Well, locals gathered at the Bemidji Public Library to learn about some of the haunted places in Minnesota. For this week's community spotlight, Haiti Clotter shows us how Bemidji is not afraid to experience strange phenomena. If you've ever wondered about Minnesota's most renowned haunted places and have no fear because Stately Spirits, stories, legends and tales from haunted places is here. It all took place at the Bemidji Public Library. As long as you're going on a road trip, you might as well have something interesting to do on the way there, on the way back. There are marvelous books written by wonderful authors that have all sorts of great haunted locations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, etc. Robert Holbrook has done these programs for more than 20 years and also presents the show for the community to take advantage of library resources. I learned about more of the ghost stories that I knew, although I had known several of them and have some of my own. I found out more about them. The program is recommended for anyone aged 10 and up. Audience members went on a journey from Minneapolis to St. Paul and heard stories about a woman searching for her lost love until she finds him deceased. Some of the tales of spirits are derived from Bemidji and surrounding areas. They say it's haunted. I'm willing to believe it, okay? So yes, it could be right here in Bemidji. Over in Walker, there's the chase, I think it's called the Chase Hotel, okay? There are ghost stories all around. You just have to keep your ears open. The interactive hour-long show includes participation from the audience. Here they demonstrate the different tools ghost hunters used, for example, a K2 meter. Actual artifacts from different locations that Holbrook mentioned are a part of the show like thermometers and a safety coffin. The show is not only a place to hear ghost stories, but it's also a place to share them. It also teaches people about the unknown history. The program is funded to preserve Minnesota's arts and cultural heritage for this week's community spotlight in Bemidji, Haiti-Clauder, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


So you've created a map and you are ready to export it, but you want to make sure that you do it right, not a problem. In the next 60 seconds, you will never wonder about exporting ever again. Alright, let's do this. Once you have your map, go to UV, export UV layer and find a spot on your computer to save it. Check all UVs and set it to PNG.  Now, when saving image files, you always want your dimensions to be a power of 2. I won't explain the technical reasons, but just know that computers work in bytes and bytes work in powers of 2. If you don't save your dimensions in a power of 2, the computer will stretch the image data to round up to the nearest power of 2 anyway. So you have been warned. If you are using the Japanese method like I am, you are going to want to pick the smallest size possible that can still look good. In my personal game that I just released on Steam, most of my files were 128, 256, and the largest was 512. But you are free to use any size or combination of sizes that you want. Just make sure that the length and the width are both a power of 2. After you have selected your size, click export UV layout, you're done. Hope that helps. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to like and subscribe. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Well, if you were phoning someone in another province, you'd try not to talk too long because you were sent a bill. But that's the only way they could communicate, apart from writing letters and everyone wrote letters. I don't know if you've seen the old phones, they were made of wood with a dialing system. And you'd ring like if you were phoning someone 223 or something, well, you'd two rings and then three. Separate the calls. Well, if the line was busy, you had to wait till that line cleared. You'd hear them talking. Yeah.


Golwch, ond ganwch yn byw. Dyna ni gyd, môl o'r drafod hwn nifer o unrhyw. Rwy'n credu'r ddweud gennych Ff內 Wesapartric yn ystyried hwnnw, yn ystafell sydd daddwyrr yn adroddiadau yr oedd Llywodraeth Cymru, o wahol y Llywodraeth yn ysgrifennu Llywodraeth Cymru. Felly, yn gyntaf y dwylo, rwyf i hi'n clywed i'w ddweud i'r ddydd ganri, i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddwylo.  Ar gyfer y cyf abusedun i chi'n gwneud i chi gael i chi gael? Adu i chi gael i'n gwneud i chi i chi gael i chi gael i chi gael i chi, of transvaginal mesh implants, since the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-being called for this on 17 June 2014. I recently met women who have experienced complications and have asked that the acting chief medical officer writes again to health boards this week, requesting that they consider suspending these procedures until the independent review has reported. The CMO originally wrote to health boards in June 2014, requesting this following the former Cabinet Secretary's decision regarding these procedures. In requesting this, I recognise that a small number of women having discussed options with their clinician will still want to proceed. That may be because they are experiencing extremely difficult symptoms. In those instances, the women's concern must fully consent to be completely aware of the risks and having considered alternatives. I have also requested that health boards follow a protocol to provide assurance that this process is being followed in every case. I will be working with women concerned to develop an outline protocol. Jenny Marr. I think that it is fair to say, Presiding Officer, that there is extreme confusion as to what the Scottish Government's position is over this, because women left Parliament last June, understanding that the then health secretary found these operations to be completely unacceptable and understood that no more would happen. We found that since then, 166 operations have taken place. This weekend, Shona Robison seems to have guaranteed Scottish women that they will not now take place. Will any more mesh operations take place in Scotland, and is her guarantee any firmer than the one given last June by her predecessor? There is no confusion other than perhaps in the mind of Jenny Marr, and let me explain why that is. Since 17 June, until the end of September last year, health boards carried out 76 mesh implant procedures for stress, urinary and continence, while the numbers for pelvic organ prolapse are too small to report due to the risk of disclosure. Prior to that request to suspend health boards, we are carrying out around 1,500 mesh implant procedures annually for stress, urinary and continence, and 350 procedures for prolapse. There has been a dramatic reduction in those number of procedures. As I explained in my first answer, where women who ask for this procedure to be carried out in consultation with their clinician, aware of all the risks and having explained to them what the alternatives are, decide in that full knowledge that they want to proceed, then there is nothing that we can do to stop that. It is very important that the women that I met with understood that fully. In fact, that is why they took part in drafting the patient information leaflet so that the women concerned would have that full information to be able to make an informed decision. The women that I met with fully understood that. That is why, of course, we are going to make sure that the protocol is followed, because I want to make sure that in every case it is informed consent. That is why, in agreement with the women that I met with, they wanted to make sure that there was a protocol and wanted to be involved in the development of that protocol. Further and finally on this, the regulation of medical devices, including implants, is reserved to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. That is the body responsible for regulating all medical devices in the UK. They have not banned mesh implants. In fact, they have said that there is no evidence that these implants are unsafe, so they are not a banned product. Because of that, while we can ask health boards to suspend, and that would be my preference, where a woman explicitly asked for this procedure in consultation with her clinician, in full awareness of all the risks with informed consent, that is what should happen. The women that I met with fully understood that. John Scott Thank you, Presiding Officer. Given the growing number of compensation claims in America, does the cabinet secretary share my concerns about potential compensation claims in Scotland, especially in the light of several health boards having ignored? I let Neil's advice to stop such operations, 166, of which have taken place since that advice was given. I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to pass judgment on compensation claims. That is obviously a legal matter. John Scott will be aware that the independent review is looking at all of the evidence that is looking at the work that the EU has carried out and will be reporting in May. Our suggestion to boards is that the suspension of procedures should be in place until that report comes in May. As I explained in my answer to Jenny Marra, where a woman wants to go ahead with that procedure, which is a procedure that is not banned and the MHRA is the regulatory body overseeing those procedures and has said in their view that there is no evidence that those implants are unsafe, with that explicit informed consent and aware of all the risks, there is nothing that a clinician can do to say no to that woman as long as she is absolutely clear. That is why the protocol that we are developing at the moment is to make sure that that conversation is absolutely clear about alternatives, about risks and it is fully informed consent. In May, when we get the independent review, I will be happy to come back to Parliament and inform members of what that review says and the action that we would take from then on in. Last week, the petitions committee heard that several multimillion-pound payouts have been made in the United States, while mesh is still being used. What assessment has the Scottish Government made of the risk to NHS finances of similar action being taken here? How many cases have been lodged in the courts? Will she publish in space the Scottish Government's risk assessment of both the procedure itself and the financial implication for the Scottish health service? Finally, if everyone understood the policy in June, why is she re-announcing the same policy in March? As I said to John Scott, I am not going to comment on compensation claims. That is for a matter outwith this chamber. However, as I have said to Jenny Marra and John Scott, the MHRA, which regulates medical devices, has not banned this product, so it is a product that is available. Therefore, I have explained in quite a lot of detail today under what circumstances, in terms of clinical judgment, if the member would allow me to finish without interruption, that would be helpful. The very clear procedures for agreement of informed consent to that procedure and Neil Findlay should be aware that women have actually been writing to us saying that they have benefited from this procedure. The reason that we have asked for the suspension is that, in the light of the independent review, we believe that we need to look at all the evidence and come to some conclusions. That will be happening in May. The chief medical officer wrote again to boards to remind them of our position. We think that it would be better for boards to suspend those procedures, but we recognise that the individual women will have the right to ask for that procedure to take place. As long as it is informed consent, knowing all the risks, with the protocol that I have described, that is the way that we will proceed. Is the cabinet secretary aware that Dr Maguire of the MHRA last week gave evidence to Parliament expressly declined to support her call for a moratorium? In support, he cited a report in October 2012, which turned out to be a short review conducted by three people and led by a librarian in 2012, two years earlier. Does she agree that she has the unequivocal support of us all in this chamber in that the precautionary line that she has adopted, which is to call for a moratorium on these operations, is evidenced by the many women in Scotland who have experienced dreadful difficulties and injuries as a result and that, frankly, the MHRA's reliance upon a two-year-old study, which was nothing more than a literary review, is quite disgraceful? Cabinet secretary, I am aware of the evidence that the MHRA gave to the committee. Clearly, we are not in control of the MHRA in terms of the report to the UK Government. They have the power over the regulation of medical devices. We do not have direct powers to remove mesh products from use in NHS Scotland. The MHRA has its position on this, which, at the moment, is that there is no evidence that those implants are unsafe. However, as you will be aware, there is a lot of other research going on. The EU is looking at this matter in detail. The independent review that we have commissioned and which will report in May will look at all of that and will help to guide where we go from there. As I have said to other members, I am more than happy to come back to the chamber in whatever format would be most appropriate to discuss the matter further at that point. I want to put on record my thanks to the women involved, who have done a tremendous amount of work on the patient information leaflet. They are working with us on the new helpline that NHS 24 will provide and are working with us on the protocol. I want to put on record my sincere thanks for them in the very difficult circumstances that they find themselves in. Question 2, Patrick Harvie. To ask the Scottish Government what concerns it has regarding reports that an anti-Muslim demonstration is to be called by an organisation describing itself as Pagida Scotland. Police Scotland's monitoring of social media has revealed that Pagida intend to hold a static demonstration in Edinburgh on the evening of Saturday 21 March. Police Scotland are taking this event very seriously and closely monitoring developments. Public safety is paramount, and those who seek to demonstrate must behave in a lawful manner or face prosecution. I spoke with chief superintendent Mark Williams, police commander for Edinburgh earlier today, and he has provided assurances that all steps are being taken to ensure that no issues arise out of Pagida's proposed demonstration. Police Scotland has powers available to them under the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that public safety is protected and that order is maintained. Those who seek to incite violence will be dealt with firmly and reported to the Crown. The Scottish Government fully supports Police Scotland in taking all appropriate and proportionate action required. I speak for all of my colleagues in the Scottish Government, and I am sure all members of the chamber when I say that we do not tolerate Islamophobia or any other form of hatred or hate crime. We will not tolerate extremists who peddle hatred under the guise of protecting society. I am grateful to the minister for his answer, and particularly the last part of it, which properly addresses the threat that those organisations pose across Europe. We have seen some Governments in Europe make the mistake of aping or giving ground to the hard right and racist xenophobic movements. That is a strategy that is doomed to fail. Others have given clear leadership and said that this movement is not welcome in our countries, and I hope that the Scottish Government will continue to do that. Given that the organisation expresses as part of its aim to ridd the islands of Islam, is it not clear that this is a movement that poses explicit threat to Muslim citizens in this country, and any organisation of this nature clearly raises public safety concerns that must be addressed and taken very seriously? The member raises an important point. The Muslim faith is an integral part of Scottish society, and it is part of the rich, multi-interfaith relationships that we have within Scotland, and it is an important part of Scottish society. Any organisation that seeks to unpick that or try to exploit it should not be tolerated in any shape or fashion, and it will certainly not be tolerated by the Scottish Government. Pachyda and the message that it seeks to peddle, the message of hatred that it seeks to peddle, should not be tolerated in any shape or fashion, and I can give the member and the chamber an assurance that Police Scotland will deal with this issue in a robust and proportionate way, but also as a Government. We are a Government that believe in a tolerant society, and the faith of Islam has an important part to play within Scottish society. Alongside the important work that will be taken forward by Police Scotland in dealing with this particular issue, we will also be to offer reassurance to those members of the Muslim faith within Scotland, and in particular within Edinburgh as well, prior to and after this particular demonstration. I can also give the member and the chamber an assurance that Police Scotland and the Scottish Government will provide the local community, the local Muslim community and the Muslim community in Scotland with all the necessary reassurance that they require. Patrick Harvie? I thank the minister again for that answer. Does he agree that many Muslims in this country and in many European countries not only feel under threat and marginalisation from these aggressive hostile movements against them, but also from an expectation that it is for them to continually apologise for acts of extremism that they have never sought to condone or support? Does he agree that it is something that the Scottish Government must work across departments, including with the Department of Education, to ensure that all young people growing up in Scotland are given a sense of an inclusive Scotland and one in which those values of tolerance and respect are important? It is not just about responding to the movement of hatred, but building an inclusive sense of the kind of Scotland that we wish to build in the future. Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport not only should we be robust in how we tackle issues of hatred in our society. Patrick Harvie is right that it is also about promoting community cohesion and partnership. That is an important element of the work that the Scottish Government takes forward in the GYR. Justice director and my colleague Alex Neil are helping to work in support with those in our faith groups in Scotland. Some of the meetings that I have already had with individuals in the Muslim community is about providing that reassurance, that the whole issue is not about Muslims having to apologise for their appalling behaviour in acts of barbarity by certain individuals and organisations who conduct these under the guise of being Islam or Muslims. It is about Muslims in this country being seen as being a valued member of our society and that they should not feel themselves in any way having to apologise for their appalling acts of other people in other parts of the world or even should ever come to our own shores. The work that myself and my colleague Alex Neil will be taking forward is to continue to offer that reassurance. I should also add that I think that our media is also an important part to play in getting that message across, not expecting Muslims in Scotland to apologise for the barbaric actions of those in other parts of the world. That is certainly the message that I have taken out to the Muslim community, and it is a message that the Government will continue to take out to the Muslim community as well. Does the cabinet secretary think that it would be entirely appropriate for the city of Edinburgh council to use whatever powers it has to prevent this demonstration taking place, giving that the whole purpose of it is to foster Islamophobia and to stir up hatred against thousands of Muslims who live in Scotland and who contribute so much to Scottish life? We have already been in contact with the Edinburgh city council on this matter, and they have had no contact from Peketa. The reason being is because it would appear that they are not intending to have a march as such for which they would require permission from the council. What I can assure the member of is that both Police Scotland, Edinburgh city council and the Scottish Government will take forward the measures that we consider to be appropriate. It is still an early stage in terms of having the full details of this, but from the discussion that I had with the chief superintendent today, you can be assured that both Police Scotland and Edinburgh city council are taking this matter very seriously and will take forward measures as they see appropriate when they get further information on the nature and the potential scale of this demonstration. Does the minister agree with me that, in the light of recent events of antisemitism and Islamophobia, that it is essential that we safeguard the freedom of speech and join me in commending the UK Government's work to ensure that all of us, regardless of religious or racial background, feel safe and respected in our country? I recognise that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right and we all have a duty to protect it, to respect it and to uphold it. However, I should also add that it is not an absolute right and it must not be exercised in such a way that it has an impact on the rights of others. That is why there is a clear difference between that of legitimate public protest and gatherings that, from gatherings that intend to stoke up racial hatred and to cause fear and alarm within our communities. There is a difference and that difference should be appropriately recognised. I associate myself with all that the cabinet secretary has said. On the point of freedom of speech, how do we get the right balance, does he think, between allowing freedom of speech and yet preventing hate speech from groups like that? There is no straightforward way in which to do that, as a member will properly recognise. Although in upholding that human right of freedom of speech and expression, it is not an absolute right that you can have disregard to the offence and injury that you may cause to another, particularly those who might wish to incite racial hatred and racial violence and to create fear and alarm within our communities. We have to make sure that we are alive to those issues and to respond to them at the appropriate time. What the member in this chamber can be assured of is that, where we believe, actions have been taken that are about promoting racism and about causing fear and alarm within our communities, appropriate measures will be taken both by law enforcement agencies and other partners who work to promote community cohesion within our communities and to make sure that communities and individuals do not feel alienated as a result of those types of events. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the research commissioned by the Welfare Reform Committee, which suggests that parents and disabled people are being hit hardest by the UK Government's welfare reforms. Minister Margaret Burgess, this report highlights the scale of the damage inflicted by the UK Government's cuts and changes and adds to the growing evidence base around the negative impacts of welfare reform in Scottish households. Those changes are placing parents and disabled people under intolerable strain as they struggle to cope with the changes being introduced. The Scottish Government is doing all that it can to help those affected, and we are investing around £296 million across 2013-14 to 2015-16 to limit the damage of the reforms. While we cannot fully mitigate all the effects of welfare changes within the powers and resources that we have, we will continue to make the argument for a fairer welfare system. The report gives further evidence that some of the most vulnerable members of society are losing out. Before we include the impact of harsher sanctions regimes, which we already know is increasing the impact on the incomes of lone parents and disabled people, does the minister agree with me that, given the scale of income that is lost through the benefit cuts, the UK Government must urgently investigate claims of DWP's imposed pressure on staff to apply benefit sanctions, sanctions that are quite clearly impacting on the incomes of the most vulnerable in Scotland? I certainly agree with the member. I think that we are in a situation where we have a Government in the UK that is so far removed from the reality of what is going on within communities throughout the country. We have a Government that will not accept the evidence that has been put in front of them regarding sanctions and food banks. We have organisation after organisation lining up to produce the evidence for the UK Government who refuses absolutely to accept it. We have even seen the churches intervening to say that some of the sanction regime in particular and the target set for it are inhumane, yet the UK Government still plows on. I would want to say that this Government is totally opposed to that and accepts that austerity does not reduce inequality. The minister may be aware of a recent article on the Scotsman poverty as a child protection issue, written by Harry Stevenson, who is president of the Social Work Scotland, in which he poses the questions. Can you imagine the despair of parents who are fully aware of being unable to meet the basic needs of their children? Can you imagine the impact of an indignity of living in long-term poverty? Most importantly, can you imagine the impact of children's confidence and self-worth? Given those comments, in addition to the growing evidence about welfare reform policies, what message has the cabinet secretary sent to those UK parties who voted for continued austerity in the UK budget? I could say very clearly that I would say to him to think again, but clearly that is why our First Minister argued last month that we need to bring an end to the austerity agenda of the Tories and Labour and instead increase public investment. By £180 billion compared to the Tory plans in the UK over the next four years, it is only by ending austerity that we will be able to bring an end to the need for food banks, an end to the suffering that people are having through the benefits sanctions. The Government wants to see the economy grow and reduce inequalities, and to do that we have to end austerity. Would the minister not agree with me that, while we all understand that welfare reform is a long and hard but necessary road, it is one that we must tread? Further, with regard to her comments regarding the use of sanctions, is it not appropriate to acknowledge that, in the previous cycle, sanctions peaked in 2007 under a Labour Government, and that that peak, while it was exceeded in 2013 and early 2014, now represents a peak that the use of sanctions has fallen off largely because of the will of those who claim benefits to abide by the rules and carry out the necessary requirements to seek work as part of the process? What I was saying to the member is that I do not believe that punishing people on benefit is the result, it gets the results that we are looking for. We want to encourage people to take up work and comply if they are able to do so. I have to say that the member is shouting across that it is working, but the evidence that we are getting from those in the front line and the stories that we are hearing and seeing in our constituencies' offices day and daily are telling me very clearly that it is not working. You do not force people to do something that is what the UK Government is trying to do. We know when we get churches saying that that is not right to standing up for the people because they see that it is not working. It is punitive, it is unfair, it is impacting in children, as Clare Adamson indicated in her question. It is impacting in children and it is impacting in the most vulnerable, so no, I do not agree with the member. Many thanks. That concludes topical questions. We now move to the next item of business, which is stage 3 proceedings on the welfare funds Scotland bill. In dealing with the amendments, members should have the bill as amended at stage 2.


Live from Toronto, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Futurist Conference 2018. Brought to you by theCUBE. Hello, everyone, welcome back. This is theCUBE's exclusive coverage here in Toronto for the Blockchain Futurist Conference. We're here all week. Yesterday we were at the Global Cloud and Blockchain Summit put on by Digital Bits and the community here is a big show around thought leadership around the future of Blockchain and where it's going. Certainly token economics is the hottest thing with Blockchain, although the markets are down, the market is not down when it comes to building things. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante, here with CUBE alumni and special guest, Arte Sani, who's the founder of Ho Show, doing a lot of work in security space and they have a conference coming up that theCUBE will be broadcasting live at Ho ShowCon this coming fall. It's in October, I believe. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you so much for having me. It was great to see you, man. What's the date of the event? Real quick, what's the date on your event? It's October 9th of the 11th, Hard Rock Hotel in Casino. We rented out the entire property. We want everyone to only bump into the people that we're inviting and that are coming. And the focus is Blockchain security. And we attend over 130 conferences a year and there's never enough conversation about Blockchain security. So we figured DevCon is still pure cybersecurity. DevCon from Ethereum is more for ethereum developers only and every other conference is more of a traditional Blockchain conference with ICO pitch competitions. We figured we're not going to do that and we're going to try to combine the worlds. DevCon meets DevCon vibe and have hackers welcome, have white hat hackers, host a bug bounty, invite white minds in this space like Max Kaiser and Stacey Herbert, the founders of the Tracer Wallet, RSA. You know, we've even invited everyone from our competitors to everyone in the media to everyone that are leading the Blockchain whole space. That's the way to run an event with community. Congratulations. Mark McAllen is everyone at Ho ShowCon coming up in October. I want to ask, I know Dave wants to ask you your trip around the world kind of questions but I want to get your take on something we're seeing emerging and I know you've been talking about I want to get your thoughts and reaction and vision on. We're starting to see the world, the losers go out of the market and certainly prices are down on the coins and the coins are a lot of tokens out there.  Any damn tokens. The losers are the only ones who borrowed money to buy a Bitcoin. Someone shorted Bitcoin. That's it. But there's a now an emphasis on builders and there's always been an entrepreneurial market here. Alpha entrepreneurs are coming into the space. You're starting to see engineers really building great stuff. There's an emphasis on builders, not just the quick hit ponies. So your thoughts and trend on that trend? It's during the down market that you can really focus on building real businesses that solve problems that have some sort of foresight into how they're going to make real money with a product that's built and tested and maybe even enterprise grade. And I also think that the future of fundraising is going to be security tokens and we don't really have a viable security exchange available yet, but giving away actual equity in your business through a security token is something very exciting for sophisticated investors to participate in this future tokenized economy. And you're talking about real equity, not just percentage of coin. Yeah, you know, actual equity in the business but in form of a security token. I think that's the future of fundraising to some extent. And is that a dual sort of, two vectors there? One is the value of the token itself and the equity that you get, right? Is that correct? I mean, you basically are getting equity in the company, securitized in token form and then maybe a platform like securitized or polymath, these security exchanges that are coming out will list them. And so I think that during the down markets when prices are down, again, I said before, the joke, but it's also the truth. The only people losing in this market are the ones who borrow to buy Bitcoins. The people who believe in technology remain to ignore the price more or less. And if you're focused on building a company, this is the time to focus on building a real business. A lot of times in an upmarket, you think you see a business opportunity just because of the amount of money should have surely available to be thrown at any project. You can ICO just about any idea and get a couple of million dollars of work on it. Not as easy during a down market, so you're starting to take a step back and ask yourself questions like, how do we hit $20,000 of monthly recurring revenue? And that shouldn't be such a crazy thing to ask when you go to Silicon Valley, unless you're two time exited or went to Stanford or you were an early employee at Facebook, you're not getting your first million dollar check for 15 or 20% of your business even until you make 20, 25K monthly recurring revenue. And I say this on stage at a lot of my keynotes and I feel like some people glaze their eyes over, like obviously I know that, the majority are running an ICO where they're nowhere close to making 20K monthly recurring. And when you say, what's your project? They go, well, our latest traction is that we've closed about 1.5 million in our private pre-sale. It's like, that's not traction. You don't have a product built. You raise the money for people. And that's a dot com bubble dynamic where the milestone of fundraising was the traction and that really had nothing to do with building a viable business. And the benefit of blockchain is to do things differently but achieve the same outcome, either more efficient or faster in a new way, whether it's starting a company or achieving success. Yep, but at the same time, blockchain technology is relatively immature for some products to go, at least for the Fortune 500 today to go for them to take a blockchain project out of R&D to the mainstream isn't going to happen right now. And right now the Fortune 500 is investing into blockchain tech, but it's in R&D. And they're quickly and fastly training their employees to understand what is a smart contract? Who is Nick Zabo? When did he come up with this word, smart contracts? I was just previewed to seeing some training information for multiple Fortune 500 companies training their employees on what are smart contracts. Stuff that we read four or five years ago from Nick Zabo's essays is now hitting what I would consider the mainstream, which is mid-level talent, VP-level talent at Fortune 500 companies who know that this is the next wave. And so when we're thinking about fundraising, it's the companies who raise enough money are going to be able to survive the storm, right? Like in this down market, if you raise enough money in your ICO for this vision that you have, that's going to be revolutionary. A lot of times I read an ICO's white paper and all I can think is, well, I hope this happens because if it does, that's crazy. But the question is, did they raise enough money to survive? And so that's kind of another reason why people are raising more money than they need, right? Like they, do people need $100 million to do the project they need? I don't know. It's an arms race. But they need a last 10 years to make this vision come true. Hey, so I want to ask you about your whirlwind tour and I want to ask in the context of something we've talked about before. You mentioned on theCUBE, it's solidity, very complex and there's a lot of bugs and a lot of security flaws as a result in some of the code, a lot of the code. You're seeing people now try to develop tooling to open up blockchain development to Java programmers, for example, which is probably exacerbates the problem. So in that context, what are you seeing around the world? What are you seeing in terms of the awareness of that problem and how are you helping solve it? So starting with Fortune 500 companies, they have floors on floors around the world, full of Java engineers, full stack engineers who of course know Java, they know C sharp and they're prepared to build in this language. And so this is why I think IBM's Hyperledger went in that direction. This is why even some people have taken the Ethereum virtual machine and tried to completely rebuild it and rewrite it into functional programming languages like Clojure and Scala. Just so it's more accessible and you can do more as a functional programming language. Very few lines of code are equivalent to hundreds of codes and lines of code in linear languages. And in functional programming languages, things are concurrent and linear and you're able to build large scale enterprise great solutions with very small lines of code. So I'm personally excited, I think, about seeing different types of blockchains cater more towards Fortune 500 companies being able to take advantage right off the bat of rooms full of Java engineers. So the turn to teaching people solidity, it's been difficult. At least from the cybersecurity perspective, we're not looking for someone who's a software engineer who can teach themselves solidity really fast. We're looking for a cybersecurity QA-minded quality assurance mindset, OPSEC mind. Someone who has an OPSEC mindset to learn solidity and then audit code with a cybersecurity mindset. And we found that to be easier than an engineer who knows Java to learn solidity. And education is hard. We have a global shortage of qualified engineers in this space. So cybersecurity is a good crossover bridge to solidity. The skills matter.  It's the key is to start at the core. The key is to have a QA mindset and to have that mindset of actually doing quality assurance on code and finding vulnerabilities. Not as an afterthought. Yeah. There's a fundamental component of the development process. Because I can be a good engineer and make an app like Angry Birds, upload it. And even before uploading it, I'll get it audited by some third party professional. And once it's uploaded, I can fix the bugs as we go and release another version. Most smart contracts that have money behind them are written to be irreversible. So if they get hacked, money gets stolen. And so the mindset is shifting because of this space. All right, so on your tour, give us some, paint a picture. What did you see? You had an opportunity. First of all, how many cities? How long? So I just did about 80 days and it hit 10 countries. Most of it was between Europe and Asia. I'll start with saying that right now there's a race amongst smaller nations like Malta, Bermuda, Belarus, Panama, the island nations. Where they're racing to say that we have clarity on regulation when it comes to the blockchain, cryptocurrency industries. And this is a big deal, I'd say, mainly for cryptocurrency exchanges that are fleeing and navigating global regulation. Like in India, Uno Coins Bank has been shut down by the RBI. And they're going up against the RBI and the central government of India because as an exchange, their banks have been shut down and they're being forced to navigate waters in unique ways around the world globally. You have people like the world's biggest exchange at least by volume today is Binance. Binance has relocated a hundred people to the island of Malta, right? And it's for a small island nation that's still technically part of the European Union. They've made significant progress on bringing clarity on what is legal and what is not. Eventually they're saying they want to have a crypto bank. They want to help you go from IPO to ICO from the multi-stock exchange. Similarly, you also have Gibraltar and there's a law firm out there, Hassan's, which is like the best law firm in Gibraltar. And they have really led the way on helping the regulators in Gibraltar bring clarity. Both Gibraltar and Malta, what's similar between them is they've been home to online gambling companies, right? So a lot of online casinos have been in both of their markets. They've been very innovative in many different ways. And so even conversations with the regulators in both Malta and Gibraltar, you can hear their maturity. They're actually, they understand what a smart contract is. They understand how important it is to have a smart contract audited. They already understand that every exchange in their jurisdiction has to go through regular penetration testing. That if this exchange changes its code, that the code opens it up to vulnerabilities and that is the exchange going through penetration testing. And so the smaller nations are moving fast. So they're operationalizing it faster. Yeah. And hence the opportunity for them is the upside. My only fear is that they're still small nations. And maybe not what they want to hear, but it's the truth. Like operating in larger nations like the United States, Canada, Germany, even Japan, Korea, we need to see clarity in much larger nations. And I think that's something that's exciting, that's going to happen possibly after we have the blueprint laid out by places like Malta and Gibraltar and Bermuda. And what's the Wild West look like or Wild East, if you will, on Asia? A lot of activity because it's a free for all, but there's so much energy both on the money making side and on the capital formation side and the entrepreneurial side. So lay that out. What's that look like? By far the most exciting thing in Asia was Korea, Seoul. Like out of all the Asian Tiger countries today and August 2018, Seoul, Korea has a lot of blockchain action going on right now. It feels like you're in the future. There's actually physical buildings that say blockchain academy and blockchain building and Bitcoin labs. You feel like you're in 2028. And today it says in 18. You have a lot of syndication going on. Some of it illegal.  It's not illegal if you're putting together accredited investors who are willing to do KYC and AML and be interested in investing a couple of hundred ETH in a project. So I would say today a lot of ICOs are flocking to Korea to do a quick fundraising round because a lot of successful syndication is happening there. Second to Korea I would say is a battle between Singapore and Hong Kong. They're both very interesting. They both, it's the one place where you can find people who speak English but also all four of the languages of the Tiger nations. Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese all in one place in Hong Kong and Singapore.  So they're bringing clarity on regulation and saying you can come here and you can get a lawyer and you can incorporate but an ICO still has trouble getting a bank account. Hong Kong is simply closer in proximity to China. And China has a lot of ICOs that cannot raise money from Chinese citizens. So they can raise from anybody that's not Chinese and they don't even have a lot of white... They don't have a white paper, a website or even anybody in house that can speak English. So they're lacking English materials, English website and people in their company that can communicate with the rest of the world and other languages other than Mandarin or Cantonese. And that's a problem that can be solved and bridges need to be built. People are looking in China for people to build that bridge. There's a lot of action going on in Hong Kong for that reason, since even though technically it's a part of China, it's still not a part of China. It's a tricky gray line. Right, in Japan, a lot going on but it's still, it's Japan, it's kind of insulated. The Japanese government hasn't provided clarity on regulation yet. Just like in India, we're waiting for September 11 for some clarity on regulation. Same way in Japan, I don't know the exact date but we don't have enough clarity on regulation. I'm seeing good projects pop up in Korea. We're even doing some audits for some projects out of Japan but we see them at other conferences outside of Japan as well. I like coming up in Singapore as consensus. I'm hoping that Singapore will turn into a better place for quality conferences but I'm not seeing a lot of quality action out of Singapore itself. Who's based in Singapore? Lots of family funds, lots of new exchanges, lots of big crypto advisory funds have offices there but core ICOs, there's still a higher number of them in Korea, even in Japan, even. I'm not sure about the comparison in Japan and Singapore but there is definitely a lot more in Korea. Hey, what about Switzerland? You have any visibility there? I was in Zook, I was in Crypto Valley, visited Crypto Valley Labs. What feels best for you? I don't know, Mother Earth, all the above. The point of Bitcoin is for us to start being able to treat this earth as one and as you navigate through the crypto circuit, one thing that is becoming more visible is the power of China partnering up with the Middle East and building a one belt run road initiative. I feel like one belt one road ties right in the future of crypto and it's opening up the power of markets like the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, right? And what Gabriel's doing in the Caribbean with the Barbados action. Gabriel from Bit, yeah. Bit's got these, bringing them all together. Yeah, I mean the island nations are open arms to companies and I think they will attract a lot of American companies for sure. So you're seeing certainly more, in some pockets, more advanced regulatory climates outside the United States and talent pools substantial. So when it comes to talent pools, I believe it was in global commits for the language of Python. China is just on the verge of surpassing the United States and there's a lot of just global breakthroughs happening. There's a large number of full stack engineers at a very high level in countries like China, India, Ukraine. These are three countries that I think are outliers in that a full stack engineer at the highest level in a country like India or Ukraine, for example, would cost a company between two to 5,000 USD a month to employ full time in a country where they likely won't take stock to work for your company. And I think that is... 15 years ago, those countries were outsourced. Hey, outsource some cheap labor, no. Now they're product teams, they're engineers. They're really building value. They're building their own things in-house. Power of new markets are opening up, as you said. This is huge, huge. Okay, Harte, thanks so much for coming on. I know you got to go. You got your event October 9th through 11th in Las Vegas, Blockchain Security Conference. You guys are the leader of Blockchain Security. Congratulations, hosho.io, check it out. hosho.io. October 9th, Mark McAllum is theCUBE. We are live here in Toronto for the Blockchain Futures Conference with our good friend, Cube alumni, Hartez. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. We bite back with more live coverage from the untraceable event here in Toronto after this short break.


The Narcissus refuses to let you go. You have made the choice to move on from the Narcissus.   Everything you stand for and everything you are interested in. Yet when you want to leave and move on with your life, they can't let you go. They can't just leave you alone. They are completely obsessed with you. They are addicted to you. You want nothing to do with them. Believe me, they get it. But they are not ready to let you go. So even though you want nothing to do with them, they are still going to be around. Covert Narcissus will stalk you from the shadows. They will take note of the places you go to, the times and dates. Covert Narcissus will be open about it and they may even tell you that they are stalking you. They will approach you and try to appeal to your own ideals. It can often feel like the Narcissus just doesn't get it. No matter how obvious you make it to them, they can't help themselves. They can't just leave you alone, it's a sickness. This is clear identification of the disorder. Every time they try to leave you alone, something triggers in their minds. It makes them want to check in with you again. They are always wondering what they might be missing because their lives are miserable. They have nothing going on in their lives. So of course they are going to stalk and harass you.  They are not going to go out of their way to do this. They have their own lives. They don't have time to keep checking in and seeing what you are doing. If their lives are so great, they are not even going to care. But the Narcissus is miserable, bored and dissatisfied with their lives. So the only fun and excitement they get is from being around you. This is why they cannot get away from you. The only fun and excitement they have in their lives is from being in your presence. Apart from that it's all dull and boring.  Remember you have what they want. The good qualities, the fun, the excitement. They love all that. They want to be a part of it. But it's not meant for their consumption, especially now that you are healing and practicing self-love. No self-loving, self-respecting person belongs with a Narcissus. And once you reach a certain level of self-love in a regular situation with a Narcissus it will repel them. They will not want anything to do with you from that point.  This is why they try so hard to make you like that. So they can still keep you as a source of supply. In some situations the Narcissus will even stick around as you are developing self-love. The Humor Magnet Syndrome by Dr. Ross Rosenberg states that it is Narcissus and codependence who have this intense attraction to each other. Both Narcissus and codependence are not attracted to people who practice real self-love. Only other self-loving people are. But even though the Narcissus is no longer attracted to you, in these situations they will still stick around doing whatever they can to break your boundaries and turn you into a codependent once more. It's like they never give up because for them this is it. This is all they've got. Without you they have nothing. So even though they are no longer attracted to you they will still stick around when we are not meant for their consumption. And don't feel as though it is a bad thing to not be attractive to the Narcissus. That's a good thing. That should be your goal. Because the Narcissus is only attracted to other self-hating people like themselves. And just remember the toddler and the $100 bill analogy.  They will not treat it with any respect. But that doesn't mean it's not worth anything. It just means that you need certain qualities and maturity to be able to appreciate its value. Just like you need to be self-love abundant to be attracted to other people who are self-love abundant. You cannot appreciate self-love and all these other good qualities until you begin to develop them yourself. The Narcissus may still stick around as you are developing your self-love.  You bring the fun and excitement into their lives. Without you it's completely miserable for them. But we are not meant for their consumption. A Narcissus cannot partake in the development of your self-love. They are bound to self-hate while pretending that they really love themselves. So when you are in their presence and you display real true self-love to them, the very thing that they are pretending to have, of course it is going to trigger the hate, anger, envy and jealousy within them.  They like your qualities. I'm sure they find you physically appealing too but they cannot partake in your development. So what good are they?  So what can you do from here? Just let them try to be a part of your life. Let them try to partake in the very qualities and beliefs that they want but do not have. They can try all they want but they ain't getting nothing from me.  So leave the Narcissus in the past where they belong. They may have affected your past but that doesn't mean they have to affect your future. Continue to heal yourself and practice self-love. Please like and subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet. Share your thoughts in the comments. If you are interested in coaching for recovery from Narcissus abuse, please contact me at NarcSurviveCoaching.com and I will talk to you soon.


Many believers live their lives in fear, constantly wondering if the last mistake that they made was the one that caused the Holy Spirit to leave. But remember, when you make a mistake, the Holy Spirit doesn't abandon you to yourself. He abides faithfully. Why? Because he wants to help you get it right. Why would God remove from you the only power that you have to live holy as a punishment for not living holy? The Holy Spirit is not a reward for holiness. He is the source for holiness.


And also the Oregon State Governor Dakbora Beauden has called for an improved synergy with a deep sense of responsibility among security operatives towards strengthening the security architecture in the southwest area of a country for improved socio-economic development in the area. He made the call in a bureaucrat of state capital while declaring open the fourth quarterly security conference of the southwest. Directors of the Department of State Services held at the Mitra's Residences in the state capital. States and real zones can only be achieved when we have peace and security. The last few weeks, some of the things that we've experienced in Oregon State which I'm not sure you other SDSs are experiencing your real states are the issue of courtism. It has become so prevalent lately and you know I sometimes wonder when you are growing up as children at or in university, take on the schools. This was not the case. What has certainly gone wrong when in a community we begin to find family school children, organizers, you know, welders, artisans, undergraduates, graduates all involved in courtism. And I, people asking what is the cost, what is the motive behind this courtism, what exactly is driving them, why are they killing each other? Is there something that they are earning? Is there some kind of reward? Is there, what is incentive? And I think these are questions for you to look into because and I have decided that we must find a way to provide street lighting all the way from Lagos to the pardon, the first insta, so that believing that if the Lagos in my next press week is lit at night, that itself will begin to reduce the occurrence of this kind of nefarious attack. We also are beginning to think of how you should put cameras on that expressway so that we can all begin to share the legality. Someone escapes from a begutah and see the car on the expressway. If he escapes from your state, you can see it. Other is going to Lagos except from Lagos. You can probably see, as we also deployed here yesterday, I was having a meeting with the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and we were discussing the project of the State Digital Infrastructure Project and how we can deepen that and ensure that all these Southwestern states, you know, are into that and that project, the project where we are viciously laying about 5000 kilometers of fiber optic cables. We are trying to connect every new company of the state. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Frank just an unbelievable performance by Steve Nash's club tonight from the jump. They were amazing Yeah, record-setting performance in so many ways in terms of three-pointers made obviously point differential wire to wire victory for the Brooklyn Nets This is now their sixth playoff win They are ten away from winning an NBA championship and to me This was the kind of statement where they look like the best team in the NBA a lot of talk about James Hardin How about the way that they came out shooting the ball and for the Milwaukee Bucks? You cannot have been softer tonight. That was as soft as it gets But that was a total domination by the Brooklyn Nets knocking down shots led by Kevin Durant carry Irving What a performance I have to tip my cap to you too brother because in the first quarter this one said as we were watching the game This is gonna be a 40-point game tonight, and it was almost 40 was 39 And it was the Nets biggest playoff win in their franchise history the previous high was 24 Let's take a look at the game summary Yannis on ten a kumpo He came in to this game averaging over 38 points per game against the Nets this season Just 18 points and 11 boards while Kevin Durant did not play in the fourth quarter and put up those Ridiculous numbers. Let's go back to Barclay Center now. Welcome Michael Grady and Sarah Kustak and guys to Frank's point This was a woodshed beating by the Nets at Barclay Center in game two and Michael I think Kevin Durant was listening to you before the game saying he could hit a couple more shots I think he did that tonight I'm really speechless Chris to be honest with you number one the crowd once again was Electric from the jump we talked about it before the game, you know passing through the fans You could feel this sense of urgency to want to take care of business in game, too And we felt like that would feed off on the players look the players came in they were locked in They threw the opening punch and they kept throwing punches One of the things I was curious about was whether or not the lit Nets would allow the bucks So the first punch if the Nets would be somewhat Tentative and then try to work their way back through it after a flurry would come from Milwaukee We're still waiting on that flurry. We're still waiting on a punch from Milwaukee This was an unbelievable performance kustin and it was amazing to see box office box office for all the things we have heard Kyrie Irving or Kevin Durant talk about Wanting fans to see a show and putting on a show on the main stage My good these tickets the prices are going up because I mean this was an exquisite performance And that's put on a clinic I know we're gonna dig into a lot of things here in the postgame the performance has topped the bottom How locked in these players were but took care of the basketball took care of the glass and had Excellent activity and connectivity on the defensive end and so much of what this team does is Predicated on getting stops and allowed them to flow into their offense and then it was highlight after highlight I mean just the ferocity of how the Nets were attacking the bucks It was something it was start to finish there was not a moment of let up of this message They wanted to send that only to this bucks team in the second game of the series But about what they're intending to do in the postseason and just to piggyback that once again to the crowd You know there are certain players in the league with their teams They may not want them to do the razzle dazzle crowd pleasing plays because it may go against the game plan This is the comfort zone of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving This is what they do and they're efficient at it and it gets the crowd enthused and into the game There were so many sequences where the Nets would have a spectacular play Maybe a stop on one end come down the other end Kevin Durant a crossover on Yanis Take some back and then finish his right in his face the layup that one sequence at the end of the third quarter You know he had to he had the up and under layup But then to close out the third quarter He's sizing Yanis it did a combo up and if you thought that this was a demoralized Milwaukee buck squad to look at the two-time MVP in his face and say I don't care what you do defensively I'm putting this in your grill and he did so to close out the quarter It was unbelievable and it was it just takes the spirit right out to check I felt like we have seen all whether you're on YouTube on social media Twitter You've seen the the old-school clips of Kevin Durant at Rutgers. This is this is what it felt like


feel so good because the last time I saw my wife was a month ago I mean she went to Kenya to take her off her dad organized certain kind of things in Kenya and she's coming back after a month and a week and I don't know if you guys have ever seen this room how it looks like before because my wife loves to film in the room I'm not a big fan of filming in the room but my wife is a lifestyle content creator and she always want to do her things in the room so I decided to give this room a touch yeah I mean do some painting change bed I mean add some flavors that will help her in terms of her doing her thing in the room when I'm not around yeah but she has no idea that this room looks like this what I told there is that okay babe come back home when you come we're gonna do the shopping together and then we do this together but I have a friend who is more like a cleaner and at the same time he's also an interior decorator so I was like you know what help me do this and probably am I surprised my wife with this and create a YouTube video to support her business hello my name is Caroline and I'm doing an interior decor for what Maya my company proud of my clay and we provide variety of services amongst which is professional cleaning services that's janitorial service in that we do landscaping we do interior decor we do space management we do laundry and pressing we also do general supply as well so that is what we're doing here today we are doing interior decor if you want your room to look like this yeah reach out to Carolina and my wife is arriving today but today is actually the busiest day of my life and I don't know what I'm gonna do I have so many meetings I have so many charity work that I have to do today but I'm gonna come along with you I'm not gonna show you everything but yeah it is what it is man when it comes to vlog days you know that anything can happen but do me a favor like this video now I realize that so many of you watch this videos without liking it like it thank you I'm so glad my wife is coming back today finally I can hand over her cup back to her because I'm tired of driving man it's gonna be a busy day and I always need to get an assistant I mean three man is my personal trainer I mean he's the one who is trying to force me to get suspects even though I'm so satisfied with my one pack so three man in the building so today I think three man is gonna take the views because I'm gonna be a bit busy so he's gonna be behind yo you all need to go check our free man sources YouTube channel what's the name of your channel man Lois fitness rightly inscripted here yes check me out Lois fitness we good to go all right so come along let's go this is a sauna okay how much is this one also that part of it's a like those from wooddressin it's a day wow that's a day a day one day one day one day one day one day when you say a day 300 so I'm gonna give you your money for today the 300 cities the whole thing 300 I'm gonna give it to you hasn't mean that you're gonna give this to me I don't want but I'm still gonna give you the 300 All right, okay So So plus change right now guess who is behind the wheels free man and on my way to the airport so yeah let me just go pick my wife I'm so excited to see her once again yeah man I think marriage is the best thing that has ever happened to me though I don't know it's making me so focused it makes me feel like yo without my wife I'm nothing man it's like if I grab my wife I'm empty so I need to fill those empty bottle with some water man you got see go and marry next year whether you like it or not I'm married for you I'm talking to you whether you like it or not next year I'm getting married for you yes I'm paying all the bills man so you cannot tell me that you can't get married at least I'm married a thousand dollars you you married five hundred dollars I can even marry twenty dollars go and get married man yeah I mean tell him you should go and get married and leave us and you too you too you know I'm going get married love the new airport man it looks extremely beautiful in Namibia that's coming from Namibia wow how's Namibia you made me to see Namibia more than leaving me you live in Namibia and I made you see Namibia I'm telling you what are you doing in Namibia man so I've been sharing your things wow the recent one you did was it in Togo Togo yeah the Togo border nice wow good to see you okay you're back here like you packed the whole Kenya back here how are you doing? I know right? I'm good I've missed you that's what I'm saying you brought the whole you brought the whole Kenya man I went to his house to do a video he lives here now okay I'll bring it it's like she brought the whole Kenya to Ghana man jeez how many bags one two three four I'll get you two Boko hey Boko Boko never know okay I'm going to show you this is Mrs B hello Mrs to B oh you already B I've been watching you guys in America oh wow thank you so much you're welcome thank you and welcome oh you just came I just came to pick her up yeah she just got here so you're welcome how are you man? good yeah everything is fine every time man I'm waiting to travel with one of my soul fix the country let's make it happen you know everywhere now so just fix the country then I'll let you know all the best man so happy to see you babe see I've been here one month feels like ten years man without you babe thank you I'm back now no thanks for coming back but please don't do that again man okay don't leave for one month again man it should be two days maximum what a day are you tired babe? I'm so sleepy so sleepy haven't slept for two nights what were you doing? the other night I just was in sleepy and then yesterday I didn't even have time to sleep I used to go to the airport should I say that I have a lot to do so you have to stick around no that's okay I'm not going anywhere babe I said I wanted to drive and pick you up you don't believe that I drive you know actions speak louder than words so which means you didn't even watch my last video it is what it is the last video of you and your friends yep I need to be there to see you you can tell me did I see but what about my own experience I'll shock you today don't worry so I have a meeting with the CEO and the founder of Indigo Homes Shelly Mills she used to be an advisor of Obama and also Clinton she invested in Ghana she's an African American she's the founder of Aimee Sapak more like Indigo Homes that's the name of the company I don't know if you've heard of this hospital look at health she's also the one who owns it so she's in Ghana and she has an exclusive meeting babe and I can't believe that I'm on that exclusive meeting I can't believe it and I told them that please can I come with my wife they said no it's exclusive so I'm so sorry I'm not going to take so long they said it's a lunch it's really a pleasure meeting you I feel like I've been on this table like I've made it to life back in the village we used to eat together like this in a big bowl but now a table like this sounds different so being a village boy find myself in here chilling with the big boys it's good to see I'm so grateful that you were able to join SK and celebrate all the things that are happening on the continent it's always nice to talk to you and I'm saying that you're doing an incredible thing I'm going to say that right now how many countries in Africa have you invested in? we are in three countries on the continent Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania and we love every minute of it doesn't mean it's not hard it is hard but we are really grateful for the chance to be here why Africa in the first place? from my perspective there's so much opportunity here and there's not as many people who appreciate the scale of the opportunity that's here and so for us it's really an opportunity to do two things one do things that matter in these lives so that it has food or housing or healthcare and do that in a way that inspires and gives return to investors and if you can do good and do well at the same time it seems like that's the place you should be you haven't invested to any African in the diaspora who's looking forward to investing in Africa? well I'm here in Ghana so I always have to give a plug for how terrific it is and how welcoming everyone is here in the country but I would be remiss if I didn't also say I just came from Kenya and we had a terrific time there as well and they are on the move in similar ways so there's a lot of opportunity here whether or not that's in the tech space or in the space that is more I would say traditional manufacturing and other opportunities but there's lots to do a quick intro because I know you but people watching don't know who you are can you tell us who you are? my name is Cheryl Mills and I am the CEO of Black Ivy and we have had the pleasure of investing on the continent since 2014 and we are, as I said, in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania and we spend our time doing things that we hope matter in people's lives and in the regions where we invest thank you so much for talking to me thank you nice babes I feel like a cheat, I just landed in Ghana being brought to this very beautiful place that I've never been nearly as fast here the food was 5 kosmil excellent tasty and very consistent from one to the next and it was so filling I'm so full, I'm so happy they were bringing more and more food I'm full thank you babes you're welcome who's that? alright see you guys this is like a bringing their cars and all of them and the piers is only big big cars yeah so the woman is going back to America now with her private jet it's packed really she has a private jet oh sure she has a private jet oh nice it's time to go pick those guys and then take them to the resort but I'm so tired some of my cigarettes I know right I'm not a VIP of course, but to boost your VIP right next to I was like when I saw my name they were like it's a nice tour that's a blessing anyway it's a phrase is it an idiom or a phrase so a child that knows how to wash is it a saying is it a saying is it a child that knows how to wash well I don't know how to wash wash his hands he dined with the elders something like that please let me know the right one she's in Ghana I know you're tired I'm tired but I think I'm too excited being around you so I don't feel it hey you feel it tonight in a different way by the way but yeah I got in the car my guests are here already we're getting to La Palm Beach we're gonna have a great time what a long day I know right I feel so bad for you I'm so sorry babe I don't know if I'm spending time with you that's all that matters so I finally checked in the hotel for my guest this is a very beautiful place I love how green it is so many trees not at all this is actually a government one oh nice they're gonna have a great time I'm just going back home and I will see them tomorrow babe I'm so scared I want to see you doing this has he driven you before really every day even today jeez when I was living in Ghana I did not know how to drive I was driving him everywhere and he was freaking out I come back one month one week later this guy is a professional driver babe what happened you went to driving school you went to driving school babes how is it like you know how to drive oh my god babes this is crazy but how babe you didn't know how to drive over one month ago and I was here right are you serious babes I told you so many times I'm so proud of you I'm so happy I'm so happy you want to drive I'm enjoying I want you to drive till we get to the house because I'm just really enjoying it I've always imagined and wanted you to drive me and this is so cool I'm just enjoying it okay so glad because I just wanted to show you but you are like I know right I filmed two videos in one you saw how dark he lives if you don't do this we will eat so how dark he has fun you know but it is what it is baby but it's time to say goodbye to you all but I won't say goodbye right now but I think the video is not over yet the video is not over you knock before you enter I knocked before yes it's our bedroom, it goes inside is somebody there open do you know what has shocked me the most the wall where is this I can see a new chair this is crazy wow I can also see the curtains the photo this one you turn it on so you can change the colors you want to turn it on who did this on the floor who did this I got help from someone actually I am getting a dressing mirror so they are bringing the dressing mirror in 10 minutes so they are always coming this is so cool you have really blown me away oh my freaking god I love our photo 80's place it's so beautiful I love this this is so creative it's a fresh plant so you have to water it really so you just water it on top and I love the dark color because it makes you want to sleep when you put dark colors in the room it makes you comfortable and then they mat the chair I love this mat babe this is fantastic impressed I won't lie it's a totally different change you know there is some little change and then there is just major change this is a major change what they put on the wall the color, the curtains, the chair the floor wow the bed I say I am the most love African content creator why do you say so? see what I am wearing was just a gift that I received from someone what does it says? Yasuke do research about Yasuke it's a Japanese word by the way and then this one is African invasion so I got this yesterday by the way this was also a gift that I got yesterday from the same person you have a black bag like this and use it all the time but this time you will have some change to put my phones in there that's cute and this was from Auntie Yvonne from Canada you know Auntie Yvonne okay I've not seen one of these oh jeez can I see it too? oh wow that's so cute this looks fresher than me by the way in person this looks fresher wow I love this I'll tell you a story about this cloth this is the only gift from my dad and this was the last gift my dad gave me before he passed on the nights before I left Ghana to China my dad gave me this cloth and said let's take a photo I don't know if you've seen it, there's a photo I have it's this and now this cloth is in China stuck in China I'm telling you my Chinese guy have it are you going to tell him to bring it? probably when he's coming to Ghana next time I used to live in I don't want to tell people a lot of stories I used to live in his photo studio oh yeah? yeah just trying to survive and I got a parcel from YouTube without knowing that I got a parcel from YouTube let's open it up when Fedes called me that I have a parcel from YouTube I was like what do you mean then I went for it and I saw YouTube and I'm like oh my goodness but I'm not going to open it until she shows up I think that's a package I told him you have to wait for me wait wait it's a lot what am I on it wow that's cute what am I thank you wow this is long the soundtrack of 2022 will not have been the same without you we are so grateful for your continued partnership and incredible creativity to bring to your craft each year YouTube 2022 I went on a break and 2023 we are going to kill it but even on a break you guys still appreciated the work this is incredible wow ooh what am I we are so proud of your achievements the wedding video and then the Ghanaian billionaire wow you made it that's incredible YouTube took their time to do this fun love congratulations my G so happy for both of you this comments is probably from Tye Aina that's Tye Aina YouTube probably think they are coming from Tye Aina congratulations my G so happy for both of you I have watched you guys grow over the years and I can't wait for the future I think that's Tye's comments what's that so what's that wow is that a soundtrack young gifted and black wow it's a song it's an album who is Aretha Franklin I've had that name before I know I've had that name before that's a music player the old ones babes take your time don't mess it up don't mess it up what is this you have to take this off take that off jeez I think you are not supposed to open again are you sure I think so there should be a player somewhere here oh my god I've seen this thing only on movies take it off right take it off the classics in movies see this is like it's not supposed to stay there this is to make sure it doesn't crack or fall or something this is crazy jeez are you sure wow wow babes are the things you see in movies okay see all these things this is for charging what is this I don't know what this is we have to put a manual into use so I think this is the last thing to be on it and then you put this this is so interesting it's like living the old days it never used anything like this before I know right so it's just like this one you put it on we are so proud of all your achievement and growth over this last year and it's been absolute pleasure working with you and cannot wait to continue to partner with you as you continue to blaze the trail on YouTube in Africa have a nice holiday thank you that was so thoughtful from YouTube greatest hits of water maya the video that changed the critter my critter journey the humility of this man is just out of this world maya, thank you so much for this video watching this made me change my mind about the challenges we face as Africans nothing is impossible in life whoever wrote this comment your comment made it to what the maya greatest hits and the video that fills me with pride that's the video that got 5.6 million likes the whole year 1.2 million comments on the video I got 2 million shares 185 million and days since joining YouTube 3604 days thank you YouTube for this, really appreciate thank you babe for being part of the journey welcome baby, I'm so proud of you


Sarah Massey is a High School English Language Arts teacher with Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Today, Sarah is using a thinking organizer called SayMeanMatter to engage her students and help them organize their thoughts to do a critical analysis of the play Macbeth. SayMeanMatter engages students in a thinking routine that can be used to extract deep meaning from a literary text. The strategy is also a helpful format for the analysis portion of a body paragraph in a critical essay. So our students use the strategy from grade 9 to grade 12, but even in the higher grades, grade 11, grade 12, it's still important to be modeling it before you ask them to do it and to also have opportunities to work together to do SayMeanMatter. Because oftentimes we're thinking about really high-level ideas and it can be for teenagers that don't have a ton of life experience to approach those ideas. So modeling that critical thinking is really important. The other tip I have is when you get to the matter and they're asked to take the text out of it and come up with a life statement basically. Sometimes they struggle with that. So taking the situation that's happening in the text and trying to find a similar experience from their own life or even from another text or even from a movie can be helpful to get their life lesson out of that experience. Well, what's the mean part? Especially when you do a say, it's kind of just a paraphrase. But what the mean, you actually have to go in, look at the literary devices and how the character is developing and whatnot. Which helps with the matter, which is the human condition part. And then with the human condition, you kind of bring into your own personal experiences in order to make the matter and connect it to what the text is saying. When you're starting Saming Matter with students, it's probably important that you select the quotations so that they have enough to work with. And as you work through this with them and you instruct them in good quotation selection, then they can start to choose their own significant quotations but to make sure that they have enough material to analyze.   And he's basically losing his mind and acting superstitious. So at this point he's hallucinating again because he sees Benkvote's ghost. So Lady Macbeth tries to tell him that it's like the dagger he sees again. And there's a metaphor as well. It says a woman's story at a winter fire. So this is showing how Lady Macbeth is basically calling Macbeth an old lady and ridiculing him about it. And overall he's feeling really guilty. For the matter, the quote suggests that when a manipulative individual loses control over a situation, they will use their previous tactics in order to regain power for their own selfish intentions to be fulfilled. To give kids a structure for thinking when they're reading something. So it gets them thinking about literally what is happening in a situation that they're reading, but also to look for that deeper meaning and to connect it to their own personal life with the matter. So especially in the mean part, I'm looking for them to fulfill all of the items on that checklist. They're looking for any changes in the character, character motivation, literary devices, symbolism, other connections in the text. And then I want to see in the matter that they're able to compare that to a real life situation without being too literal and dependent on the text. I find that this helps me to connect to the real world easier and just to help understand and break down the text even more, which gives me a better understanding of not only the section of it, but also the full piece of literature. So the end goal is hopefully that they're doing this independently as they're reading and as they're working through literature, but it does take a lot of modeling and collaboration to set that up.


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