So I am back with another new world video for this festive event, ain't played in a week, just from in general being quite bored but there's some decent content here. Quite a farm to get all items, but do you want all items? I'm not sure we do. Either way there's a couple of items here which I believe some people are definitely going to want to try and get. I mean they seem kind of bogged or broken to me, but leave your thoughts below on these items when I explain what's actually going on here. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you do enjoy the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. Okay so shields in new world come into effect when you have a sword equipped and in hand. Whatever your thoughts on these that's a different story, but it's how they work and it's simply because they go hand in hand. The shield is meant to be used with that sword. The shield stat becomes useless unless you are using that sword and will have no effect on your build, even if you have one equipped. If I'm honest I think they may be broken, still I'm not too sure. When I last played I think people were asking for a fix, they may have implemented a fix, I'm not certain like I said, I need to update myself on the game right now. But I'm guessing they are fixed. But either way let's quickly check out stats on swords and shields. And what we see is these stats are low individually because Amazon expect players to pair them together. So combined they are pretty decent and offer what a standard weapon of the same level would offer. So seeing that they are relatively low when singled out and used individually, why is it that the new festive set actually combined guys give you a stat bonus of 50? Don't believe me, check this out. As you can see these at a gear score of a 520, they both give you a 25 stat bonus each on each item. Weird right? Now I ain't sure if this is intended or not, what these when used together would almost double the stats any other weapon can offer. Now like I said, I don't think this is intended, but why would Amazon add them into the game? But if you are a shield and sword user I would suggest this is definitely something you may want to consider gaining that respective revela reputation for. Because it's pretty interesting and I mean why not? I just thought I'd make a quick video informing players that these do exist. And well, on that quick note, the end of the video has arrived. If you enjoyed it, leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more new world be sure to subscribe. And if you never want to miss a video I upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


Growing up, I spent my summers working in a small amusement park located near my hometown. And I was a supervisor in the major rides area. We would spend time, of course, training people on how the rides operate and what to do to keep them running, but we spent a lot of time talking about what to do when things go wrong and how to be prepared for if the ride breaks down, if a customer gets sick, if a customer gets angry with you, all these different types of situations where things go wrong, how do we deal with that? And we spent a lot of time preparing for that in advance because we knew they were coming and we wanted people to know how to respond in that situation. No matter what organization you're a part of, you're going to have crises and so it's an imperative part of organizational communication to be prepared for those crises and in fact have a plan for when crises do occur and when negative things happen. In this video, we'll take a look at what it means to develop a crisis communication plan and be effective in planning for these worst-case scenarios. So let's take a look at the crisis plan checklist. What should be on our checklist in terms of preparing for and planning for a crisis? First of all, we have to make sure that our leadership is visible. We can't have the leaders of our organization go somewhere and hide and avoid the public, avoid the media, avoid everything. In fact, just the opposite, we need our leadership and the faces of our organization to be out front and visible in communicating what's going on and what we're doing as a result and how our organization is working to resolve this crisis, even if it's not something of our own making or even something that directly affects us. It's just something, you know, a natural disaster in our community or something. What is our organization doing? Our leadership needs to be the ones to present that. They need to be visible both for the sake of the employees seeing that happen and also the community. So our leadership has to be visible in these situations. We also need to, prior to any crisis, really, as we go along here, we need to be doing vulnerability analysis within our organization. What are some areas where, you know, things could crop up? If you're an organization, you work for a company that deals with dangerous chemicals. What happens if there's a chemical spill or if there's something about those chemicals that affects the community? We need to know that. That's a clear vulnerability for us and a potential crisis situation that could come up. So we need to have a plan for how we're going to respond and deal with that situation if it does occur. You know, even if it's not going on right now, we need to be prepared for that. And we need to just be really clear in looking at our organization and saying, Okay, these are the areas where there could be trouble potentially and seems most likely that there would be trouble. And how do we have a plan or what plan do we have to deal with that when those situations do occur? We need to have procedures in place for when those situations come up. If these vulnerability analyses that we're doing, if we find something to be more likely than maybe some others, okay, let's put a plan in place. Let's have some procedures in place so that we can pull it out of the file and say, Okay, here's what we need to do so that everybody's prepared. Like I talked about when I was working at that amusement park, we talked about things that most employees would probably never see happen. What if the ride breaks down in the middle of while you're running it? What do you do? We would drill them on that constantly. And though there was a 95% chance that that was not going to happen them ever in their time at the park, we wanted them to be prepared for if that 5% did occur. They would know immediately what to do their procedures in place. There are ways that we handle this. And they know what they are in there prepared to do that to help keep people safe and help people maintain their confidence in the in the organization as well. So we need to have those procedures in place. We need to plan for the worst case scenarios. You hope for the best and plan for the worst, right? So we need to plan for what happens if the worst happens. What are our procedures? How do we handle that? How do we communicate that to the public? How do we try and protect people, of course, their safety and their lives and also protect our organization's reputation hopefully and viability to continue. So we need to plan for the worst case scenarios, have some of those procedures in place and we need to identify them early through those vulnerability analysis. And then when it does happen, if it does happen, unfortunately, then we need to have our leadership visible and be out front on these things. One new wrinkle in public relations in modern times, of course, is the development of social media and the impact that it can have in a crisis. So let's take a look at some of the just kind of positive and negative attributes and aspects of having social media as a part of our response in a crisis and part of our world now. First, on the positive side, we can see that social media, first of all, allows us direct access to our publics. It's direct. It's a direct connection. There's no middleman. We don't have to rely on somebody else. It's not a game and telephone where things are going to get messed up slowly as the message gets sent out. We can communicate directly now with our publics through social media. And that's that's a good thing. That's helpful at times. It's immediate. We can get word out right away if there's an incident. We don't have to wait.  You can get a text alert. You can see it on Twitter. You can they'll email you all of these ways that they'll communicate. It's immediate. There's no more having to go through the news media and hope somebody sees it on the TV or in the newspaper or whatever. We can reach people directly and immediately. And then of course, there's a rapid spread as people spread the word. They share it easily via social media. We can get a rapid spread of our message and have it sent broadly in a very short amount of time. So we have that directness, the immediateness and the rapid spread that are positives in what we can do with social media during a crisis. However, there is a flip side. Of course, there are some negatives that come into play here. First, our message could get lost in the noise. There's so much on social media that it is possible for what we say to just get lost. It gets buried in somebody's feed and they never see it. It could get lost in that noise. We also have to remember there's a sense of permanence too. What if we send a message and it's the wrong message or it's something we wish we could take back? You can delete that post or whatever, but we all know that really it's permanent. Somebody's probably taking a screenshot of it. It's probably making the rounds or whatever.  So there's a permanence. We want to be sure that we're very careful about what we're expressing via social media as well. And then of course, no matter what, you're going to have trolls. You're just going to have people in the matter what your message is, even if it's benevolent, even if it's intended to be as positive as possible and helpful and looking out for the community. Somebody's going to take issue with it. Somebody's going to trash it. Somebody's going to come back with some smart aleck comment. And so they're always going to be trolls and we have to be prepared for that as well. It opens up the floodgates for people to pile on in a negative way via social media. So social media can have a very positive effect and can be used very effectively in a crisis. It can also be sort of a challenge though in some ways and we need to be aware of that. So when we're using social media in a crisis, there are a couple of guidelines to keep in mind. First of all, we want to use it to provide real time updates. We have that immediacy, so we want to use it to communicate with people in real time and not keep them waiting. We want to be transparent with these things and provide real time updates in as much as we can and as much as is wise to do so. We also want to put the word out quickly and widely, right? Put the word out quickly, widely. We want to get that word out in whatever message we want to share. We just want to assume it's going to go to the entire world and hopefully quickly. So those are the types of message we want to get out when we have something that we need to express to a mass audience and need to do so in a really fast rate of speed. Social media is the go to there. We do want to be sure that you were using one voice as an organization, meaning in social media, you don't want different posts from different departments and different leaders and different that you want to have in a crisis situation, one voice. The public should be able to go to one social media feed or address. You can have it on different platforms, but there ought to be one voice from the organization. Everybody else directing people to that specific channel or handle or feed or whatever and using one voice to communicate in the midst of a crisis so you don't have conflicting information. You don't have mixed messages. You just have one voice and speaking as a whole unit. You don't want to consider the media needs. If you have a chance to give the media a heads up, now this is a social media allows you to communicate directly with an audience and do so immediately, but you also have the media to consider in terms of maintaining positive relationships there. Give them a tip. Give them a heads up. Hey, we're about to release something. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed. We're going to have some information there or providing things electronically in a central area on your website, for example, where they can go to get news releases and get information like that. The media really appreciates anything you can do to make their job easier and to consider their needs in these types of situations as well. And finally, don't forget your employees. Keep your employees in the loop and make sure that they understand what's going on. Hopefully they're not getting the word from social media. Maybe you have a separate internal social media channel or communication channel that you can use to keep employees in the loop, but you can use social media to keep employees in the loop and make sure that they have an understanding of what's going on as well. But then we do need to remember that we need to be accessible through all of this. We can use social media to be accessible to our audiences to be accessible to the media, be accessible to the public to answer questions as best we can, which can get overwhelming, but we want to use it in such a way that it creates that relational two-way communication with our public in these types of situations that's incredibly important. So we know that there are a lot of stages to the crisis management process here, but it starts with being prepared. It begins with being prepared and as we talked about having that crisis plan in place, and then that allows you to respond in an effective way and in a more efficient way. So then we can, once we can do that, we can then move into the recovery phase as quickly as possible, where we're we're making restitution or we're correcting things, we're setting things right as much as possible and restoring the reputation of our organization and the confidence of the public has in us, and then we can move into mitigation and prevention. What can we do differently to make sure this doesn't happen again? We can, you know, what changes can we make to the process so that we can avoid these things in the future, and then we shift back into preparedness. Okay, now we reset, we look at, again, what are the potential crises and where are we vulnerable? We can do that vulnerability analysis and engage that in preparedness, and it just goes around. It's not a matter of if you have a crisis in an organization, it's a matter of when, how prepared are you, and how do you respond then as a result. So now you have a better understanding, I hope, of the importance of a crisis communication plan and the role that it plays in successfully navigating these situations as an organization.


I'm Deborah Borchardt and this is your Marijuana Money Minute. Cannabis Technology Company, Ocarina, said that cannabis sales over the Labor Day weekend exceeded a quarter of a billion dollars. However, the increase was lower than in previous years. Now this was attributed to the fact that people can buy cannabis pretty much all year around. August sales were big so they really weren't waiting for the big holiday to buy anything. We have a few earnings to review this week. Charlotte's Web, not a great quarter. They reported that their revenue fell from $25 million in 2019 to $21.6 million for the 2020 second quarter. They missed their average estimate for revenues, which was $25 million. They also missed the earnings per share estimate of a negative four cents. They came in at negative 13 and they delivered a net loss of $14 million for the quarter. That's versus last year's net income of $2.2 million. Karen Flour reported second quarter revenue of $28 million. Still, they had a net loss of $29 million. High Tide reported revenue in its third fiscal quarter of 2020 of $23 million. Now that was a big increase, 180% from last year's $8.29 million for the same time period. High Tide also delivered net income of $2.11 million versus a loss from operations of $4 million for the same time period. Trueleaf Cannabis is jumping out of Florida and into Pennsylvania. They're buying Pennsylvania's Pure Pen and Pioneer Leasing and Consulting, as well as the dispensary operator Keystone Relief Centers. Trueleaf has agreed to acquire Pure Pen for an upfront payment of $46 million. Arizona-based Fibonacci Brands is buying the cannabis company Darwin Brands from Harvest Health and Recreations for an undisclosed amount. Darwin is part of Arizona Natural Selections. They were bought by Harvest Health in February of this year in a deal valued at about $30 million. Talk about cost of money, Farmhouse is costing Canopy Rivers millions as it works to keep that company afloat. Farmhouse missed its cash flow goals, and the problems have led to a real deterioration among the partners, causing a bunch of flying counterclaims of bad behavior by both. Canopy Rivers says it will act as a debtor in possession lender for Farmhouse and provide up to $7.2 million in dip financing. That will allow Farmhouse to keep operating day-to-day. Canopy Rivers owns 49% of this joint venture. And finally, talk about needing money, Men-Men was able to borrow another $20 million, but the company is paying 18% interest and you thought your credit card balance was bad. And that's it for this week. I'm Deborah Borchart reporting for the Green Market Report.


There's the table of contents, elements of your developer reputation. So why do you care about your developer reputation? Hiring managers won't guess what you know. They only see what you show. And employers won't guess what you can do. They see only what you can demonstrate. And then what you take away from open source is not as important as what you give back. And really, those are the three main points, I think, of the entire. You'll see how this relates to everything else as we go through it. Elements of a developer reputation. We're going to see this slide twice, once here, and then once toward the end of this section, in the middle of the entire presentation, where we first we're going to look at what it is, and then we're going to re-evaluate what we have in light of this. So hiring managers are going to look for what you have done, what you can do, and also whether you give back. What you've done, that's evidence of experience. That's your resume, which feels a little obsolete, but everybody needs a resume still nowadays. You need to have it. Your LinkedIn profile in some ways has replaced your resume as the main thing that people look at. If you use your LinkedIn profile intelligently, then you can definitely get a lot of mileage out of it, even more so than a well-crafted resume. Because it gives you the opportunity to link directly to your previous employers, who presumably also have a presence on LinkedIn. And then if a hiring manager is looking at that, they can click through that. They can see the website that you worked on. They can see who else works at the company. They can see the person that was your manager. And they can write to them directly for a reference. They don't need to ask you for a reference. It's all connected. It's all wonderful on LinkedIn. If you fill an outright, if you really do a good job with your profile, then portfolio websites. I'm always a big fan of people setting up portfolio websites. And it doesn't necessarily need to be, if you're going for a Drupal job, you don't need to have a Drupal website. If it's a WordPress job, you don't need to have a WordPress website. If you're going for a Laravel job or a Symphony job or a Spring Boot MVC job, you don't necessarily need to use the same platform for your website. But it does help to have something online that shows that you know how to publish something online and that functions as a portfolio of work that you've done up to this point. Now, if you've got project links really, we'll get into more detail later. I guess I'll just read the table of contents. But basically, if you've got things that are live now that you built, you should link to them directly. If they are live, but they're not on the public internet, sometimes you make a site and it's only behind a VPN on a private corporate screenshot of it and include that with a description of what you did. Or if it used to be online and it's not online anymore, then hopefully you've gone to archive.org while it was live and you've got a snapshot of it or someone else has if you didn't try to do it. So all those things are evidence of your experience. Then you've got evidence of skills, code samples and public repos. There's the usual suspects, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, which I always mention. And also git.drupalcode.org, which is Drupal specific. And you get the opportunity to log into that with your Drupal .org account if you make one of those. If you don't have code samples that are full, then you can just have snippets that are just little pieces of code that kind of do something interesting that they don't really stand alone as an app or a site. And very often you see these in these code playgrounds, like CodePen, JS Fiddle, JS Bin, CSS Deck, Code Sandbox, Glitch, all of these are active links if you, I'll just mouse over it, but they're all active links. And if you download, I'll make sure I upload a PDF of the slides. And also we can link to the slides on the beautiful AI platform. So all of these are worth taking a look at. I'm not going to get too in-depth about it here. And then demo apps are mostly important if you don't have any websites. But you just want to be saying that that shows you can code something and that it looks good and it functions. That's very helpful for people when you're looking to get your first job and you don't have any professional work that is in your portfolio. Those are all evidence of your skills. And then there's the community contribution if you've contributed. If you have released software that other people are using, open source software projects like Composer or NPM packages, Drupal modules, WordPress plugins, all these things, hiring managers love this. They can download the code and see if it runs. They can look at the source code online because it's open source. They can really evaluate whether you code to the standards and follow the best practices and your code is secure and it's well-commented. It's the type of code that they're looking for someone to be able to make. Or you could contribute sometimes to open source in less substantial ways rather than having an entire project that you maintain. Maybe you've just contributed patches to other people's projects where you haven't written patches, but you've contributed bug reports to show, oh, this broke and I have a good idea why maybe someone else can write a patch. And in the Drupal world, those are called issue queues on the project page at Drupal.org. Then there's online communities. You can participate in these. Exchange, Quora, this is kind of a partial list of something I'll go in more detail later. But primarily, there's a question and answer forum. So although Drupal.org is a special case, you can also do blog writing or presenting like me at this lunch and learn today or speaking opportunities at conferences and different forms of networking. And all of these things can enhance your developer reputation. So let's talk about projects. What are projects? That's something that you did. It's professional web development work that you made for a client and it's published on the public internet. Now, I used this slide before and you'll see if you go back to the how to succeed and technical screening. But basically, there are some edge cases. Maybe you've done professional software design for a client, but it's not a website. Maybe it's a mobile or desktop app or something else. If that's the case, good on you if you've actually published a Android app to the Google Play Store or ILS app that's in the Apple App Store. Those are great things and you can link to those. And I can at least take a look at it, I actually have desire to actually download it or purchase it and put it on my phone. Maybe if it's a free app, I'll just throw it on my phone. Or maybe you've done professional software design, but it's not public facing. As I mentioned before, it could be on a private network. Maybe you need to be on a VPN to see it or something else. Or it's not online anymore. But if that's the case, then it may be archived at web.archive.org. And I will mouse over that. That is also an active link. I'm not going to bother going to it. I think that sometimes when I go over time, it's because I follow every active link in the slides. So I'll circle back to some of these if I have time to fill at the end. But the internet archive has this wonderful service. If you go to web.archive.org, then you can search for any web URL and it's going to tell you whether other people have already archived it. Or if nobody's ever archived it, you can archive it yourself right now. And there's other edge cases where it's like I haven't done any professional work yet. I know how to code, but I just haven't had clients. But maybe I've built my own website for my blog, my band, or some other project. Or I've built a bunch of demo apps in a coding boot camp. And these can be published online. And they can be very useful in terms of having links that you can send people to for evidence of your skills. So evaluating project links, you should be prepared to do this yourself before you send it out. Because reviewers may use some of the following techniques. They may view the link in different browsers. Or they may view it on phone or tablet to test for responsive design. What I like to do sometimes is I like to just resize the screen and make it very narrow and then gradually make it wider to make sure that it looks good at every width. They'll click around the site to test its functionality, see what it does. If it's something you can log on to or make a test account, they may make an account with it and see what it put it through its bases. If there's some kind of an e-commerce functionality, they might even buy a product from you or from your employer. And they may validate the HTML or CSS to make sure that you did a good job with that. You've got good HTML. And they may use browser plugins. We've got a lot of these, which are kind of like a little magic magnifying glass. You kind of look under the skin of the site and see what text stack is used, or at least make a educated guess as to what the text stack is. It's certainly not always right. And they may also test accessibility. Sorry, I had focused on the wrong thing when I clicked. They may also test accessibility for WCAG, for 508 compliance and color contrast, navigability with text-to-speech, JAWS, or NVDA, voiceover on the Mac, orka on Linux, if anybody uses that. So all of these things are definitely things that you want to test yourself before you send it out, especially if you know that the job description is going to require any of this stuff. If it requires responsive design, if it requires accessibility, you want to make extra effort to test those things before you link to it and send it out for your potential future employers to evaluate. Now let's take a look at your code samples. Let's boost your code samples. What is a code sample? Now hiring managers don't expect you to share secret stuff. This is a common misconception. People will come to us and they'll say, I can't share our code sample. All of my code is proprietary. And I can say, we get that. We don't want you to share any of that stuff. And if you did share it, we would send it back, because we can't show it to our clients. They don't want to see something that you're not supposed to share. That is actually a red flag. They won't hire you. But that is why they do expect you to provide public code samples that are released under an open source license, such as the new GPL or the MIT license, BSD license, Apache license, there's a million of them. Or just in the public domain, maybe you didn't even bother to put a license file in the repo. Do's, write your own original code, implement custom business logic, which is like your code has to do something. Show that you can code to platform APIs. If it's a Drupal module, there's Drupal APIs. It's a WordPress plug-in or whatever. Or if it's something else, you're dealing with C-sharper.net, you're dealing with Java, and you're dealing with Python and Django. You want to code to the platform APIs. And you want to follow established standards and best practices, so that if we run code validators or sniffers or linkers on your code, it's not going to show that there's a whole bunch of errors with it. But don't turn in a plagiarized assignment. I've seen this. Sometimes I get the same thing over and over from different people. And I like a code comment at the top of it, and I'll Google it, and I'll find it somewhere else online, and somebody else's repo or whatever. It's like, OK. It does show that you understand the assignment, but it also shows that you kind of didn't put too much thought and creativity into it. You should not turn in a plagiarized assignment. It doesn't have to be from work stuff, but you should come up with something that does something. It can be simple. Don't share proprietary code that's in violation of a nondisclosure agreement. Never share code that reveals personally identifiable information. That's PII. Anything that's protected under HIPAA or FERPA or any of these privacy regulations. You definitely don't want to do that, and you don't want to share code that reveals API keys or authentication credentials that are used in a client's production environment. If you did any of these things, even if the code is absolute genius, you're going to have your hiring manager looking a scans at you and saying, I don't know if I can hire this person. They're a great coder, but I question their judgment. But let's talk about your GitHub profile. This was actually the first thing that gave us the idea when Matt Pritchard and I were talking about what we should do for the next lunch and learn. You can use GitHub pages to host a static portfolio site for free or for the price of DNS if you're using a custom domain. That can be like $10 a year. Do create a stunning GitHub profile read me. And I feel like I'm just going to do it. Let's see if I can open that in a new window. This is an article about how to create a GitHub profile read me, and it's got a video and everything. Totally great. But these things are awesome. They're new as of 2020. You have to make a special repo, which has the same name as your GitHub profile. And when you do that, it says, OK, this is a special repository. Its read me and D will appear on your profile. And then you can do all kinds of cool stuff with it. You can add all these icons or add these widgets that show your GitHub stats and do all kinds of cool tricks with it. So I'm highly recommended that you do that. And if you do, this is another great suggestion. I did this for a little while. Just make your New Year's resolution or whatever to commit at least one line of code to GitHub. It really doesn't have to be a high impact thing. But as long as you do a little bit every day. And then, of course, when you're working on something, you might be doing 50 lines of code or 100 lines of code or 500 lines of code that day or whatever. And if you do it every day for a year, then your profile contribution graph will look amazing. Now I did it for a year. It wasn't from January to January. So if I show you this, you'll see where it tapers off. But this is going to be my skyline. You guys can see this. That is my profile contribution graph from 2020. And you can grab this thing and you can move it around. It's like a virtual reality thing. And each of these corresponds to a day of the week. And the 52 weeks of the year. And you can see some days I've done a lot more work than others. It looks like a cool cityscape with all these skyscrapers in it. And I love it. But that's not I feel like I didn't probably should have probably should have used. Here we go. Is there a back button? There we go. It opened it in a new tab. So there we go. And also contribute to other open source projects on GitHub. That's for free. That's just like you get flair. If you've seen office spacing, you have to wear your pieces of flair. But you'll get these cool logos and icons and stuff in your GitHub profile that show other organizations that you've contributed to their software. And that's great. Don't do this. Don't publish a lot of unfinished projects that don't do anything. Then when the hiring manager gets there, they're going to be like, oh, you've got 350 GitHub repos, but none of them are relevant to the job. And I don't have the time of day to go clicking through them and figure out which one I'm supposed to be looking at. At least if you've got 350 unfinished things, then at least just pin a couple of good ones in your top six there so that I know what to look at or tell me like a direct link to a specific repo that I should be looking at.  That goes a long way. And don't publish projects without a really good idea. It's OK. It's going to be like, oh, man, this is like NPM or Yarn or something. I'm going to try and spin it up. Oh, it's throwing errors. It's the wrong version of this. It's old, it's obsolete. It's not going to start. I don't know what to do. It's great to have all of your project dependencies bundled if you can with Docker so that you've actually pinned the version of everything. Using something like Lando or DDEV or Doxel or just using Docker Compose, I highly recommend you do that with your Git repos. But if you don't do that, then at least do me the favor of publishing a read me that says how to start, how to build it and start it, and what the dependencies are. If it depends on some weird version of Ruby, that's an old version. And I'm going to need to try and figure that out. Let me know. Don't leave it to me to figure it out. I'm not going to spend more than a half an hour trying to get your program to run. And if it doesn't run, I'm not going to consider it a very useful. I may be able to eyeball it, but it's not the same as something that I can actually build and run that works and does something cool. Let's talk about your portfolio site. Let's boost your portfolio site. So I reused this slide from the last thing as well, but it's the Holy Grail to me is a portfolio website. It combines so much stuff. It's a lot of the same stuff that you can get in your LinkedIn and it's a lot of the same stuff that you can give me project links or demo apps or link to different GitHub repositories. You can have this all organized in your portfolio website. And let's take a look at why they're so great. We're looking for project links that show regular activity up to the present. We're not really looking for a portfolio website that you made 10 years ago that has your old sites up until 2010 or 2011, and it doesn't have anything new. That's not great. If your sites are private or if they're archived, well, if they're private, I'd like to see screenshots and I'd like to see a description of what you did for the site. Or if it's no longer online, it's great if you can link to an archive or at least have a screenshot of it and a description. Also demo apps, if you've got them, a lot of people will put these up in the early days when they first put up the portfolio website and then they kind of move down or onto a back page and they're no longer on the front page of the site. Once you've got a portfolio of actual client work, then that kind of comes center stage. What makes a bad one? Lack of project links, vague descriptions. I actually had somebody who said, I had several clients, including nonprofits. And they said this for various periods that were like every six months for several years, they said the same thing, description. So I knew that they kind of were lying about something. Also, if there's a lack of recent projects, it makes it look like your best years are behind you and you haven't really done any work lately. So it's good to keep it fresh and try to, you know, keep your saw blade sharp, keep in there. Maybe you're doing more of something else nowadays, you're doing more project managing, you're not doing as much coding. I mean, that's fair. Or if there's gaps in your resume for some other reason, you went back to college or something, you know, like I don't know, could be anything, but those things don't necessarily work against you, but it is great. Like the best candidates are the ones that have like a sort of upward career trajectory. When they come to me, it's like, okay, you did some junior stuff, you did some mid-level stuff that looks like you're ready for a senior role. You know, that's the best. I mentioned this before, but you don't need to put up a Drupal site just because you're looking for a job. You can use a static site. And we call this now the buzzword is jam stack. This is for JavaScript APIs, mark down is the original acronym for jam stack. But the term has come to encompass a lot of different tools that are sort of static site generators that might hook up to a data source, whether it's a RESTful API or a GraphQL API or something like that. Or in some cases it hooks up to a database, but then it just generates a static site to a special directory. And then you can just take the static HTML and CSS and JavaScript that's made by the generator and you can host it somewhere. And literally you can host things on GitHub pages or Netlify for free forever until the company goes out of business. The only caveat with Netlify and GitHub pages is that if you want it to be at your domain, like my site is at hotwebmatter.com, then if you want it to be at your domain then you have to pay for domain registration. And I'm not sure if GitHub offers DNS, but Netlify does. It's accredited DNS registrar. It's accredited by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assign Names and Numbers. So you can buy your domain from them for like 10 or 15 bucks a year or whatever. And then you can have just a GitHub repo or GitLab or Bitbucket wherever your Git is and have it just build that site in a pipeline and spit it out on Netlify. And GitHub pages the same way. That started out with Jekyll, which is it's made out of mostly Ruby and some YAML and some JavaScript, but it's a Ruby based implementation and GitHub pages was born to support Jekyll in the first place. But you can do a lot of other things with it. There's Hugo, which is very, very popular nowadays. It's in the programming language Go, which is from Google and it has a very good reputation. I haven't used it. There's Gatsby and Next.js are React based static site generators. They are consistently in the top. In fact, the list that you're seeing here starting with Next.js, then Hugo, then Gatsby, then Jekyll, then Nuxt, which is not Next. It's sort of the view version of Next. Like Next.js goes with React and Nuxt is built on View. But these are the top six on this list of generators. And I will go ahead and click on that. This is the Jamstack website. And it explains all about what is the Jamstack? Why Jamstack? Why do you want to do it in the first place? What is it all about? But it also has this great little list of just, I mean, you can see the 333. There's 333 different static site generators here. You can pick your favorite language if you want it to be in C++, C-sharp. If you code in F-sharp, I have not. All these things are in here and there's static site generators built in. Look, Perl, Perl is still around. Awesome. I used to do Perl back in the 90s. So this is worth taking a look at and there is a link to it in the presentation. I'm going to exit full screen so I can close the tab and then I'm going to go back into full screen. Highly recommended that you use one of these static site generators to make a portfolio website. And there are tons of open source templates out there. If you just Google for it, just ask for whatever platform you've picked. You want to do Gatsby or you want to do Jekyll or whatever. And you pick one out and then you're going to Google for portfolio templates and there are a million of them. And in fact, my own website, I used an open source Jekyll template, which occasionally sometimes a candidate will come to me and I'll see that come back to me in the wild. But I also made sure that as an open source software user and advocate, I also, when I made changes that improved that template, I contributed them back upstream and I have contributed several times to that template and that's reflected in my GitHub repo. So enough about static sites. Let's talk about your public profiles. I think this is the real meat of the thing, auditing your public profiles. So what's a public profile? These are your profiles on various social platforms. They're published on the public internet. They should link back to your portfolio site or contain project links. Your LinkedIn profile is the big one. It is your de facto resume. And in some cases, it's even more important than DocX or PDF or paper resume. Then if you do Drupal, and not everybody does Drupal, but a lot of people at esteem do Drupal and if you are looking for a Drupal role, very often you will not get a callback from the hiring manager if you don't have a Drupal.org profile. So everybody, if you don't have one, go get one now if you're interested in a Drupal role. Get one right away. And then whenever you encounter a problem with Drupal or a bug, use that account to go and check the issue queues and participate in the issue queues. File bug reports, see if you can make a patch and contribute the patch. If you're lucky, then your patch gets merged to the upstream developers project and then that's credited right in your profile. That's all automatic. Drupal.org is unique in the pre-software world and the way that they keep track of all of your contributions, code and community, non-code contributions are all automatically cataloged in your Drupal.org profile. So that's really great. You also can consider source code, version control services to be public profiles. You might think they're code samples, but like your GitHub account is not a code sample. And even if you have 333 repos in your GitHub profile, you may not have any code samples in there that a hiring manager is looking for something relevant. So code samples have to show that you can implement business logic by coding to APIs. So you could have a lot of repos and none of them are code samples that your future employer is looking for. And again, the big three are GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. I'm also including git.drupalcode.org because if you do have a Drupal.org profile, that's connected to git.drupalcode.org. And there's a way with a little bit of configuration that you can generate an SSH key and you can use that with your Git and you can helps you to grab other people's projects when you wanna test them locally and when you wanna make patches and send that back upstream. And it also helps you if you ever have your own project that you want to publish, that's gonna be that other people can, when their composer installing their Drupal project, they can composer install Drupal slash my module. That's really amazing. But let's talk about LinkedIn a little bit more. I'm gonna give credit where credit's due. It's always good not to plagiarize. And the tips below are quoted from this YouTube video which I've linked to and you can even see it on the screen if you wanna make a note of it. This guy, Bryant Tonbutter is very entertaining and he calls himself the Kim Kardashian of software developers because he has something like, I don't know, 17,000 followers on LinkedIn or something. And his recommendations are to land your first job in tech which is the hardest, you gotta get your foot in the door. Once you have experience, you'll get hired but before you have experience, and they'll be like, oh, it's an entry level role requires three years experience. Why? And I have great candidates lined up up. Oh, they went to coding boot camps and we don't wanna interview them. They don't have enough experience yet to be a junior dev. I just don't get it. But his advice is golden. He says, get to 500 plus connections. I'm not even there yet, I'm a little shy of that. He says, connect with technical recruiters including Bianca and Rachel from Esteemed. And then you can, in your profile, you set the green open to work badge. That lets everybody know that you're looking and make your headlines that are going to goose up your engagement on LinkedIn. Make sure that when people try to contact you on there, you engage with them and talk to them and connect with them if you wanna get 500 plus connections. Do look out, some people are just scamming on there or they have their own agenda and maybe you don't wanna be friends with them forever but generally speaking, LinkedIn, it's okay to befriend a lot of people and it works to your advantage. So what are some other public profiles? There's QA forums like Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange. There's Quora, which is a whole website just dedicated asking questions about absolutely anything at all and people can answer them and read each other's answers. And then there's Reddit, which is kind of a little bit more freeform and also is a little bit of a melting pot of everything that humanity has to offer. They definitely have some good tech forums.  Then the code playgrounds, as I mentioned earlier when you don't have enough code yet for it to be a full app, but you just wanna be able to show oh, I can do this cool thing with CSS or I can do this cool thing with JavaScript then code playgrounds are a great way to show these things, CodePen, JS Fiddle, JS Bin, CSS Stack despite the name, it also allows JavaScript. Code Sandbox, Glitch I think got bought by another service but it still is the same sort of thing. Also design sharing sites, which aren't really code playgrounds, they're more like portfolios of little, of just images that are screenshots of things. And very often UX specialists, UX designers will use these to show their wireframes and kind of their design process. So Behance and there are other ones. I don't really look at them too much. I'm generally, even for front end I'm generally looking for the code, but these things are good. And if I run across a candidate who has them they certainly you're not penalized for having design sharing or thumbnail sharing like that. And then also social media services. I'm throwing this in there just because if you don't make your Insta private then you run the risk that a hiring manager might look at it whether or not you really use it for work. I personally, I don't look at Facebook and Instagram unless I have no other public profiles. If I can't find GitHub, they're applying for a Drupal role they don't have a Drupal.org account. It's like I'm looking for anything that's gonna be work related. And I can't find anything about this person except for their Facebook page. Then I might hazard a look at it. And sometimes it's even got something kind of tech related in it now rarely. But just be aware that if you've got personal stuff that's really just for you and your friends or you're joking about things that might be inappropriate for work or you're tweeting about things using salty language or whatever. Then I mean, well, there's a certain amount of profanity I suppose can be excused in the modern era, but it's not your social media have anything offensive in it, right? Because these things may be evaluated by the hiring managers if they're public. They're not necessarily, I might take a look at them and if I see something that I think another hiring manager might not like I'm gonna warn you to shut it down before someone else sees it rather than saying you can't get work with esteem. But it's just good to kind of keep that stuff in mind. Now we're back to that wonderful three column. I talked about this earlier, but we're back to it. And now we're looking at it again with the benefit of hindsight. There's still a little bit more ahead but we're in the home stretch. But we're looking back at our profiles to see do they answer these questions? What have you done? What can you do? And do you give back? So for evidence of experience, ask yourself, do I describe my role at each employer? Do I discuss the tech stack and the tools used? Do I include project links if the sites are still live if they're on the public internet? Or if they're not on the public internet and they're private, do I have a screenshot and a description of what my role was in the tech stack that I used? And if the site is no longer online, do I link to an archive of it at web.archive.org? Then what can you do? Ask yourself about your evidence of skills. Are you providing evidence of skills that in a way that it's obvious to an impartial viewer, a casual viewer that, you know, can a potential employer verify your ability to implement business logic by coding to APIs? Again, business logic, that just means it does something. Coding to APIs, that just means using Drupal as my most common example. If it's for Drupal, then it should demonstrate some Drupal APIs. Like, you know, I like to see the form API. I'd like to see that you can implement a block plug-in class.  And I wanna be able to see that you know the APIs and that you can code to them. Does your public code adhere to standards and follow best practices? This includes like, is it secure? Does it sanitize inputs? It also just includes things like, are things indented properly? You can just run a linter on it. You can just have that.  So, you know, VIM certainly can be set up to automatically indent stuff for you.  Do your code repos have a readme.md file that explains how to build the project? So frustrating when they don't. And then you're looking at a half broken project and it just doesn't work, you know? And do your code repos link to functioning demo apps in production online?  Have you made public contributions to open source code? Have you opened issue cues or filed bug reports? Have you written documentation, blog posts, tutorials, videos? All of these things are very, very valuable to establish you as not only to show your expertise in your skills, but also to sort of establish you as a thought leader, somebody who's, you know, the tech is changing all the time. New version of whatever platform comes out and we all have to learn how it works. And when we figure it out, do we rush out to tell everyone, hey, I figured it out, here's how you do it. People that can do that are prized in digital agencies because they're the people who are the senior developers who can help to onboard junior developers and help to bring people up to speed with the new technologies. And also, do you answer questions and forms? Of course, it can be just as valuable to ask smart questions or to file bug reports even if you don't solve the bug and contribute the patch. But even better if you're the person who files the bug report with the patch, you know, wow. You know, I figured it out, here's the solution for everybody else. I'm giving back to the community. These things are just priceless. It's the attitude and the mindset of somebody who's a real, somebody who is grateful to the open source community for giving us the tools that we use to make so much money and to, you know, support our livelihood. So if we've got a couple of hours to give back to it, we certainly will give back to the community. Now, speaking of the community, how can we boost our developer community? I was talking a little bit about Q and A communities. Drupal.org has the project issue queues. Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange is all the same company, but Stack Overflow is the main one and then Stack Exchange is like another 150 or more different channels for different specific special interests like the Drupal answer is Stack Exchange, which is Drupal.StackExchange.com or whatever. And WordPress development is WordPress.StackExchange. These things are super valuable to contribute to and I actually encourage everybody, especially if you work for esteemed, go ahead and make a public account with that too. That's almost as good as the Drupal.org one. And next time you got a question that you wanna bring to us in our esteemed colleagues community and you wanna bring it to Slack, post it on there first. I'll try and answer it in Slack and then I'll put the answer on the Stack Exchange so that it doesn't get erased after a month because we're still using a free Slack for our colleagues platform for the time being. We're working on something else. But that's great, right? And then also you can get points for that and people will see that activity when they come and you can link to that as one of your public profiles and your hiring manager is gonna look and see, oh, you've been asking smart questions or even better, you've been answering questions. Then Quora and Reddit, I think I've already said as much as I wanna say about those, but they're both valuable, potentially very valuable that if you're answering questions and if that's to your developer profile as well. Now, what else can you do in the developer community? You can write blog posts, documentation, tutorials. You can participate in discussions, not just Q and A forums, but sometimes just like live chats with people on platforms like Slack or Discord or Matrix or Mattermost. You can attend events physically or virtually. You can become a speaker like me today. I'm given a presentation and you can do this. You could do a lunch and learn for esteemed. If you feel like you're a subject matter expert about something, you could definitely do one of these. We'll record it, we'll put it on YouTube with your name on it and then you can link to that and say, look what I did guys and that's gonna help you get a job or you can just network with the other members. Certainly, when you go to these events, if it's like a conference or a camp that's dedicated to a specific technology, you're gonna see a lot of people there who work for the digital agencies that you might wanna work for and you get to meet them and assign a face to that name and make a connection and they'll get to meet you and think, oh, this is a person who's interesting, who's passionate about something, who I could see them being an asset to our team. That goes a long way in, who might get a job. So amplify your voice. Think about what things you've learned, this it's brand new emerging technology, the brand new version just came out, oh, there's a new bug in the very latest version of Drupal and I worked on it and I figured it out or I did something kind of crazy with Layout Builder because it's still got some rough edges and people are still trying to figure that out. I can write an article about it or if it's something else that you're an expert on, you've got your own take on agile products with continuous integration, continuous development with test-driven development. You can write an article about that and I'm not the one but talk to the other Matt, Matthew Pritchard and we can hire you, we pay people to write for our blog or if you have ever worked for a digital agency that has their own blog, a lot of them do, then if you've written an article that's on, you know, like trying to think of agencies that have blogs where I see cool articles all the time, Lullabot or Media Current, they're out there and they definitely will publish things about WordPress or Drupal that have interesting tips or interesting tutorials right on their own digital agency blog which they use to drive SEO to their site. That's, if you've got that, that shows that like you worked at a place that valued you as a contributor to their organization so much that they trust to do a written article and represent their expertise on their own domain. You know, that's great. There's also these, you know, like Medium, Hash Node, Dev.to, Ghost, their platforms, some of them are paywalled, some of them are free. They're just platforms that are tuned for you to have a personal blog that you, you know, sometimes you get it for free or if in the case of Medium or Ghost, I think you have the option of paying like five bucks or something to get a paywall on it so people have to, they only get to read a certain number of articles for free and then if they read your article, you can get tipped out after that or it's kind of a, I don't know. I think you have to, you have to get a lot of hits to make any money doing that and I personally, I'm not a big fan of paywalls, I'm a big fan of open, you know, information wants to be free kind of a hacker ethic but certainly these things are good or if you have your own personal website, now this is a little different from anything else because I didn't get into this.  I don't want to even get into it because it'll take up a whole presentation of its own, but if you do have your own personal website that's like a full stack website of your chosen tech stack that you're trying to get hired in, then certainly if you have your own blog on there and you have really smart articles about stuff, that counts in your favor. I even count it in your favor. If it used to be online, it's not online anymore and I can find it in the web archive, that web.archive.org. And if I find old articles from like, you know, you wrote something in 2005 about Drupal, I'm like, wow, they were really passionate about this all the way back then, that counts for something. As long as you also keep your skills fresh and you're staying up to date with stuff and we can put you to work on modern things that people are building now. Or there's speaking opportunities, you know, the esteemed lunch and learn. Again, I'm not the person to talk to, but Matt Pritchard can book you an opportunity to do exactly what I'm doing today, a slideshow and a lecture and be the subject matter expert and talk to people about that. There's tons of tech conferences and camps depending on what your niche is and you can attend these things remotely, which I have done ever since the onset of the pandemic back in 2019. I've started going to so many remote events, you know, and I find that I do more traveling now than I ever did in the country. And sometimes see, I don't think I really have gone to anything overseas yet, but I'll consider that. So that pretty much wraps it up. Any questions? How's your developer reputation? Has anybody got a question for me? I'm gonna try to bring your, let me see if I can bring the questions to the front and look at the zoom thing.


And we're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa, Zika Yaitouk will be joining us on the off-the-press this morning. Zika, it's good to have you join us. Hi, thank you for the privilege. Thank you for having me. That was a delight. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning, boldly written on the leadership. I mean rising verbal attacks by a candidate, Abdul Salami, can meet him once against violence and incitement. That's the board caption you find. Atikou Tulligou refused to shield Swartz, continue not swindling. Kwankwasou acts atikou. Ashiwajitou withdraw from race over allegation. Nigerians should vote only patriotic savants and leaders. Well, you know, just in all of this, the big question would be if the political parties know the kind of candidate they are projecting, they should have done more like an underground, you know, checks and all of that before I put it on a certain candidate rather than having one of those back and forth. I mean, I think it would save us that kind of energy. Obi-Premises knew Nigeria at Kaduna Raleigh. RGP not retiring to complete a four-year tenure. And there were also, you know, conversation as to tenure elongation right here from police officers and lagers, you know, it sounded like it was a rumor. Darkness looms as Gensko gets only 30% gas supply, caught dismisses suit against APC same-faith ticket editorial. That's an editorial on DSS allegation against Amalfi Lee. And drug barons face tougher a year ahead, Marwa declares. These are some of the headlines you find this morning on the leadership newspaper. Alright, from the leadership, we'll move on next to the nation newspaper. The main story this morning, SCNs are in the news and they are saying that polls under threat by returning officers' powers. A writer, Olamid Baku, raises concern over Section 65 of Electoral Act. At Bakuba, 6th clarification on Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution, right just below the must-have, we deducted 3.3 trillion there from federation account for subsidy, says NNPCL. Above the must-have, NDLA sees its properties, 500 billion narrow drugs in two years. APC, PCC, slam speed before avoided response to Attico gate. Direct flight from Israel to Nigeria starts in March. Why IG Usman's tenure was extended? That's by the minister. A writer, all the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper, Kwon Koso is saying LP is built on ethnic sentiment.  There's a rush trip just below that story. Two remaining victims of a dull, trinket nap attack regain freedom. Those are the major stories on the nation newspaper this morning. Well, let's turn our attention from the nation and take a quick look at the punch newspaper. Furious scarcity bites harder. Marketers blame NNPCL. It meant to sell petrol at 279 per litre, supply gap, widens and lingers. And just before we move away, NNPC, GMD defends subsidy or production now at 1.52 million barrels. I don't know if we're still with all of this meets the OPEC quota. What has OPEC allocated to all producing nation, including Nigeria, we producing above or producing below the quota? Nigeria owes China, Japan, Germany, two others, 4.85 billion dollars. That's a lot. And Manfield appeals court summons and challenges George. Envoy stopped Abiola from imagining president. You remember the, the, okay, Abiola's election. That's what a former president, Rusha Guno Basundra is saying. And train attack to a dough chief's five orders arrested. Federal government asks U.S. to probe Niger and Don's death. These are some of the headlines you find this morning on the punch news people. And now to the Guardian. Poses on Buhari's security success. That's our, the lead story on the Guardian. This morning, several riders, they are lousy. However, Envoy sent lack of transparency, make nation unsafe. No price too high to pay for political stability. And I'm several others. Then there is the story of CBN Ali's fears over counterfeit new Maira notes. Buhari, okay, is 1.9 trillion for all NPC to reconstruct 44 federal votes. Oh, all NPC did not reconstruct votes. All right, a ball of caliber we elected days after second by Supreme Court. I was offered 10 million Maira visa to implicate Syracuse says of a robbery suspect. All right, let's see. Senior advocates question legal framework of 2023 elections. I understand Nigeria's issue says Kwan Koso Akchaten House. Those are the main stories on the Guardian this morning. Is it going to, once again, thank you for joining us. We appreciate your time always. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's a privilege. I'm always say. So let's start off with the leadership on the leadership. It talks about the vebbler times.  And it's not different, you know, result at the end of the day. So what's really the essence? Why do we have our candidates signed in peace parts? And usually the campaigns and the elections don't end up peaceful. You see, the peace part by right should be something that is desirable and something that we should. I don't want to use the words celebrate, but appreciate is a better word for that. And anybody who wants to be the president of the federal Republic of Nigeria or in fact hold any public office because it comes down to the state, we signed peace pact as well in a quibble. And anybody who must owe a certain allegiance to peace. If you don't do, you don't have that as a personal private policy, then when you get into office, what you believe is what you will exhibit and is bothering. But the other hand is any form of legislation or action or agreement that does not have a bite to it. A teeth, I would say that can bite makes people who don't subscribe to virtues to jettison it. A lot of times people obey the law, not because it's the right thing to do, but because they are deterred by it. For instance, you find a Nigerian jumping queue in Nigeria, but when the same Nigerian goes outside the country, he doesn't want to jump queue. Why doesn't he want to jump queue? Because he knows that if he tries that the system will not take it lightly. So even if a person is as loud as possible, when the person gets into a library, you find the person keeping quiet or whispering, hardly will you go to an environment and then start to shout because that's how your nature is. Nature is shaped by the environment that you find yourself. What am I trying to say? I'm running an election and I call my people and I say this sort of a thing. I remember very well, one of my media aides wrote something derogatory about the person and it was brought to me. I told him to pull it down and apologize and he did. So in the state, people know that even when they hear it, they say no, no, it's not from the guy. But it's worse when you now start to see the people directly on the podium who a person wants to be a president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, making fun of or mocking or castigating or insulting another person. It just shows Nigerians that this sort of a person does not deserve such a high office. So aside from the Peace Committee not having is like a toothless bulldog. It's like an appeal committee not having the capacity to bite. Aside from that, I think that Nigerians should actually look at everybody knowing that with the current situation where the beavers make the votes to count, we should know the sort of people that we should not allow into our public offices.  The time has come for so bad reflection for you to really sit and ask yourself, do I want my life? Government is a management of your life. Today they can decide that tomorrow is public holiday and no bank opens, no matter what transaction you had, no matter what you were going to do, you are going to stay at home because no bank is going to happen. So government micromanages your life as it were. So the question is, is this the quality of person that I really want to leave this nation in the hands of for the next four years? It's not like four hours or four days or four weeks, but the next four years. So my appeal is not too much to the to the to the committee on the peace pact, but to Nigerians. Watch these people, forget about party, forget about ethnic consideration. All those things are not sustainable. Look at the quality, the character, the competence, the capability of every individual. Who do you want to be your president? When you look at, you know, we talk about the big five, but the time has come for us to maybe open it larger because, you know, I talk now not as a party man, but as an analyst and I've listened to some people and I'm like, wow, this guy makes sense. And one of such people is the SDP candidate.  If you are a public servant, your children should go to public schools. When you do this, then the public servants will be compelled to make public institutions to work even in their own personal interests. That was an awesome bill that I really hold dear to, but for, like I said, what happened in our party. So coming back to my conclusion on this matter, I think Nigerians should cool down, you know, after the reggae played the blues. This is a time for us to come down and play the blues where we cannot really sit down and look very, very carefully at who these people are and ask ourselves one question. Do I want my life in the hands of this person for four years? All right. Let's still stay with the elections on the nation newspaper right now. Two S.C.N.s are in the news, precisely are posed under threat by returning officers pass. I want you to comment on that. That's a credit to O'Leary O'Lannick, their co-raising concern of us section 65 of the electoral act. And of course, Agbacuba also mentioned about another section of the electoral act. Let's get your comment quickly, Ms. Daniel Aitok. Okay. Incidentally, I have not looked at the details, but I have enough background to be able to say something about it. And if it was another person talking, I would very easily dismiss it. But coming from a senior advocate, I believe that he has studied the current electoral act. And within the context of the current electoral act, the returning officers, in my opinion, are no longer those people that were so mighty that their words were final. No. For one, two, three reasons. Number one is that returning officers are more like you, whatever you return that is not consistent can be overruled. Unlike before, where INE could not do anything, the moment you either under duress or anything declare false reports, the only option you had was to go to court, but not so in the current electoral act. In the current electoral act, you cannot even falsify five figures. You cannot, because I take my election, for instance, in a quiet room. By 6 p.m., I know my figure in every polling unit. That is why I'm joining the Labour Party to say that I next should please allow us to upload all our polling unit agents. The reason is that their server has been, you know, not working, I say from because I've sat in our situation room where we try to upload our polling unit agents, and you just have this frustration of network of bouncing back and things, and it's really frustrating. In a quiet room, we have 4,353 polling units, and in my party, we have agents in all of them. But as of today, we've hardly done 3,000, and we still have over 1,000 to do, okay? And I want INEC to put up that unless something happened, you know, because in the past one or two days, I've not been able to sit down and see what they are doing, but I want INEC to allow parties to upload all their agents, even if it means two, three days extension, they should do it so that you will know your result, because with the current electoral act and the beavers, at the end of accreditation, your agent will send you, like in our own case, we've sent them a situation room, at the end of accreditation, we know the number of people that are voted in every, that are to vote in every polling unit. Then secondly, at the end of election, we know our figure from every polling unit, every polling unit. And with that, if for instance, I won with a margin of maybe 50,826, and you gave me 50,825, you've got to tell me where the one vote was missing. You know, I'm just giving you an example that every serious candidate will know her result or his result before you even hear anything about Collision Officer or Returning Officer or anything. And if and when I've won the election, Returning Officer, you are wasting your time, if you want to carry it and give it to somebody, I'll petition INEC immediately and INEC will look into the beavers back end and collect every of the 3,000, 4,353 units and their results will tell you with my results and they will declare me the winner. So I really don't see how they are threatened anymore. We need to know what the current electoral act says. Ezekiah, let's move away from the issue of electoral act and still on the leadership newspaper. The retirement of the IGP, I mean the Inspector General, please, has also been one that has generated a lot of concern as Nigeria inch closer to the elections in February and of course in March. However, the Inspector General, please, is expected to have, you know, retired when he or take a bow at an office on the festive march when he clocks 60. But with the provision of the Police Act of 2020, the IGP is now supposed to have a kind of four-year period and the President has already given him a lot of appointment in that regard. What do you make of this? Yeah, you know, we need to be able to balance out things and have what we call emotional intelligence. It's lacking in our leadership structure. Now, this man has reached the mandatory age of retirement, which is 60 years on one hand. On the other hand, we have an election coming. So you ask yourself, did election just come up suddenly like a pandemic that nobody knew? I think that for you to say, because of the election coming, we need to bring this man to continue. If we were circumspect and we were, you know, thinking ahead of time, we would have worked out a succession plan because this election day was fixed about four years ago. And one of the things you could have done was to have said, since you are retiring, let us set up a kind of special purpose unit, you know, where the man in charge is in charge of election units, but you supervise the person. So when he is leaving, there's already a system in place where that election unit already has somebody on top of him. And during this period, even if the boss is absent, there is already a process that you be able to, because when you say, because of an election that happens in the next one month, you are now giving somebody four years channel elongation. You are asking yourself one, two, three questions. Question number one, what happens to the morale of the people who's time, what would soon be cut short and they will have to exit, you know. And number two, what happens to all the other down line? Are you now going to leave this man alone and retire all the others because they've reached retirement age? How are people going to feel? Are they going to be happy? What's going to be the relationship between the head and the body? What will the body feel like? I think it's, for me, it's not wise. It's not expedient. The Bible says that all things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. This is one area where we just have a leadership where we don't think ahead of time. And for me, it's a no-no. You could have a good excuse, oh election is coming, it's not the best time to change leadership, but for goodness sake, did you not know that four years ago, two years ago, one year ago, six months ago, and what did you do about it? So please, let's start to bring people to governance who believe in cerebral governance and not political governance. There's too much politics in our governance. When it should be, there's too much governance in our politics. And also that we have better politics. I'm actually not moved by that. All right, Ezekiel, on the punch, the main headline is the fear of scarcity. It is very disheartening. Ezekiel, we've talked about this several times over and over and over again in the brain games here and there. And it is just continuing on abated. If man is to sell petrol at 217 NL, the gap is widening, migrants are growing, transport terms first are high, cost of living is on the high, and migrants cannot even buy food stuff. They spent an amount, previously they go to the market the next day, it has actually in a boat tripled as it were. What is the way forward, Ezekiel? The way forward is for us to have a government that is believed. There is too much deceit in our governance. You see, Nigerians are the nicest people to rule or govern or preside over in the whole of this world that I've seen. And I can say with every sense of responsibility because I've traveled, Nigerians are believing, Nigerians are trusting, Nigerians are hopeful, Nigerians are almost, you know, taken for granted by our leaders because of these awesome qualities. All we need is a government that you can believe, that you can trust, that when they say something, you know that they are honest about it. Let's come to this issue of fuel, fuel scarcity, it all comes down to our living fake life. We are trying to sell what we don't have, to give what we don't have. We've not sat down and looked at our finances and looked at our capacities, which is what by the grace of God I intend to bring to the board as a governor, where you are open and transparent with the people. Do you know that you can actually reduce, let me use a very hard word, reduce the pay of the people and the people will accept it? Why? Because you've shown them that the hundred you had, you've shown in the efforts you have made and that it's come down to just 98 on account of which I as a leader, I'm going to let go this and if you can please bear with me for a month, we'll let go this. We use that difference to do this and in the next month we'll come back to where we are and be on a trajectory of going higher and better and the people see you, the people believe you, the people will do anything you want them to do. Now what is the problem on this? Well, they are not doing, there's subsidy, there's no subsidy. The figures of the subsidy, you cannot tell how they cook it up, how they work it up. We are going to spend two, three, three trillion between now and then. How are you spending? The whole thing is shrouded in such mysteries and you know, such you just wonder what is really going on and where there is this speculation and disbelief and distrust. What you have is chaos and that's what we are having today. Do we have fuel? Do we not have fuel? NNPC will tell you, oh we have enough to last us for the next three months and somebody like tell that to the Marines, please go and sit down. Are people hoarding fuel? Are people hoping that the price will rise on account of which they are refusing to sell exactly what is the situation? You can't tell because we are very deceitful governor, you know, the governor's structure. I think Nigerians should really wake up and smell the coffee and there could be no better time than now. It's true, we already have some people on the block. You can't change what we have. At the presidency, we already have those 18 people. At the governor's level, you already have those 18 people on those tickets. You cannot make it 19. You cannot change anymore, but can make the best of the situation. You can manage, yes. Ezekal, I know that you are on your own and I can perceive that you do have respect for the traditional institution. There's one that consents Calabar, which is not far from where you are. The Obong of Calabar re-elected days after sacking by the Supreme Court. I mean, how do you feel about this? A traditional institution having court cases and what have you? There are two things. The first is that we must live in a society that is governed by the rule of law. You cannot take that away from the system, the society, anytime, any day, no matter who you are. Whether you are the head of the traditional institution or you are the president of the federal republic or you were a big man, no matter who you are, everybody is under the law. That's the first thing you put strictly as a fundamental. The second is that the traditional institution like election, we should allow the constituencies involved as much as possible to manage it. That is why I'm against victory in court, as against victory at the polls. Let the victory be at the polls and whoever the people have chosen on a consensus basis, let that person be. If the Obong of Calabar is wanted by his people, let him be. And Obong of Calabar, when you are there, know that there is a law and operate within the ambit of the law, knowing that if you go outside of it, you will get caught. So for me, it's just those two fundamentals. Number one, you're not above the law, nobody is. Number two, let traditional institutions be determined by the people within the constituency in question. When you put the two together, whatever is the decision that comes out, I'm fine by it. All right then, we have to go, but I mean, this question once, it's out of, you know, period where the traditional institution itself was a system that brought peace and stability, you know, to the country and the society at large. I mean, cases were brought to the, you know, the council and the chiefs to settle, rather than the other way, because they had a mechanism to solve the problem. So I'm just worried that it feels like we're evolving, society is becoming more complex. And then that's what we're moving. Yes, it is. And again, I think that the time has come when the traditional institutions must be respected and seen for what they ought to be. And given that latitude, if it pleases God, and I've become the governor of a quai bom state, one of the areas I'm going to look at is making the traditional institutions more effective because people actually obey their kings, their village heads, they trust them, they obey the modern government. So if you create a network, a working relationship, a partnership with the traditional institutions, particularly the village heads, you may work towards a more peaceful environment. Let the traditional institutions not just become ceremonial, they can actually become the bastion for peace and stability in the system. I believe in those traditional institutions. All right. Thank you so much, Mr. Ezekian Aitok, for all your one, you know, the imputes that you have added to off the press. For this matter, we do appreciate your time. Thank you. I am honored. Thank you again. All right. Stay the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We're taking a quick break. We'll come back and look at the electoral act and some questions and clarity that need enters and solutions as it were in a moment. So join us again.


Plutonic Plurus, Chico, one question today is, is cryptocurrency a way to democratize or decentralize the economy and state economy relations? And or will the technocratic oligarchy try to integrate a cryptocurrency to abolish cash money and update their oligarchic system? So Plutonic Plurus, what you said is true except for a couple of wordings there, right? Is cryptocurrency a way to democratize or decentralize the economy? It is a way to decentralize finance, that yes, and stated economy relations, yes. And or will technocrats oligarchy try to integrate a cryptocurrency to abolish cash and update their oligarchic system? They will try to and they will do their best to integrate a digital currency, it won't be a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency by design has to be decentralized, right? So my take on it anyway, and I'm pretty sure that's the general consensus, right? So it's not going to be cryptocurrency they're going to introduce, it's going to be a digital currency they're going to introduce, right?  Those people who don't understand the difference between the two will think, oh, they got digital currency. Cryptocurrency is different and cryptocurrency has already democratized, decentralized that aspect of finance, right? There is now how many thousand cryptocurrencies out there, right? People were saying when it was like 1500 people said, oh, so many cryptocurrencies, I think we're at 15,000 now. So that's totally decentralized, right? Some cryptocurrencies better than other cryptocurrencies, right? So for example, there are cryptocurrencies out there where you can see where every coin has been since inception, right? That is not a private currency, that is Bitcoin, right? With Bitcoin, it's not fungible, right? You can distinguish between them, right? So they could just say this one is not valid, this coin, because it went through a dark web, right? There are currencies out there, cryptocurrencies out there, where the, you can't, that track record is not there, right? Monero is one of them. There are other privacy coins out there. There aren't that many privacy coins. So if you want to decentralize, my recommendation to people is to go into the privacy coins, not to go into the coins that you can track everything, right? You can track where that coin has been, right? The ledger system has to be encrypted and encrypted in a way that you cannot tell which, where the currency has gone, the transaction links, right? Because my $5 should be equal to your $5. When it comes to Bitcoin, that's not the case. My $5 might be clean and yours might have been used in a club to party, right? And if all the Sunday come on and say, oh, any $5 bill or $20 bill, $100 bill that's, you've been used in a club to party is no longer valid currency, then wow, what's going to happen, right?