We're gonna come back to finance, but there's a segment of these conversations always where we do overrated and underrated So I toss out something and you give me a short answer. Is it overrated or underrated? You're right. We already have a problem. I'm not good at short answers, but okay Bitcoin Correctly rated correctly rated in science fiction the author Robert Heinlein Early stuff underrated old later stuff overrated and what's your favorite? That is a really Methuselah's children Good pick. I could have gone with the obvious. I'm a bit of a libertarian I could have gone with with the moon is the harsh mistress is his most famously libertarian book I don't age so well. No, I like I like Methuselah's children Ben Bernanke Fairly rated fairly rated actually overrated by half the world dramatically and underrated by half the world dramatically might be partisan reality TV I Know I'm modifying it every time. I'm destroying the spirit of your question. No, no, I used to think horribly overrated I never watched any reality TV. I have 11 and 12 year olds and we watch shark tank a reality TV business show We watch the old survivors which is basically teaching game theory to 11 year olds in a sneaky way This guy's doing this so this guy does it's so I now I I Will say fairly rated and much better rated than I than I gave it credit for in the past Now you've told me you're a hockey fan Wayne Gretzky overrated or underrated. Oh He's massively highly rated and still underrated and what do people miss People miss I think hockey fans don't miss this but the general public misses that he was a guy who was undersized less fast Slower as we have a word for less fast Then then then other people and this is cliche sounding But the people always used to say he was a humble guy people would say this about him He skated where the puck was gonna be where everyone else was game skating where the puck was and having watched him I just think it was true. I don't know how he got that ability. It's a mutant ability, but he had it a bit like a momentum investor Yes, now I'm interested in this issue as I think you are Extreme performances or performers and it's measured most readily in sports So Gretzky is a kind of extreme outlier and basketball You could say Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who will be in the series as an outlier. Maybe Michael Jordan In sports or some other area of your choosing which is the extreme outlier which strikes you as the most amazing and you just say oh My god, I can't believe there's a Wayne Gretzky or fill in the blank there for me other than Gretzky He I have no sense if this is if this is actually Accurate But I'm gonna go actually no one could measure this it can't be accurate. You're not gonna believe what I'm gonna say Cirque de Soleil When I sit there and watch Cirque de Soleil both my wife, and I like I literally walk out and go nobody can do this And I don't think they're cheating. They're not cheating right and what is go watch it again? It's it's like it's like a Looney Tunes show where Daffy duck dies from up there into a little thing of water down here And he doesn't die. I Don't know how they do it. Um everything else the crash of 87 was a 20 standard deviation event nothing Wayne Gretzky pretty good the Cirque de Soleil people I want the chart I once this is this this this story was from Vegas, and it's not staying in Vegas, but I was in Vegas And I was exercising And I know you find that hard to believe but I was and the Cirque de Soleil people were in the gym And you don't want to ever do that it is one of the most demeaning humbling experiences They exercise exactly as you they did this thing Where they just keep leaping over each other and they go around in a circle and they did it for like half an hour And I'm sitting there on the Stairmaster on a three Spider-man versus Batman who wins that Batman wins every time because unlike most superheroes he cheats violently Superman races with flash they both travel at the speed of light yet Einstein tells us there are no simultaneous events Who wins I'm gonna ignore the physics much as the comic books do there is a great This this is actually a pet peeve of mine I'm more of a Marvel comics than a DC comics and everyone wanted to know that in the audience DC It's much better now But when I was a kid they exaggerated all the powers much more Marvel had realistic superpowers You could run at 500 miles an hour not the speed of light DC would go at the speed of light You have no idea you might actually you might but this is one of the things comic geeks will fight about And they've had this by five times in the comments They've had races between them and of course they they try to cheat make them a tie I know why you tried to to come up with that I subscribe to a theory that is on the Internet It has a name. I've forgotten the name, but it's a documented theory But it says the flash should win because the specialized power should win and I agree and it but but what I I like It's a portfolio theory in fact right in equilibrium portfolio theory comparative advantage. Absolutely Though it has a little bit of a the world must work out fairly Fairly right long term long term very long term Mutual funds overrated or underrated. Oh, we run mutual funds. This is a hard one All right, I'm gonna be other people. I can't be fired. So I will go overrated active management I think is overrated. I'm I believe certain things can win. I've talked about a few of them But on average I think people try too hard to beat the market and pay too much for it I'm I love if people listen to me I believe in what I'm saying, but if you if you go spend your life listening to a man named Jack Bogle You won't do terribly


I'm biased, right? I mean, I think all of us can admit to being biased. I think it's impossible to have an opinion and not have bias involved. Your bias, my bias, everyone's bias, is going to be based on our personal preferences that is based upon our prior experiences and what we like and dislike. And for me, obviously, I have a bias towards Nintendo. It's no secret. Yes, I play Xbox. You can see the corner of the Xbox Series S over here. But obviously, I play Switch. That's my preferred platform. It's what I game on them. Probably the most Xbox is probably second than PC. Don't have a PlayStation in-house right now. That's going to change. Hopefully, in the next year, we'll get a PlayStation 5 in-house. And then, you know, I'll be playing some games on there that I want to play. Like, I'm really looking forward to forespoken coming up. But I look at these awards and I understand that I have a bias. But I think my bias has a little bit of justification in terms of what games are even nominated. I don't know who's going to win most of the categories. I think Elden Ring or God of War Ragnarok is probably the game of the year. But what I don't understand, like, let's just start with Game of the Year. Let's start with Game of the Year, okay? Let's just go there. Because a Nintendo game is up for Game of the Year, so where's the bias, Nate? Well, let me show you something. Because this isn't just Nintendo. I have a theory and I feel like the Game of the Year award encapsulates my theory. And my theory is essentially maybe it's not so much anti-Nintendo bias as it is PlayStation bias. Here's our Game of the Year finalist, right? So we got a Plague Tale Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Food and West, Stray, and Xenobite Chronicles. So here's our Nintendo game. Xenobite Chronicles 3 is the highest reviewed Nintendo game of the year. So it is fitting that Xenobite Chronicles 3 got in. You might go, well, Bayonetta, Bayonetta 3 actually fell back a couple points. So Xenobite Chronicles 3 is to date the highest reviewed Nintendo Switch exclusive game of the year.  It's actually higher rated than Horizon Forbidden West. Not sure if you guys knew that. It's actually a higher rated game. But what's interesting are two other games that are included on this list that don't seem to have a reason to be on this list other than their on PlayStation. One of them is Stray. Stray has an 83 on Metacritic. Okay. Has an 83 on Metacritic. 99 critic reviews and has an 83 on Metacritic. It's considered an indie game. And a lot of people will tell you that this is being included because they want to include one indie game a year. They want to include one indie game a year. The problem is this is not the best indie game that came out this year. That belongs to Tunic. Problem is Tunic was originally an Xbox game. It got ported to other platforms later, but it started out on Xbox. Stray is PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Tunic's a higher rated game. By the exact same media, by the way, these are just media votes. The entirety of the nominees are based on the media. I can show you the list. It's right here. Here you go. Let's start at the top. See all these media outlets? These are the people that decide the nominees. All these media outlets. These are the same media outlets that do the reviews. Tunic's a higher rated game, but it started on Xbox. But Stray is the one up for game of the year. So if you have to include an indie game, let's say they have a rule. One indie game needs to be included. This isn't even the best indie game this year. In fact, we can argue Neon White. Neon White's one of the highest reviewed games of the year. Considered a must play on Metacritic. Neon White is an independent game. It is also significantly higher rated than Stray. Its most popular version is on Switch. I'm talking popular version in terms of number of reviews. So a game that isn't even objectively the best indie game of the year is up for game of the year over an original Xbox game that got ported to other platforms. And then Neon White, a multi-platform game, both of which are independent games, both of which are higher rated than Stray. But we're not done. We're not done. Because we also have a Plague Tale Requiem. Fine game. Fun game. It's a multi-platform game. But again, the most popular reviewed version is on PlayStation 5, with 66 critic reviews. This is by far and away the most reviews on any version of a Plague Tale Requiem. And it has an 82. So put this in perspective. One, two, three PlayStation essentially only games are most popular on PlayStation. A Plague Tale Requiem, most of the reviews were on PlayStation 5. So most of these outlets voting reviewed the PlayStation 5 version. So we have four out of these six nominees are essentially there because of PlayStation reviews. But here's the problem. Remember, 83. 82. Hmm. Hmm. Well, let's look at another game that came out this year that's multi-platform, really popular, highly reviewed. How about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shredders Revenge? The most highly rated version is on Switch. But either way, the review ratings average from 85 to 87 for Shredders Revenge higher than two of the games up for Game of the Year. But we're not done. Bandanna 3. I'm sorry, is 109 critic reviews not enough? If you want to say there's not enough reviews on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there's enough reviews of Bandanna 3. There's more reviews of this than there's of Stray. It's not up for Game of the Year. In fact, Bandanna 3 only gets nominated once. Stray, a game that's in 83, has six awards it's nominated for. Three more than two-nick, the better game. We're not done. Marnable Strabbit Sparks of Hope 86. Higher rated than two of the Game of the Year nominees. 113 critic reviews. It's nominated for two awards. Strategy, because it is a strategy game, and then Best Family Game. And that's it. It's higher rated than Stray by three points. But Stray has three times the award nominations. Because he plays a cat on PlayStation. We're not done. Triangle Strategy. Also higher rated. Also Switch Exclusive. We're not done. Kirby and the Forgotten Land. One nomination this year. One for the highest rated, best-selling Kirby game in existence with 132 critic reviews. It is objectively better than two of the Game of the Year nominees. Objectively better. With the most reviews. The biggest chance to rip down that review rating by having so many damn reviews. And yet, it's nominated for a single award. Best Family Game. AKA Best Nintendo Game. It's the Nintendo Game category. Oh, it can't possibly be nominated for Best Musical Score. No, that can't happen. It can't possibly be nominated for Best Art Direction. No, no, no, no. You're not a realistic art style like the PlayStation. All the realistic games got Best Art Direction nominations. How dare we nominate Kirby? Can't do that. I can see why Xenoblade Chronicles 3 can't be in there. It goes for a somewhat realistic art style. It doesn't look as good as the other games, but Kirby? Kirby in the Forgotten Land is the maestro of art direction, looking absolutely utterly current generation on really old technology because of the art direction. But no recognition. No recognition for the music. No recognition for the gameplay. Here we have the most nominated games. Gamble Ragnarok, Elden Ring, no problem. They're the two highest-reviewed games of the year. They're going to have the most nominations. Fine. We all know it's a two-person race for Game of the Year anyways. Don't have a problem with it. Do have a problem with Horizon Forbidden West, an 88 overall game compared to a 96 overall game in Elden Ring has the same number of nominations as Elden Ring. Elden Ring, a 96 overall game. 96. And a game that's an 88 that is like worse reviewed compared to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has the same number of nominations. Gets even better. Stray has six. It's an 83. It has six nominations. One less than a 96 overall game. A game that's 13 points rated higher. And it's got six nominations. A Planktail Requiem. An 82. An 82 overall game has five nominations. An 82. 86 overall. Mario plus Drive of the Sparks of Hope. No, no, no. You get two. Kirby. 130 plus reviews. Best-selling Kirby game of all time. Highest rated Kirby game of all time. Tunic. A better game than Stray has half the nominations. Sifu. A good old Sifu is an 81. Its best reviewed version is again the PlayStation 5 version. And an 81. Sifu. And an 81 overall has two more nominations than Kirby. One more nomination than Sparks of Hope. And the same number of nominations as an 89 overall game in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. I don't want to hear the excuses. I don't want to hear the reasoning. It is without a doubt. Not just looking at gaming a year. Just looking at even the overall nomination list. Nintendo is snubbed. If you make a highly rated, highly reviewed Nintendo game, you are going to be beat out by an 81 overall PlayStation game. It's just the way it is. It doesn't matter that the same critics making these nomination lists also reviewed your game as the better game. If you're not a PlayStation game, you're not going to get on the list over them unless you are one of the highest reviewed games of the year. Or your Zelda or Mario. Zelda or Mario seem to always be the exception. Then again, we have Mario plus Rabbids, but I guess because the Rabbids are in, that game doesn't count as an exception to anything. Splatoon 3 has a single nomination. It's higher reviewed than two of the game of the years.  The game awards, to me, from my viewpoint looking in, is heavily slanted to PlayStation. Heavily slanted to PlayStation. And that's because of who's voting. It's because of who's voting. Oh no, there's no PlayStation only blogs on this voting list, right? So it wants to come across as unbiased. It's not including any Nintendo only outlets, Xbox only outlets, or PlayStation only outlets. It wants to appear unbiased. Of course, it includes Entertainment Weekly, who knows next to nothing about video games. So what are they going to vote for? The hot trendy games in the moment, God of War, Ragnarok, Elden Ring, Stray. Just going down LA Times, what are they doing in here? What do they know about video games? You could say that about almost a lot of these, you could say that about. But you kind of get my point. These are all the people deciding what's up for the awards. All these outlets are what decide what is up for all these awards. All of these outlets have reviews counted on Metacritic towards all these games. And they decided that other games are significantly better than the games that they are putting up. Because from at least the appearance of what's nominated, a vast majority of these outlets are pro Sony. That's just based on what was nominated. A vast majority of the outlets pro Sony. And I'm not really sure to think about that. I'm not. I got my biases. I'm not saying like Kirby should be up for game of the year. I don't know. It doesn't have a chance to win anyways, right? We all know it's a two-horse race. We all know that it's between two games. But why does a third game, a Sony exclusive, have just as many nominations as a game that's a 96 overall? That's a multi-platform game. Meanwhile, a game that's actually higher reviewed than that Sony exclusive, the Switch exclusive Xenome Chronicles 3 has three nominations. It's a higher reviewed game by these same outlets. Ergo, they feel it's a better game than Horizon Forbidden West. But it's nominated not even half as much as Horizon Forbidden West, which is nominated as much as a 96 overall game. Kind of a Raiden Rock, by the way, is a 94. If you just go off of that, it should probably be Elden Ring that wins game of the year. But there's going to be a recency bias involved. Gotta War Raiden Rock, because of recency bias, and it's a PlayStation game go figure, has three extra nominations. And because it's nominated for the most awards, you can't dismiss it. It could end up running away with it, because it has the most nominations. But it'll depend, because Elden Ring and Gotta War Raiden Rock are nominated in many of these same categories. And if Elden Ring wins a majority of the categories that both games are in, then Elden Ring would obviously be the shoe in for game of the year. But we've known this since Elden Ring came out, right? It got a 96. When you have a game that gets a 96 on Metacritic, and it's a major AAA game, it's probably shoe in for game of the year. It's going to be very hard to top it. If Breath of the Wild 2, I'm sorry, Tears of the Kingdom comes out as a 96-97 overall game next year, it's going to set the bar. It's going to be the game that everyone else is going to be trying to beat. And as I said, unless you're Zelda or Mario, Zelda or Mario seem to be the exceptions, because Mario Odyssey was nominated for a number of awards, so was Breath of the Wild.  No, it's just a family game. We're only going to mention Kirby as a family game, never mind it's one of the highest-reviewed games of the year. Oh, we'll go ahead and throw Sparks of Hope in the strategy category, never mind that it's higher rated than two of your Game of the Year nominations. Oh, Tunic, great game! We got it's nominated for three awards. It's higher rated than your indie game that's in your Game of the Year award. Stray that somehow got six. A cat simulator. Oh, by the way, nothing against Stray. It's a good game. Really short, but it's a good game. And people love cats, so I get it. That's why it has 99 reviews. But also, not the best indie game. Neon White is, can't give Neon White credit. By the way, Neon White totally unique art style. Oh, it can't be up for best art direction, because it's not realistic. If you're not running a realistic art or style, you can't have the best art direction. At least that's what the awards are saying this year, as every game up for best art direction goes with the hyper realistic art style. So I just, it's a little frustrating and I know that a lot of people don't take the Game of the Year awards that seriously. So I get that this isn't going to be something that matters to a lot of people because most people just look at the Game of the Year awards. It's either just this really fun industry celebration and it doesn't really mean anything. Other people think the Game Awards are a joke. I'm someone who really enjoys the Game Awards and I just kind of wish that the award nominations, the winners or whatever, but the nominees would be consistent with the way those same media outlets have been reviewing the games all year. Because the media outlets are deciding what's on these lists. And the media outlets are deciding what these games are rated. And when they're rating all these other games significantly higher, but awarding one platform's games more than the others, even though that platform's game is rated significantly lower, it just shows a bias. It shows a media bias towards PlayStation.


The House of Representatives at Plenary took steps to stop the planned electricity tariff hike by distribution companies' discourse. Consequently, the House urged the National Electricity Regulatory Commission not to approve any increase in electricity tariff in Nigeria. This followed the adoption of a motion moved by Hon. Ali Yusani Madaki from Cano, who recalled that these goals recently alerted customers of a planned electricity tariff hike hinged on the multi-year tariff order. Madaki noted that a secular issue by Disco stated that effective July 1, there will be an upward review of the electricity tariff, influenced by fluctuating rates. Ruling on the motion after intense debate and loud voice notes in its support, the Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, who presided over Plenary, referred to the Committee on Power when constituted, saying it was a utility motion. We look at the salary of an average Nigerian who owns a car, who has a house or rent a house. Mr. Speaker, in a house of five-bed room today in Abuja, you don't pay any select than 100,000 for electricity every month. And about six months back, without telling anybody, this same agency went and increased the price. Infrastructure costs has gone up. Diesel costs has gone up on their side as well. How do we make them comfortable so that they can sustain the present rate regime? That is what we are requesting for, sir, that we find a way of bringing the neck on board and the disco instead of having a and saying those increase permanently. I so submit, Mr. Speaker. If we are coming here to discuss on how to ensure that the prices are affordable to the common man, we have to find a way to ensure that the industry itself is not suffocated by on due regulation. We are asking for foreign investment to come and expand the industry. If we continue to fix prices and refuse to allow the prices to be competitive and allowing the issue of willing seller and willing buyer to prevail in the industry, we'll eventually kill that. The verse not to increase price. And the house rules in unison and say, no, allow them. Allow the market forces play out. We are faced with another issue that is similar to that. Private sector engagement market forces against government position is a very nice debate. Nice topic. Let's ventilate it a little bit.


Good afternoon. Sorry about the delay in getting started. Earlier this afternoon, Jesse Proudman and Shamil spoke of the use cases for OpenStack, use cases around the world, use cases that are cutting edge with IoT and more traditional with web services technology. With OpenStack over the last five years, we have built multiple products. And today we are going to talk about a series of cloud offerings that we have built on OpenStack. They also meet a variety of use cases. And then I'll have my team come up and talk about the individual cloud offerings. The first thing let's get started with is our own open cloud strategy. Those of you who attended the keynote heard Angel and Jesse talk about how Open is important to IBM, open source in general, but OpenStack in particular. And it isn't just about bringing IT technologies. It's about enabling automation. It's about saving money. It's about providing on demand capability. It's basically about accelerating innovation. Now innovation comes in various forms. But the part that we focus on is the digital transformation to enable you, our customers, to achieve more with your technology investments, to achieve more with your technology integrations, to achieve more by having us provide more of the capabilities in a standard format which allows you to focus on your business solutions. That's the focus of our OpenStack strategy. Now OpenStack itself has had phenomenal growth. You saw that today. You saw that yesterday in all the presentations and by the sheer number of participants in not just the summit, but of course the entire community. And we were here at the beginning five years ago. And at that time, the number of participants, the number of companies participating could be counted on with hands. But now 550. Now through this time, we have been contributing with reviewers. We have been contributing with board members. We have been contributing with core contributors. And the numbers speak to the significance IBM puts on ensuring that we are a major contributor to the community. But as Jesse said this morning, you can't out and await the world. And the world has to participate in the community. And I am gratified that even though we as IBM are number five in terms of the reviewers, we have three of the top 10 contributors, we are not at OpenStack, which is primarily an IBM community, not at all. A lot of you are contributing. A lot of the people who compete in IT technology space are contributing. That truly ensures that we have a community that is off the planet. And we can, in fact, participate together to innovate. Now one of the biggest changes that has occurred in OpenStack in the last 18 months is the use of OpenStack in production. For those of you who have attended the summit in the past, you would recall that there were significant discussion about the level of effort it goes to install. It's a significant discussion about how is your testing going. But now the discussions we hear are about how is your production used, how is your availability been, how has been your ability to accept the innovations coming out from the community. 60% in a survey. 60% said that they have plans in place or they have already executed upon them to put it in production. Many of the big company names that Shamil and Jesse spoke of earlier this afternoon already do have them in production. And of the Fortune 100 companies, 11 of them have production implementations of OpenStack. Point being OpenStack has arrived. OpenStack has arrived as a solution, as a distribution. But what's more important for us is that OpenStack has arrived as a basis of standardized solutions. And it is the standardized solutions, the use cases of the standardized solutions that we'll explore. Now, one big aspect of Jesse's and Angel's keynote speech was about OpenStack going global. Our customer base using our OpenStack solutions is, in fact, quite global. In Australia, Waltz Systems, their entire business is predicated on secure multi-tenancy solutions. They are utilizing our OpenStack-supported next-scale systems to build out their offering. Over in Germany, the technology reseller has solutions utilizing on-premises, on their own hardware, as well as on-soft layer bare metal servers. And they run OpenStack across them, and they access OpenStack using the APIs, their code being completely portable, regardless of whether they're targeting the off-premises or the on-premises solution. While over in the US, a service provider provides on-demand access to compute capacity that's utilizing OpenStack, this is enabling them one tier of differentiation in that they aren't just customers. They are customers who have customers of their own enabled with OpenStack. That shows a level of reliability for these companies to essentially bank their business on OpenStack because the entire offering is OpenStack-based, their entire business is OpenStack-based. But speaking of banks in China, a banking customer utilizing OpenStack to manage their applications on power systems. It's not just about X86, there are OpenStack support for power, OpenStack support for mainframes, allowing you to get VMs as a service regardless of whether they're X86, power or on Z systems. Now, these offerings, these capabilities are made available through the use of OpenStack in standard formats for public, dedicated and local. Through all those, we have a single theme running across. The single theme focuses on delivering four value propositions for all of our customers on all of our platforms. The first, the very aspect that we have these multiple platforms is for you to have choice. But choice is not very useful if it's not consistent from an API perspective, from a user experience perspective, or from a capability perspective. You wish to have the choice because your workloads require very specific aspects in terms of locations, scalability, latency, security. It is on that basis that you wish to choose. But when you make the choice, you don't want to be forced to operate differently. And choice with consistency ensures that your experience and the experience of your users and the capabilities that we provide are the same regardless of the deployment model chosen. Now, this deployment model allows you to build applications that potentially have components on different deployment models. Part of it is on the public cloud, part of it might be on premises on a private cloud. That starts building out hybrid applications. Now, hybrid applications may have been a bear to create and maintain two years ago. But with the industrialized hybrid cloud that IBM now offers that underpins everything that we have launched in the last one year, that industrialization of the capability provides a level of security, stability, SLAs for you to go production with hybrid applications. Now, all these new applications that are being developed are being developed in a slightly different way than in the past. Yourselves, your competitors, our other customers, they're taking a dev ops approach to developing these applications. The tooling that we have put in place enables that approach. The productivity of your developers is the primary focus. So everything that we are releasing this past year and moving on to the future maintains that focus on ensuring we deliver higher productivity for your dev ops operations. That higher productivity for development obviously means getting it done quicker. But from a ops perspective, it means SLAs. It means less effort to do the run and maintain. And last and certainly not the least is making the data, the telemetry in place, making it more accessible by the average developer and the average user. We're fond of saying that the amount of data and the amount of problems that exist in our industries is more than any number of data scientists you could hire. Well, you don't have to hire the data scientists to do this because every IBM cloud product focused on providing the analytics in an accessible manner that are easy to determine actionable outcomes from. So I spoke off the three different deployment models, public, dedicated off-premises and on-premises by which of course I mean your choice of data center doesn't have to be our office. It's just a data center that you choose sometimes that could even be an IBM data center. The focus on these three models and having the same thing is to ensure that when you go public, you're able to use infrastructure that's designed for hyperscale, which means that number one, you can get it on demand. Number two, you can grow it on demand without any commitment, any investment. But many a times it's simply not enough. It is simply not enough to have the segregation that virtualization allows. You are required to end up with some level of stronger segregation for compliance and security. For that, we provide off-premises dedicated. And sometimes off-premises is not good enough. You actually need it on the premises you choose. Those two on the right are our two private cloud implementations, Bluebox Cloud. 90 days from when Bluebox became part of IBM, Bluebox Cloud was available on every one of the 30 plus software data centers. In 90 days, that shows the level of industrialization that already existed in the Bluebox offering and shows the capability of bare metal servers and software that already existed. And that marriage has brought an offering that we are finding incredible success with because private hosted cloud. Private hosted cloud gives you all of the security you desire and the agility to be able to get new resources on demand. Local is what we announced this week. This week at OpenStack, we announced Bluebox Local, the ability for you to get the same cloud I described. On your premises. And I'd like Hernan to please come up and talk about this. Now, Hernan, you may have seen earlier today, he was our very own Chief Ramen Noodle Officer. But his day job is our Chief Product Officer. So, Hernan, thank you. Thank you, Sunil. Thank you very much. And good afternoon. My name's Hernan Alvarez, I'm Chief Product Officer and yes, that was me and a ramen outfit running around like a lunatic on stage. I was coaxed into that early this morning. I'm sure after much cajoling late last night. So, I wanna talk to you a little bit about Bluebox and what we are and the value we offer and why we chose to integrate with IBM. We were a private company for about 10 years, 11 years, started in Seattle by Jesse Pram, who you probably saw earlier, really grew up as a managed hosting company. And what that means is that we are running mission critical applications for customers since really day one of the company's existence. And then a couple of years ago with the obvious growth of OpenStack and importance of Private Cloud, we pivoted the company to become a private cloud company but we saw it a little bit different than how other people saw it. We saw private cloud being very complicated and difficult to deploy for really all customers, customers of all sizes, of all budgets. And so what we did is we changed it and turned it on its head and said let's make Private Cloud as a service. And so we built a product based on OpenStack, leveraging our years of experience inside of data center operations, network operations, customer support and deployed that as a service to the customer so they could come to us and by capacity of a base cloud we would do all the maintenance, the deployment, the ongoing upgrades, the monitoring of that service. And that changed how people were able to consume OpenStack. So we've had that product in market for a little bit more about a year and a half. We integrated with IBM. We are acquired by IBM in June this year. We took that product that was running in our data centers in four blue box data centers around the world and we pivoted. We said, look what we have with IBM. We have software out there with 27 to 30 data centers around the world. Let's move it onto into software. 90 days later we had that. And I'm gonna let Asmire talk a little bit more about that dedicated product. He's gonna come up here in a couple minutes. So we have years of experience with operating clouds. We did it in our own data centers. Now we do it in software data centers. Let's take that knowledge. Let's take that product and take it to the next level and deploy that inside of customers four walls. And those four walls could be their own data center. It could be a co-loop of their choosing. It could also be an IBM data center, as Sunil said. And so leveraging that we deployed this week or announced the GA this week of blue box local. So we take the exact same product that we deliver in the dedicated environment and deploy that in a local environment. So that user experience is consistent. So as Sunil talked about the entire service catalog going up, going the entire service catalog being available across, I'm getting a note from the translator just saying slow down. I'm notoriously fast talker anyways. Thank you very much. Yeah. So we took that expertise and we deployed it in a local. Now being able to leverage it and taking that exact same product. So whether you're consuming it in a software data center in a public context or a dedicated context or a local context, you're getting the same service and support. And ultimately you're getting a private cloud experience or a public cloud experience with private cloud benefits. So you might need security, compliance, latency, access to existing IT infrastructure. There's centuries of data out there. Essentially IBM is a 109 year old company as I write Sunil, 109. So IBM's been around for a long time. We have business knowledge that's inside of the organization that we want to capture and every business has this whether your company is 10 years old or 100 years old you need to be able to express that business knowledge and that business value through these cloud solutions. And so having a solution that gives you the flexibility, the scalability and the reliability of a public cloud but in that private context and access to that local infrastructure and the legacy or existing IT infrastructure is really important. And we're seeing a great demand from our customers with that. They talked a little bit about who we were so I'm gonna move past the slide. And we talked about the fact that now we can reach out to all the data centers, all the software data centers and now your data center. So we can take that exact same product. We can deploy it in a software or in your data center you're choosing. And what we see is that customers are looking for a turnkey solution that has predictable performance and also has security. They need to understand where the data lives. They need to understand how it's being accessed. Who is accessing it? They also need an open stack environment that's consistently moving. Open stack is fast moving. Every six months there's a new release as we all know. If you just deploy a regular distribution, put it in place and you build a complex infrastructure there's a high likelihood that that infrastructure is gonna bit rot right where it is. And so what we say is that our open stack delivered as a service allows the customers to be able to benefit from the very latest innovations that are happening in the open stack environment. Whether that's SDN or NFV or other type analytics with Watson, integrating power systems or other type of applications, Bluemix. And then we also know that customers need it in high availability and that's actually a very difficult challenge to solve. So Bluemix has spent its years of operational experience to design an open stack solution that meets those high availability requirements. And then ultimately customers are looking for a partner, a good partner that's been around that has an established roadmap and they're established track record of helping customers succeed and IBM is that. It's one of the main reasons why we're so excited to be able to participate with IBM. And I wanna take a minute to hand this back over to Sunil and thank everybody for your time today. I'm available to talk more about local after this and I think Sunil might have a chance for some Q and A afterwards. That's great, thank you Hernan. Private cloud as a service where you want it. Truly innovation and I'm so happy to have Bluebox delivered this week. Now getting back to what we launched last month since we do things that frequently. I'd like Asmir to come up and speak to you about Bluebox dedicated and how it's available in all of our software data centers now. Thank you Asmir. Thanks Sunil. All right, so I like to start with a customer story and then move back to the product. So BioIQ is a company that was a Bluebox customer before the acquisition but it really does illustrate the type of customer and the type of benefit you get from using a hosted private cloud. Really it allows you to focus on the innovation at the application layer and really not worry about the infrastructure. We found that what really drives the business of our customers really is what drives their business and a lot of times like BioIQ they're in the medical field and so being able to drive their innovation on a environment that is very elastic, highly available and distributed was really important to them. And they really wanted an open technology, so the open stack was really something that was key to them and then really they didn't want to figure out all the different permutations of open stack. So a lot of those things really drive them towards choosing an option where they allow the experts, in this case is Bluebox, to deal with the infrastructure in open stack while they, the experts of their own applications can really drive innovation much faster. So there's six things that I really think are critical in terms of defining what is key about Bluebox Dedicated. I'm gonna start with performance and I'm gonna work my way counterclockwise to the rest. So performance is key. So every single customer has their own infrastructure. So there's no need for you to share and have a noisy or nosy neighbor. So you can always, you can pretty much guarantee the performance you're going to get from each private cloud that we build and that's huge. And with the power that we get from SoftLayer, the options that we have around hardware multiplies considerably. So that's really a key value that we see. So whether you're running a web scale application that you're running your own or you're trying to move over a legacy application, the infrastructure that we build is compatible with that. The second thing is global availability. So we talked about the 20 plus, 30 plus data centers. Let's talk about the data centers in the Asia Pacific area. So SoftLayer has a data center in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chennai, and all of those are connected using a global high speed network which means that you can send, you can replicate data anywhere in the world for free. So that's the power of having all these different data centers. You can build new use cases that is impossible if you were to build and open that cloud by yourself. And so by leveraging the power that we have with SoftLayer, we can really drive a significant more innovation in OpenSec and of course in the layers above OpenSec. And we also feel it's very cost effective. We charge on a monthly basis for our service. And so a lot of customers, that's really a new model for them. They no longer have to worry about the cost of hardware. It gets amortized as operating expense. More important thing is that the OpenSec experts, we find that is very, is a few and far between, that's something they don't have to worry about. So that gets there. Our OpenSec is stock. We don't modify OpenSec. We make it 100% compatible with any single version of OpenSec you have out there. And then finally around private and elastic, we can definitely provide that privacy because every piece of hardware is dedicated to a customer and then we can grow and shrink the cloud whenever you want. I'm gonna go ahead and pass this on to Yihari to talk about the public implementation that we have with BlueMix. Thank you. So why public cloud? Because it's a cost effective and reliable way of delivering value. Organizations, both big and small, across geographies and across virtually every industry. So our OpenSec public cloud allows for rapid cloud instantiation with virtual resources. We have elastic resources for workloads such as application development, analytics, and social applications. We deliver cloud economics by leveraging the shared pay-as-you-go public infrastructure. Like Dedicated that you saw before, IBM manages the OpenSec infrastructure, the network gateways, compute and storage hardware, and hypervisors to an SLA of 99.95%. Also like Dedicated, IBM software defined networking provides agility for existing and future cloud networking requirements. So this is our IBM's Open Standards cloud-based platform as a service known as BlueMix. We use this for building, running, and managing applications of all types like web, mobile, and big data. With BlueMix, developers can choose among various services and tools in order to build engaging solutions. As you can see, we have a very large ecosystem. Our clients include banks, manufacturers, across various industries, and retail. With both banking and retail, for instance, we find clients that are deploying their web applications in the public cloud and then reaching down into their local data center where they have their databases or other storage needs. So I wanna point you to the two new betas that we have on OpenStack. IBM Virtual Machines and Object Store. So if you'll go visit us in our PED, you'll see how we have our newest OpenStack-based services that work really fast. I'm really proud to say the Virtual Machine spin up in less than a minute. And we can reach down into the Object Store and connect the two together. So with that, I'll pass it back to Sunil. Thank you, Yahari. Now you all got to hear from three of our offering leads, three different versions of cloud for three specific use cases, all running on OpenStack, all RefStack compliant, offering you interoperability, completely productized, completely industrialized as a service. The value that OpenStack's maturity and going to production use as fast as it is removes one of the biggest barriers that we used to have in OpenStack. The second barrier was skills. Receiving these services from us as a service removes that barrier. All of you contribute to OpenStack, IBM contributes to OpenStack and it allows us to ensure that we are always learning about the real world use cases around which we are building these offerings. By having all three, we are underscoring our commitment to OpenStack, to Open, and to Hybrid Deployments. All of us are here for the next few minutes to take any questions that you have and we look forward to seeing you through the rest of the day. Thank you very much for coming.


Still on International Youth Day, you're in Auguste, a clamoring for a critical position in governance to promote synergy for power shift between the old and the younger generation ahead of the general 2020 election. This is a part of the message to Nigerian leaders and critical stakeholders as the International Youth Day has been celebrated all over the world. Youth under the ages of gateway progressive youth during a walk-with-in-a-bail quota metropolis, stumped popular couture markets to sensitize young persons, market women and traders, and active political participation, calling on everyone to exercise their franchise with their permanent voter scouts. The youth and the headers must synergize to mention that they create available opportunities for the younger ones. And this year on, we feel that it is important that we use the media to energize our youth so that they can live responsibly and they can be involved in what is happening in their society. They can make sure that use their strength to choose appropriate leaders that will lead them within their domain. They should be open to learning at all times because learning will help their knowledge and also enhance their capability and capacity. There is an increment as to the number of youths that we have in politics and government as we had two years, 20 or 30 years ago, which means we have an encouraging step that we have taken. We are leveraging on the fact that today is better than the yesterday. The number of youths we have in politics and governance today is more than those that we had yesterday. And so once that can be leveraged upon, we will bring in more youth through participation and involvement of politics. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello everyone. Hey everybody. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. I'm so glad you're here with me. Welcome to what? I guess I need the term. I don't even know where that's coming from. Let's see. I have too many windows open. Bear with me. I think that's where it's coming from. The testing I was doing today. So welcome everybody. I'm so glad you're here with me. It is well over a month after our one year anniversary for our herbs, herbal blends shop. But as I sent some of you in the email, if you are on my email list, I didn't have time to do this sale in August because we were just so busy during the month. But we are celebrating one year. I can't believe it happened. I want to say thank you to all of you who have supported my herbal blend store. And as a thank you, I am offering a 20% discount for the next through Monday. And the discount code is glory 20 all caps glory and the number to zero 20. So tell me where you're tuning in from. I love to hear that. Also, how long have you been following me. Some of you are very new so welcome and some of you have been with me a very long time for years and years and years. Also, I would love to know what reproductive issue you are struggling with. What do you need help with. Also put your questions in the chat box because I'll be glad to answer any questions that you post today to help you with your situation if I can do it quickly. Also, are you taking my herbal blends right now. If so, how are they helping you. And most of all, have you started to change your diet. And if so, let me know that. And if you're struggling, let me know that too, because I am going to be talking a little bit more about like how to come out of that struggle, because it's, you know, it, I think it derails a lot of the women who are embarking on this journey. And I know it did for me for a very long time, and a stop to my, my progress, and it's, it's hard to change your diet. Sometimes we need some extra help with that. And if you haven't downloaded the foods to avoid list, please go and download that list now there is a link down in the description box below this video on how you can download the bit download that that free document. If you don't see it down there if you're having trouble. Go to my website at what Chelsea eats.com. It's on the front page to scroll down you'll be able to download that. So if you're just joining me, we are having a one year anniversary sale this week, 20% off discount from from from today, all the way through October the second all herbs and ebooks and the discount code is Glory, the number two zero. All right. So if you are new here, welcome.  My name is Chelsea Knudsen. I'm a certified holistic health coach, life coach and detoxification specialist and I help women to shrink fibrates naturally and heal other reproductive issues using food as medicine. You can go to my website, what Chelsea eats.com for more information on that. Be sure to subscribe hit the notification bell so you don't miss anything. I am going to just explain really quickly. It's caveats about herbs, because I think a lot of people have misconceptions but my herbs help women who have fibroids PCOS ovariances endometriosis painful cycles heavy menstrual cycles hormonal imbalance infertility. Anything reproductive related even if you did not hear me name it. Okay, you can ask a question in the chat or if you're watching the replay you can comment and I try to answer all the comments that I get. If I don't, it's because I missed it and you can always ask again. But the caveats herbs will not replace a healthy lifestyle. I know you always hear me talking about this but you must take good care of yourself. You need to eat a plant rich diet, get some exercise hot water hydration. Sometimes you need to do some fasting and prayer for sure to get the results that you're looking for also the tea blends don't always taste good it just depends on the person some people love the taste some some people don't. But whatever you do do not sweeten the tea with sugar like regular cane sugar that's going to defeat the purpose. One of the things that is on the foods to avoid list so if you haven't gotten that be sure to download that go to my website what tells the East calm or down in the description box below this video. I like the taste of my herbal tea is the only one that I only one I don't like is the healthy vagina tea. It's kind of bitter for me but some people like it so but it really is not about whether you like the tea it's about whether or not the herbs are actually going to help you. I had some customers say they enjoyed the taste of the tea some people are saying you know I got to get used to it so that's just the reality of using herbs to heal just the way it is. The other thing is, and this is the last thing I'm going to talk about is you can't just drink a cup or two of tea every now and then you need to commit to drinking the tea according to the package instructions every day. If you miss the tea here and there that's one thing but like if you're drinking it once a week and or twice a week or even three times a week, thinking that that's going to give you the major results that you're looking for along with your lifestyle changes. You might be disappointed so you need to be consistent just like you need to do your lifestyle changes consistently. You need to drink it consistently or take the herbs consistently that's with everything though in everything that you are using to supplement your your lifestyle. If you're just coming we're doing a sale up through October 2 which is Monday the code discount code is glory 20 to give you 20% off. All of my and this is a question that I get to do my herbs contain caffeine. I do not have any herbal blends that have caffeine in them because I believe that caffeine hurts reproductive issues that is one of the things that is on the foods to avoid list is caffeine so all the herbs are caffeine free, and they consist of 100% natural and organic ingredients. Okay, so let me shift my thank you ladies for the beautiful comments. Also, don't forget to put your questions here I'm going to share my screen really quickly because I figured this would be easier for me to do. Yep. Let me see if I can do it. Yep. Yep. There we go. Hopefully you all can see that. So the first thing is is I added some elderberry to my site. Because we're coming up into the cold season and I do think that it helps to build the immune system help it. It also helps boost iron levels and has vitamin C and it helps stabilize blood sugar. All you need is about a teaspoon in a like cup of water. My instructions on the bag say tablespoon but you really don't even need that much. And the other thing to take it twice a day eight ounces twice a day. And you can actually so the the berries that you brew in the morning, you can just pour more hot water over them and brew them again at night so you can have two cups a day. What elderberries do is they help with mucus. They remove move inflammation from the lymphatic system which the lymphatic system I'm going to talk about in a few minutes but that's one of the major contributors to why people have reproductive issues in the first place it helps with lungs if you have allergies or if you're if you're prone to getting cold. It helps keep your navel past passages clear helps with cough sore throw if you're already sick respiratory issues, flu, colds viral infection is an excellent thing to take. So what I do with elderberries is I might take my whatever blend I'm using and I'll just put a spoon in it and just I just take it like that. So that one is is an excellent one to take. Alright so the next thing let me see if you can if I'm doing this right yes the colon formula this one is pretty new ladies. This blend is a high quality blend of specialized herbs that helps your body to assist in gentle cleansing and soothing and healing your entire entire digestive system.  It helps with constipation diarrhea and believe it or not diarrhea is a form of constipation GI bleeding some people are having that GI issues GI inflammation. This is like a digestive system healer this one is this is what this is you just take a spoon of it well then I won't get into the instructions because it's on the on the container, but to save time. But this will help break up all that stuff that stuck in there that's been stuck in there for years and help you to get your body in a healing mode because a lot of times we're not healing is because our gut is a mess. So when our guts a mess. Healing doesn't happen as quickly or at all really.  All right, let me move to the next one. Thanks for joining me. We're doing 20% off this week at our for anniversary sale. Glory 20 is the discount code. So this one is one of my favorites the lymphatic formula and lots of people neglect the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is the body sewer system, and it is the place where cellular waste goes and it also holds some of our immune system. And when cellular waste is in the lymphatic system it has to be moved out of the body but most people's lymphatic system is stagnant meaning it does not move because we don't exercise we don't drink enough water. So it's a whole bunch of toxic food so it just settles and a good place for stagnant lymph to settle is in the pelvic region. And so that's why reproductive issues happen for men and women so women will usually get some type of cyst or a fibroid or something like that and men will get like low. A rectile dysfunction or low libido or prostate cancer those types of things in that area so but lymph can settle anywhere in the body. So we want to get that moving and moved and moved out and cleaned out of the body so one way you do it is by taking an herb to do it the other thing is exercise. And the other thing is making sure that you don't eat those crappy foods but this formula is going to help move the lymphatic fluid out of your system as quickly as it possibly can. Like if you give your body what it needs to move this stuff out this is going to help it come out. Okay the next thing is sleepy time T. A lot of times I get people say I can't sleep I can't sleep I can't sleep and that is actual actually very common with women with reproductive issues. It's either you can't fall asleep or you can fall asleep but you can't stay asleep you wake you wake up at two o'clock in the morning you can't go back to sleep but then you get tired when it's time to get up and then you're tired all day because you have to get up to go to work. And it's and it's horrible so this one promotes sleep and it helps reduce anxiety it helps balance hormones it has a stress relief component to it and it helps you to fall asleep and stay asleep that's what the sleepy time T is for. And also ladies if you have questions please don't forget to drop them in the chat so that I can answer them whenever I'm finished with the presentation. The next one this is probably my one of my well I got a lot of favorite products but this one here I am so happy that I found this particular barley grass juice powder because. Barley grass juice powder all of it is not created equal you have to get it from a good source in order for you to actually absorb to get all the benefits from it so you might see barley grass on the internet cheap and you don't know where it came from like they might even slap the organic label on it and it might be great. I mean they might they might say it's great. It's not always great. So I found this one and I love it. I absolutely love it it's 100% pure barley organic barley grass is grown and dried here in the United States. It has no fillers preservatives additives it's potent. This is nutrient dense it's alkalizing is just bursting with vitamins and minerals chlorophyll iron B6 protein calcium magnesium and what's special about barley grass juice powder versus other juice powders is that it inhibits tumor growth. So it also boosts your immunity it boosts your skin quality it helps with cholesterol levels it fills the gaps in nutrition where you might be like oh I don't know if I'm getting enough of this or that. Throwing this in the smoothie or putting this in a little glass of water and drinking it it's amazing to this stuff is amazing I've been doing green powders and chlorophyll for years but hands down barley grass juice powder is my favorite. I don't all of the powders and greens and you know stuff that you can buy. Absolutely love it also the other thing I like about barley grass juice powder is if you are an anxious person in your in your body feels anxious it helps soothe your central nervous system. So that's why I like it. I love it love it love it did I say I loved it. All right no more cramps some of you are struggling with these cramps this has this particular blend it helps to alleviate menstrual pain. There's high is high in minerals it tones the uterus it gets rid of inflammation there's a regular dose that you can take throughout the month of you know if you're some you know you're somebody who gets cramps but if you have emergency cramping. It'll show you how to take it for emergency cramping as well. I have had people tell me you know what it worked. It helped so excellent so the tea strainer I know loose teas can be a pain in the butt. But I have the tea strainer because some people are just like I don't feel like dealing with these with the loose tea but it's actually you're going to get the best bang for your buck when you do loose teas. And also you can you know manipulate the meaning you can you can you know if you want three tea blends today you can put to three tea blends today together and you know like there's so much loose teas are so versatile. And having a tea strainer just makes it easier if you have a busy life because I use one basically every day in some way shape or form. And I feel like this one is the easiest one for somebody who is busy to use. The next one is the eco vessel I love the eco vessel. In 2022 I gave the eco vessel out at my retreat for the ladies there at the retreat and I absolutely fell in love with them. And from whenever I started to add them to my store but what's beautiful about the eco vessel is that it has a or this particular eco vessel has a basket on the top of it. And what you would do is you you put the herbal tea in the in the bottle, then there's a basket that you put on top and then you screw it tight and your tea will steep so whenever you're ready to drink your tea is stays hot. And then you just open that top lid and you pour your tea you don't have to worry about all the leaves that are your tea steeping in the container coming out because the basket that's at the top. Saves you from having to strain the tea that's another way that you can get your tea in without having to worry about. You know, the loose tea leaves so wanted to share that one with you the next one is the liver cleanser this is probably one of my most popular one this popular tease. It's nutrient dense is high in minerals it helps balance the hormones because the liver is the place where your hormones are metabolized meaning they're kind of digested that's a better way for me to explain it I guess. It's not really the right word but that's that helps me to explain what metabolize hormones mean. I hope that helps at least, but this tea is high in iron it nourishes the blood it detoxes the blood it strengthens the uterus it strengthens the digestive system it's anti cancer anti ulcer anti inflammatory as well. Now if you have questions ladies please put them in the chat or if you're watching the replay please put the comments in the below. When you ask those questions it helps me with content that I can bring for in the future. And if you're just joining me I'm doing a 20% off discount for my one year anniversary for our herbal blend store and the sale runs through Monday, sorry. The next one is the bleeding formula. I made this because some of y'all would email me saying you're bleeding your guts out and I know how that feels. And I took herbal combinations whenever I was bleeding my guts out and some of the herbs that are in this tea is what I use to help me when I was going through that same issue. But this is a herbal, it's a nutrient dense herbal blend. It is designed specifically to help slow or stop heavy bleeding. It's high in iron. It decreases menstrual bleeding and hemorrhaging it tones the uterus is loaded with minerals is anti inflammatory there's a therapeutic dose and an emergency dose. So the therapeutic dose if you know you're a heavy bleeder take it throughout the month. If you're if you have in an emergency do the emergency the emergency dose as well. And right now out of the tincture. A lot of you are asking me about tinctures for this I'm out of tincture for this one too for a while so I'm going to try to get it back in soon. Mullen leaf this one is a popular one especially in the winter time. It's good for respiratory problems it gets rid of mucus of your amucous e person it helps with that helps remove lymphatic congestion all over the body. It calms the central nervous system. It relieves pain and soreness in the body reduces inflammation and boost the immune system helps with your nasal your sinus cavities etc. Similar to elderberry so if you take elderberry and mullin together you're doing a double punch but also you've been somebody who smoked weed for a period of time or smoked cigarettes which I was a smoker for 17 years. Mullen is a good way for you to bring healing to your lungs.  It just doesn't sit right with my with my spirit I think the only thing we're supposed to be bringing into our lungs is air and mullen will help help cleanse the lungs from the air that we're breathing in by drinking it so that's those are my thoughts on that. Next is the healthy virginity. Oh my goodness I got so many requests for what's going to stop this discharge I'm having I have vaginal odor those types of things and the bacterial vaginosis yeast parasites unpleasant odors and discharge that's what this is for. This that's what this is for and I even believe that some of the herbs in here like if you are struggling with like your your vagina elasticity like if it's stretched out. Like or just not tone I believe the vagina tea will help with that as well. Okay, so bye bye anemia. Yeah, a lot of you a lot of us are anemic I'm not anemic anymore but I know what it feels like to be anemic and it's horrible is probably one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But I have available in tincture and in tea the bye bye anemia. There's only a little bit left of the tincture so if you're interested in the tincture you better grab it before somebody else does. This product can also be taken if you're not anemic it's not just for anemia anemia it's just if you want to get your iron dose for the day use add this to your to your glass of tea that you're steeping for the day. You can take it daily or you can take it just while you're on your cycle. Yeah, to each attempt but if you have a disease in your body. Let me just tell you this, no matter what kind of disease reproductive issues are diseases believe it or not some people don't believe that because they normalized reproductive issues to like oh it's no big deal and it is a big deal. It can ruin your life.  Um, but when you add like iron in herbal form it helps to eliminate whole kinds of diseases because a lot of the diseases that we have is because we are deficient in iron, even though your iron levels might come normal when you do a blood test. But it's like at the cellular level where it's where it's where it's deficient or a period of time in your life you might not have been exactly where you need to be. Some people come into the world anemic or low in iron because their mother was low in iron so if she doesn't have it to give you you're not going to have it. I recognized that my mother was low in iron when I was born because I was anemic when I was four years old. I was probably anemic before that but that was just the first time they ever tested me or they might have tested me and said I was anemic when I was a baby and I have no idea because I don't have any recollection. I just remember getting a physical before I was going to enter into preschool and I was four and I remember getting my blood tested and they said she was anemic give her give her these Flintstone vitamins that don't do anything. Anyway, so that's what that was about. But anyway, if we flood our bodies with the minerals that we need we will find that our bodies will start to heal. So this tea has a high concentration of iron. It nourishes the blood. The iron levels come up quickly. I have testimonials where people are like out of six or eight and then like they're in a few months or a month. Somebody even said like a month they were up to a 12. So it helps for the iron detoxes the blood strengthens the uterus balances the hormones, etc. Thanks for hanging in there with me if you have questions please. And this is the tincture. So I do have that available. Put them in the chat. This is the first tea that I created and God like really showed off with this one. He gave me everything to put in this tea although all the teas are like that but I think this one is special to me because this is the first one that I made. And I thank God for it because it is a powerhouse.  It is designed to cleanse, tone and rejuvenate the digestive not the digestive system your reproductive system. It is formulated for fibroids PCOS polyps endometriosis cyst pelvic inflammation. It's anti tumor. It's a womb cleaner toner helps get rid of the stuff that's not supposed to be in your womb area gets rid of the congestion that builds up down there that stagnant lymph that I was talking about earlier. It helps with increased fertility, libido, relieved vaginal dryness drink this tea every day. So if you're just joining me. We're having an anniversary sale which I'm so excited about 20% off today through Monday glory 20 glory and zero to zero is on the discount code. The next one is grow my hair if you are experiencing shedding premature baldness alopecia a hair break is you need to address your diet first. But also these these conditions are very common with women and they shouldn't be we should have hair on our head and it should not fall out my hair used to be so bad at times. One it fell out like few times, but then I would go through periods of time when I would restore it and then I would go back to my old habits and I would touch it and hair would be in my hands and I'm like oh my goodness so the herbs. In this tea are the herbs that I use to stop my hair from falling out the texture change to come back to what it was supposed to be. This one improves blood circulation in your scalp helps restore hair follicles and stimulates hair growth stimulates thickening of your strands. It has silica and sulfur in it is helps a hair break it's shedding I mean if you are having hair issues this is a good tea for you to potentially use. I'm healing clay I love this one too. I learned about this particular recipe from my massage therapist that does the seaweed what like the wraps you know the person that special like she's I guess she's an esthetician, and she is a massage therapist, but she's the person who handles that and she's an apocrates health center in Florida, and she gave me this recipe, because I told her what I do, and she said hey you should have the ladies do this because what this particular clay mixture does is it slows and or stops your progression or tumor progression it doesn't really matter what kind of tumor it is pain management anti inflammatory feed your wound minerals because of what it has in it. It detoxifies it's an antibacterial antiseptic anti it's a it's a stringent and it helps with stretch marks. Antioxidants it soothes and and and calms the area. So if you use a this is like a mask for your womb area so that's what you would do you follow the instructions on how to pull it together and you put a mask on it and you can lay a towel over top of it or wet towel over top of it. And you don't need more than 20 minutes with this 1520 minutes max longer is not better with this particular clay. It has ingredients in it that will help to heal the womb issues. Don't forget to put your questions in the chat. Ladies stinging nettle stinging nettles always good so what I do with stinging nettle is I will have my particular tea blend that I'm using whatever it is it could be the liver cleanser, and I will add stinging nettle to it because you can never get enough stinging nettle I love stinging nettle. So I do this like I do the same thing with elderberry so if I'm having my combination of tea, I'll put some elderberry and some stinging nettle into my tea and that's what I will do, like because those are like staples in there. They are excellent for our health stinging nettle is full of minerals, which we need most of us are deficient in. And also stinging nettle has wound cleansing abilities. It helps with infertility helps with hair loss it helps with irregular bleeding and pain the immune system it helps with stress and anxiety it also helps with eliminating excess estrogen the bad estrogen out of your body. And it is full of iron to and it helps support the kidneys and the liver. All right, next is my favorite seasoning herb fest seasoning I think I'm getting ready to carry another one to that I'm it's called vegetable pepper I'm going to be carrying that soon but right now I have herb fest.  It's disgusting has all these beautiful ingredients on it but I don't want it I want a cheeseburger. Well herb fest helps to season up your food so that it doesn't taste as bland as it as it as it does when you're especially when you're first starting to get used to eating healthy food so that's why I love herb fest and it's sometimes hard to find in the store. That's why I carry it and also if you're somebody who's trying to get off salt herb fest is great for that. And lastly, this is my absolute favorite coconut oil. I know you can go in any store you want and buy coconut oil I'm not trying to tell you you should buy mine. But I have learned that all coconut oil is not created equally all it's just not. And this one is smooth it has the right texture it it goes into your skin you know sometimes coconut oil just sit on top of your skin. Well this coconut oil is absorbable which is I had never seen a coconut oil that did that before so I love this one the virgin unrefined coconut oil love it. I don't use it on my food I only use it externally for you know for skin health. But the other thing I like about this one is also if you're feeling irritated down below and you're like feeling like a yeast infection is coming or like you have BV or whatever some type of vaginal issue putting this particular coconut oil down there actually helps to suit.   Stopped it it's in its tracks and I was just like whoa and that's when I decided to start carrying it in my store so if you do this in conjunction with the healthy tea. With the healthy I'm sorry healthy vagina T you can get rid of those infections and stuff that have been pesky. Down below and also you need to think about what you're putting in your body as well. Also this one is really good for sex so if you're if you're experiencing a little bit of vaginal dryness or you just need a little bit of help down there during that time this one is a really good one. And if you're just now joining me we are celebrating my one year anniversary of my herbal store we're doing 20% off today through October 2nd and the discount code is glory 20. So let me stop. Let me stop sharing. Stop sharing screen. I want to answer questions doesn't look like there's a whole lot of questions. I'm shocked. Hi Monica. How are you. It's good to see you. I always love to see your name. Thank you. I love your products. Thank you Monica. That's so sweet of you. Any questions please chat them in hey hey keep while I haven't seen you in a while. So good to see you. Hey Lisa. Thank you Lisa. I don't even understand this we live in the same city and we don't ever see each other.  We've got to change that. All right. Keep wall. Fredericks Fredericksville Fredericksburg Virginia. So I used to drive through Fredericksburg often when I would drive to Pennsylvania from here in North Carolina. But I've never like been to explore the city and Lisa was one of the speakers at my most recent women's retreat and it was amazing. She taught me some things that I did not know and I was excited about that. So thank you I'm learning still learning from what you taught. Princess Grace I love that you're watching from Ben. Okay. What is it been in city Edo state Nigeria welcome I'm so glad you're here. I'm glad you're here. A LaTosha. Hey LaTosha. Miss Crystal. Hey Crystal. How you doing? Is it Asia? I've seen your name before. I hope I'm saying it right. Asia. How you doing? Thank you. Hey there Maxine. Happy anniversary. Thank you so much. Nisha nine. Welcome. China I saw your message from the other day. Go for you for getting back up on the horse. Congratulations. So can you take multiple teas at the same time one kind of tea. In the morning and a different one at in the afternoon or can you just mix them both together to drink at one time. So all right so I'm glad you asked that question because if you're drinking a cup of tea like in a like a cup. I wouldn't put more than three teas in a cup of tea because it like when you start doing four and five teas and a cup even if it's a big mug. You're starting to leave some of the the benefits of the herbs out because the water can only absorb so much. So right here I have my tea for the day which is a this is a leader of tea and I usually fill my herbs up to here and that's a whole lot of different herbs that I'm putting in this jar. So with that when you have a jar like this you can put a lot of teas in there. It's just you need to you need to just be careful with how much I mean I don't usually go over a cup of tea couple cup of herbal tea in a jar in a jar this big. But if you're using a cup I would say three like a mug but if you're using a mason jar and you're making a tea. You can mix as many as you want just keep that tea under a cup I would say just so that the water hasn't the ability to absorb the tea. Hopefully that makes sense. Sunday hey OK so can vaginal discharge be solved with your tea. So yes but vaginal discharge and other things like the infections that is a gut issue. It means you've got nasties in your gut that you need to take care of. So that would mean being consistent with your diet. But what the tea will do is get rid of what's going on at the at the in your vagina. But what feeds that problem is what's going on in your gut and what you're putting in your mouth.  So that is kind of defeating the purpose of what your diet was doing all week. But say you are not messing with your diet messing up with your diet. Say you're being being consistent for a little while and you still have the vaginal issues then take the tea and the tea will help get rid of what is in the vagina that is causing that issue. And also using the coconut oil helps as well. So that is a good one. Let's see. Okay. Do you think the colon cleanse formula can help with malabsorption issues? It absolutely can. That's what it's designed to do to help clear out the colon for sure. Your digestive tract absolutely it helps with that. But the main thing that helps with absorption issues is you've got to get your diet right. So if you take this colon cleanse it will help you but if you keep doing the thing that is causing the colon issue you'll be perpetuating the problem. So hopefully that makes sense. So but the colon cleanse formula, colon formula, it's not really a colon cleanse it's more like a colon formula. It has cleansing, it's a gentle cleanser but really what it's doing is working on the lining of your digestive tract to move junk out but it's also soothing it as well. I didn't want like some harsh colon cleanse because that's not really what most people have. Most people have yeah the junky colon like a congested colon but from all the years of all the eating we've done our colon is in need of some tender loving care. So that's what that colon formula is designed to do. So hopefully that helps. Hey Foodia, how you doing? It's nice to see you. You're welcome Sunday. It doesn't look like there's any other questions but if you come back and you think of a question just put it in the comment section or if you're watching the replay put it in the comment section. Thank you all for all the support that you all have given me over this last year. I pray that those of you who have purchased the herbs and will purchase them in the future that the herbs will help you tremendously on your healing journey that the God would bless you through them and that the healer himself will come and heal your bodies. Because it's I mean yeah we've got tools. Yes we have herbs we have food all those things but the healer is the one who comes and brings the healing so anyway ladies I love you all I speak blessings over you healing of you life over you abundance over you. Everything that you touch may prosper in Jesus name. Amen. All right ladies I love y'all and I will talk to y'all soon. Amen.


Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to do another book review. All right, so another book review if you don't already know I'm going through all of the old-school like legends series books going through them in order and kind of looking at them from a 2019 perspective point of view and just seeing if they hold up to today asking some questions about whether they still fit into the Star Wars canon if they're still good books if you would like to read them pick them up now like if they've stood the test of time and They're still a good read because I think we remember these books in hindsight And we we remember them and they're tied to our youth and we reminisce and we say all those books were so great But you know now I'm a 50 plus year old man, and are they still great that they still hold up I mean, I love Star Wars. I love everything Star Wars. And so I always give everything a fair shake I'm not one of those haters that you know hates on the movies or anything or the products And I'm typically not very critical if you put Star Wars on Something whether it's a shirt a coffee mug a toy or a box of crayons I'm probably gonna buy it because I just I love it. I love Star Wars And so this is my offering to the Star Wars community kind of thought it'd be fun to go back through some of these old Books and see if they hold up today. We're gonna look at the second book in the rogue squadron Series or actually it's the trilogy from Michael Stackpole. It's the it's the Michael Stackpole trilogy the first three books Wedges gamble. All right. So wedges gamble takes place about a month after the conquest of Borleas the rebels and rogue squadron have to deal with imperial probes by the rogue warlord Zinge, I think that's how you pronounce his name Wedge Antilles and his rogue squadron are sent on a covert operation to the planet Coruscant And there they are to find the weaknesses in the world's defenses and help take it away from the galactic Empire Thus bringing galaxy-wide victory for them much closer The rogues members are covertly placed into small groups all over the planet But then they get a message from Admiral Ackbar that they have to take down the Coruscant's planetary defense shields at a Precise time in order for the rebel attack to proceed Wow And I think at first glance at first read that sounds exciting that sounds like a Star Wars book I don't want to read it sounds like a cool Star Wars story And if you go out to Amazon and read some of the people who've read this book and reviewed it They would agree. They would say this is an exciting book, but that book just sat on my Nightstand to be honest. I only got halfway through it. I only got halfway through it and it was forced It was laborious like I had to force myself To read this book like I should have done this review a lot sooner But it just took me so long to get halfway through and I am not the kind of person that likes to give up on a book Like even when a book is bad, I typically finish it just so that I can say I read it or I have an opinion on it But ah, I'm sorry guys. I just couldn't finish this book. So what were some of the things I didn't love? I liked Rogue Squadron. I like that book go back and watch my other review for that book I liked it and I was kind of looking forward to Hearing more about those characters and in my opinion if you're gonna do a sophomore book, right? You're gonna do a second release then the best thing is to continue with the characters that you started with and Go deeper with those people develop them more flesh them out But and that's what I was excited to look forward to but what Michael Stackpole did was he invited a bunch of new people into the book also on top of the old people and then Didn't flesh out anyone and everyone kind of felt the same to me And then when you stick a Star Wars name on somebody, you know No one's named Jeff or Steve or you know, Susie. They all have Star Wars names. So it's hard to then picture Okay, what alien race are they? What do they look like? Where are they on Coruscant? What are they doing? What's their motivation? Like it was just hard to keep track of everybody and every single one of those people had a storyline. So you had five major storylines and then like a dozen or so smaller sub-storylines and so Skipping around like that might work on TV where you can like see oh, yeah I'm in this plot or I'm in this but in a book it was hard to read Stackpole is also really great at doing like dogfights like spaceship fights and like laser battles and gun battles And when you watch a Star Wars movie, I think those are some of the things you really want Like you want to see a lightsaber fight. You want to see laser gun fight. You want to see dogfights in space. However Those are the hard things that translate down to a book like if you're gonna write a book about Fashion the Furious, how do you write a book about a car chase, right? And then you turn left and then you went down the street like it's it's hard to put action into writing and so Again, if I'm reading about characters, I don't Understand or can't fully visualize and then just to then have a whole You know dogfight space battle or a laser gun fight again It's there's not much going on other than the battle So it's it's I think it's hard sometimes to picture that kind of stuff So all in all I was looking forward to reading Wedges gamble didn't love it only got halfway through it and now I'm not as excited about reading the third book in the series. I don't know I mean, what did you did you read this book? Do you like it? Do you have fond memories of it? What's your opinion on Michael Stackpole or the Rogue Squadron? I think in the when I reviewed the first book I asked, you know Does this book fit into Star Wars canon? Does this book fit in Star Wars canon? I mean, I think it does but I didn't finish it But I don't think the timeline or these characters Would ruin the current Star Wars canon, you know, I'm saying like it's an outside story But as far as what I want to see this turned into a feature film. I Don't think so because I didn't like the book I've said it before I'll say it again I think Rogue Squadron would make a great like mini series on like Netflix or Amazon like a small Star Wars spinoff I think that would be cool to take a look back at Wedge and his like little rogues gallery of Fighter pilots. I think that would be a good story for something like that I know Rogue Squadron was turned into a comic book, right? Wasn't it a dark horse comic book? I think it was at least that's what my memory is telling me. So I know I know it's got a fan base But this book didn't do it for me and the subsequent book coming up I'm not excited about but I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Tell me if I if I if you think I'm wrong Tell me I am wrong right now. I'm starting heir to the Empire a lot of you have said this is a great book and I'm like three chapters in and So excited this book is so much heir to the Empire so much better Like Timothy Zahn's a great writer and I'm looking forward to reading this next set of books Tell me what some of your favorite Star Wars books are even if they're coming out in Bookshores right now like if they're new releases drop us a note and let us know Thanks guys. May the force be with you. I'll see you next time. Bye


Hello, my name is Siham Saeed from the Bedouin people here in Nwaiba, especially from the Muzaina tribe. Like we can say like Egyptian Bedouin women. I started political science at British University in Egypt in Cairo. My journey of education like started in class 4 in primary school in state of class 1 because a situation I will never, never forget. Like there is like a teacher, like choose a student to read in front of the whole class and in the time I decided to be the first for the first time to read in front of all the whole class. So I decided to raise my hand like this and then I was nervous and I was like, So Siham what you are doing? So and then the teacher choose me to read in front of the whole class. So I read and everything is good and after I done what? I did it. I finally read in the whole class. I finally everyone like I participated finally in the class and from that beginning and from that moment I started to care about education. I started to care about studying and also I remember that there are two groups of the Bedouin of the students where there are Bedouins and non-Bedouins and the Bedouins they don't care about education, participation in the class and so on. And like from this moment I inspired other Bedouin girls to be participate in the class. There is a challenge actually before going to college which is related to the Bedouin societies here like not allowing girls to go education and so on. So this is raise questions and comments for me like before going to Cairo and study there like oh Siham I'm going to study there alone and so on and why and the most comment or the most famous comment of this is stay here what you are going to to do in college and so on like at the end you will go to your husband's house and so on and this is kind of comment I didn't like it so much but this is kind of a challenge that I faced before going to Cairo. This is the bad part. There is a good part which I really really thank God for it which is giving me a father like he let me to be free he let me to go to Cairo and study there and so on. This is I really really thank God for this. When I go to Cairo also there is like a kind of culture shock there. The people or the simplicity of Nuaipa is not like in Cairo the crowded and the little people and how the people is here thinking like they are simple in thinking but people in Cairo like they are complex and not thinking like here and also how they wear their style of wearing for example we are wearing like a beya and the dress could but in Cairo there is a gents and so there is different kind of life. I get in touch with Habipa through Yasmeen Mr. Magid's daughter when I was 12 years old like I came here to sell beadwork and so on she teach us how to pray in the right way like doing this and doing this but after that I never come back to Habipa and in the last summer I graduate and I come back to Nuaipa again and they invite me to a woman dinner here in Habipa and so I know that they told me that Yasmeen there so yes Yasmeen there I want to meet here and so on and I came and actually meet here. In that time I connected with Lorena Mr. Magid's wife and then she connected me to Mr. Magid. From this moment I started to work for Habipa doing projects for the Bedouin community and how they are care about the Bedouins the project that they develop that will develop the people here's life and the level hot and also they trying to make Nuaipa as a sustainable model. Yes it's mitigated in many ways for example in the summer most of the families go to the mountain and stay all the night there without using electricity they just using the fresh air and sleep there and also in the winter also most of the families go to the mountain with goats and so on and they use electricity, use solar panels just for their basic needs they also are like farming in organic way without chemicals because they love the healthy food they love the product without chemicals so this is kind of simple life I believe in this is kind of simple life that the Bedouin people live and this is good to mitigate the climate change and reduce carbon in the air actually my dream for my community to keep this simple life and healthy life and preserve our traditions and customs here in Nuaipa