Hello and welcome back to JSA TV Live. We are the live streaming news platform for DataCloud USA and we are back again once again in sunny Austin, Texas where we're having a beautiful day and a wonderful DataCloud USA experience so far. I'm Keeley Dorian, joining me right now on JSA TV Live. We have Girat Naraj Shah, excuse me, Senior Vice President and Director of Sales and Business Development for IX Africa. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks, it's a pleasure to be here, so it's good. We hope you're having a wonderful conference so far, but let's just dive right in. Can you just talk to us a little bit about IX Africa's hyper cloud ready campus in East Africa? Yeah, sure. Basically it's a hyper cloud campus, 22 and a half megawatts of IT power. It's the first in East Africa and very credible to scale up in a big way. So it was a big project that we've done. We're just about ready for service that's going to be in January of 2023 with four and a half megawatts and then we'll scale it up. So yeah, big project, fantastic land area, huge, huge hyperscale opportunity. So definitely some exciting things to come. Absolutely, absolutely. The first in the country, the first in the region, first in East Africa. So yeah, we've got a lot of good things to look forward to and the hypers are now looking at what's going on. So absolutely a market that's really emerging in a big way. Absolutely, so can you talk to us a little bit about how this new campus will just play into the overall advancement of network infrastructure in Africa? Basically data centers are the hub and the core of the internet as it goes. So with internet coming closer, it brings the internet closer to the people. So content is now going to be available within East Africa, within Kenya, within Nairobi. So in that way it's enhancing the network in such a big way. And so connectivity becomes easier. You have a lot more content on hand. There's a lot more availability of all sorts of cloud applications right there. So there is no latency. We're actually reducing that element of latency for connectivity. So why Kenya? I'm sure there is a strategic, very strategic method behind the madness there. Well, first thing, Kenya is just a beautiful country. It's great. Yeah, so that's a plus on its own. It comes as a benefit, no doubt. But Kenya is very, very centrally located on the East African coast. There are quite a few subsea cables coming into Mombasa. And Africa is just undergoing a massive transformation digitally, right? So cloud applications are growing quite a bit. And Kenya is a technical hub. Nairobi is the hub itself. So Kenya is ideally situated. IX Africa is located in a very, very strategic position. So it can actually enhance this whole growth of digital technology. The other element is that Kenya is actually Nairobi, for that matter, is elevated at 6,500 feet. So it's actually very cool. It's the ideal climate for an efficient data center. So having looked at all this parameters, we realized that this is the ideal location to be in. So apart from Nairobi being the technological hub, we're also going to be building a, or have built a very, very efficient data center. So we look at a PUE of 1.25. That's something that pulls in the hypers. So it's something that we've looked at. And then again, it's situated very centrally. So to connect to different countries, it's quite close. So we have from Kenya a market of 400 million people. Now, when the hypers start looking at that, yep, that makes sense. So I think that's the reason it actually decided on Kenya. So that is an impressive PUE. And I want to dig into that for just a moment. So let's talk about sustainability and more efficiently run data centers overall. That's a big pillar for you as you are advancing and developing. Can you share just a little bit about that? Yeah, sure. So PUE 1.25 is fantastic. It's, I think the average in Europe right now is about 1.4. So 1.25 is something that we've strived to get. And that's because of the method, the design of the data center, the fact that we're using a very different cooling method like adiabatic, indirect adiabatic chilling. And as I mentioned, Nairobi is based at 6,000 feet. So between the months of May and September, we're dropped to 12 degrees centigrade. It's free cooling. So we can achieve that 1.25. And perhaps as we go along with more technology coming in, we'll try and reduce that to further. That's the ambition, but that's one of the reasons. From a sustainability point of view, Kenya's energy is green, predominantly geothermal, hydroelectric, and then a little bit of solar and a little bit of wind. So we're green as it is. And that's another plus point for the hypers to come in or for any other enterprise that's willing to look at how they can reduce their impact on the climate. And then we have something called Keep It Africa. Keep It Africa is a mantra that we've got in place where we try to have a very sustainable supply chain. So we are reducing our carbon footprint by making sure we've got everything available within the country. If not the country, then the region. And then finally we can go out. But that idea is to grow and develop the entire economy as it is for us, or at least to boost it. And that's one of the key issues that we have. We have wastewater management because we use a lot of water to cool. Well, not a lot, but we'll recycle it. So we have in every aspect, you know, Keep It Africa, sustainability in place. And then obviously we'll have our own solar to generate for our administrative costs and all that. We've involved our community around us. So we'll have a lot of planting of trees, a lot of recycling. All that's going to be available to the economy, to the community. Such an important thing. And we're so glad to hear that you're doing that. Last question before we let you go and then we'll let you get back to your data cloud experience. But can you just talk in general about the leadership team at IX Africa? You have a lot of really great experienced individuals who are coming up with some great solutions as we have just talked about here. Yeah, I call it the dream team, to be honest. You know, Guy Wilner is our chairman. He's had a lot of experience, very knowledgeable in the data center industry. He's been there since 1998. Andrew Hunter, our CFO has been, was co-founder and co-investor in Treptorico. So a lot of knowledge there again. There's Clément Martinoux, who's involved in the build of the entire data center. He's one of the guys who actually brought in one of the cables, line two, and he was involved in building that station, subsea station. And Naresh Mehta is ex-CEO of Schneider, Kenya. So he's got a lot of knowledge and ability in power and electronics. And I do my leadership management and the commercial element, which works well. So I call it the dream team. It's an amazing team. And it's, we work really well together. But certainly a lot of vision from Guy. And you know, it's actually fun to work with IAX Africa. So it's the dream team. Well, if people want to learn more about the dream team where IAX Africa are all of the great things that you have going on, where should we send them? Nairobi, Kenya. And if they can't go there. The website, IAXAfrica.co.k. You get all the information from there. It's all there. Or contact me. I'm available. Nairobi Shah at IAXAfrica.co.k. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us here at Data Cloud and at JSA TV Live. And as always to our viewers, thank you for tuning in and happy networking. Thank you.


Psychedelics vs. Pharmaceuticals, what's the difference, really? Today, I've partnered up with my friend Mark from After School to take you on a journey of exploration between the two. Stay tuned to the end, I've got a special announcement for you once it's over. Without further ado, let's change dimensions and see what we find. The difference between Pharmaceuticals and Psychedelics when observing them through a lens of healing can be described in a very simple manner. It's the difference between treating something at its surface in the form of symptom management and removing the cause of the problem outright by going deep to its core and addressing the reason for the issue in the first place. Now, the conversation gets a little bit more tricky when we observe that psychedelics by their nature are not purely tools for self-healing, but can be used in a wide array of ways. For example, psilocybin cubensis, also known commonly as magic mushrooms, have been now very well documented to be powerful agents in helping individuals cure depression, anxiety, and even addictions when used purposefully with the intention of healing. Yet, at the same time, these mushrooms are commonly used as a party drug, used in small doses to enjoy raves, music festivals, and other social gatherings. While psychedelics today are largely illegal across the world, Pharmaceuticals are prescribed by doctors and generally used to numb the problem while the individual goes through their own healing experience, and hopefully one day resolves the problem within them. But when exploring the difference between Pharmaceuticals and psychedelics, we must become very clear as to what's happening on the inside. A lot of proponents of using psychedelics for healing might suggest that they are the be-all and end-all of cure-alls for every disease and illness. But this isn't necessarily the case. First, we must understand why they work. What researchers are now finding is that upon taking psychedelics, they create an opportunity for the participant to gain the ability to self-heal by freeing themselves of the limitations of their perspective of reality, and allow wisdom and understanding to penetrate their body of consciousness. With this new awareness, their perspective shifts and they come to view the source of their depression or troubles in a new way, going to the core of what was causing the problem, bringing healing and forgiveness to that place and liberating them from their problem. Ayahuasca is a great example of this, as it is one of the deeper and more purgative psychedelics, which will help you in purging the old energy and perspectives that are trapped inside. There are a wide number of testimonials available on the internet now of people who claim to have purged their cancer and other diseases using this plant medicine, and today doctors have a hard time explaining how this is possible and are amazed, nonetheless, by the results. What we can truly learn from psychedelics is that if we are open to looking at life from a new angle, a new perspective, we can resolve any problem that we face. As Einstein said, we cannot possibly solve any problem with the same mentality that created it in the first place. Psychedelics offer us an opportunity to look at the world in a different way. Today, many may argue that it provides a more natural perspective of life and reality, which allows us to see the source of our problems more clearly and address them at that level. Of course, this isn't to say that pharmaceuticals are inherently evil, it's truly a matter of intention. Sometimes, an individual may need a numbing agent to deal with something in the present moment as they move forward on their path and get to a place where they can begin to address the problems on a deeper level. However, with all of the emerging research on psychedelics, there may come a time very soon when doctors and physicians around the world are called upon to begin to view psychedelics in a new way and see if there is a place for them in modern medical healing to create not only healthy bodies, but healthy mental and emotional states as well and openly recognize the connection between disease and mental and emotional traumas. With that said, now is a perfect time to let you in on this little secret. In the last few months behind the scenes, we've been working hard on a full-length feature film exploring the mystical nature of ayahuasca and the emerging healing centers that are actually becoming available across the world. 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First of all, for the rank and file, the debt plate level here in Hampton Roads, I know that Admiral Greenert came down here the other day and had an all-hands with them to try to reassure them. What can you do to amplify upon that in terms of sailors and their wives that may be concerned about what this is going to mean for them? Well, thanks. I appreciate this opportunity, Mike. I think our main message to our troops and their families is that the personnel counts remain untouched. The President was very clear about that when he spoke about sequestration and the threat of it. So our sailors and their families are still going to get their pay, they're still going to get their benefits and the health care that they need. That's going to stay absolutely intact. That said, because some of the cuts that we're making and reductions and some of the trimming we're going to have to do may affect training and readiness, we have to all be prepared that over the long haul, there may be some impacts in their ability to stay ready to do some of the things that we need them to do for the country. But their personnel counts, they'll stay intact.


I know you are So I've got to talk about I cling like an honor and challenging like they see as product people So why that might ask why this crazy French guy going to London to talk about this But because last year a wave struck us all with a very very gross word at the center So excuse my French actually, I'm French. I can do it Profitability Making money my god how gross that is and I started my career 20 years ago as a Boostraping product entrepreneur, so I know when you invest money that was my own money. So that changes things a little bit, you know But I was struck that how many product people were actually scared by that I Don't wonder why and why in the past We were not having profitability. So I just asked questions, you know, I'm a pretty guy So I ask questions to people and they say, yeah stakeholders always stakeholders So how many of you think that we don't reach profitability because of stakeholders? Okay, you're some of you are honest like good, okay, I had plenty stories about the English people But actually some of you are honest Easy one. Yeah, I know So I said, okay, let's imagine for a moment that the stakeholders are responsible of that Okay, you know, we always have to get them to talk about problems and not solutions Not to have business plans or business cases. Well, thanks to one feature We're gonna sell billions It's actually but what do we do against that? Well, actually, yeah, we talk about problems and not solutions We tell them. Yeah, you know, a road map is not really splanned Etc. Etc. Sometimes we even get them to read the book That I cannot quote because it's a competitor of Well, actually it never works Absolutely never works because it's products planning just like man's planning. No, but it was product So you have people in front of you that are interested by one thing when this will be out, that's it So to get that how to go in the right path and actually They don't need to understand. They need to leave it. They need to have something which called skin in a game So that's an English expression So for the non-English speakers the story is a chicken going to see the pig and saying hey Let's have eggs and bacon and of course for the chicken. That's pretty easy. Yeah for the big There's more involvement, yeah So in that story, we could say we are the pigs That's the first time in your life. You would be happy to be called a pig actually, yeah But are we really? Yeah, so that's the all moment of the presentation Let's do a big all all together. Oh No, good one But I don't think we are and that's not me saying that That's one of the best thinkers of the 21st century The Jean-Claude Van Damme Because Jean-Claude, which is Belgian not French Good Invented one thing called the double impact. I know impressive It was a real office toughest for Volvo, but uh, what about and Actually, there's a law of the product organization That is called the double impact law Is the fact that the product org exists for one reason one reason only? Rishing a life for the company and the user So not only the company and Not only the user And the problem is that so many of us have one saying we need to be user centric You can't and you should not Because at the end no the client is not a king else our product will be Frankenstein creatures So how do we get from that situation of having so many frameworks talking about user centricity and Getting the business at the center of what we do Not harming the user to get there just finding the balance And in a way we are and we must be responsible of this economic success So how how to act like owners Investors I'm not telling you that I have the perfect solution for that Humbly it worked a trip advisor.  Okay, feel free no problem a lot of feedback But actually following three principles the first one is the investment principle the second one is a capping principle and the third one is The portfolio principle and we'd get a bit deeper in every one of these So the investment principle let's go back to what we do. Why were we invented? We're inventing to shift technology for a center of cost to a center of profit That's it. That's what we do else production not exists. So If you take that and Think about a product team. What is the job of a product team? But actually you take time One year one million bucks So if you go back tomorrow and you say to a PM or to anyone in the product team You know, you've been given one million euros this year to invest What is the ROI of that? That might make the think a little bit If like me you are 21 teams in 21 million euros So I'm responsible as a CPO of making sure that we're making money have those these 21 millions And every product team needs to prove an ROI. So my responsibility as a CPO is Just between the top line at the bottom line Okay, the product teams are supposed to transform this month this time into not code No fitters nor even impact then into the right ROI on the right segments and With the right metrics that will actually allow us to reach our strategic destination Now once you say that this is us product people How do we reach that we cannot reach that loan we need to transform our stakeholders form mere clients to coin investors They need to put money on the table. They need to have the skin in the game and the easiest way to do this is input. I Insist on that peaches not business cases Because I've never seen a harness business case in my life ever That doesn't exist so peaches basic information that we can challenge second one access to customers Because having a request from a stick order and then Being unable to connect with any user to actually test things is just impossible So in a way to keep pro quo If you want things done if you think that your ID can log the growth of a company You'd give us access to customers and that's part of the pitch a list of people we can contact And if we have to contact them with you as a sales guy customer success or whatever no problem Just put that in a pitch Testing because Even if we like to talk to customers a sales guy or sales girl will always be better than us To test a pitch because it's their job Same thing to create a campaign when it comes to be to see Well the CRM team they are good and sending good emails all they should be but that's another question Then to go to market Progressive reliant no problem. Let's Discuss all together which are the first customers we want to test on what you will do actually ask customers success team services Marketing teams to help us do this Co-owned things and the most important one core responsibility of success and failure There should not be a situation when the stakeholders Just complain about the product teams because we didn't reach X or Y They should be on stage with us. They should commit to the results not the usage. This is our thing But the business How many new contracts? For Which segment and which amount within three months and what will you do to make sure that we are reaching the target? So this is the first thing getting back to being investors all together The second part which is deeply linked with investment is the capping principle How many of you have read or heard about shape up? Okay So this is not new what I'm going to use our principle that we're taking by the base camp team To actually build shape up. I'm not telling you you should do shape up Are just giving elements that you might find if you read the book The first thing is appetite and ambition Imagine that it's your own money Okay, you want to invest it your business angel and Well, you're very rich because you know you chose the black company and you have one million euros to invest I can send you my Account number if you're in the situation, so I don't have them And actually you have just one million not more not less. You don't want to put one million euro on one startup You will try to find a way, you know say maybe 100 and see what happens, but copying exactly this You pay because you want to see more you want to see freely. There was something behind that So what is the ambition link to this? How many weeks do you want to invest on that specific opportunity? Secondly, it applies to the activities that we do on a product team both discovery and delivery because I Guess all of you know the rice score all of you know it rich and packed confidence efforts It was created by intercom an intercom never used it I know Just because it's the blog post that has the better reach So the marketing team is chose to keep it even if they knew that they were not using it themselves Yeah, I've always loved marketing people Sorry about that So the idea with it is really to make sure then if you want to start with a Confidence of 30% You just take two weeks not more to get that level up You will never have 100 persons never exist never will we face uncertainty and certainties everywhere But you need to cap your investment else. You're gonna do design thinking for three months So it's hard. It's hard asking a team to say just two weeks not more than this and then you get up with whatever you know But these are the basic common investments one more week means a week less for another investments It means that you're gonna have an expense of 150 not 100 This will endanger your ROI at the end of the year So this is not negotiable and who's responsible of that the trio So I don't know how many of you use trios as a basic element of a product team, but I guess all of you know doesn't that Vence diagram, you know one that we use for product explaining actually Well, actually, this is the product equation in plain sight This is what a trio should do. I don't care who does what to be honest. I Asked my team is my trios to be able to answer anyone in the company or when and What not when this is gonna be out Then when you're gonna stop investing on product discovery on that one when do you expect results? When will you know if you need to cap to top up a little bit because you think that there's more to get afterwards and This is the same thing from the lean engineer or the product designer or the product manager roughly three people Making the investment decision of the team Then the portfolio principle we got three investments go through capping none portfolio because as any investor You don't put your eggs in the same basket So let's take the example of a restaurant product, which I know and these are fictional examples I just use a stupid scale ROI and risk Okay Let's imagine three kind of investments and that you much relate to that because usually this is exactly what you do when you invest your own money You have one type of it, which is low hanging fruit or enablers low risk low rewards So that might be your improvements or buck fixes that could be an enabler for the marketing team You know that this migration will not create money, but that's okay because you need it That's just like putting money on your bank booklet. Okay Not a lot of interest to get but since you need to do it Then you have the core of what we do product initiatives That should be 60% of what you do minimum Because this is how you build short-term and long-term returns I say short term a long term because what we do usually have a direct impact on the business, but that that should be on the long term Well, the low hanging fruits usually could be really short term and the last one is the real bets Plenty of people use bets when it comes to initiatives and I absolutely hate it Because the bet is by definition something that you put With that's not not with that a lot of information But with very limited knowledge of the impact it could have and the thing that The biggest the startup is the biggest the product company is the less we do bets When you are pre-product market fit everything is a bet actually you don't know which are the results But if you don't do bets as big company You will die You will go on doing local optimum so you need to make sure that you protect that bandwidth when it comes to bets and Maybe you will lose that money Maybe and that's okay Because that's part of the game Bets are here to change the future So when you do low hanging fruits you do the presence When you do products initiatives you build for the near future and when you do bets Well, you build the next future This reputation is not universal. This was the one that we are on the B2C teams And that might change just like any portfolio Depending on market conditions If you have a crisis in front of you, you need to change how you invest. That's pretty obvious Second the team on the tribe Some teams on sub tribes in the organization might be more keen to take risks Others like platform teams. They're here for reliability and security So no, they won't take a lot of bets and that's perfectly okay Company or product stage company stage just like I told you pre-product market fit full bets Same thing for a product new product new brand product, maybe more bets. Same thing. That's absolutely okay Your budget structure, how many of you actually own their own product budgets Meaning that it's not a brand or division that's that you should do that and I give you the money Okay When you're in situation where you kind of a studio lab or whatever and that's the thing Usually in big big companies that not really product centric You cannot invest your money You're an advisor You need to act like an investment advisor saying this is the level of risk of your investment These are the odds of failing so we can go on with that It's up to you. Okay. I did my job Now the good thing is us product people. We are so good at under risking things. This is what we do, right? All the frameworks that we have are here to under risk So he's saying we have a plan if you want to lower the level of risk to make sure that The odds of success are better Still is their decision to take and Then the most important one and I'm gonna insist a lot on this one you Your own level of restolubence You might read plenty of things in books Might listen to podcast might hear a crazy guy crazy French guy on stage but Be self-aware Because not all of us are made to create startups from scratch And it might change with time I'm 42. I know I look younger. Thank you Because I don't have children that might be why not up But I don't want you create a startup. I've done that three times in my life. I know what is the cost and That's okay. I'm old That's it No, yeah, that's hard for me to say that but yeah, see I love Legos so that's okay And That's the same thing in your teams don't push every product manager product designer product engineer to be in situation when they have to do a lot of that because some people are not Self-aware enough and if you push them they might end up with a burnout so being self-aware things change you can prepare people but There's no one way to do product So if you actually respect that You make your product teams and your stakeholders I'd like owners. I think like a corner is really taking responsibility of the success and the use of your resources and I like VCs Because you need to challenge you need to understand what is the best way you can get our girl information this opportunity versus that one When we did that a trip advisor, we handed up with stakeholders actually not asking when we'll see be out, but Okay, let's see what happens depending on the results of the past initiatives And one thing how can we help? I was so Touching It changes and in a way with my stakeholders when I was not talking about Roadmaps, but in a way they were doing now next later by themselves without even using the words because they understood that we had to face uncertainty and Even then couldn't predict the results So it worked they were doing products So if you do that you will actually reach the double impact No, I'm not going to do it. Thank you


everyone and welcome back to another vlog. Today's vlog is all about tattoos, hair colours and I don't think this is just the UK, I think this is across some of the countries as well so I just really wanted to cover this topic and hopefully provide some sort of information for you. So I've only had two negative comments about my tattoos in the 11-12 years that I've worked in healthcare so I was on placement and luckily it's always at the end of my placement on my last days. So I think I'm very, again, no offence to anyone, this is my own personal things that I do. When I'm out on placement or when I was out on placement as a student nurse I angle my tattoos in certain ways so the people it's not the first thing that people notice because I like people to get to know me for who I am and build that trust with them before they firstly judge me because I've got a tattoo, if that makes sense. So I'm quite fortunate that when I've got my tunic on it does cover my arms so you don't see the top ones, it's only the wrists and when I'm doing things I do it automatically I think because no one ever notices them but this one day I'd care for this, actually the two comments come on the same day from the same bay so maybe they were talking about it I don't know. So I really bonded with this one patient and his family in particular his wife like we really got on and it was just lovely really really nice and on my last day there I was sort of I can't remember what I was doing I think I'd given her a cup of tea so my arm naturally went like that I'm sure it was a cup of tea or water or something anyway so my arm naturally went like that as I passed through it and she went you've got tattoos Claire, oh I didn't expect that of you. I was like what do you mean? Obviously you didn't say that but in my head I was like is that a good thing or a bad thing really not too sure and I literally just brushed it off I was just like oh yeah I've got a couple of tattoos you know something I've had done over the past and that was it there was nothing more said about it but that comment I was just like oh no one's ever said this like how do I respond and then again I was helping another patient in that bay and they noticed my tattoos and they're like you've got tattoos do you like them and I was like yeah they're all right you know I've had them so there's not much I can do about them now and they're like they're a bit common though aren't they? Very common. I thought are you calling me coming or coming as in people have them a lot now I don't know again I just laughed it off and I was like okay no problem and what do I? I don't reply to these sort of comments I just see it as people will have their opinions on them it doesn't affect me in any way it doesn't bring me down it just happens I shall get off and I move on so officially as a nurse or a student nurse or any healthcare professional every single trust and every place that you work or you go to or university even will have a uniform policy and I think nine times out of ten they're public you can look up your trust policies and procedures and so have a look at those and see what they say about tattoos I know Birmingham in particular there is a tattoo policy and it literally just says tattoos are okay as long as they don't offend anybody no problem however if they did offend somebody I don't know how they would do that I'm assuming they would ask you to cover it up maybe but if it's on your wrist you can't really have anything on your wrist but there are different makeups and things like that that you can buy that cover tattoos maybe they would get you to do that I don't know but I just know that in Birmingham I've read up a few of the trust policies and procedures and they all say that you're okay to have tattoos in nursing okay as long as they don't they aren't offensive now hair color hair color I think is a little bit different so on the policies it says that your hair should be natural natural browns gray ginger and redheads blonde strawberry blonde urban whatever color your hair color is naturally is how they say you should have it however I do know people with different colored hairs I know people with bits of red in it like bright red like this color red I've seen people with bits of blue pink in the hair and I've never seen anyone luckily have a problem with it and I think a lot of trusts are okay with it however again you need to read up on your local trust policies and procedures and you know it is a profession so we do kind of have to abide by those I'm not saying it's right but if there's a policy or procedure in place for you you kind of you have to follow it and but that doesn't mean that we can't ask questions about it so if you see a policy or procedure for a trust you want to work out and it says absolutely not you're not allowed any funky hair colors or anything like that and ask ask the management ask the chief executives ask your ward just ask is it okay because they might just be like oh actually that's a real policy we don't mind so there's no harm in asking people and asking why that is and to do it in a professional way don't go in there all guns blazing I've got this color hair blah blah blah no please do it professionally and politely and lovely we are professionals after all so yeah I don't think there's any harm in asking and I think some trust a lot of trust now are a lot more lenient and they're okay with different hair colors I've seen on Twitter especially a lot of people share these things so like different doctors are showing their tattoos and then different hair colors I think it's amazing I think I personally I love it if I was a manager or a chief executive or something like that everyone would be able to have different colored hair if they want to they could have tattoos again as long as they're not offensive different tattoos and things I think is great I think it stands for individuality it represents you as a person it although some tattoos might be a mistake who knows but I think I think it's brilliant I think it just makes people who they are it makes you unique and I personally I don't mind it so yeah so I hope that's a little bit helpful I don't know if it is or not but I know a few of you have asked me to do a vlog on tattoos in particular as a nurse so I thought I would just cover it and hopefully it's gonna help a little bit there's not much more I can really say other than just check your local policies guidelines and please don't be afraid to ask a question if you think that something's not right or whatever just go for it and just one final note if you are in a trust or if you've had any of these and positives or negatives please comment below and let's just get a conversation going about it maybe and if you know that your trust does allow tattoos or hair colors comment here as well so that other people can see just so that they can be informed if that makes sense so thank you so so much as always for watching don't forget to subscribe if you haven't subscribed if you don't want to don't worry about it I'm not gonna get offended but thank you so much for tuning in and making it to the end of the vlog


Welcome to Geneva, for which is from 2019, where I am joined by Mr. Innocent Paganba Mouhisi, his Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Information Society Authority. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Now you're here to present a workshop about your country's efforts to become a digital society and economy. So what do you stand currently in this journey? Thank you, Shad, for having me. To be able to explain where we stand currently, maybe somebody needs to give you a little bit of history of where we're coming from. Rwanda embarked on the digital journey about almost 20 years ago, the year 2000, when the Rwanda Vision 2020 was enacted at that time. Then alongside the Vision 2020 decision was made to inculcate information technology as an enabler. And we had a 20-year plan, which was broken down into four or five-year plans. So the very first five years were to lay down the enabling environment, setting up the institutional framework, setting up all the legal requirements to be able to start digitizing the whole process. Now the second batch of five years was to lay down infrastructure, fiber-optic cables starting to build national data centers and what have you. Now the third batch of five years was not to start to build services on top of the infrastructure that had been laid, but also to expand the infrastructure. So right now we're in the last batch of five years, which we have transformed into what is called Smart Rwanda master plan, where a number of services have been digitized. Like for example, if you want to get your birth certificate, you know, a Murray certificate and others. Taxes are being paid now online, procurement services for government are conducted online, and a number of other services that were enacting. So that's where we are today. Tell us about connectivity in your country, because obviously connectivity is a big theme, because we're talking here, this is for a lot about innovative technologies and so on, but for that to happen, first you need connectivity, right? So where do you stand currently on that front? So about close to ten years ago we started on this project to lay fiber-optic cables around the whole country. I'm happy to say that today we are sitting over more than 7,000 kilometers of fiber that has been deployed within the country, where each and every border of the country has been covered, each and every district of the country has been covered, but over and above that we deployed a 4G LTE network, where Rwanda currently is the first African country to have over 95% geographical coverage of 4G LTE across the whole country. So that's where we are today in terms of coverage. We literally have almost the whole country covered in terms of connectivity, but that does not necessarily mean that access has been completed 100%. So we are still hooking onto different citizens, different institutions, different organizations onto this network that we have within the country. It's a work in progress. It's still a work in progress, yes, but we are quite advanced. Now, I understand it's the first time you are attending with these forums, so how are you finding it so far? It's quite interesting, very interesting, because it's somehow different from other conferences that I've attended, where you have specific country workshops, where you have specific sessions that are going on. So this is quite different and quite learning a lot. Would you come back? Will you come back? Oh, definitely I will. Yes, definitely I will come back. Of course, there are a number of things that you hear, for instance, learning what other countries are doing, learning of new innovative technologies that are coming out, new standards that you have to adapt and implement in your respective jurisdictions. So there are a lot of things that one stands to learn, and I think we'll be coming back. Innocent by Ngambamuhizi. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hey everyone, today we're making a meal prep recipe for breakfast or lunch or really anytime. I'm making egg frittata in a sheet pan. It's quick and easy and you're going to love it. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. What does a tightrope walker have in the mornings? A balanced breakfast. So before we start off with our recipe, you're going to need a baking pan like this one. 9 by 12 and we're going to be using eight eggs here so I'm going to crack them into a bowl. Now like I said earlier, this is great for meal prep or if you're serving let's say four to you know six servings. So next to that I'm going to add some coconut milk to give it some nice richness and keep in mind you can get the written recipe below the video in the description. Now I love to add a little garlic powder to my eggs it gives it such a great flavor so I'm going to add just a little bit here and we'll sprinkle that in. And we have to add a little bit of salt so in goes a little bit of that and we're going to add some baking powder. Now what the baking powder is going to do is going to help to make it rise a little bit so it doesn't lay too flat. Grab your handy dandy whisk and give that a nice mix. Now at this point we can just set this aside and chop up the rest of the things that we want to put into our frittata. So for my vegetable lineup I'm using a red bell pepper here but feel free to use any vegetables you have even leftovers that you want to just use up. It's perfect for a frittata. It's best to chop things up super fine that way you get a little bit in every bite. I think every delicious frittata deserves an onion so I'm chopping up a nice yellow onion here with the super fine dice. Keep in mind that all the fresh veggies that you put into this dish need to be cooked beforehand. And next we have none other than a zucchini. Cut off the end and then I want to slice this as thin as I can. It'll cook up a lot quicker that way. Here's my asparagus which I'm going to chop up into bite-sized pieces. Mushrooms are also a great addition to a frittata with their nice rustic flavor and I like to chop them up super fine and give them the super fine dice. Here at the stove I have a large frying pan over medium-high heat and I'm going to drizzle in some olive oil. And now we're going to add in all those veggies that we chopped up starting with the onions. Next we have the asparagus and the mushrooms, the zucchini and the red bell pepper. Give that a stir and then we're going to cook this over medium heat for about 15 minutes. We want to season this layer with a touch of salt and some garlic powder. While our veggies are sauteing over here for 15 minutes we're going to work on some other veggies and spices. I have some nice delicious juicy grape tomatoes here that I'm going to slice up and we'll lay these on top before we place our frittata in the oven. Now we've got to get some fresh herbs into this especially since I have some growing in my garden, fresh thyme and oregano here and they're really good for you. So we're going to peel off the leaves and then I'm going to chop them up. I try not to put too many stems in but do the best you can, it's not a big deal. When you get roughly about a tablespoon of each then we'll chop it up. The last herb I'm going to make is probably my favorite. Does anybody know what this is? The procedure here is to stack those leaves, roll them and then give them a nice chop to get it nice and fine. After 15 minutes of sauteing these you can see how they've turned out. They've cooked down quite a bit and they're nice and soft and caramelized and the flavors are enhanced. Now it's time to put this thing together.  Now I'll place the sautéed veggies right in the pan and we're going to spread it out evenly over the whole pan. If you're enjoying this video let me know by smashing the like button. Then pour your eggs right over the top spreading it out as evenly as possible. Add all your herbs by sprinkling them over the top of your frittata. Next goes the sliced tomatoes. It kind of reminds me of placing pepperoni on a pizza. Here's my last addition which is the basil and then we're going to place this into a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. Now keep in mind you're going to want to carry this super carefully and slowly so that you don't get a tidal wave of egg on your floor. Deadie as she goes. You know what? I didn't spill a drop. It must be time for Chef's joke number two. Here we go. You ready? How do you drop an egg six feet without breaking it? You drop it seven. It won't break during the first six. Here's a peek of our frittata cooking in the oven. It's almost done. All right. It's time to eat. Here's our frittata. Doesn't that look scrumptious? All right. I'd like to garnish it up with a little feta cheese here. Just sprinkle some all over the top and we're ready to serve it up. Depending on what else you're serving with this, you can cut this into four all the way up to six pieces. You can tell this is pretty hot. You see that steam rising? This is such a delicious and healthy meal. You got to try it. Just imagine meal prepping this and then taking some out in the morning and heating it up and then having this delicious meal anytime of the week and it's quick and easy. If you'd like to try another meal prep breakfast idea, you're going to want to try my baked oatmeal. This thing is loaded with protein. Click the link on the screen. It'll take you right to the video. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did, you can always let me know by smashing the old like button. And another way is you could share it with somebody you think might enjoy this delicious recipe. All right, we'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe.


The future is unknown. Not just for you, but for society. When we look at how technology unfolds, we can be pretty accurate about tomorrow or next week. And as the writer William Gibson said, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed. So based on small patches of current innovation, we might be able to accurately guess at aspects of the next five, or ten, or even twenty years. But beyond that, as we get further and further from today, the more the possibilities begin to multiply. Our simple projection diverges to become a tree of possibility. A possibility. No, sorry. The best way we can see long-term forecasting at work is to cheat. Let's wind the clock back to last century. Lots of smart people made well-thought-out predictions of where we'd be beyond 2000. Flying cars and jetpacks for all. Autonomous humanoid robots. Cities on the moon. And lots and lots of free time. They were dead wrong. At the same time, other smart people made even crazier technology predictions, which don't seem quite so crazy now. Small, orbiting, rocket-propelled space stations that would be the basis of a worldwide communications network. People wouldn't just need a computer, they would hold them in their hands. And the people with the computers would use the communications network to share information. And so with a little hindsight, we can see that foresight is not an easy business. Futurist Jim Data said, any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous. It doesn't mean that the future is a laugh a minute. He's actually saying that unless your idea is so challenging and out there compared to the way things are today, it simply isn't futuristic enough. So let's test this out and imagine a ridiculous, but actually possible future proposed by computer scientist John Storz Hall. It's a chair, it's a car, it's a prehensile monkey tail. New from DrexTech, it's utility fog, powered by a swarm of tiny remote control robots. Create, levitate, manipulate, teleport, and shapeshift. Just like magic, only it's 100% nanotechnology. Utility fog has no self-replicating human harming or world-eating capabilities. As a rule, we're not very good at thinking about the impacts of new technologies. We imagine a technology will nicely and neatly solve problem A, but conveniently forget it may worsen situation B, produce new opportunity C, and create an entirely new problem, D. So rather than just think about a future with utility fog as a big indigestible lump, let's instead look at it through a series of filters, and in so doing hopefully see new opportunities and new impacts we might otherwise have missed. If there is tech this sophisticated, there's a pretty good chance it would mean no limits on resources or supply, which could remove industries like agriculture, mining, processing, and traditional manufacturing. This would dramatically affect employment, education, retailing, and services. Nano-computing will also further increase options for communication and surveillance, impacting relationships, safety, and security. Utility fog could well offer cleaner technologies and reduced waste. It could rehabilitate huge areas of the environment previously turned over to industry. But would you then value the wonders of nature if utility fog could do just as well, if not better? And what becomes of artists or crafts people when we can all make such things? But just because you can make unicorns may not mean everyone can. What if utility fog is a little expensive and it divides the world into rich nanotech wizards and poor ordinary tech muggles? And does that imply that all the people rich or poor are then at the mercy of the owners and programmers of utility fog? But let's not forget you the individual. Would utility fog change who you are and what you do? What if it could change your clothes, improve your health, reshape your body, or your face? And what if nano-computing could allow all the possibilities of utility fog to be controlled with just a thought? Would it change how you think and what you believe? Would you think that you were playing God? Would it affect your self-image? Would you even know who you were and what was real? Well, utility fog is just one person's idea of what might be possible. But the future is not laid out in front of us. It's created as we go, by you, me and them. Do you want that future? If you think through the possibilities of a new technology, you can better appreciate the consequences of using it.


Guitar and Excel, C major, A minor scale fret number 7, focusing on the D note. Get ready and some coffee, and remember, if you feel like your guitar playing is not getting better, trust me, just keep practicing. I mean, honestly, my guitar playing used to be so bad, my own guitar filed a restraining order against me. Yeah, attempting to get the court to compel me to stop picking on it. I don't even know where it came up with that sexual harassment charge.  In any ways, let's get to the guitar. Here we are in Excel, if you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay. You could just follow along, but if you do have access, it's a great tool to run scenarios with. Quick recap of the project, thus far, no team that. You don't have to have watched all prior presentations to follow along with this one, but a general overview of the overall project is useful. So let's go back to that first tab for the overview. We're looking at the C major scale and related modes. Started out looking at it in open position for us, open position defined as frets 1 through 3. Noting that this E represents the heavy or low E string, the one closest to the ceiling. The funnest way to map out the notes in the scale in open position is to create the chords from that scale and map them out. So we started out with the one chord, the C major chord, mapped it out, discussed it in detail. Went to the four chord because it also has a major chord construction. Mapped it out, discussed it in detail. And then the five and then back to the minors, which is the second, then the third, the sixth, and finally to the diminished, which is the seventh. After having done that, we have basically mapped out all the notes in open position, but done so by building the related chords. And if we put all those notes in position, it would look something like this. We then wanted to move to the middle of the guitar and learn that position this time, not by constructing chords first, but first by looking at the scales. So we mapped out the scales in fret 5 basically, or frets 4 through 8, that position. And you could call that position a G shaped position, or I would call it position number one. We discussed all of the basic notes that we can hover around within that position. And then now we're going to the second position on fret 7. We've discussed it a little bit in detail, and now we're going to basically be focusing in on the D note in this position starting on fret number 7 and basically seeing how we can tie it into the prior position and to the open notes. So let's go over a quick recap of all the colors here. I know this is overwhelming. This is basically the fretboard. Low string on top is what we're doing here, because I think that's easier to see. We started out by laying down the foundation of all the notes in the C major scale in blue. And then we put on top of that the five notes of the pentatonic scale for the C major or related minor pentatonic scale in green. And then on top of that we put the, and these all fit on top of each other. And then we're going to be putting on top of that the D, which is our point of focus this time, and the chord that would be constructed, which would be a minor chord. This would be the one, the three, and the five of that D minor chord. So that means that basically our major points of focus over here are the light green, which is going to be the one. The second most important note is going to be the three, and that's going to be the F, and then the third is going to be the A in yellow. And then all other notes that are colored are fair game, and all the white notes are like lava. We don't want to hit the white notes. They have been excluded. And then we can see that we have this red box represents the last position, which you could call a G shaped position. And the reason for that is if you were to, because if I think of myself in the C major scale, then this position, you can see that that G shape basically fits within here. That's going to be this boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So you could call it that if you want. I would also call it position one personally. And then this is going to be position two, which has some overlap. You could call this an E shaped position because if you look at a C chord construction within it, you're going to get basically a bar chord, which is basically an E shape if it were an open position. So you could name the whole shape based on that. If you want, I'm going to call it position two as well. We'll get into that caged system later. So we're focused on this yellow area. There's overlap between the two. I would call like the pivot points between these two shapes on the top string. Here's the first shape. Here's the second straight. You've got these two notes, fret seven and eight in between. Now I'm going to make the red one a little bit shorter so that we can focus just on the yellow. And then within this yellow area, we're going to focus on the D and the D construction is a D minor. So this has given us an idea. These yellow notes are giving us an idea of the chord shapes within here, which is a little bit more difficult probably for most people on this shape for the minor chords because this is like a G minor shape. So we'll talk about that shortly, but that's what the yellow notes are trying to do. They're basically, in this case, highlighting all the one threes and fives in this case. But they're trying to focus on just those main shapes that we can be building on the D that we're focused on. And then the red notes over here are also trying to focus on the main shapes that we can see once we start going back up and down the guitar so they happen. So notice not all of, I didn't highlight this one even though it's a fifth right with the red. And then over here, this is the main shapes that we kind of focus on in open position, which of course in this case is the D minor. So you've got this open string and then these strings here. So that's what basically the color scheme is doing. Our focus here is in the yellow area. Now we're in the C major scale, but we're basically focusing in on a D. A couple ways that we could do that to show it in open position here. You could play around in a C starting and stopping on the C, making up the tonic, like a C and then going to like an A minor and an E minor and then maybe working that D and then back to a C or something like that. But if you want to practice the D in particular, you might try to make it the tonic. So instead of us going to a D minor scale, we're going to stay here and say, I'm just going to make the two the central point, which means we're basically playing in Dorian. But I'm not going to think about it in Dorian now. We'll talk about the modes more formally later. But Dorian would just mean that I'm going to formally make it number one and then everything else is going to be the same. I'm just going to shift it, the numbering system, making it number one. But I'm going to think about it as though I'm just going to play around the two chord, making it the tonic. Easiest way to do that to stop and start on the two chord on that D. So I could start playing on the D and then play anything else when then here like a C, like an A minor, like an E, and then end back on the D. Now it's a little bit more difficult to make the D the tonic than the C or the A, in this case or the major or minor, but the Dorian is pretty common. So it's not too difficult to try to make it feel like that D is now your home bass. However, we can do that same idea that's saying, well, what's the fifth? Even though it's a minor this time, it's a minor chord, the fifth is an A. So I could say the A should resolve back to the D relatively well. Now the A is, if I construct it in the C major, it's an A minor, not an A major. But that doesn't resolve quite as nicely as an A major because the A major will have this white note right here that's going to then conform or have that half step going up to the D. So we can kind of cheat if you want to think about it that way, right? We can play like something in a D to a C to an E. Then I'm going to go to that A minor. I'm going to convert it to a major to resolve back to a D minor. And that might help us to get that resolution back home again. You could take it a step further and make it a dominant seven, which means you play these two and you lift your middle finger up, revealing the G. And that might even give you a different resolution field back home. So just a couple of things if you're having trouble keeping the D as the home bass, but it's like the Dorian is fairly common, so you should be able to make that feel like the tonic fairly easily in any case. Okay, so then we're going to go back up to our fret on the seven through ten position number two and we're going to be playing around the D, which means we're basically playing in Dorian but thinking of it as the two note. And we can do this a few different ways. We can play everything in this position and practice just this position. We can try to blend from the prior position to this position or we can try to go from the home bass position and find lines or we can go from the home bass position jumping up to this position or go from the home bass position and find lines to kind of maneuver up into this position. So those are the tactics you might use to practice this, the D in the position number two fret seven through ten. So let's first just think about basically playing through the scale and this position making D kind of like the center point basically the tonic. So when I'm in this position we might start like here because well here it is a B, I start with the B but that's not where we want to start here because we want to be thinking of it starting on the D. So I can start on the D. Now I could make that the one which means I would be converting to a Dorian but I don't want to convert to a Dorian here. I want to just keep on thinking of it as the two. I'm just going to go around my scale thinking of it as basically the two. So I can count up, I'll do it this way first. Just in the guitar we're going to say this is the two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or one back to the two. So there's our two, two, two, two, two. And so all I did there was just count it up. So I'm just going from this is going to be the two and then I'm just staying in the shape three, four, five, six, seven, eight or one back to the two. And then we can count up again and do the same thing and walk it up and back getting that Dorian kind of feel in our mind and kind of working on our finger in position. Now as we do that we might also want to play the chords every time we get to like the D, every time we get to the two. So let's think about the shapes that are in here. Now the shapes are a little bit more difficult to see in the minors sometimes. We'll talk about the cage system a little bit later. But you can see you have this one, the one, the three and the five. So you're kind of leaning back, you're kind of leaning back this way. And that's going to be, you can think of that as like a G shape because if you had a, if this was a major then the third would be right there. So you have this like G shape that we have to play like this if it was a major and then we drop the third. So the third would be here if it was a major and it drops back to the minor. So you basically have that top half of the G shape is one way that you can kind of think of that. And then we have this shape underneath which is still kind of part, you can think of it kind of as part of the G shape because if you were to borrow that you'd have these two here which is a little difficult to do because you don't want to pick up that one. But you can play it this way. And that's going to be still a D but it's inverted where the D is on the bottom. And then you've got these three notes over here which is on the high end of pitch wise. And once again it's inverted where the D is basically on the bottom. Now on the edge right here between these two you've got this which is probably the easy thing to play down here. It's kind of like your A shape and then you could also add this A down here and play it like this. So that is often a common way to play that D. It's a nice one to reach as well and it's basically part of this full bar shape on position number one but it kind of crosses over in that limbo land and you can pull up that piece of it right there. So those are your major home base shapes. So if I was going to walk through this I'd say this is going to be the two right there and if I was to make a chord out of it we'd go two three four what wait two three four five six seven eight or one two and then this note when I get to this note which is the other two then I could basically play the ones right above it or you can go back to this right there and then two three four five and then these three so now I got down to this one down here and I play these three and then I'm going to go this is two one or eight seven six five four and then I can go this the chord or now I'm back on this D and then I can go back down and say one or eight seven six five four three two and just try to go like walk up and back and get it in your mind what the chord shapes are a little bit that way and you can also you don't have to walk up and sit and name two three four you can just walk up the shape and start and stop on the D's and then play the chord on the D to kind of get that in your mind as that's the place that you're in but I think actually counting it up from two is useful so that's going to be that and then once we have that in our mind we could try to play everything within the shape so what we've learned now is the D in here the C and what else we did the F and the G so we have this shape that we can play this way so we've got that we can play it this way we've got the C shape we've got the F shape and then I'm going to go back to the D shape which I'll play like that so we have those major shapes we also know that the A shape would be here so if I look at that A because that's my resolution one this would be an A minor moving forward the major would pull that pinky which sounds a little out of place but might be able to resolve more easily to the D minor so that's one thing that we can do we can start playing these within here and say here's a D here's like a C we're going to C here's like an A shaped F and then possibly back to the D and we can go D we're going to go this is an E shaped C this is an A shaped F major and then we also did a G C shaped G and then back to the D something like that so let's do it one more time we've got like a D you might go to like a C an F and then you might try to close it out with an A minor to an A major which might then help us to resolve back to a D which will play outside here something like that so you can start to kind of put those together in one position within here you can also kind of try to noodle once you get good at those switches whatever combo you like you could put in noodling in between the notes you can also if you don't know all of those positions here we could say well I know all of my positions in the open position and use the old jumping strategy just to see if I can work around the D up here with some more like picking around stuff so to do that we might first say okay well what kind of things if I'm saying this is my home D what kind of things are around it that I can kind of pick around so what can I reach now I'm not going to reach forward because I'm thinking of leaning back into my position so one thing I can do is start with my arpeggio like that from there we can pivot which is a little tricky because we want to be pivoting basically on the pinky but I can see what is available to me up there I can say alright well if I'm on that pinky I have these notes available so I could do something like double stop, double stop it might be a little bit easier for me to basically change my fingering on this one to be basically this finger so I'm not using my pinky there which means that this box is going to be easier to get to and I could slide back and forth between that note behind I also note that this whole column is basically good for me to play as well as this whole column over here so I could then say alright if I'm starting here and then instead of picking up the full chord with that A I can end with just the one and the three which gives me the flavor pick up this whole bar I know this whole thing is good to go except for that G I'm going to bar so I could do something like that and then if I go down here I could say here's my other D so I could see what is kind of below that D and then what's above the D so I could say if that's the D anything I'm starting on I could say well the third of a minor is always like that distance up there's that F that's useful I have that E now the fifth instead of being here like it normally is because of the kink of the tuning up here that's a little bit tricky to remember sometimes and then you've got this G which is right here and then I can always end this off by hitting these three which are above it because that's the full chord so I can go above it and hit those three to end it off go to the string above it back to that G like that so there's that one now another one that's kind of interesting here is you also have the open D which is that's what's great about the minors so this open string right here is interesting to play with because if I hold down this D right there and then I have this string open you get two D's which is like a double powerful D and then it's kind of interesting you have a third right there so I could go back and forth from the third up there and then I have a fifth right here and I have a fifth right here so I could go I like to do something like the shuffle so I'm kind of muting the E and I'm trying to mute the A with my thumb and then I'm just reaching up to that F to hit the third and then I mute it to get that double stop D you know it's kind of a fun little to have that open D open it's kind of a fun little thing to have there and then you have your D down here so that's going to be this D and then you have available to you if you use that as your home bass so now we're here I could say ok well down here I've got this little box that we can play and I can always go back to this shape as my D down here even though it's inverted so I've got so those are the basic general options that we can kind of tinker with here so then once we have the tinkering options we can then say ok what we could so now let's try to do our jumping thing so if I'm over here in open position and I play like a D here and then I'm going to target something up top so I'm going to go back from there and say ok the easiest one to target might be this D so I'm going to say alright I'm going to kind of jump up to this D and then see what I can do with that and that might be easiest to hit that with my ring finger if I'm jumping up there something like that maybe so I'll go from here switch between like a D and an open position and something else like a D and then a C or something like that and then you could noodle around up here in the C but if you're focusing on the D maybe I just noodle around on the C over here so if I do the same thing D and then I jump up and then to the C my normal thing on the C something like that we could target then this D same kind of thing so we can say ok if I'm just going to jump up to that D what can I then play around that will I have then and I've got that cool jumping up to that F and back down having that open D so I could do something like so then that's that one and then we could do a similar thing basically up here what the next thing we could do is say well what if I'm in this middle position here and I want to switch from this middle position up into this position up top so we could say ok well where's my D in here is right here and that's basically a bar chord so this is kind of an overlapping position so now you've got this bar chord which is a quite common D right here so this is an A minor kind of D position that's in between these two shapes so that's going to be boom boom boom boom boom I'm kind of focusing in on that D so if we're in this shape whoops is that that's not right sorry about that it's right there ok so then you have that in this shape here's your D here and then here's your D here and then this shape you can also play the bottom part of it like this which is just these three notes and then you could pick up that A down here and play it this way so clearly this one this bar shape kind of moves in, pivots into this shape if you move into this shape here like this or that shape so once I get into this shape I can pivot around this D right here and then pivot into that shape so then it's just like ok what do I want to do basically in between I can kind of walk between those two possibly so I can be in this shape and say ok and then I want to move up kind of to this D up top and then how could I do that well I can start with this and then I can just walk into this shape the easiest pivot point is this finger so I can just be like I'm going to go from here and go and then I'm on that shape which I can go that's a major and if I can walk that back now I'm on this pinky and basically just walked it up and I'm just saying and so then I could make it a little bit more interesting possibly doing some double stops or something as I'm walking that so I could be doing something like so now I'm hitting these three notes and then I can go I noticed that's something that we were able to do before and then I know that I can go up to here and then I'll convert that into a D or something like that and then I can walk that back and say double stop double stop something like that back to my D here we could play the bottom half of this shape so I'll try to move from this bar chord to this D and then into that kind of shuffle pattern so if I start off at this bar chord I might play with that a bit like saying this release the pinky that gives me basically the 7 because I know all of these notes and this whole bar are good so I can then say okay I'm going to go and now I'm just playing this bar I'm not even worried about what it is I'm just going to play basically that whole bar and then maybe and now I'm basically playing an A then I moved up to this D there's the the third of the D and then there's my little shuffle pattern and then I can end it off with that or that so we might play something like you know here's my D so I'm just trying to find some patterns between those two and then if we go back to the first position then I can try to say okay let me find a line between my open D over here and then maybe my D basically up here so what can I do to get between those two I have my finger down here is probably the first one that I can think about because it's going to be easy to just move up so I'm looking at the finger that's on where is it it's on F right so I'm looking at that finger and then I can basically move that up maybe and that gets us to our familiar little box within here and then once I'm in the box within here I have access to this D and then that can bring me up to this D so I might think of something like this I can be like okay and I'm going to pivot on this finger I'm just playing within that box and then when I when I get up to here whoops I'm looking for that shape right there which is going to be this is part of my bar chord on the bottom so that brings me to this shape which I can then convert to that shape if I so choose and then reach up to here so something like that was kind of sloppy but we can get better at it right I can go here so there's basically have a D right there back to my D there and then up back to my shape my kind of G minor shape D chord like that so if I walk it back I can also play this D here I kind of like this little shuffle pattern on the D I'm just playing with that open D in open position so instead of playing the whole D if I shuffle back and forth between I hold down this A and I let the D ring out then I've got the 1 and the 5th and then if I hold down this F then you've got the 1 and the 3rd so you're shuffling between the whole chord and then I throw an occasional C in there in my shuffle and then I can also let go you also have the let's just play with that so we can say okay then we can go okay so now I'm just reaching up to that A and then once I have that I can follow this finger in back to that A minor there's that and then I'll I can kind of mirror that shuffle pattern so I'm just basically letting this open string kind of ring out and then I'm playing everything that's open I also touched on this string, that's your blues note that gives you a little bit of attention if you want to pick that one up cheating a bit, breaking the rules but if we follow this one up and I just kind of let that D ring out then I can follow it up through that's kind of fun to do something like that and try to maneuver up and back between the chord so again that note that's why the minors and at least the key of the C are actually quite fun to play because you can kind of work in those open strings in my opinion I just learned the minors more than the majors because I started with A minor so that's just how it worked out for me but that's the general idea now if you were to switch to a D a D minor for comparison purposes instead of a D Dorian then all the chords all the notes within the chord of the D minor would fit but it's going to be different so this is the major scale which has the sorry this is the major scale which is an F major which is the 6th is going to be the minor so this would be basically F major or in this case we're thinking of it as the notes the pattern that would be there for a D minor and so if you compare this then to what we have up top and if I was to hide to here right click and hide so then you can see you have all the notes in there for the D still are in there but it's not the same pattern the colored notes are not all the same so just to point this out like if you practice the D as it relates to the C major scale and you focus on it as the pivot point you're basically playing Dorian and you might say well yeah but I also wanted to learn the D minor and you're kind of still learning the D minor because the notes in the chord still fit and they will be the same as the D minor but the relative notes around it are going to be different so and that's what we'll dive into that more when we get into other modes and what the modes mean as well as then we can convert the whole thing to other scales but like I say I think people get often really confused in terms of what they can play we can't figure out which things go together and which do not so if you really understand anyways that's the general idea


Happy Thursday, everyone! We're in our new time slot for Geeks R Sexy, new to me because this is my first time new time slot. If you have a regular watcher every week, you've been watching for a little while with Michelle Davis. But we are now at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoons. It's great to be here. It's a little easier to get out of the studio and on our way on a Friday afternoon instead of being out here at the busy time on strip traffic. So welcome to Geeks R Sexy. I'm Jason Laduke from Evil Genius Leadership Consultants, and I'm your host today to talk about all things about how to have a successful business and a successful professional life here in Las Vegas. We're gonna jump right into it. My first guest today is Lene Forbes of Forbes Realty Group. She specialized in the sale of new and existing homes in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson. And as part of her industry experience, she's had a lot of opportunity to work all the little jobs that go into real estate. So she hasn't always been that real estate agent out in front showing the homes. She's had a lot of experience working in the Air Force. We call it Back Shop, the behind the scenes work in real estate. And that really helps her with her clients. And she likes to arm her clients with an understanding of the market to help them make sound decisions and that she believes that the most satisfied client is a client who feels included in the process and that leads to a successful closing for them. Excuse me. I'm having a hard time today. So Lene, thank you for being here. Welcome to Geeks R Sexy. How are you today? I'm awesome with the exception of the heat. Yeah. So last month, I talked about how hot it was. Well, it's even hotter this month. So I'm gonna stop talking about the weather here in Las Vegas because it leads to me talking about how hot it is on the show all the time. So let's jump into what it is you do and how you do it differently than other realtors here in Las Vegas. Tell us about the philosophy you have, your philosophy of helping people buy and sell homes here in Las Vegas. And what's the driving force behind what you do for the people you help? Well, my biggest thing is is I want to encourage my clients and empower them. So by the buyer, we empower them to be able to search the internet 24 seven. With our sellers, we empower them to be flippers in their own house. Yeah, that's what I really want to get into a little bit today. That's exciting. Yeah, that's a fun, exciting part. But when you talked about the back story, the backside of everything. So I worked a number of years as a notary signing agent, which included working for escrow companies. And that was a great experience because you get to understand what the escrow companies are looking for, what the title companies are looking for. So often I'm ahead of my peers because of that. And then I also processed loans for five years for a company here for about three different loan officers. So that too was very enlightening process. And I enjoyed it. What's something specific you learned from working the back shop, the escrow side of things that helps you help serve your clients a little better than someone who hasn't done that might? Well, when I know how to read the settlement sheet, I know how to read the preliminary report. But I also know some of the what's behind what why they ask certain questions of clients.  Did you know that even though you're going to be soul and separate on that property that your spouse still has to sign off and it's not signing off their rights, it's only signing off to ensure the file. Big difference if you're talking to in a divorce attorney because just because you sign that document doesn't mean you lost your rights in the state of Nevada for actually settling with your spouse if you get divorced and that that property is only in their name. So that's hugely important if you are a real estate investor or you're you're buying a rental property, even if you're putting it in one name for whatever reasons you might be doing that nefarious or otherwise, the sound you're the spouse still have to sign off on that. Yeah, I am very hard time today. And that's the biggest reason why is for the it's for the title company to ensure the file. So often people don't realize when you just go file a document with the county, let's say you decide that you want to put it into your trust and you didn't talk to an attorney, and you go sign that document, you send it down to the county and you record it. It is considered an uninsured document. That's one of the things that most agents don't understand. And the great news is is that when I see something like that, I'm already ahead of it. I'm already asking my seller, Hey, by the way, do we know who this person is can get ahold of them. We're gonna have to do an affidavit for the title company because we got to ensure this document now. That's one of the things I learned in the Air Force, especially when I was working a staff job at a headquarters in Colorado Springs is that documentation needs to be really tight. You need to have a really good understanding, not just of what it is you're trying to do, but all the little pieces that that everyone along the way who's going to have to touch that document needs to see and it sounds like that's what you've got here is with that back shop experience, you know all the people who have to touch a document before, before it goes into that final file and becomes that public record and not become like the, you know, the ninth hour. Oh, everybody's got a race to get it down because someone just discovered it, right? Because I know how to read those documents and I know how to ask the questions. I'm already on it before we you don't have to ruin somebody's Friday afternoon trying to track that stuff down. So that's awesome. Well, so you have a unique way of helping homeowners make more money on their sale. And that's really what we want to get to today today. Well, I think the biggest one is to talk about is that we actually can help our sellers get anywhere from seven to 11% more on their listing. If they get work done that prior to, for example, just basic things, painting, carpet, the last house we did, we replaced all the toilets. The kind of the kind of work that just about every home needs to have done if you've been living in it for any length of time. Exactly. Or it's been a rental, which has happened often to us. Oh, yeah, for sure. So I'm closing one tomorrow. We actually got our client 10.3% over list. Okay. And so tell us, tell us what the tell us what the what our viewers need to know about how you do that for a seller. Well, first of all, we go in and it's called taking the flip out of real estate. By the way, I got a call from the trademark company or trademark of the government, the USPTO. And we are actually on the road to getting that trademark standing. Congratulations. I needed to give them two more documents and I have to do that on Monday. So it's been tm'd. We've also done a show. Yeah, I want to hear about that. Okay. So part of what we do is the introduction is showing me the property. Now, one of the things that I think is important is as an agent is knowing what's going to sell. What is a buyer looking for that? I know why because I work with buyers too. And what's the biggest complaint I hear from buyers? Oh, I don't want to paint even though it's an inexpensive thing to do. They don't want to deal with it. Right. So I've talked the seller into doing what we call the very basics. We don't do over the top. So we do the painting, we do the carpet. In the next house I've got, we're going to do linoleum in the current house. We did the toilets, fix the cabinetry, just little things that make a huge difference.  So not only do we take the flip out of real estate, we take the insult out of real estate too. Yeah, and that's something I know is really stressful for a homeowner when they're trying to sell. Did you know that 39% of the sellers out there who would choose to sell would rather go get the tooth extracted than deal with repairing their house and preparing it for the market? I did not know that. And so the thing here is that the sellers don't put the money up front for these repairs, correct? No, we handle all of that. We finance it, we find the vendors, we do the whole, we do the whole ball of wax. As my last client Kim said, you took the stress out of my life. And I think that's really the key to this is the the money in your pocket at the end of the process is nice, but money in your pocket plus not having to deal with the stress of those insulting offers, those other house flippers trying to come in and get this for for a song and trying to kind of kind of lean you, lean you to taking their price because the well it means this work and this is done and this is scratched and we did less than $6,000 worth of work to get this seller the 10% over list. Yeah. And the list price that we usually go with I actually went through an appraisal class and we really work to make sure what is out there, what is an appraiser going to see. And I pull all those comps together and then I come up with a price and our price on this particular house was 273.8 because that's what it worked out that an appraiser would see. Right. So that was appraised you got 10% above that. And we did. Right. So quick math in public. So $27,000 for $6,000 that you put in. So that seller walked away with $21,000 more than they would have by not doing the things that were stressing them out. Exactly. And there's the big one, the stress. Yeah. So she was out of state on top of that. So there's that stress is gone. She knows we're closing tomorrow. It's like she's so excited. I'm excited. That's awesome. So you're putting all this in a TV show. You've shot one episode but it's not ready to air and you're not sure where you're going to air yet either. Correct. So we're going to have to have you back. I know. When you have your premiere we're going to have you back on this show. Okay. Even though there will be small potatoes to you by then. But we're going to have you back on this show when your show premieres. But in the meantime tell our audience how they can get a hold of you so that you can help them take the flip out of real estate. We actually came up with a a phone number. It's called 213 flip out. There's a message there how to get a hold of us. But the other one is is forbsurlitygroup.com. You can find me and all of my contact information linked in Facebook the whole even our YouTube channel which is youtube slash forbsurlitygroup. So we've got we're out there so it's really easy to find us. And of course we'll all will have all the information the phone number linked up in our show notes for this as well on my website. So thank you for being here today. This is exciting. Great to have you. We're going to have you back in a little bit for our panel discussion talking talking about education and workforce development here in Las Vegas. I'm Jason Laduke. This is Geeks are Sexy. We'll be right back with Dr. Thomas Kenney.


Alright, so if we're going to get quantitative about studying chemical reactions, we need to introduce a little bit of notation. And in particular, the most important thing to be able to talk about is to be able to quantify how much or how far a reaction has to precede it. And the variable that we use to do that is a variable that we'll call the extent of reaction. And conventionally, we use the variable xc to represent the extent of reaction. So, because my handwriting is relatively bad, I'll point out that's the Greek letter xc. This is sort of the most unfortunate of the Greek letters. Everybody draws it a little bit differently. It's hard to draw in the first place. Everybody pronounces it a little bit differently. You might pronounce it xi or z or xc, but this is the Greek letter that we're stuck with conventionally as the extent of reaction. Because it's difficult to draw and difficult to say, many people just call this Greek letter squiggle. We sort of universally decided that xi is not a good name for this Greek letter. Often we use the name squiggle for this Greek variable. So if you hear me describing the variable squiggle, that's the one I'm talking about. But to illustrate what the extent of reaction means, we'll use an example. What it is is the number of times that a reaction has preceded. So if I use this example of H2 and Br2 reacting to form two molecules of HBr, let me give you some initial conditions. Suppose that initially I have two moles of H2 and three moles of Br2. And I have no HBr initially. When the reaction proceeds, I can tell you how much H2 and Br2 I've reacted and how much HBr I've produced, those values are all coupled to one another by the stoichiometry. Every time I react one molecule of H2, I have to also consume one molecule of Br2 and I'll produce exactly two molecules of HBr. So in terms of the extent of reaction, I might have lost some number of moles of H2. I must have lost the same number of moles of Br2 and I'll have gained exactly twice as many moles of HBr. So that's the purpose we use extent of reaction for. It's just the number of times a reaction has preceded, which is coupled to the amount of reactants that I've lost and the amount of product that I've gained. So after the reaction has preceded to this extent, I've got two minus C moles of H2, three minus C moles of Br2 and a total of two C moles of HBr. So notice that in this table, since I have units of moles for my initial amounts of H2 and Br2, I'm using my extent of reaction also in units of moles. As with any quantity that represents the number of molecules, you can measure the number of molecules either as a literal count of the number of molecules or as a number of moles and just use Apogater's number to convert back and forth between them. The other thing to notice about this is both in this amount of change in the amount of reactants and products, as well as in this final equation, notice here these coefficients negative one, negative one, positive two that appear in front of the extent of reaction. Two things about those coefficients. Number one, they match the stoichiometric coefficients in the reaction. Again, because one mole and one mole turn into two moles, I lose one mole, lose one mole, gain two moles. So those extent of reaction is preceded by these stoichiometric coefficients. Notice also the signs. Reactants are consumed in a reaction. Products are created in a reaction. So when I'm losing with a negative sign, reactants I'm gaining with a positive sign product. So the signs of these changes as well are determined by the stoichiometry of the reaction and which molecules are reactants and which molecules are products. So in order to do chemistry like this but treat it more quantitatively, more mathematically, it turns out there's an easier way to think about this reaction rather than our normal chemical way of viewing a reaction with an arrow converting reactants to products. And that's to think about it a little more algebraically. So it might seem strange at first glance but we can also think of this reaction as saying a molecule of H2 and a molecule of Br2 is equal to two molecules of HBr in the sense that these can be combined and generate these or vice versa. If I, now that I've written this as a mathematical seeming equation rather than a chemical equation, if I manipulate it algebraically, let's say I move this H2 and Br2 over to the other side of the equal sign, then what I'll have is this strange looking equation. Negative H2, negative Br2, and positive two HBr sum together to get zero. What that means when we interpret this equation as a chemical equation is that I can lose an H2 and lose a Br2 at the same time as I gain two HBr's and that's okay. I haven't created or destroyed any atoms in that process. The advantage of writing the chemical reaction in this way is that now I can write this a little more generally. Notice also the stoichiometric coefficients that I pointed out in these expressions are exactly the same over here. I've got negative one copies of an H2 because H2 is reactant and its stoichiometric coefficient is one. Negative one Br2 because it's a reactant and its stoichiometric coefficient is one. Positive two HBr's because it's a product and its stoichiometric coefficient is two. That means I can write any chemical reaction as a sum of stoichiometric coefficients multiplied by the species. Negative one H2's, negative one Br2's, positive two HBr's all added up. Those are the stoichiometric coefficients of the species multiplying by the species themselves. So S sub i here is the name of one of my chemical species. New sub i are the stoichiometric coefficients and remember stoichiometric coefficient isn't just the one or the one or the two, it's one with a negative sign, negative sign for any reactants, positive sign for any products. This is a nice compact way of writing down a chemical reaction in a form that will let us manipulate it more mathematically. If I want to write the equivalent of this statement in this sort of reaction notation, number of moles of H2 after my reaction is the initial amount minus one times the extent of reaction in this case or the initial amount plus the stoichiometric coefficient negative one multiplying the extent of reaction. So in the general case I can say the amount of any reactant at some point at the end of a reaction, during a reaction, the middle of a reaction is however much I had to start with and not plus stoichiometric coefficient times the extent of reaction. If I've done the reaction one mole of times, then the number of each species I have is however much I had initially plus one mole multiplied by the stoichiometric coefficient. Again, losing reactants, gaining products. That's all good. This tells me the change in the number of moles of any component. A very useful form that we will find for that reaction is when the reaction proceeds a little bit more or a little bit less, how much does the number of moles of a particular species change? It's changing when the reaction goes a little more or a little less is the extent of reaction. Every time the reaction goes one time I generate some number of moles of each product and consume some number of moles of each reactant. So whether we think about this as an infinitesimally small change in the number of moles or you can in fact think of this as taking the differential of this expression, the change in number of moles, the initial amount doesn't change, the only thing that's changing is the extent of reaction. So the change in number of moles is equal to stoichiometric coefficient multiplied by Dx, the differentially small change in the extent of reaction. So this is an equation that we'll use again in the future that will help us understand when the reaction shifts a little forward, shifts a little backwards, quantitatively how much am I changing the amount of each species in that reaction? And then being able to use this reaction notation in a mathematical sense will help us understand chemical equilibrium in a quantitative way.