to my channel today's video I am gonna do a vlog I don't really know how many days or what I'm gonna do but right now I'm just gonna start it off as like they may be two-day vlog but if you're new here hey my name is Akira Jenae don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave so I today is July 27th or 1 30 in the afternoon literally just woke up at like 11 30 but yeah so Saturday I literally was just like I'm on my billbomb pierce I was on Instagram and like it was like the at least 10 10 girls that I passed literally like had their billbomb pierce and what really made me wanted though was I was on something I don't know if it was some social media and the girls had like little dangly ones and I'm like those are so freaking cute and high school literally the only thing that I ever wanted like really wanted was my bill button pierce and I used to watch all tons of all kinds of videos and then I kind of just got into tattoos obviously and I just kind of see it f-piercing so I don't know I kind of want to pierce it just looks so cute I feel like it just kind of gives you a little bit more you know so your stomach and to get appearance so that's what I'm going to go do the place that I want to go to literally don't open until 2 so it's gonna take me it's downtown little rock so it's gonna take me probably like 25 ish minutes to get over there so yeah hopefully a guy named Zach or a lady named Janet is there I was going through their reviews and like Zach have hello reviews and Janet has I saw one of you one review about the belly button hurt but Zach like he got reviews about the tattoos bill one pierce all this so I'm literally gonna request Zach hopefully he's there right when they're opening yeah so I'm probably gonna eat after because I don't want to be like full and bloated and stuff when you put it in I don't know I'm gonna actually just drink like some water or something right now just put something on my stomach but um yeah I'm about to get going I just took prints out so you know he in the cut right here let me take your hornet so I'm about to feed him and then I'm about to roll out it's only $40 to I don't know why I thought Billy button pierces was going to be like $70 I don't know I called her at like 9 30 and she was like I was only $40 and I was like okay do y'all accept walk-ins she was like yeah but we closed at 10 it was like 9 32 when I had called her Saturday night and I was like oh no like I'm not coming in today but little did I know they were closed Sunday and Monday and I don't know about y'all but sometimes I'm the type of person and like if I sit on it and think about it too long like I end up not wanting to do it like if it's something like this I don't know sometimes I'm like that sometimes I'm not but this time it's kind of like I thought about it Saturday night last night I was up until like 3 a.m. because I couldn't sleep so I watched two or three videos of somebody getting a bill in pierce and I mean that's it like I'm just gonna have to stick if I can sit down for 45 minutes to an hour for this and repeatedly get a needle in me for tattoo I can be hurt for like a minute or two so I'm gonna go stop thinking about it and yeah okay so I'm here since I'm downtown I'm gonna have to walk like around the corner whatever I have I get my hair done over here too sometimes downtown so literally I just gotta walk like the street but it's daytime people out here walking and stuff so I don't feel too I don't know I don't I don't mess with downtown he has to take me down on take a pill I took ibuprofen someone on line said maybe take one or whatever I don't know my head will turn this morning so hopefully the pain isn't too bad with this um yeah I don't know I just don't like downtown anywhere like any city I go to I just don't trust downtown and it just being creeps everywhere so I'm about to walk around to this place it looks like somebody like it's like people out here with like suitcases and stuff I guess about to catch a bus or something so yeah I'm about to go in I literally got here in like 15 minutes if they didn't take long to get over here I don't know why I said 25 minutes it'll take they're gonna get downtown so it's 206 I don't want to just be right up in there like 2 o'clock like hey what's up so I'm gonna wait till about like 2 10 to walk around then it'll probably take me like a minute or two to get over there so yeah if I can record I'll record I'm probably not gonna hold the camera and record I'm gonna ask if I can like sit it up or something because you know I don't know the only thing I have pierced is my ears and that was like an eighth grade I got him pierced and I mean it really went nothing they just real quick so hopefully this is like that so yeah I'm gonna move my camera before like overheats or something let me put this bag cuz I'm about to go in I didn't record anything it literally was so fast shout out to Maddie and Zach though period y'all is it um literally Maddie did it but Zach did like my paperwork whatever $40 cash let me turn this down $40 cash and literally it took a minute like two minutes tops and it's right here it definitely I definitely felt the sting she put the long one on so I can have like healing time and stuff it's a little blood he said to clean it twice a day and I really forgot what he said I'm looking back up and don't do like nothing I ever like six months I kind of feel the stink afterwards like I didn't really feel much during so um yeah I feel a little tingle at the top only so yeah kind of just went on a whim and did it since my birthday is this Sunday your girl's gonna be 23 Leo gang stand up that my goddamn belly piece okay I'm just gonna wait until I get home to take like a boomerang and stuff so yeah but um on a scale of one to ten with pain I do have slightly a high pain tolerance but literally that was nothing she told me to breathe in and breathe out so literally on a scale of one to ten since I was obviously I did feel a pinch or like it go through I'm just gonna say pain was like a one or two honestly like it didn't hurt so yeah I'm about to give me some chik chik and probably go home eat that cuz I already 222 and you know you're trying to gain weight and stuff and I need to eating needs to be my first top priority so I'm about to go give me some food I'm gonna take that home I'm not gonna eat so I get back to my wife by my house I'm trying to think is there anything else I need to do on the side of town since I'm already over here in Little Rock I don't think so so yeah I'm about to leave me some chik-fil-a and go home and eat that and figure out what else I want to do for today I already got my nails and I do need to get my toes done I may or may not do that today and yeah we're just gonna get the eight count nugget meal I'm eliminate and catch up better be all thank you I got eleven thousand four hundred and sixty-one lifetime points for you I'm good are you this amber no Baker Akira yes yeah thank you you too well I'm tired then I got the it was 1807 but I got the H2 ocean and with the sea salt and stuff in it's for piercings after spray literally has like four point eight four point nine stars out of five and then the girl and hot topic she was like oh yes this is really good you need to use this and she was on my whole little one piercing she was like this literally literally it literally helped her out so much and on the back it says applies needed to the affected areas recommended up to three to six times per day I'll probably do about three times a day depending on that she was like what she said but yeah this is what the guy using this YouTube video he's from it was either Jersey or like the DMV it was one of those and he was like a really good known person on YouTube to do tattoos and piercings or just piercings I don't know I just watched the one video about the bill button and he literally sprayed this owner make a little puddle let it sit there for about a minute or two and then just you know then they wipe it off with the clean paper towel and yes I'm literally this is it and then the sea salt I think it's probably what is the key to this so I'm about to probably watch some Aliyah Aliyah's face YouTube and get off that bed and lay down and chill I take this wig off I got a lot of clothes to fold because I only did like two lows last night so I'm about to chill I'm gonna try to stay up I've been like taking naps during the day and then like I won't go to sleep until 3 or 4 a.m. so I'm gonna try to keep myself up but I'm about to spray this on here and lay down and relax for a little bit and then I'm gonna get back up eat some pasta or something I don't know cuz you okay so I just got back in from taking my trash out I had to I had to go back to the car to get my camera side decided just to fill up my trash can with the money taken out and take it out so I put a new bag in I have a few dishes to clean I'm heating up my pasta that I made last night and literally for the rest of the night I already watched Aliyah's face new YouTube videos so I probably catch up on some of her other vlogs that I've been missing and then I'm gonna just chill like I said I need to go to bed early though so I may or may not take a melatonin so I can go to bed because I can't be up to 3 and 4 I got stuff to do tomorrow this is my last off-day tomorrow so yeah I'm about to make my um why is it lighting is not given what it's supposed to be it's like this is this is the lighting that I need honey let me get my big tripod hold on okay so yeah I'm about to make my weight gain drink or whatever someone in the comments I don't know what video was but I don't know if I commented back or now like I had a few comments about it oh I think it's my organization video anyways someone has had many of these do I drink in a day and just kind of different things about it I only drink one a day the month that I actually started this I drank one and it really is really not even one a day like it sometimes take me two days just to drink one I know that it's sad but it does just because I'm not a milk drinker like it's not it's not the best taste but it's really not nasty like I can drink it it's kind of like melted ice cream since I milk mix it with almond milk but um yeah I drink one either every day or like I'll have one for like two days and I just try to drink one like I try to drink this every day either if I'm finishing up one or if I'm starting a new one and with just doing that it helped me gain like five or six pounds in one month just by drinking one so like if y'all gonna go ahead and drink two three day or whatever by all means do that honey I'm not gonna do it because I can't even get through one so I poured in a cute glass stuff like this it has to be in something cute and small so it doesn't seem like it's taking me forever to drink it so I got these little glasses I showed these in an apartment hall they just say dairy on them with a little cow so it's like milk it's specifically for milk but yeah and then I put one ice cube in it because I don't want it to get just a little bit in there I don't do half and half I just a little bit because I don't want it to extremely taste like the almond milk because there's no way I can drink almond milk by itself like that's just not gonna work girl and then mix it up so it comes to about right here at the top and then it should taste like a melted kind of like vanilla like the homemade vanilla ice cream darnels that's what it kind of reminds me of it used to be colder though I had to sit now for like 15 minutes and I can only drink them like ice cold so that's why I put one cube in it but then I leave it in the refrigerator so I'm gonna try to finish that by 12 it's 846 we'll come back on it let y'all know if I finish it or not if not we just gonna finish it out tomorrow I don't know if I put this in a vlog but this is like some new awesome that Dollar Tree had and I thought it was so cute because it's clear and the scent smells really really good like I use this it's a shower tub sink and counters like I've been using this anywhere so yeah I like this so I'm about to clean up a little bit put these dirty dishes in the dishwasher and then take the of course clean ones out I have some clothes to fold and I think that's it I just kind of make my couch up this little bit because I've been chilling in here my room and everything is still clean the back my guest room is a little bit messed up just because I've been in there doing glam and YouTube videos and stuff like that so yeah I really have much else to do it's literally 847 it's time to lay it down if I'm done with this and eating again I'm gonna lay down I'm gonna try to be sleep by at least like 12 so I can wake up I'm gonna try to be like 9 30 so yeah so today's the next day baby where's the lighting I swear my lights in my apartment like a hotel lights like baby I need some bright lights so I got my hair braided back in this little thing but I mean I don't think I'm gonna put some breakfast this morning so I think I'm gonna stop by that yeah princess also eating another day today it's like been a few days passed by I got a lot of stuff on my agenda today so I decided to bring you guys with me I cannot find my tripod so I'm just gonna have to be holding my camera unless it's in my car somewhere but I'll get back to y'all when I get in at the car I'm trying to find something for under my sink so I can like stack my cleaning supply stuff and all of that up I was thinking about this to have it like rotating down there on the bottom this one is 1298 or I was thinking about this one this one is $16 in like this a stackable one so I can stack some of their smaller bottles or like cleaning stuff down there and then some of the bigger ones on top so even this for like anything how tall is this though thinking about getting this I'll get this one cuz I wasn't like it's over I came in here for three things and look what's in my car it's time to go check out and I was also looking over here cuz I like how I don't I don't need none of this you don't need none of this I do need another brush because I've had mine for a while but I don't know and I didn't know one more sold all of those so I'll probably come back and get some of this stuff to jazz up my apartment a little bit more but yeah I'm about to take this and go home okay so I'm at the post office now let me try to fix fix my lighting situation and I have my tripod so please bear with me okay it's a little brighter so I buy these from Dollar Tree because my actual millers are for like my business so I'm about to ship out this wig I sell my wigs on a McCurry the McCurry app and I like these because they're huge and they have the bubble wrap on the inside so I literally just put it in at the end and then I'll fold it halfway so there's no extra space or clutter let me turn it down shoot okay so I'll fold it like and then seal it so it's like this now and then this is the shipping label and I don't cut it or nothing I just leave it like this and then I just tape it on to it it's 327 so I'm about to ship this off and then I'm going to go check my P.O. box it's still tight let me put my mask on to go drop this off with there we go this is the post office okay so I'm back home now traffic was so horrible it literally a 11 minute drive took me over 35 minutes to get back home so I'm really really really tired I just ate chicken leg again and I'm supposed to be going to my like nephew birthday celebration my niece and nephew birthday was on August 8th both of my sisters had their baby on the same day so we're celebrating it basically this weekend so I'm not going to make turkey cheese but I'm gonna make the bowling alley but I'm like super tired so I'm about to do a little mini haul of what I got today because it today is Friday is the weekend so that's where everybody was out anyways from five alone I got these cute markers it's a pack of 246 and they're like really really cute colors so I decided to get these so I can kind of customize on my board and I got to print these is the Armin Hammer newbies he does not like the greenies the like dental or dinner sticks or whatever he liked those but he won't eat the green kind he'll only eat like the bacon and peanut butter flavor in Walmart they have them like every six months so I can never find them so hopefully he likes this flavor this is the one I got from five below so we're gonna see actually I'm about to give him one right now it says it's peanut butter flavor and it's like bacon soda enhanced formula so hopefully this works because he's just now kind of starting me it's just now letting me kind of like a brush his teeth without like jerking away from me so that's good so here's the tree and we're gonna see usually stuff like that he'll hide it around the house and like throw it and stuff and play so yeah he put it down sometimes he like to go hide bones and go back later and eat them so I'll keep you all updated on that and see if he really like it or not whatever that's that I also got more disposable waste bags for him like I said I need it this is a 240 count for $5 from five below it also matches his harness and what else oh this I got from the beauty supply store I don't know where all my ankle it's went my ankle bracelet so I picked up both of these with the A on there that's probably gonna come off like two times after I wear it and this one they're high here they were 249 they're usually like 99 cents and then I needed some more eco-styler they didn't have the red lid in the big one so I got this one I think I might have used this one once before and I got these from Dollar Tree this is what I shipped out stuff with I think I showed a clip from Walmart but I got this I'm gonna put that up later on tonight and I also got the Indian clay mask I'm gonna try this out for the first time everyone should know what that is by now I see everybody with it I see people having great results with that are all from Walmart I need to put this in the refrigerator actually that heavy whipping cream that needs to be in the refrigerator ouch and flow is in town so stocked up already talked about those in another vlog and I needed to just pick up some more scrub the only kind they had was this one and they had the vitamin C like body moisturizer and it had they had another one that I already used it was like the coconut something and I got summer's Eve I used to use this all throughout high school just up until maybe like the year ago I started using honey pot I don't really like honey pot anymore they're not gonna get any more my coin because the little dispenser once I pump out one or two it doesn't work anymore like the knob does not go back down so that's super annoying summer's Eve has never really done anything bad to me except for that like the refreshing spray that messed me up and made me break out but other than that I've always used that body wash and then this is my favorite lotion for dry to very dry skin and I also got me some melatonin I have melatonin tablets but I wanted the gummies just so it can make it easier so I can go to sleep faster and this is 10 milligrams I usually get the one with 3 milligrams so this but and I could be out I say take two so that'd be 20 so yeah and then the last thing I got from one more or just these a pack of 75 jumbo colored crap sticks popsicle sticks literally and they're just different colors and then that's why I got the jar because I'm gonna be me and somebody are gonna be writing date night ideas on here we see them on tiktok so yeah I'm gonna probably start today and then he'll probably finish Sunday then we're gonna put them in here and then we're gonna pull and then have I guess day nights on like Sundays or just whenever off days or kind of match it up together so yeah my goodness but that's what this is for so I probably gonna jump start on that later on tonight and that's my home for the rest of today Bowdoin started in an hour so I'm about to literally get in the shower with my hair down and style it and stuff because this is not about to work and if I feel like it tonight I'll probably come back and record myself putting all this stuff up and it'll probably go on it'll probably go until tomorrow because I have way reviews and stuff to do and I've been talking for six minutes.  My mom over here stealing candy. Yeah I don't like tropicals. What kind of yogurt? Tropical. Everybody got tropicals? I don't know. Everybody got tropicals? Yeah. I think so. Here's a few of that tropicals. Yeah, everybody got tropicals. Yeah, everybody got tropicals. Did he laugh? You got skittles in here? I don't know about you just earhead though. I like skittles and earheads. I see you little girl. Why don't you come around so you know how to do it? They still got that hollow in here. I don't know. Don't knock on my phone now. I gotta sit it down. So today is, this vlog is everywhere. Sorry, but today is Sunday the 15th and I kind of want to do a little bit of organizing. Let me see if this is sequel. Okay, so I kind of want to organize a few things. My dresser right here is kind of overflowing for my bottom one. This one I use for leggings, sweatpants. This is my gym clothes and yeah these are like leggings, sweatpants and stuff like that. And this one is random. I have it, I made it like my pajamas dresser drawer just because I really didn't have anything to put in here. But I'm actually going to switch this out and then put like my little PJs. The few that I got because I usually just sleep in like a big t-shirt. But I have these and I'm going to actually move them into why I put my sweatpants. And then I got like some Victoria's Secret. And then this was actually some lovely wholesale. This is like a jumpsuit that was like way too big back then. But I'm getting my weight back now so I may be able to fit it. But I just put it as pajamas because I can wear it like as a onesie if it's like really really cold in here one night in the winter time. So I'm about to switch these. Let me go get the rest of my gym clothes. Okay, so I do have a few gym clothes that are dirty because I've been going to the gym. I went three days this week so I do have a few clothes that are dirty. But these are the gym clothes that I haven't got to wear yet. I already did a haul on these. These are OIS Sports. And then I have some from Forever 21. These are actually from Forever 21. I bought all of the gym clothes that Forever 21 offered online because I really, really like them. They're definitely like gym shark dupes. So definitely recommend going to try those out. So I'm going to separate these. Is this inside out? Yep. And then so I can have a designated drawer or gym stuff since my gym attire and my gym clothes like they're literally accumulating so fast. So happy about that. So these are the rest of my gym clothes. And I'm going to take this out. This one was for all of my gym tops. And then this one was for all of my gym bottoms. So I'm going to keep the bottoms in there. And then I have another big one. And these are from IKEA because I know someone is going to ask. I have an IKEA haul on my channel where I got these. So I'll probably link it below and put it on the screen if I can remember which I usually don't. And then I have another small one like this. So what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to put... Should I keep all my bottoms in the big one and then put all the tops in small ones? Or should I do half and half? Like a top one, tops, tops, and then bottoms, bottoms. So they can just stay in order. I'll probably do it that way. We're going to see if that works. If not, I'll switch it. So what I'm going to do is have bottoms in a big one, bottoms in a small one. So it can like stay aligned. And then I'll have tops and tops in this one. So this one is a top. I still have the tags on it. I'll take the tags off whenever I wear them. Kitchen under my bed. And I'm about to try to put... Y'all should have already seen the Walmart clip of when I bought this. Baby you don't know what you do to me Between me and you I feel like chemistry I won't let no one come and take your place Cause love you give I have more ideas for down here. So I'm going to take off that just to kind of see how much I can actually stack up in those stackable containers. But I do want to get something to hang on both of these doors. So I can utilize that space Because since the pipes and crap are in here So since the pipes and all that are in here I'm going to put the stackable thing on this side So I can keep that big old vinegar thing back there I'm going to keep the bigger things like that in the back And then stack up all of this other stuff So let's get to it Let me make sure it can fit first Like that But I'm not going to be able to stack it Because that needs to be more compact Let's get from out of my bathroom And then I have the bigger stuff in the back The wipes and the vinegars These are my garbage bags And then this is the one I used Since I couldn't use the stackable shelf under here And then I'm going to put this shelf in my bathroom So I think it looks a lot better Than before it's a bit more functional now I can grab everything I need very easily So yeah I'm happy with it So I have two pictures I have this one It says wash your paws With the puppies in it Super cute I got it because this is basically my guest bathroom And my beauty bathroom And this is where I give Prince a bath I don't bathe him in my actual bathroom So I got this because it would be cute Since this is kind of his bathroom But then I already had this one Good vibes only It's like a little piece of paper in there And I want to hang it right here And then I'll probably hang this one over there by the mirror Because I was going to hang this one right here But I kind of want people to be able to see this So I'm just going to put this one over here I have some more cleaning stuff to do And I have a few more videos to try to get out But for the rest of the day I'm just going to kind of tidy up a little bit And I also am going to the movies tonight I'm going to go see Don't Breathe 2 I tried to get Prince a appointment for the groomers But they didn't give me his rabies paper Which was really stupid They just gave me his tag They're closed on Sundays So I'm going to have to try to probably do that tomorrow I am going to be babysitting my niece tomorrow So it depends on if I have enough footage for this vlog If I'm going to keep recording But I think I want to end it here So until my next video I will see you lovelies then Bye guys


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today, we will be discussing the $5 billion fine imposed on Facebook by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. To talk more about this, we have with us Prabir Prakash. Hello, Prabir. Prabir, so the $5 billion amount is actually a settlement between the FTC and Facebook. For violations of a 2011 settlement, they had reached regarding users' privacy. And while the full details are not out yet, it's largely understood that it's a response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. So do you see this almost record fine to be a meaningful step in actually regulating what Facebook is doing? You know, it might appear to be a very hefty fine. $5 billion is not chicken feet. So that is there. But it's interesting how the markets have reacted since every day now, every time anything happens today, we look at the markets for what is supposed to be good or bad. Well, if it was hefty fine, it should have depressed the stock of Facebook shares. Instead of that, it has actually gone up. So the Facebook is supposed to have had a revenue profits, not revenue profits of $22 billion in the last quarter. Now that would simply indicate that they're really earning a very high income from the kind of business that they do. And this $5 billion, therefore, is a wrap on the knuckles for 10 years of violating, essentially, the user, shall we say, privacy. Now we have commented on this earlier extensively that whether it's Google or it's Facebook, the essential model of these companies come from the fact that they have access to private data, our private data. They can dice us up as consumers in any way you want. And if we see what the leak of the documents, which took place in the one British Parliamentary and sees some documents from a travelling person who had these documents of Facebook with him, it is very clear that the way Facebook operates, it essentially extorts money from its partners, but extorts data from its partners. And if they don't give that data, access to the data for any app on Facebook, then they are generally treated differently, shall we say. And after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the issue is not that Cambridge Analytica had access to this data, but Facebook's anger was how is it they could use the data, which should have been exclusively used by us for marketing. So its futility to talk about violating users' privacy if the entire business model of Facebook is built on violation of user privacy, which is what it is. So either you look at the market power that Facebook has, or you decide that certain principles you put in place, what constitutes data and how it can be used, neither of which is the direction which either the US government wants to travel, and the FTC at the moment is really much weaker as a regulatory agency. You know, the monopolies that Facebook and Google have built up in the last 10, 15 years are the most powerful monopolies the world has ever seen and has also been built up over the, you know, over not 50, 60, 70 years has happened with earlier monopolies, but the shortest possible time. So I think the challenge that all governments and US government because it's a home country for Facebook and Google, but it's also true that Alibaba and WeChat and all are also there, Baidu are also there in China. So the question is how do the home governments regulate what are essentially global monopolies and what does the rest of the world do? There are some presidential candidates that the US have been talking about breaking up these companies. Yes, that's one possible answer. What are the other regulatory answers or what other answers we can take? Ideally, you don't know at this stage. And right now, the strategy generally seems to be imposing fines because recently the Italian government also imposed a one million fine and Ireland is conducting at least 10 inquiries right now. But there seems to be a general lack of clarity on what else can be done in addition to just imposing fines, which like you said is actually peanuts as far as Facebook is concerned. See, this has been also the European Union's attempt to force Google to do certain set of things and what are called anti-competitive practices, impose on them fines for violations of anti-competitive practices. They have also put hefty fines on Google. The problem that is there in this fine model is if violating this anti-competitive practices say for five years gets you 20 billion dollars of profits say over a period of five years, then paying one billion seems to be an entry price. So it becomes instead of buying a license say on telecom you buy a fine. So in order to violate the privacy and this is the buying the license to misuse private data is essentially what Facebook and Google are doing in terms of accepting fines in lieu of what this particular order calls the egregious violation of privacy. So I think we are in that model that violating privacy for Google and Facebook and a host of others is the basic business model and since violating of the privacy has a price they're willing to pay the price is fine because otherwise there is no shall be say regulatory barrier to getting access to private users private data. Now if you remember what was to be said the airwaves you had to buy the airwaves license so you are buying private data through fines seems to be the business model of Google and Facebook. So privacy protection we must be very clear privacy protection in a model which is based on user surveillance is actually meaningless and therefore to think that we can protect it in any one other way except by either law which enforces certain things or by regulatory creating regulatory barriers and breaking up monopolies one of them is under at the moment only two things to do. Otherwise I'm afraid that we are we have a really shall we say a fine-filled future but it will not harm Google and Facebook's growth this is a price they're willing to pay for in lieu of shall we say untrammel access to your and my data or our viewers data. And this is of course not even considering the Facebook currency Libra that is coming out which is also faced hearings and similar criticism and we also have a situation the global south where most countries actually have not enacted including India for that matter have not enacted very strong provisions to stop these companies and Facebook is actually involved in promoting the internet which free basic schemes in many of these countries so again that's a lot there's another question there as to what these kind of countries will also be able in a position to do. So just passing two separate things out of it one is the privacy angle that you've talked about and the fact that Google and Facebook are equally guilty about it but Facebook has the other aspect which is that it pretends to be the internet and says everything should happen in my ecosystem so in that sense while Google also has similar policy in terms of giving you more and more tools in lieu of which you part with data Facebook in sense in that sense also tries to create ecosystems which you don't leave then and that becomes effectively your internet world so that's the net neutrality versus free basics debate which of course India Facebook failed to get it through but in a lot of other places they have successfully got it and the zero rating issue is still an issue in different parts of the world and zero rating when it comes to even European Union it's not that clear they have got a clear policy against zero rating well India we do so I think those are some of the issues that we have to take into account when you talk about how to regulate this companies but when you come to currency and this is an area where Google obviously has not gone this particular way all the other digital platforms we know create what are called wallets wallets are not outside the currency zones you put in currency money over there and that stays in the wallet it could also be essentially adding to the reserve of these companies because the wallet if you don't take out the money that stays with the company you don't get any interest but they could park it in a bank and get interest or invest in other things get interest so if you create a wallet you are actually creating free cash for yourselves and you are not a banker so you don't have any obligations what a bank has if you put in money in a bank but at the same time you can use the money in all kinds of ways this the wallet is what we have seen till now digital platforms do Facebook has gone one step ahead he said not only am I providing you a wallet I'm actually providing you a currency and I'm also going to provide you a currency which will be recognized by other people as well they've got a set of friends with who who are also backing the Libra currency and they have said for verification as a first step we will verify but behind our verification is a bit bit coin equivalent stuff that we will do which is that we will also have a verification which will be algorithmically done now how this algorithmic verification will be done blockchain what variant of blockchain etc we don't know but it's also clear that blockchain kind of methods as you know the number of transactions globally you can do with blockchain is about 7 or 8 based on current computing power and internet speeds but this obviously is not sufficient for normal transfers a normal accounting purposes so while credit card companies can do up to 7000 per second this supposed to be 1000 per second kind of speeds so the first layer of verification is going to act like a credit card company that some companies verify whether this is money or not the blockchain method is supposed to be the second tier we don't know what the hell it is so is it a cryptocurrency as it is claiming Libra is a cryptocurrency not we don't know what it really means is that is it outside the currencies of governments because companies have not guaranteed money governments have states have is it we are we seeing private money creation instead of wallets are we really seeing private money creation and do they lie outside all currency regulations therefore bypassing all the capital controls other currency controls that are there so large amount of money can it flow out of the country through this route these are all open questions I don't think it's going to be that easy the regulatory barriers are not going to given up by other countries so we might find the Libra is declared illegal so all those possibilities exist but I do think that Facebook now is moving into an issue area where it says not only do I use your private data but I will create an ecosystem within which you always are going to live and you don't need to have anything else to go out of it so can it actually envelope Amazon can it actually envelope all other shall we say companies which deal with merchandising basically buying and selling can they in envelope that system as well within it and become a ecosystem from which you get from internet to goods all and services all of it will do and on top of that also we give you a currency within which if you stay in the ecosystem you don't have to change this currency I think that's the threat of Libra and it's really a much bigger regulatory threat when it that it comes to private data because money is what every company every human being in the world and governments use therefore its control going to this kind of hands is a shall we say a very daunting prospect given the fact that the way Facebook has dealt with our privacy I think dealing with Facebook whose model is an extortionist and predatory model I think it's very dangerous for all of us thank you that's all we have time for today keep watching this click


President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has assured opposition lawmakers that there will be more defections to the ruling all-progressive Congress in the build-up to the forthcoming general elections. The report. Lawan stated this at the plenary shortly after reading a letter forwarded to him by the senator representing Sokoto South, Ibrahim Dambaba, of his decision to defect to the APC. Dambaba, who was elected on the platform of the People's Democratic Party, had told Senate leadership he was leaving the PDP because of the internal crisis rocking it. I rise to formally inform you and my distinguished colleagues of my decision to join the All-Progressive Congress, APC, from the People's Democratic Party PDP. My decision is anchored on the continuing and multifaceted crises that have bedeviled the PDP, especially at the zonal level which has created not only credibility problems, but was undermined party discipline, cohesion, and focus. However, Senator Philip Aduda disagreed with his Sokoto South counterpart, saying there was no crisis in the state as wrongly presented by Dambaba. Mr. President, my immediate former deputy minority whip has alluded to the fact that there are crises in the northwest region of the PDP and has also said that there is a crisis in his state. I want to state that there are no crises in the PDP in the northwest. Similarly, the senator representing Anamba Central, Uche Ikwinife, also kicked against the move insisting that Dambaba must vacate his seat as provided in Section 68 of the 1999 constitution as amended. Mr. President, I'm coming on the point of order, constitutional order, Section 68 of 1999 constitution as altered. Mr. President, let me take you to Subsection G. Just on the fact that our council former, our deputy minority whip is intending to defect to APC site, that site. After listening to their argument, the Senate president ruled them out of order, saying it is not unusual for lawmakers to defect from one political party to another. Before I rule, I want to advise you that some of these things you have said should not be recorded. My fear is one day you will stand up in that place and say you want to move to this site. We are at liberty as elected representatives of the people. When our parties are torn into pieces, when they are factions, when they are in such irredeemable and destructive crises like the PDPs, we are free, we are free to live. Senator Dambaba's affection brings the number of APC senators to 71, PDP 37 senators and Young Progressives Party, YPP 1.


I have a new this. This is a cheap and cheerful voice recorder module. It's based around a CPU and a blob. This is probably a ubiquitous 8051 clone. It may be a particular kind of 8051 called an AC1082, which is why I originally got this. And this is its storage, which is a small flash chip. One of this will do is it will record a voice clip using the built-in microphone here and play it back on demand. I will demonstrate. Testing one, two, three. Let's try that a bit closer to the microphone. Sound quality leaves a great deal to be desired. Now the reason I got this is because some of these AC1082 based devices actually store their programs on the flash chip, which means they can be reprogrammed. And the AC1082 has a whole bunch of CPU extensions that make programming for the 8051 considerably better. This unfortunately probably isn't one, but I thought it would be interesting since I have a spare device of no particular value to try and dump that flash chip and see what there is that's on it. Almost certainly nothing particular of interest. I mean just the audio data encoded in some peculiar way. But I have never actually managed to dump one of these little flash chips before, so this could be entertaining. So before I actually get out to the EEPROM programmer, a quick tour of some of the components. This is the heart of the thing. It's a blob processor. What this is is a silicon chip glued directly to the PCB and then covered with black epoxy to protect it. It's the cheapest way of deploying chips on a board. There are real bane to reverse engineer because of course there's no labels and none of the pins are accessible. It is possible to etch off the epoxy to expose the chip, but the chip usually doesn't survive this process. This is the flash storage chip. It's a XT25F16B. It's a two megabyte device. It speaks SPI, so there's a serial input output protocol to the processor. It's a pretty capable device. They are incredibly cheap and as you can see tiny. We have here a bunch of passives to do with connecting up various external devices. The red wires here are the record enable button so that if I press the button attached to that it will start recording and then again to make it stop. These two black wires are for the playback button and these can also be replaced with a light sensor. This allows you to hide one of these things inside like a gift box so that when you open the lid it plays back the pre-recorded message. There's a number of interesting looking test pads that I need to investigate. One of them is probably for status LED. That might be this thing here labeled 0R. We'll have to do some experimentation there. This silver thing here is the microphone and three button cells to actually power the thing. It doesn't use a lot of battery and in standby mode it appears to use practically none. So here I have my trusty mini laptop set up with the eProm programmer plugged into it and we are going to connect it up to the flash chip here. Now full disclaimer I've tried this before so I know it doesn't work but let's just walk through it anyway. So the first thing you need is a adapter to allow you to connect the eProm programmer which of course takes dip style eProms to the flash chip here. That's done using this test clip so we plug this in like so and then the test clip is supposed to clip on to the eProm. Let's get it lined up properly more or less like it's not right like so and it should be now possible to just read it directly. Pin 1 is lined up properly so we just tell the mini pro software to read and it immediately fails to detect the chip. All these SPI ROMs have the same command set and pin out so that should have worked. Now one possibility is that because it's actually connected up to the CPU which is running then that is interfering with the read process so let us make it not run by removing one of these batteries like so. Now try that again and you see we now get a different result but it still has failed to detect the chip. Just just that a bit. So the problem here now could be that because this is now connected to the CPU it's failing to talk to the flash chip properly that is the CPU is interfering with the communications. That is possible because the eProm program is going to be trying to power the flash chip and since that's connected to the CPU then it may be trying to power the CPU as well. However I know that people have done this with these boards before so I suspect that that's not the problem. Instead what I think is happening is that this clip is not making good contact with the flash chip so what I'm going to do is try and solder some actual pins onto that to give better contact. So here I've got a couple of these four-way header things. These use the standard 10th of an inch spacing. You may be able to notice if you look hard that the pin spacing on the flash chip does not match the pin spacing on the header pins so we're going to have to do a bit of work here. That one wasn't so bad and once more so hopefully that will be all the soldering and it was pretty janky but it does seem to have worked. I don't know whether they've made proper contact yet but it's worth a try. So now I need to put the soldering iron away, get out the laptop again and cook it up and see if we can read it. So here it is wired up hopefully correctly. No batteries in so moment of truth time. Nope hasn't found anything. Does it want the batteries in it? Nothing. I didn't wire up that last pin, the one that is connected to ground. Maybe it does need that because that was duplicated elsewhere. That one's a little bit bent. Let's try that one goes to here but still nothing cusses. I don't want to be too rough with it or these badly bodged solder joints will just come right off. There we go. Gone on and nothing. Well I was hoping but so either my solder joints haven't made contact which is entirely plausible. It looks okay I have to admit or there's something weird about this flash chip. So I do have a backup plan B so let us head that way. So this is plan B which is my 8 channel signal analyzer. So I've wired it up hopefully correctly and what I'm going to do is hit the run button, set the number of samples rather bigger, hit the run button then tell this to play and see what we get out. So good that was 15 million samples so let's zoom out. Right we got some stuff so the data channels here match the pins in the data sheet. So pin one is chip select. You can see here the chip select line is being asserted and de-asserted during the run. Pin two is data output that looks like data. Three and four are unused. Four is not connected. Four is power. So three is write protect. So yes unused. I'm going to notice that one does seem to be brought out to a test pad. I'm not sure why. Five is data in. Six is the clock and seven is hold. That also looks like it's unused and that's the one that's tied to high. So let's turn off the ones we don't want which is zero, three, four and seven. Let's get rid of UR to decode as I was using the last time I did anything with this. We're zoomed in way too far to actually make out anything in the data but let's try and add a decoder. Nope not that one this one SPI flash. Okay so now I need to associate channels. So we decided that D2 was data out. That's miso. Chip select is D1. Clock I believe was oh yeah we have the pin out here. Clock was on D6 and mozzy master out slave in is pin five. Okay so now it's decoding what it saw so we zoom in a bit. So this is just noise which we think we can ignore whether it will upset the rest of the decode I'm not sure. We are looking here at individual bits. Some of these look like it's just completely failed to decode anything. I've been a little bit suspicious about this signal analyzer to be honest. We seem to be getting an awful lot of right disabled commands. So on playback I would expect it to be transferring lots of data from the device to the processor. So let's just try that again but I'll give it a little bit more time before pressing the button. So here when it zoomed in you can see D6 is the clock. These do not look like same clock pulses to me to be honest. I would expect that to be more of a square wave. Do I need to crank up the rate? That's why it's so confused. The it's glitchy data. So you can see this is supposed to be as far as I can tell a single clock pulse unless this thing is running really quick. The flash chip can operate up to I think 120 megahertz but I doubt very much whether the blob processor in here can do that. Let's just crank it up one more time. This may not actually even work. Yeah it's not working. It's just refusing to sample. So what do we got near the beginning of this thing? Yeah you can see that the bursts of noise each one of these is supposed to be a nice square clock pulse but the signal analyzer is failing to actually you know analyze. That is annoying. This is the second time I've had problems with this signal analyzer. I suspect it may just be junk and I should ditch it and get something just more expensive. Now I do have a plan C. Plan C is to use my oscilloscope however plan C is rather harder to show on camera due to the fact the oscilloscope screen is here and I have yet to figure out how to get it to do how to do screen recording on it. So much like the contents of the casserole currently in my oven the plot is thickening. I have hooked my oscilloscope up which is this horrible tangle of wires and got out an old cell phone to record the screen with so that you can see what it's doing. Now it turns out that this oscilloscope actually has some protocol decoders which took me ages to find which include SPI. I'm not convinced it's actually doing terribly well with this for a reason I will show you but I can press the single capture button and then go on the device and this is what we get. Now these four tracers the top one is chip select. This one is clock and this is miso mastering slave out and this one is mozzie master out slave in. I think I might have those backwards I doubt it actually tracing the wires and this tangle is a pain. Now remember that when I had the signal analyzer hooked up there was a big patch of noise at the beginning of the capture that I dismissed as garbage. I don't think it is. If we zoom in and let me find the beginning of the trace and this way the knobs turn in not exactly the most obvious direction because it might be better if I wasn't using my left hand for this if I use my right hand I bump the phone. Okay so here you can see uh chip select gets asserted and then we get this little bursts of eight clock pulses so what it appears to be doing is talking to the flash chip rapidly at a high clock rate. I think I can actually persuade this to measure that for me so if I select channel two no wait the clock is channel four which is blue which is already selected so I press the frequency button it then measures the frequency of this trace at about eight megahertz that is pretty quick but this allows it to send a bunch of bytes to the flash chip and then get back a response so these are the bytes that are showing up they're in ASCII um let's see if I can configure this so decode format from ASCII to HEX there we go and to get rid of this I think I click yep uh this is still new I am somewhat struggling to come to terms with it but it's uh so far it seems to be pretty awesome so we can see bytes going to the flash chip and then do we get a response well I think I might need to back up a little I think it's having trouble decoding if it can't see the beginning of the trace which is not terribly helpful but we can clearly see here data going out data coming back so it's talking to the chip so rather than all that stuff being noise we do actually seem to be seeing correct communication uh in the signal analyzer but then if we zoom out we then get very short pulses on the clock at wide intervals let me try and home in on one so oh oh I haven't done this yet um right what this is doing is it's reading a byte that's what it's doing right so almost certainly what the flash chip is doing when it's playing back is it's talking flash chip what's the processor that is this blob here is doing when it's talking to the flash chip is it sets up various communications it looks to see if there's anything on the flash chip then it sets up a byte read transaction which basically it'll just return bytes until further notice and then whenever it wants a byte all it does is it toggles the clock eight times it gets back a byte in this case it's hex nine one and then there's a long pause before it requests the next byte this is because the bytes it reads are going to be fed into the audio decoder and the audio decoder is going to consume byte quite slowly compared to the microcontroller good right what this has taught us is that the communications on this thing makes sense so I think the next thing I want to do is to try and use the uh the e-prom programmer to look at the flash chip and at the same time record what's coming out to see what's going on I actually have a suspicion I think that the flash chip here is holding the chip select line de-asserted that is high that will let me zoom all the way out so high means off and I think it's providing more power to keep it high than the e-prom reader is supplying to lower it therefore the flash chip is never waking up and this thing is never seeing any data so the next step is to get out the laptop again and plug in the e-prom programmer all right let's see how this works now the first thing is to just do another capture just to show that the the lines are all actually still hooked up properly so now we run the mini pros detector and nothing happens interesting right the capture level is not right so if I adjust this adjust the trigger okay got something so what are we seeing great I can't reach the controls without either blocking something with an arm either camera well you can see the chip selectors at the top not looking very feeble it's being lowered by the e-prom programmer but not very much at the same time the e-prom programmer is lowering the clock and me so so I think I was right and the e-prom programmer is failing to assert chip select hard enough to make the chip wake up because the microcontroller here has basically has its finger on that particular control line okay so next let's remove one of the batteries to turn this thing off okay so now nothing happens so let's do that again so capture okay come on so that's actually made the signal go up this is now in dead slow mode you can see it tracing the signal so clearly with the battery removed I think we have the opposite problem in that the lines are not floating high properly that is probably because I haven't hooked up the VCC line on this because it's trying to power the yeah it's trying to power the flash chip from the e-prom programmer but I haven't given it a power line so let's just do that okay now power is VCC which is pin 8 so that's pin 8 here and same pin here like so don't think anything happened on your oscilloscope now let's try that again and that's still not doing it right sometimes if you put a battery back in you see that goes high and then when we try to actually do a to try to do anything it glitches down a bit so that is at zero volts so if we poke it it goes up to about five volts for a moment which is wrong in order to activate the chip you have to bring chip select down it's possible that is try to raise it and then lower it again but I also don't have no idea what voltage the programmer is set to I can change that actually the VCC so it's we want VDD equals five so voltage VDD equals five let's try this like this right that's done the same thing so try 3.3 no okay so I'm going to guess that there's something wrong with the something wrong with the way that the e-prom programmer is interacting with the the blob chip now there's a solution and this is to cut the chip select line between the flash chip and the blob this will render the device non-functional so I will have to have a hunter round for a solution to that and also identify the various traces on the board the casserole by the way is chestnut and brussel sprout okay so having unplugged the various things this one is let me just double check the data sheet pin one is chip select that's this one here and unfortunately you may just be able to see but there's a row of minuscule tracks here that is where the flash chip pins connect to the device so I've got no chance of doing anything with that however some of these test pads look interesting so let's let's actually remove I can find my pusher thing the battery and turn the thing off it doesn't have a switch there we go all right and now let's do some continuity testing to see whether the chip select is brought out anywhere useful so there's a pin are here a test pad here just under the blob nope this one nope this one well that's helpful great um just thinking about what I can do one option is to remove the chip completely from the board and then use then solder these things back on and use that to connect the chip back to the board to actually make it work which I think is going to be my best option this is going to be it's going to involve more skill than I really have and I'm going to have to get the hot air gun out I'm also a little bit concerned by the there this goop here which is um there's the focus gone that's a bit better which is hot glue because applying heat here is going to melt the hot glue and it may even like boil look can does hot glue catch fire but I think that's my only real option I could probably cut these but trying to reconnect them again afterwards is going to be impossible yeah let's try taking the uh taking the chip off well I have eaten my casserole which was very nice if a little enthusiastic and got the hot air gun out so let's have a go at this so power on you probably hear it wait for it to heat up I am very bad with the hot air gun I've had very little experience with it because it's brand new so I don't really know how to work it anyway that's it hopefully up to temperature so I set it to 375 which may not be hot enough I'm hoping to melt enough solder that the pin header will drop off like so that worked quite well so let's try the other pin header like so oh yes indeed the hot glue has melted you can see it there okay um I now need the up now I'm going to try and heat up the chip itself get that back on camera so hopefully we should see the solder soften okay it's going shiny it's good let's try this side okay I think it's going shiny yeah okay so oh wow that was easy I was expecting that to be a lot harder awesome um okay well let's shift this out of the way and pick this up again and let's just toast the legs lightly so try and melt the solder just to get it a little bit more uniform that looks fine okay well that took much less time than I thought it was going to next step is back to the eprom reader so here we are the eprom reader actually came with this which is a special adapter for reading uh eight pin chips and I'm just looking to see where pin one is I think it's top left though it shouldn't really matter so what you do is you pick up a chip just rotate it so it's the right way around the dot indicates pin one you press this home like this put the chip into the reader and then let go and it clamps down with really rather rather good alignment in just the right place and then you can put the chip into the reader like so so now let's run our probe and see what happens it has identified what it is it's a b4015 which is not in mini pros database but we should be able to uh we should be able to tell it that it's a similar device he I think it's a pm 25 f 16 b at soic eight I think that's what it is it's the same code as this which is an xt 25 f 16 b except by a different manufacturer in fact it turns out that pm and xt are both the same people so pn not pm okay so now we read it right it's a different device therefore the chip id doesn't match we tell it to go ahead anyway and now it's reading decently quickly done okay and what do we get here is the contents of the e-prom as I thought it is in fact complete garbage well not garbage it's encoded in some way probably ad pcm but as far as I know this particular format hasn't been reverse engineered the actual device that I'm I want to reverse engineer that I'm practicing with this thing stores its program on the flash chip and it's as a fixed partition layout that's quite distinctive but this isn't it right well that is how to read a eight pin flash chip of a cheap and nasty device of course the cheap and nasty device is now non-functional so I will have to find a way to well I can just solder this back on that's quite straightforward but it would be nice to be able to be able to take put the device on and off in order to play with it now I did manage to solder on the header pins which are here so it's entirely plausible that I might be able to make my own adapter white one so this came with the mini pro and it is indeed a soic adapter but it's the other way round than the one I'm looking for this that little board there will let me solder this chip onto it and put header pins on and it basically does the same job as this so that's not quite what I wanted now but what I could do is


I would like to introduce you to some of the activities that the Nuclear Knowledge Management Section conducts. So I had a really brief introduction on Monday, but now we will let John de Groboire, the section head of the Nuclear Knowledge Management Section, going through each of the activities in a little bit more detail. In reality, we have a really broader range of projects and initiatives, so it would not be possibly conceivable to have a very thorough description of each of these projects. But it's just to give you an idea, and we will be happy Monika, myself, Andrei, Anatoli to go through more detail individually if you are interested in specific activities. And in addition, in the contents and support material that is on CLP4net, you will find a list of publications as well and links. So I think we can start. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is John de Groboire. I'm the section head for Nuclear Knowledge Management at the IEA. My presentation is about the Nuclear Knowledge Management Section. It's an overview of our program and a few key highlights. So to begin with, our program covers three major focus areas. We develop and disseminate methodology in the form of publications to the member states in the area of Nuclear Knowledge Management and provide services and support to nuclear organizations in the application and implementation of that methodology in the form of NKM programs. We support member states in the area of nuclear education and networking in nuclear education. And finally, and in support of the other first two areas, we help in the understanding and application of information technology and, in particular, knowledge organization systems and modern technologies like semantic technology and data informatics and so on to ensure the efficiency and maximum utilization of our knowledge base in the nuclear sector. Our program covers off many, many initiatives that are going in parallel. We have a team of about eight professional staff and a number of admins. And each scientific secretary is undertaking typically five or six initiatives in parallel. So I can't possibly cover up all of our program areas today, but I'll try and highlight a few particular initiatives that I think you'll find of interest. Before I do that, I want to just touch on a few real basics to help you understand the IEA context in terms of the NKM program. We have to deal with a wide variety of counterparts and counterpart organizations who have very different perspectives on what their priorities, interests, and understanding of knowledge management are and this covers the whole nuclear life cycle. So depending on the particular organization and where their country is in energy program planning and implementation, they may have very different interests in NKM. This can be at a national or even an international level. It can be, and often is, at an organizational level how to implement a NKM program. And of course, we all are acutely aware of the issues around managing individual and expert knowledge, particularly in light of attrition and retirement issues. So the CUBE helps us to see these different areas of concern and scope of concern. And there's also the added dimension on the right side, which is the focus area. And here, knowledge management can take us into issues around human knowledge. So people-centric and tacit knowledge issues are experiential knowledge as experts. Process knowledge, which is methodological knowledge. How we do what we do, our procedures, our embedded work practices, and so on. And finally, the technology itself, the underlying science and engineering that forms the basics, the fundamentals of our realized plant designs. In the NKM program, we help nuclear organizations understand and progress in their NKM program maturity. And we have a simple model we use to help understand their circumstances and to move forward. The level zero of NKM maturity is typically reflected in a lot of organizations that are new to knowledge management, where it tends to be ad hoc. It's not implemented as an organization-wide program. And it's driven by a few champions or internal stakeholders who really understand and want to bring resolution to critical issues. Where a lot of member statement organizations are today is to, in the process, or have recently achieved an evolution or gradual development towards what we call level one, which is a programmatic approach to knowledge management. And they have implemented an organization-wide policy and are attempting to mature this within the organization. Where we want to get with new organizations is to really have an embedded NKM program and a systemic approach to knowledge management. So knowledge processes within the firm or the organization are optimized for overall organization performance. So in terms of safety and economics, we're achieving high utilization of the organizational knowledge. And this takes us from knowledge hoarding culture to a knowledge sharing culture, which is the lower axis. And on the vertical axis, we have a shift from being more reactive to knowledge management issues to being more proactive. So this simple model helps new organizations understand where they are and where they need to get and understand not only the benefits, but perhaps how to implement measures and assessment tools to help them through this maturity progression. Last year, in 2016, we had the third nuclear knowledge management conference here in Vienna. And I'm happy to say we had very strong involvement from the UK. And we're grateful of that. There's many areas where you're leading. And organizations like NI obviously played a very important role as a professional association to leverage up the competencies and contribute significantly to knowledge management in your member state. So the conference was, we think, a big success that involved all departments within the agency and helped to create more awareness and essentially changed the thinking about knowledge management here at the IEA. Another interesting program is our schools. And we do these in conjunction, a long term partnership with the International Center of Theoretical Physics. And that's Trieste in Italy. We have two very distinct schools, the Nuclear Knowledge Management School, which is a one week format, and the Nuclear Energy Management School, which is a two week format. The Nuclear Energy Management School is done in conjunction with many other sections and departments within the agency and is a very broad based program covering all of the significant issues around nuclear energy, what makes it unique and particularly challenging and helps young professionals understand the context of their particular organization or profession within the sector. We also have a new initiative within the session to develop an advanced workshop for knowledge management practitioners. And this is to help build a bit of a technical community of practice around knowledge management. And I'll talk a little bit more about community practice in a minute. Another important initiative over the last three, four years has been supported by the Japanese extra budgetary funding we get from their Ministry of Economic Trade and Industry is the International Nuclear Management Academy. The focus of INMA is a collaboration of universities with nuclear engineering faculties who are keen to provide master's level education for nuclear technology management. And this is a heavy emphasis on developing the management competencies necessary for the nuclear sector. So we're to use a cliche, we're managerizing engineers and nuclearizing engineers for the nuclear sector. The INMA is a cooperation amongst about 20 universities to develop common requirements to share approaches and expertise and e-learning resources and in some cases even to collaborate on these programs internationally. So we're at the IEA facilitating that and ensuring high quality in what we call NTM, Nuclear Technology Management Master's Degree Programs. Another important initiative for us over the last three, four years is the development of online platform to support e-learning. And this is a learning management system environment. It's based on open source Moodle software which is very widely used. And in fact, we encourage member state organizations and the nuclear education networks to deploy similar platforms. But we are happy to report that it's become the agency wide internal platform and is now being used to deliver a tremendous volume of agency e-learning resources to the member states in various forms. So it's instructor led training as well as self-directed learning. We in the NKM section also provide ongoing service to member states upon request. And this comes in the form of our Knowledge Management Assist Visits or KMAVs, as you may have heard them called. And here we work with our counterpart to help them better understand the particular issues and challenges. This is the management team in particular at the nuclear organization. Often it's a nuclear power plant or a licensed facility. Sometimes we visit regulators, but these are upon request and we will assemble an expert international team and come work with your facility for about a week long visit. It's very much a win-win and sharing best practices approach to the visit. So it's done in a collegial friendly manner. Various tailoring or forms of KMAVs exist, but one in particular I draw your attention to is Knowledge Management Assist Visits to universities. And in particular for nuclear engineering programs, we again do peer review assessments. And these are now being called University Program peer review assessments or UPRA missions and are becoming sort of a mainstay for supporting developing countries and the, I guess, evolution or maturation of their nuclear education programs. We support several IAEA facilitated nuclear education networks. These are regional networks and they include the Asian Network, Anant, the South African Network, Afronast, the Latin American Network, Lanet, and just recently StarNet, which is Eastern Europe and Central Asia. And these are very active engaged networks with many university professors involved who are directly involved in nuclear education. It allows a forum and a mechanism for professional networking, for resource sharing, and I guess best practice dissemination. We also work closely with other established networks around the globe and in general promote interaction and cooperation amongst them. So this is quite an important activity and very high leverage in terms of its benefits to member states. Another important area for us is in general, supporting technical communities of practice. And communities of practice are a very powerful engine for knowledge capture, knowledge transfer, preservation and sharing in many specialist domains. There are a number of TECOPS, as we call them, throughout the agency and these engaged member state technical communities on quite a wide range of issues. The role of NKM is to support these groups where we can with common technical solutions, ITIS platform solutions such as knowledge organization systems, application of semantic technology, link data, portals, repositories and similar type solutions. So we try and help across the agency where we can. And in addition, we have our own dedicated NKM community of practice and this is very specifically focused on NKM practitioners. So we're continuing to work with regional knowledge management communities as well as link them together internationally in active forms. Another dimension of our program that's evolved over the last two years in cooperation with the technical cooperation department is the fostering of national stakeholder networks around human resource and knowledge development. And this is a logical extension of regional and nuclear education networks, but it's to work with their stakeholders mostly nationally, but in some cases regionally. And there are several very good and successful examples of how useful and impactful these stakeholder networks can be and how they can improve the outcomes of the nuclear education networks nationally. So we help to capture and disseminate good practices in this area. And TC has recognized this as a very important aspect of achieving a sustainable national nuclear education system. So they're keen to work with us to promote this as a general approach in developing countries. An important dimension or aspect of this is to work with these stakeholder networks nationally through a new process we call ECAP. It's the National Education Capability Assessment and Planning methodology. And we're about to publish a document, a guideline on this. But essentially, it's IEA facilitating a number of missions with member stakeholders that may include the heads of the universities, the minister of energy or education, and the national labs, industry representatives in the country who are interested in nuclear education. So this may be a medical community or transportation, agricultural applications, and so on. We use the agency's influence to bring the stakeholders together to help develop an awareness of the benefits, the common issues and challenges, and strategic vision, a common long-term plan of where they want to be as a country with their national nuclear education program and help them move down that path. But it's to foster ownership and self-direction within the member state. So again, TC program is very supportive of this new initiative. Within the section, we also have coordinated research project that's focused on sustainable nuclear education. And some of the research topics are itemized here. This includes, I believe, eight funded research projects with developing country participants and about six developed country research agreements in parallel. We're hoping to dovetail work in the CRP with the EC-funded ANET project. There's a lot of complementarity in the ANET program and working with INNN to basically share and cooperate where both projects are willing and interested to do so. Over the last two years, it's been requested on a number of occasions that we help member states better understand and manage design knowledge over the entire nuclear life cycle. So this is very much a core nuclear knowledge management issue associated with licensed facilities. But it's understanding all of the various design artifacts, everything from the good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is John de Grobois. I'm the section head for nuclear knowledge management at the IEA. My presentation is about design knowledge and over the entire nuclear life cycle. So this is very much a core nuclear knowledge management issue associated with licensed facilities. But it's understanding all of the. Sorry, we had a little technical issue. I will try and load a different format of the video so that we can restart from this step. Yes, but we have. We should have a different. But it's OK. Yeah, I mean, I don't really know. Yeah, what's the problem? No, we didn't show the traditional slides, you know. It's stopped. No, slide by slide. Yeah, it stopped on one slide. Morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is John de Grobois. I'm the design knowledge management after many design knowledge. For the last two years, it's been requested on a number of occasions that we help member states better understand and manage design knowledge over the entire life cycle. So this is very much a core nuclear knowledge management issue associated with licensed facilities. But it's understanding all of the various design artifacts, everyone from the drawings to the fundamental requirements to safety cases to facility condition assessments, all of the artifacts that are produced throughout the life cycle and understanding what's required to maintain them effectively to support the ongoing integrity of the facility and the economics of safety of operations right through the decommission. So there are many challenging aspects here because of the long timelines, the complexity, multidisciplinary nature of the information, and both the explicit and tacit knowledge has to be managed in an effective way. So many member states are finding this a very challenging topic. And we as a section are working to develop guidance in the NERA and training and other support services to disseminate best practices. And quite related to that is underlying technology that can be used to support design knowledge management, and in particular, plant information models or PM technology, which in nuclear is akin to what's being applied in the other sectors like the building industry. And there they call it BIM, Building Information Management. But the advances that have been made in the last 10 years in this area include enterprise application software and expansions of 3D computer-aided drafting and design software that allow a much more integrated framework to manage all the various forms and representations of design and facility information over the entire life cycle. So PIM is an emerging technology. It's very strategic and very beneficial in terms of cost-managing economics. However, it's challenging because depending on where you are in the life cycle, your requirements for PIM and the applications for Tanzibari is still an emerging topic and technology in the nuclear sector. And finally, just draw to your attention the importance of managing the risk of knowledge loss in the organizations, and in particular around competency management. We have developed within the section two guide documents. One provides a top-down view, an organizational view to map and take inventory of the competency requirements for the organization. And this is particularly important when the organization is going through changes, perhaps, managing through the various phases of the nuclear life cycle. And the classic example is to go from an operations period through to decommissioning and the change in human resource needs and the organizational mandate and business functions may dramatically alter the competency profile requirements. The corollary of that is a bottom-up approach to understanding the position requirements in an organization. And this is a more conventional view of job descriptions and the competency profiles needed. These two methodologies, of course, need to be used in tandem. And the understanding of knowledge or loss risk assessment and the proactive management of it really is best achieved by a combined strategy. So we help member states understand the application of these methodologies and their benefits over time. So in summary, the IEA N-CAN program continues to expand both in scope and products and services. We're happy to see over the last two years a very significant increase in member state awareness of knowledge management issues and the application of KM practices becoming quite widespread and growing. There is clearly a much better understanding of the core issues and the fact that knowledge management is very cross-cutting and also within the agency here. There are many important links between knowledge management and overall sustainability of nuclear technologies. And I think more and more member states are, in particular, senior management. Understanding this as a strategic issue. They're identifying where their critical issues are and exploring how to proactively manage or mitigate them. We're seeing regulators across many member states and in particular developed countries take a very strong interest in implementing KM programs and effectively begin to understand that they have an oversight role to ensure their national mandate and, in particular, licensed facilities understand their obligations to manage the competencies around nuclear technology over the entire cycle and to implement more specific and targeted measures within their licensing activities to ensure that knowledge management risks and issues are effectively dealt with. And finally, we see need for continued support collaboration from leading member states for our program. NKM section, our overall budget and the resourcing hasn't really changed in the last five years. So we're stretched thin, so to speak, and we very much benefit from member states and step up and provide cost-free experts and other kind or extra budgetary contributions to support our program. We're very grateful for that. This is broadly an overview of all activities that we conduct in the nuclear knowledge management section within these three main programmatic areas of nuclear education, methodological aspects and technological tools. As you have seen, it's really a broad program that covers and addresses several of the key elements that we are addressing in this course. So if you have any question in particular in relation to any of these, don't hesitate to ask. And as I said, you can also find on CLP4Net reference to individual publications that have been issued within the program of the section. So any questions at this stage?


But there's no fixing this, but it's too popular to delete. There was one day that I will remember for the rest of my life, and that day, was an episode of Steven Universe.  Well, I will tell you, I had gotten home and did my normal routine, do my homework, get something to eat, etc.  So, I was home alone. Normally, my brother would be with me, but he went with my mom, and my dad was at work. So I was laying in bed, on my phone chatting to friends on an app called Picolage, when I looked up to see that Cartoon Network was advertising New Thursdays. It had set up next was Steven Universe, one of my favorite Cartoon Network shows other than Pokemon, regular show, and Teen Titans Go. I posted on the app from earlier saying to my followers that I would be back soon.  I was pretty sure that this was supposed to be that Uncle Grandpa slash Steven Universe crossover, so I was excited. But I didn't get what I expected. The episodes started with the normal title theme for the show, which I always loved to hum to. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the theme, but when it got to the title of the episode, that's when it got strange. The normal clothesline that held Steven's clothes was snapped, and Steven's shirts and pants were on the ground, dirty and a bit shredded, but not enough that they were completely apart. The title, in a bit of a lighter tint than usual, read faded gems. Huh, I had thought the episode is supposed to be named Say Uncle. I went to the guide, and it still said the title for the crossover. I thought that maybe, at the last minute, Cien decided to air a different episode that they thought should come before the crossover. But, man, I was disappointed. The episodes started inside the house, but it was a bit quiet. Steven then came in through the screen door, looking a bit sad, but not in a depressed sort of way, just his normal sad face. It was raining outside, so I thought he was just sad he couldn't be out there. Suddenly, Amethyst and Garnet came through the warp pad, but Pearl was missing. I noticed that Amethyst had a tear running down her face, and it looked like the normal cartoon style, very bright blue, and not clear, not hyper realistic at all. I was a bit surprised by this, seeing how Amethyst is normally the most hyper and cheerful of the group. I went back on pic collage and asked for the Steven Universe fans to chat with me about the new episode. Surprisingly, a few of my followers, friends were seeing the same exact thing that I was, for some reason, the episode went to commercials already, so I decided to chat about what was going on. We referred to each other by parts of our usernames, so this is how the conversation went. Um. Rubix. Foxy. Creepy. Did you guys just see that? Tales. We all saw that. Other Steven Universe fans are spam posting stuff about this. I just don't understand what's going on. Oh. Why are Steven's clothes like that? I honestly don't know. Maybe something to do with Lion? Possibly, but Lion's always loyal to Steven. It would never do this. By the way, where's Pearl? Um. Maybe that's what Amethyst was crying about. Pal being gone. Suddenly, I heard that the show was coming back from the commercials. Guys, it's back on. We all continued to watch the show. She came back to where we were, but Steven was hugging Garnet and Amethyst, sobbing. It was his normal voice, not like a realistic sob, but his normal crying. Then, for the first time that episode, someone said something. Steven, everything is going to be okay. No. Pearl's gone. She's gone forever. I was shocked by this. I looked down at the conversation. Pearl's gone? Gone how? Is she dead? The show wouldn't get that dark. Guys. Guys, look. I look up at the TV, Lion comes in through the door, and is carrying Pearl's spear. Lion walks up to the others and drops it on the ground. It is snapped in half, but Lion didn't do it. It was obvious it wasn't bitten in half, but forcefully pulled apart. How did this even happen? Garnet put a hand on Steven's shoulder and started telling him a story. As you know, bi-gems are the source of all our power. If we were to get weak, bi-gems would lose power and thus fade. Because of this, we would no longer be able to go on, and we will just fade out of existence. We tried our best to cure Pearl, but we were too late. This shocked me. Pearl had faded away. Suddenly, the title made sense, faded gems. The gems can fade away. I looked at the TV again. I wish you were still here. He started sobbing again. The episode slowly faded to back and played the normal credits. This was so dark, I couldn't believe what I just saw. I look back down at the phone. What? Is Pearl dead? No. She lost her power. She simply faded away. Guys, put TV. I've never seen CNN post a commercial like this. I look at the TV. In the normal CNN font, it says this, we are sorry for the inconvenience. This episode was never meant to be aired. We now return to what was normally scheduled. Then the Steven Universe crossover came on. I was surprised to see that episode. We're all of the gems supposed to fade away eventually. Even Steven, me and my friends occasionally talk about the episode, but not much. I will never forget that one fateful Steven Universe episode. And did anyone record this? I mean come on, there was DVRs in the 2010s. Just tell me if someone recorded this or not.