History to make future predictions We're very very look every every tragedy Every death that's happened during this event whether it's the tragedy of this morning or When it was during the rain event there were people washed over cause-wise. They're all terrible tragedies but look, we're just grateful there hasn't been more and I think it's important for all of us Particularly the media and we're thankful for that to get that message out around the dangers That are involved in entering flooded waters, but look, they're all tragedies and our efforts are really focused on preventing any more We've just been in a phone hookup with all the local disaster groups Issues of resupply and all the affected areas are progressing well Rockhampton, of course, was a major issue for us But thankfully we had sufficient time in between when the Yeppon crossing closed to restock and resupply Rockhampton One of the issues is that the peak in Rockhampton and some of the other towns Will remain quite high. We're expecting You know Rockhampton the Fitzroy and Rockhampton to subside very slowly And we could have a couple of weeks where where Rockhampton is fully or partially isolated So there's a lot of planning going around resupply Thankfully issues around water and sewage in Rockhampton are fine Most towns are reporting some isolated losses of power However, the efforts there with Energex and Ergon Incredible really they're getting in and getting power back on very quickly. So Certainly this morning's briefing from all the affected areas This issue of resupply seems to be well in hand Absolutely certainly St. George and Serrat on the Balon. There's a watching brief on those. There's some suggestions that That St. George could reach peaks to I think was March in 2010 the last flood and certainly Serrat Some of the modeling is indicating that it could be, you know, the river could peak at record levels The local groups there have got the situation well in hand and are thinking through all contingencies But certainly as those waters move down through the catchment They're certainly towns that we've got a very close watch on Do you think residents there are better prepared because they've just had that recent experience? Look, I'm sure I'm sure that the the experience. This is very much a statewide event All the local disaster groups certainly talk each day We have a phone hook up each day with all of them and I'm sure we're all learning off each other Lessons learned as the event unfolds What is clear from the briefing is that the all those Effected communities have the situation well in hand. They're thinking through contingencies. Should there be a need to evacuate? They're thinking through which is Around restocking and food and water and and all those types of things. So we've been extremely Impressed I guess at the resilience of those smaller communities and how they're banding together to work to deal with this disaster I think roughly speaking there's probably a thousand people we've got exact Figures that I can provide to you on that by town and of course not all people that are registered in an evacuation Center stay there every night But we can provide that to you but roughly about a thousand people are in evacuation centers around Queensland That's right, and you know we have some huge catchment areas in Queensland the catchment area for the Fitzroy itself is a hundred and fifty thousand square kilometers but certainly That analogy has been drawn that the the flood affected area is as big as New South Wales What they're feeling at the moment is From the Warrigan system, I think is so which means it's almost the consequence of Two lots of water coming through which means the serrat must be in a bit of a precarious situation at the moment The every day we talk to the Bureau of Meteorology Particularly the area of hydrology. They have quite sophisticated Modelling that factors all the water that's entering the catchment area They brief us constantly during the day Serrat is certainly an area to watch and You know the local community there through the local disaster group is planning Depending on how that modeling changes over the ensuring week. They are planning for all contingencies, but yes It's a very very widespread flood and we're seeing towns With unprecedented levels in terms of river height Look, I haven't heard any any issues around seed bags But we'd be happy to talk to you after the conference if you had any particular questions around particular Locations That's correct. Yeah, we've been in contact with all our local groups this morning That's one of the areas we're particularly concerned about as people return to their dwellings and and start to place their Goods out to dry. It's one to watch We'd like to get the message out there that we have Put additional police resources into all of these towns. They're actively patrolling The streets as flood waters subside Thankfully, we haven't had any confirmed reports today We'd be able to give you that's constantly changing The first lot of we put an extra four police into Theodore to start with an extra five in the condom mine Naturally, there wasn't a lot of both of those towns are completely Evacuated but that's changing on a daily basis. We're managing the issues of fatigue as well Across the whole area of emergency services workers This is likely to be a very protracted event perhaps for another month As waters subside, but those numbers that are changing all the time, but the The issue of police numbers into those towns knows change daily based on on the needs Well all towns they're not necessarily being patrolled specifically for learning. They're being the police deployed in those areas are doing Emergency response emergency rescue work. They're also actively patrolling to make sure that people's properties are Secure I don't I don't have a figure it would be literally thousands of people and and what we're seeing in local communities through with the SES in particular that people chipping in to help Whole communities are sort of mobilizing particularly in that recovery stage where people are helping each other clean their houses and Providing each other with support and I think this is one of the things that makes Queensland such a great place is the fact that people do chip in and help each other when times are tough We're seeing some wonderful reports all around the state how that's happening Look, I think it's very hard to make that call Because it's a unique event. We're seeing parts of the state still in response mode while others move into recovery mode I think we're very much in the middle of the event Ah You know it won't be until waters recede where we can actually gauge the damage to public infrastructure roads and bridges So I think we're very much the event still a long way to go No, I think that's an unknown and we certainly won't have any clarity on that until flood waters fully recede Thank you. I can answer that My name's Warren Britson on the acting assistant director general for emergency management Queensland and the SES is part of our management structure Yes, we have the state emergency service personnel from Queensland assisted Victoria as you may recall last year and some floods So they were very generous to offer their assistance as well So we're bringing some teams up from Victoria to assist in our emergency operation centers particularly at Emerald and also here in the State Center There's some people coming from New South Wales some what we call flood experts In the state emergency service and they're going to be deployed into Rockhampton and here as well Internally, we're moving a lots of state emergency service volunteers into the areas affected from obviously those areas not affected We're bringing for instance 40 personnel out of Cairns. They're heading to awards Emerald now and we've already flown them yesterday into Rockhampton There's about 20 personnel going from the Sunshine Coast up into Bundaberg and the list goes on So we're moving people internally to assist those people who need help But more importantly, we're into fatigue management now with their volunteers. They've been out there since before Christmas non-stop So we're also putting people in there now just to give others a rest It's only quite small it's only five Emergency management team experts and flood expert, you know from New South Wales and there's about 10 from Victoria coming But they're on standby to give us more bearing in mind, of course, New South Wales is affected by flooding as well That's the figures been spoken about but we're taking them in I guess small chunks We're bringing five people forward as I spoke about and there's others on waiting lists and we can get them if necessary That's correct. Yes I think Emerald certainly the report this morning is that power is back on but there's always pockets That are not on is a lot of a lot of times houses and businesses have to be inspected before you can turn it back on so the service out there is patchy but as the flood waters recede and Electrical engineers make places safe that power is getting turned back on Certainly nothing emerging, but it's certainly very much a watching brief Health contribute to our our briefings during out the during the day Thankfully, we haven't had any issues with water contamination, etc. That's been met in very well Also, thankfully Where hospitals have been taken offline local clinics have been able to be established and and resourced the issue of of Mosquitoes and etc. Is an issue when part of resupply is is to provide You know Etc. So it is key issue. It's something that's raised every day is part of the watching brief But certainly at the moment nothing's emerges a major issue Very much I would think so particularly with recovery Rockhampton for examples expecting to Hold, you know, the waters will recede there very slowly in may hold near to its peak till mid-January and then you've got the the very very onerous work of recovery so how quickly communities respond To recovery is an unknown it could take but I'd expect will still be Very much in recovery mode as we move into the beginning of February No, very much very much. That's a that is an issue. I think we could expect Certainly closures for at least another week We'll do some more modeling on that with the Bureau of Meteorology Because of the extent of the flooding as I said the Fitzroy River catchment areas 150,000 square kilometers The waters in Rockhampton are expected to recede very slowly But one thing's for certain as soon as it's possible to reopen and it will be reopened We're keeping a very very close eye on that it is still open at the moment We were advised just prior to this meeting And I believe from memory was about point nine of a meter below the road So my understanding is that that that road is still open But once again, it's so important to ask people to plan any essential travel and to consult Both the RACQ website and the 131940 website for up-to-date Road closure information. Thank you Some good questions around


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Minister of Information and Culture Lai Muhammad blames the Nigerian media for the country's poor image in security. And former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani Kayode who said he wouldn't rather die than join the APC has joined the ruling party and he's not dead. Well this is Plus Politics and I am Mary Anna Corn. The Nigerian media has been accused of giving Nigeria a poor image, the Minister of Information and Culture Lai Muhammad made the accusation saying its efforts in fighting the security challenges in the country had been dismissively reported. He said to the unflattering portrayal of the country by the country's media he said that is the reason why Nigerians in diaspora, investors and the international community at large are wary of visiting the country. He went on to say that security agencies have also successfully tackled the security separatists in the south east and south west and the militants in the south south but unfortunately these efforts were not well reflected in the reportage of the security challenges that Nigeria faces. What's running us to discuss this is Dikwa Olaioku who is a journalist. My name is Dikwa Olaioku who is a broadcast journalist and a journalist and producer with West Africa Radio in Dakar. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. I feel like there should be a woman on this team but it's okay, I'm glad to talk to all the men. I'm going to start with you Mr. Dikwa because you seem to be the one who has been in this business longer than we all have been in. So of course let's examine what the minister has to say. We have the NBC, we have the Bonn, we have the Writers Association, we have all of these bodies that are supposed to check and control what we put out every day as the media. But when the minister for information comes out with this kind of accusation, what does this, what image is he trying to paint of the Nigerian media? Yes, thank you very much. Before we go into that, there's something they call self-sacrifice. Before I had to state on that, we need to state from the beginning that the Nigerian media is an individual of the country's job. The country's position depends on what you go through every day. You will see that generally it's an entertainment business. Mr. Laiapul, we're having connection problems with you, so we're going to bring you back in a second. So just hold that thought. I'm just gonna have to throw the question to Ufama and Imor. Ufama, Mr. Alayakou saying that this is a thankless job. It's a job that you never really get a nod for, except you're an entertainer, for example.  But again, let's look at what the minister has to say about us. What picture is this painting of the Nigerian media? Marianne, I think I remember a couple of weeks ago when I was on the show, I made a pro-vab. I talked about how, you know, the Isoco man is well-known for his usage of cutlass. And so it's almost impossible. You don't carry cutlass in the back of an Isoco man. It's almost forbidden. That's because he knows how effective that cutlass actually is. And that's almost exactly what is happening here with Lai Mohammed. Before 2015, when the APC got into power, the media was the darling of the Minister of Information and Culture.  This is also not given excuses for the good Lajanatan administration. It was terribly was bad, you know. But of course, they did a lot of bad things. And so the present minister, who was the spokesperson of the opposition party at the time, used his connection with the media to, of course, portray all of these things. Well, they are now in power. He's been in power for six years. And unfortunately, things have gone from bad to worse.  Unfortunately, to the Lajanatan, I understand what he's trying to say, you know, suggesting that maybe just maybe when the media is not portraying the good part, that we're always talking about the negative. But unfortunately, it's our job to say it the way it is. And you and I know in this business, add new cells. It's just the way it is. You can't run away from it. So as much as we also want to be patriotic, like he's saying, we also want to, you know, talk about some of the gallant FOSIs of our military. Well, we can't stop reporting that bandits have attacked or terrorists, I should say, because I'm not going to join that nonsense. You call them bandits. They're terrorists.  They kidnap people and all of that. We're not going to stop reporting the fact that they attacked the NDA. We're not going to stop reporting the fact that 30 soldiers, military officers were reportedly killed sometime in April. You know, we're not going to stop reporting all of that. It's just the way it is. I think we're having problems with the former's connection. But I think we have Mr. Lyoko back on the line. Mr. Lyoko, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Great. So we'll take it up from where you stopped. Go ahead. Yes. I said it's the two-way thing. That's why I started my statement. The general has the responsibility to protect national security. And I went further to say that because of the job that we do, we are an endangerment. Because if you can't do that, that's why we have the responsibility to give what it was before. And maybe that's why we have the idea of doing that. Especially if you believe in government. It is our duty to report news. We don't make news. But the point is why are we reporting news? You're ruining the possibility of a duty to also look at national security. I think today we're struggling with the connections, both on our phone lines. And I think the internet is also terrible. But let's toss to you more. Hopefully the internet in Senegal is better. Now, most speakers have pointed to the issue of... former has spoken about the fact that there might be something to what he's saying as to the sensational headlines, the fact that people want to buy more bad news. Because you know, if you say that a man bit a dog, bit a man, it's not necessarily news because dogs bite humans. But when the story says a man bit a dog, then that's news, obviously.  And in this case, the Honourable Minister is saying that the press is picking and choosing or cherry picking in terms of what stories they want to highlight. And that we're not necessarily pushing the positives that the government has made in terms of winning the war, if there be any winning, against insecurity. Well, first of all, I think Ufama mentioned the Minister and his cohort enjoying the media when they were not in government. And I really see no reason why he would want to castigate the media in this time around, saying that they are painting Nigeria in a bad light. I mean, it's a 50-50 thing, whether you like it or not, give or take. They have been in power for over five years and they have all the way with all. They have every power to change whatever people had perceived about Nigeria in the past decades within this period of time. So I really don't make out anything from what he's saying that the media is painting the country in a bad light. Every media word over whether you like it or not. They state their headlines the way they are. I mean, if the terrorists kill or unsacred villages and cause mayhem in steering fear in people, the media will have to report that. I mean, going about to say that you should stop reporting insurgency attacks and all of that, it's just way beyond handcuffing the media. So I think, first of all, I blame the government if they know very well that the country is in a bad light outside the country. Yes, they have, it's on their table to ensure that they clean the mess and clean the picture, give a good picture to people outside. But isn't this a way of them trying to clean it because it's on their table and they feel that, well, the number one perpetrators or the number one people who seem to be painting this bad picture, it is the same media. It is the same media that will give them what they want. And so you cannot eat your cake and have it. It's the same media that will tell you, okay, Nigeria is doing well. The economy is booming and things are happening. It's the same media that will report that they've been attacking in the north, in the east, in the west, and all of that. So you can't really have it. Like I said, it's a 50-50 thing. Now, the impression about the image of Nigeria, yes, he's right.   That's always the first thing. I need to take it well before that perception will be cleared and people still talk, say good things about Nigeria, not because they see it in the media. I mean, they, the politicians are the ones who go outside the country and display this as lens. So, I mean, would you say that people wouldn't say what they've seen? They would say it and then put it back in the media. So really, it's a 50-50 thing and it shouldn't put the blame on the media like he is doing. The media have a role to play and that's what they've been doing over time. We report what we see. We set the opinion, we let them know, look, this is how the people are feeling and if they don't like it that way, then that is their problem. I really don't agree with him and I totally, totally disagree. My colleagues here in Dakar, when we saw the news, they were laughing, why would he say that? Why would he say that? We see, look, we went ahead to see all the things he have written over the years when he was still the spokesperson for, he started before the, I mean, he's still there, if you check his blog. Lai Muhammad, he's still there. All the things he was the first to release a press statement at every event. Lai Muhammad released a statement at every event even when we're not supposed to cough. He will release a statement. So why is it now feeling bad that the media is reporting what we are seeing? I really don't buy that. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Can you hear me clearly, Maria? Yes, we can hear you, yes. Yes, so here's the thing. It's one thing to run propaganda and be an opposition or, you know, it's another thing to be in power and hold the narrative. There are two different things entirely. You have to give it to Lai Muhammad. He was absolutely amazing.  You know, he was just spokesperson. He did an amazing job for the five or six years of there about that Good Luck Jonathan was president to always portray the Good Luck Jonathan presidency in a bad way. You know, so he was king. He was great at doing that. And for the love of God, Good Luck Jonathan and his presidents also gave them a lot of ammunitions from bomb blasts in Nyania happening and the next day they're in Kano dancing around and celebrating and all of that. There were lots of issues that happened that Lai Muhammad seized upon at that point in time. But like I said, it's one thing to run propaganda or it's one thing to point out ills and evil, you know, of one person. It's another thing to be on the saddle and also try to hold the narrative. Unfortunately, for six years, the president, the presidency, the minister of information, the spokespersons of the president, they have totally failed, you know, and I miss no words here. They have failed. How have they failed? When you say they've failed, in what regard have they failed? I think let me help me out a bit, you know, just a second. Femi-additional or Garibor Lawal are always on the defensive. They're always trying to, you know, things will happen instead of them to come out as quickly as possible, to hold the narrative or to give explanations. No, they won't. Two, three days later, when the things have blown out of proportion, they come out and they try to be on the defensive. They try to insult people. You see something is white. You want to tell us that it is gray. You insult our intelligence. See, Nigerians are not kids anymore. That's the honest truth. In fact, to a large extent, they don't even, to some extent, most of them don't even believe mainstream media anymore. That's because they also know that the government has, either directly or indirectly, tried to take hold of the media. So the problem here is that, for Lai Mohamed and the presidency, Spokesperson, all of them in that media department, they failed to translate from running propaganda or being the opposition to running government and holding the narrative. So that's why you see what we're seeing right now. Okay, I just want to go into some things that he said, which I want you, maybe I'm going to throw this to you more. He said, and I quote, if one picks up most newspapers, watches most television stations or listens to most radio stations in Nigeria today, he or she will be right to think that Nigeria is at war. Yes, he says we have challenges, especially in the area of security, but this administration has not only acknowledged these challenges, it is earnestly tackling the challenges. So I ask you, Imaan, because you're reporting mostly on these things from the outside. And of course, I'm guessing that when these things happen, they look to you as the Nigerian in the newsroom for more clarity. How well do you think that the government has, let's leave the issue of information management on the one hand. How well has the government dealt and managed the challenges of herders or unknown government or bandits or even the non-state actors that are creeping up every day? Well, first of all, that issue you mentioned is mostly what dominates our editorial meetings here. Sometimes we're just two Nigerians here and we used to feel the entire Dakar Senegal news is about Nigeria. There is no day you will not report an attack either in Keduna, in Baranui, in Sokoto. There is just no day an attack will come and once it happens, will you tell us not to report that? That is news for people who are not in Nigeria. Then we want to know, oh, why is there another attack in Nigeria and all of that? I think the government and the media handlers of the current administration are not being proactive. Like Ulfama mentioned, they should stop playing the blame game. As someone who is in the ruling party, you should be proactive. Before the Nigerians will think of anything, you drop it. They're like, oh, these people are working. Before anything will happen, you drop it. Sometimes it's to take days before the military will release a statement about an attack that happened on Monday or Tuesday or three days ago and then you hear different media reporting them, Reuters, APM and the rest of them, even also we're reporting it because of the correspondent we have there. I mean, that shouldn't be the case. It shouldn't be the case. I remember clearly, this same insecurity, like Ulfama mentioned, Lai Muhammad was always the first to report it. All the government are not doing this. The state of security is growing this and that. They were reporting it. So it's now they are torn to face the heat. So I wonder why they are seeing the media as those that are pushing the stories out to those in the world. If we sit in our home, even back there in Nigeria, we hear, we read stories and watch news of attacks in Sudan, Somalia, Mali, what kind of fossil and the rest of them. So what makes Nigeria different? What makes Nigeria different? Because you cannot have such an issue and then it's all reported. You don't report. I mean, it is crazy. The French colleagues will ask me, why is there a country like that? Why are they trying to stifle the media in Nigeria? I mean, there will be issues that ordinarily the Nigerian people should have been the first to report. But you get to see these stories on other international media. Why is that so? Because the government, they have uncuffed the media in that country. And that is what they have always had in mind when they come in. They knew the role the media played when they were in the opposing side. And they felt, look, if they continue with this, we will lose that completely. In fact, they have lost as it is because the remaining years, whether they like it or not, the perception that they have presented to Nigerians will last till this government leaves. I tell you, every Nigerian will come across here. They don't say good thing about the current administration. I'm not trying to paint them in a bad image, but that is always the perception we get. If you go to the Nigerian embassy in Dhaka here, it is still the same thing. People are complaining. Why is your government like that? Oh, Imo, you're from Nigeria. Why is Nigeria like that? Nigeria's a bit of a big border of Africa. The statement you made before now sounds more like this administration knew that they were not going to be able to deliver. Because when you say that... Because when you say that... I've been there six months to set up a cabinet. Well, because when you say that, this has always been their plan all along. It sounds more like they were only just selling us a whitewash of sorts. And you know that they were never going to be able to... You and I know that clearly. I mean, they never had anything on the agenda.  What was it that they wanted to give Nigerians? The only thing they campaigned on was corruption. To fight corruption, to deal with unemployment, and of course, to put an end to bad decay. Corruption was the main thing. Nigerians were tired of what was happening at the moment. And they felt, okay, we don't have any other choice. If this is the man you guys are presenting, let's take him and trust like Muhammad, like Ufa mentioned. He did a great job painting that man in a good image, painting those that will come in in a very good image. And Nigerians fell for it and we are suffering with that at the moment. So it will take a while. It will take a while before Nigerians will even accept whatever this administration will say. People will take them seriously because of those that are heading in different areas. I think we have Dikbar Layako back. Hopefully, this time we might be able to hear him. Mr. Layako, you're more of the print. We hear about screaming headlines, misleading openers on shows, sensationalism of certain stories. I mean, recently a particular TV station was put on the chopping board for analyzing something from a point of ignorance and making the media again look bad. And of course, we also know that bad new sales. So is this something that the media also needs to probably pause in his tracks to take a look at? Yes, we know that there's the politics to it and the angle from which the minister of information is coming from. But sincerely, is the media complicit to an extent in the way that in our reportage, generally? Yes, you can point that in this type of profile and you look at what is going to be the effect of my story on the society. There is an example that you are in people's in the school of the not too jealous or too reportable person compared to the brain. The other one said, the cops, how to? The other one said, the cops is happening. They are going to put in the same place or from different parties. And that should be the catchphrase of every report out there. Nigeria is going to be a very important person as a journalist, as a reporter. Am I through my life, balancing the tension or am I creating more tension? During the 9-11, that was what I had. I'm talking about that American is big, the bombing America. I was in the need thing. We were enjoying the story, the bombing out. About two weeks ago, a colleague drew attention to something. A colleague in the room said, do you notice something that says this is what has been coming up? That no American has ever shown the code of America. They pull out of the loop. That doesn't have to come from the school. Ah, it is true. But essentially, two months later, I went for a seminar and the reporter from, I said nothing was there. I took off this photo with them. And the same reporter told me that no American put out power. We showed that they are put out of the loop. They are put out from the loop. That is what the concept is. So, Mr. Mayaku, you're telling me that we seem to be, you're saying that we as the Nigerian media are selling ourselves short. We're showing more of our weaknesses than our strengths. Is that what you're saying? Because according to the story. No, that's what I said, it's my story. What is going to be the effect on the society? You see, because Nigerians, we just came out of a military regime. And then the regionalists, what is serve as fighting the military to resource the leaders and the protesters. But interestingly, many of us, we have not changed our decision. That is what maybe that particular issue, like Muhammad in the State, in your report chart, you look at what is going to be the effect of this non-reporting on society. That's what the country perceives of the regionalists. It's the first steps for this. No NPCs, we can't do it. No NPCs, they don't need NPCs. But you yourself, the function of the system, what will be the effect of my story, my headline on the society. I think that's what's going to happen. It's a different thing happening to the system. And we have one scholar who's going to call on everybody. I think that's what's going to happen. Okay. Ufama Imor, interestingly, Mr. Alayaku is bringing our attention to something, which I'm not sure if you hear, heard everything he said, but he was pointing to the fact that during the 9-11 attacks, no American fossil journalist or camera person showed images of Americans being taken out of the rubble throughout that time. And then he asked why this was, and they said, well, it's not their style. You're not supposed to show the weakness. You know, it's supposed to show that, you know, maybe because we show, I mean, all the things that happen, it makes us look weaker or that the bandits are having the upper hand. And I had a conversation with somebody, an activist some time ago, and he said the same thing that as much as we talk about and report these things, we also need to show that our army is working because it also reflects badly or poorly on them and their psychology. But again, these are their thoughts, not mine. So going forward, because we must be able to cover all grounds, so that every time these types of accusations come up, we would be able to say, well, on our end, we're good, we're straight, as compared to if we have loopholes. So I'm gonna start with you, Imor, going forward as the Nigerian media, and in reporting all of these things, not minding the politics that is around it, how do we make ourselves better? And like Caesar's wife, be above suspicion, I beg your pardon. For me, I think we have more issues on the negatives than the positives. Yes, we do have the good side of Nigeria, no doubt, but usually the positive must be able to overwhelm the negatives before you can now say the media is reporting the positives. Take for instance, if you stay in a country where basic things are working, there is steady power supply, there is park-borne water, there are good roads, I mean, you can walk about in the night without being harassed or the fear of being kidnapped, the economy is booming, the government are looking at the people and their social security for those who are unemployed, the pension system is working, there is plans for the elderly, or the aged citizens, I mean, the media won't really have time to look at all of this thing. When in case where these things are barely there and the only news you have is the state of insecurity, which is so alarming, you really can't help but to report it, you really can't help. Like I said, whoever is handling the media in the military, whatever arm it is, must be proactive. And that is the only way. I mean, before the news gets out, you're able to issue a statement. I know in Nigeria, it takes almost 72 hours or more before an official statement is issued in anything that happens. If they turn to being proactive, then I think people now start seeing, okay, the army said that you would not allow, I mean, you stop hearing a military source or an eyewitness said, because one, the army is able to come out to issue a statement, even before it is, yes, as a team. So, yes, I also agree with Uncle Depot. I quite agree with him, no doubt.  And once they are fed up with whoever is leading or with the administration, the turn to what the media will offer, what is in the news, oh, okay, there's been an attack yet, there's been an attack there. I mean, until the positives and negatives, then we can now say, okay, there's been so much good thing coming out of Nigeria and before all of that will stop. Oh, for more quickly, because we're out of time. So, here's what I think. I honestly, as much as I agree with what Mr. Dikwas said, we're actually doing it. There are lots of stories we're not putting out. At least I know in my newsroom, there are lots of things that come and we look at it and we're like, okay, okay, let's put a pause on this for now. Let's not hit up the polity like we always say. So, to a large extent, if we reported all of the things that come to our newsrooms, I'm sure, I don't know if Lai Mohamed will probably be crying right now, because we're already doing a lot of that self-censorship. I also would not want to disagree with the fact that some of us also need to tell ourselves the truth. I see some very sensational headlines with little or nothing to back up some of those headlines. Yeah, it's a problem. You know, out of every 12 disciple that would always be the Judas, no doubt about it. I have my own issues with the section of our media, but from a general point of view, we are doing a lot of the censorship, but the government itself is, the government came to power on the back of promises about security, how they were going to take security serious which the previous government did not. But hey, it's gone from bad to worse. You're not going to tell me not to report that. Absolutely no way. You're not going to report it because it's happening. Well, I want to say thank you gentlemen. Unfortunately, time is not on our side. For my grandmother is the head of news with Nigeria Info FM here in Lagos. Emo Edet is of the Democratic Radio, okay, West Africa Democratic Radio Station in Senegal. I was thinking about something else.  Thank you very much gentlemen for being part of this conversation. Yeah, it's always a pleasure. All right. Thank you for having us. Thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break now. And when we return, we will discuss the defection of Femi Fani Kayadi to the ruling ABC even after he promised that he will never do it. Stay with us.


Perfect. All right. Let's get it done. Right. You go, my friend. Yes. Hello. So, we are very happy to see all of you here on the session. We're going to talk about wiring cloud native applications for local development. And, well, first we need to, of course, assess the audience, how many of you are developers, and it's most of you, which makes us very, very happy because this session is specifically targeting you. We would like to tell you about the tools and approaches that we think are really, really good that can make you writing your cloud native applications a little bit more efficient and happier because, well, unhappy developers don't produce great code and happy developers are very, very efficient. So why, why, what makes developers unhappy? The thing we thought about this, and there is a little bit of a trade-off because production always wins. Whatever the, whatever are the constraints that the production imposes on us, they are very important. Right. Production is where we make money, which is hopefully goes to paying our compensation packages and so on. So it's very, very important. And it's always the most important thing that you will have. And the production will be made easy. And when something is made easy, is because other people are paying for it. Right. So in our situation, is developer pay very often with developer experience to enable the production setups that we want to work with. And this is something that we would like to address today. My name is Alex Shaleff. I work for a developer tools company called AtomicJour. We are the maintainers of the test countries libraries, which is one of the projects we're going to talk later today. My background is mostly in Java. So I'm very happy to see so many Java developers here. And you can find me online and talk to me. I'd love that. Yep. Hello, everyone. My name is Mauricio Salatino. I do work for Diabrit. We help people to run cloud native applications at scale. And I just, I'm super happy this week, super excited because I've just published my book titled Platform Engineering for Kubernetes, on Kubernetes. And this book basically covers a bunch of different tools, mostly from that lab, from a developer perspective of what kind of tools do I need to get stuff up and running.  We have like Argo gone this week as well. So a bunch of projects put together just to enable developers to be a little bit more efficient, as well as some other developer tools. I'm currently working for the Dapper project as a contributor and also as part of the Knative project, as part of the steering committee, and trying to collaborate with the functions working group as well. The reason why I'm here as well is because I do identify as a developer, even if I'm working on more like infra kind of stuff or frameworks around developers in the CNCF. But also my background is closer to Go and closer to Java as well in the past. And yeah, the reason, because we are developers, we are both developers, we thought, okay, let's build a simple pizza application here in Chicago. That's not the typical Chicago pizza. We need to change that for the next one when we go to a different city. But yeah, so we built a simple application because we wanted to demonstrate some of the tools that we are going to be mentioning here, like, you know, with a simple example that people can follow or that they can execute in their own Kubernetes clusters. So I have like, we created this very, very simple pizza store, kind of like a demo. I don't know if you can see it there in the back, but it's pretty simple. Here on the top, basically we have like a fixed order that you can place into the system. And then different services will be processing the order, right? Pretty simple stuff just to demonstrate some concepts. So when I place the order, you can see in the bottom that the order is going to be processed. And on the right hand side, what you can see is like different services, like the store service or the kitchen, you know, service, emitting events and processing the order, doing different things, right? Now the pizza is being cooked. At some point, you know, the pizza is going to be delivered to your address that you specified on the top.  It's half a mile away. Now the pizza just arrived to the destination. So super, super, super simple application. But even with this level of simplicity, we can just demonstrate how hard it is for developers just to build this kind of things. Yeah, it's a real production application. It's written mostly in Java. And we, when we described, we wanted to not just show the application, but give you the idea of what's the infrastructure behind that.  And this is what it came up with. Right? So if you're worried about being replaced soon by AI, you still have a little bit of time. Yes, it does, it does, it doesn't, it doesn't generate diagrams very well. So in fact, this is a proper distributed application. It consists of at least three. Actually, it consists of four services that are separate. Well, applications running, we deployed in the Kubernetes cluster. There was a pizza store service there in the middle, which is the sort of the orchestrator and to which the clients are connected. And it works with two others, which is the kitchen and delivery service. They communicate using the Kafka messaging, rocker, and the data is stored in the relational database as like a normal, like a normal application. But it's, it's a small application, right? But it's, it's natural, like with four microservices, if I just replace and rename the boxes, I could build very, very many systems like this, right? It could be my movie recommendation and they like something different or it could be my, my banking solution was for boxes. So it's a very, it's a very real life architecture. And you can play with it in the repository and you can see how it feels and works. So this is the production view of the application, right? This is, we have the Kubernetes there, we have all those things. As a developer, when I'm working on those yellow boxes, right? Because that's, that's the code that I'm working with. What I'm interested in is a different view, only actually the code and maybe the communication between the patterns is what I'm interested in. Everything else is an overhead that I need to, I need to know, I need to master, I need to include into my onboarding for the new people, I need to include that into like the education curricula for new people joining the company if I want them to be effective with this. And that's a lot of great parts that actually are not in the direct interest of me as a developer to work on. This is the toll that I have to pay for, for working in a sort of production like environment and understand that. Yeah, you can, I always use the example of like a student that is joining the company, right? Like, and you need to train them to learn about all these services, even like understanding how the different services interact, it's complicated. Imagine if they need to learn about load balancers or auto scaling. That's too complicated for a developer that's, that's really complicated. The same applies for infrastructure, right? Like if you need to know where the database is or which database, you need to put a student to learn Kafka or deep PostgreSQL features that you're using for your production workloads, workloads that might be too complicated. So usually you face some challenges when you are working with these kind of like applications and distributed applications that runs on top of Kubernetes or on top of a cloud provider, right? Unfamiliar tools for developers, like pushing them to learn, you know, all the AWS services or all the Google cloud services might be quite a lot. Pushing them even like just to learn how Kubernetes works for just deploying their applications might be too much for some people. And sometimes you can scale up the knowledge pretty well, but sometimes that will take you time and resources that maybe you don't have right now. Kubernetes introduce a complexity, right? Like it does introduce complexity. And we, you need to really, really wonder if like you want to push all your developers to learn about it or not. The question that always arises, like, do you want to run one Kubernetes cluster for each of your developers or maybe not? For some companies, that's a good idea. For some other companies, it's not. And sometimes it's mostly about how do you scale up that operation with more and more developer teams?  Yeah. Do you make them manage their own clusters? Like locally, how is the setup? There is a lot of pin. And of course, that takes us always to environment party, right? How similar are the environments that are being used by developers closer to our production environment? The further they are apart, like the more different they are, the more difficult it becomes to make sure that these applications will run in the same way when they are deployed into production environments. And of course, the testing space becomes complicated as well, right? The more complex the application, the more infrastructure it will need. And when you just want to run a single service, like, for example, the pizza store service in this case, you will need some infrastructure components to be running alongside your applications to test it. You can always mock things that will create even more disparity between environments. But you need to make sure that developers have the right tools, the right environments built in, in their tools that they already know, right? Some companies for this kind of stuff, they use Docker compose, for example, so you need to learn how to use Docker compose. And then you need to make sure that the versions of the, you know, dependencies that you have here in the application are the same versions that the ones that you are using in production. That's very, very, very difficult to control. Exactly. And the question is not about, it's not like developers are unable to learn those things. But this is a necessary complexity that we would love to avoid. We would love to enable developer experience that is, that is without those complexities. So how do you go about that? Yeah, so because we are developers, again, we love APIs. As a developer, I know how to create APIs and how to consume APIs. So if you give me APIs, I will use APIs, right? And that's why I wanted to talk a little bit about Dapper, right? Because Dapper provides application level APIs to solve common cloud native challenges. Let's see how this works. Because we already ask, of course, Dali, you know, how our application will look with Dapper. I really like the image, the way it looks. But do not think about Dapper as a centralized thing in there, but think about like a way of obstructing all the infrastructure that your application needs and providing application developers, the APIs to implement different patterns and different functionalities. So how does it work? Because we are in a Kubernetes, you know, conference, I wanted to explain it more for people that knows about Kubernetes.  The console plane will identify these containers and it will inject a side card that will expose APIs for developers. At the same time, platform teams can actually define using configuration files, like, you know, Jamel files into Kubernetes, Kubernetes resources to wire up these APIs to different infrastructure components. So if your application is submitting events or storing data into databases or, you know, key value stores, you can actually configure that to use, you know, Postgres URL, Mongo, or Redis, or a cloud provider service that gives you those functionalities. And the same with Kafka, right? Like, you might be using Kafka, but at some point you're running, you know, in Google and you want to use Google, PubSub, or Amazon SQS, then you can swap the implementations in your production environment. But for the developer, the APIs will remain the same. This is interesting. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, yeah. It's interesting because, like, note, for me, I'm less of a Kubernetes native experience, right? It's very interesting because you separate actually the configuring services and infrastructure and using it from your applications, making it two separate problems, two separate roles of people. Exactly, yeah. And also, like, what we do in Dapper is basically because we're injecting a sidecar, we're exposing HTTP and gRPC endpoints for applications. That basically means that any application in any language can interact with these APIs. We also provide SDKs to make it easier, but, you know, you can choose any language that you want for that. And we have different building blocks, right? Like, we have publish and subscribe for emitting and consuming events. We have state management for storing information and retrieving information. And then we have higher-level constructs like distributed locks for cloud native applications, for distributed applications, and even workflows now in the latest release. Also, on the bottom, then, basically, because now you are interacting with APIs, not with infrastructure directly, you can just swap that infrastructure for any cloud provider infrastructure that you have available, or your managed, self-managed infrastructure. So, when you look at Dapper and because we're using the sidecar model, you also get a bunch of cross-cutting functionalities out of the box, like resiliency, security, observability, mostly because you have a sidecar that is looking at what the applications are doing, connecting with infrastructure and taking data about what's happening. But, I've just mentioned, you know, we need to install Dapper into a cluster, then you need to have a platform thing, configuring components, that would actually not work for a local development environment, right? Yes, yes. I don't want to have a cluster on my machine. I don't want to think about installing anything into the control plane of that cluster. I don't want to think about operators. And, for the local development environment, there is this amazing, amazing project called Test Containers. It's not just me saying that. I am paid to say that, but also there is a large community who is... Let me ask, how many people know about Test Containers already? Yes, the job folks mostly. So, Test Containers, for those who don't know, Test Containers are open source libraries that give you the programmatic API to do things with containers. And we are mostly targeting the pre-production use cases. So, you can use... It's in your programming language. There are implementations in different languages, but most popular are covered. We even have Haskell there for you, sir. Very good. Actually, there are a few more. Most of those implementations are community-driven events and Atomic Charger. We are trying to help people get them to the same level for maturity. The most popular ones are very, very mature and stable. And there is the complete experience for you. There are open source Test Containers libraries that you can use for that. There is a free desktop application that you can use for your local setup to make it more efficient and work with the Test Containers by setup. There is a cloud service if you don't want to run containers in your local, local environment. It's a whole suite of solutions. But at the heart of that is, of course, the open source libraries. And they give you the API. I think it's the next slide. They give you the API to do things. There is an ecosystem of... Because it's in the programming language, you can build all the abstractions that you want. You can build yourself or somebody can build it for you. There is a whole ecosystem of modules which are predefined abstractions, small libraries that can give you one or two lines of code that you can define to run a service in the container. If you want a database, you can say, oh, give me Postgres. If you want Kafka, you get Kafka. If you want AWS, you can get local stack in two lines of code. The ecosystem is very, very vast and it's in different languages. There is API to configure the actual containers. You can run anything that runs in Docker Container via Test containers programmatically. There is API to manage the life cycle so you can start-stop containers which is very good for your local environment and tests because you might want to have separate isolated environments. And it's also the convenience API to wire the application to use those things in tests because, well, your service will be spinning up somewhere in the random containers and you need to actually connect to them. It looks very, very natural. In Java, for example, I can say, I can add a library to my project and I can run my, say, I need a Postgres for this pizza application. We need the Postgres so I can say, give me a new Postgres container with that Docker image and I have the whole suite of configuration. Anything I can do with a Docker container, I can do programmatically. I can just type dot in my ID and my ID will offer me, do you want to expose ports? Do you want to override the environment variables? Do you want to override the command for the image? Do you want to put the resources, like how much CPU and memory it has to use and so on. So I can copy files into this. I can configure my database or any other technology that I want to run and then, sorry, and then I can start it and I can get, for example, the connection URL to connect to that database. So for other technologies, for Kafka, for example, this will be also, I will start my Kafka and I will get my bootstrap servers. But it's all programmatic so you can build whatever you want and use it yourself or share it with people in your company or within the project. It also works the same way in other languages. So if I look at the Go version, we predicted that most of people here will be Java and Go, which is good job us. In Go, it will look very, very similar. You add a dependency on the test containers modules and then you say, I would like to run my Postgres and this is my image and this is the configuration and it sits there in your task code or in your application life cycle code. And when this code will run, it will discover a Docker environment a compatible Docker environment doesn't have to be Docker environment. Discover, run the container in it, wait for the container to start and the service to be available for you in the container. We can specify the waiting strategy there. So when the Postgres will tell us that it's ready, it will work. And then we can get the connection strings and we can wire our application to that. And at the end of the run, test containers will clean up the environment so it's repeatable.  It will never get stale because it's right in your code. And it's by default sure it was everyone on the team. So it's great developer friendly setup. That's correct. If we look at our pizza application, we have the test which is the separate program. Our test is a separate program. It will start our pizza application. For Java it will be the same process. It will get the test containers libraries, test containers, libraries will start the containers and our application can run in the environment that uses the same technologies as in production but in any environment where there is Docker. So it could be my laptop. It could be your laptop. It could be somebody who was a Windows laptop. It could be my CI solution. That gives us good environment priority and good results for repeatable tests. So how do we wire it together? Yeah. So we because again like Dapper it's mostly focused on you know like deploying on Kubernetes and you need a control plane to work with Dapper so it injects the sidecar and all that stuff. I thought that for developers that's usually very complicated and for a Java developer or even for a Go developer using Docker Compose to configure Dapper it's pretty complicated as well just to make sure that you have like APIs available for you to use. So when I when I looked at test containers I believe that test containers can gives us even like further abstraction right. For database maybe you can say you know start Postgres but for Dapper for the developer itself I don't even want the developer to learn about Dapper itself for how to configure it or just how to use the APIs. If the developer learns how to use the APIs to store data to emit events to consume events they should be able to do their job right. So that's kind of what we did with the you know Dapper and test container integrations which basically does that right like so I have my pizza store in my IDE I just include a dependency for testing in this case I will show it in Java but you can do the same and go and basically what you do is like you start the application and automatically the integration will start the Dapper sidecar with a configuration for those APIs for the local environment right. So if you do this then you are building your application against some APIs that you are using for testing here like a local setup but the APIs are the same when you move the same application code to your production environment and I want to quickly show you this in Java we don't have too much time unfortunately we have like only four more minutes but what I want to show you here is that so my test basically that's my pizza store application I don't know if you can see that in the back hopefully you can I will try to make it a little bit bigger but this is the test of the application right like very simple test it just placed an order by sending an HTTP request to slash order and then it just checks that the order was placed correctly right like not very complicated test to start with but in order to test this I have just a configuration here like a test configuration that basically will start the application run the test against the application and then if everything is okay it will finish successfully but because the application is using the DAPRA APIs for example to store the order into a persistent storage you can see here I have like a store method here in the Java application that it's using in this case the DAPRA Java SDK to interact with the DAPRA APIs just to call this method here right that it's saying you know client save state and I will say the order into a key value store in this case so if you take a look at the test here like the test configuration the only thing that the developer needs to do is just add this annotation of course it's Java so you add annotations and things happen automatically and it says you know this application will use the DAPRA APIs that's the only thing that I need to set up for my application and when I run the test I will be able to use the APIs but because I'm using Spring Boot a framework in Java that allows you to create applications what I can do as well is I can run this command I will make it bigger because I will make it bigger here I don't know if you can see that I will it doesn't really matter the command that I'm running right but I'm just starting the application in what we call like development mode so the application will start in the same like using the same test configuration with all the infrastructure that it needs to work and the test container integration here you will see that it will start actually the DAPRA sidecar right beside the application it will wire it up together so the application can use the APIs so what I can do now is I can go to the browser here and now I'm running my application this pizza store service alone right I can refresh this because it's the same port that I'm using so I'm not using any Kubernetes or anything in here and I can actually go and place another another order in this case because I'm only running the pizza store I'm not I do not have the kitchen service the meeting events I do not have the delivery service the meeting events nothing will happen but I can iterate on these you know on this application pretty quickly because it's running locally no Kubernetes no containers it's just been automatically wired with DAPRA by the integration yeah and if you need you need a larger setup for testing for example you can always mock services with the right number of projects that are available for mocking I think the CNCF currently approach is a my crocs my crocs is how you mock them so you showed a very small we showed you a very small example where there is a little bit more is hidden in the code behind those annotations but there is just I don't know maybe a hundred lines of code right maybe something like this it's not that big of a deal to set up the environment and it gives us two things it will actually more but it gives us the consistent API that we can use in our local during our local development running the application like more research has shown up right it was running locally there is no virtualization I can use all my tools and my application uses the same API and the same approaches it will use in production and it also my testing experience becomes so much better because my tests are self-contained there is no dependency on the like I don't need my platform team to give me like an instance of post-dress that I'm going to share with my colleagues you right I get my isolated environment my tests are self-contained my tests are repeatable and they also because it runs with the same technologies and with the same APIs it gives me the high signal about the how confident I am about the code quality which is which is what I want from the testing spirits yeah exactly and actually like this presentation it's based on the upper-end test containers but these are like very genetic things that you should be looking if you're trying to enable developers to be more productive right having this consistent APIs no matter if you use that or if you use other projects having this consistent APIs for developers to do their work without worrying too much about the infrastructure that they're going to use I think that it's the next step of abstracting away you know cloud providers and a specific infrastructure for your applications having the testing experience is great and also something that we didn't mention that much but it's also like because we are working with code we can start creating libraries that platform teams can start distributing across the development teams in a very simple way we can create our libraries to define what for example is a dapper local environment or what is your company specific environment for developing this specific service and distribute that across different developers and different teams that they need that it also could be you on the project but you will be wearing the platform engineer hat for that for the time so we have that application that it's using dapper and it's using test containers that integration was published like last week it's been announced today like this very kind like a wire how do we wire things for dapper I do believe that this way of doing things allows you to provide a very specific developer experience in this case and also it gives you the idea of you know you can actually start thinking about developer experience at this level right and then from my side the link to the atomic jar blog post about how to enable the same local experience that we showed you with Java but in go applications with test containers I think this would be very very interesting and of course the sites for the projects and if you are willing to do so join the community there is a slag.testcontainers.com to join the test containers slack workspace where you can well talk to the community and figure out things and dapper has a discord channel a discord channel that you can also join to talk to people important in really really really important about the go blog post is that it shows how go developers are used to work so it's we are not changing the way that go developers work we are just extending the things that they have available to use we don't want to introduce them to us we want developers from each different language to do their thing in the way that they are already used to it but just providing the the things that will enable these more complex environments and these more complex setups we did it and then if you have any feedback please the conference asked us to show that QR code if you have good feedback please just fill the survey if you have less than stellar feedback we personally would love to hear it no need to record it there you go they're just kidding just kidding any feedback is welcome we'd love to read that we'd love to make this presentation better thank you very much for coming I hope we have a great conference today


This is JSATV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine, and welcome to JSATV. We've got a familiar face in the seat with us today, Mr. Mike Jonas. Mike is the president of Light River Technologies, and I should add that we are actually coming to you live from the Lone Star State of Texas, Dallas, Texas, to be exact, at Encompass 2016. Mike, how are you? I'm doing great, and glad to be here with you, trialing some new technology. Trialing the new technology. Hopefully you folks at home can appreciate the fact that we are actually live streaming some of this right now. So let's get jumped right into this, Mike. I'm looking around now. It looks like the show floor is filling up pretty good. How is the show going for you? So far, so good. I mean, we have a lot of the decision-makers here we wanted to meet with, and a lot of time spent one-on-one, which is what we really want when we come here. And then we have some great rallying points to get together and start those conversations from. Outstanding, we're going to talk about those rallying points in just a second. But really quick for our viewers who don't already know, and if you don't, shame on you. Why don't you tell them a little bit about Light River? Well, Light River's been almost 20 years in the business of building optical networks for people who need quality and resiliency and predictability. So that's all we do. We don't work in the land. We build high-capacity networks, optical networks for people using DWDM, MPLS, and carrier ethernet. Very cool. So what's the latest and greatest? I know you want to get to this part. Well, the latest and greatest is it's working well. Congratulations. The technology focus is right. The network focus is right. Certainly the industry trends are in our favor. Our focus in some core vertical markets, the carriers, the cloud providers, and for us investor-owned utilities continue to pay significant dividends. Knowing that technology is good. It's helpful. It's the cost of getting into the game. But knowing how our customers need to use it so they can propel their own business makes all the difference for us and for them. Outstanding. And obviously, with 20 years in your pocket, you must be doing something right over there at Light River. But let's talk about the next year, 2017. What's you got cooking? Well, so we've pioneered the factory-built network model for the high-cap networks we've been building, primarily as we started as a hardware factory to make sure we could integrate different technologies, different domains, different manufacturers into a high-performing network. Well, we're taking that same model and moving it further and further into the software layer. Obviously, SDN and NFV are much in the news. And these are big ideas. These are big concepts. Too big for anyone to actually deploy out of the box. So the fact that Light River is used to integrating various technologies in various network domains is giving us a huge advantage as we try to roll this out into digestible chunks for software automation. We're not going to try to boil the ocean and give anyone a miracle network. But you know what? There are a lot of things that can be done in pieces. Taking that elephant a bite at a time that make real impact, a positive impact on how they run their networks. And because they are all carrier grade, we get a chance to prove that in our network factory and in our software labs. Outstanding, Mike, it is always a pleasure talking with you. I feel like I learn a little bit and quite frankly, don't feel as smart after I speak to you, but that's okay, I'm learning, I'm learning. So big question, what are you doing tonight? What am I doing tonight? Well, I'll be participating in a number of the networking events here because I still have to learn more. I wish I could say I knew everything. No, not close, but there's a lot of people here who do know a lot and I'll be spending time with them trying to see what I don't know. Outstanding, thanks again, Mike, appreciate it. Have a great day. You got it, you got it. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.


I heard the story where a beggar was found dead in an abandoned house days after he had died. After searching him a purse was found under his belt and under it there was lots of dollar bills in there. That man had so much money and yet he died poor. This is one of the dilemmas of life that most people have everything they need and yet they die poor. Here's the thing God is so gracious and he gave each one of us talents and passions for a few major reasons to make him happy in our using it to impact the lives of others and to make us fulfilled as we make money from it and have fun doing it. There is almost no successful person you couldn't raise the use of passion or talent to. People succeed most in the area of their strengths and calling. Here's one thing about life. You don't have what you need because you aren't using what you have to get what you want. I know things can be difficult at times but look around and you will see that you're in the very place you need to be with all the tools you need to use to live the best life you desire to have. Simple. In today's video, I will be sharing with you a few lessons on how you can turn your passion into profit. Subscribe to this channel if you're new here so you don't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Discover what your passion is. As you may have known, passion is what you love doing. It is what you never struggle to do and what you would really do for free even if no one offers to pay. It is what brings you happiness and fulfillment each time you think of it and decide to do it. 1 thing you should know is you have a passion or talent. One quote that has always driven the understanding and the certainty of this home for me is a Bible verse that says, the gift of a man makes room for him. Every man has a gift which can also be called your talent or passion. Others may have 5, some may have 2 but nobody who comes into this world likes gifts that is the passion for something. This is why the first place to start to turn your passion into profit is to discover what your passion is. Since passion is what you enjoy doing, ask yourself what you enjoy doing. What is that thing you would readily do for free if you weren't paid? What's that thing that keeps you up at night? What's that thing that you do not struggle to sacrifice your sleep? Your food and some entertainment for just because you find it easy to do and find your most pleasure doing it. To find this out, you would need to get some time aside to be alone, get a sheet of paper and a pen and write down all your gifts. Some are marketable while some are not but you do need to identify all of them. It may seem funny to love good stuff but it could be a pointer to the fact that you could start a food company.  Take some time to find it. 2. Find the problem it solves for others. If you have written down all your passions, you don't necessarily have to start a business around all of them just yet. Like I said earlier, some passions are marketable while some are not. You may need to scroll through your list to find which of your passion is marketable now and which isn't. For example, you may love IT a lot while at the same time you love reading comic books. As much as you can focus on comic books, there is much more market for you in IT. You can start a software company or a media company. You can easily scale up such a business to success in no time more because we are in the time when IT and all its related businesses are most needed. So the second stage of turning your passion into profit is to find the problem it solves for others. It's okay to love to write, but what problem does it solve for others? For a long time, I also just kept writing and writing. I didn't realize I was going to make money doing it at the time, but I kept writing on two years later when I started to think about how I could start to make money for myself. I had to begin to figure out ways to make money from writing. Today there are over 20 ways you can make money by writing and it is simply because each of those solves a problem for a group of people. You may love to do laundry, but what problem does that solve for others? You don't need your passion to solve a problem for everyone in the world. You only need it to solve problems for a group of people who will be willing to pay for it. If you love writing, you could write books for people who are too busy to write their own books. This is called Gus writing. You can also write your own books or start a blog or find a magazine that needs writers. What problems will your passion solve for others? You may love to speak in public, but until your public speaking love finds a problem it solves for others, it is just a waste of time. 3. Test the idea. Once you have identified your passion and discovered what problem it can solve for others, you are well on your way to the next step. Test that idea. To do this, find at least three people who have the problem you can solve with your passion. For example, if you love to do laundry, find at least three people who need help with their laundry. This is how you test if the idea or passion is worth pursuing or not. From this, you should observe the result you get. How much should you charge? How best can you structure your business so it is presentable and attractive? What mistakes did you make from trying to sell your passion to these three people? What can you learn from their response about how much to charge? How to position your business for more clients or customers? What are the things you need to correct? Also, the reason why you should immediately find at least three people who are interested in having this problem solved for them, using your passion, is so that you will know ideas to discard and ideas to continue with. If a certain idea from your passion doesn't generate quick clients or customers, you may want to put that idea aside, check through your list of passions, and pick another one again to start to create a business idea around it. You don't have to use all your ideas at once. Rather, you should focus on one that heats home fast with a group of people and figure out how to keep using that to your advantage in business. If you have passion for something, whether it is sewing or selling, find that passion. Even if it is one, you certainly have a passion for something, everybody does. Next, find the problem that passion can solve for others. Someone who loves business can start to set up businesses. Someone who loves to see people happy and healthy can become a nurse. Someone who loves peace and security in the country can join the military. Whatever it is, find out what problem your passion will serve for people. The final step is to find at least three people whom you can offer the service or market your idea to. If you can't find three people immediately, you may not have a viable market for your idea. Move on to the next passion on the list. I know this is not an exhaustive look into how to turn your passion into profit, but this is the method I have always used to start new businesses and even to run my financial life right now. Let's face it, all major financial breakthroughs often come in areas of your strengths. So, find your passion, find what problem it solves for others, and find people who you can immediately sell that solution to. If this video inspired you, share it with your friends. We love you.


Most of this information comes from Publication 946, How to Depreciate Property Tax Year 2022. You can find it on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused on line one income. Remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence and income statement, but just an outline of scaffolding, other forms and schedules flowing into it. For example, the schedule C, which is in essence an income statement in and of itself, business income minus business expenses, gives us the business net income would flow into line one income of our income tax formula. This is page one of a form 1040 where we can recognize that the schedule C would flow into the schedule one, which would flow into line eight of the form 1040. Schedule C profit or loss from business, income statement format, income minus expenses, we're focused here on the expenses, in particular those related to depreciable property where we have to deviate from a cashed based system, even if we're using a cashed based system, doing an accrual thing, putting these items on the books as an asset, allocating the cost or possibly amortizing the cost in the case of intangible assets over the useful life. Why? Because the tax code tells us that's what we have to do. All right, so patents and copyrights. These were the ones that were deviations, if you recall from prior presentations to the normal maker's rules. So most of the times when we talk about normal depreciable property, property, plants and equipment, equipment, for example, we put it on the books usually using maker's rules. Maker's rules is gonna be a format of double declining balance usually with like a half year convention or something like that. But we have exceptions with other types of depreciable items or amortizable items, intangible items oftentimes, like patents and copyrights. So if you can depreciate the cost of a patent or copyright, use the straight line method over the useful life. Now the straight line method is like the standard or baseline method when you're thinking about any kind of depreciation in concept. So in concept, we would think, okay, what is the useful life of my patent or copyright? Which is a type of intangible asset that is given through law. It's a legal kind of thing, right? That's why we have it. We've got restrictions in place that are legal restrictions. They're not physical, they're not tangible things, but they have value. And so we can basically think how long are these things going to last? They're gonna end at some point in time possibly. And so we can then try to take the value over the useful life. So if I bought, for example, a patent or a copyright, then I may have a good idea in that case in terms of how much I paid for it, obviously, which would hopefully be the market value. You would think if it was an orange length transaction, I know how long the patent or copyright might last. And therefore I can take the cost divided by the years that it's gonna be allocated to and then allocate the expense or amortization, depreciation over the life that I'm getting a benefit from that asset would be the general idea. Notice that when we get to the maker's depreciation and we look at accelerated depreciation methods, the idea would be that we're gonna get more depreciation in the first years than the latter years, which could make sense even from an accounting standpoint, not just a tax weirdness standpoint, because if it was equipment, you might get more benefit from the early years than the latter years. If you're talking like a patent or a copyright, that's not so true. You might get the same benefit going forward depending on what the patent or copyright is for, because if you didn't have the patent, that's when you would think you'd get all the benefit upfront until other people got into the market or something like that, right? So straight line kind of makes sense conceptually. But some reason we deviate from something that makes sense conceptually isn't always that it doesn't make sense conceptually from an accounting standpoint, like 179 deduction and special depreciation, for example, don't really make sense conceptually, that's the government doing something weird to stimulate the economy or something like that. So the useful life of a patent or a copyright is the lesser of the life granted to it by the government or the remaining life when you acquired it. However, so obviously if the government granted it and you got it from the start, then whatever the useful life is, when you bought it, clearly the life that is still remaining where the law is in place for the patent or copyright would be the useful life at the point in time you purchase it. However, if the patent or copyright becomes a value list before the end of its useful life, you can deduct it, you can deduct in that year any of its remaining costs or other bases. So that would be kind of similar to a situation where you had a piece of equipment, like we talked about in a prior presentation, which you disposed of because it's no longer useful, you just threw it away, you still had bases in it that you didn't fully depreciate. Similar situation here, you got a patent or copyright, it became useful, the patent or copyright became obsolete or something like that, you're not getting any value from it anymore, but you still have that basis that hadn't fully been depreciated. So you might have a situation where you think you'd get a benefit from it at the point in time that it becomes obsolete, considering you paid for it in the past and you're no longer allocating that cost to revenue in the future.


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The technique of the cut, as I said, really overemphasizing, turning the foot, turning the hips when I'm cutting. The thing I want you to think about as far as body movement is actually skipping away while you're making that outside cut. Because I can just take a touch. But if I really want to get good at avoiding tackles, I will send the better in one day soccer blueprint to anyone who comments hashtag soccer on this video. Learning to really jump away with that touch is going to help me escape more defenders. How many times have you seen messy, dribbling full speed, someone comes to tackle him, just skips out of the way, continues with his dribble. So think about adding that, the low center of gravity on the cuts, bending the knees, not just focusing on your touches, but focusing on control of the body and then skipping away from tackles. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.


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