Welcome back to the breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. It's time for us to go through the major news papers and the news stories making headlines across the country this morning I'm starting with the this day newspapers, but before that good morning to mr. Chris Wando Thank you very much for joining us. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for me this point Thanks for joining us also before we start my parents will never separate and just to quickly fix that Fix that statement that I made earlier. No, I will not be happy. Anyway, let's start with the this day newspapers This morning and see what major stories that we can find over there The big one you can see on your screens talking about small arms It says federal government moves to curb small arms influx establishes control center Bouchie raises alarm over book or ramp threats to fall local government areas and also national security council reconvenes today Bandits threaten to kill abducted greenfield university students today and Suspected heads men kill 17 in binway state We can also find here PDP demands state police powered evolution border control brought border protection council And also stock market rallies to 418 billion naira gain in April. We can find out on page 6 An alighter note after 27 years and we shared this earlier after 27 years Bill Gates and wife Melinda Separate And in their marriage an NPC sells 267 billion naira crude oil Maintains 1.4 to million barrels per day outputs. Those are the big ones under this day newspapers this morning On the nation newspaper the headline reads abductors Threatened to kill 17 students after 55 million naira ransom Kidnappers give today Tuesday May 4th as deadline for 100 million naira payment Parents beg and inside the papers. It says abductors of Kogi Council chief demand 100 and That's not clear Moving on abductors kill boy after 1 million naira ransom Emo businessman killed at checkpoints headsmen kill 11 in bainway attack Above the headline on the point the nation newspaper why 4.2 million euros ibori linked loot Returns is delayed government sets up center to tackle small arms Still above the nation newspaper mucking day on the fire Over 1.2 billion naira or your lodge Business man arrested over Emo attacks. Those are dimmatt leaders speak up Mbaka says i took three expatriate contractors to buhari Bill Gates and 27 years marriage with melinda Lagos apc council poll sale of form closes tuesday this one says bill gates ends the marriage with melinda, but The story i saw said melinda filed for divorce, but anyway Nin registration deadline now june 30 with 54 million enrolled Below the headline ndla recovers drugged cakes Cocaine in itries. This is the second of such news in recent time Boko haram infiltrates bouchie councils bono communities Those are the stories on the nation newspaper This rather the nindrian tribune coming up next we can find here 19 killed houses burnt as suspected heads men attack benway community Bandits threatened to kill remaining 17 greenfield university students today. They've 100 million naira is not paid Says 55 million naira already spent to feed them 55 million naira All right Still on the nindrian tribune no bill and melinda gates divorce after 27 year marriage A fenifera to buhari organized constitutional conference without delay And also documentation delay in return of 4.2 million pounds eburi loot to nigeria says the federal government After 25 years inek to create 57,023 new polling units battles external forces And world press freedom day editors call for release of detained journalist decry attempts to muzzle media And the lea arrest varsity students for selling cannabis in textbooks in niger Raids e-trees in platu inugu recovers drug cakes and cocaine Oh, all right. This one still a number of youths tie man to tree and flog him for beating his mother PDP offers to help buhari proffers way out of national crisis Once armed forces adequately equipped welfare top priority Says uh gumi or if gumi can find bandits security agents can We can also find on the nindrian tribune No plan to topple buhari's government says the defense headquarters restates absolute loyalty to administration Wands military personnel against Illegalities these are the big ones on the nindrian tribune this morning on the nation news the guardian newspaper state governments face historic liquidity crisis Plan to spend 86 percent of yearly total revenues on recurrent bills With roll of cbm's budget support threatened survival Some states can't pay debts in 50 years says guba Still on the guardian newspaper major reversal growth trajectory hits telecoms industry sector loses 12.1 million subscribers in five months Broadband penetration dropped by 3.84 percent as 6 million nigerians lose internet access Future gdp growth contributions look bleak stakeholders foresee faster recovery Seal on the guardian burko ramp entering bouchie from yobi governor cries out Herders kill 17 persons injure others in benway state Abductors threaten to kill remaining greenfield versity students demand 100 million naira for kugi council chair You're managing nigeria's diversity pdp. I beg your pardon your miss managing nigeria's diversity pdp tells buhari probe agitations in policy And yim urges president and lastly i next set to create 57 223 new polly units against alleged external pressures.  Um, mr. Chris one do thank you so much once again for joining us Um, and uh, you could go ahead so many of these stories. I believe you want to speak on yeah, um, of course we have to be Traits by the band is killed many in great universities today And to me Is the lowest first In terms of insecurity across the country And don't forget about cute five of those to the ready and are threatening to kill this uh This is the time for some wake up and do the need Especially games at the federal and the state level um I don't know The governor of um cabinet states already that he's not going to negotiate with uh bandit kidnappers or whatever that's The life of the student has taken So we just have to admit Step down as we as Nigeria should start contributing money Um to get student out and if it comes to maybe Contributing about one thousand Anything we do to make sure that this job not here Should be done At the end of our dust End of shedding cockey tears Uh, it would be funny for me when the body said they spent about From senior naira Feeding the Students and then my question is uh, were they eating elephant? um, those are just propaganda Statements, but the most important part of it for me is that these children must be released Whatever it's going to cost to do it Yes Have to die That's what's first one Drive drive you home Then not talk down hander Look at the issues a little bit Um, the stands input by the governor of cardinates Um Manasil erlite is not helping math at all and has not used to go Uh Is I'm giving um some kind of punishment that we have to sit around For now, I've not seen me and not seen any level of suspicion and that in this is this Job boundary tree and which is not going to do any good We will find the mechanism of vacation those behind this Um Rascal rascality and whatever I call it. I brought you I said we start doing and making example of what I engage in this All right, Mr. I wonder if Mr. I wonder still on still on this um on this topic You may mentioned, you know, you started by talking about how, you know, maybe we should crowd fund and Pay this ransom and get these kids out, you know But the cardinates state government has said that they will not be paying ransom But don't you think that should come side by side with a tactical idea or tactical or security Uh, um plan on how to rescue these kids, you know If we are choosing to not pay ransom because we can't keep paying ransom If you're using 55 millionaire to feed people that didn't ask to be fed in the first place Then of course these but you know kidnappers are going to keep looking for more people to kidnap So, you know, do you think that it's it's important that we have our security agencies Capable of rescuing these kids regardless of what it takes My brother our security agents paid us So what would you if it's your daughter or your son That is being kidnapped and his dungeons are in that past And the search agents are not involved with you to result to self You make sure you make a bridge you do any human impossible Make sure that it is rescued and that is the point which we are in so big that our security agents Edge cannot even do anything. How many days how many weeks are we in there? Are they telling us they know where this is that How come they've not gone on red mission? It is very easy for Humi to move around. He knows how it comes. We are more than all this time in Banditsa What has it what he has and he has Don't be able to help out. Don't forget that the other student kidnapped and they were put to the School of Forest We've seen what's in those two. They are in activity but So the security that the current agents have lost initiate Uh, I don't know what to do Although they have a capacity to do it or the political will is there So what is it for me is for us to make sure that we get what they need to take us to make sure that we get this We should do that the security agents The world is telling them about well, I was watching a Documented by one of the national intelligence field where somebody whose friend was kid Was giving a narrative That even an individual that they hire private security agencies They were tracked. They were able to track every move of those that kidnapped guys Adware agencies that the secret agents have searched What happens to you drone and all the necessary? Um Tech equipment to track this and make sure to get them and stop all this But it's obvious our security agents Since to have initiated my own take this is that whatever it would take To make sure that we risk with this trend. We have to let them they've gone in. They've gone to a no I don't I'm just a parent and I'm just being If my daughter monies keep Over four weeks, three months And nothing's been Some of those that were after that were from cheap pop Years now we've known that are you aware that we got them till now Is very All right relates into this issue of security we're talking about on you know the This day newspaper The headline reads fg moves to curb small arms influx establishes control center And we see here that you know the president Muhammad Abu Hari Basically approved the establishment of this of this, you know small arms control center Saying it will address the emergent security threat, you know prevent and control small arms You know in Nigeria, but time and time again. We've seen things like this We know that in august 2020 the president approved the establishment of the center, you know But how much has been done to curb the proliferation of arms? We keep seeing these terrorists with more sophisticated weapons than the Nigerian soldiers So just how much faith do you have in this new center aimed to control the proliferation of arms and light weapons? When it comes to I'm a pianist and I don't anything and I don't this going to work We we seem to be pulling the wrong Issues the problem we have this country is our borders, but how many places can man? We have thousands thousands of illegal bodies in this country We are all this and we through And onto to Handled that will come to the ground to me with his hand me we say control center Um, we hear what is about power. We had what happened across the country If you have to center with that control center stop these guys from bringing arms we won't have that is where okay that They at a point development also stopped Put a new fly on in some part of Zampara where you are like that some people come in flight to drop hands big Good and of them. So the issue for me is hardware and that is where the use of technology is very The problem we are in these countries. We are not even there's too much in it information technology on technology Most countries are but it's no longer Issues of charity is no longer the number of suits we have Policeman you and the rest of them. It is now more technique as countries are deploying technologies If you have drones scattered around all These things you can actually make a given content. You can make a point. What's this coming? I have we've got so it's not You have several times the people that I have Illegal and to come and surrender. But many people do you surrender? Surrender in their hand and that is where development is. So What we need to do personal life feel is we able to find a way of saying about that trust but that They are super us that many places that we come in the north in the south west in the south south Everywhere give me the start up talking about the start people coming to water Really important that we are able to we were able to get a Influx of people and so that for me is the problem we are so There was a time that the development established A commission the committee on small arm and I don't know what to have and what I don't know what to do But it says give government benefit that maybe this would be a different scenario for me I doubt it if it's okay. All right. Um, there's also something from the defense headquarters saying no plan to top obuari's government. It's on the nandu and tribune this morning It says no plan to top obuari government also restates absolute loyalty to the current administration And warns military personnel against illegality. Let's have your take on that too Yes, I think that's it. I mean based on the statement made by the statesman Chief jp clark as a Intervation rest of them. So I still believe that the worst Um Government is far far better than the best military girls Um, that is putting on my own take on that bet In context, so we are like our politicians have been doing what they're supposed to do I've not been able to leave opposition. We are having so many challenges economically, politically And most importantly security Without that is a non-necessary call for the military in portion into government is a mirage Um across the globe the military interventions no longer. You see what is mean me Is some I am caught already look at what is happening in the chat and the um and other and so I'm going to country Had motivation for me What we are I think we lack in our political will and the leadership to do this, right? Even within the In the political part The government of president I still believe that people in this is that can't describe We can't get our interests out of this But the problem is that given the government What's happening is a man seems to be Really Every About the problem that we have the that's the way to I believe that probably Uh kind of We are across allies leaders Our leader come together who has to and see we can get our sector good medicine is Still on security matters on the punch list paper a story here reads fg prepares 400 suspected bokeh ram sponsors and bdc operators charges So they're basically saying that about 400 people who are alleged to be sponsors of bokeh ram and you know They are financiers that you know, there was a nationwide operation and they would be arraigned, you know So the the the the report here says these people indicted are businessmen They are bird to change operators. They were arrested in cano in bono abu jaleegos so koto Adam mowa kajuna and san for our state So, you know, this is coming after six mangerians wedged in the ua e on allegations of terrorism financing So would you say this this is progress for our security fight? Yeah, good one. But together. There have also been some arrest several bokeh ram past As we try to raise from icing the flag. I'm advising them About a few years to be a pro-hara lead chief And putting hate in the game All right Recently last few months because I'm arrested and tried immediately The time The problem we have is that insinuations and make some The rest of them Mr. Chris I want to Want to know I want to know behind this We want to see them predicted and that is the issue. It's not just returnees The ones in dubai arrested. You can see how fast and how quick the government of i came up with those names and all Started execution but ours we continue on a business base. Oh, there are people doing this I know that investigation Most often than other parts of the world before you start pollution before the any government or say just make it So they must have done the religions. They must have finished the message just in being brought to court And prosecutions But as you know, the way we are here Mr. President we start looking Every day we start looking for witnesses and rest and the end of it and that There is a agent They hardly get anything of conviction. So, uh, even the names let us see them And let us move quickly and start treating them and make sure to make example of them All right. Mr. Chris. I wonder All right Okay, that's the much we can take lots of You know interesting stories on the papers. I wish we could have you know had time to talk about but that's the much we can take Thank you very much for calling on the breakfast this morning Thank you very much. We do have it And uh, we of course could apologize for the poor network quality of sound quality from, uh His end this morning Thanks for starting the show with us still take a short break when we come back We're talking about what happened today in history. A lot of uh, Plain Treson stories we'll be sharing with you. Stay with us here on the breakfast


OK, so thank you very much, everybody. I was hoping to, I was expecting to have 55 Europeans in the audience trying to understand what Brexit is, but we are some of us. Are you European? Yeah. OK. So OK. So I'll start with two just preliminary comment. One is about the issue for clarity, you know, lacking clarity and we want to have it clear. And I think that is a very dangerous request because when there is clarity, there is no hope. So it's better to remain muddled and to have the thing running all over again than to have a certain closure. The second thing I would say a bit more provocative or negatively is that although I'm sure that all British people here are very much against Brexit and leaving and all that, I still think that the archaeological community in Britain has participated in a sort of spirit or mindset in the UK over the past 15 years that is fully compatible or parallel with the notion of leading independent, localism, challenging of expertise, quite a range of aspects that have been there. And I also, if I can refer to my, I published a couple of papers on Brexit and I will talk to them again. In one of them, I indeed singled out both Edwin, Olivier, and John Scofffield for precisely duplicating the idea that we don't need the experts because we are all in it together as a factor that resonates with this sort of decision-making. OK. So what I want to do then is three parts of the talk. If there is a civil language to Brexit, yes, if you can find something like this. And then I will talk more specifically about a monument you all know, which is Stonehenge. And hence the flying pigs, I don't know if you could make the pun from Pink Floyd to what's it, Mattingly? You know, Mattingly, we'll get you there, the colleague from there. And then again, issues about global Britain and there also. But we know each other, I'll be asking questions because I think that also what we have from Mark, we are on the wrong track because we are personalizing what is deeply political and ideological issues. So personally, we are all friends and we like each other, but that's not the point. So I'll get to this in here. This is just, it's the same page, yes? So you have a Roman, a Roman golden emperor who lasted three weeks, not an emperor because that's why the coin is very rare, yes? Ultra rare Roman coin because the guy was only three weeks emperor. And he happened to be on the same page as another guy who was only, it's a bit more. But they had to send long hair. Yes. Okay, so again, this is more for the European audience because you probably know this lack of information, official lack of information because the DCMS is trying to find out, the Ministry of Culture is trying to find out how do you know what's going on because we don't know ourselves, but how do you tell us, in my audience, what is going on? Well, there are a couple of interesting things. How do you rate the risk of a potential error? Just asking a question like this is not very confidence building, yes? How catastrophic are things going to be? In the spirit that Kenny is, of course, the big promoter of, the spirit of Keshavarz. So you ask questions all over the place, but sometimes when you ask questions that are so confidence draining, it's not the good idea, perhaps. So the silver lining, the first I think I wrote about this is what the silver lining, of course, number one is the salary increase because if you can get the Dutch archaeologists to work on the HS2, which this has been postponed for seven years, so it's another crisis, but that's a, if you want to get the Dutch, you need to pay them proper salary because they have to pass an administrative threshold. So that is going to mean, of course, that local British archaeologists are also going to have to finish that sum and they will be very happy about this, won't they? The shovel bombs to receive a nice salary like this. So there might be, because of this barrier for visa, there might be, yes, let's dream, no? I mean, summer's night dream, there might be an increase in raising the salary of the archaeologists thanks to Brexit. And the second silver lining, of course, is, and again, I'm speaking to non, where are you from? Croatia. Croatia? Yeah. Good. Are you a British? Irish. Irish, okay. I beg your pardon. So yeah, Irish, we'll be very happy because also the issue of funding, you mentioned the success, all right? So when you look at it from the less successful, it looks as if people who write grants and have offices helping them at university to write the grants. And then they write in language, English, which is their mother tongue, where they can be sexy and Casper, they'll explain how in three years with an intermediary conference, any website at the end, they have solved the problem of X, Y, Z. They're very successful at it. And so successful indeed, that's what I'll go back to. So successful, but this is again, it's a market to publish this, you see anything, so successful indeed that I've, so far, I see a concern in the UK, which tops up Netherlands number two, France and Germany. So more in the UK than in the Netherlands. So I can't believe that there are more right intelligent people, three times more, maybe there are in the British eyes. So there must be other type of explanation. So it's either because it's, are we being, I'm away from the microphone, so either it's because it's the club gamble and Graham Barker and who sit in the commission in HS5 and then decide and arbitrate who gets the projects, or because then you have a lot in the UK of non-UK based people who apply, okay? Bright students from Germany, from Italy, from Croatia, who come to the UK, do a PhD and get on with it. So that's the one mitigating factor because in Netherlands, 95% of people who see grant would be actually Dutch. Like was in France, like was in Germany. There would be local people who see that. And in the UK, these are international people as well, Italian, the Greeks, et cetera. So that's a good point. But what it means for us now, it's very good news. So the guys who've scooped all the money are not going to be around and the playing field will be a little bit more level, okay? That's the silver lining number two and I think this is probably the only one, yeah. Also on this, there's already information from Mr. Alok Shamra, an international, have a look, be aware of EU discrimination again, British students. So the atmosphere is so poisonous that you have official instructions to look out for how if Europe is mistreating you in some ways. And I've just been advocating how to mistreat the British because they won't be here to apply for the funding. Okay, so the flying pigs, of course, are being floored animals. And these reenactment off and these multi isotope analysis that shows that pigs have flown from all over the British out to Stonehenge to be roasted. By, so, I don't know this person and I can't obviously judge the quality of the isotopic research. That's not my thing. We can ask a Christian, Christian St. because he's now deep into science. But of course, the point is that this is a narrative that helps to construct Stonehenge as the birthplace, as the cradle or the construction place of the post-Brexit Britain. Okay, this is the place Stonehenge where we started. We, the autonomous, the British English entity started there, okay, because of this gathering and coming on for a big Sunday roast at the scale of the island. And that creates some sort of coherence that overlooks the fact, we'll come back in a minute, that these actually were built by Belgians, Belgian and Neolithic, who came to build Stonehenge. Okay, so, and this is from the paper that published in antiquity. So this is from the Sun, the Sun News paper. It allowed us, surprisingly, to reproduce in antiquity in December. The font page of the Sun, which there was a moment, Great Britain, Great Betrayal, just what we had yesterday. Yes, the Rest in Peace Democracy. If you saw the, I don't know if you read the Daily Mail, but the Daily Mail's title for yesterday was Rest in Peace Democracy because these guys from the Heart of Commons have kept Boris Johnson from his plans and that's the death of democracy, okay. So likewise here, there was a moment, it was in June, June 2018. And the icons of Britain, yes. So we're all Brits here, or more or less. You recognize, you know, Swiss fires and the age of the normal and this thing and the double-decker and the mini-miler and et cetera and fishing ships and Stonehenge. Stonehenge is also part of this, very much part of this narrative and this is from the BBC, Stonehenge with the Peace. No more flying because they are Russian. And this construction of an iconic birthplace, which is ours. So, and very much, and this is the, the Intervaq, yeah, Neolithic Brexit. Okay, if you've seen this. And what is interesting when you do the screenshot, please have a screenshot, okay, have a screenshot. English-speaking jobs in Paris, and anyone who wants to come to Paris for English-speaking jobs, that's an ad. It's very funny to catch the screenshots of newspapers together with one other ad, okay. So that's the story and then the next one is even nicer, no, it's wonderful. So Stonehenge, when I speak about Stonehenge, because Stonehenge, as you know, is a rumble of bulldozers about to build a tunnel or I don't know if it's going, we don't know. But the clear project, this is some of the, so it's not called, Stonehenge is called A3 or A3, any way to lay it down so you're not supposed to know that it actually, so this is the way I decide and this is the project of the tunnel with some details here. And what is very rewarding is that, of course, there's a tender, called for tender, and this called for tender is published by the European Union as well called for tender. So you can have here, in Spanish, and this was for the Spanish audience here, and you have the Reino Lido, Bristol, the Tarahumata Construction, the two languages, the Karela, okay, and in other type of languages. And this is the best, information variants, information about the European Union funds. This is for you, Irish, yeah? You ready? Yeah. Yeah, okay. So, in Polish, there are no Polish archaeologists in the audience. Informacja Fundach Unii Europejskie, okay? Zamienie dotaci projekty program finanzor, finanzor wego z rutko Unii Europejskie. That's the question, are there funding from the European Union? The answer is nie, okay? No funding from the European Union for this particular project. Nevertheless, nevertheless, another, you can take a photograph, another fake news, it's written in Turkish, fake news. Now the EU are demanding custody of Stonehenge as part of a new Brexit deal because Stonehenge was built by a culture engineer, as far as in the Neolithic, right? So, this particular myth has been canceled because the EU said precisely that it's not going to be involving this. Yes, I'm approaching my last point. So the third part, so this was Stonehenge, and now I want to move to the, I've tried to be diplomatic because borders require diplomacy, that's part. The idea of crossing borders and crossing borders are new with new agendas or new will or new emotional load, which is also an ideological, it's complicated. So, I strongly recommend you take care of this book or other books about European, there's a long history that is, in fact, one can begin this history with a crusade of going to find a relics, okay? The Holy Land, et cetera. And certainly Medieval times and Renaissance and afterwards the first colonial expansion in others of Europeans going abroad. It's a complicated story with many different types of motivations. And in this book that we edited as part, it was part of the ACE project, if you remember, the Archaeology for the Europe. We did avoid, Marc, the question was not that we can work together as individuals because we can. The question is whether we can recognize that our position as individual is within a particular setting in institutional, political, financial, economic, and therefore a cultural, and therefore we are part of this context when we interact with each other, okay? And of course, when there is the project of global Britain globalizing, it's not necessarily interacting between the Dutch or the Belgian and the Brits. It's also across the world in the reaches of empire. So how are we going to get that? And I think that we should think, those who want to accomplish an agenda of globalization should really read the, you know, do some serious critical history to understand the story of a soft diplomacy of what in French is called a very nice word, the shining, yes? With Nicholson, Jack Nicholson, the shining with the fact it's Riccato, yes? The idea that there is a civilization emanating from France and touches all over the world. So each country has different construction of its presence, okay? And here, this is my last slide. Suddenly, you remember you had a foreign secretary. And this foreign secretary wrote this little word for the international report of the Heritage Alliance of which you are members. I know, I imagine. Yeah, okay, so you'll have to think twice or four times when you're about to try to strike limiting relations when the agenda is precisely your own in protecting and promoting the best of our heritage, crucially important, not only for the proud sense of, not only for the proud sense of identities to regain from our collective heritage, but also for the magnetic representation of our country's opposite, right? So how are you going to magnify the un-magnifiable presence at the moment of Britain on this? It's complicated and I urge, again, to, I think, move away from the well-established personal intellectual affinities to recognize the cultural, political dimensions of it in order to make the most possible, okay? Thank you very much.


My name is Maggie Gore-Lay, I'm your friendly neighborhood Draenei QA engineer, and I'm here to tell you how DevOps is like rating in World of Warcraft. A little bit about me, I do QA at VictorOps, but before that, I was a gamer, and I also was a sysadmin, and I also tested games at EA Sports. And as you can imagine, lots of stuff has changed over the years, including gaming. It used to be the case that you would sit there with your friend on your sofa, and you guys would play a game in the same room, and now we play these massively multiplayer games with people all over the world, and that's pretty sweet. Other things have changed as well, including the shape of computers and how we write our software. Now we have agile development, and we also have things like DevOps, which is really cool. Basically, instead of just that one guy who's in charge of everything, we have a whole team, and that's our lovely team. We've got our developers, our testers. We've got some sysadmins. Usually, there are other people on the team, but this fits my analogy, so we'll go with it. The other day, I was playing WoW, and I realized that this looks a lot like how you would assemble a 10-person raid.  So DPS stands for damage over time. We have our casters, they stand back and fire fireballs, and we have our melee, who run up to things and hit them with hammers. Those would be our front-end engineers. Our back-end engineers are the wizards who are throwing fireballs and arrows and such. So that's my analogy. Next, we have the healers that are coming out. Oh, wait, sorry. I was supposed to say how it's very important to have our DPS on our raid team, because without that, the tank will never be able to kill things, and the DPS is super critical to actually bringing down the boss. OK, now we have our healers. Healers basically sit back. They make sure that everybody is healthy, they make sure that everybody is healthy, they make sure your pets are taken care of, they're just sort of chill in the back and make sure that everything is going well. But they only really get credit when they do a good job. QA, similarly, can be pretty hazardous, but our job is to make sure that the product is healthy. Things are going smoothly. Usually, you only hear from us when things are going wrong. Sometimes, like I said, if a failure happens, sometimes the healer gets blamed, even if you're the one that ran in and hit the thing with the hammer before everyone else was behind you. Same thing happens in QA. Then we have the tanks. The tanks are the guys, they have the really big armor, and they run up to the big boss, and they start hitting it with sticks, and they make sure that no one else takes any damage. They're really pretty heroic. And they're very hard to find. Same with CIS admins. It's really hard to find a good CIS admin. Without him, we'd all be lost, but a lot of us could never do their job. So CIS admins are super important, and it's cool because CIS admins and also tanks can be very heroic. Sort of in the background, sort of in the foreground, you're really never sure what they're doing, but that's pretty awesome that they're able to keep that up. Also, so in larger raids, you also have these extra benefits. You've got people who bring magical food, like donuts to the office, and then you have the ability to restore from backup or battle res. You've got your soul well there. I haven't figured out that analogy, but so we've got our tools. Tools are like buffs. They stack up, and you have this big pile of them, and you really only know which one you really need at the time, but they help you do your job better, make sure you don't take enough damage, make sure you know if you are taking damage. And if gaming has taught me anything, it's that good communication is critical. This is a very historical example of a raid gone very badly. Some guy was off getting a sandwich, and nobody knew what happened, and he came back and ran right in, and everything failed. So no matter what your role is on your raid or on your DevOps team, you're very important to success. It's important to know everyone's role in your raid, honor it. They're doing the very best part of them that they can. And if you all do a very good job, you guys can take down the boss, get some good gear, and maybe level up. Awesome.


Welcome to a new week of the rundown. On this episode, CNO recognizes the winners of the Vice Admiral Stockdale Award and it's time to create those spear spots for the Army-Navy game. Congratulations to Commander Brian Dressler, former CEO of SEAL Team 5 and Commander Eric Sager, former CEO of USS California as the recipients of the 2017 Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award. Chief Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson presented the awards during a ceremony at the Pentagon Hall of Heroes this past week. The awards present annually to two active-duty commission officers who are serving or have served as examples of excellence in leadership in the Navy. Read more about the ceremony from our story on navy.mil. This year's Army-Navy game is December 9th at 1500 Eastern Time. That means it's time to come up with a Go Navy Beat Army Spot for your command. CBS Sports will air the selected spot during the televised game and will also show it on the Phil's Jumbletron. Check out NavAdmin 258-17 that provides the requirements and details for submitting your spot. That's all for this week. For any questions, send us a message at usnpeople.fct.navy.mil. For the Chief Naval Personnel, I'm MC2 L.J. Burleson. Thanks for watching.


Hello everyone, I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. We're here in Palo Alto, California for a remote interview and session for theCUBE presents AWS startup showcase, the next big thing in AI security and life sciences. I'm John Furrier. We're here with a great segment on cloud, next big thing in cloud with Chaos Search, Thomas Hazel, Chief Technology and Science Officer of Chaos Search joined by Jeremy Foren, the head of data analytics, the bad boy of data analytics as they say, but BAI communications, Jeremy Thomas, great to have you on. Great to be here. Pleasure to be here. So we're going to be talking about applying large scale log analytics to building the future of the transit industry. I'll see Telco's a big part of that. Smart cities you name, the use case, self-driving trucks, cars you name and everything's now edge. The edge is super valuable. It's a new kind of last mile, if you will. It's moving fast, it's mobile. This is a huge deal. Let's get into it, Thomas. What's this big story around this session? Well, we provide unique ability to take all that edge data and drive it into a data lake offering that we provide data analytics both in logs, BI and coming out with ML this year into next. So our unique play is transforming customers cloud object storage into an analytical platform. And really I think with BIA is a log analytics specifically where there's a lot of data streams from all those devices going into a lake that we transform their lake into analytics for driving, I guess, operational analysis. You know, Jeremy, I remember back in the day, I'm old enough to remember when the edge was just a remote switch or campus hub or something. And then even on the Telco side, there was no Wi-Fi back in 2000. And someone was driving in a car, you got any signal, you're lucky. Now you got no perimeter, you have unlimited connectivity everywhere. This has opened up more of an omnichannel data problem. How do you see that world? Because you still got more devices pushing out at this edge and it's getting super local, right? Even on the body, even on people in the car. So certainly a lot of change on the infrastructure side. What does that pose for a data challenge? Yeah, well, I would say that, you know, users always want more, more bandwidth, more performance. And that requires us to create more systems that require more complexity to deliver that user experience that we're very proud of. And with that complexity means, you know, exponentially more data. And so one of the Wi-Fi networks we offer in the Toronto Subway System, T-Connect, you know, we see 100 to 200,000 unique users a day. And you can imagine just the amount of infrastructure to support that so that everyone has a seamless experience and can get their news and emails and even stream media while they're waiting for the subway.  But that's basically anything involving kind of that edge piece. This is a huge thing. So as smart cities are on the table, which, and you're seeing 5G being called more of an enterprise app, whether it's feeding large, dense areas of people, this is now a new modern version of what I would call the smart city blueprint. What's changed in your mind on this whole modernization of the smart city infrastructure concept? What's new? What's cutting edge? Yeah, I would say that, you know, there's an explosion of data and a lot of our insights aren't coming from one system anymore. It's coming from collecting data from all of the different pieces, the different infrastructure, whether that's your fiber infrastructure or your wireless infrastructure. And then to solve problems, you need to correlate data across those systems. So we're seeing more and more technologies that allow you to do that correlation. And that's really where we're finding tons of value, right? Thomas, take us through what you guys do as a product, the value proposition, the secret sauce, and why here with Jeremy, why is this conversation important for the folks watching? What's the connection between Chaos Search and BAI communications? Well, it's data, right? And lots of it. So our unique platform allows people like Jeremy to stream all this data, right?  And so providing the analysis of that data for their operations is challenging, particularly based on technology and architectures that have been around for a long time. So what we do here at Chaos Search is the ability for BIA to stream all these devices, all these services into one centralized data lake on their cloud-op storage, where we connect to that cloud-op storage and transform it into an analytical database to do, in this case, log analytics and do it seamlessly, easily, where a new workload, a new stream just streams into that lake and we as a service takeover, we discover, we index it and publish well-known open APIs and visualization so that they can focus on their business and not all the operational data pipeline, database and data engineering type work that, again, at these type of scales is frankly a nightmare. You know, one of the things we've always observed on the queue, when you see new things come out that are really cool groundbreaking products like you guys are doing, it's always a challenge to manage the cost and complexity of bringing in the new. So Jeremy, take us through this tech stack here because, you know, sometimes it might be unwieldy just from a tech stack perspective, never mind the business logic or the business processes that got to be either unwound or changed. Can you take us through the IT stack that's critical to support your area? Absolutely, so with all the various different equipment, you know, to provide our public Wi-Fi and our Das, carrier agnostic LT and 5G networks, you know, we need to be able to adhere to PCI compliance and ISO 27,000. So that, you know, requires us to keep a tremendous amount of our data and the challenge we were facing is how do we do that cost effectively and not have to make any sort of compromises on how we do that. A lot of times you'll find you don't know the value of your data today until tomorrow. An example would be COVID, you know, we, when we were storing data two years ago, we weren't planning for a pandemic, but now that we were able to retain that data and look back, we can see a tremendous amount of value with trying to forecast how our systems will recover when things get back to normal. And so when I met Thomas and we were sort of talking about how we were going to solve some of these data retention problems, he started explaining to me their compression and some of the performance metrics of their profession.  And it's been a bit of a running joke between me and him and I'm sure others, but it's incredibly impressive the amount of data we're able to store at the kind of cost, right? What problem did he solve for you? Because, I mean, these guys, obviously, you know, the startups have a lot of clouds enabling more value now we're seeing this. But when you look at this, what was your core problem that you have? Yeah, so we want to be able to, I mean, primarily this is for our syslog server. And syslog servers today aren't what they were 10, 15 years ago where you just sort of had a machine and if something broke, you went and looked. Right now they're very complex. That data is feeding to various systems and third-party software. So, you know, we're actively looking for changes in patterns and we have our security teams auditing these for penetration testing and such. And then the getting that data to S3 so that we could have it in case, you know, for two, three years of storage. Well, the problem we're facing is all of that, all of these different systems we needed to feed and retain data, we couldn't do that on site. We wanted to use S3, but when we were doing some projections, it's like we don't really have the budget for all of these places meeting Thomas and working with Chaos Search, you know, using their compression brought those costs down drastically. And then as we've been working with them, the really exciting thing is they're bringing more and more features to that service or offering. So, you know, first it was just storing that data away and now we're starting to build solutions off of that sitting in storage. So that's where it gets really exciting because, you know, there it's nothing to start getting anomaly detection off those logs, which, you know, originally it was just, we need to store them in case somebody needs them two, three years from now. So Thomas, so I get this right then, what I'm hearing is obviously I've put aside the complexity and the governance side of the regulations for a minute, just generally, data retention as a key value proposition, having data available when you need it and then to do that and doing it in a very cost effective, simple way. Sounds like what you guys are offering, is that right? Yeah, I mean, one key aspect of our solution is retention, right? Those are a lot of the challenges, but at the same time we provide real-time notification like a classic log analytic type platform, a learning, monitoring. The key thing is bringing both those worlds together and solving that problem. And so this, you know, middle in, middle out, well, to be frank, we created a new technology called what we call KS Index. That is a database index that is wonderfully small as we're indicating, but also provides all the features that makes cloud-opped storage high performance. And so the idea is that use this lake offering to store all your data in a cost effective way, but our service allows you to analyze it both in a long retention perspective as well as real-time perspective and bringing those two worlds together is so key because typically you have silo solutions and whether it's real-time at scale or retention at scale, the cost, complexity, and time to build out those solutions that I know Jeremy knows also well, a lot of the folks come to us to solve those problems because, you know, when you're dealing with, you know, terabytes and up, you know, these things get complicated and to be frank, fall over quite often. Yeah, let me just ask you the question that's probably on everyone's mind who's watching and you guys probably have both heard this many times because a lot of people just throw the data lake solution around like it's, you know, they whitewashed their kind of old legacy solutions with, oh, data lake, store it in a data lake. It's been called the data swamp. So people are fearful that, okay, I love this idea of a data lake. Who doesn't like throwing data into a repository having it available at will with notifications, all this secret magic beans that just magically create value. But I doubt that. I don't want to turn into a data swamp. So Thomas and Jeremy, talk about that concern. How do you mitigate that? How do you talk to that? Because if done properly, there's huge value in having a control plane or some sort of data system that is going to be tied in with signals and just storage retention. So I see the value. How do you manage the concern that people might say, hey, I don't want a data swamp? Yeah, I'll jump into that. So, you know, let's just be frank. Hadoop was a great tool for a very narrow scenario. I think that data swamp came out because people were using the tooling in an incorrect way. I've always had the belief that data lakes are the future. You just have to have the right service, the right philosophy to leverage it. So what we do here at KS Search is we allow you to organize it, discover it, automatically index that data so that swamp doesn't get swampy. You know, when you stream data into your lake, how do you organize it such that it has a nice stream? How do you transform that data into value? So with our service, we actually start where the storage begins. Not an endpoint, not an archive. So we have tooling and services that keep your lake from being swampy to be clear. And, but the key value is the benefits of the lake, the cost effectiveness, the reliability, the security, the scale. Those are all the benefits. The problem was that no one really made cloud storage a first class citizen and we've done that. We've dressed the swamp nature but provided all the value of analysis and that cost metrics, that scale, no one can touch cloud storage. It just, you can't. But what we've done is cracked the code of how you make it analytical. Jereme, I want to get your thoughts on this too. On your side, I mean, as a practitioner and customer of these solutions, you know, the concern is, am I missing anything? And I've been a big proponent of data retention for many, many years. You know, Dave Vellante and R-Cube, those all know that I bang on the table all the time. Store your data, be a data hoarder because it's going to come back and be valuable. Costs are going down, so I'm a big fan of data retention. But the fear might be, what am I missing? Because machine learning starts to come in down the road, you got AI, the more data you have that's accessible in real time, the more machine learning is effective. Do you worry about missing anything or you just store everything? We store everything. Sometimes it's interesting where the value and insights come from your data, something that might seem trivial today down the road offers tremendous, tremendous value. So one of the things we do is provide, because we have Wi-Fi in the subway infrastructure, you know, taking that Wi-Fi data, we can start to understand the flow of people in and out of the subway network. And we can take that and provide insights to the rail operators, which get them from A to B quicker. You know, when we built the Wi-Fi, it wasn't with the intention of getting Torontonians across the city faster, but that was one of the values that we were able to get from the data. In terms of, you know, Thomas's solution, I think one of the reasons we engaged him in the first place is because I didn't believe his compression. It sounded a little too good to be true. And so when it was time to try them out, you know, all we had to do was ship data to an S3 bucket. You know, there's tons of solutions to do that and data shippers right out of the box. It took a few, you know, a few minutes. And then to start exploring the data was in Cabana, or their dashboard, which is, you know, an interface that's easy to use. So we were, you know, within a two days getting the value out of that data that we were looking for, which is, you know, phenomenal. We've been very happy. Thomas, sounds like you got a great, great testimony here. And it's not like an easy problem that he's living in there. I mean, I think, you know, I was mentioning this earlier and we're going to get into it now. There's regulations and there's certain compliance issues. At first of all, everyone has this problem now. It's not just within that space, but just the technical complexities of packets moving around. I got it on my wifi and the stop here. I'm jumping over here. I mean, there's a ton of data. It's all over the place. It's totally unstructured. So it's a tough, tough test for you guys, chaos search. So, yeah, it's almost like the Mount Everest of customer testimonials. You got it. It's a big, it's a big use case here. How does this translate to other clients and talk about this governance and security controls? Because I know there's highly regulated, you can actually, there's penalties involved on his side of the world and Telco, the providers that have these edge devices, there's actually penalties and whatnot. So not just commercials, maybe risk management, but here there's actually penalties. Absolutely. So, centralizing your data has a real benefit of not getting in trouble, right? So you have one place, you store one place. That's a good thing. But what we've done, and this was a key aspect to our offering is we as chaos search folks, we don't own the customer's data. We don't own BIAs data. They own the data. They give us access rights, very standard way with cloud app storage, roll on policies from Amazon. We don't only access rights to their data. And so not only a customer's data is a big selling point, not only for them, but for us, for compliance regulatory perspective. So, unlike a lot of solutions where you move the data into them and now they are responsible, actually BIA owns everything. They provide access so that we could provide analysis that they could turn off at any point in time. We're also socked to type one and type two compliant and you got to do it. In this world, when we were young, we ran at this because of all these compliance scenarios that we'll be in. But the long and short of it is we're transient service. The storage, cloud storage is the source of truth where all data resides. And think about it, it's architecturally smart. It's cost effective. It's secure. It's reliable, durable. But from a security perspective, having the customer own their own data is a big differentiation in the market, a big differentiation. Chairman, talk about on your end, the security control surrounding the log management environments that span across countries with different regulations. Now you got all kinds of policy dimensions and technical dimensions and topology dimensions. Yeah, absolutely. So how we approach it is we look at where we have offerings across the globe and we figure out what the sort of highest watermark level of adherence we need to hit. And then we standardize across that. And by shipping to S3, it allows us to enforce that governance really easily. And right to Tom's point, we manage the data, which is very important to us. And we don't have to be worried about a third party or if we want to change providers years down the road, although I don't think anyone's coming out with 81% compression anytime soon. But yeah, so that's for us, it's about meeting those high standards and having the technologies that enable us to do it. And Chaos Search is a very big part of that right now. Well, let me ask you a question for the folks watching that are like really interested in this topic. What would you say to them when evaluating Chaos Search? Obviously your use case is complex, but so are others. As enterprises start to have an edge, obviously the security posture shifts, everything shifts. There's no more perimeter and the data problem becomes acute to them. So the enterprises are going to start seeing what you've been living for in your world. What's your advice to people watching? My advice would be to give them a try. It has been really quite impressive. The customer service has been hands-on and we've been getting, they've been under promising and over delivering, which when you have the kind of requirements to manage solutions in these very complex environment, cloud, local, various data centers and such, that kind of customer service is very important, right? It enables us to continue to deliver those high-quality solutions. So Thomas, give us the overview of the secret sauce. You've got great testimonial here. You've got people watching. What's different now in the world that you're going after? What wave are you on? Talk to the people who are watching this and saying, okay, why Chaos Search? Why are you relevant? Obviously there's some cool things you're doing. I love that. What's cool and what's relevant and what's in it for them if they work with you? Yeah, so that whole Silicon Valley reference actually got that from my patent attorney when we were talking. But yeah, no, we focus on, if we can crack this code of making data wonderfully small, store small, move small, process small, but then make it multi-model access, make it virtual transformation. If we could do that and we could transform cloud over storage into a high-performance, analytical database, all these heavy, heavy problems, all that complexity that scaffolding that you build to do these types of scales would be solved. Now, what we had to focus on, and this has been my, I guess you say, live passion is working on a new data representation and that's who our secret sauce that enables a new architecture, a new service that where the customer focus on their tooling, their APIs, their visualizations that they know and love, what we focus is on taking that data lake and again, to transform it into an analytical database both for log analytics, think of like elastic search replacement as well as a BI replacement for your SQL warehousing database and coming out later this year into 2022, ML support on one representation, you don't have to silo your information, you don't have to re-index your data, both so elastic search, SQL and actually ML TensorFlow access on the exact set of representation. So think about the data retention, doing some post analysis on all those logs of data, months, years, and then maybe set up some triggers when you see some anomaly that's happening within your service. So you think about it, the hunt with BI reporting, with predictive analysis on one platform, again, it sounds a little unicorn, I agree with Jeremy, maybe it didn't sound true, but it's been a life's work. So it didn't happen overnight and it's eight years at least in the making, but I guess a life journey in the end. Well, you know the timing is great, all the database geeks out there who have been following the data industry know that it's a good point for structured data, but when you start getting into mechanisms and they become a bottleneck or a blocker to innovation, you're starting to see this idea of a data lake being let the data kind of form, let it be, I don't want, I hate the word control plane, but more of a connective tissue between systems is becoming an interesting thing. So now you can store everything. So you know, no worries there, no blind spots and then let the magic of machine learning in the future come around. So Jeremy, with that I got to ask you since you're the bad boy of data analytics at B.A.I. Communications, head of data analytics. What do you look for in the future as you start to set this up? Because I can almost imagine and connecting the dots here in the interview, you got the data lake, you're storing everything, which is good. Now you have to create more insights and get ahead of the curve and provide some prescriptive and automated ways to do things better. What's your vision? First, I would just like to say that, you know, when astrophysicists talk about, you know, dark, dark energy, dark matter, I'm convinced that's where Thomas is hiding the ones and zeros to get that compression. I don't know that to be fact, but I know it to be true. And then in terms of machine learning and these sort of future technologies which are becoming available, you know, starting from scratch and trying to build out, you know, models that have value, you know, that takes a fair amount of work and that landscape keeps changing, right? Being able to push our data into an S3 bucket and then, you know, retain that data and then get anomaly detection on top of it. That's, I mean, that's something special and that unlocks a lot of ability for, you know, our teams to very easily deliver anomaly detection machine learning to our customers without having to take on a lot of work to understand the latest and greatest in machine learning. So I mean, it's really empowering to our team, right? And a tool that we're going to. Yeah, and I love the name Chaos Search, Thomas. I got to say, you know, it brings up the inside baseball around Chaos Monkey, which everyone knows was a DevOps tool to create kind of day two, simulate day two operations and disruptions in DevOps. But what you're really getting at is a whole new architecture that's beyond DevOps movement. It's like next gen architecture. Talk about that to the people watching who have a lot of legacy and want to transform over to a more enabling platform that's going to give them some headroom for their data. What do you say to them? How do they get started? How should they, what's their mindset? What are some first principles you can share? Well, you know, I always start with first principles, but, you know, I like to say we're the next and next gen. The key thing with the Chaos Search offering is you can start today without even Chaos Search. Stream your data to S3. We're going to make hip and cool data lakes again. And actually it's, Google it now. Data lakes are hip and cool. So start streaming now. Start managing your data in a well-formed, centralized viewpoint with security, governance and cost-effectiveness. Then call Chaos Search up and we'll make access to it easily, simply to ultimately solve your problems. Debug whether your security issue, debug whether it's performance issues at scale, right? And so when workloads can be added instantaneously in your data lake, it's game-changing. It's mind-changing. So from the DevOps folks where, you know, you're up all night trying to say, how am I going to scale from terabyte, you know, one today to 50 terabytes? Don't. Stream it to S3. We'll take over. We'll worry about that scale pain. You worry about your job of security, performance, operations, integrity. That really highlights the cloud-scale value proposition as apps start to be using data as an input, not just as a part of a repo. So great stuff. Thomas, thanks for sharing your life's work and your technology magic. Jeremy, thanks for coming on and sharing your use cases with us and how you are making it all work. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, this is the cubes coverage and presenting. 80 Ways to Startup showcase the next big thing here with Chaos Search. I'm John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching.


Alright my friends, from far and wide, welcome back to another video, welcome back to the channel. Today we enter straight back into the NFL's top 100 series with number 37 on the list, Deondre Hopkins aka Nuke. And look I'm not going to get into that story this year, I got into it last year. If you want to see what I thought about it and what, you know, how he actually got that nickname, please by all means head back into my previous playlist, NFL's top 100 players of 2021 and find out, find out for yourself. Not only that but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure his mum might be blind. She goes to the games with family and gets them to describe to her what he does.  I mean she says, I think she said something last year, it got me, it got me really teared up. She said like, you know, why do you do that or, or don't step out or something like that. I can't exactly remember but it was a real tearjerker.  So without further ado, let's get into the video. I've always been a huge fan of, of DeAndre Hopkins even before he became a teammate of mine. Someone put de hop, just the things that he does, the kind of respect that he commands in the field. It can be a defensive coordinator's nightmare. It's a drop of 29, but he's still a defensive coordinator's nightmare. So cheers for that. Cheers for that Chandler. You've always got something, you've always got something wise to say. He's definitely a great player. Real talented, great hands. Where's he at? He's at the, so he's at, so he's played one season at the Cardinals. Prior to that it was the Texans. Talk about dead legs. That's a dead leg and a half. And that's a penalty. Throw the flag ref. Get off me. And he still takes the catch, unbelievable. I assume that would have been a defensive penalty and they would have declined it. And if it's a 50-50 ball, a lot of times he comes down with it. It is caught for a touchdown by DeHop. That dead leg was something else. DeHop caught it. Despite playing in only 10 games, DeAndre Hopkins scored eight touchdowns. And it's caught in the back of the end zone by Hopkins and he's got his feet down for the touchdown. 10 games. Why is that? Let's find out. And at the same time, let's have a look at his stats. To all our readers in New Zealand, please don't scroll past this. This Wednesday for the first time recently, we humbly ask you to defend Wikipedia's independence. 98% of our readers don't give. They simply look the other way. And unfortunately, Wikipedia, at this point, I'm part of that 98%. Let's move on. 30 years of age, June 6, 1992, is his birthday. Six foot one, 212 pounds. Went to Clemson, 2010 to 2012. Pick number 27 in the first round of the 2013 draft. Went to the Texans for seven seasons. He's been at the Cardinals for two. Three first-team All-Pro selections, two second-team All-Pro selections. Five Pro Bowl selections, with his last being in 2020. And he was the NFL receiving touchdowns leader in 2017. Came into the league with a 4.57 second, 40 yard dash. A three cone drill in 6.83 seconds, which is pretty elite. 36 inches in the vertical, nine foot seven on the ball jump. And 15 reps on the bench press. Now let's move down to his 2021 season. So he played week one. I'm pretty sure he played all the way through to week 10. Suffered a hamstring injury, which took him out of the game for the next three games. Actually, that might not be right. But regardless, in week 14, he suffered a second injury, a torn MCL, and was placed on Indra Reserve on December 18th. He finished the season with 42 catches for 572 yards, and eight touchdowns through 10 games. So he had two injuries, a hamstring injury. And then shortly after that, a torn MCL. So he was in the wars. He was in the wars, no doubt. And this is something I wasn't aware of. On May 2nd, 2022, the NFL announced that Hopkins would be suspended for the first six games of the season for a violation of the league's performance enhancing drugs policy. Well, well, well, as a bodybuilding fan, I know all about that. And I'd love to know more. Let's have a look at the news story. I'll get that up. But first and foremost, 136 career regular season games, 10,581 yards. So he actually already had 10,000 receiving yards prior to last season. But he added 572 for good measure, 68 receiving touchdowns, only four rushing attempts in his entire career. That seems, I don't know, he's clearly an out-and-out receiver, longest rushing attempt of 12 yards, his longest catch being 76 yards for a touchdown in 2014, his longest catch last year in 2021 being a 55-yard reception. 10 fumbles, seven lost. Not that that really matters. In the post-season, I'll tell you what, Houston were absolutely balling. Six games through four years, five years, sorry, five seasons, six games. 37 receptions for 446 yards and one touchdown. Well, let's hope you can add to that this year. All right, so you know what? I am going to run through this story just quickly. He was raised by a single mother, Sabrina Greenlee, with whom he had a strong relationship. He credits her for his success. She had two jobs throughout his childhood and worked at an automotive factory. In July 2002, she had a boiling concoction of lye and bleach thrown on her by Savannah Grant, age 24. Greenlee had caught her boyfriend at the time having an affair with Grant. The attack resulted, so a bit of a love triangle here, the attack resulted in the skin rapidly peeling off her neck, face, and back.  The gas station attendant called number one and she was rushed to hospital, where she was placed in a medically-induced coma for three weeks and had skin grafts applied to her face. She suffered burns over 17% of her body. Her attacker was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and received a 20-year sentence. She has been incarcerated since 2003. Hopkins' mother, Sabrina Greenlee, was left completely blind as a result of this attack, and that goes back to what I said earlier. All right, guys, let's get back into the video. That is beyond belief, mate. Touchdown! What a catch! Hey. How you got his feet down? Hopkins' numbers may have been down, but his highlight real plays and respect from peers are still elite. Hopkins' a great player, physical player. I mean, he's the guy that's initiating the contact. I mean, not many receivers, I feel, do that. Hmm, interesting point. Well, how De'Andre Hopkins broke the tackle, it looked like he was dead to rights. Hang on, let's have a look at that again. Receivers, I feel, do that. Off the left. Well, how De'Andre Hopkins broke the tackle, it looked like he was dead to rights. Stabbed the pig out of the air and brought it in for a touchdown catch.  Fourth and two on the Bears, 20. Looks right, throws a deep ball right side in the end zone, and it's caught! Do they rule in bounds or out of bounds? Out of bounds, incomplete. Now the officials are having a conversation. Excuse me? Sation, might they change the... Yeah, take another look at that, mate, please. Get the touchdown, touchdown. It's De'Andre Hopkins. He's gonna be there or thereabouts. De'Andre Hopkins. Get the touchdown, it's a given of all. I'm definitely deemed... There he is, there he is again, he's back. Straight off the field, into the studio, and... You know what, I'd absolutely love to see him on the list. I don't think we will, for whatever reason. This is classic, this is vintage. This is Dante Dayan. He's saying, hey, if I got a one-on-one, let me get a half of it. What would this crew have said when he walks in there in his training gear? They probably have loved it, I would have. Because he gets a lot of one-on-one opportunities and he makes majority of them. De'Andre Hopkins.  He's being pressed at the line of scrimmage. Excuse me. He makes majority of them. De'Andre Hopkins was being pressed at the line of scrimmage. He could put that into a fade. They don't like one-on-one matches anymore. Huh? I said they don't like one-on-one matches anymore. His catch radius is crazy. He goes up, attacks the ball, high points it. Keep on going downfield on them. Keep on going downfield on them. Hopkins got behind his man, it's caught. Guess who's there? De'Andre Hopkins. What a great grab by one of the best to ever do it. Great hands. He's a playmaker, a dog. Who's that guy? Hands. Laviska Chanult Jr. Jags wide receiver. Well, that's piqued my interest. I don't think he'd be on the list. At least not this year. But with a guy like Trevor Lawrence at the helm, he might just get there. I suppose you'd most probably... Unless you're a guy like De'Andre Hopkins, you've probably got to have at least 1,000 receiving yards to even have a hope of making the list. But all the best to him. And all the best to De'Hop this year, this coming year. Hopefully he can stay healthy for the 17 games. And hopefully he can make it into the playoffs. Because there's nothing worse than playing a full season of NFL football and not making the playoffs. It's the same in the NBA. It's the same in the Super Rugby. You want to make the playoffs. You play those games. You play those round robin games. You put your all into absolutely every single game just for the chance to make the playoffs. Nothing else. Nothing else matters. Anyways, guys, that was a bit of a rabbit hole for me. It happens. He's a playmaker, a dog. And he looks like a really nice guy. Crazy. Same as this guy. I'm going to lie, Marlon Humphrey. Anyways, in the next video, we're looking at a Raven. Quarterback, Lamar Jackson. And look, it'd be rude of me not to go and get his jersey. But I did wear it for a fair few videos there on the list. So I'm not going to do that. But this should be an interesting one. You know, he's dynamite on the ground and he's got a decent throw. We'll look into it. Cheers, guys. Thanks for watching. And I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.


Welcome, welcome back. Remember the hashtag as always is hashtag entrepreneurship Tuesday at why in the morning is The place to be at why 254 channel is where you can find us across all our social media handles at Michelle Ashira is where you can find me across all my social in this particular session.  It's a conversation that you want to stick around for especially if you're into Content creation, you know understand at this particular time the world has become a global village and anything that you put out in terms of content It doesn't doesn't go viral or it doesn't get to be known Okay, out of just by chance All right, so it's there's a whole strategy that goes behind the scene to come up with good content and Viral one but that's by that so in studio. I am joined with a content creator Isaac Sorry innocent. I don't know My director is called Isaac My guest today is called innocent Matala. He's a content creator and a good one By that so he'll be taking us The aspect of what he takes when it comes to viral marketing and how to you know craft good content That can sell you out there give you leads and also sales at the same time. Can you be sana innocent? All right, so for anyone who's missing you for the first time if there's anything that I've missed on your bio Briefly take us through who innocent Matala is his educational background as well Okay, thanks a lot for having me. My name is innocent Matara. I'm I'm a content creator and a digital marketer With six years experience working for standard group as a tv producer stroke director Then I have a diploma in marketing from the Kenyan Institute of Management. So what happened is after I got my diploma. I got an internship with the standard group Where now I've been working for the last Six years as a tv producer Then during this covid season I got I got A training from the u.s. Embassy about digital strategy And also I enrolled for a diploma in social media management from The alleys on college. So after I thought I was satisfied I decided now to try it out as a whole Okay All right, so you've been into the media space for a span of six years Oh, fantastic. So, uh, when would you say that you're genuine when it comes to content marketing all began And who are the people that you work with mostly? In your line of work Okay, and now maybe if defining the content we say we have different types of content that people put across out there We have the blogs people write We have videos for people who do now the visuals. We have graphics infographics We have now For the videos now that that is where now the ig the tiktok facebook youtube falls so Anyone who's doing anything informative Is creating content if you are creating something that is giving information to the public out there You are a content creator. So my journey Let's say has been content creation for tv But since covid I've now settled on now doing content for social media Yeah, because now It's like covid has forced people now to go to social media Making like you are saying making the world a global village So I decided now it was time to tap into social media because having the knowledge of tv production and also a background in marketing now It was a good time for me to position myself as a social media content creator and marketer Fantastic, you know for anyone who creates content be it for youtube or any other social media platform I think one of the key things they always tell you out there when you do your research is know your audience So how do you know that these particular people? I am catering for this particular audience and also they say that you draw in traffic So what is the difference between Knowing your audience and actually traffic there Okay, the first step when creating When you start creating a content is to ask yourself What is the type? What is this type of content that I would like to share out there? So the content will determine the market For example, if you are doing Let's say content about how to do makeup Then automatically your audience will be the ladies and the female The female around you know, if you're doing content like for makeup and you're targeting men It's a bit awkward. Yeah So the content ideally determines the market So if you are doing maybe relationship Relationship advice content You're doing that for the general public because at least the general Participating in having a relationship or two if you're doing content for let's say How to how to service your car You'll be particularly looking for those people who own or want to own A car So I'll say the content determines the audience So what if if you're try if you're new and you're trying to just at least maybe You're trying to test the waters and see what is the right audience My advice would be put three different types of audience The matik audience put maybe something take take wise Put something relationship wise and put something maybe Food wise how to cook in terms of content in terms of content So maybe three minutes three minutes three minutes upload the contents across your social media handles Then wait for give yourself a week or a month then with With the view with the views that will every content will get you'll see which one is selling for you So if people are watching how to how to cook mostly I'll suggest that you continue with that because that is seen to be picking within your channel Okay. Yeah, because I believe that then that's make you're actually like Broken it down in an easier because if you tell someone understand your audience then I don't know what Vision is my audience, especially if I'm just starting starting off Okay. Yeah, I think that one that one has made it way easier. So let's look at The aspect of everyone wants to create something unique and always feel like that one also gears in the aspect of just Post like just prolonging you the aspect of you starting Yeah, so how can we just go beyond the aspect of I want to create something new I want to be the first one to originate an idea like to stand out which is very important But it also like pulls you down in a laid-back situation or you don't move. So how do you go beyond that? I'd say You you don't really need to to have an original content to to start because We are always told that nothing is new under the sun Yes, so what really happens in content creation is you try to Remodify whatever is existing like for example If you have content You you you shoot content raw content and you upload Then there's person B who shoots the same content and adds graphics Then there's person three words background music and adds graphics to it The person who adds background music and graphics is content He saw our content will be more superior than these other content so You don't feel like it brings him procrastination the fact that I'm waiting till I get you see this one good idea Then I'm just going to start after I get this one. If I get these tools of production Then that's when I start. Let's look at tools of production because when it comes to Any sort of content creation everyone wants to look at good content Quality content that is, you know, you want your visual to be on point the sounds to be on point as well And and unfortunately They don't come cheap. So let's look on that from that aspect of affordability okay, um Like you've mentioned the crucial things in content production would be the the camera the audio input and Maybe the content itself so for the equipment Equipment needed to to pull out some good content You can pull out a good content if you use your phone and you have proper lighting and you have Audio that is just at least You shoot in a in a in a quiet place so Until any content creator who's starting and their law on budget is Use daylight Use daylight as your key source of light shoot during the day Shoot in a place that is not not noisy There if if you can't you if you can't buy a lapel mic you can't even use your earphones as a mic so Then they are instead of maybe they are there applications that Maybe the final cut application You can there are softwares that now I tell people with final cuts Final cut is a is a software that most professional news to edit their content Yeah, but um with technology evolving There are new Softwares that are easy to use. I've seen people using them for tiktok For instagram quite fast as well. He has quite fast Saves on the data So I think you need You just use daylight use use what you have use what you have Then they say content is king. So if the content is dope Even if the the equipment are bit shifty They can just work. All right, let's look at the aspect of I have I have good You know followed your advice, right? I have good quality production tools visual on point. How do you


This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Nearly a billion and a half people, mainly in Asia and Africa, were living without electricity in 2009. That latest count from the International Energy Agency was an improvement. In Asia, three out of four people in developing countries had electricity in rural areas. So did almost everyone in cities. But in Africa, the rate was less than 70% in cities and just one fourth of the people in rural areas. There are many efforts to find low-cost ways to light homes. One idea is a water bulb. This system has recently been used to brighten more than 100 homes in the Korokocho settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. These included the home of Medina Musen's family. Members of a youth group installed the water bulb. First, they filled a 2-liter plastic bottle with water and a little bleach.  They pressed the bottle halfway into the hole. Then they used silicone caulk to seal around it to prevent rain from coming in. In no time, the home was lit with about 50 to 60 watts worth of light. The combination of water and bleach refracts light from the sun and a full moon. The bleach keeps the water clear. Medina Musen, like many of her neighbors, was spending a lot of kerosene to light her home. Now she says she will save almost half of her weekly income. Her son Abbas can now read a book at home in the middle of the day. Veronica Wanjiru and her two children also have a water bulb in their home. She says her older son had to repeat a grade in school because he could not get his homework done when their home was dark.  If they're given homework, they can finish it on time and they don't have to wait for me to come and light the candle or go outside and do their studies outside so that they can finish their homework. In the Philippines, a non-profit group called My Shelter Foundation has used a similar low-cost lighting solution in thousands of homes. The project is called A Leader of Light. The head of the group, Iac Diaz, says the idea is better than candles and kerosene and offers a great new use for old plastic soda bottles. It's safer, it's healthier, it's brighter, and the funny thing is the light bulb actually comes from the place you'd least expect it, which is the trash bin, so it's the cheapest light bulb in the world. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. You can watch a video about the water bulb at voaspecialenglish.com.


We continue today with Chapter 26, The Laws of Healing. This is a course in miracles. As such, the laws of healing must be understood before the purpose of the course can be accomplished. Let us review the principles that we have covered and arrange them in a way that summarizes all that must occur for healing to be possible, for when it once is possible, it must occur. All sickness comes from separation. When the separation is denied, it goes, for it is gone as soon as the idea that brought it has been healed and been replaced by sanity. Sickness and sin are seen as consequence and cause in a relationship kept hidden from awareness that it may be carefully preserved from reason's light. Guilt asks for punishment and its request is granted, not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on sin. The Son of God perceived what he would see because perception is a wish fulfilled. Perception changes made to take the place of changeless knowledge, yet its truth unchanged. It cannot be perceived but only known. What is perceived takes many forms, but none has meaning. Brought to truth, its senselessness is quite apparent. Kept apart from truth, it seems to have a meaning and be real. Perception's laws are opposite to truth, and what is true of knowledge is not true of anything that is apart from it. It has God given answer to the world of sickness, which applies to all its forms. God's answer is eternal, though it works in time, where it is needed. Yet because it is of God, the laws of time do not affect its workings. It is in this world, but not part of it, for it is real and dwells where all reality must be. Ideas leave not their source and their effects but seem to be apart from them. Ideas are of the mind. What is projected out and seems to be external to the mind is not outside at all, but an effect of what is in and has not left its source. God's answer lies where the belief in sin must be, for only there can its effects be utterly undone and without cause. Perception's laws must be reversed because they are reversals of the laws of truth. The laws of truth forever will be true and cannot be reversed. It can be seen as upside down, and this must be corrected where the illusion of reversal lies. It is impossible that one illusion be less amenable to truth than are the rest, but it is possible that some are given greater value and less willingly offered to truth for healing and for help. No illusion has any truth in it, yet it appears some are more true than others, although this clearly makes no sense at all. All that a hierarchy of illusions can show is preference, not reality. What reverence has preference to the truth? Illusions are illusions and are false. Your preference gives them no reality. Not one is true in any way, and all must yield with equal ease to what God gave his answer to them all. God's will is one, and any wish that seems to go against his will has no foundation in the truth. Sin is not error, for it goes beyond correction to impossibility. Yet the belief that it is real has made some errors seem forever past the hope of healing and the lasting grounds for hell. If this were so, would heaven be opposed by its own opposite, as real as it? Then would God's will be split in two, and all creation be subjected to the laws of two opposing powers, until God becomes impatient, splits the world apart, and relegates attack unto himself? Thus has he lost his mind, proclaiming sin has taken his reality from him and brought his love at last to vengeance's heel. For such an insane picture and insane defense can be expected, but cannot establish that the picture must be true. Nothing gives meaning where no meaning is, and truth needs no defense to make it true. Illusions have no witnesses and no effects. Who looks on them is but deceived. Forgiveness is the only function here, and serves to bring the joy this world denies to every aspect of God's Son, where sin was thought to rule. Perhaps you do not see the role forgiveness plays in ending death and all beliefs that arise from mist of guilt. Sins are beliefs that you impose between your brother and yourself.  This separating off is symbolized in your perception by a body, which is clearly separate and the thing apart. Yet what this symbol represents is but your wish to be apart and separate. Forgiveness takes away what stands between your brother and yourself. It is the wish that you be joined with him and not apart. We call it, quote, wish because it still conceives of other choices and has not yet reached beyond the world of choice entirely. Yet is this wish in line with heaven state and not in opposition to God's will? Although it falls far short of giving you your full inheritance, it does remove the obstacles that you have placed between the heaven where you are and recognition of where and what you are. Facts are unchanged, yet facts can be denied and thus unknown, though they were known before they were denied. Salvation, perfect and complete, ask but a little wish that what is true be true, a little willingness to overlook what is not there, a little sigh that speaks for heaven as a preference to this world that death and desolation seem to rule. In joyous answer will creation rise within you to replace the world you see with heaven, wholly perfect and complete. What is forgiveness but a willingness that truth be true? What can remain unhealed and broken from a unity which holds all things within itself? There is no sin and every miracle is possible the instant that the Son of God perceives His wishes and the will of God as one. What is the will of God? He wills His Son have everything and this He guaranteed when He created Him as everything. It is impossible that anything be lost if what you have is what you are. This is the miracle by which creation became your function, sharing it with God. It is not understood apart from Him and therefore has no meaning in this world. Here does the Son of God ask not too much but far too little. He would sacrifice His own identity with everything to find a little treasure of His own and this He cannot do without a sense of isolation, loss and loneliness. This is the treasure He has sought to find and He could only be afraid of it. Is fear a treasure? Can uncertainty be what you want? Or is it a mistake about your will and what you really are? Let us consider what the error is so it can be corrected, not protected. Sin is belief, attack can be projected outside the mind where the belief arose. Here is the firm conviction that ideas can leave their source made real and meaningful. And from this error does the world of sin and sacrifice arise. This world is an attempt to prove your innocence while cherishing attack.  The effects are seen as separate from their source and seem to be beyond you to control or to prevent. What is thus kept apart can never join. Cause and effect are one, not separate. God wills you learn what always has been true, that He created you as part of Him and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source. Such is creation's law that each idea the mind conceives but adds to its abundance never takes away. This is as true of what is idly wished as what is truly willed because the mind can wish to be deceived but cannot make it be what it is not. And to believe that ideas can leave their source is to invite illusions to be true without success for never will success be possible in trying to deceive the Son of God. The miracle is possible when cause and consequence are brought together, not kept apart. The healing of effect without the cause can merely shift effects to other forms and this is not release. God's Son could never be content with less than full salvation and escape from guilt. For otherwise, He still demands that He must make some sacrifice and thus denies that everything is His, unlimited by loss of any kind. A tiny sacrifice is just the same in its effects as in the whole idea of sacrifice. If loss in any form is possible, then His God's Son made incomplete and not Himself. Nor will He know Himself nor recognize His will. He has foresworn His Father and Himself and made them both His enemies in hate. Illusions serve the purpose they were made to serve and from their purpose they derive whatever meaning they seem to have. God gave to all illusions that were made another purpose that would justify a miracle, whatever form they took. In every miracle all healing lies, for God gave answer to them all as one and what is one to Him must be the same. If you believe what is the same is different.  What God calls one will be forever one, not separate. His kingdom is united, thus it was created and thus will it ever be. The miracle but calls your ancient name, which you will recognize because the truth is in your memory. And to this name your brother calls for his release and yours. Heaven is shining on the Son of God. Deny Him not that you may be released.  In every wish to hurt He chooses death instead of what His Father wills for Him. Yet every instant offers life to Him because His Father wills that He should live. In crucifixion is redemption laid. For healing is not needed where there is no pain or suffering. Forgiveness is the answer to attack of any kind. So is attack deprived of its effects and hate is answered in the name of love.  For you have power to save the Son of God because His Father will let it be so. And in your hands does all salvation lie to be both offered and received as one. To use the power God has given you as He would have it used is natural. It is not arrogant to be as He created you nor to make use of what He gave to answer all His Son's mistakes and set Him free. But it is arrogant to lay aside the power that He gave and choose a little senseless wish instead of what He wills. The gift of God to you is limitless. There is no circumstance it cannot answer and no problem which is not resolved within its gracious slight. Abide in peace where God would have you be and be the means whereby your brother finds the peace in which your wishes are fulfilled. Let us unite in bringing blessings to the world of sin and death. For what can save each one of us can save us all. There is no difference among the sons of God. The unity that specialness denies will save them all. For what is one can have no specialness. And everything belongs to each of them. No wishes lie between a brother and his own. To get from one is to deprive them all. And yet to bless but one gives blessing to them all as one. Your ancient name belongs to everyone as theirs to you. Call on your brother's name and God will answer. For on him you call. Could he refuse to answer when he has already answered all who call on him? A miracle can make no change at all. But it can make what always has been true be recognized by those who know it not.  And all creation freed to call upon the name of God as one. And from the workbook, Lesson 208, 206. I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. Salvation of the world depends on me. I am entrusted with the gifts of God because I am his son. And I would give his gifts where he intended them to be. I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. Amen.