Okay, we're going to do the video that you want to do. I don't know why you're on the table. Kermit has requested that we do this video. I'm kidding. A lot of people have asked me to do it. To be honest, it's kind of boring. People bring their dogs into a pet store and they just buy whatever they touch. And they have these like big dogs that are like excited to touch things. I haven't really seen anyone do this with like a small excited dog, but he doesn't touch stuff. None of them touch stuff, especially not a model. So I guess we're just going to try because my favorite thing to do is film dog videos because that means we get to spend the day together. Then you don't have to be mad at mommy for doing things other than paying attention to you. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to take them to the pet store. We're going to buy them whatever they judge. What if one of you touches a cat? Sorry, we got a plant on the way here because I have a problem. So we put in true middle child form, forgot Kermit's leash, but we brought an extra marble leash. So you have to wear your harness. Sorry, bud. Sorry, buddy. Are you embarrassed? Oh, God. Why does he move so awkwardly?  I need to get a cart, don't I? This is where I can go very quickly. Okay. Wait, who did? Kermit did. He just touched like this whole row. Look how big these are.  He was like super interested in that. Marble, why don't you pick something with your small? Yeah, Marble. Why don't you touch anything? Oh, she touched that nametag. She touched it. I thought we were playing that whatever she touches me. No, no, buying items. Can I ask to buy this? It can't cost much. It's a sticker. She can't buy this sticker because mommy said no stickers. What's that face? Oh my God, they're looking at us. Have a take home, Lex. Hello. Oh, Kermit, you don't even know what you just did. Kermit, it's pretty big for you, bud. Of course Kermit touches it. Oh my God, blue toy, Julian. Oh, good take, Kermit. So far, it's just Kermit shopping for himself. Peach hasn't picked anything and Marble hasn't picked anything. Oh, good girl. Oh my gosh, she touched it. We already got the blue one. You deserve it. You deserve anything you want. No, you don't, Kermit. Yes, he does. Oh, Kermit picked another one. Kermit picked this beautiful fox. Oh, he's got hard stuff inside him. Touch those like choke chains. Damn, Kermit, is that what you're into? All right, what are we inside? There's like food on the ground she's eating. Kermit, I'm not, no, you know what? Kermit, there's some things that we're probably not gonna buy and a whole bag of dog food you guys saw needed is not one of them.  That's wasteful. Touch something else. Oh, fresh breath. Kermit, why don't you touch that? Marble's getting real close. He might touch it. He might make contact. Oh, Kermit wants this stuff. Oh, he just touched this. He just liquid bandaged. That's actually so helpful, Kermit. Oh my god, he's touching everything. Okay, you want droppers? All right. Oh, Kermit just touched the dog. Are we doing those peaches? He's touched the dog. Would you pick the hot peaches? It's maybe a weirdest dog toy I've ever seen when this sausage hits.  They had their whole head in there, both of them. Disgusting.  Hey, maybe church. It's literally a bird not even looking at you. It's looking the other way. God, look at this ferocious, toothless monster in the pet store. I mean, as funny as it is to walk down all the other aisles, like, they just touched a giant hamster ball. Like, what are we gonna do with that? Like, it's just a little waste from wasn't it? Yeah, it feels a little wasteful. Maybe we should just only go down there. There's a couple more dog aisles we can go down. Okay, what does it say? Oh my god. Kermit, is this your, uh, program? Whatever you said, dude. That's your favorite thing in the whole world. Peach. Oh, he wants the variety back. He wants all of them. He wants the variety back. Okay, we already picked one, Kermit. You can't keep picking this. He's like spamming it. Kermit, no. Oh, oh, what the? He skipped right over the whimsies. Okay, now they're going over the greenies. They found that. Oh, Kermit, what is that?  Oh god, what is the way they touch? I want this. It's in joint. Okay, you already picked one. You don't get to keep picking it. Oh god, he's touching it. He's like drive buying. Okay, he touched the swad bones. You want this? Oh, marble's close to touching something. Oh, big. But can they eat these? This is what he picked out. We have to get it.  Marble, you still haven't touched anything. Kermit, Kermit.   Why would you do that? He just kept going when you when you caught him. Jesus, dude. You really just went for it, didn't you, buddy?  I can't believe he did that. And he kept peeing after you told him to stop. He's the only one picking stuff out and he peed in the store. Like, he's a brat. What's that payback for getting his lease? He's pasted us. He's like, oh, this and this and this and this. You forget my lease. He humiliated me in public and made me wear harness. This is Kermit. He peed on the harness. Kermit. What a dysfunctional squad.  Marble hasn't picked out anything for himself, so I feel like maybe if I give him a chance, so walk on his own without the eggies, he might pick something. Oh, Kermit. What's in your nose?  What is that? Where are you? He doesn't know the answer to either of those. What is this? Everything's like too far away from him. Wait, is he barking under the... He's feral. Marble. Marble. Marble. Kermit, take that shirt. Kermit just touched that? This. Kermit's got the only place. He's going to regret that later. He's not picking anything. He's just barking at children and cats and birds. Did he touch it? He touched it. That's his. It's bigger than him. He doesn't even know what just happened. Okay, come on, Bolt. Did he just touch the cat tower? The only thing that he actually touched was the cat tower.  Wait, could we though? The eggies might use it. They won't go in that hole. There's no way. Sit. We have a cat. It's like, she likes the top of it, like she likes the top of it. Could she sleep in that? No, she likes the top of it, like she likes the top of the couch. Like she doesn't want to stay. He's coming. Okay, so we can't get that. No, it's ridiculous, but good pick, Marble. Thank you for contributing. Well, what do you think? I think that they misbehaved as much as I thought they might.  They got a lot of greenies though, so I'm proud of them. Why don't we go home and check out what they got?   We are home, and I will just say that my dog spent hundreds of my dollars today. I didn't think it was going to be that much, but sick, guys. Why don't we start with toys? Because as soon as we do t-r-e-a-t-s, you're going to lose interest in everything else. This was the only thing that Marble picked out aside from the cat tower, which unfortunately I'm so sorry we didn't get a cat tower, okay? You're not supposed to be on the table. Let me come. Yeah, you picked this out. Here, look. He's really chubby. He's got a heart inside. This is like a huge ball.  Oh, he likes it. Boy, bud. How's that? Yeah, it's been a while since you had a new toy, huh? Hey, we're playing with toys, Peach. You picked this one out. He's got squeaks for arms. Yeah, you picked this one. Oh, my gosh. He just stole it. That one's also Kermit's. He got very upset, but he tried to play with it, even though you picked that one out. Look at him. He's sporting. God, Kermit. You can't take all the toys for yourself. Okay, Kermit, Kermit. Oh, she's excited about this one. Okay, you can have that one. Here you go. Do you like the toy? Yeah, Kermit picked that one out.  Marble. Do you want your toy? Oh, do you want this one? You can play with Marble's toy. Here. Kermit, this is the one that Marble picked out. Do you want? Oh, my gosh. Wait, when did he start pouring toys like that? We got one more toy. Here, bud. Here we come. Here. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Here, bud. He's like, I don't know what this shape is. Okay, go. Oh, my God, Kermit.  You really enjoy this big sausage, don't you?  Nasty boy. Why did you pick this up? What are we going to do with this? Here, can I wear it? Yeah, put it on yourself. My hair is stuck in it. I can't get it out. I want to see what it feels like for a dog. Thanks, Kermit. I love your necklace. Kermit, you ready to put on some of your new outfits that you picked out for you? Oh, my gosh. It's a syringe dropper. Kermit wanted it. For what? I don't know. Ask him. Wait, this isn't for liquid. This is like... To put up their butt. It looks like it.  Butt medicine thing. What? I didn't pick it out. The nasty boy did. All right.  A tiny dress that says unicorn squad and a shirt that... This is probably the only one that might fit him. Straight chillin'. He's enjoying a state of shock. Honey. That's nice, Kerm. That actually fits you. That's not so bad, honey, huh? Okay, bud. Next shirt. Pick that out. You just want things so you don't even know what they are. You look really good, bud. It's actually like really handsome. You look so cute.  Right up. I'll see you later. Come here. He doesn't move. They got liquid bandage. How does it work? It's like liquid bandages for a dog. Pretty cool. I didn't know that was a thing.  So this is actually kind of nice. Yeah. Thanks, guys. All right. That's actually helpful.  You picked it out, Kermit. Kermit, come on.  You picked this out. You were so interested about it in the store. We should take his shirt off.  Okay. Your protest has been heard. We're taking your shirt off. Like what? What prohibits him from being normal with a shirt off? He just doesn't like it. They actually really wanted that one. Yeah. I'm proud of them. It's too bad I don't know what in the world that is. I would also, I would never buy them a treat that big. This is a lot of whatever this is. So maybe we check out some of the other treats before y'all throw this up on mommy's clothes and bed. You guys picked out four things of greenies.  I don't even know. He knows. He knows he needs them. I don't know how those are different than greenies, but like this is their favorite thing in the whole world, Kermit. Wild bones dental chew. Look at her. Look at where she is. They're all just dental chews. These are so big. All right. What if we try and just do this? Wait after a couple. All right. Do you want to try? Oh my god. He just took a bite of it. They tricked me into buying so much stuff. I didn't know what it was, but it's what they wanted. That is so nasty. Yeah. These are all this stuff is nasty.   Yeah, you did. You picked. This is too big for peachies. Oh my god. Peach. Peach. That's too big for you. Take it away from her. That's the size of marbles. What I'm learning right now is that I've seen big dogs when they'll take like a stick that's like this big or like a phone that's like this big. Greed is greed and all dogs have it, including Italian grounds. They're all just greedy. Dogs are greedy. They're greedy, hungry little greedy gremlins. Peachy, do you want to try this? Okay, she's like, yeah, with that. Oh my god, what do you have? Wow. Oh my god. God, she's like a literal pit. Pinko buddy, you picked this one out. Remember, hip and joint. Please don't eat it all at once. You're going to choke. Let's not forget that they picked out like 70 bags of dog food as well that we didn't buy.  God, why does he make that noise? Hi, mumble. Do you want to try a little bite, honey? Here, there you go. There he goes. Even marble likes it. All right, we can enjoy these maybe like five minutes at a time and then it's time to give them back to mommy because these are too big for you. No, it's time to give it back to mommy. No, it's time to give it back to mommy. You can enjoy these a little bit at a time. These are for big doggies. At the store, I would never pick out something like this. That's just me, but here we are. Did you ever pick this? I'm pretty sure Karmie picked this one. Is that good? Karmie come. Oh, you like it. 90% of the like little treats that I buy them, they're like either super into or not into at all. They like this, but these are huge pieces. You don't care. That's what we learned today.  You want it. Marble, honey, I think these might be too big for you. Do you want to try a little piece? Do you want to come here? Oh, oh, what's going on? What's going on? What's happening now? What's happening in here? Is he buffering? What's going on with you, bud? What the- He's got something in his mouth. I think he has a hot pink. Are you having a good day, buddy? Hey, you want to try? Wow, so excited. Wow. Okay, honestly, what is going on?  There's something to be said about letting your dog pick out things. Like they actually have enjoyed everything that they picked out. Toys and treats included. Like everything that they were- Except for the shirts. Except for the shirts and the choke collar and the liquid bandage. And the black plug.  Is this good? Yeah, peachy. They're going to have some weird poop style.  I don't know if they picked out things that were like really good or really bad. No, these are the fruit roll-ups. But I do know that they like them. Look at how cute these are. Really, really, really good job today, except for you, Kermit, when you peed in the store that was like really unaccessible. You know better than that. Marvel, you're really cute. Can you sit? Marvel, can you sit? The battery's on 80%. I don't think we have enough until they'll sit. Wow, that's not a sit at all. Sit. It'll happen if we go to the carpet. Do you want me to prove it to you? Watch this. Marvel, don't make me look bad. Marvel, I need you to don't bark at me. Oh my gosh. Marvel, sit. You said, I think you kind of like passed out. What about a little piece? Want to try? Just keep licking it, bud. Did you have fun? Yeah, it was fun. You know, like some of the other videos, it was a little difficult, obviously, to film everything that your dog is like picking and smelling and touching. There was also a little girl doing jumping jacks at the cats, which was very distracting.  It's interesting to see what your dogs pick versus what you pick. The toys are really funny that they picked out and the food's funny too because I don't know if it's like good or bad. They just wanted it. It's not anything that I would pick out for them. Anytime we get to hang out with them is a good time to meet and they had a really good day. They enjoyed themselves. I also learned that to your dog, size doesn't matter at all. They just want the biggest thing they can find. Are you going to go for a swim? Good boy. Good job. Okay, now it's like kind of a lot. Do you like all this stuff that you got? Are you so happy?  You just go to the store and get to pick out anything you want. I think we did learn here today that there is some value in letting your dog decide what they'd like.  You only want things that are giant pieces of food. But other than that, this was really cute and I really like this trend. The videos might be a little whatever, but like it's just really cute. The idea is really cute. The intention of it is really cute and it makes me really happy to spoil them. So it was really fun to do that today. It's covered in like some like gross like baked barbecue sauce. I guess make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put it in videos every Wednesday slash Thursday. Are you pleased with yourself? Is this your favorite video you've ever made, Kerm? I just got caught. Well, I guess I'll see you guys next week. That was that. I hope you enjoyed yourself. Guys, video's over and you're done chewing on them. No more sticks. Drop it. You're gonna have more tomorrow. I'm being attacked. I'm being attacked. I'm being attacked. Bye. Oh my god.


getting annoyed for no good reason. The second thing, I said I would talk about this earlier, is being truthful. Being truthful is very important. And if you always lie, one lie leads to another, to another, to another, to another, eventually people find out, then boom, it happens. So you can let us know what's the one thing you think breaks a relationship on Y254 and the E-Circuit. Our next guest, actually our first guest, they come from Jitole Voluntary Service Association. I'm talking about Truth and Ben. Welcome to the studio. Now Jitole is an organization that helps the youth to find employment. Because when I'm reading this, I can see you're talking about people who are hustlers still, people who are back at home idling. If you could, please explain to me, how do you find these youths? Basically, we go to the estates around where the idol, where they have their rest. Maliwa Naitama base, we get them there. We also source them through our friends, relatives, neighbors. Yeah, we get them through the search sources. Yes.  So far, what's the, what's your callage? This is a group of people who work here. They're from Sairia, from Rikasana. They're from Tulewesa, from Fikiwa and Kuba. They're from Lesea, from Sairia, from Fijiana. They're from Wasi-Chana and Fulana. They're from Tuletea, from Wasi-Chana and Fijiana. They work at the Nafanya, they're from Jitolea. I'm from Mouja. And when I'm there, I work at the Nafanya. They're from Sairia, from Kujua, Kasi. They're from Kukua, from Hidals. They're from Kitu, from Kujitengemea. Yes. They're from the reception, they're from the youth. They're from the youth. And I think that's one of the different fields that we're working on here. Ben, there's salon and beauty mechanics, welding, electronics repair, which is really good, catering, barbering, artwork, auto wiring, electrical and tailoring. All these fields, they're very different. So how do you get the trainers? The trainers? Well, it's good that Kenyans are good-hearted people. And as you go a long way looking for those who can come on board to help us, we just reach them out, speak to them, those who have these jobs, actually, at their places of work. Or when we reach them, we speak to them, we try to share the idea of how we can help our youth. Because actually, if we see around, our youth, when they want to learn, they want to go to school. So, they want to go to the bank, they want to go to school, they want to go to school, they want to eat, they want to work. At the end of the day, they want something. So, the reception is good. They take it in and the majority are willing to come on board to help. In fact, so far, we've gotten 100 volunteers. 100 volunteers. Yeah, just as you have seen there in the paper, already we have people with such jobs. Yes, and in fact, we have enrolled 40 youths. 40 youths already. And 100 volunteers who are ready to even take more. Exactly. So, you see, there's that deficit. Yeah. What are the main challenges when you are starting the Voluntary Service Association? Yes. Because I can imagine there are a few challenges. Yes, of course there are challenges. Well, challenge number one is sometimes, okay, you need enough resources to go around, okay? And at the same time, also the volunteers, some of them you find they don't have enough facilities. They are willing, yes, but they don't have enough facilities. To cater to all the youths. Yeah, exactly. You see, like the saloon guys, they might require some extra materials to train. Same case with the tailoring guys, you find that they want to have an extra machine so that whoever is being trained can be able to use it. Yeah. So, those are the challenges. But all in all, things are not so bad. Yes. Another challenge, well, is on the side of the youths, sometimes they are not so receptive bearing the fact that they're not going to get and something at the end of the day. Yeah, but the good is that once they realize that after gaining some experience, they can... They can... Yeah, in fact, Dorothy can answer what they do. At least to entice them or to incite them to come. And I think that's a discussion we need to have on the E-Circuit because, you know, it's an entertaining show and we always like to educate the people. The thing is, I think the youth need to understand that returns don't necessarily come all at once, but if you have the skills, we always say hashtag talent in E-Circuit and I think all these fields requires some bit of talent. Once you're trained, you get skilled, then you turn it into a talent after, you know, repeat, repeat, repeat and you get good at it. But let me ask you, as a volunteer member, I've had challenges in terms of resources. Have you been... Um... Um... What are the bypassing challenges? Challenge... When I was a youth, I always wanted to talk. I always thought I wanted to talk. I wanted to study the sphere of culture. And... I was taught to accommodate many youths. I was taught to work, because I was an air-and-resourist. So, I was taught to accommodate many youths. And I always wanted to work with them. And I always wanted to talk and I always wanted to talk, but with the need of the sphere. And I always had challenges in terms of lunch and food, and I always wanted to talk. So, to be able to do it, to be able to do it now, it can be sometimes to be able to motivate the youth to participate in the sphere of culture and to have a good relationship with them. So, it's possible that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Yes. And then we promise them, in case there's a lot of work to be done. Come on, before you continue, we'll find out a bit about this organization. Because we know that there's a lot to be done. But there, as long as there's a lot to be done and there's a lot to be done, the youth need more big brothers and sisters like you. But we know that there's a lot to be done. So, it's possible that there's a lot of work to be done to help the youth to participate in the sphere of culture and to help the youth to participate in the sphere of culture. And it's possible that there's a lot to be done and there's a lot of work to be done. Yes. Ah, nice. Yes. Ah, you're doing really good work. Yeah, that's how you do it. So, aside from going to the people themselves, the people who are going to be volunteers to help the youths, as you said, financial challenges are also there. Is there a way people can contact you and try to help out and reach out? Yes. We have an office. Yeah. Can you bang it on the boat next to Family Bank? Next to Family Bank, there's an office at Gadiru House. Second floor, Room 32. And the numbers, we have 0720, 738, 450. I could you repeat that number, please? 0720, 738, 450. Yes. So, anyone can come and assist. Equaniraya, Equania, the NGOs, and I hope you're approaching them as well. Because I think what you're doing is really beneficial. Because membership is actually free of charge. Yeah, we don't charge anything. This is really good. And you get to acquire skills. If you're unable to continue with your studies or if you had to drop out for one reason or the other, these are the people for you. So, make sure you contact them. Is there a website? So far, we've not opened one, but we're aspiring to have one very soon. But you have a Facebook page, Zitole Voluntary Haslas Association. Zitole Voluntary Haslas Association. Association. Yes, if you go there, you'll find us. Yeah. What are your projections for the near future in 2019? Right now, you said you have 100 volunteers and 40 youth members. So, what are your projections? What's the growth? Well, we project. What are your targets? We project to a thousand, because the youth are the majority in this country. 70% of the population is no joke. So, okay, the government alone cannot cater for it, cannot manage that. And we, at least we aspire to go country-wide, not only Nairobi. So far, we've gone to various locations in Nairobi. What type of places do you target when you go there? Okay, we target, especially the low-level areas, the slum areas, yes. And we want to go even up-country, yeah. We just have a few, we have one Voluntary Muru and one in Kisumu, yeah. But we expect to at least cover bigger area of the country. So, all volunteers are welcome on board. At least even if you reach a thousand, the youth are many. Yeah, you better have them because the youth are many, so that when they come, they get somebody to help them. Yes. Santisana, thank you so much for coming through. Again, let me repeat the numbers. You can contact either Kiyoko or Ben on the number<PHONE_NUMBER>, right? Yes, yes. Santisana, thank you so much for what you're doing for the youth in this country. God knows we need it. And we need more big brothers and sisters like you around because I think you're the people who are going to make a difference. Thank you. Santisana for coming through. We'll be back after this.


President Mohammed Buhari has said he deliberately closed Nigeria's land borders. Buhari said he closed the borders to spur Nigerians to produce the import of food, especially rice, and boost local production. Speaking during the commissioning of the new customs headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari said he wanted Nigerians to grow what they eat or die trying. He revealed that the deliberate closure of the borders was prompted by the prevalent practice of Nigerians ordering rice, diverting some to neighboring countries and bringing the remainder back into the country. Highlighting Nigeria's vast potential in terms of resources, population, arable land and favorable weather conditions, Buhari underscored the importance of self-sufficiency. He stated that closing the border was intended to encourage Nigerians to consume what they produced, particularly in terms of rice. With six days to go, Buhari said he had built personal and cordial relationships with bordering countries, stressing that he should or that should anyone disturb him in Nigeria, his Niger Republic neighbors would defend him. Well, joining us to discuss this and more is Dr. Muda Yusuf, he's the Director Center for Promotion and Private Enterprise. Thank you so much, Dr. Yusuf, for joining us. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you very much. Let's start by looking at some of the things that the key things that President Buhari has mentioned. Most importantly, he's saying he did what he did for our own good in the best interest of the average Nigerian because he thought it was time for us to begin to produce what we eat or die trying. When all this happened and in this, you know, this ban of almost eight years, in fact, eight years as we speak, how has this affected Nigeria's production as to what we eat, what we grow? Are we able to actually eat what we grow? Well, thank you very much.  I mean, it's a very good nationalistic pronouncement and commitment. But when it comes to economic policies, I think there should be more regard in the policy process. It is not enough to feel patriotic in court that we need to produce more rice. We cannot, because of rice, you know, close a border. I'm saying this because the collateral damage was enormous. And I expected that even the policymakers should have done a proper cost-benefit analysis. What is clear from the pronouncement of the President that this was his own idea of how to ensure self-sufficiency in food production. But going forward, because I mean, this time we should be talking about going forward. Policy processes should be more rigorous before it is announced. The cost-benefit analysis has to be done properly. And, you know, there should be proper appraisal of policy from time to time. Yes, it is true. While the policy lasted at least the first one or two months, there was increase in patronage of rice that was produced locally. And I must tell you that the price of locally produced rice went up by as high as 30 to 50 percent. It was so bad that even the citizens could no longer afford the made in Nigerian rice. Secondly, we didn't address the issue of the porosity of the border. Because if an institution has failed in its duties, we don't just overlook that and just take such a drastic measure as the closure of the border. We have Nigeria Custom Service. We have security agencies who are supposed to man the borders to prevent anything that is not approved from coming in. We didn't sanction anybody. We didn't take there was no consequences as to how these goods were coming in. The message was to just close the borders. And that affected so many other things in the economy. As I was saying that when we are running an economy, we don't come with such a narrow view of what to do or what not to do. We need to look at the wider implications of policy. The collateral damage was a lot. I must admit there are some few benefits. Just as I said, the rice farmers made a lot of money. They were selling the rice at very atridious prices. But the cities suffered a lot. Just a manufacturer also had an improvement in their production. But some manufacturers also suffered because some of them sold their raw materials from neighboring countries. Then we have a lot of farmers who were sold exports from Nigeria to neighboring countries. Then we had issues of trade.  Many of them women. Many of them in the informal sector. The informal trade in the south region accounts of close to 80% of the trade. All that came to a stop at that time. Then there are some importers because of all the challenges at the ports. They prefer to import through Kotonu and some of these to go because their ports are more efficient. They pay duty at the border and they bring their goods in. All that was stopped abruptly. Some trucks were at the border for close to three months with all their goods. Some of the goods were perishables. All buses were lost. So if we are doing any policy and of course there is also the protocol on ECOWAS by leading country in ECOWAS. We have a protocol on free trade. That's what you call ETLS. ECOWAS trade liberalization scheme. Once your product is registered under ETLS, you are allowed to trade it in and out. Nobody gave any regard to the protocol of ECOWAS. So we violated the protocol. Some of them even had to take some retaliatory action against Nigerians. Even after the border was partially opened. So we don't manage an economy that way. We need to look at all the ramifications of implications. We need to look at the cost and benefits. How can we say because of rise? I would create so much disruption to trade, to business for so many people. There are some multinational companies because they are leveraging on their core streets. They have factories across the sub-region. There are some factories here that supply goods to the sub-region depending on the comparative advantage. There are some factories in Ghana that supply goods to Nigeria. All their business model was completely disrupted because of this border closure. So going forward, we don't want a situation where a president will just wake up and feel that this is what should happen. People who are knowledgeable in economic management, the foreign affairs ministry, who are also at inputs on the diplomatic front, because this has diplomatic implications. All of this needs to be touched through properly if all of that takes this kind of major policy decision. Doctor, you're floating to my next question because I was going to ask in all of the statements that was credited to Mr. President, it was I, and you touched on it basically, a president waking up and taking decisions. I know for successive governments that we've had in this country, there's always an economic council which is presided over by the vice president, and that economic council always has a policy framework as to how the economy under that administration has to be run. Did you see any form of policy direction in terms of how to manage our economy under this administration? Again, I'm asking because we also saw what the CBN governor did with the Naira, which also brought some kind of suffering to the people. So was there really a clear cut policy direction in terms of our economy and managing it and how it turned out today? Or is it still just tied to Mr. President and how he feels on a given day? Now, from what we have seen, there's no proper institutional framework or structure for economic policymaking. Yes, perhaps we have some issues like the National Economic Council. The president also had the Presidential Advisory Committee on the economy. We have the Ministry of Industry. We have the Investment Promotion Commission. All of these structures were not involved in some of these policies, which is very unfortunate because ideally, if the president has this idea, he should normally pass it off his Presidential Advisory Council on the economy. He should seek the views of the National Economic Council before we take this kind of very fundamental decision. So the economic policy formulation framework was almost zero under this administration. Whatever the president feels like doing, whatever the central bank feels like doing, once he gets the consent of the president, that's it. You'll be surprised that some of these policy measures, some key ministries too, are not even aware. They were not consulted. The Investment Promotion Commission was not consulted. The Ministry of Trade and Industry was not consulted. Even the finance committee was not consulted. So just between the CBN and the CBN was so passionate about this rise matter, even more involved in rise matter than even the Minister of Agriculture. So it was between the CBN Covino and the President. And look at the massive disruption that it caused. And from the way the President was standing, he is not even aware that there was any cost, any disruption that arose from that policy. But the long and short of it is that we have to take lessons from this to guide the incoming administration. Talking about the proper framework for policy framework for economic management. It's very important. It can only reduce the economy to just rise. I mean, in this day and age. I remember that under the Good Block Jonathan administration, there were, in fact, all the way to the Obasanja into the Yadav administration, they threw around the idea of diverting the economy away from oil, oil and gas, which has always been the mainstay of Nigeria's economy. I'm going somewhere with this because I want to talk about the failing economy, not just under the Buhari administration, but what's happening now, even as we're going to be handing over to another administration. We keep paying lip service to diversifying economy or diversifying into other areas, especially agriculture. Many would credit the Jonathan administration on that acumen additional, yes, the AFDB chairman or CEO right now. Many people would say it did well in terms of agriculture, but that we could have moved it a step further under this administration. Why do you think that the idea of diversifying our economy always only ends on paper as opposed to making it actually happen? And when the president talks about local production and looking at how to produce things that we ourselves can eat, how many states are economically viable in terms of agriculture? Well, I think what is missing really, I'm talking about agriculture, is that we have not actually addressed the critical issues of productivity in agriculture. Most of these farmers that we refer to, most of them are using posts and court classes. Even the rice farmers, I've seen a few clips of some of them when in their farms, they are using manual processes to process the rice to rather than address these fundamental issues of mechanization of agriculture or seeing how we can use technology. We want technology in agriculture because technology is what is driving everything now globally. Technology is driving productivity. How much of technology do we have in agriculture? There are some states that don't have even any functioning tractor for land clearing and all of this. There are states like that, and they're basically agrarian states. So all this food production we see, 90 percent is steeped by all these rural farmers who are using posts and court classes for a population of over 200 million. That is an issue. So we should address issues of productivity across sectors, also in manufacturing.  Diesel is almost $1,000 per liter. At what price are you going to share your products? How sustainable is the business model? When there is no electricity and your forward-back position is diesel, and this is not between $200 to $1,000. How can you compete with goods that are coming from China? So we need to address the fundamentals. And on top of this, we see a manner of tax people imposing on a manner of charges or even these manufacturers. So to answer your question, the issue of economic diversification is about supporting investors in key areas of the economy. Okay. You support them with your policies, you support them with finance, you support them with even the regulatory framework, and even with tariffs. You'll be shocked, the experience that some people go through are the part with the customs. People who are supposed to be the engine of economic diversification. Going through the post alone is a nightmare. That is why the service sector is accounting for over 50% of GDP. Comproduction is not easy. Interesting. Those are the things we should focus on. Productivity, competitiveness. Let's talk about the inflation rate in the country. I've spoken with presidential aides on the issue of the economy and half the time, they go back to COVID-19 and that's what's really hit our economy and that's what we're unable to recover from. But let's look around ourselves. Let's not go to the United Kingdom, let's not talk about the US. Let's talk about other countries around us in Africa who have bounced back from COVID. How do you think that the Bahá'í administration has been able to deal with the issue of inflation? Again, let's also talk about how these oil prices have affected Nigeria's economy. Don't forget, just before the election, we realized that the oil theft has hit the roof. I think as of December last year, the NNPC had not given any money, Zerunira to the federal coffers. Again, all of these things play around our economy. How has the Bahá'í administration, looking back at it, been able to address the issue of inflation and of course the deadly oil prices because the neck breaking price is as we speak? You see, what was needed was to undertake some fundamental reforms. Reforms in the oil and gas sector is only close to the end of the administration that we're able to get the Petroleum Industry Act. We have been on this Petroleum Industry Bill for over a decade and the oil and gas sector is one sector that we can leverage on to be able to even diversify the economy. Is it cash cow? Even though it's contributing just about 13% to GDP, it's contributing almost over 70% to revenue and close to 90% to foreign exchange earnings. But we didn't even do what we needed to do to allow that sector to grow so that we can leverage our needs to be able to diversify the economy. I mean, look at what has happened. Eight years of this administration, the refineries didn't work. Eight years of this administration, we were importing Petroleum products so much that we are spending over $10 billion annually to import Petroleum products. What happened to all the refineries? What happened to all the turnaround maintenance? What happened to all the expenses that government is incurring on those refiners? Thank God for Dangote. I mean, it's the only one we have to celebrate now. But I'm sorry, Doctor, let me just come in quickly. You just said something about Dangote. I'd like to quote former Senator, what's his name? Ben Moir Bruce, who had said, he was quoted to say in an interview, that having a Dangote refinery is not a guru. He said that, of course, the cost of production and everything that will come from that refinery will cost the prices of oil and petroleum products to go up. So is that really something we should be celebrating? There are those who are also saying, why don't we sell off these refineries or try to get a privatisation in that area so that we can have a healthy competition with the Dangote refinery that's also common board? What do you think? You see, as Nigerians, we should also learn to celebrate ourselves. We should learn to appreciate ourselves. Which foreign investor can take the kind of risk that Dangote has taken to put in place such a massive investment? Which foreign investor anywhere in Africa can invest that kind of amount in a project in Africa, given all the challenges, given all the perception about Africa as a destination for investment? If an African had done this, and a Nigerian had done this, and some people still call it a negative perception about this, then we should worry, we should be worried about it. Now, no matter what we say, is it not cheaper if you have something that is produced locally? Is it not better for the economy if it is produced locally than for us to continue to import? Each time you import, you are exporting jobs. You are exporting your foreign exchange. So I don't know where Ben Bruce is coming from when he made that. I don't know what facts he had. I don't know what analysis he has done. But for the scale of that kind of refinery, I'm sure that the cost would be much lower than continue to be import in petroleum products. I just told you, I spend close to $50 billion annually. Imagine what that can do for our reserves. Imagine what it can do for our exchange rates. Imagine the amount of jobs direct and indirect that this refinery will create. Interesting. Everything around it may not be perfect. I mean, it's work in progress. I agree with you. We need to create a competitive framework so that we don't have a monopoly situation. We need to privatize all these government refineries. If labor will stop, we must stop kicking against it again. That is the way to go. Whoever is an investor in this economy deserves to be supported and encouraged. Because the growth of this economy, the creation of jobs lies with the private sector. And investors are taking a lot of risk putting their money on the table because they lose the money. So they need to be encouraged. Okay. I need to create competition. I agree with that. Okay, great. Let's talk about the elephant in the room. What role do you think corruption has also played in destroying the economy of the country? And look, we're facing an economic downturn whether we like it or not. But then many would say that this administration came into office on the wings of fighting corruption as one of its major mantras. But can we say that corruption has played a role in how economy has gone down? And what's being done by the Bahá'í administration to even address it? Well, I think we should let me just talk about the principles. Bahá'í administration is already on its way out. So let's just be forward and looking. And going forward, I think we need to create an environment that rewards entrepreneurs. Because what we have heard over the over the last few years is that brokers and commission agents and rent seekers are making more money than entrepreneurs. That is not good for economic growth and development. Where entrepreneurs who are sweating day and night are struggling to make a couple of millions. Commission agents, brokers and all of that are smiling to the back with billions just because of the structure that has been created. So we need an economy where first there's level playing field, second an economy that rewards enterprise. Enterprise truly defined an economy that rewards entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Not an economy that rewards the fact that you have a connection to this or that, the fact that you can cost corners and all of that. Not a rent economy. So we should have an economy that is not transactional in management. I'm talking of economic governance now. Because when you have a system that is transactional, either in foreign exchange, in money market, in tariff policy, at the ports, ethical people cannot thrive. That's what the collapse of business ethics. It cannot have a sustainable economy that way. So as much as possible, we should have a level playing field which will minimize the political economy influenced on economic management. It will expand the scope for the market. A market driven economy that rewards excellence in enterprise. That is the kind of things we should do. We have a policy framework that supports all of that. Just wrapping it up, because May 29 is just next week Monday and of course by tomorrow, lots of things are going to kick start in preparation for the inauguration of the administration that's incoming. A quick question. I know you've answered a couple of it in this last statement. But what's the outlook for Nigeria's economy in the coming years? What steps need to be taken to achieve sustainable growth as we're going forward? It's not just about the new government, but governments to come, successive governments. No, what needs to happen is that first, we need to have a very good team to manage the economy. And it should not be politicized. There are Nigerians globally and domestically who have the capacity to give proper guidance to economic management. And we will urge the president incoming to give a listening ear to these economic managers. And we should not run a government that is transactional. Because in the political arena, many people have policies just to make money from politics. As much as possible, we should push that back and allow proper investors. Because it is through investment that you can create jobs. It is through investment that you can earn revenue. It is through investment that you can even have foreign exchange. That you can do your GDP. So we should have a lot more space, a lot more courtesy for investors. And we should have a very good macroeconomic environment. We should have a conducive regulatory environment. We should bring sanity to our ports. Because it is a nightmare. Because we look at the range of policies. Tax policy, tariff policy, trade policy, foreign exchange policy. We should review everything. So we can reposition the economy. Dr. Murdo Yusuf is the director center for promotion of private enterprise. Thank you so much for speaking with us. We're hoping that those who need to listen to this and hear it are listening to us. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you, my pleasure. All right. We'll take a short break. When we return, we'll be discussing the security situation in Nigeria and agitators calling for a synergy among security forces ahead of the swearing in of the incoming administration. Stay with us.


Well, the Yankees got with it. They made a trade right away. They came into the office and said, we need two elite starting pitchers. And the first move, they got one of the elite left-handers in all of the game, and that is James Paxton formally of the Seattle Mariners, and now a New York Yankee. And he's nice to have to join us here on the K Show. James, it's Michael, Don, and Peter. How are you doing? Doing well, how are you guys? We're doing great. So tell me, when did you get the phone call and your absolute first reaction? I got the phone call yesterday. I think it was about 3 o'clock. It was Jerry DePoto, GM for the Seattle Mariners, gave me a call and told me what was going to be going on. And honestly, I was excited. I think I'm very honored to have been chosen by the Yankees to help them go for number 28. It's going to be a great experience. Obviously, I'm going to miss Seattle, but I'm very excited for the opportunity. Now, James, did you have a sense that you're on the block because we keep hearing rumors that the Mariners are just going to break it down and start all over again? So did you sense that this was coming? I saw all the rumors on Twitter and stuff like that and different things. I never heard anything official from the team or anything like that, but it sure seemed like something was going to happen. You know, it's a strange situation, James. You come into a team that just won 100 games and the fan base looks at it as a disappointment because it's about winning championships with the Yankees.   They've got a great history, tradition, commitment to winning, but it's basically championship or bust in New York. And I'm excited to be a part of it. Now, people will say, I mean, it's unfair to you, but the last big time starting pitcher, well, the Jay Hap worked out. But before that, Sonny Gray and a similar gray had all the intangibles that you'd want in a player, but he just didn't make it work in New York. So people are saying, well, James Paxton really hasn't pitched in very big games, not a lot of pressure in Seattle. What do you answer to those people that have their doubts? Everyone's different, you know, just wait and see. I'm gonna bring everything I've got and, you know, I put everything I've got into this game and you're gonna get everything I have. Innings, are you someone that you feel that can consistently pitch 200 innings a season? I think I'm getting there. You know, I've had my fair share of injuries, that's for sure. Luckily, knock on wood, none of them have been to my shoulder or elbow, nothing structural. And none of the injuries that I've had have returned, you know, so I've learned how to not have those come back. So hopefully I'm running out of things here to have to remedy and I can, you know, stay healthy for entire season. You know, I work very hard and I put a lot into this and hold a lot of pride in myself and, you know, my game and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna give everything I've got to go out there and give it, you know, that 200 innings effort. Now, have you spoken, I assume you've spoken with the manager, Aaron Boone, and if so, what did Aaron tell you and how long was the conversation? It was a pretty short conversation. You know, we talked for about three to five minutes. He was just welcoming me to the Yankees, telling me how excited he was, and I was expressing my excitement as well, and he was letting me know to get in touch with any questions. He also said he'd be reaching out again after Thanksgiving just to have a further conversation. When you'd come here as an opponent, did you get a chance to experience New York? Did you like New York? Yeah, I've been a few times, have a few friends in New York actually, great city, love the city. You know, super cool stadium, loved everything about it. It's gonna be a great place for me.  So I look on baseball reference and you initially, you're from Canada. You got drafted in the first round by the Blue Jays and you decided not to sign with them. You went to Kentucky and the next year you got drafted in the fourth round and you did sign. Why did you not go with the hometown team? We couldn't come to an agreement. I didn't feel like I was treated fairly and I wasn't gonna stand for that. So I made a decision to go a different route and you know, it's worked out for me. I'm glad, no regrets. I'm glad that I made the decisions that I did at that time and it's led me here to be at the Yankee so it couldn't have gone any better. James, that probably was disappointing for a kid from Canada that you couldn't come into an agreement with that. Probably was a dream come true to get drafted by them. Yeah, you know, at that time it was very exciting. I just felt like I had to stand up for myself in that moment and it was just part of my principles and how I expect to be treated and yeah, it was definitely an interesting time. Now James, you'll get to know me, I'm very vindictive so it must have been great for you to pitch a no hitter against the Blue Jays then. Let's be honest. Yeah, that was awesome. That was, it couldn't have gone any better, you know, honestly to have a B in Canada, share that with Canadian fans and also have a B on TV across Canada so all my friends and family in Vancouver could watch. It was pretty special. Now growing up in the Vancouver area, was Seattle kind of the facto local team for you or did you still follow Montreal and Toronto when you're growing up? I'd say I was more American. I didn't watch a whole lot of baseball when I was growing up. Really? I was outside playing the game, you know. I didn't watch a whole lot of sports on TV. I was just too busy playing them myself. But I think we would go down and watch some Mariners games every year and I think that's what made me, you know, more of a Mariners fan growing up as a kid. Now James, you know, this radio show is also simulcasted around the country on the Yes Network and so they have a picture of you in a Yankee uniform where they superimpose the hat and you have a New Jersey on but in the picture you have a beard. Is that gonna be a tough thing for you to get rid of? No, it won't be a tough thing. I'm sure that I'll be able to shave and be a clean shave and I've heard that there is, you might, I might be allowed to have a mustache if I find out for sure. Yes, you can. It just can't drop below your lip. Do you really want one? Okay. I don't know, I've watched it before and it's okay. My wife likes it. All right, well, how quickly does, like, do they mention anything about that in the initial conversation?  Not yet. No, we haven't had those conversations yet. I'm sure that Aaron Boone will cover some of those things in our next conversation, just the expectations and what is required of me. Well, they will. That will definitely come up in conversation too. You said you played a lot of sports up in Canada. Did you play hockey? I never did. I was a baseball guy pretty much from the start. My dad never played hockey growing up other than, you know, pond hockey or, you know, it's recreational stuff. Nothing, no organized sport. He was more of a baseball guy, so that's what he got me into. All right, so total curiosity, James. So you, every time I've announced games with you and the mariner announces it's James Paxton. Very formal, why not, Jimmy? When did it become James? It's always been James. I've had some friends that have called me Jimmy in the past, but, you know, I've been called Pax, you know, or anything like that, but just not a lot of people have called me Jimmy. But now a lot of people call you the Big Maple. Do you like the nickname? It works. Yeah, the fans in Seattle seem to like it. The media kind of ran with it. It wasn't something that I dubbed myself, that's for sure. It was one of our coaches, I think a couple of years ago, came up with that name and it stuck. I'll take us back to the no-hitter. What was it you just liked to experience that? It was amazing, you know, I didn't really know that it was happening until probably the fifth inning. I was too focused on trying to get myself right, you know, because early on I was walking a few guys and didn't even really feel like great. And then it all just kind of clicked in the fifth inning and everything started feeling better. I looked up, there was no hits and there were some amazing plays being made behind me as well. How about the 16 strikeouts and seven innings? How about that game? Yeah, that was a special game. It was one of those where I came out of the gates and I knew that I had a special fastball that day. And they just couldn't catch it. You know, no matter what they did, they just could not catch up to it. I felt like I could just throw a fastball at the top of the zone and I was gonna put it by him every single time. You know, and I mixed in a few cutters and curveballs but it was a lot of fastballs and it was just explosive that day. They had no chance. Now you said you didn't watch a lot of sports because you were out there playing, but was there a mentor? Was there somebody you tried to pattern yourself off of as you were growing up as a pitcher? My two favorite guys growing up were Randy Johnson and Andy Pettit. Those were my guys. I really enjoyed watching Randy's stuff, you know. Man, that explosive fastball on the slider and then Andy Pettit, I just enjoyed watching everything about him, how he carried himself, how he competed. He was just, he was the best. Now, this previous season, the numbers were good. You threw 160 innings, but you probably gave up more home runs than you wanted to. What do you think happened there and how do you correct that? Because you're pitching at a ballpark, now half your games, that does yield home runs. Right, yeah. You know, I did give up more home runs last year than in previous years. I think leaving a few things at the top of the zone made a few more mistakes than I would have liked to. Got, I think, a little distracted at times when I shouldn't have, and that's things that I'm, you know, working on remedying for next year and I'll be ready to go. Do you have to make adjustments ballpark to ballpark? Like you said, the short porch at Yankee Stadium obviously doesn't affect you as much being a lefty, but are you conscious of the size of the ballparks? Fenway, you know, if the occasional time you pitched in Philadelphia, the places that do give up a lot of home runs?  I'm going to do what I have to do at certain times or maybe times where I'm going to pitch guys more away or more inside if they're looking to go that way. That's more just kind of reading swings and all what God's trying to do against me. What are we looking for, number wise, with the Yankees? I'm looking to stay healthy and I'm looking to help the team make the postseason and win a championship. You know, I can't promise any results, but I can promise you you're going to get everything I've got. Well, I actually, because I'm a jerk, I actually made the number on your back. What kind of number do you want? Because there's not a lot of numbers available. Yeah, no threes, no fives, no fours. Yeah. Number 65 in Seattle and I feel like that's a pretty rare number. Yeah. I think that might still be available. Yeah, Phil Hughes used it and they have not retired it, so I think you can get it. All right, that sounds good. Now you went to the University of Kentucky. Any interaction at all with Coach Cal? No, I never did have any interaction there. I have heard that he is a Yankee guy though, so I'm sure I'll get a chance to meet him. Did you go to Roperino Law or you just locked in on the baseball part? I was pretty focused, locked in on the baseball part, tried to be good in school too in my classes and stuff like that. I did make it to a few games, for sure. It was a great place to watch basketball, great basketball program there, but I wasn't a regular, that's for sure. They seem so committed to the art of baseball. As you said, you didn't watch a lot of games, you're out playing. So how does James Paxton just kind of relax? What are things you're into other than baseball? Well, I'm married, hang out with my wife. I'm off the time with her. I like fishing, I've gone into that. I've done a few fishing trips this off season. That's kind of what I do to relax. And, you know, like movies, yeah, just enjoying time with friends and family as well. Might be a good idea not to fish in the East River. That's probably our... Depends on what you're fishing for. Yeah. It's a very good point though. Very good point.  Look forward to meeting you and hope you and your wife and your extended family have a happy Thanksgiving and welcome to New York. You bet, thanks for having me guys. Happy Thanksgiving to you too. I thank you. That's James Paxton, the newest Yankee pitcher, 30 years old, and he'll be wearing number 65 and the big maple, part of the big apple.


Hello again Freedom Family, my name is Benjamin, music composer and coordinator at Freedom. This week I wanted to share an EDM piece and divert a bit from my traditional orchestral works. This piece, Bruised Fingers, was written about around when I had first arrived in the Philippines after my composing station was moved to a less private area. The title and theme of the piece is that people in the office are rather vigorous typists, and I imagine that if they were typing hard enough they may actually have very bruised fingers. It was kind of a joke for me. Anyway, this piece is also one of the first ever EDM pieces that I created. It features instruments similar to the instruments that I used in Creatures of the Night in the opening, but quickly diverts to a more trap dub style. The rapid sounds of the marimba with the clinking away of the cymbal arm represent the typing of the fingers. Enjoy the clip of this piece, and remember that you can download this piece by clicking the I on the screen. Full clip of this piece being created, click the I on the screen. Thanks for watching everyone, and we'll see you next week. Music Factory Music is 100% safe to use in your videos and live streams. Even if you decide to leave freedom, and that's because we own all of the music in our catalog outright so there's never any risk of you getting a copyright or monetization strike. Where do you get this music? Click the link down below in the description, and you will find a link to the Music Factory and Video Factory, which contains assets like this transition free for you. To get more Benjamin, click the big F. That will take you to the Freedom Central page where you can subscribe and watch all of the episodes of Behind the Music. Also, we are looking for composers to join us, so if you click that video, you will be taken to a video where we explain all about the Music Factory project and how composers can join us and start earning revenue today. Thanks for watching.


Tessal and Tefal in English-speaking countries. Most native speakers of English who take a Tefal or Tessal course do so as a means to travel to foreign countries. Bear in mind that you don't need to leave home to make the most out of your qualification. There are a wide range of teaching opportunities in countries where English is the first language and working in your home country can be a great way to gain experience before heading overseas or to find a job after being away for a year or more. Let's take a look at the kinds of Tessal jobs available in a variety of English-speaking countries. The United States of America. The majority of language schools and tutoring agencies only require a Tessal or Tefal certificate. Most jobs will be reserved for U.S. citizens. Due to strict immigration policies, teachers of other nationalities will struggle to find legal work in the U.S. Government schools will require a state licensure and Tessal Tefal certification. The majority of language schools and tutoring agencies only require a Tessal or Tefal certificate. Most jobs in the private sector are part-time and paid hourly. Volunteer teaching positions generally have lower requirements for English teachers. Canada. Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto offer the largest number of teaching opportunities. The chances of finding work are best for Canadian citizens, but citizens of Commonwealth countries may have better chances than others. To take part in government-run programs, you must be a Canadian citizen or resident. The Canadian government's Odyssey program places English-speaking assistants in classrooms in French-speaking Canadian schools. United Kingdom. The large number of immigrants from Eastern Europe means there are plenty of opportunities for English teachers. The U.K. is a popular destination for students on study holidays looking to improve their English. Temporary jobs become widely available in the spring, in preparation for the many summer camps. Non-EU citizens will find it difficult to find work as some schools are not prepared to go through the complicated process of hiring non-EU teachers. Teaching exchange programs are one way for non-EU citizens to find work in the U.K. Your local British consulate should be able to provide information about these programs. Employment opportunities are best for those with qualified teacher status or postgraduate certificate in education. Ireland. These jobs can be found with private language schools where courses can cover general English to business English. Private classes are great ways to supplement your income and you can advertise your services locally. E.U. Passport holders do not require a work visa and will have better chances at finding work than those from non-EU countries. Non-EU teachers should consider one of the work abroad programs Ireland offers for students. Australia. Due to its location, Australia is a popular destination for Asian students on study holidays. Government programs aimed at the Aboriginal population are also a source of employment opportunities. Australia's TESOL industry is highly regulated and both public and private sectors meet high standards. Government schools and intensive English centres require a bachelor's degree in education plus TESOL certification. Private language and tutoring schools and other organisations running part-time English courses have differing requirements. Australia's one-year working holiday visa means citizens of Britain, Canada and Ireland who are under 31 years of age can work in Australia for a limited time at each employer. New Zealand. The majority of teaching jobs will be found in the main urban centres of Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. Private language schools offer the best employment opportunities for English teachers. Primary and secondary schools will require at least a bachelor's degree in education and a TESOL certificate. Most private language schools will only require a TESOL certificate. New Zealand citizens will be given preference for most jobs but citizens of Commonwealth countries may also have a good chance of finding work. Citizens of Commonwealth countries who are 30 years old or younger can apply for a working holiday visa.


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The Cube, an open-stack summit at Lata 2014, is brought to you by Brocade. Say goodbye to the status quo and hello to Brocade. And Red Hat. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman. Okay, welcome back everyone. This is day three of continuous coverage. This is The Cube, it's our flagship program. We go out to the advanced extract of sinful noise. I'm John with Stu Miniman. Stu, day three kickoff here inside The Cube. We're trying to extract the signal from the noise. Certainly a lot of noise going on. Certainly a lot of Kool-Aid being passed around. A lot of discussions, we've been breaking it down. We've talked to all the thought leaders. Executives, vendors, bloggers, podcasters, Stu. So a lot of action happening. HP had their event last night. Cisco's here in big presence. The Wall Street Journal news this morning saying that Red Hat is going to block support for anyone other than Red Hat's version of OpenStack. Kind of vague, but Wall Street Journal apparently has reviewed some documents. So that's news of this morning. But I think we're seeing full on FUD war going on here, Stu. I mean, that could mean anything. I mean, someone could have gotten a document saying hey, we're not going to support some compatibility issues. So it's unclear what that report says, but what is clear is that OpenStack's obviously booming. The hype is there, the people are working hard. What's your take on all this? Yeah, John, so first of all, we've said in a lot of ways, someone said in many ways that this feels like communism here. Everybody's kind of all together working towards a common cause, but when you do get underneath, there is some battles going on when HP made their announcement last week on Helion. Dell is pouncing on what they're doing. The news this morning, turns out to be true, is a little bit concerning. Red Hat, of course, has a great position in open source, and from what I've seen, they're very much supporting lots of different clouds. Of course, they're on AWS, they're recently announced to support it on Google's cloud, and they're trying to be the leader in OpenStack, but they can't not support their customers if they choose other distributions. That's just kind of poor behavior in the community. Yeah, I mean, ultimately, OpenStack is about openness, and I think having interoperable clouds is a pretty critical thing, and I think one of the things that you start to see here is the movement back to silos that nobody wants that. So I'm really interested in the sea. I'm just commenting right now on the crowd chat about this. One is, what are the documents?  I mean, some sort of gets someone, you know, you get a document that says, oh, we're not going to support this kind of version of that. There's a lot of issues around total costs of ownership, too, which we talked about yesterday, and ultimately, that is going to be the ultimate end game for OpenStack. How much does it cost to run these clouds? And certainly, this Red Hat news is suspect at best. Apparently, Wall Street Journal does do a great job in journalism, they do review documents, so I'm not sure they're throwing any haymakers out there that hasn't been reviewed. So to me, I want to dig into that further until we get more. That's a developing story, and certainly we will be digging into that. But, Stu, let's talk about more going into the OpenStack. So one of the things that we talked about yesterday, and certainly we had Red Hat on, we heard what they said, and they're open.  We got our stuff, and we're going to just continue to execute that. But, you know, OpenStack is about the customers, and we've been looking for that. We haven't really seen that. And so there's also, where is the status of the community? So what's your take on this? You've been talking about a survey, about before we came on. What is going on in OpenStack? What are you finding? Yeah, so, John, we've been talking about that there's lots of different distributions out there, and everybody's trying to jockey for their positioning. The user server that came out, which the foundation does every six months, has a lot of meaty data. So going through real quick, 1,780 respondents and 506 of those have deployments. Jumping straight to what's happening, say, in the Linux space, Ubuntu is still the number one deployment out there, whether you're talking about development proof of concepts or production. But what's kind of interesting for me is if you take CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and put them together, because CentOS really took, Red Hat, I don't know if they bought CentOS really, we talked about it at Red Hat Summit, they kind of, you know, hired some of the lead developers and are actively engaged in the piece of it. So I would put it under the Red Hat umbrella. If you combine those number two and number three operating systems, it's real close to being number one from a storage standpoint. Ceph is number two on the list and of course they bought Ink Tank recently and Gluster's there. So Red Hat is positioning themselves, buying some of the pieces to position themselves in the ecosystem. But if I look at those deployments, John, out of 500, it's split pretty evenly between Dev and QA proof of concept and production. And when I look at it from six months ago, it's a similar mix of customer size, although we are starting to see at least some productions at scale. People have been questioning, you know, when we get into that production, are they all the kind of one to 100 cores and there are some that are doing thousands of cores out there. So, you know, it is in production in some really large environments out there, which is a good proof point for the ecosystem of open staff.  That seems like a really good move. I mean, they're well positioned now with that. What's your take on that? Yeah, absolutely. You know, Ceph has been, you know, growing in importance in open stack and red hats, you know, putting the wood behind the arrow to get into that space. So, you know, I think that'll be important. Just one more piece on the survey, which I think ties back to the Ink Tank piece. Most deployments are really on-premises. Out of the 506, almost half of those are on-premises and another, so 224 on-premises, another 65 are hosted private clouds.  So, you know, as customers help build the tool sets that are going to, you know, give them good economics to deploy these solutions. You know, Ceph is in that mix and it's a good tool that's been growing in popularity. You know, we have the comments out coming to crowdchat.net slash open stacks. If you're watching this, go there. We had a lot of folks on there that had about 100 concurrence do on there reading the text. It's a great transcript. We're watching that feed and commenting there and recording that conversation with our new crowdchat engagement app. That's a container. It's fully active. It's across a multiple social networks. So, go to the crowdchat and comment and please weigh in. Stu, I've got to talk about the HP IBM presence here.  So, I also want to get your take on the big guys that are here. Obviously, the leadership is significant. Certainly, the investment, HP, high-quality company, certainly having a great event last night. What's the impact of the big guys? And also, talk about the, what's going on with the bloggers here. What's the state of the bloggers? All right, so, it's a partial question. So, first for the big guys, definitely John, you know, I mean, Sarr came on here and said there's 300 people from HP here. My understanding, Rackspace has about 200 people here.  I know it was over 100. You know, Cisco's got a decent-sized contingency here. Heck, even EMC, who doesn't have a booth, has 35 people here, and VMware has 30 people.  Get to the second part of your question.   You know, a lot of us look at the big public clouds, what's happening with Amazon, and the like.     See, they'll talk about the OpenStack deployments. What are you, what's your take on this, and talking to the folks here, and also we've had all the guests on. What's your take of the current build-out status? What do these, quote, new deployments look like? What are you seeing, common threads, and common deployments, low hanging fruit? What does an architecture look like? Can you share some color on what you're seeing? Yeah, so, John, I think the service friders are where there is, you know, just an easy win. Because these are the companies that, you know, are growing at such a fast pace that they need to adopt, you know, new technologies and new solutions, and they're willing to take those risks, John. When we've had conversations with people, the technology, you know, there are challenges, but that might be the easy part. So, you know, a service provider can have new operational models, and they can build out either a new data center or a new part of their data center with these new operational models. And that's what it takes, is getting yourself wrapped around that new mindset. And while I can take some of my legacy hardware and layer open stack on top of it, it's a little tougher to do, so there need to be services, and I need to get my people engaged on this.  So, Stu, this is day three of coverage. What have you learned so far in the first two days? So, John, we said many times, you know, there's momentum. If you really look at, you know, the ecosystem and all the players that have come on board, you know, open stack is very important as to what's going on. And, you know, it is starting to transition into kind of usage and deployments. What we are starting to hear some early stories as to what people are using, and, you know, love documenting, you know, the more information and getting more users that are talking about these deployments so that they can learn from their peers. So, learned a lot. You know, I still have a dose of healthy skepticism as to, you know, what it's going to take to, you know, really bring open stack to the masses, because for me today, it's not as simple or easy because it's not just a product, John. It's still a lot of different projects that are in various states of deployment. You know, some of the basic things like, you know, the Cinder and Swift are in real good shapes, things like networking, which we're going to dig into today.  Let's do this. It's day three. We're going to kick it off right now. We would not be here if it wasn't for Red Hat support and Brocade who have stepped up and sponsored the queue and all the greatness we do. We work hard. We stay out late to get the stories. We work hard interviews. Many people we can extract the signal from the noise and it wouldn't be possible without the underwriting support of our friends who support our mission to go out and extract that signal, go to the events, go where the actions happen, and go where the bombs are dropping, where the hard ball is being played. We'll do whatever it takes. This is theCUBE. I want to thank Brocade and Red Hat for that. This is theCUBE day three coverage. We'll be right back with our first guest right after this short break.


And that's just one of it. The 1619 project. It's lies. And the lies are being taught in schools. Feminism. I highly encourage you to take a look at my video, The Birth of Feminism, and I start in Roman times and we go up to 1848. The primary claim of feminism at the Declaration of Sentiments in the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Their primary purpose there was to establish permanently the idea that women were oppressed on all sides by men throughout history. They were not even concerned about the vote. Most people are under this impression that big feminist movement started up because women didn't have the vote, men had the vote. Look, men didn't have the vote either. Men generally in the world got the vote maybe a decade or less before women did and only because they died by the millions in the wars. And the governments at that time felt that they could not justify not giving men the vote who had gone off and died to protect the very country they couldn't have a say in. Women got the vote for free. And today in the US, you guys probably know this, men still do not have universal suffrage, universal franchise. You have to sign up for selective service to be allowed to vote. Women do not. Only women in the US have the universal right to vote. Okay, men do not. But up to 1848, the only reason the right to vote was put in there is because a guy named Frederick Douglass objected as a black man. And get this. Okay, I hope I'm not taking up too much time here because they get me in a passion here. 1840, there was an abolition convention. And Elizabeth Stanton, newly married, went to that convention but was not allowed to sit in the prestige seating.  She was not allowed to sit in a prestige seating at an abolition conference that she had a passion about abolitionists. That was why she created the 1848 convention not because she wanted to vote.  So she created her own conference where she could be front and center. Okay, and get this. It gets worse. The whole movement, people with suffrage and women's rights and black rights, they were all part of the same group. They communicated with each other. So it was a black man who got the right to vote put in the Declaration of Sentiments as a concern. The white women were not concerned with the right to vote and the reason is women have always influenced government through their brothers and fathers. It's called the Petticoat Parliament. You're probably familiar with the term. So women always felt that they didn't need the vote because they ran the men. Okay, imagine a guy. He's a lead politician. He may be president. He goes into Parliament or he goes into the White House. He does something in law and public that his wife doesn't like. Now he goes home and every day he goes into bed and his wife pesters him. He didn't like what he did. What is he going to do in office?  No, and all his wife's friends and all their social gatherings and all the women beating him up and harassing his friends? No, that's the Petticoat Parliament. Women were not concerned about the right to vote because they already influenced government before they had the right to vote. But they refused. I'm going to stop there because there's a lot more to this. Your gentleman, I was going to have to stop because we're literally about three minutes. Let's go around the horny on the panel with you guys. Last 30 seconds, what would you leave the audience with and what will continue in order along the panel? We're having all these conversations about feminism. It really has been a big part of the conversation this week. I don't want anybody to take our position, our stance or even just the information that's exposing what's going on as a complaint. We're not coming from a position of weakness here. It's a position of, we need to see. This needs to be exposed. We need to see it for what it really is because there is a tendency for people who are not schooled or aware of the things that we're talking about to say, well, what's the big deal? Why are you whining? Why don't you just do something about it in your life? Well, the whole idea is that we've been brainwashed. We're dead asleep. Our eyes are closed. People just don't know. And so this is a position of strength. This is a position of wake up. This is the position of we've got to do something about this otherwise we're all going to suffer. Feminism is not good for women at all. It's about hatred towards the family and women suffer. When their children suffer because the family is a sacred unit. And so ultimately this is for everyone to have a better future and for our families to have a better future. Jack, you're up. Yep. I'll just bank off of that and say one of the things that I've noticed is that feminism always talks about making women have, adding value to them. And men used to look at a woman and say, I want a wife who's going to help me make a family. And the funny thing is that women have devalued themselves and now they're just sex objects.  So that's something that you rarely hear is that you've made yourself objectified because you had a role before. But like Elliot said, this is about making men better. It's just important to understand the problems that come with feminism because they're all woven into the culture. And so the real focus I think of this conference, it always has been to make men stronger, to make them better at everything, aspect of life. Welcome back to the 21 convention second patriarch edition live in Orlando, Florida. Welcome to the 22 convention. Welcome back to the 21 convention, 2020 of Orlando, Florida, being held for the first time ever at our very first and inaugural 21 summit event. Welcome to 21 summit in Orlando, Florida. Well, here we go. Risked again with the 22 convention, the patriarch and 21 convention, all three stages together in one event. Not only did we sit down and say, we're going to come together and meet in mass, but we're going to take it a step further. We are going to dare have a conversation about the sexes openly, honestly, and engage the women that have been. Like I am amazed that I'll well this one. We did a brand new event. We did the second patriarch and we did the main event for the 19th time. It's so much more than sitting in an audience, watching a man on a stage, the conversations in the hallways, the connections that people make, the challenging, the collaborations. And that's what we need. It all starts with men and it's not just men. That's what I like about this. You know, we don't want to like overreact.  That's not it. This is about men getting their act together, doing what they're made to do. You had meals. You had to run security. You had to run travel plans. You had to ensure people were where they needed to be. Three stages, cameras everywhere, and it was pulled off with flawless execution. It's evolved so much. I really appreciate how Anthony has allowed you speakers to evolve and to grow and to share that and to encourage that with all the other men here. To hear so much talk on family and fatherhood. There's more depth. There's more room for who they could be. Is the word patriarch ear patriarch offensive to you in any way? Not to me personally. Okay. Not at all. It's something that I cherish it. I love it. I grew up wanting it. You cherish the patriarch. I do. In mansplaining news, a three-day conference for women led by men hopes to make women great again. Women need to be taught how to be great again. Not my words. We do. It's like how to land a husband. How to lose weight.  Why do men think they need to fix the problems of women? Well, it says the world's ultimate event for women. In Orlando, Florida, that's going to be the scene of the crime. It's mansplaining palooza. Say no to the toxic bullying feminist dogma. Patriarchy is the future. It's good to see it in person. It's just, until I got here and saw it, and you can see the people in the audience, you see the men that are here committed to listening. I mean, it's just changed my idea of what the conference is. The professionalism, the staff, the way everything is organized. It's given me a different perspective about this particular idea, and I'm ready to put some more fire into it. Welcome to Dream World, ladies and gentlemen.


I'm Marlene McCohen, and this is Vinny. I said that I would never introduce a bird first, but Vinny is a bird on his own. Vinny is a bird on his own. First of all, let me tell you something. No, I'm just going to hear you. It's not even. I don't have another guest. It's just me and Vinny today, guys. There's three things wrong with this right now. Number one, I got to introduce second Brian to a bird again. OK. And number two, he's all talking to me. Yeah. How's this happening? Because he's excited. Vinny's sound like Sammy Davis, Jr. or something. OK. And what y'all didn't see is before she let him out, this is the only bird she brought to the show in a cage. Why was that bird caged up? Everyone else gets to fly around freely and hang out and kick it and eat stuff, pencils and such. But this one was in a cage. Can you explain to me why? Yeah. The reason Kenny, by the way, my co-host, Kenny is because I didn't know what you were going to do. And I didn't want him to attack you. OK. See? No, you know what? Actually, we build up because he's a gangster, which is part of the Vinny gang. We build him up that way. Oh, they got a little shirt. You know what? I will give him that. I will say the pink and gray is a nice collaboration for him color-wise. Did he come like that? Or did you spray paint him? Or do they do that? Stop, Kenny. What? Come on. You know how you see people's dogs? Where do you put the different? He's really a pink bird. He's a real pink bird. That's nice. I like that. What do you think of that Vinny? Do you think he's smarter? Oh, now he's quiet. Wow, he's silent. He's quiet now, right? I told him if he doesn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Yeah. How long have you had Vinny? Oh, I don't know. Just a minute. Oh, really? That's how many years? Just a minute. You don't know. It's like Groot. You don't know what he's saying for real, probably.  I definitely have no idea.  Oh, yeah, birds can do that. You want to know? Did you know that, Brian? No. See what I'm saying? We don't know all these things here. He doesn't look behind them. I wanted to surprise you. I didn't want him. I didn't want to bring him out. And I really wanted your first reaction to this, because you didn't see him when you were at my house. No, no, no, no. It's cool, but that's a lot of us. He'll start. The reason he's here today is because later on in the show, we're going to have Brandon from Box of Beets on. And Vinny just loves Brandon. He absolutely loves Brandon. And Brandon, all my pets love him. Nice, like Ace Ventura. Like when you were at my house, what'd you say? He's like Ace Ventura. Yeah, also we have some pictures of you when you were at my house. You did very well with all of the animals. I liked to think I was, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you did not meet Vinny. I didn't. And Vinny. And so I thought the safest person to bring on when Vinny is on the show is Brandon. OK. So Brandon Beatbox, does Vinny join in? Yes, yes, that's how I met Brandon, actually. Through Vinny? Did he find him? And brought him to you? I want to tell you how. OK. My friend was, I guess he saw Brandon somewhere and he posted Brandon or shared one of his posts on how incredible Brandon was. And I messaged my friend. I said, this is going to sound really crazy. But if you're friends with this guy, is there any way you could ask him if he would come over and beatbox for my bird? That's very random. Right. And can you imagine getting a text from somebody saying, hey, my friend wants you to go beatbox for their bird? I mean, the crazier part is he said, OK. Right. He said, absolutely. That's crazy to me. Yeah. So he did. He came and right away they hit it. This was before Brandon was on TikTok, actually. But that was for you did that just because you wanted your bird to hear some beatboxing? But that was for content-wise, I'm assuming. It was for content beatboxing. He said beatboxing. It's because Vinny loves beatboxing. And right. That's right. You tell him. And don't you be amused by his words? You know what he's saying? I heard that one. Yeah. If you get hyped, he's going to get hyped. And he's going to talk over you. It's something about you can't do. You can not get hyped around birds. I got to every time. Around cocker. Are you excited? Yeah. OK. So the thing was that I knew it would make great content because obviously he was extremely talented. Yeah. I wanted to share him with my audience. But Vinny likes beatboxing. And when I beatbox for him, it's just it does. It doesn't impress him. I'm sure it doesn't. It does not. OK. And so he was real. I mean, this bird goes and finds things to make beats on. Oh. Thanks for real. Yeah. Thanks for real. Yeah. OK. I just got in a piece of paper. Yeah. You see that? He's meant to be in life like he dropped an album. And I actually it's on SoundCloud. And I actually called Brandon. OK. And I said, Brandon, can you do like a collab with Vinny and lend your vocals to him? He said yes. He did. And so he must love birds. He, when you beat Brandon, his soul just shows. I have a lot of questions about these things now. Because this is an interesting beginning origin story. It is. And this is not like the story of somebody right on time that came to beatbox for Vinny. He made an entire career. Like he's got a show coming up. Oh, nice. He became famous on TikTok. Like just unbelievable. Well, we got him coming soon. We are. Stay tuned. We coming in a little bit. Yeah, that's a lot. Keep going. Yeah, keep going.  Vinny, Vinny, drop. There he goes.