suspend the members now what is this procedure followed here if the presiding officer wants to suspend someone they have to first present a motion against that member we know that in parliament everything happens through a motion so here also a motion is first presented and then that motion has to be adopted if it is adopted then the member will stand suspended for the period mentioned in the motion okay see like they are passing a motion for suspending a member they can also pass a motion again to readmit that member so this also means that without a motion that member could not be readmitted this is the common procedure for both Lok Sabha and Rajasabha but the speaker of Lok Sabha has a special power also this special power is provided under rule number 374 a under this rule the speaker can suspend even without a motion this can happen when the member comes to the well of the house and is willfully disregarding the rules and obstructing the procedure of the house when this happens the speaker can immediately name that member and the said member will stand immediately suspended there is no need for a motion here so remember providing such kind of suspension is a specific power of speaker of Lok Sabha here I said a term called as well of the house see this area in front of the speaker right this is the well of the house so under these rule books the speaker and chairman has the power to suspend a member but note that what would constitute an orderly conduct is mentioned in the handbook for the members there are two handbooks for Rajasabha and Lok Sabha now the handbook for members of Rajasabha mentions that protection of a exhibit on the floor of the house is against the parliamentary customs and conventions so such protection of exhibit will also include displaying of placards and that is why under this the members have been suspended now here I have given you the parliamentary customs and conventions and also the parliamentary etiquette just go through it it has some important points like you know they have to bring in a identity card when they are coming for sitting of the house they have to sign the attendance register every day like every other employee in a company and if you come to parliamentary etiquette you can see that they should be present in the house before 11 a.m and when entering they should bow to the presiding officer so like this certain etiquettes and customs and conventions are present in parliament and they have to be followed if they are willfully disregarded then that member can be suspended I hope you got a whole idea about the suspension issue now with these points in mind let us move on to the next session which is the practice questions discussion session today I have three practice questions for you in the prelims format this is the first question consider the following statements in regards to the suspension of members from Rajasabha two statements are given first statement is the power of chairman to suspend members is mentioned in the rules of procedure and conduct of business in Rajasabha this statement is correct we saw this during discussion second statement the member can be suspended indefinitely this is incorrect if the suspension is for indefinite period then it would be disqualification rate so from that itself we can say this is incorrect see once the motion for suspending is adopted by the house the member will be suspended only for a period not exceeding the remainder of the session so when the next parliamentary session happens the member can rejoin the parliamentary proceedings okay so statement 2 is incorrect and the question asks for the correct statements so the correct answer is option a 1 only now let me take this next question which of the following countries are members of both Sark and Beemstek SA in Sark stands for South Asia B in Beemstek stands for Bay of Bengal so if you at least know this you can eliminate few options because Maldives is not in Bay of Bengal from that I can eliminate C and D I have to choose between 3 and 4 Sri Lanka and Myanmar see Sri Lanka is a member of both the organizations but Myanmar is a member of Beemstek only so the correct answer is option B 1 2 and 3 now this is the third question arrange the following straits from north to south state of Hormo Park Strait Babel Mandep Strait Malakka Strait look at this map here you can see where all these streets are so you can easily say the first one should be state of Hormo the last one should be state of Malakka so one should be in the first four should be in the last you can eliminate the remaining options now the confusion will come between Park Strait and Babel Mandep Strait here Park Strait is below Babel Mandep Strait so the correct order is 1 3 2 4 now the quiz question for the day I will give that as a poll in the community section don't miss that poll now this is the main question for today what conservation measures can be taken to safeguard the tiger population in India from extinction now before today's discussion if you would have seen this question you would have mentioned about project tiger then designating more protected areas like tiger reserves and would have just simply mentioned about corridors and all but after today's discussion your answer will be more detailed like you have to mention about you know ensuring more breeding populations then ensuring genetic diversity then for connecting of different landscapes you can suggest for wildlife corridors or separate tiger corridors then you can talk about the underpass and then you can mention about genetic rescue and in that you can talk about relocation immigration of species reintroduction of species and all so this is how with each discussion about a topic you have to build your answer okay though interested aspirants can write answer to this question and post it in the comment section whenever we'll get time we'll review your answer so with this we have come to the end of indian news analysis for 29th july if you found this video useful click the like button and also share this video with your friends and if you have not subscribed to our channel immediately subscribe to update yourselves with current affairs thank you


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So it's about dinner time, so many of the audiences have left. It's okay. So we just followed the direction. I'm Zeng Shufang from Norway. Me and my colleagues are in Intel. We're going to present this project to you. So I'm going to introduce what we have done. Wang Qing is from the Intel, and he is also the responsible person in Greater China Region, and he is going to talk about the conditions of the projects afterwards. So we start with what is sold out. For me, I think it's a data-managed platform. No matter it is smarts, autonomous, etc., they are all additives. Why we need this data-managed platform? Because based on current editions, the ID facilities of companies, there are different types of them, like containers, like compounds or edge computing, etc., for the cells. There are other storage provided by different manufacturers, and also provided by multiple producers in between. We want to connect the north and the south, and in the middle, there are many data-managed platforms or software, for example, live or event, for companies, for monitoring, and also for resource distribution. We want to do this because we want to coordinate and attribute a data-managed platform so that a user can use them easily. So kind of one of the motivations we have. And then about the architecture. So first, with the move found, there is a plug-in. It's for the interaction with Kubernetes and other traditional applications. In the middle, the orange parts is mainly for traditional data management. For example, for the module or documents distribution, we can mount it, we can apply it, etc., for the purple parts. It's for the intelligence monitoring. We monitor the information of the device, and based on the information, we can make intelligent predictions. It's newly added here. Then for the red parts, there are some basic modules providing basic functions for other modules. And for the green parts, it is for connecting different storage devices, and the blue parts is for connecting different cloud platforms. In terms of mounting clouds, we have the object storage management, and we have our project associate, as well as the move found projects, and then the solve found, and then in between for the multi-cloud projects. So just now we talked about the architecture. Then I have some functions to share with you. To show you what it is, the first is the data provisioning, and we have the ATA volumes mapping, loading, etc., we support. And the right parts, there is the file sharing, and the creation. And you can see, we support this, and the mapping, and also the drivers. In addition to our basic functions, we have the orchestration. How do we orchestration work? Well, we can example this that we have a sheet we want to mount a file, then watch what we're doing, we need to create a file, and then mount it to get information, to get information and then load the file. Basically, we have all the focus for achieving this. It's possible to do it manually, but it's inconvenient by orchestration. All the basic functions or operations can be arranged into a service and then when we bring it to the same scenario, we can run this. We can do it manually, and work with the ATA, because at the backstage, we are using these types of but of course we, it is plug-in to a different service, so we can use different drivers. Actually, the input and actions are taken out of here, so if you use the port, you know that the work flow is self-defined with a series of actions in the work flows after the deployment. On the top, we need a service when you run the service. We are using backend to run those series of actions. On the basis of data service, we have made some intelligent actions. This is the data operation about the purple parts, which is intelligent monitoring during the dark, and with some connectors to four different platforms, and we can get information from them. So we can do it manually. We can do it manually. We can do it manually. We can do it manually. We can get information from different types of jobs by using the project we can send it to different works of work, for example, we can run virtual machines and virtual machines and combine with Kibana. Then we can present information visually and also we can go through healthcare to healthcare to have a basic machine to study virtual machines. After getting information from Kafka, they can make predictions. At the right-button unit, there is the DemiX scan. It is the IOPS and you can get a prediction. In addition to premium fields and Kafka, other properties of platforms can be used, but we need a corresponding converter and motor. After connecting it, we need to do something else. And sorry about the API. Since we say it is for monitoring data, the API is for providing the interface to trigger the incident from happening. And then the data migration. So it's a very simple graph to briefly tell you what it is. In order to migrate data, there is a big base. We are now migrating objects from a different route. In such a scenario, the basic requirement is that we want a unified interface so that users can connect to different clouds. There are a lot like Huawei's service or other services after connecting them. Users will have an API so that users don't have to worry about the going through the unified API. And then we have the migration based on strategy and the lifecycle. Such migration is comparatively simple because users can design their products so that they can decide where the data should go to. The soda will allocate and create such a mission then the data can be migrated to designate objects. Another is a complex. It involves a different scenario so that users can cloud the lifecycle. This is so for the object you may have used in your object based on the cloud after the data is generated over time the data will be degrade then we need to migrate the data to another one after the data is expired you need to delete it. That is a typical lifecycle for the optical cloud it has its own lifecycle management for example you define the lifecycle when to migrate the data and migrate the data when to delete the data then they will do the migration for you for some public cloud they have to each of them has different interface so if you use different cloud of multiple cloud you should be adapted to the interfaces it is a complex when we use data now we have security requirements to prevent the under bound things so we may use multiple clouds at the price so we do not use only one cloud we use multiple clouds so we may have the issue that is adapted to the action the second issue is about the data migration maybe after three decades when the data from a standard storage to another one maybe after 90 days I need to delete it it can only be done within the cloud cannot be done across clouds so the lifecycle carries on these two issues we provide the same data when user use it through the sold out interface to define the rules of lifecycle no matter what cloud is used I have just set the rules so the schedule is done by the sold out without concerning the backup when it supports across the cloud it is on the CF S3 but after a while you want to migrate migrate to 8x then archive it to S3 delete it you can store it on AWS and after a while there is a reduced price then you can set the rules after many days it should be deleted you can do not do that so this is the lifecycle it is also not worthy to say that they have the default definition of the storage layer we also have the definition of the default the code the order and the code we can support the user to define one storage layer corresponding to the layer of the public cloud after the definition we can do the data management for you this is the data migration I just selected some of the features to show you it actually has much more features if you are interested in them you can go to the links as shown here to get more details OpenSDS you can find my T-shirt on OpenSDS the the user sold them for this presentation maybe in the future we can change the name there is some contact information if you are interested in it you can go to the website to search OpenSDS you can get the relevant information I leave that to you from my website now I give the floor to you Mr. Wang Qing to introduce the community my name is Wang Qing I'm from Intel my work is mainly about the network and storage I don't know how many of you have the background of storage for the network at the beginning we had the concept of SDM that means if if by different switches from different vendors for networking then the amount of interfaces or different interconnectivity is not easy that's why there is a software different network here I think the project is also similar to this the data is flowing and in the future we will see more big data and now I'm also getting edge computing it's not only decorated by Wang Wenda actually it involves the different the cloud providers and vendors so the integration communication is very important in other countries they have different the cloud providers and operators so for the cloud infrastructure service in the past you have selected the storage model maybe you use the private the storage the paid the paid storage but now you can use open source storage so there is the issue of legacy of storage how can you migrate the data from the old storage system to the new system OpenSDS can provide the platform for users to have the unified interface no matter what the storage is used or no matter what the public cloud is this is transparent this project is the massive project requiring the support from different vendors for the open stack you may think it's quite similar but my personal understanding is yesterday all similar but for OpenS the stack supports the Kubernetes but they are not only two forms of the cloud not only two cloud solutions different companies for example AWS have different solutions of the cloud and DStack are many on many counts if you use different models or different cloud solutions then the data storage management and processing have the issue how to do the connectivity so for the OpenSDS project we want to have a more universal scope which is named into a sort of program the first slide shows you the definitions of the model and also a simple data autonomy we hope we can provide a unified or harmonized storage platform and the data management platform it means that in the open source storage there are different solutions to concept and also some clients even in the conference the colleagues from jt.com introduced their solution it's the container oriented under the China and also the China Unicom has the open source solution so different companies have their own solutions but for Linux foundation it's networking it's an open source networking opportunity but there is no this kind of unified platform for storage that's why we want to establish such a program to be a unified platform and also for integration of different storage systems in an interconnected way to meet the flow and the data flow demand and for the integration it's very important to have such a platform to prevent the event lock in that is the mission and statement of this program for the project goals we have three in total this project is still in the process of brewing it has not taken shape these are the three major objectives actually it's more than these three these are the basic project one is to be open that means or that is the essence of the open source software community so the program is open to all the users we should prevent the event lock in for the codes and the programs are open and visible also we hope it's real for the projects usually we have pre-storming and assumptions but for this procedure or the program we hope that it can resolve the real problems and imports for example across cloud management and edge computing systems the issue and the data management issue and what objective is that it's ready for use it's ready that means the storage system of client can be a hybrid solution can be from different hardware and software vendors and I really like making comparison for the network the vendors used to say that the concept of decoupling hardware, software and the applications should be decoupled they are from different vendors hardware can be from the software can be or the platform of the software can be the red hat different vendors different vendors infrastructures and the infrastructure or the functions functions can be also different telecoms so these are all the three layer decoupling and for the storage should also have the decoupling model the storage systems in the future you can use OBS Intel and OBS system and the software can be SF storage systems so different systems can be integrated and compatible to provide to the users with a good solution sometimes there is a legacy issue sometimes it's because of budget but the ultimate goal is to integrate all these systems in a compatible way for the sold out program what is the deliverable one of the deliverables is the platform itself at the level of control it's open SDS and the plugins are from different vendors they should be integrated into the platform and know that deliverable is a set of standards or criteria because different vendors take part in the community so we should have a set of the standards and then the certification to see whether you are qualified for that if you meet that if you get certified and then if there is a third party or new entrant then there is no issue in terms of communication and data management so these are the deliverables also we want to build a community with the Linux foundation it can be participated by developers, operators users and trainers so these are the four deliverables we hope we can purchase the deliverables to users from a sold out project so far the major participants in the ecosystem we already have Intel IBM, Fujitsu and Huawei they are the key vendors in the sold out ecosystem and also WDHPE they are also the vendors in the ecosystem you can see the full list of the participants in the sold out program the second principle of objective is to really resolve the pain points of customers so we actively connect with those manufacturers to see what they demand for example, we connect with the KBM from Europe and also Yahoo Japan third representatives of Yahoo Japan also come here today today and also in China, we have connection with China Unicom they will feedback their demand in this community and China UNICOM also signed the agreement to become a member of the end user, we also connect with the ICBC and other main banks we are in the process of negotiation and there are also two big operators, for example, like telecom and telemobile we are negotiating with them we believe that we have found a cloud service provider like JD.com who are very interested in this project they also provide their technology with us hoping that the Soda can connect to their CFS system about the benefits of membership, for example, you can have financial support and you will have suggestions and guidance on how to drive the project and there is some tailor development for projects and those projects will be turned into open source like the teleunicom they have some projects they want to make it open source but they don't have the needed resources so they want users to use their system so with such a platform targeted at storage it will help them to promote their technology and products because many users using these products are inside the community we have a man-made fabric it is a technology of Intel we want to promote it that's why we actively participate in the community because we found the Yellow Japan CSP from Japan they are interested in this so probably we can work in the future to see how MME fabric probably can help them somehow in the future so by joining this community you will be able to promote your own projects new members or third parties will get opportunities to promote their own products and we're going to provide a recognition to the company telling you that you are the active user in the community because we believe they want to improve their influence in the community especially the storage community thirdly we will also help them design some strategies to build some new strategies like how to operate how to run the whole project thirdly and fourthly there is a joint POC which is very important we have new technologies, new open source projects how can we get in touch with our users another example is that CFS also want to be used by more users so they want to use the platform to promote their product the fifth is that you will be able to grow with the community even though the community looks small now if more storage providers can join the community then we will see a more prosperous future in the future starting from 2016 the community has been growing and now in 2019 we are releasing the third version and we are welcoming users we believe that the projects belongs to certain companies can grow together with the community by joining Soda there will be some expectations for members and users they want to participate in a technical project they want to advocate for the project and want to make contributions to the upstream projects it is now limited to SDS community and also the EEC and other projects all of them we can call it as we hope that from the perspective of user we want to see some feedback whether there is new challenges whether we need to improve and if we fix the problems we hope that these can reach our Toyota can reach Yahoo Japan and get more feedback so this is the expectation for members and users and about the governance model I want to talk about the blue parts so the I want to talk about the purple parts first it is the new parts OC is the outreach community I was in the China community they selected me as the contact points so I will get in touch with the large operators banks and all kind of CSP to promote it and also now included here we have community for North America, for Europe for South America, etc and also for Japan we have many members and the yellow parts is the end user because we have community of end user for large projects we get feedback from them so that the challenges etc can be provided inside the community that the contributors can help solve the problems for the green parts is the TSC technical steering committee Intel also have members in TSC if I remember correctly IBM, Huawei and Fujifilm they all have representatives in TSC joining the discussion for specific projects like Havasushi or CFS all kinds of different projects we have the PTL the leader responsible for projects so this is the governance model we proposed we hope to achieve such a goal in Chinese community half a year ago the community was established and we have set up regular meeting so in every two weeks we will have a meeting starting at 3 o'clock TSC also have a meeting for every week our community was just established half a year ago we already have many members joining us in the discussion that we will also organizing meetups in last October in Shenzhen, Shanghai so that we can hear from them so we will take advantage of the Chinese community to organize different activities from different projects from different parties where the SODA can be put under the next validation and can make contribution in a way of the fees of membership and also the engineering resources there will be two levels of membership for end users government entities or non-profits organizations they can draw for free as associate members they might not properly provide codes but offering PNACs so briefly that's the end of my speech if so I will put it here so if you are interested in our community or SODA or if you have any product related to storage you can contact us via the information here probably we can do things together and make some achievements thank you