Good morning, everyone. Welcome to China and welcome to Shanghai. I will make my speech in Chinese. I'm very glad to be here and meet all of you. And also, many thanks to Linix. Huawei is one of the earliest companies participating in the open source. And the open source is already a part of Huawei's strategic development. And today, I'm very glad to take this opportunity to share with you our thinking on the ecosystem, on the open source and our practices. For this across, this is 500 or 600 BC. It is the ancient Babylon tower. And this is maybe the first time recorded in the human history of the global cooperation. And thousands of years later, the open source is now promoting the larger scale and more innovative and more open global cooperation. I totally agree with Jim's sharing. Open source belongs to the world. And it should not be impacted by race, by politics. And today, we hear some other noises in the world and there are more unexpected things. So many thanks to Linix Foundation for still keeping the open source spirit. And this is a brief sense of responsibility. Thank you, Linix Foundation. The essence of open source is to treat the world, solve problems and create values. In actively participating in the open source community development, we are also working very hard for bringing the open source achievements to other clients and self-issues for them. And to create and produce the values of the open source. In this digital industry transformation background, there are more opportunities for the open source. And we are also very glad to be together with the developers and our partners in the industry as well as our clients to actively explore how to release more values of open source in a wider range. And this is the IoT scenario. We know that IoT is very popular, but it at the same time is facing some issues like fragmented resources like technology are not balanced and the end-to-end integration is not easy. In the IoT, the IoT and open source can help the upstream and downstream to quickly form an ecosystem which is open. Like China Unicom, they work together with the modules and the chips leading companies based on the LightOS, which is the LightAsset operation system to be the foundation of the technology. And build the standard for the industry. And then accelerate the commercialization of the projects. And now the successful practice has happened in the water treatment, the firefighting, the logistics, and also in the industries of management. And for the edging business, we also see it is difficult to do the deployment. And the coordination between the edge and the cloud is in luck and is not smooth enough. So based on the cloud native, the edge computing and open source based on the Kubernetes, we cube edge. We hope to have the containerized edge computing to be further developed and to have the harmonized standard for the edge computing and solve the issues for the edge and the IoT users. The open source project is also used in the industrial zone, in the coal mine, and in the smart campus. And also this is for the compiler. In the past five years, we spent five years for the newer compiler development. It can improve the terminal performance including the smoothness of the operation fluency, which is a 24% increase and six summer response performance with an increase of 44% and the application operation fluency with an increase of 60%. So how to quickly and more effectively to have the users to enjoy these achievements? We believe that open source is the best choice. And Huawei has confirmed that in August of this year, we will have officially open source of a compiler. And we also work with the top smartphones and third parties applications developers and listen to them. And we also hope that our partners can come to this platform and we work together to build our lower art on the terminal. The open source is already a driving force for the open innovation. And Huawei is more than happy to work with the open source communities and actively participate together with the developers, the industry partners and our clients to raise the issues and bring the issues raised by the industry and the clients and work together with our developers. We hope to be courageous enough for the innovation and together with our developers to build a fair, an open and healthy and all-wing globalized ecosystem. Thank you very much.


Why is everyone talking about net zero emissions? Well, humanity puts greenhouse gas emissions up into the atmosphere and we need to stop doing that to stop global warming. How are we going to do it? Well, we're going to largely stop the burning of coal, oil and gas. We're going to drastically reduce various greenhouse gas emissions from industry as well as from agriculture. That will get us most of the way to zero, but not all the way. And the remaining emissions we will compensate for by drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, putting it underground or using it as products. What's the key for it? Well, it's electricity supply. We need clean power, carbon-free electricity, which then can be used throughout the economy and displays the oil, gas and coal that we're currently using directly. That is the key to net zero, a clean power supply.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and it is Monday, so it's meal prep day. I am meal prepping, even though I'm leaving on Wednesday, I am doing a fall inspired meal prep and I'm really excited about it. Troy is excited about it as well because he'll be eating a lot of my meal prep while I'm on my trip to Texas. So if you're excited to see the three fall inspired recipes, give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not, turn your bell on. I do a meal prep every Monday and I actually upload five videos every single week. Don't forget to check out the description box down below where you will find my recipe website. That is where you will find all three of today's recipes. Calories, macros and points are all on my website. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I highly, highly, highly recommend personalized macros and calories. This is how I've lost and maintained a 140 pound weight loss as well as one-on-one coaching for accountability, to ask questions or to talk with me directly. Links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group, come join us. We'd love to have you are all down in that description box. So let's head on into my kitchen for this fall meal prep. For breakfast this week, I am making pumpkin bread and this is kind of a crumbly pumpkin bread. I'm really excited for this. I'm going to pair this with some protein and some fruit. So let me show you what you'll need. First, you're going to need light butter, brown sugar substitute of your choice. This, you know is my go-to, I love Lakonto. This is the golden, so this is their brown sugar version. They have granulated and powdered as well. I do have a 15% off discount code for Lakonto. I'll link it down below for you. I'm going to sub the flour in the recipe with my new favorite flour from fiber gourmet. 55% less calories packed with fiber, packed with protein. I'm obsessed with this flour. I'm so glad that I found it. I actually bought this off of nettrition. So that's the same place I buy the fiber gourmet pasta. I do have a discount 10% off for nettrition. I used to not have a discount and they finally gave me one. So I'll link it down below for you. I can't recommend this flour enough and I can't recommend the fiber gourmet pasta. This is 50% less points in calories than regular flour and performs exactly the same way. I'm also going to use Lakonto granulated, unsweetened applesauce, eggs, salt, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin puree and vanilla extract. So to get started on our pumpkin bread, the first thing we're going to do is add our dry ingredients to a large bowl. So I have one and three quarters cup of the fiber gourmet flour, half of a cup of Lakonto granulated and a quarter cup of Lakonto golden. I'm going to add just a pinch of salt, quite a bit of pumpkin pie spice. I'm going to do about a tablespoon and a teaspoon each of baking powder and baking soda. And then give that a stir and combine everything. Then we're going to add one quarter cup of melted light butter, one cup of pumpkin puree, called for a third cup of coconut oil. I'm subbing that with unsweetened applesauce and then it called for a quarter cup of applesauce. So I'm doing both of those as unsweetened applesauce rather than using any coconut oil. I'm going to add some vanilla extract and two eggs. And then stir our bread mixture together. I went ahead and sprayed my bread pan with some nonstick cooking spray and we're going to add the mixture. Spread that out nice and even in the bottom of your pan and then set this aside while we put together the crumble topping. For the crumble, we're doing one and a quarter cup of our fiber gourmet flour, half of a cup of Lakonto golden and a quarter cup of Lakonto granulated. And then I melted down half of a cup of light butter. Add that and stir it all together. What you're looking for is again, like a crumbly topping, a crumble mixture to top our pumpkin bread. I almost forgot the pumpkin pie spice for the crumble. I went ahead and added some pumpkin pie spice as well. And then again, just stir until you get a crumbly mix. Then we're going to take that crumble and put it right on top of our pumpkin bread. And then just kind of press it in place with your spoon so that we have a nice crumble on top but it's also set into the bread mixture itself. Look how good this looks. This is going in a 350 degree oven for about 30 to 35 minutes or until it is cooked through. So the crumble pumpkin bread is out of the oven. This took a good 40 minutes in my oven to cook. Just pay special attention to it. I inserted a toothpick, it came out clean, so it is done. It looks incredible. I mean, bakery vibes, fall vibes. I am so incredibly excited for this all week. I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. For lunch, I'm making a chicken bacon ranch spaghetti squash, but I'm actually going to substitute the chicken with some ground turkey. It's already have it on hand. It's thawed, ready to go. So you could do chicken breast, ground turkey, ground chicken. I mean, really you can put whatever protein source you want but this is a five ingredient, very simple recipe. So what you're going to need is a large spaghetti squash, salt and pepper, bacon of your choice. I'm using this fully cooked, ready to go bacon. And again, I'm substituting a pound of 99% ground turkey, chicken, ground chicken, whatever you would like. And then you'll need some light ranch dressing. So the first thing I'm going to do is brown my ground turkey.   So I have my turkey all browned up, set aside. Also four slices of bacon cooked and crumbled. So I went ahead and cut my spaghetti squash in half, gutted it, took out all the seeds and stringy things, added a teaspoon of avocado oil, salt and pepper. This is going into a 400 degree oven until it is cooked through, probably between 30 and 40 minutes. So for the spaghetti squash, bacon, ranch goodness, you're going to need a large bowl. We're going to add our cooked meat, whatever you chose, again, chicken, ground turkey, whatever it is that you're using. You could even use ground beef. And then we're going to add our four slices of crumbled up bacon. So I just pulled the cooked spaghetti squash out. Doesn't that look amazing? I'm going to allow it to cool for a few minutes, then we'll shred it with a fork. And mix the spaghetti squash in with the chicken and the bacon. And then lastly, we're going to add in our ranch dressing. It's a very, very simple recipe. The time consuming piece is just cooking that squash. I was going to let you know that you could even cook your spaghetti squash in the microwave if that's a little bit easier for you. I just like the way that it comes out a little more roasted, brown and crispy kind of from the oven. So let's go ahead and add in our ranch. So I have half of a cup of light ranch. You could use any light or fat-free or full-fat ranch of your choosing. And then again, give it one last mix. The recipe does say to top it with some parsley before serving. I'm excited for this. This is going to give us a carb, lots of protein, a fat with the bacon, and then we have that yumminess of ranch. So that is the chicken, AKA turkey, bacon, ranch, spaghetti squash. So here is our lunch completed, packed up, and ready for the week. This entire bowl makes only four servings. So you're going to get a big serving packed with protein. So I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. For a sweet treat this week, I'm making baked apple cider donuts. We are channeling all fall in this week's meal prep and I couldn't be more happy about it. So let me show you what you'll need for our donuts. Again, you'll need flour of your choice. Of course, I'm using my fiber gourmet. I cannot recommend this flour enough. And again, it's purchased on Natrition. I'll link it down below for you. Apple cider vinegar, Lakonto granulated. Again, I have a 15% off discount for Lakonto. It is also in the description box. Unsweetened applesauce, vanilla extract, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. And then of course you'll need a donut pan. I forgot to mention that you'll need apple cider for apple cider donut. So this is just sweet and delicious apple cider from Kroger. Before the apple cider donuts, super easy. I'm going to add one cup of my fiber gourmet flour, one third cup of my apple cider, three tablespoons unsweetened applesauce, quarter cup Lakonto granulated, vanilla extract, pinch of salt, one teaspoon apple cider vinegar, cinnamon and nutmeg and then one teaspoon of baking powder. And then we're going to stir all of that together.   That'll be the easiest way to squeeze it into the donut pan. And I'm just going to squeeze my batter into the donut pan. You could spoon it in as well. One of you guys recommended this method the last time I made donuts and I'll tell you right off the bat, this is much, much easier. Are going into an oven for about 350 degrees for about eight minutes. So I just pulled the donuts out. These look so good. I did mix up some Lakonto granulated and cinnamon and I'm just going to sprinkle that right on top of the donuts and then we'll allow these to cool completely and I'll be back to share points, calories and macros. And here are the apple cider donuts. These smell so good. Between these and the pumpkin bread, it is fall in here. And these, adding a little bit of cinnamon and sugar, just add some nice texture. These are nice and fluffy. You don't need to buy donuts if the donut shop make them at home. You can add protein to them. You can use the fiber gourmet flour for fiber and protein and you have perfect donuts. We made for this fall inspired meal prep. I hope you enjoyed seeing all three recipes. I will tell you I've tried all of it and it is incredible. Every single one of them, 10 out of 10. I actually gave my in-laws some of the pumpkin bread and she said it was one of the best she's tried. So highly recommend all three recipes. Don't forget my recipe website is in the description box along with nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group, come and join us. We would love to have you. Give this video a big thumbs up, subscribe. It really helps me out, pushes my video out into YouTube. So I appreciate it and I'll see you all in the next one. Bye.


a hoi-hoi and welcome to the channel. Today I was gonna do a video about the SCP-6000 contest ending, but it hasn't officially been announced what the results are, even though they were supposed to be announced at midnight. To be fair, the contests never really end on time, because while they're run by people, it's not like a profession, it's in, they're not professionals or volunteers, so they get to it when they can get to it. Usually it's pretty close to on time, but you know, whatever. We talk about staff not being professionals all day. They're not paid, so they're not professionals, but it's not over. Apparently there were some shenanigans that went on, and I don't know who won with 100% certainty yet. I believe it was Rounder House at the midnight hour at the point of the contest being over. I believe Rounder House was ahead in upvotes over DJ Cactus's entry. However, the shenanigans could be involving those two entries, and if they are, they could really jostle things up. Although I believe DJ Cactus said, regardless of if he wins or not, he didn't want the 6k number. But again, not putting words in his mouth for that. I can't say with any level of certainty that that's still true, and even if it is or isn't, it's up to him to decide, even if he says that and then decides to change his mind. But in the end, I don't know who won. I don't have enough information in front of me about that, so I can't make the video I wanted to make. Instead, I was thinking about not pitching, but talking about a concept, a video idea, or a video series idea that I'm working on. So I have quite a lot, or at least I like to think I do, quite a lot of pop culture knowledge, and what I don't have readily available in my head, it's pretty easy to find online, especially with my own interests. My main interests are history, I don't know, nuclear weapons, geopolitics, that kind of stuff. I'm really, really interested in that on the side, but outside of gaming. But another thing, I pick up pop, I absorb pop culture knowledge like a sponge, and I've been thinking about how to apply that. I'd love to be able to do stuff like do deep dives on non-SCP topics, but of course that's not what you're here for. So I've been trying to find a way to mix those non-SCP topics with SCP content, and I think, and I don't know for sure, but this is the kind of thing where I can actually ask you, I think I have an idea. And it's similar to what I realized after I'd come up with the idea that it's very similar to something that Sherm does, which is insert pop culture character here isn't an SCP, but if it was, and then he does like a little bit of a deep dive on what it would be if it existed in the SCP universe. I thought about doing something similar, because I recognize that the idea is very similar to that, but it's basically a versus series. Take an SCP character like SCP, this is the idea I actually had, like SCP 682, well-known, like, you know, competitive, fighting, a battle bot of its own, and pit it up against a powerful superhero, just as an example. My thought was SCP 682 versus Superman, though I'm starting to think as I dive more deeply into 682, that his power level just isn't comparable to Superman, even modern Superman versus, say, Silver Age Superman. Silver Age Superman is basically God. I believe Silver Age Superman could push planets, for example. So, yeah, I think 682 and Superman might not be a great match, but then again that in and of itself is its own video and discussion, just because he's going to lose doesn't mean that it's not, you know, interesting information we can come up with out of it. So that's my idea, that's a series idea that I've been working on, and I actually have a video, I think I'm going to do it by next Thursday, but I want to do some more research and get some more reading done before I'm absolutely sure. And I'm sorry to be like, hey, this is an idea I'm thinking about doing. What do you guys think? But I, honest to God, don't have, honest to God, don't have anything else prepared for today. And I thought why not I'll talk to you a little bit about what I have planned going forward. The channel's doing a little bit better right now, just slightly, which is nice. I think part of it is the link to the videos that I've been doing, and it's which is funny because I'm pretty sure today is going to be pretty short. But I want to try and get that out of the way. Also, the animation stuff is still coming down the pipe. I have a script written out, but I'm still working on, like, refining it down to something that I actually like, because right now I'm a little iffy on it. Yeah, that's a content update for the channel, I guess, and a little bit of a few other things. Basically, asking the question, what do you guys want to see more of? That's actually, but even better question, because I can tell you what I'm going to do. But why don't you tell me what you want to see more of? And, you know, if you see a comment that suggests something that you also would like, give it an upvote, or not a vote, give it a thumbs up, I think, in the like on YouTube.  The other half of it is I'm going to figure out what people who don't watch the channel now want to see, because channel growth is incredibly important to channel health. Anyway, that's it, I think. Again, I think that's actually going to come in less than eight minutes, which is annoying for a variety of reasons, but you gotta do what you gotta do, right? Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button. Why aren't you hitting the subscribe button already? If you watch my videos and you aren't subscribed, thank you for watching my videos. But what's wrong with you? Do you want me to fail? Is that what's happening right now? I don't want to fail. Do you want me to fail? Am I stretching things out a little bit? I think I am. Hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then head on over to patreon.com, forward slash decimarian and hit the what? What am I, hit the what? That's weird. And pledge at any level, like everybody here on the screen already has, including Sinjeriki who has pledged $100. These are the people who, by the way, like even when ad revenue is going down, I can rely on my Patreon backers to make sure that I'm, you know, going to be able to pay for groceries and stuff. Because this is my job. This is what I do. And honestly, every time I look at the Patreon backers, it makes me feel good to know that I am not alone out here, and I will see you all again on Tuesday.


Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am delighted to be joined by Karen Bartelsen, President of IEEE, whose mission is advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for this opportunity. I'm really glad to be here. So what role do you believe the technology community should play in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals? If you think about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, every single one of them has an element of ICT, from sensors to see what's going on under the ocean to communications that help people learn better and improve education. Everything you can imagine has a foundation in ICT these days, so it's an extremely important role. And with regards to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, what role do you see for young professionals, and in particular, young female professionals? As President of IEEE this year, those are my two focus areas, young professionals and women in engineering, and the intersection of them is extremely important. Young professional engineers, technologists, scientists have to be part of this solution, because if not, we won't make any progress. They're the ones with the creative ideas. They're the ones up and coming who will solve these problems that, frankly, our generation has created for them. And actually, ICT is going to be able to solve problems that we didn't create that are natural, like natural disasters or famine. And so, when the young people who are so inspired are part of the solution, early on, they will come up with ideas that nobody could ever imagine before. What I found most fascinating about the young women engineers and the young men engineers, they seem to be gender-blind, which is amazing to me, because up until the last few years, I was getting very discouraged. The numbers of women in the STEM fields really hadn't changed in decades. But watching the young people who say, why does it matter if you're a woman or a man? We have problems to solve. We have things to do to make the world better, so I'm extremely encouraged by it. And the world is definitely going to be a better place because of them. Now, with nearly half the world still unconnected, what role can IEEE play to advance connectivity? So, connectivity and information for everybody in the world is at the heart of IEEE's mission, advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. So, we call upon all of our members, 400,000 engineers around the world, as well as those who are not members of IEEE, to figure out how to solve these problems. We have what we call the Internet Initiative, which is looking at how policymakers and engineers, technologists, can get together and solve the problems, because it's interesting that technologists and policymakers speak a different language. Policymakers say, oh, I've heard of this thing called the Internet of Things. I need to regulate it, but what is it? And so we as technologists can explain, this is what the Internet of Things is. But it goes the other way as well. I was in a meeting with a room full of policymakers and they were speaking English. I had no idea what they were talking about, because their jargon was different. So, that's the purpose of what IEEE's Internet Initiative is doing. The other thing that we think is crucial to the success of connecting people is not just the equipment and the communication vehicles, but security and privacy. Without that, people will be reluctant to connect. So, we also, as part of this IEEE Internet Initiative, are looking at cybersecurity and cyber privacy, internet governance, what does this really mean? Because the average person who all of a sudden discovers the internet, if they're at risk for cyber-bullying or for identity theft, then they're going to back away. And so, all of the connectivity we put in place would be for not, unless we solve the security and privacy issues. Karen Bartelsen, president of IEEE. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is great.


Welcome to Ancestral Health Today. Evolutionary insights into modern health. Welcome to Ancestral Health Today. I'm Todd Becker. We're starting a new feature on the podcast called Second Look, where we replay selected talks from past Ancestral Health symposium conferences that we think will interest you. Today's Second Look talk happens to be one that I gave in 2014 at the AHS meeting in Berkeley. The title is Myopia, a modern yet reversible disease. Myopia is also called nearsightedness. It's a refractive defect of the eye where close-up objects are in focus, but more distant objects appear blurred. So glasses or contacts are typically prescribed to correct the condition. Although in reality, they don't actually correct the underlying problem, they're just a crutch that aids you in seeing more clearly, but often they end up making the problem worse and stronger lenses are needed. I wore glasses for my own nearsightedness starting in high school, and over time the eye doctor kept increasing the strength of the prescription until I discovered how to get rid of my glasses when I was in my 40s. The first part of the talk is about the increasing prevalence and causes of myopia, including the underlying biology of how the eye becomes myopic by increasing in axial length, mainly due to environmental factors such as horror vision hygiene, things like spending too much time reading and looking at screens up close and not enough time looking at things in the distance. The second half of the talk builds upon this biological understanding to reverse the process. I describe in detail how to use an active focusing technique to reverse myopia and restore normal vision. I adapted this method from research and practices used by others, but I developed the specific active focusing technique myself. I first wrote about my success and the active focusing approach in 2010 on my blog, Getting Stronger. It's one of many applications of a general biological principle known as hormesis, which is the judicious application of low-dose stress to make the body and metabolism more resilient in many different ways. The talk you're about to watch or listen to on the podcast is about reversing myopia or nearsightedness, but I also indicate how the same general principles can be used to reverse hyperopia or farsightedness. That's the condition where you have trouble focusing on fine print or objects up close, which is something that many people encounter as they get older. I do want to correct two minor errors where I misspoke during the presentation and only realized it later. About 12 minutes in where I'm discussing a graph from a study on changes in the axial length of the eye, I mistakenly state the units as millimeters, where the graph clearly shows its microns. I did realize and correct the mistake later in the Q&A section, but in that section I also incorrectly described a condition where one eye is dominant for distance and the other for close work. I refer to it as ambelopia, which actually refers to a different condition. What I meant to talk about was a term called monovision. This talk on myopia reversal happens to be the single most popular reported talk on our Ancestral Health Society YouTube channel with well over a million views and over 4,000 comments. The comments fall roughly into three categories. A small number are from skeptics who don't believe it's biologically possible to reverse myopia, so they dismiss the talk. A larger number are from viewers who actually applied the technique with success and they either reduced their prescription or they got rid of their glasses or contact lenses entirely. And then there's another group with questions from people who are interested in trying out the technique, but they're unsure about certain details. And so for them I created an FAQ post on my blog that answers many of those commonly asked questions, and I've put a link to the blog post and several other references in the show notes. I hope you'll enjoy watching or listening to the talk. You can leave comments or questions on the YouTube version of this podcast. Thank you. Thank you. It's great to be here. How many of you wear glasses or contact lenses? That's a pretty good percentage of the audience, all right? So we're going to be talking about your eyes today and I hope you'll find the talk interesting, but I'd like to start out with two pictures. Both of them feature myself and my daughter. The first one on the left was on a merry-go-round at the San Francisco Zoo when she was about a year old, and the one on the right was more recently. And you might notice some differences between the picture. Well, beside the fact that my hair is gray, I was wearing glasses in the one on the left about 20 years ago. And so part of the talk today is my story about what I did to learn about myopia and how I got rid of my glasses. But the talk really has two parts. The first part is going to be about the causes of myopia and you really have to start there if you're going to be effective in reversing myopia. And the second half will be a technique that I've developed and it's similar to techniques that others have developed, but it's my own particular twist on it on how to use active focusing to reverse myopia. The photograph there shows some girls in high school in Singapore in a language arts class using their iPads and you can see that all the girls in the class are wearing glasses. In some of the Asian countries, like Singapore, myopia is very prevalent. So first of all, what is myopia? Well, it's colloquially nearsightedness and what it is biologically is a refractive defect of the eye where when you're looking in the distance, distant objects appear blurred because the images are focused in front of the retina rather than on the retina. It's really a very common disorder, probably the most common refractive error of the eye and it's becoming more prevalent and severe myopia can lead to macular degeneration, cataracts, eye floaters, retinal detachment in serious cases. So it's something to be concerned about. Now my talks about myopia, but some of you are farsighted and have hyperopia, it's the opposite condition. I had to focus the talk so I chose myopia because it's more common but a lot of the principles here, if you pay attention, apply to hyperopia as well. So question is, is myopia caused genetically or is it environmental? There's evidence on both sides. For example, twin studies and parent child studies show a higher correlation than you would get with fraternal twins or just by chance. There's a number of gene mutations that have been identified like SCO2, which has to do with copper metabolism, which are implicated in severe myopia. And there's wide variation between different ethnic groups. So for example, it's much higher in Asia, 70 to 90% in some countries, maybe a third of people in the US or Europe have myopia, and it's much less common in Africa. On the other side, there's a lot of environmental factors. So for example, there's been a large increase among Aboriginal peoples, for example, Eskimos, once they were introduced to Western schooling. There's a correlation between achievement level in school or academic level in myopia and there's some experimental demonstrations that defocus generated by close work is the cause of myopia and we'll be getting into that in some detail. If you go back some of the early studies on myopia, there's one from Holland in the 1880s looking at military recruits, looking at the occupations of where people came from when they were coming into the army. And if you looked at farmers and fishermen, it was about 2.5% prevalence of myopia. If you looked at leather workers who used their hands, coursework, maybe about 5%, hand workers who were doing fine work, perhaps jewelers, it jumps up to 12%, merchants who were doing a lot of accounting work, paperwork, 15% and advanced students about a third. So that was some indication that there might be a relationship between the kind of activity you're doing and the incidence of myopia. If you look more recently, myopia has really increased since 1970, right, in all age groups. And what this shows here are different age groups from youth to my age where the incidence and prevalence of myopia has almost doubled and the gray and black show the incidence of the more severe or advanced types of myopia where you see particularly a large change. So if you look also at Aboriginal peoples, I think a good example is Eskimos and this was a study done by Francis Young in 1969 in Alaska. If you look at the incidence by age group, it's very interesting because in 1969 there had been a school in operation for about 30 or 40 years. So those folks who were older than 40 had not had Western education and you can see there's virtually no incidence of myopia there whereas those who had been introduced to Western schooling had in some cases more than 50% incidence. Again, some evidence of an environmental factor. If you look at Germany, there was a study done just recently where people who did not complete secondary or vocational education had maybe 20%, 30% myopia. Those who completed their secondary education had bumped up to maybe 35 and then those who completed university more than half of them had myopia. And there's some geographic distribution that indicates countries where particularly in Asia where there's more schooling. Even at young ages like seven to nine we see that in Singapore for example 34% myopia whereas Nepal it's only 3% and that compares to a modest maybe 7% or 8% in the US again in school children. So there's another environmental factor which is diet. And there's some studies particularly by Cordain showing that for example eating a lot of carbohydrates not surprisingly might induce higher incidence of myopia and it's been tied to hyperinsulinemia to excess carbohydrate intake to a deficiency of fish oil and essential fatty acids and to mineral deficiencies. Now Cordain took the view that actually genetics were not that important because he was studying children in the islands of Vanatua who were in school eight hours a day and yet they only had about 2% myopia. But as I'll argue later it's not genetics or environment but I think the two come together. If you think about it in terms of epigenetics or environment acting on the genes it's kind of like alcoholism, right? You can have a gene for predilection to alcoholism but if you're not exposed to alcohol you won't have that condition. Well there was a study done by Douglas Frederick in 2002 showing that if you had the genetic indicators for myopia and you engaged in practices myopic genetic practices like education, near work you could get strong myopia more than two diopters. Whereas if you're not predisposed and you had those habits you might get some milder myopia. However, if you had practices that were non-myopic genetic basically either a low level of education or occupation that didn't involve a lot of near work there was either mild or no myopia. It's a very interesting paper. Let's get into the biology. How can you explain this? So I think it's important to start with an understanding of how the eye focuses light. If you look at the eye it has this lens in it the crystalline lens which just as in a camera can change shape to focus light on the back of the retina where you perceive the image. Now when you're looking at distant objects and most of the rays are coming in parallel the lens is fairly flat so there's not much focusing needed. However when you're focusing close up the lens actually has to expand and become more curved and just like with a magnifying glass you'll tend to be able to focus the light. Now a healthy eye can go back and forth between those two focusing states rather easily. However what happens in myopia it really is a process that develops in a couple of stages. So first of all as we saw in the previous diagram you have a thinned lens when you're looking at far objects and you have a thickened lens when you're looking at near objects. If you spend a lot of time working on the computer or reading or looking at your smartphone after a while when you're doing near work the lens will spasm and it will be much harder for it to thin out again when you look in the distance. So now when you look in the distance rather than focusing on the retina you're focusing in front of the retina and you perceive a blurred image. So this can be transient you know and this is what happens when you might be in grade school but if you're doing a lot of near work or you're looking at your smartphone all the time that spasm becomes more permanent and so you go to the optician and the optometrist and they fit you with minus lenses which are convex lenses and when you put those in front of the eye it sort of has the effect of making it look as if you're seeing things in focus when you're looking in the distance and all is well. However there's a problem here because that distance correction now causes focusing behind the retina when you're looking up close and this induces a very interesting process and I'll get into the biology of it whereby the eye elongates and the axis of the eye gets longer and it has to do with a biological mechanism having to do with defocus. Now when the eye elongates all of a sudden the eye is longer this is fine when you're doing near work or you're spending most of the time however you get the same problem as you did with pseudomyopia in that you're now focusing in front of the retina and those images are how to focus so what do you do? You go back to the optician and get a stronger prescription and the process repeats itself over and over and over again and this was my experience where I had to get stronger and stronger prescriptions in order to see and focus. So there's a theory called the incremental retinal defocus theory and this was developed by Hung and Shia Freda and there's some very interesting recent data in humans showing that if you actually fit a person with a minus lens the axis of the eye will grow and here in just the course of an hour the length of the eye is increased by more than 5 mm which is significant because the eye is only 25 mm long on the other hand if you put a plus lens in front of the eye over the course of an hour it will shrink by about 10 mm and if you just put a neutral lens on there's no change now this is a study in humans this is very recent a lot of the older data was in primates and in chicks but this is exciting because they now have tools using a photometer where they can actually measure the length of the eye when you're focusing and this is I think pretty interesting proof of what's going on so what's actually happening is that when you're fitting the eye with this lens and you're focusing behind the retina there's a process by which there's a growth of scleral tissue and the scleral tissue grows in response to some neuromodulators that are secreted when there's a defocus it's actually quite interesting it's been experimentally demonstrated so these neuromodulators increase the elasticity of the scleral tissue and allow the eye to elongate the same process by the way can happen in hyperopia where you're focusing in the other direction and you can cause the eye to become shorter so let's see if we can put this into a practice can we take this learning and turn it into actually a method for reversing myopia I mean there you saw an experimental demonstration how actually putting a lens in front of the eye can change its shape so in this regard I'd like to touch on a key principle that I write about in my blog getting stronger and that is hormesis hormesis is a beneficial response of an organism to a low dose stressor that's otherwise detrimental or lethal and it works by activating various defense or repair mechanisms and there's a lot of examples you might be familiar with for example exercise and immunization calorie restriction exposure to hot or cold these provoke an adaptive response UV radiation phytonutrients formation calluses if you play the guitar go barefoot you get the growth of skin there and I will argue that active focusing is also analogous to exercise in this respect exercise particularly weight lifting is a great example of hormesis if you're lifting heavy objects you're causing these micro tears micro trauma to the muscle and you get a super compensation as a result as long as you don't overdo it your muscles will grow back stronger the key is you've got to do training optimally by working at the edge of failure over train you'll damage the muscle if you under train you don't get a response and this is sometimes called the specific adaptation to impose demand or the said principle so how can we apply this to reversing myopia but first imagine that you walked into a gym and you wanted to get stronger and you applied the same model that a optomist tris did now you go into the eye doctor and what they're giving you when they give you a pair of glasses is essentially a crutch right you want to have immediate satisfaction see things crystal clarity right away you don't want to do any work well if you went into the gym and instead of working out they said here we're going to put an exoskeleton on you and this is not a joke there's a defense contractor who's actually proposing this for soldiers who have to go on long you know hikes and training missions that you would wear this exoskeleton and as you move that would amplify the strength that would make life easier well what do you think would happen if you wore this exoskeleton all the time probably the same thing that happens to astronauts in space their muscles atrophy, they get weaker and when they take off the exoskeleton the problem's even worse well my argument is this is exactly what you're doing when you're wearing glasses you're weakening your eyes so let's talk about then how we can apply hormesis to make your eyes become less myopic first of all there's print pushing and plus lenses which you use while you're reading secondly there's for distance there's the use of progressively weaker lenses or fusion of ghosted images which I'll talk about so you first have to understand how myopic you are and the best way of doing this is to use a Snellen chart you're all familiar with this if you've gone to the DMV it's a series of letters with different lines and you stand 20 feet back and see how far down you can read so if you could read down to line 4 there, let's say line 5 the PEC FD you would have 2040 Snellen score which means you can see at 20 feet what a normal person can see at 40 feet and if you can only read the E at the top well then you've got a problem but if you translate that into the prescription you'll get so if you look at that 2040 person they might get a prescription that's about 0.75 diopters which means they could see normal sized text about 52 inches in front of them without glasses all right so you first have to know your strength now here's where the interesting thing comes in if if you really want to work on reversing your myopia you have to read without glasses if you have so I'd like to distinguish three different distances and this is my daughter acting as a model here in front of the computer so you're sitting at the computer or a book and you're reading take off your glasses now if you wear them and hold some printed matter in front of you hold it and you can see things just in focus and pull it in that's D1, that's what I call the edge of focus now push it out just a little bit further until it just starts to blur you can just see that beginning of blur and that's what I call the edge of blur and that is D2 push it back a little further away and it starts to become indistinct, that's too far that's the edge of readability well this is analogous to when you go into the gym choosing the proper weight that's putting you right at the edge of discomfort and what you want to do is if you're let me go here is move back and forth between D1 and D2 while you're reading and just keep pushing it a little bit and you'll feel that it's a little bit discomfort a little bit uncomfortable but never painful and never difficult and so you'll be reading between D1 and D2 and do this for about 2 to 4 hours every day take a break every 15 to 30 minutes or so and eventually what you'll find is you can increase D1 and D2 you can push it a little bit further away maybe the second day you'll get another inch away alright, keep doing this you'll be surprised actually by how quickly it works once you get to 20 inches away if you can see that you're in great shape now you use plus lenses alright, so myopia is strong, you don't need to use anything but if your myopia starts to get weaker now you use plus lenses so here's what you do if your correction is a little bit weaker if you need if you have a correction of less than minus 2 diopters you go into the pharmacy and you'll see these racks with readers and you might try on the plus 1 plus 1.25 or the plus 1.5 pick a pick a pair so that you can read comfortably at 15 to 20 inches so now you're actually starting to handicap yourself this is like going for a run carrying weights right, and you're going to get stronger faster this way you might buy several pairs and as you get stronger and stronger you might be up to a plus 2 now you're going to find that as you look at the distance everything is starting to get clear keep going and keep testing your snellan every week to see if you can read further and further down on those lines okay what do you do when you're not reading? say you're going for a walk watching TV you're sitting in a room like this and you want to improve maybe you're riding as a passenger in a car I wouldn't advise this when you're driving alright so what you do there is weaker lenses so let's suppose your prescription is for a minus 3 right so get a minus 2.5 now maybe your optometrist is cooperative and we'll do that for you but if not go to online go to zennioptical.com put in your prescription and you have here some frames about $7 and with the lenses it might cost $20 order yourselves a few pairs of progressively weaker if you're at minus 3 get a minus 2.5 get a minus 2 get a minus 1.5 and then as you get better and better move down to the weaker lenses okay now I'm going to talk about a technique which is really fun and very playful in the spirit of Darrell Edwards and this is a real story how did I actually discover this technique well I was vacationing and I left my glasses on the other side of the US so I was without glasses for two weeks and at first I was very frustrated I brought some good books to read and my eyes were all blurry so I went for a walk and said okay I'm just going to see what I can do without glasses what I noticed is that when I looked in the distance particularly at objects that had sharp contrast like the edge of a building or overhead telephone wires that I could see a crisp image and next to that a very faint secondary image and this is sometimes called Diplopia or double vision it's not a serious problem unless it's in a single eye which then you should see your eye doctor but generally it's just a refractive issue when your eyes are have mild myopia not very strong myopia you'll see these two images sometimes you'll see more than two and it's really just a refractive phenomenon actually quite useful because the more you stare at this you'll find that one of those two images is darker than the other and as you keep staring you'll find that one gets darker and the other gets lighter and fainter and eventually it fuses and this was very exciting discovery for me that by looking at distant objects particularly with high contrast I could start fusing the images so this was my method of focusing and looking in the distance and the plus lenses for working at the computer okay so there's some some key questions here just the method really work how much time should I spend each day doing this how long before my vision improves and is this the same as the Bates method well a couple facts first of all it worked for me and for really dozens of others and I write a blog gettingstronger.org there's two posts in particular that I encourage you to look at that have to do with vision improvement one of them is called improve vision and throw away your glasses and then I have a forum where there's a thread called eyesight without glasses and these have over 100,000 views and also I'll show you some slides with references at the end of the talk and they'll be on my website if you're skeptical or if you want to follow up on the science behind this how much time should you spend at it first of all you've got to have the right mindset these are not exercises that you do like going to the gym these are activities you integrate into your daily activity while you're working at the computer while you're at work every day or while you're going for walks spend at least two to four hours print pushing without plus lenses if you have strong myopia and with plus lenses with myopia and take breaks it's very important don't sit there looking at the screen all the time look in the distance look up close look near or look far key point again it should feel awkward but never painful if you do get red eye or strain stop take a few days off try it again how long does this take to work that's the other question I always get again be patient it took years for your eyes to get into this condition it's not going to change overnight how do you approach exercise going to the gym and diet you don't expect immediate results you've got to work at this however keep in mind that you're going to see clearly that's going to be exciting the one thing I have to say here is that this was the most exciting thing for me to be able to take off my glasses and see everything see crisp detail to see expressions to see the leaves on trees find little branches to see little patterns in the sky that I'd never seen before if that doesn't motivate you I don't know what can it's just incredibly liberating to be free of your glasses and not to have contact lenses so typically most people see some improvements within a few weeks and the rate of improvement is generally faster in the beginning it's common to see a sudden improvement and then no change for a while and then a sudden improvement but that's the way it works with going to the gym or losing weight it's not a steady line but again the excitement comes at the end when you don't need glasses anymore is this the same as the Bates method? well not really Bates had a theory that you need to relax the eye that's the idea of physiology he thought that focusing the eye's muscles had to do with muscles that surrounded the eye tensing or relaxing and that you were actually changing the shape of the eye we now know that's not the case it's the ciliary muscles changing the shape of the crystalline lens I mean he was probably right about eye strain and the fact that you need to relax however he only addressed really half the problem which is what I called pseudo myopia right that initial period where you're not being able to see and focus he really didn't address axial myopia because he didn't know that the eye would get longer or shorter and unfortunately his methods of relaxation and distance viewing, they're great I think they're fantastic but they really don't do anything for those of us who are sitting at a computer all day because you can only spend a certain amount of time looking in the distance and what we know from the incremental retinal defocus theory is that it's kind of the time averaged exposure to different focal lengths that's important so if you're going to be spending a lot of time at the computer you need a technique and that's where the print pushing idea comes right holding the piece of paper or the screen at that right distance not getting too close, not relying on your lenses but working right at that threshold between focus and blur focus and blur it's a very tiny threshold and you can find it pretty easily alright so that's what Bates didn't offer okay so I would like to summarize your eyes are adaptive organs just like your muscles, just like your metabolism just like everything about you you've been reading close up for years you've been working with smartphones those are a particular problem with kids they're looking at their smartphone or their video game all the time and as a result your lenses are in spasm you need progressively stronger lens prescriptions to correct that problem but that only makes your eye get longer and your myopia worse so reverse the process do the opposite use that same adaptability to reverse the process and use active focus take time out from your busy routine look at distant objects move back when you read if you're sitting watching a TV program sit as far back as you can if you're in a lecture hall sit as far back as you can to see everything without your glasses if your myopia is weak and your eyes are getting really good use plus lenses to accelerate the process alright and when you take those plus lenses off you'll find wow everything is really crystal clear so stimulate your eyes it's very important, play with your eyes how fun with this this is not a chore build it into your daily life make it a habit, but make it a game when you're walking along a trail look at every little branch trace those branches look at the shadows see what you can make out there's a wonderful world around you you're not noticing but a fraction of the details and it's just so stimulating to do that without your glasses what I can tell you is the more you do this and the more disciplined you are about doing it the better your results will be so anyway that's all I have to offer you today and I'm happy to take questions first before I take questions I just wanted to flash on here some references on the epidemiology and on the biological mechanism alright this will be on the video and you can take a snapshot of the day on methods that you can use to improve your vision and some websites I particularly recommend the DeAngelis book and the Saverson book and Otis Brown really good methods in my site gettingstronger.org Frownfeld Clinic PowerVision System these are all good sites that have similar methods okay we have time for 10 minutes I'll take the first one yeah thanks that was really interesting I was wondering do you still have to do these types of exercises now or are you just kind of cured so just as you would when you're fit you go to the gym every so often right I would say periodically I have a pair of plus lenses if I'm reading a lot I'll pull them out and use them for a bit but not very much actually what I'm going to do is just sit back a little bit further from my screen and try to avoid the bad habits in the first place with the screen being such a potentially negative part of the environment I noticed that the your daughter was modeling in front of the screen is it better to try to train with books and not look at screens is there a certain volume of you know time to look at a screen considering how much you said the pictures are damaging our eyes yeah I think it's preferable to have a well lit book in front of you would be ideal but sometimes you don't have that option so if you are doing computer work I don't see any real difference as long as you have good lighting and you're healthy you can use a computer or a book okay so it seems that in my family we run myopia my brother has two eyes that are around 21,000 so he just can't do anything without glasses I have an unusual problem that this eye is perfect and this eye is really myopic when I go to the Snellen charts I can't read the biggest letter anymore but the problem is that I remember what it is so so your two eyes are different and this is by the way very common it's called Ambulopia I have it too, in fact I have one eye that's slightly farsighted and one that's slightly nearsighted so here's what you do if you have the two different eyes block one eye and work with the weaker eye because your stronger eye is going to dominate and do more work for you you can put a patch on your glasses you can just hold your hand like this or you can wink wink from one eye to the other and it's awkward at first to put your winking muscle get stronger I have 2020 and 2400 so my problem is I can read right here and I can read right here and it's only right here that's difficult because my eyes are not used to vying for dominance and they don't like that so I should probably read a lot right here so my eyes get used to seeing three dimensionally yeah but your eyes are so different I think you probably want to work your weaker eye first until it gets closer because it's much easier to do this method when your eyes are close so in my case my left eye was weaker and I spent a lot of time working that until the two were even so would you have some advice for my brother who would probably have to be about this close to the computer before he could be at the edge of readability that's tough but that's where you start maybe his nose will get in the way so you start one thing he can do is use weakened prescription so cut a few diopters off the prescription so that you're at a reasonable distance in this case it would be a minus prescription but just weaken the prescription and start there great thanks for someone with a really strong prescription if they go through this process are they going to have to replace their glasses along the way because it can be pretty pricey yes and that's why I recommended this website www.colle.com very inexpensive frames get several pairs for $15 or $20 frames or glasses about $6 for the frames and with lenses it might be $20 to $30 total similar question about I have a minus 6.5 and a minus 5 do I do I just do like a negative 6 and leave this the same or do I kind of step them both back at the same time without the blinking thing yours are pretty close so they might work but if you want wink or block the stronger eye and work with the minus 6.1 first until it's down to a minus 5 and you can use the Snellen chart there too with a single eye read as far as you can and wait until your eyes are more even and then they'll proceed together what if you went into the gym and you had a strong right arm you would want to work the weaker arm first until they were both similar so I could get glasses that I only am stepping down one lens for something like that or just put a patch or a diffuser in front of one lens hi I was just curious to see how much your axial length has actually changed since doing this method unfortunately I don't have the device for measuring my axial length that requires a sophisticated apparatus however the study that I cited there you can read about 28 different patients and see all the measurements that were made on their eyes but typically if you look at the results that they got it would be by several millimeters so I saw several microns yes so I think one of the things that your method teaches is improving your visual acuity and not necessarily changing the optics of the eye which is which can help but I just want to say that it is the optical issues that are in place are not being corrected for it's just improving your visual acuity through practice I just want to say that yeah if you have other eye conditions outside of myopia yes this doesn't deal with those thank you for a very insightful talk I have a question about the font size when you're doing this a lot of people especially here in the bay area in tech are using bigger font size but they're staying at the same distance so would you still recommend even if you use a bigger font size to move away from the screen is that right obviously there's a connection between font size and distance so the recommendation here was for normal size font if it's larger you would have to move back farther to get the same benefit from the distance even despite using a bigger font the problem is focusing on a short distance is that correct that's right so you want to increase the distance whatever the font size is by moving back farther and farther progressively thank you if you have kids who have 20 20 vision how do you prevent them from ending up with glasses like I have so first of all good hygiene which means don't work too close up but if they want to do that they can go by weak plus lenses like the plus ones the readers very inexpensive just go into any pharmacy they're there if they're doing extended work have them wear those a lot of people look at this as a preventive technique and do an experiment have them put the plus lenses on and read for an hour and take them off do you now see the world more crisply and clearly than you did before just ask them okay I think two more questions I've never had an issue with myopia but I'm getting to a point where I need glasses to read and more recently driving at night is less comfortable wondering any ideas around those two issues I think the two go together as you age your vision does deteriorate and it's harder to see things at night in particular one thing I didn't touch on is good diet I think that helps a lot in terms of a low insulin type diet and also plenty of phytonutrients to make your rods and cones healthy so you can detect color in low light but I also just think that these methods of healthy focusing are going to be helpful at night because you'll see the car lights and the details that you need to see more crisply so the same principles the same principles yeah okay final question what would happen if people kept going after division became normal again would it continue improving ah there's one post on an interview that I did on my site with a student who had poor vision he got to 2020 and he said I want to do better than this I want supervision and he got himself down to 2015 it's called how one person improved his vision how one person improved his eyesight and he used the method to get all the way to 2015 and if he kept going like that would that create the opposite problem from myopia? ah no I mean so you can you just get better and better distance vision but you can use the same process for hyperopia if you cannot see things that close up and you have to read like this then do the opposite pull them in pull them in until they're at the edge more close up you basically can change the shape of your eye in either direction by using active focusing right so would continuing after it was normal after myopia is fixed create hyperopia? not necessarily no I mean because as long as you're flexible and you're able to exercise your eye so that you're looking both close up and then the vision and I advocate alternating the two it increases the range of focus from near to far thank you if you improve your myopia using your technique do you think that's going to reduce your chances of macular degeneration? it may if you look at some of the causal contributors to macular degeneration retinal detachment eye floaters you'll see myopia listed prominently there it's not the only cause but there is a connection there okay thank you very much thanks for joining us on this episode of ancestral health today we hope you enjoyed our discussion on how evolutionary insights can inform modern health practices be sure to subscribe to our podcast to catch future episodes


Just where today is that day I get to hold you back to back I had a lot in store for you when we started the show and clearly if you've not had if you've not seen the the the hard in store for you I don't know what else you'll see but on my last conversation this morning I have a juicy one I think you've already gotten it from the song that it's bound to be a great one his name is XG but I don't want to jinx you today today you may say ma I'm being polite for like this at its highest so I'm being more just Karibut said na you're welcome sorry Karibut is to say welcome I just had to confirm please introduce yourself yeah I'm a I go by the name XG I'm an artist and a record in musician so I'm from Nigeria and I'm representing Africa I love Nigeria there was a time I wanted to get married to a Nigerian oh you should have been I'm not yet married I'm still thinking but I love Nigeria all right you people have rich culture rich music yeah it's it's na love oga I love it's it's it's the life of the pilot Nigerians are loving people by the way yeah it looks like from the movies even in real life the movies I've interacted with a few Nigerians in my university days and they weren't bad people yeah we were not I might actually think of it but you're welcome yeah thank you so much who is XG XG is a recording artist all the way from Nigeria like I've said before and I'm I've been making music for a while and I hope the future would something greater for me so why did you why did you move to Kenya okay I've been here before I launched my first first music video second music video here in Kenya before going back home then I the reception I got from people was really awesome and I was like why not try this again yeah again so I believe you guys will support me more and I'll make you guys proud so what general music do you do okay I'm into more Afro pop Afro beat and just world music in general I love asking every person I talk to this question why why what's the story behind you doing music it's more of an experience for me because the first time I did music it makes me more more of myself me more outspoken and I feel people relate to me being in the music mode and the music lifestyle more better yeah so um you feel like it's in music where you thrive you you like get to express express myself more better yeah yeah I was looking for that yeah so when I mean that music mode it's more about reality happiness and all so what do you want you what what message do you centralize only in terms of your music in times of my music it's more of being being encouraging to yourself and to others also and being know that you have to work hard for yourself you see know that whatever you do it's it's something great no matter how small it is it is great what what you are about to give up on it's something someone is praying for so that's it so how how different have you found music in Kenya uh from Nigeria uh is it on the sound level or on the lifestyle call something everything sound audio videos and lifestyle everything the people you've worked with here in Kenya and the people you've worked with back at home just people and experts okay uh the number one thing I would say is the difference there is like uh the unity I don't know more about the background in Kenyan industry I'm not trying to judge or anything but I feel like there is less unity and uh honesty between people in Kenya industry yeah so respect to people yeah yeah so I would say that's the big difference there because uh doing it alone you can go fast but you can't go far that's it but when you are with people you share different ideas uh work together I believe it's it's a very long it's a very long run it's a journey it's not something that has a particular date you are going to stop so so just work together build each other that's it what will you say you miss about probably producing music in Nigeria that you've not found in Kenya okay aha the most recording artist just believe in like yeah you are you are you are a musician but still you will need sometimes you need that that energy that passion from people around the studio some people like recording alone some people love recording amongst people but whenever you record your producer should be someone that is into you someone that understands you that understands your heart your your perspective also you see it works together that way and you know whatever sound you have to work with so I think in Nigeria people have different ideas on a particular content moreover you are the one you are the artist they're like why don't this go on this why don't this go on this I've had this somewhere like this so you add it together if it works you use but mostly here in Kenya they're like I'm a producer I know what I'm doing yeah everyone knows what they are doing I'm an artist I know what I'm doing yeah I didn't know what I would you know what you are doing but sometimes just hello let's let it be free yeah that's just it well do you want to probably move some of the things you've experienced back home here not for now why that should be on on another time let's put it like that oh wow now is there something you found that's interesting in the Kenyan music industry that you that was not there at home yeah I would say Kenyans or East Africans in general you guys are related to music as a fans more than West Africans that's one thing and that is one thing that that's something that a musician can use to prove himself as a good musician when you have that's good reception love flowing you see so I think there is more there is more I fans value in East African than West Africa yeah oh wow are you are you have you or are you looking forward to probably open a label here yeah probably but only God knows the future I hope so why are you leaving it to God yeah only God has only God has the key that's it human can just make plan stay firm on our plan but if it's not been endorsed by God it's just won't be but I'm willing to I'm willing to let people relate to my music first and learn from lifestyle educate each other on music just for growth and it's not a one day thing it's not like I'm stopping next five years I'm stopping next 10 years this this it is that this or not once you have that belief I want people to know it can be done amazing amazing um the project you have a project you've released you want to talk about it yeah I have a new release called bangin featuring DJ Kalunji and Reckless and Kofi Machete yeah and uh it's a new view digest like a four days ago oh the video was released four days ago and um would you like to know anything about this song yes yes yes please talk about it mm okay aha I met kalunji first actually and uh in a particular program we actually just exchange number like powers you know understand I went to support his shoes from there I was like yo bro is there anyone we can like get related with like sound or something I was like he has a producer these days we had the sound I'm like okay okay so I have friends here in Kenya you understand they were like this beat sounds more ganga turn I'm like okay there can be something like afro ganga you understand so they were like yeah that's cool idea so I just bounced on it and it came out well then we're like who can be more supportive to this project to bring out the limelight so we shared ideas they were like these these these and that so we're like okay let's let's do something you know let's work something out together that was just it then we that was it hit the ground ready yeah in in um in instances where you're releasing such music who funds the project it's more of my team I have myself I have my team and I have my own family also we are 12 in number so you should know you should know when they have they have their own belief on me also so that's it so your family have really taken up this thing like really seriously yeah it's it's my life it's my can I move to Nigeria you should thank you thank you here in Kenya sorry Kenyans I'm not spoiling it's all over before your parents accept that you want to do music yeah it was not a career it was not accepted at first also but the live is evolving it's 2023 the city is going on also you let them know this person did this just doing this online this one just did this online so they were like so it can work okay so how easy or difficult was it convincing them it was not easy it was not easy but gradually gradually I start meeting people start going to studios and the lifestyle they thought music would bring into me was not what it brought they were like you are going to lose your way this and that I was like no I know what I'm doing so at the point going on my brother was like just let him do what he wants to do yeah so yeah we are so your song is four days old yeah what are the plans to marketing it putting it out there it's on it's on every platform actually Spotify YouTube these are audio mac anywhere just you can just search exgwe on google like banging you will find it automatically so you want I made it easy for people not to be stressed so what is the song about yeah it's more about being confident yeah and knowing that whoever wants to stay will stay even she's beautiful yeah I let her know she's beautiful but slow down if you are being too fast for me yeah you're cute and everything but if this speed is too much for me I can't control it you know is I really I really love poking I know it to be sorry I really love poking my nose into people's businesses is that particular personal story reason you wrote this song like personally for me it's not it's not a personal experience but we are guys you understand we talk we we since happens to guys just like you ladies also like really so that was it that it was more from guys around me so I think I think the the curiosity in me is expecting you to say more but really but really what do you consider when you want to do a collab with any musician I consider the sound mostly yeah sound mostly yeah it's not about who is trending who is that who is that who will I be more supportive sometimes it doesn't go that way but I think people should consider who will sing best on your music and who is willing to put efforts if not even a lot of efforts a little bit of effort at least so that's that's what I mostly consider nice um sorry excuse me you are a motivational I think yeah I'm sounding like one you know so I actually saw it but you're a motivational crusader tell us about that okay aha starting from it started from my music journey actually like I said before I can express myself more better through music and it was not that easy you understand I feel like I wasn't among people but music brother out of me and and I feel like there are a lot of people who I'm seeing that are being that way also like they don't know what they want they are not like really happy stuff like that like some people believe this is going to make them up but it might not be that just find yourself you understand so that is more of my journey and my music also so you talk to musicians just musicians and no no no just just to everyone I'm mufi and music is bringing that best out gradually also okay so you are more of um your your your type is that you will use music to motivate people yeah exactly okay okay no I was thinking you're the every time we have it's a Kenyan thing now every time we hear motivational speakers we think about those people who they're creating memes actually about motivational speakers yeah so I was I was thinking is it more or less the same thing or it's different it's more or less the same thing the result is what you actually want you know so don't be boring because you want to motivate people you are getting them depressed you have to work every day yeah yeah no no no it's not wrong like that you should actually show them your lifestyle see you don't just give people what you can't also eat you know so that that is it tell them you can you can digest this and they will be fine they do the same yeah nice amazing you want to tell us about something else you're working on yeah actually I have a lot of music down okay so I want you guys to support me you guys will motivate me more to do better in my next sound yeah I trust me I have a lot of goodies down on music inspirational motivational and pop anyone so I your results for me is what I'm going to give to you next so I want your support go to my Instagram follow me go to my youtube share my videos it's all over I'm really intrigued I really I'm hearing my director telling me time is up but before she gets to chase us away from here I really want to know what is your name stand for it's it's weird in my mind to ask you XG like how did you come up with that name I love I love how artists have come up with names and and they are very unique and they are very they sound nice like XG sounds nice yeah it's it's more of extra greatness extra greatness yeah today I'm learning a lot of things so extra grace yeah extra grace extra ginger yeah extra grace yeah from from next week da kwana wambia my name is extra grace yeah that's it but when do you see yourself in the next like five five years in the next five years I I see myself being able to have a lot of people that believes in my journey that believes in me in a positive way than the way I am you understand I hope I'll be able to influence people and people can be like yeah he did this through XG you understand he did good things through XG that's what I am open for and through music also a nice nice nice what colabus do you look forward to doing and kaya yes I would love to work with bianzola definitely bianzola nyan she's kif their sound their sound is it's their sound is not based on maybe it's africa like only africa if their sound is relatable by the world yeah their sound is something you can play to someone that doesn't understand english us while it and they'll be like yeah it's saying something good and when you translate it's actually something nice also so I hope to work with you guys yeah and I want to disappoint so we should wait for anya shinskib and so hopefully colabo somewhere along the line somewhere along the line we will we will be checking out we will be checking about you have something else you want to say shout out to you all you guys have made it possible for me to be here today and without you guys I won't push forward like I have been insisting push me let me push you also so listen to my music I love you all you need to teach me some pigeon what do you want to know just teach me some pigeon I need to brag when I leave the studio today okay just be like how fun are waiting they happen that that one at least I know how fun guy yeah waiting they happen what's happening what's going on how you day I've had that where you did yeah where you day I heard that I went there's something you guys said it's very interesting why am I forgetting it today when I have a Nigeria but it's really it's really interesting yeah I love pigeon I was saying if I was to learn an extra language pigeon will be one of those yeah but I do way pigeon is also I love most of your cinema in pigeon hey papa ya makea don't try anymore I go back to you but thank you thank you for having me also so much for coming please tell us your social media handings and and shout out to your team or something okay yeah using the camera okay for my social media instagram is exjwe worldwide w o r l d I exjwe worldwide and and twitter w w underscore exj that it and shout out to my team shout out to everyone that has been supporting me shout out to flow shout out to babu and shout out to great gloria shout out to critical everyone one love to you guys thank you thank you for coming it means so much to us thank you for making time thank you for teaching me more pigeon than I knew in a bit of Nigeria you know telling me extra grace yeah believe in that ma you you've loved me something that was ex g extra greatness where I'm still I'm still still stuck at our point and I feel like I've had a good day it's been a good morning I don't know what you're taking home this morning but I am taking extra grace I'm taking extra grace home and I hope you have an extra ordinary day and I pray that you have an extra great day I've been your host grace maengi thank you for having kept us company here at Y24 TV hashtag while the morning sas divides don't touch that dial a lot is coming up after this show and of course we'll be here tomorrow same time same place same conditions


Six days. Calling Mr. Weber. Come in. Sit down. This looks like the sex machine I have at home. I answer as quickly as you can. You're in a desert.  You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. And I bang it, right? The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it can't.  It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response. Well, I'm hard, so mission accomplished. I was going to keep my mouth shut. I wasn't going to say anything, but I feel inclined to now. You know they made a new Blade Runner, right? You know that, don't you? And some people are saying it's better than this one. How do you respond to that emotionally? That's what I thought. Now, if you excuse me, I have some turtle porn to attend to. Well, that was graphic and useless. It's the classic 1982 Blade Runner, the final cut, versus 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049 on Movie Feuds. Let's start with the main attraction. Harrison Ford is Deckard, a replicant bounty hunter who works for the police department. His character is pretty flat by design, slowly moving from location to location, learning the whereabouts of his targets. Deckard is an interesting character because there is a mystery to him. The audience isn't quite sure if he's a replicant himself, but also doesn't help that there's five versions of this movie, and Ridley Scott has since told what he thinks. The concept adds a layer of depth to the picture that stays in the back of the viewer's mind while events unfold. He continues this role in 2017's sequel, but takes a backseat to Ryan Gosling's character Kay. Kay is similar in a lot of ways to Ford's character, and Baby Goose keeps your attention as he uncovers his mysterious past. This rounds a toss up for me as there's very interesting characters from both sides. Sean Young is a sight to behold as Deckard's replicant love interest. She's equally matched by 2049's Anna Day-Arma, says Joy, an AI program designed to make its owner happy. As I list these 1982 characters, I've realized there's either a complimentary version for each in 2017, or the person's just straight up back in the film. Daryl Hannah is an unhinged replicant badass who's terrible with makeup application. Her 2049 equal would be the calm and collected psychopath love, played by Sylvia Hoax, a top-of-the-line replicant who's far more submissive than past iterations. Then there's Edward James Omos, the unforgettable origami officer. Ryan James and Rutger Hauer were big highlights for me. Roy Beatty is more human than most of the people in this dystopian world, and that becomes very apparent by the film's final act. Once again, Jared Leto gives an awkward performance as the new replicant leader, Neander Wallace. It just seemed like he was acting in a different film than everybody else. My God, where is he? I did not intend to keep you waiting.  Talk normal, or at least somewhat normal. What are you?  It had to be said. It really did. And he's barely in this film, and I wonder why. I've changed the hands of progress.  I'm leaving. Dave Boutista and Robin Reiter are always great to watch, and here is no different. Like I said before, this is a tie for me. There's good on both sides. Let's go to round two. I think the most compelling thing about Blade Runner is the multiple ways people interpret it. To some, it's a big old religious allegory. For others, it's a commentary on the way man creates and destroys. I never put a lot of stock into it, taking it mostly at face value. In the year 2019, four of the artificial humans, aka replicants, have committed a bloody mutiny on an off-world colony. Deckard has been tasked with hunting them down and retiring them. As he carries out his mission, he comes to realize that perhaps these humanoid creations aren't really the villains, and he might share more in common with them than previously thought. The Blade Runner sequel takes us 30 years further. You've seen LA has grown significantly larger in population, but not much prettier. Although the neon lighting and the giant-naked women certainly don't hurt. Where 82's film had an audience asking a few questions about what it is to be human, 2017 asks a dozen more. There are more layers to peel now with not only different models of replicants living in the world, but also digital ones. Our story this time follows Blade Runner K, who uncovers the remains of an unknown source. The discovery leads to a slow reveal of a disturbing past event that will shape K's future. A side story features a very similar concept to that of the film Her that shows K's relationship with the world's version of Alexa, an AI who may or may not have legitimate feelings for our protagonist. It's a very intriguing idea, but I couldn't help but feel it was just retreading the same ground from the aforementioned movie. The sequel feels familiar but different enough, and certainly is a great follow-up to the original. The only hang-up I have is the runtime. A movie can be 8 hours if it has enough momentum and excitement behind it, but when you are watching a noir-inspired dystopian tale with long drawn-out portions of silent contemplation, it can start to overstay its welcome. This certainly won't be an issue for all, as they'll be fully invested in the visuals and the story on display, but as it trickled past that two-hour mark, I couldn't help but feel that I'd already seen and heard a lot of this before, and I was just ready for it to be done. It also had a couple subplots that never really resolved. Now, it's possible these were just set up to throw the audience for a loop, potentially be red herrings, but I felt like it was building something more for a third film. One that probably won't get made based on the revenue so far this is made, or hasn't. The first flick is by no means a fast vehicle, but it gets to its destination in a more sensible time. Blade Runner was a revolutionary film for a lot of reasons in 1982. The dreary, steampunkish look was refreshing and downright beautiful. While it can't possibly compete with the new tech and gorgeous renders the arrival director and his team have created, it still works with its own smaller-scale story. It does have some of that bad 80's slow motion mixed in, but Scott's camera work complemented with the dark melodic synths of the soundtrack match up perfectly. 2049 is what sci-fi can look like for people in 2017 and a new bar for filmmakers to hit. It's like a science fiction national geographic. A movie you could just have playing in the background as a motion wallpaper. The film's a lot brighter than the first with more planets being explored. Zimmer and Wallfish were brought onto the sequel to do the score and while it is powerful stuff I'm not sure it always matched the tone of the film. There are moments when the music hits with such a ferocity I couldn't help but think it was meant for another movie. I'm also not sure if Hans Zimmer is capable anymore of making a soundtrack that isn't just a bunch of loud noises crashing into each other. Small hang-ups aside there are so many unique effects at play it's hard not to go back and experience it a second time just to appreciate the craft. I'm not gonna lie my first watch of Blade Runner back in the day was included with the resounding, eh, that was it? That was the movie everybody was raving about? Upon second watch I discovered just how special the film really is. There is something about it that stays with you and that magic isn't lost in 2049. Now while I did leave with that same initial feeling it's a feeling I still puzzle over in a good way. I would love to revisit this again sometime down the road with the hopes that it will one day reach the same heights that the original did. I do fear that the length may hurt it in the long run though. It took Blade Runner 5 tries to get it just right and the director said that this is the final cut for 2049 so I think it is fair to vote on these. And that's where you come in. Feel free to leave a comment, vote for your winner, and remember this is more than just reviews, this is Movie Feuds.


Reliable data on factors like student and teacher attendance or school infrastructure are necessary for making well-informed decisions in education management. How can DHIS-2 facilitate the efficient and systematic collection of education data? The Gambia uses DHIS-2 to manage various administration functions of the education system establishing essential indicators such as enrollment by grade, absenteeism rates for students and teachers, or gender parity by type of school. They also configured indicators for school infrastructure such as number of classrooms, number of recreational facilities, and number of textbooks by subject. How did they do it? They tackled two major tasks, designing and implementing digital tools for data collection and data analysis. First, they switched from a paper-based annual school census form to a digital form in DHIS-2 to collect yearly aggregate data on number of classes, number of students enrolled by grade broken down by age and gender, number of classrooms, general facilities, water resources, and number of textbooks. They also created a data entry form in DHIS-2 to collect daily school attendance twice a day based on the number of students present in the morning and afternoon shifts. To analyze the data collected, they created analysis tools, including various dashboards with visualizations such as attendance or absenteeism rates. What were the results? These dashboards enabled educational planners to easily visualize both yearly education data, such as infrastructure needs, and daily data on attendance, in order to evaluate patterns, inform planning decisions, and address immediate challenges. While this aggregate data was helpful, over time the Gambia's education authorities realized they needed to keep track of each individual student's progress. How did they do it? They developed tools for collecting data from both students and educators using Tracker. These tools gave them more detailed information about individual students and teachers that could be monitored over time. For instance, they could keep track of students' grades and progress as they went through their education from year to year. With the help of DHIS-2, the Gambia was able to make informed decisions regarding the management of schools, infrastructure, and resources to improve learning outcomes. In summary, this use case shows that DHIS-2 supports data collection, reporting, and analysis in different sectors, including education, and how it is an adaptable platform that adjusts to changing requirements over time.


On March 12, together with the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion, the Free Russian Legion, which entered the territory of Russia's Belgrade and Kursk regions, appealed to the people of Russia. Remembering the illegalities that happened in Russia, the members of the Legion said that they intend to save the Russian people from Putin's regime. They said that they are making efforts to realize these dreams and that they will achieve free elections in Russia. At the end of the appeal, the Legion members said, we are going to the elections. In order to kill, to wipe, to destroy or to punish, we are going to free you from poverty, from fear, to free from the dictatorship of the terrorist organization that has captured power, to give your children a normal, civilized future without sanctions and without repression, without elections, without elections and without talks about important, but with important values and, most importantly, without war. Putin has been corrupting power for 20 years. And what happened?  And also beautiful palaces in Glendzhik and Novo-Agorov. And now, he is planning to go for another term and rule to his own death. We will not allow. We are the same Russians as you.  We will do everything so that he manages to move from Novo-Agorov to the Polar Volga. We know how the local resident is treated there. The legion is going to the elections. Wait for us. Glory to the world. Guys, raise your hand. It's like home, huh?  Let's vote on the calibre. There are 2, 5, 6, who are there. Join the Soviet battalion.  They are in touch. Weapons that help Ukrainian armed forces destroy Russian fighter jets identified. Over two years of full-scale war, Russia could have lost at least three times as many planes as the average. The Ukrainian military managed to shoot down Russian jets with the help of a certain technique. They took some of the components from the US Patriot missile battery and combined them into mobile groups. This was reported by the Telegraph. A pair of four-cornered Patriot launchers connected to long-range radars via radio communications could ambush Russian aircraft 144 kilometers away. The publication believes this is what allowed the Ukrainians to shoot down several Russian fighter jets late last year. On February 23, the destruction of a Russian A-50 aircraft over the Sea of Azov occurred 193 kilometers from the front line, but that's a long distance from Patriot. The only missile system with this range that Ukraine has, however, is the Soviet era S-200. The Ukrainian Air Force decommissioned its S-200s in 2013, but returned some of them last year. However, it is not clear what radars orient these missiles, as the original Soviet ones emit a lot of energy, so they give away the missile launch and give pilots time to evade. The Ukrainians may have found a more devious way to use these missiles. In February 2023, the Biden administration announced a military aid package that included equipment to integrate Western launchers, missiles and radars with Ukraine's air defense systems. Analysts see this as a curtsy to the U.S. Army's integrated battle command system. Specifically, it is a set of processes, radio channels and algorithms that allow almost any air defense radar and missile to work together. The development of integrated battle command system is not yet fully complete, but it is close. The Americans have not yet deployed any major components of integrated battle command system, but the polls have done so, the reporters said.


Standing Rock Sioux Tribe here, Choctaw Nation, Alaska Natives, my brothers and Crow Nation, brothers and sisters here, because I pledge to all of you, when I first ran for president, that I'd be a partner with all of you in the spirit of a true nation-to-nation relationship and I hope I've done right by you. We know the history that we share. It's a history marked by violence and treaties were violated, promises were broken, too often Washington thought it knew what was best for you. And that's a history that we've got to acknowledge if we are to move forward. That's why I want you to know that I'm absolutely committed to moving forward with you and forging a new and better future together. It's a commitment to getting this relationship right so that you can be full partners in the American economy and so your children, your grandchildren can have an equal shot at pursuing the American dream. Few areas hold as much promise as clean energy. Up to 15 percent of our potential wind energy resources are on Native American land and the potential for solar energy is even higher and we have a lot to learn from your nations. Before we get at it I want to close with this. I know you've heard this song from Washington before. I know you've often heard grand promises that sound good but rarely materialize. And each time you're told this time will be different. I get it. I'm on your side. I understand what it means to be an outsider. I know what it means to feel ignored and forgotten and what it means to struggle. So you will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this way.