We're back. It's still the breakfast in plus TV Africa and we have a next conversation up Ready with a guest standing by. Well, the central bank of Nigeria is in the news again This time the apex bank has launched what it calls a Nigerian national domestic card scheme or Africa What is Africa? They say it's aimed at creating a more Robust payment system that will drive financial inclusion in the country Launching the card virtually yesterday the governor of the central bank of Nigeria, Mr Gordon Mayfee Lee and who has not had the time to go answer questions of the house of reps Well, he said that transaction charges on all cards will henceforth be paid in Naira except for international Transactions according to him Africa would be cheaper and would be a matter of national pride with potential to boost financial Inclusion in the country CBN also said it will be in a coming up with a deadline for the existing card schemes in the country after which they will no longer Be eligible for domestic Transactions joining us this morning to look at what this development means for business transactions in Nigeria among others This is Mokhtar Muhammad. He is an environmental economist. Mokhtar. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us Right them the central bank Governor is saying that this Africa which is domestic card will be cheaper and that the charges will be paid in Naira When we talk about the cards we have in use today, we look at the verb Mastercard visa are these the cards he's referring to and if yes, what has issue been and what's the thinking behind this domestic card scheme? Thank you so much. I Think you said it you said it well in your introduction the CBS at the news again I think it may feel it always comes is enjoying the maybe is enjoying the media platform And so it's coming to the news because at this time at this point in time What Nigerians are interested in is how to swap the owner and with the hitches that have to do it in you They are not not coming up with issues of domestic We've had this I mean been on for a couple of months but the CBN never came out to see whether it's true or not But I'm to your question and he says we need to have domestic card. We need to face out Domestic card is only going to be used for domestic And transactions so what happened would I want to do international transactions? And again, I keep saying the CBN keep going out of his secretary duties of monetary policy and begin to enter into others Payment plan they are the quantity at CBN only to give license for people to be involved in payment platform Not for them themselves not being involved. Remember the way it also came out with the night and the The They are also and that also have not even been a they cannot say they have any success in that Now they are coming to domestic and domestic account account that they themselves will be the one I'm handling it I it's it's confusing and Unfortunately, they do what they normally do it say policy. They don't come up with how this policy is going to work We'll be hearing details about it In the matters of months and days or weeks. I think it's it's it's becoming Embarrassing the way the CBN is going about everything that is being done by commercial banks or conventional banks We dare the regulators and now what they want to be doing So, I mean one is beginning to wonder, you know Why the CBN is becoming a player in a market that she's regulating, right? But you know moving away from that the major concern now would be how can we purchase things? You know in Nigeria now. I mean if we have to buy things for instance, you're paying for software You're paying for demand. You're making subscription For instance, maybe the Netflix and whatever you how can people now, you know begin to make purchases with this Africa go You see when you look at those purchases, you remember that most of them have also been able to Domesticate their payment system if you talk about Netflix or you talk about them if you are using a pool product like them The music platform Yeah, you realize that those platform have been you can use your Naira have your Naira card, maybe Mastercard, Vavcard or Or Visa card to pay for those things using the Nigerian account to the same Nigerian card And the only transaction that you cannot do may be some for some time is when you want to buy something outside the shop This country, maybe you want to transfer business want to use ATM outside these countries I mean, it's been a problem. So for the CBN to come I think they want to be a player Maybe they want to say you begin to use we only use master cards and best card when we are brought when we are Nigeria we are Mandated to use their own card and then for the CBN to go as far as naming some of the countries that are into it like China Indian Turkey Russia I mean you look at those countries. You realize that most of them Do you know that the Mastercard is not allowed as a means of payment in some of this You know website, I mean, it's difficult to you pay with Mastercard. This is from, you know The first-hand experience and I'm telling you what it is I mean with with this particular policy and with the Afri Africa card with intention It sounds very great, but I mean there's a limitation. It therefore means that you can't have cross-border transaction Exactly that's the same thing exactly with the Mastercard You know is the bank that came out and said that they don't want to be in doing transaction again Internationally through the Mastercard Nigeria Mastercard or face a Mastercard over master and vodka It wasn't them themselves. They say no, we don't want to do this transaction Are you and I know the reason for that is because of the shortage of trust Supply in terms of them dollars in the system They're trying to manage what they have and these are no policy that they have put in 20 Remember this policy they've been sliding in 2015 after some time when there's improvement in supply of the land We normally get back to normal But in this case now this Domestika and the CBN have made it Exclusive that it's going to be only for domestic Transaction and in a world that has become a global Village, I wonder how Nigerians will be translating businesses just within look at so we only look at business I want to get international transaction. I will have to have another card What do you think I'm gaining in terms of Payment in in Naira. I'm losing in terms of wider coverage Especially in terms of having to pay a different Cardigan to do another transaction uproar. So for me, I think with which which the policy is not a clear hot policy I think the CBN said they will come up with it if they have come up with situation whereby We can begin to use those cards to do and transaction outside the service country And I believe I remember we have gone beyond card. That's one thing the CBN seems to drag us back Modern banking has gone beyond you using physical card. They are beginning to see how you can use your facial Recognition I can use your thumb print. That's what we are going to no moving away card And out the point is like when others are going to be of that from that section That's where the CBN is not coming to that space. So for me I think like you said you cannot be a regulator and you want to be a player You either choose to be a player or choose to be a regulator and when he mentioned this country What he did not say that this domestic card in this country are not driven by the CBN or the central banks of this country They are driven by individual company private sector. They are the one being and they are competing on it and with the other Players like the master card and other so why should we not be thinking of we want to domesticate our account We don't want other player who want to I think it for me, I Don't understand why the CBN is doing what they are doing. It's quite interesting.  It's all a bit Um, you know shrouded in in some sort of confusion. I mean I remember the e-nirah Have you used the e-nirah? You see the e-nirah never walk it was a digital currency and you know why they came out with the e-nirah at that time They were banning crypto Transaction and they are saying look we have come out on digital currency people never be because we are coming now with a With a payment platform that my account will still be residual in the bank So if I have challenges, who do I go to meet do I not begin to write a letter to CBN Normally when you have those Issues you walk into the bank and the bank will be able to sort out your issues with your card and he's talking about Transaction and cost what he has forgotten that now banks are they being make it easier you go there You get it that very big and you don't even pay They sometimes it has to pay one thousand and some banks are not going to beat it for that and send that you Can have one card for five years and you pay one thousand so it's I think the CBN just seems Want to be in the news Either for the right or the wrong reason. All right. The CBN is talking about financial inclusion You know with this National domestic card scheme Africa. They are talking about national pride And what about that those sounds they had the sound really good to the ear It sounds good, but in any internet How do you be a national pride if you're not going to be a global player player Nigerian bands are even beginning to look at have been international card payment system That what they have they are beginning to give a look Cards that you can use in Nigeria you can use in Africa You can use any part of the world and yet the regulator that is supposed to come in there and help you people expand Globally saying he wants to get you to use a domestic card. How does it add up? Hmm. What about financial inclusion, which is something that everyone wants to see happen in this country? You see the CBN when they come up with policy They like telling us we are trying to get financial inclusion remember the POS remember the money agents remember I mean they've come up with all sorts So how much have they achieved in those policy with inclusions? So there will be if you have if you have achieved some Considerable result. That's what will begin to consider you to be a part of you I can assure you that 90% of Nigerians will reject this card because They the way they rejected it in Ireland. I can assure you because you are not I'm not going to go I like I said, I don't have a challenge with my card. Who will I go to meet? I'll see go to me same bank Well, I can't receive the Russian the partnership is not giving me a banking platform I Remember that you're not even looking at the charges the bank would collect for you for using their platform to do the track They cut transaction. It cannot be for free Well, some people are saying that this particular scheme is bad for the Those who are in the banking business. I mean talking about the banking sector. That's on the one hand Well on the other hand Do you think it would have been just you know Fantastic for the CBN or some sort of support for local fintech companies rather than this policy Exactly exactly like I said, the banks are beginning to look at international to become an international payment system payment Platform that's what all the banks are looking at you. I mean, it's not a tier one banks They have been expanding all over Africa and that's one of them are even becoming global players And they are looking at how they can develop a payment platform that if I'm in the UK, I can use if I'm in the US I can use if I'm in Ghana I can use that look we are looking at one old system They won't have become a global business a global village Everybody's looking for easy means. How should I be carrying two car if I want to do a domestic I mean a dollar transaction account after having dollar domination. I think the only way they see beyond would have made this to be a game changer It's to turn engines that we now have a car that you can use in any part of the world You don't have to begin to go to the beauty change or come to us to do an instant platform If you want to travel all you need is to get this This is our card and then load your Naira there We give it official CBN exchange rate when you get abroad you can do every purchase I tell you that is the only game changer and that will not only address the issue of effects shortage It will now address the issue of unification of the effects rate But what the CBN is doing now is telling us we must stay domestically We must be domestically domestic brand and why the band that you are regulating are thinking of becoming a global player You've said you know that and you know their case studies in countries like India We have a situation on our hands. You've talked about is a number of times on this program Which is we have you know a forex shortage acute forex shortage because of You know the the the effects of of of the global Situation on the crude oil Market we have forex shortage because of you know the reduction in production You know of crude oil and sales from Nigeria and of course we have a lot of debt to pay We also Subsidizing we're paying for the one we are bringing in to give to people for free or next and almost free and a lot of factors that you know You the economists who will put forward has been reason for what we are facing right now the Naira is struggling seriously And what can the CBN do to address this? Why should we have in a country as big as Nigeria these guys? The master cards the the visas of this world come into a country and then we have transactions by Nigerians and they are Charging us or placing charges on those transactions in usd. Isn't it the place of the central Bank say we won't protect the Nigerian economy We're not going to allow Nigerians paid the charges for transactions in our country in usd and we protect the economy we need to be Educated when you when you when you do a transaction with the Naira or the master card within Nigerian space You pay the local courage But when you do transaction outside the show of this country or you want to You pay the dollar rate in terms of those transaction and then let's come back Now as it stands now you cannot even use the master card Naira master card or vast Visa master card or even vast master card Outside the show of this country that's Naira denominated. You need to get a dollar denoted even when you want to go to get effects, maybe Pt basic traveling allowance They know the banks are not giving you their own card They are bans are even begin to give cards that are domicile in dollar that you can use outside the show of this country To the no more give you the cash Some banks no more give you the card they have their own dollar card that you they will give you that this value this way they're going to note that Effects into and when you get abroad you can use it for purchase or whatever you want to do So what we are saying in essence is that? The only places that you see such of this connection being done and the city and I've done it I if you're in Nigeria, you are going to apply for a UK visa You are asked to pay in pounds or dollars in a certain account that will give me see be it is not protecting the night in this So so so only way is that some places you some initially remember there was a time that houses in Iqo'i And banana island they say you have to pay rent in dollars And I remember the then CBN gov not let me do something. Let me do came and say you cannot do a Transaction in Nigeria by paying dollars Remember some airline why we have the problem with Emirates and Emory came up and said that Nigeria should stop paying There for the etiquette in dollars and the CBN the gop did the fragment came and I said in Nigeria The official legal tender is the Naira and any airline that collect dollar will be banned And that so what are we doing to protect? Nigerians it's it is more than to lack of creativity Because what Nigerians businesses are looking for now? I mean the CBN should be looking to build businesses that will be attacking effects into the economy Okay, but just a quick one a quick one you've talked about the difficulties and truly I think we're all witness to it and beneficiaries even one colleague that the banks themselves have even stopped You know most of their cards or categories of customers from even transacting a paying in dollars I mean today if your card expires for even the major banks the what we call them again The Yes, the acronym there's an acronym for them But you know if you go to get a new card you will not you can't use it to pay for maybe a YouTube for instance YouTube payments This year on Thursday January 5th this year as any banking from these customers that it would be suspending international ATM withdrawals so we all know some of these challenges we've been facing but The banks and even Nigerians have found a way around it with startups who have come up to to with services Enabling you have virtual for instance Mastercard, you know and all that in another country You can hold a virtual card in Nigeria and then you can pay For your transactions wherever they are in the world and for instance There's a startup wouldn't call the name now But they they allow you to make purchases or with a virtual dollar card of up to $25,000 dollars monthly So them have been advertising over the place You know on the streets and on the internet and we have cryptocurrency Or cryptocurrencies which are being used like Bitcoin ethereum and Co which Nigerians can also use to make transactions And do you think that there will be a problem? You know if you want to use the changera you want to use pay the Chippa even a bank in Nigeria has a lot It's one of those services as well Do you think that we have a problem? You know, I mean we can just simply go patronize these guys Or do you think that this CBN stance now will affect even these startups who are offering these services? Remember you just said the startups are not offering those services and that's what I said The startups are not offering those services for domestic transaction They are looking at the international market That is where they are looking at this is the challenges that we are having in Nigeria We don't have problem in domestic payments. We have problem with international transaction So that is what the CBN should be addressing Not that the CBN should be addressing domestic payment. How many people in the rural area who want to carry those cards? We are giving them the we are giving them the POS terminal How many of them they still rather go to the POS terminal collect cash and go to their marketing and do their Transaction in cash the challenge Nigeria economy is facing now is in the area of the international business and knowing that a lot of Nigerian companies SMEs especially Don't Import a lot of their product outside the show of this country So what platform are you providing for them to make ease of doing business and attract this efforts into our economy? That is where I think the see what that's what I think the CBN should be looking at not coming out We don't have problem with domestic payment. Even the domestic payment We have not even been able to even I mean Do it excellently because sometimes you do those transactions your your money is angry Why is he therefore saying that we will no longer pay in dollars for using those cards or the charges on those cars Just help me understand that please I don't understand that Because I'm waiting for you to come up because I know that I only pay for dollar if I have a dollar don't say I've never done a Naira transaction the only time we used to do that is when you have the Naira Dominator card at that time that you were able to use it to pay. I think you'll use it one thousand dollars a Month and that is if you have by the official Exchange rate when you go with your Naira card any part of the world you can do but you can only do one thousand dollars Then later when it was reduced to 500 at the point you were reduced to 100 at the point was even reduced to 20 until finally there was a total ban So and those were only transactions They will charge you base if you want to use the 80m. So now even if you have your dollar don't say Card if you go abroad if you are using payment platform. You're not withdrawing.  I don't understand me. Maybe maybe in the coming days after the central bank governor is done Facing the House of Representatives and fame Virgil Bermina. Hopefully he won't be arrested He might get some more information. I cannot show you that he will not be there Well, let's see I was moved to my bed. Thank you very much for your time Pleasure All right, Muhtem Mohamed is Developmental Economist against in the first discussion this morning. Well, we take a break when we return we'll be talking sports I mean a lot on the table. Just stay with us


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Just because your commute is only 20 seconds long and your dress code is a t-shirt and underpants, well that does not mean that stress can't find you in your home office. If you work from home, then our next story coming up is for you. I'm Darren Marlar and if you want to get a free gift from your teacher at school, well, no problem. If you show up late all the time, you can get rewarded for it. If going to school and showing up late, well, what happens to you?  You're at least written up for it, right? Maybe not on that permanent record that we hear about, but in Manchester, England, if you show up late to school there, they give you a free alarm clock. Yeah, staff at St. James Primary School, they hope this scheme will ensure children to turn up on time for their lessons. Teacher Gwen Osborn came up with this idea after a brother and sister who were always late for class told her that they didn't have their own alarm clock. Why didn't I think of this in school? 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The study found British motorists spend more than three years of their life behind the wheel and over a quarter eat there every week. You know what? I used to be that way.  One in four car owners said their car is littered with food wrappers and empty drink bottles. Alright, I wasn't quite that bad. One in six admitted to regularly leaving uneaten food in their vehicle. Oh, what does that taste like? The most significant event on the internet today. Listen up. The Darren Marlar radio show. You have to continue to personally. Hey, thanks for hanging out with me today. I really appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed the show. It's actually a good thing we are at the end of the show right now. I just realized that when I ate before the show, instead of eating my rice cake, I ate my Styrofoam coffee cup and it tasted better. Good night, ladies. Good night, sir. Hit it, sweetheart.


What began as a call to investigate a suspicious person at Bob Amos Park quickly turned into a rescue operation when the man reportedly fled from police, scaled the cliff in the Pikeville cut-through, and jumped into the Big Sandy River. Police were called around noon on Tuesday to check on the man, but when they arrived the man ran away, leading to the rescue effort. He somehow managed to scale the high wall here, dropped into the river, swam the river, got to the other side of the river. He got trapped on one of the ledges. We've got Pikeville fire in this here, we're going to repel down with a basket and get him off the bed. We also have our boat in the water right now, make sure that we press follow, make follow so that they've got that part of it. So we're going to bring him up. This is turning to a rescue now. We'll see what the middle state and the physical state of the individual is now. Getting to the man turned out to be the easy part. Getting him out of the cut-through turned out to be significantly more difficult. Once we located him, it appeared the veil was combative. We sent rescuers down via repel rope and obtained the victim. Went ahead, secured him on a soaked basket, performed a high-angle rescue with the help of the police and other additional units.  Once he was successfully retrieved, the man was placed under arrest. His identity and the charges against him were not known at press time. Miraculously, he suffered no injuries other than to complain of a sore shoulder.


Mae'r ysgol fyddwyr o'r hunain yma, rydym yn ddau'r gwrth o'r wahanol, am fywr.  Roeddwn ni'n gweithio eich fawr am ychydig yn cael amser a'r argyrchu. Gweithio ar y fflaen iawn i cyfosio'r cyflwynt gyda'r gweithio'u heif~! Mae gwneud â'r gweithiooooo ac roeddwn ni'n gobeithio ar un sceisio ar gyfer y sefym Llywodol. Rwy'r pwysig yn felly'r gweithio ar gyfer yr archf Gyllidell. yr archfiu'r port oesol sy'n gweithio'r port oesol. Mae'r gweithio'r port oesol ymlaen nhw wedi'r ffawr hwn sydd oedd y bwysig ei wneud. Rhaid i chi'n mynd i ffordd sy'n bwylltio ar gyfer y Fyloedd, ond nid yw'n gweithio'r ysgolwyd Cymru, ond yn gwneud y ffordd yr ffordd, yw'r gweithio i'r Fyloedd yn eu gwahodd ysgolwyd. Yn oedd yn fawr bod chi'n fawr o ffordd o gwaith a wneud. Gweithio'r ffordd yn cyffredigol, yn cyfwilio'r cyffredigol, ac rwy'n i'n ffawr i'n gweithio i'r lleid o'r ddwyll. Mae'r ysgol yn yngyrch i'r ceisio, mae'n anghylo'i gael. Ond rydym ni'n meddwl am gael i ddechrau. Mae'n gweld yn odyn nhw, mae'n mynd i f向io yma. Mae'r yn yn iawn rhoi'r ffyrdd i Gweithdoedd yma o un draes yr un dros, os ysgol yw eu bod ei symud. Fy Beth fel ydych chi'n cael eu bod yn ddefnyddio'r gwahau sy'n cael ei wneud gyffredinol. It's not designed for the great unwash to communicate their ideas to the scholarly domain. It's designed for communities to talk to a first approximation within themselves. The other thing I was going to say is it's also embedded in a set of other communities with other tools. For example, we have very close collaborations with the astrophysical data service at Harvard and the Inspire, collaboration involving Slack and others. We really try and sit within this environment of many services to be part of that system and I think of annotation of how can we interact with other players to do parts that we don't have to do them ourselves. I see two key use cases that I would like to think about. One is how do we make archive work nicely with these great tools that have been developed for people to take their own private notes or share them in small groups or whatever. It seems, I think, from what I'm hearing, relatively straight forward. But then the really big one is how do you enable sort of more open commentary and discussion? As soon as you start talking about that you get into tonnes and tonnes of issues. About control, ownership, identity, authority, what's the community ready to do? That's I think where we'll spend most of the time. Felly, yn fwy o'r ffordd, y rhai i'r Llywodraeth a'r Llywodraeth Cymru yn ymweld yn y rhaid o'r prynnwys. Felly, rhai i'r Pdf, maen nhw'n ddweud o'r ffordd. Mae'r ffordd o'r rhaid o'r ffordd yn ymweld yn y rhaid o'r ffordd. Ymwynt allan o'r rhaid i'r pwylltau o'r pwylltau o'r prynnwys. Mae'r pwylltau o'r pwylltau o'r pwylltau. Mae'n ddweud o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Elin o'r gwybod yw'r hun, felly mae'n fawr o maen nhw'n ddweud o'r ffordd yw ymweld yn ymweld yn ymweld. A'on gymryd o'r naturículoch ar y tydd, ac maen nhw'n ddweud â'r rhai i'r fan na yw'r ffordd o'r pwylltau o'r ffordd. Felly, mae circumstances archive yw, mae'n ymweld yr ydych yn y gusagig i'r ysgolio. Felly, roedd adher yn gweithio'i rhai a'r grynnyd, mae'n gwneud 90% sefydl yn ymweld. Ychydig yn ymweld yn maen nhw'n ddweud. mae'n dweud i'r ddweud yn y mwynhau lleolau fflexible yn ddefnyddio'r ffordd. Fe wnaeth bwrdd iddo yn dweud y ddefnyddio'r ddweud yn ei ddweud i'r ffacbook app, ac mae'n ddweud bod yn dweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud o'r cyfnod, a'r ddweud o'r cyfnodau nad oedd yng Nghymru, ac mae'n ddweud i'r ddweud i ddechrau'n ddechrau'n ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud. Un ddechrau i ddechrau y ffordd, yn rhoi'r cyfnwyshwyl drwg Zeitbydd i Rice Book Api, sy'n rhai'r cyfnodd ar y dddolad gyda siŵr y cyroedd gwaith. Mae'n gallu gymryd yw'r ddiwedd i'r maen i'r newid gyda'r ffordd neu wrth yr arfer yn croncau i newid i'r cefnodau ar gyfer y ffordd am y cyfnodd api iolaeth gŵl. Nid yn ei awrs i'r ddim yn ymddillog, gyda'r plans rwy'r gydig, a'r ll?] dyma'r gwylio, I would say that science depends upon argument and critical review to establish truth. People who discuss what science means might want to nuance that a bit. But while services like Archive have changed the openness and speed and the linkability, which is pretty important, they haven't really changed the granularity of discourse or the way it happens. Everyone who looks at this says that, yes, there should be commenting and discussion systems associated with articles. People have been requesting this feature for years, and it is absolutely terrifying. The reason it is absolutely terrifying to us is that this is the graph of the number of submissions per year. I apologize that my plane didn't have Wi-Fi, so it's not extended. I had only the data on my laptop. So about 80,000 submissions per year will come through Archive, and we have approximately two humans to help these users with all their problems, which means that we don't give them much help. The budget per article is about $7 for the whole of Archive, the tech side and the user help side. So it's a completely different scale to the sort of journal publishing world. Comments really get people riled up. We did this experiment with blog links when trackbacks came out. Our first stab was this little thing, I have a point of five blog links it says there, right? It's pretty hidden, one is very soft start, and it's still like that actually. The reason is, our first reason was, oh, we don't know how to fit that into the screen real estate. The second reason was, well, when the titles of the comments are crackpots, contrarians and free market ideas, and we already had complaints that these are sort of connected but hidden away, and we thought of having that, you wrote that, what next to my paper? And dealing with those problems is the one that really scares us. So I think that's a hard thing in the sort of completely open, someone can write something on my paper that I really care about. It's actually kind of interesting if you follow those links. There's a very interesting discussion by Jack Dyslar on the Archive trackback system and things and it gets into a slinging match against particular people and further down that thread it says, okay, we're even having to cut off this comment thread on this on the blog because we're starting to talk about Lubos Motel instead of the commenting system. So what do I want to get out of this? I would like to discuss with people a bunch of sort of techie issues about how I best reflect Archive structure out in the linked web to enable annotations, and happy to talk about that, but the sort of bigger scale is I want to get a sense, which I'm already getting, of what are the best tools to support the sort of personal and closed group annotation. I'd like to really explore the boundary between the web and PDF and find out how you can make those two work together. I'm really interested to see some of the notions of annotations tied to particular points in tech so they support multiple formats, but in the scholarly world, I think PDFs are going to be with us for longer than we might hope, so we'd better make them and the web work nicely together. And secondly, I really want to talk with people who have ideas about how we support more open annotation in the scholarly world without having this huge user support nightmare of dealing with, I don't want that next to my paper. And to me, that seems to rely upon some notion of sort of limited communities, Facebook in the scholarly and open world, and how does that work? There are a huge number of people trying to build social network systems of the scholarly world, but of course, everyone wants to build their own system, trap people within it, and it seems very hard to make one of these work in a sort of distributed system that is open and everyone can buy into. So, thanks very much.


Hello all in this presentation. We are going to see about entomology in previous presentation of mine We have discussed about Practical spotters. So this presentation is specific to entomology. How to identify entomology spotters So I myself Dr. Rock Brittle associate professor in community medicine. This is my think lateral channel If you haven't subscribed to the channel, please subscribe click on the bell icon also for notifications So we all know there are two kingdoms animal and plant kingdom and We belong to the vertebrate We belong to the vertebrate We belong to the vertebrate Vertebrate and in that we belong to the mammals as a class. So like that The phylum classification there is orthropods Orthropods entomology study of orthropods are insects So in that again class crustacea arachnida and the insect are there So medic medical entomology is study of orthropods of medical importance. So these are all the list of orthropods of medical importance So these orthropods are the Vectors of the disease mark my words vectors for the disease Not the causative agent that is these these are all the species which just transmit the diseases Out of which house flight transmits the disease by mechanical route and the other Vectors transmit biologically that is the agent undergoes some either multiplication or Change in form within their bodies Now these are all the few background knowledge, which you should know before going into the identification of The entomology spotters.  So legs here. We have three pairs four pairs and five pairs respectively Antenna is one pair zero and two in crustacea Wings are one or two pair of wings Arachnida, there are no wings and crustacea. There are no wings in when come to the habitat Crustaceae lives in water the other insecta and arachnida all live in land So these are all the group of insects Which are all of medical importance. This is cyclops The cyclops ticks mites under arachnida mosquitoes flies lies fleas redwood bugs among insecta So here, this is mosquitoes. We all know and majority of the presentation. We will be discussing about mosquitoes So these are all flies the notable one or house fly black play and cc fly House fly is a mechanical vector for many pico orally transmitted diseases Black fly causes transmits oncocercases cc fly causes sleeping sickness This is house fly and then we have Lows or the head loves then we have rat fly. This is the classical image of the rat fly From which we can identify the rat fly spot us easily And this is the redwood bug Then we have ticks and mites. So when there is head separately present and almost cohenical Then you can say it as a heart tick when this is of exactly a cuboidal shape or a smoothened rectangle shape then it is a soft tick Then we have itch mites And cyclops cyclops This is the we have five pair of legs two pair of antennas And there will not be any wings present. So they live in water. So these were all the cyclops were the vector for guinea vom buses So here is the list of earth report which that is mosquito House fly sand fly cc flow here is the list of earth reports and the list of diseases caused by these earth reports So mosquito transmits malaria malaria is specifically anopheles transmits malaria viral encephalitis japanese encephalitis Then philaria and all is transmitted by culex mosquitoes yellow fever dingu chicken guinea and all are transmitted by 80s mosquito Then we have all this house fly which is Which which is a vector for transmission of many fecal oral infections We have sand fly which transmits cholizer oriental source and fly cc flow transmits sleeping sickness loves cause loves transmits but that is pediculosis Epidemic typhus relapsing fever and trench fever That really causes rapid transmits plague Buonic plague endemic typhus imanulopsis deminota chigarosis Blackfly transmits oncosurcases redwood bug chagas disease Softic q fever relapsing fever heartache. There is a huge list of diseases scrub typhus intricate silk Fox are transmitted by trombic lode mite Kbc is transmitted by each mite inworm disease and fish tape form by cyclops Entric pathogen by cockroach So when we are identifying we have to write in write two that is three important points One is after identifying the spotters. We have to write the basic morphology of those spotters Then second is The diseases which is transmitted. So the second is the diseases transmitted diseases transmitted third is the control measures. How are we going to control it? The control measures, so how are we going to control it? So these three points we need to write under all these spotters So first and foremost are the easiest spotter is the egg We have to differentiate between anaphyllus, qlex and adis So when we mention qlex C is the mnemonic here So we have to say qlex lay egg in clusters And individually the eggs will be cigar shaped Individually the eggs will be cigar shaped So when the egg is a cluster you can easily identify it as qlex egg When the egg is singly maybe either anaphyllus or adis When it is a spindle shaped when it is spindle shaped it is the Anaphyllus when it is oval shaped it is adis It has lateral folds that is air will be filled in it so that it will float Anaphyllus basically is a surface feeder So it has these lateral folds and once it becomes larvae also it has no safe and tube it It is It is floated parallel to the surface of the water and it is a surface feeder This qlex and adis are the underground feeders So now we are moving to the larvae larvae when how to identify this larvae is By this siphon tubes siphon tubes are the otherwise the Respiratory trumpets through which it respires. So when it is very Apparently present very Conspicuously present then you can say it is a qlex larvae when it is present Not as long and slender as qlex then you can call it as adis when it is entirely absent Then you can call it as anaphyllus another finding to confirm anaphyllus is This presence of this format has While Not if not noting this siphon tube. We should not get confused with this anal gills and caudate hairs for siphon tubes. Sometimes these will get clubbed and In slide it may appear like a siphon tube. So we should not get confused when we are identifying a larvae Then pupa in real life scenario both this larvae and pupae or eggs and all can be easily species can be easily identified Based on the water source the type of the water source which is present based on that we can easily identify the species but here Out of the stages that is egg larvae pupa and adult pupa is the difficult stage to identify So even there is no siphon tube again It is anaphyllus when there is a apparently Long and slender then it is a qlex when it is ill developed then that is a adis So this is not the typical microscopic image Now we are moving to the adult mosquito So when we are identifying adult mosquito when you identify this spotted wings Then you can directly say it as anaphyllus When you are Seeing this spotted wings then you can say it as Anaphyllus when this is not present you have to look at the body When there is alternate bands of black and yellow bands are present then you can call It as adis mosquito when this is absent then you can when both these spotted wings and this Bands are absent then you can call it as Qlex mosquito how to identify a male is by this means of the bushy antenna So before going to the antenna you have to identify you have to understand the basic structure of the head from head There will be a central proboscis central proboscis through which it sucks the blood and immediate lateral Palpy immediate lateral palpy and further lateral antenna further lateral antenna. So this is Proboscis this is central proboscis the immediate lateral palpy and the antenna So And the even the antenna will be bushy. This is corresponding to the moustache in males Bushy in case of males and it is not as much it is hairy But it is not bushy in females. We can identify in the next upcoming slides So this is the for a female species identification again So when we identify this anopheles Spotted wings we can directly say it is anopheles Then we have to Look at the Wings, sir wings. So wings will be very light in adis It will be very heavy in qlex and because of this heavy wings These are all these mosquitoes are called as nuisance mosquitoes that it because it makes noise when it flies The Near to the ears that people misinterpreted it as the mosquitoes sing some songs. So again anopheles This palpy is very short in case of female. This is the palpy here This will be very short in females. The only exception is the Anopheles the only exception is the anopheles which has long palpy so We can easily identify when The palpy is short and the antenna is not bushy then it is a female when This all Spotted wings and palpy is big Then that is a Female but in the corresponding male also will have a boat shaped or a club shaped And club shaped palpy will be present So with the wings and the body we can identify body the same as Same anopheles will have that band but here this This slide is more dark. So we could not differentiate by but by through wings we can easily identify Then we are moving into the mouth parts. So as I told earlier So all the female mouth parts female will have short very short palpy And less bushy antenna here. It is a bushy antenna and it is a lengthy Palpy as much as your proboses Then in anopheles is the only exception where the palpy is also big when compared to The proboses the proboses this is the air is bushy the air is bushy The air the air in the antenna is not bushy but here in the air in the antenna is bushy and here it is a club shaped so when The palpy is club shaped and a bushy antenna then you can call it as an anopheles male when the palpy When the bushy antenna is not bushy and the palpy is big it is the usual size will be till here But it has it is till here means then you can call it as an anopheles female So that's how we can identify the anopheles mouth part then there are some other Insects other than mosquitoes. So this is the cyclops The belongs to the class insect and the sand fly which belongs to the insect So this looks similar to the mosquito, but when we look out of the microscope the size will be Almost half of the mosquito and also it is a hairy animal and comparatively the legs are Very bigger when compared to this body So then you can suspect of sand fly and you can Note it as sand fly. This is the head loss. These are all classical pictures The morphologies are very clear Then ticks soft ticks and hot ticks will be confusing.  This will be very much apparent Then we are moving to the rat flea. This is the classical image given in textbooks. So it looks similar to this So when we identify we can easily identify if we remember this rat flea pictorically So hopefully this presentation was useful to you If you have any suggestions and doubts you can use the comment section If you haven't subscribed please subscribe and click on the bell icon Thank you


What's good Josh Boy Rocks back again with another video so we're gonna check out ten biggest wrestling hometown pops ever by what culture? Wrestling it's always cool when a wrestler is able to go back to their hometown Born and raised and they get that standing ovation and where they get that pop from the crowd Just knowing that they're from that city. It's always a good time Always a good moment even heels get it and sometimes they gotta you know kind of play into it because it's like You know, it's it's sometimes hard to ignore that love and adulation from the fans within that city So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on channel We're gonna get right into this one It's one of the most important things in wrestling for bookers and writers It can show them how their work is being received and for performers. It's the adulation that they strive for A star getting a better crowd reaction to a matter of timing Love her a key storyline moment with the perfect location creates atmospheres that transcend most others I'm sorry for what culture comm and these are the ten biggest wrestling hometown pops ever number ten Trish Stratus in Toronto Unforgiven 2006 you don't get a memorable part without a strong emotion behind it The reaction of a live crowd is the greatest demonstration of emotional investment in this soap opera with super kicks and spandex Trish Stratus is quite rightfully lauded as one of the most important women in sports entertainment history and as such She had a connection with the WWE audience in August 2006 long-time rival Lita kayfabe leaked Stratus's intentions to retire Which Stratus confirmed the time was right for Trish as in the next month the WWE were heading to Canada for the Unforgiven pay-per-view their Trish and laser had their final showdown for the women's championship Whilst they only had 11 minutes with which to work the Toronto crowd was invested throughout Ebbing and flowing the bout ended with Trish cinching in a sharp shooter prompting certainly the loudest cheer during a women's match to that point Stratus left Toronto and the WWE for the time being claiming the prize for the seventh time and fans were truly Stratified number nine just in Boston Survivor Series 2008 seen his ability to routine the comeback from devastating injuries in half the predicted time or less is Legendary the first time this occurred was October 2007 with a torn pectoral muscle Cena had been predicted to be out for six months to a year returning instead in three months at the Royal Rumble to the sound of George hitting the floor in August of 2008 Just just that moment him turning back at the Royal Rumble so quick Was even the crowd, you know at that point the crowd was mixed with John Cena But when he returned the crowd went crazy the pop he got when his music hit Jim Ross selling it like just everybody in the ring stopping what they're doing Was put on the shelf with a herniated disc again WWE statement said that he'd be out of action for a year So naturally he was back in less than three months at Survivor Series Which is he had already spent a few years dividing fans as he was catapulted into the position of the face of the brand here However in front of the red hot Boston crowd. He was given a superhero's welcome Survivor Series 2008 is remembered as an extremely lacklustre events But the highlight is certainly the adulation of the crowd for the super athlete winning his first ever World Heavyweight Championship number eight Taz in New York City Royal Rumble 2000 as the first man to instigate a tap out in wrestling the creator of the extreme championship wrestling logo and a wrestler of lesser stature in the era of giants Taz truly has left his mark on the business It's these things and his long-serving loyalty to Paul Heyman's counterculture that made his debut elsewhere such a big deal Taz began his career in ECW before it was extreme under the original banner of Eastern Championship Wrestling over the course of 13 years He became a fixture of the show rising to the top of the card before finally looking for greener pastures at the turn of the Millennium in December 1999 teases of Taz's incoming to WWE were trumped through his trademark orange lighting and his logo appearing on the Tron Royal Rumble in 2000 emanated from Madison Square Garden just 30 minutes away from his home of Red Hook Brooklyn He he filled the unannounced opponent slot for the oblivious heel curt angle to a roaring crowd that got even louder when he tore The towel off of his head to stare down the Olympic The match was short of issues and shocking as the human suplex machine ended angles thus far undefeated streak in front of an Elated home crowd number seven Michael's in San Antonio Royal Rumble 1997 Michael's time with the belt in 1996 wasn't as big of a success as the WWE hoped as such Vincent company decided to have their top baby face drop the belt to psycho Sid this way He could return once more to the scrappy underdog role and eventually reclaim it to make this even more special This redemption would occur at the Royal Rumble in Michael's home of San Antonio, Texas San Antonio showed up in their droves with a reported attendance of 60,000 fans that were more than ready to lose their minds for the heartbreak kid the Hebner special super slow mo count created a Pregnant tension that released a cacophony of crowd noise when Michael's scored the three counts number six Sammy Zane in Montreal Smackdown twin this Man just just ah I don't even have words for it. That smack down was Ridiculous just Ridiculous how White hot at that point Sammy Zane was it I My words will never do it justice. Just go watch it. Just go watch a snippet of Sammy Zane coming out there. He doesn't even have to he barely had to say anything Just Sammy Zane being out there crowd just went crazy. It was beautiful in 2023 when Sammy Zane answered John Cena's United States title open challenge in 2015 in his home province the ovation was massive furthermore Zane put in an incredible show in this might blowing out his shoulder Soaking in the atmosphere before the bell sadly in the years since then his WWE career has tended to be rather up and down as it can be in the company's mid card However starting from April 2022 Zane began to align himself with Roman Reigns in the bloodline bringing us eventually to our most Recent moment on this list Sammy Zane on Smackdown in Montreal wasn't a Revolutionary moment. This wasn't a debut a return or even a great match He cut a simple promo that is after five minutes of constant crowd noise However, it's in the wider context just a few weeks previous Zane had finally turned on his supposed allies by Intervening on their attack on Kevin Owens putting the target on himself in the weeks leading up to this moment He had minimal TV time But the year-long story was so well built it was all anyone could talk about as such walking out in front of a raucous Montreal crowd just 24 hours before elimination chamber and the biggest match of his career against Roman Reigns Zane was Vindicated for a moment the underdog from the underground was the hottest commodity in wrestling and Montreal made sure he felt that way Okay, this is one of my favorite WrestleMania moments of all time Don't know how I feel about this one. I don't even you know me you watch this channel for long enough You already know what's up When talking about huge crowd reactions something would be a mess without the mention of stone cold Steve Austin Austin absolutely wasn't the only person of his era with a sort of front bumper at the start of his music But the sound of glass shattering is so iconic It is surely the reason almost all theme songs today in WWE start with something designed to immediately generate a reaction Because quite simply that sound routinely sent shockwaves throughout audiences with Austin's biggest hometown reaction coming at WrestleMania 17 as he stepped out for the night's main event Austin's music was drowned out by the hometown Houston crowd Reacting to the sound of breaking glass the midpoint of the rock and Austin WrestleMania trilogy is often called the best But it's not just about match quality the coming together of the two biggest stars in the world and the undeniably perfect pairing with Limp Biscuits my way video package made this the culmination of an era fans in the atrodome Audubly relished their part to play in wrestling history before CM Punk money in the bank Courses have to be on the list if this wasn't on the list is this would be a climb that that I Don't think we'll ever See or hear that type of reception like we did and money in the bank 2011 Even though he got a massive pop when he came back to wrestling in 80w that Arena there was not it was just straight CM Punk or nothing. It didn't matter.   I love it Evan ever since the wwe kicked off the attitude era and gave themselves a counterculture slant It's been hard to come back from as such fans who stick with the sport are also drawn to underdogs dark horses and Alternatives so when the company cements a clean-cut baby face like John Cena as their pride and joy It starts like CM Punk who find themselves as the voice of the voiceless This was the perfect backdrop to the summer of Punk 2011 a storyline Which saw the second city-saint cut through the pristine PG product of wwe to work shoot a break in the story Punk threatened to win the company's top prize and walk out the door with it capturing the imagination of fans who were Disillusioned with wwe's tired product best of all he would do this in front of his home crowd of Chicago Who were 100% on Punk's side it's blurred the line of reality further and added an atmosphere that has made the match one of The best of its decade the crowd from his first steps onto the stage to him skirting over the barricade to leave never let's up Exploding like a grenade when their hero claimed the belt British Bulldog in London Summer Slam 1992 the United Kingdom's country with a starving wrestling audience who often know how to make their Presence felt across the late 90s and early 2000s UK fans were positively spoiled by today's standard with annual or even twice annual WWE pay-per-view events as such many UK fans have fond memories of the likes of rebellion and the crime against English dictionaries everywhere insurrection 1992 remains the high point of the company's events in old blighty like a domino effect the WWE's growing popularity in the UK led to moving the event from the US to London In turn the excitement of the promotion's first major event outside of North America meant a huge crowd all too keen to fill out Wembley Stadium and at the top of the card Davey Boy Smith competed for the Intercontinental Championship from Bulldogs entrance to the finish the capacity crowd got hotter and hotter Throughout a match that is the personal favorite of both workers and thousands of fans when the three-count finally came Wembley Erupted brilliantly Smith's music doesn't play instead. His victory is marked with one of the loudest pops in WWE history number two the Heart Foundation in Calgary in your house Canadian stampede It's one thing to get deafening cheers as an over baby face But to get one of the biggest positive reactions of the year as a heel is something else entirely WrestleMania 13 famously featured almost certainly the greatest double turn in the business It's what the alignment of stone cold allowing him to begin his ascent to the top and Brett Hart whose act needed a refresh Later that year the hitman adopted an anti-american persona as part of the Heart Foundation stable every week Hart would talk smack about the United States and bathe in the booze However, he was still and would always be Canada's golden boy WWE knew it so when in your house Canadian stampede rolled around they lent into it a video package starts the event Discussing the company's shades of grey characters and the paradox this show would represent Embraced as hometown heroes every member of the heart foundation Brett Owen Night heart's Davey boy and Pylmon was met with main event a level cheers the hitman's entrance in particular was deafening And it continued into the five versus five tag match to get which makes sense because you know you're back at home Even if you're here we seen it with edge when he was facing John Cena I believe it was that unforgiving it was in his hometown in Toronto. He was the heel John Cena was the babyface, but it didn't matter They all win it edge to win all unfortunately. He didn't win that match, but it just proves that When the heel comes home it doesn't matter things switch at that point just even recently the eyes remember when MJF Went home. It was like I think it was last year He was feuding with CM Punk and he went home back to I believe he's from Rhode Island or whatever when he went home Anytime he's in Rhode Island. It doesn't matter. He's gonna be cheered There's nothing that they can he can say or do that will make the crowd just boo him like that So when he went home and then the rose kind of switch CM Punk was booed heavily, but it just it's it happens. There's nothing you can do except play into it So against various American superstars Brett never badmouth his home country and this and Calgary in particular being the home of the hearts meant that the crowd had no reason not to cheer so loud that the hard cam shook and CM Punk in Chicago a W rampage the first dance there are few wrestlers quite so evenly divisive as CM Punk on the one hand some fans simply Can't see the appeal of the man's work and style and are turned off by his demeanor that can sometimes Charitably be described as sour those that love him love him and again Chicago has made their devotion to the voice of the voice That's known to such a great moment It was impossible not to include two specific moments on this list after spectacularly burning his bridges with WWE and going into relative hiding it felt like a CM Punk return would feasibly never happen in 2021 the rumour bill began to turn and even as a W-Nendon August edition of rampage the first dance itself a Chicago reference to spell things out There was still a certain degree of apprehension that it was actually happening Q a pop that was one part excitement and one part collective sigh of relief as the second city saint finally bought onto the ramp An emotional punk and an equally emotional home crowd made that moment something incredibly special It felt like time stopped as the audience hung on his every word The future of the Chicago native is still a mystery his return to wrestling has become one of the most unifying moments in history And that's the list. Let's know what you thought big facts me personally. I do love that moment I think that's a moment that will always stand the test of time in wrestling history But me personally just because of the impact it had on me Getting back into wrestling and catching that first pay-per-view Getting back into wrestling money in a bank 2011 and just that atmosphere that entire night For me, it's it's higher up on the list if I had to compare CM Punk Money in bank 2011 to pair to see a punk coming back to wrestling They're both high up there.  It was a beautiful moment beautiful moment, but CM Punk winning the WWE Championship that atmosphere to match itself Him walking out as the champion the crowd went crazy. It was Oh Man They're both legendary moments. So I want to know I'm gonna ask y'all this comment down below. Let me know which Moment CM Punk moment crowd pop moment. Did you guys enjoy the most? Was it money in the bank? 2011 The poppy got there. Who was it when he returned back to wrestling on a DW rampage to pop that he got there be personal I'm gonna go with 2011 because it just is he has a special place in my heart But that is a close second very close second only because Seeing him come back to wrestling was a beautiful thing as well. I want to know your opinion You know, I know something I don't like seeing punk for the but those who are fans of simple Let me know which one Made you get the feels more, but I appreciate all of sport you guys shown on channel row 250k And I'm seeing you on speedy YouTube residency world. Appreciate it. I can give me see our next one


What's up everybody it's Brand Man Sean and I'm back with episode 3 of AXE Brand Man where I answer questions that you guys asked in the comment section below or somewhere else on the channel but make them most below and don't forget the golden rule the quality of your answers is dictated by the quality of the questions you ask so make sure you ask some thoughtful questions not good questions right thoughtful questions right so we can be specific and go into detail wherever you need business music however you want to get it we I can answer them I want to go ahead and hop into question number one oh my bad I forgot to let you guys know again I'm trying to drop these every single Wednesday so be on a lookout for these on these episodes on Wednesday so question numero uno I'm play a tone I'm gonna mess these names up a lot but uh I'm play a tone said I bought a feature from a rapper he said he were promoted Ruchi but if he don't know how I'm assuming is don't know how can I promote it so it does get out there yes 100% this is your track all right you can promote your track you have the license to however when it comes to collaborations there are quite a few politics to be honest that you do have to consider so I'm gonna try to run through a few scenarios because I've been through these with artists in the background where you know I'm number one artist he he was signed to asylum he got a track from this guy that was popping and in New York and the dude is big he was telling me yo brand man just do this don't take off I'm telling you bro he's getting high I want to get on this song we'll go great together but the problem what happened was they said they were gonna promote it they said they were gonna be in the music video all these things and artists is popping now hey he told me he was right but a lot of people heard the song and actually thought that his verse was better right the artist that I'm talking about was assigned to asylum then the guy who was already popping and what happens is ego a lot of times right so all of a sudden artists wasn't excited to promote it you'll hear this do the manager a lot of times but a lot of times you understand the manager really speaking based on the artist fit how the artist feels so in those scenarios that they feel showed up they might not be able to put that out there right it's a it's a it becomes an entire thing so now is what happens I paid the money these people said they were gonna do that now they're not promoting oh they they went from I'm gonna put this on my feed so I'm gonna put it on my story and it's not gonna be permanent or they went from hey I put some ad budget around or I'll do a music video but now I'm super busy had this actually happening on multiple occasions where the artist don't show up for the music video and never happens but it's politics so you could you you have to manage it right and what that looks like is in some scenarios you got to put that thing out yourself that I'm always for that right at least put that thing out yourself because you put you put your money up for you pay for a feature I'm not gonna let this be a sunk cost just because you don't want to put something behind it and you can you can you can play up the fact that other artists is in there as much as possible maybe even do a cartoon video or do something unique and experimental and in the music video to make it seem like there's a reason that the other artists isn't there you can get into all type of create creative concepts which I've seen done to to manage how another artist might feel but to protect yourself from that number one is have a contract I've seen people straight up violate the contracts but number one at least have a very clear contract that y'all can reference and stick to and in situations where they're they're violating that you honestly have to play the politic game where you got to get a feel for you put pressure on them and say hey hey when does it happen when it's happened when it's happened but it's if it's not happening depending on where they are in the game and certain things there are moments where artists you know you either sue right or you kind of say I'm gonna take this short-term L to keep moving long-term and keep hustling and maybe they got to acknowledge me in the future and maybe they feel bad they say I'm actually popping now and I say yo that give me two or three songs free who knows but it can become a weird situation and while we're talking about collabs make sure if you can the best scenario is honestly to work with artists on your level look at people who are similar on Spotify not some big artists because it's gonna become a thing where they have that leverage over you and unless the relationship is right there and it's strong you probably not gonna get what you want out of it in the first place just to be honest so work with somebody on your level where y'all can trade audiences share audience and create a moment for people together and right it'll benefit both of you guys because trust me you will see right the most benefit from those scenarios the most engagement and and commitment on both sides right so make sure you do that and look to do that more than finding a big artist and paying for that but yeah if you got a song I'm play its own promote that thing promote that thing all right next we got to reach trees what's up man haven't talked to you in a while he said for smaller artists is it worth hyping up each single track right track release with a full 21 day plan or whatever your time scale is or pick good ones to hype up with a 21 day promo that way in between big heavily promoted singles they're singles that you spend a fraction of the energy on in terms of marketing but release still to keep feeding the fans so I get a sense of what you're what you're going I'm at so let's say this the answer that you always have to consider is number one guess the word I don't know if you gonna if you have an idea what I'm gonna write so guess actually I wrote it wrong resources I don't care how big small you are everybody has to face the fact that there's still a limitation of resources at some point and what you have to decide is where do you want to focus your energy on all right if you only have a certain amount of money you can have a whole bunch of ones right I got let's just say these are 10 ones at some point what if this one goes up to X what do you have you have two but if I just have two tracks right and then I distribute five tick marks within those two tracks five elements of energy within those two if one of those double all right that five goes to 10 so that's what you have to think about when you're distributing your energy because at the end of the day you only have a finite and you need to get an ROI so just putting that energy everywhere to get no real results not even give a chance you have to take a risk at some point especially when your resources are limited and you're just starting out it doesn't make sense to be on trying to be on every single platform and post every day on every platform or to to push every single song with the same amount of money or the certain amount of posts and all that stuff doesn't make sense so whatever your 20 weight one-day plan is I don't know what you're referring to there whatever that is don't do it for every single song right apply it to the right songs and what I look at is are you pushing a song right that song's going up at some point that song might mellow out a little bit right and this is when you can start to say well maybe I release a next another track all right so now you try to get another boost that's one way to approach it or you can just say I'm gonna post weekly I'm gonna post bi-weekly monthly however you want to do it in that case but let's say we're following this path the thing that you want to do is say all right after this post happens and then after the next post happens and I started to get enough data which one is worth continuing to push more than anything else but even within that I got my focus tracks these should continue to get 80% 80% of my energy right whenever I'm doing focus tracks and if I'm releasing that much music though and I still want to try to give a little blip then you have that final 20 right and there's four tracks within that maybe all right so you have let's just say five elements if we're working with money you can divide by five you can divide that 20% so let's just say money actually $5 work with Facebook ad you put $5 towards your four tracks and then you have two other tracks so that's six tracks in total that you get you're splitting that $80 that's left with so that's $40 for these two tracks and then you got $5 giving a little blip of energy to the next tracks and we're just talking strictly Facebook ads now you can apply that and energy towards whatever you know your post your Spotify playlist and however you want to approach it but think about it like this so what tracks are you all are you gonna put in that 80% and this 80% should probably be two times a month if you're if you're going super high clip and you're and you're dropping like all the time right but at least right give two weeks to these two tracks at least all right and then even if you aren't dropping tracks frequently but it's a money limitation again 20% of your resources whatever that looks like goes towards these additional tracks all right that's a starting point that's just a starting point but I want to try to get it specific as I can with the question because of course I don't know everything going on with with you reach trees but most people can operate off of that 80 20 right you have a priority you know the prioritized and these could be one this could be one track in this section where it's all 80 and everything else I don't really believe in as much because what I would do is 80 test 80 test keep that other 20 right find something else based on how this reform keep testing within the 80 the songs that I believe in most and then when something responds in this 80% where it's performing better then all of these other tracks they drop to the 20 and I'm putting 80 towards one one track all right and I might kick out some of the the ones that were in 20 before so now they get no action at all all right I hope that makes sense maybe I'll do a separate video trying to make it even clearer but I think it was decent enough next we got Tamara Williams she said eggs brand man would it be more beneficial for an artist to release the song and music video at the same time particularly if this is the first time an artist is releasing music the answer I say is yes yes release both of them at the same time now the reality though is you still have to answer to whatever your resources are are you advertising it like there's a lot of people it where they'll get just some views on their let's say they're Spotify they're play listing it but they don't know about the YouTube video at all all right and that's gonna not gonna be their behavior so you still have to put energy towards pushing both of them if anything what I would do in that scenario is I would run some YouTube ads for the music video and then run some Facebook ads that is running through an intermediary link you know smart URL you know there's a list of them all right out there toned in is what we use at our agency and they can click through to hear a track and they can click through to see the video right so they know that they'll both of those options are there period right and in the video you get the commentary if people are more likely to click and provide comments if they came over from a Facebook Instagram but then on top of that you still get that top of the funnel awareness from running the YouTube ad so those that would be what I would do I would drop both same day it's not that it's honest and to be real it's honestly not that big of a deal because nobody does know who you are at this at this point nobody's waiting for one or the other to come out so to maximize attention same day run a Facebook ad through intermediary link that shows yes I got a video and then you can listen to Spotify Apple Amazon music however you want to roll and then also put a little money in that YouTube video to boost those those views as well I will put more money especially when I'm starting off in the Facebook Instagram ad right then I would put in the YouTube just a little bit right just a little bit to kind of start the pad views hopefully and to find an audience that you see responding well when you look at the view time of the video from your placements that you target with all right so good question Tamara a seal GG right a seal GG a seal GG says ask brand man so when should artists pay for promotion from third party accounts on Instagram you can start from day one honestly now there's been tracks where literally the entire campaign was just Instagram posts and it went viral and when I say track there's been tracks I'm not even talking about theoretically but tracks that we've ran campaigns like I'm thinking about this one Corey spearheaded where that it was just a few viral posts went crazy crazy viral posted by celebrities and all this stuff million views all right just from Facebook posts but every I meant Instagram posts but the thing is every single track doesn't marry the type of our rally or have a video associated with what that kid did so the reality for most people is this you start here and then you start to give it attention through something consistent and controllable which nine times out of ten what is that going to be ads all right so this portion right here is all ads and once you start to see that there's feedback positive feedback from the ads you're finding a good click through where you're seeing real engagement where people are saying they're rocking with the song and a little bit of transfer ability over to a Spotify or something like that the next step then becomes how can I make this consistent boost hopefully there's some organic especially you know there's some organic already being already happening from the ads not just direct then that's great but the next step now becomes how can I start to make it take off virally and from that point you want to look at posting on third party Instagram accounts maybe some other influencer activations that make sense for your song right so you have the controlled right the ads the sustainable right all that's that that that initial and then you get into the viral where you're playing the odds there's been a million million brilliant videos that have been done at this point that still haven't necessarily one super viral right you have that one video might do well but nobody else copies it nobody else posted somewhere else so it's always gonna be a gamble you can have five pages posted but you don't know if it's still gonna go viral from those five pages but it still can help pad so I wouldn't look in most cases doing at a beginning but to even merit if it's worth doing cuz those other pages can be expensive and to just spend $200 or even $75 right just on one and not get any results when you don't even know if you would like the song when you can find out people like the song within five ten twenty dollars do the ad thing first right or whatever you can do right that you have control over and then start to look to pad it in different ways creative ways we're not we're not gonna get into you know what you can do on third party accounts and viral campaigns here but you can you can do it immediately most people knives out of ten they need to do some of this first all right I mean let's just have access to somebody and it's easy for you to go ahead and start with them all right and the last thing I'll add on to that is you can actually nah nah nah we'll say that for a whole another episode it's gonna end up being a whole number of videos so let's go ahead and skip to the comment of the day that is zero leeloo 22 I'll be killing these names zero leeloo 22 says the greatest common denominator I've noticed in each video that's watching a lot of my videos in particular is understanding the concept of context context for when you are on your music journey is the most important aspect to understand there are many routes to take on your music journey but every one of those paths involve is involves understanding your role in music so I'm gonna answer her or add on to this very very quick right one two three four five there's levels to this right here right everybody has to understand that there's levels to this and sometimes you might watch a video that I wrote did and you're like yo brain man you're not talking about nothing I don't quite get this this ain't clicking well I might be talking to this guy right here right now and you're right here right or you might be like yo I already know this is basic well maybe I'm talking to this guy right here so it might not apply to you so there's certain times a certain advice applies to you there's something that you might hear when you're at level one that might take you to level two right and then when you get to level four all of a sudden that day you learn a number level one is clicking again and you're hearing it totally different because now right you're in a different place right it's like when you listen to a track when you're five years old then you rewatch let me listen to that track when you're 10 or 20 years old and now it clicks in a whole another way because you've made progress you gain experience so what most artists get stuck is they're staying on this level most of them are a level one or you're staying at whatever level you are so either advice get stale because you can't you don't have a new perspective you're still at the same point on the hill instead of you climbing a mountain right or for whatever reason they're your backsliding but that we're not gonna get into the backsliding so why is this important in terms of what zero looch 22 said if you don't understand there's there's levels to this thing you know you're not taking in the fact that everything that I say on this page everything that Corey say or whoever we bring up onto this page says on this page requires context so we might be talking about something we've done in supply directly for four artists but it might not apply to you right now right it might not work for you might be a mysterious artist this artist might be a personality base this artist might never post on social media this artist might post on social media every day and everything has a strategy contextual to what that is that's why it's important that you watch these things to get additional frameworks of how to think right but at some point you have to sit down and say where am I right now what makes sense to apply right now I can't do what Drake is doing today I can do a drink possibly did ten years ago maybe right or maybe I need to do what some other artists did that's how you have to think about it so one sit down figure out where you are and what's gonna get me to the next step right I'm on level two I need to know when gets me on level three some people get caught up on all this level five stuff and all that sounds cool and or you know level one stuff no all I need is the level one I mean the stuff that gets me to level three so what gets most artists and honestly I can say people caught up is you take in information and you're wondering why people are passing you by right how this person get here so fast to level four even though I have all this knowledge and I know more than them and I have a better music than them but what happened was this person came in said yo what's gonna give me a level two I don't even know nothing else what's gonna give me level three I don't even know nothing else what's gonna give me level four I don't need to know nothing else it's nice to know to feel smart all that stuff but you don't need to know it so context is everything and also over information is a thing you don't need to know everything you don't need to watch every single video or every single one of these videos but figure out where you are at that moment what what does it take to get to that next up and if you need to talk to somebody who does this you know me many there's many people out there right who do this find somebody that you can trust and has contextual advice and experience to say yo where am I personally I get all this stuff where am I personally how can I get to my next up that's it had to cut it for a second because before I close this out I want to make sure you guys also check out episode 2 where I did something called the $5 feedback challenge I want you guys to check that challenge out and participate in it if you don't know what I talk I'm talking about go check out the $5 feedback challenge for people to give you quality unbiased feedback to your music especially if you need that check it out and other than that yes this is episode number three of acts brand man looking forward to you guys questions put them in the comment section below because hey your question might end up on the next episode have a great one hit that subscribe button


all concerned coming into today. What type of stuff you would have considering the layoff. I'm not really stuff wise. I was just kind of wanted to see when I was going to hit a wall. So I'm pretty happy with how I threw the ball overall.  Yeah I got tired. Fourth and fifth inning probably. But stuff wise pretty good. Shapes were right. A couple maybe get three pitches back and this could be a lot different outing. With how close all these games have been lately. What has it been like to kind of watch the way the later innings unfold. We've got a lot of good arms back there. So even when Lowe gets in some trouble I know he's got stuff to get out of it. So it was good to see him excuse some pitches and get out of it. We can take a next question for Jordan. Anyone else. Dan Martin please on me. Jordan with how are you guys playing lately. And then to beat the Red Sox we've had trouble against this year as a team. What is the level of confidence now. Good. I mean hi we're playing good baseball. Glad I just could come back and not mess this up. So it was a big win and we got one more to take care of two more. Anyone else for Jordan. Brinjan Cutty please on me. Jordan I apologize. Has some technical difficulties here. It's fun to ask you. When you think about why is it that in that seventh inning and his ability to bounce back. He's a competitor. I mean get some bad luck.   So he's really good.