This is Witchspace news for Friday the 16th of December 2022 I'm CMDR Buur In a bumper seasonal edition of Elite Dangerous News this week David Braben and a host of developer guests appear on the end of year livestream special The Elite Dangerous official merch store relaunches There's rare paint jobs, in-game freebies and free arcs Up for grabs in Frontier's festive countdown event The community organises actions on multiple fronts to resist the Thargoid advance As the final three maelstroms arrive and much more If you enjoy our stuff please do hit the thumbs up Don't forget to subscribe and ring that little bell to see all our Elite Dangerous content You can also directly support our work by joining our Patreon Links to that and everything else are below The final three of the mysterious Stargoid unknown interstellar anomalies arrived in the bubble With the Thargsday server tick this week As was anticipated the galaxy crossing interlopers arrived in their targeted systems And once again immediately deployed a maelstrom caustic cloud around themselves Whilst simultaneously flooding neighbouring systems with Thargoid vessels With the last of the maelstroms now deployed We have a much clearer picture of the wars starting point Making planning as a community at least achievable now Across the eight deployed maelstroms there is currently a total of 208 systems That are completely under Thargoid control and devoid of human life 59 systems are currently undergoing invasions as the maelstroms attempt to expand their territory And a further 38 systems are in a state of Thargoid alert Meaning Thargoid scouts and reconnaissance assets are being detected in the system As a result of the community successes in week two of the invasion One system, HIP 23716 has been cleared of Thargoids and is now in a state of recovery And HIP 20485 has had its alert status stood down After players drove away the Thargoids recon efforts there There is no getting away from the monumental task that lies ahead of us however A huge swathe of the bubble is now under Thargoid influence in one form or another Or is sandwiched between or staring directly at a creeping wall of Thargoid systems That stretches roughly 353.55 light years across And is 224.22 light years from top to bottom Frontier have mentioned a couple of times now that this isn't just a blanket invasion and extermination effort however The Thargoids are after something specifically and have a goal they are trying to achieve What that goal is we have yet to determine But it's entirely possible that the topography of their expansion efforts from here As the war progresses may start to lend some clues as to what they're actually after and where we might find it As the community settles in and recovers from the shock of the Maelstrom's initial arrivals There is now a concerted effort across multiple fronts to start putting pressure on the Thargoid advance The bigger obvious candidates like the AXI, Operation Ida and the PDES are identifying targets With scores of independent commanders also rallying behind them But after the creation of at least one dedicated coordination discord that we reported on last week There are now coalitions of players and factions coordinating their own targets that are more personal to their own areas of space Coalitions representing the Empire, Federation, Alliance and Independence Have started posting their own target listings for players' actions And there are now further coalitions of player owned minor factions organising defence of their own borders What you can see on screen now is just a selection of the systems now being targeted by player groups And when you bear in mind all progress was set to zero on these systems just yesterday as I speak these words It's clear there is significant progress being made What's emerging is, I'd imagine, exactly what Frontier wanted to emerge A community wide effort to coordinate coalitions of players and factions to first stall And then begin to push back against an evolving, emergent and dynamic enemy What's happening in Elite Dangerous at the moment is extraordinary We're doing everything we can here to get the target listings out to the wider community But if you'd like to pick up this information direct from the source I've linked below to all the Discord servers handling this effort that we're currently aware of As the end of the year is rapidly approaching we wanted to highlight some of the community events from around the game Happening during the festive season Firstly, in case you haven't been subjected to it already then do check out the charity single Tharg Aid, Flee From Soul Created by commanders LCU No Fall Like One and Takoso And featuring a host of Elite Dangerous Community content creators who were held against their will And forced to sing by the devious duo The song was created to raise money for the Gaming Charity special effect And has so far raised over £2,200 You'll find a link to the video itself and to its Just Giving page linked below If you want to make a donation while your ears are bleeding The player group the East India Company that maintains a supply service all year round for the rare commodities used in the unlocking of engineers Sends word that until the 31st of December they'll be offering their usual services for free Normally they supply the materials they hold in EIC fleet carriers in exchange for Tritium But during their operation unselfish... event? All trades will be offered completely free of charge To avail yourself of the East India Company services you'll find a link to their Discord server in the description below this video And if you're finding all the talk of war and the encroaching aggression of the Thargoids just a little bit too much to handle And peaceful exploration is much more your thing Then here's a timely reminder that there are almost always expeditions leaving the bubble or colonia And heading into the relative piece of the deep black offered throughout the rest of the Elite Dangerous Galaxy To find an expedition that suits your tastes then check out the F-DEV Community Calendar or the Expeditions page on EDSM Both of which you'll find linked below this video As the festive season marches forward Frontier launched its annual Elite Dangerous festive countdown event again this week And with it there are a number of in-game freebies and bonuses as well as some of the rarer ship paint jobs being made available Log into the game every day between now and Christmas and once you're sitting in a cockpit or standing on your space legs You'll receive an increasing amount of free arcs to spend on the Elite Dangerous store As the event continues to count down Chromed and gold paint jobs are periodically being released for sale across a range of vehicles So if you're looking for that extra level of bling then watch out for those And an in-game new seasonal event has launched the Tasks Commanders with delivering festive gifts If you check your in-game Galnet newsfeed then you'll find a story called Cause Toy Emporium Calls for Help Follow the clues in that new story and you can unlock a number of in-game items and rewards You'll need some jump range and 6 free cargo spaces in your ship to complete the task But I won't spoil any more of the event or rewards here If you want to see a full solution and reward list then I've linked to a reddit post below that will give you everything you need And as we were going to press following hints on last night's live stream more on that in a moment Frontier have completely revamped and relaunched their entire line of Elite Dangerous merch that had previously remained largely static for the last 8 years The new line of ED merch contains the new Odyssey Era branding and features graphics and logos from in-game factions, rare commodities and even images and branding and community memes from the Azimuth Saga Salvation Olives for example is a meme that sprang up in the community around the appearance of pro-salvation graffiti in the game featuring a rather unfortunately placed Azimuth logo As always, everything you need you'll find linked in the description below this video This week Frontier hosted the last of their Frameshift live live streams for the year and as you'd perhaps expect this week's was a festive season special Featuring a look back at the year just gone and a raft of special guests Along with the community management team the first guests onto the couch were Hannah and Ben from the Elite Dangerous writing team Hannah and Ben are semi-regulars on the Fdev live stream but if you've not seen them before then the between them they are responsible for just about every written word you may have seen on Galnet news stories or in CG's etc And they are also the creators of the game's many plot arcs including the Azimuth Saga and the current ongoing invasion by the Thargoids During the conversation hosted by CM's Arthur Tolmey and Paul Crowther the quartet again reiterated that what we're seeing in the game at the moment is just the beginning And the Thargoids are invading the bubble for a specific reason over and above the genocide of the human species Saying that their invasion has a purpose and that they have a specific objective that they're looking to achieve And it's us the players that have to figure that objective out They also underlined that this is a war and it's unlike anything we've faced in the game before And that the maelstroms almost specifically what is at the centre of each maelstrom is directing the invasion toward whatever goal the Thargoids have in mind Saying that whilst we can clearly save some systems as was the case last week we won't be able to save them all And we'll need to pick our targets carefully as we learn more about the war and its goals Later on in the stream the CM team was joined by more developers, semi-regulars in the shape of Dav, Derrin, Tom and Robin Who spoke about their highlights from the last year and also played a seasonally themed quiz It was following the dev's appearances that the CM's rolled out a special surprised guest In the form of a pre-recorded interview between CM's Sally Morgan Moore and the original co-creator of Elite and Frontier Developments Former CEO and now president and founder of the company since August David Braben Sally and David went through community and in-game events from the past year and also highlighted many of the community's content creators As well as player organizations like Canon Research and the Fuel Rats whilst also saying they were looking forward to the year ahead And everything that Elite has in store for us The stream rounds off with a review of some of the top stellar screenshots from the last year with a live vote for the community watching on Twitch to choose their favorite And finally at the very end of the stream there was a very special festive gift presented to the principal community manager for Elite Dangerous Arthur Tolmey I won't spoil what the gift was, you'll find the live stream linked below if you want to see and hear his reaction to it yourself But suffice to say it was a complete surprise to him and really is something very special indeed Overall a great stream from the team, it's always great to see Elite's developer regulars on FDev's live streams And in particular the visit from David Braben was a huge crowd pleaser and a fantastic way to top off the year and roll us into the year ahead Are you hauling vital supplies to the Thargoid front line? Are you heading into the deep black on an expedition? Or will you be buying a pair of Elite Dangerous socks for Christmas? Let us know in the comments below That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos Until then, 07 Commanders, follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack We very much look forward to seeing you next time


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The Cube at EMC World 2014 is brought to you by EMC. Redefine VCE. Innovating the world's first converged infrastructure solution for private cloud computing. Brocade. Say goodbye to the status quo and hello to Brocade. Welcome back everybody, we're live here at EMC World 2014. It's a big event, over 12,000 people here. We haven't had the official number yet, but I'm here with Steve Keniston. This is the data protection and availability, drill down spotlight that we do each year. We go deep at EMC World, bring on technologists like Steven Manley and practitioners really to find out what's happening at the front-lining. Greg Würzberger is here. He's a systems engineer at Sub-Zero. Greg, welcome to the Cube. Thank you for having me. Great to see you. Sub-Zero, those cool appliances that everybody wants. But tell us a little bit about Sub-Zero, what your role is there. Sub-Zero is obviously a manufacturer of very, very high-end both cooking and refrigeration appliances. Been around since the 1940s, and we actually brought in the wolf appliance and the cooking line in the year 2000. My role there is a systems engineer, so I'm basically in charge of everything involving servers, storage, backup, data protection. Been there for 14 years now, so I've got my feet pretty wet in that area. So how would you describe the evolution of Sub-Zero's IT environment in the past 14 years? It's actually pretty large.  We now have a staff of over 40. I think we're at about 45 now. That includes not only the systems and network people, but also our application developments and our system I, or I'm sorry, our I-V-I-M, I-V-M-I area. So what are the big systems or applications that you're running? Well, we run, we're a Microsoft shop, so we run a lot of SQL, we run a lot of Microsoft Exchange, that kind of stuff. We do, our ERP system is a system I, or an I-V-M-I, so we're running that in 4XA to do our ERP and our item inventory. Okay, so talk a little bit about how your data protection environment has evolved over the past, probably not 14 years, we don't have to go back that far, but let's say in the past five to seven years. Yeah, about five years ago we were running just a semantic net backup environment running on an SL500 tape library, 150 tape capacity. Extremely effective at the time. However, with the increase in storage and the increase in things that we had added to the systems over the years, it suddenly went from adequate to completely inadequate in a matter of a few years probably. So we ended up getting into a situation where our backup system was not able to handle what our current load was as far as data protection and we had to come up with a solution to find a way to fix it. Why was it inadequate? Was it, you're not hitting backup windows or just not allowable? Or basically you would say it was semantic, so writing all that to tape. Right, it was a little bit of everything actually. The environment had expanded so rapidly. I think we went from somewhere in the vicinity of two to five terabytes of space to 20 terabytes of space in a matter of two years. So a lot of data just came flying in. Not to mention we had implemented virtualization with VMware during that time. So we went from having, I'd say, 20 to 30 physical servers up to close to 100 virtual servers in a matter of years. So once again, we just completely ran out of space. The other problem was that we were unable to anticipate what we were gonna have from a file system standpoint. So that also increased in space. The SIFS backup that we were trying to do, it just couldn't handle it. We had a situation where if I was lucky enough to have a 72-hour window, I might get a full backup. So it was just, it made me never get a 72-hour backup. No, it was, yeah, maybe Memorial Day got lucky. So if I asked you what was keeping you up at night, it would be doing backups. Yeah, it was literally. Yeah, it was, did I get one last night or not? The other thing kept me up at night is knowing that the next morning I was going to be putting in anywhere between 20 and 40 tapes, just to handle maybe a day or two's worth of backups and having to rip out the other ones, put new ones in. It was using up, I think at the time we saw, it was using up eight to 10 hours of my week. Oh my gosh. And you were, now, talk about virtualization at the time. What was the virtualization strategy and how fast were you virtualizing? We actually, we implemented our virtualization, I believe, in 2008. And it went from one or two systems to we were at 75% virtualized in a year and a half. We actually, the ROI on our virtualization project, we hit it in less than three months. So it was a huge flip.  So did you transform your backup coincident with that sort of virtualization ascendancy? No, we ended up just kind of using what we had for a while. We didn't finally get around to implementing the Avamar system into 2012, but that was my, I believe, third attempt to get that system brought in-house. That must have really, I mean, that level, that rapid pace of virtualization must have put even more stress on your backup. It did, yeah, absolutely it did. Because now, from our point of view, we didn't really have a virtual backup strategy. It was more of a physical turned virtual. We had, we treated them as if they were physical. Without as much physical. Exactly, exactly, so just couldn't do it. Okay, so then you bring in Avamar. What was that like? Talk about that whole process. We brought in Avamar in March of 2012 and it was probably one of the most successful implementations that we've done. Probably right up with VMware. The system was brought in-house in February. It was brought up on March and by the end of March we were in full production, full backups and I was already starting to turn down our net backup solution. You were at Avamar at the time, right? Yeah, yeah, so I have a question.  You said Avamar actually replaced data domain, some data domain that you had in there. No, no, I'm sorry, the Avamar came first, the data domain was brought in later. Data domain was brought in later? Yeah, we brought in the data domain mainly as a virtual tape library substitution because we were just doing, again, tapes through our IBMI. So once I brought in Avamar and removed tapes from that environment, my poor system engineer that handled all the IBMI stuff, all of a sudden he's the one that's dealing with tapes left and right and he started to get a little cranky so we did find out the data domain would do the VTLs and we're able to bring that in and eliminate tapes from that as well. So now you have a hybrid environment? Yes. Yeah, we use the Avamar as our main backup. However, our virtual tape libraries as well as a number of our SQL backups go on to the data domain. And then we also have matching grids in our main facility is in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. We also have a facility in Goodyear, Arizona and we have matching grids on both sides replicating back and forth. So post bringing in Avamar, talk of give us the before and after. I mean, your RTO was a mess. Right. Your RTO was a point toss. Pretty much not existed. So what kind of business results did you see? Well, within, the biggest one that we can actually show is that our NDP based backup or SIFS based backup was the one that would never finish. We just couldn't do it. I went from not being able to finish that at all to obviously beyond the first backup which takes a while. Once that came through, I now see those things back up in a matter of an hour, maybe two hours on a bad day. So I'm getting full backups and some of the upgrades that the Avamar's done with the newer versions of the OS and that and the ability to proxy within the virtual environment. I'm now seeing my backup window shrink even further. We got it down to under 12 hours. We then shrunk it to eight and I'm down below six. So that's an incredible change. And I heard you guys talking about data. Then subsequently you brought in data domain? Yeah, we brought in the data domain a little bit later. Mainly because the focus of the data domain was for that virtual table library ability. Yeah, okay. And then the SQL was a nice little add-on. Okay, so that's a different infrastructure. Are you bringing those together? Are you trying to bring them together? Are you trying to push EMC to bring them together? Bits and pieces we are. The one thing that we did push over to the data domain is our exchange backups. So we were trying to do those on the Avamar and it just, it worked fine, but we were able to actually decrease the backup window by another hour by moving those backups over to the data domain through the DDBoost. So, but for the most part, yeah, the data domain and the Avamar kind of do their own separate realms, but it's worked very well. What would you like to see, so as Dave points out, right, and I think we've seen this through a number of different folks coming up here and talking to us about their infrastructure and how it's transformed and how they've had different products to solve different problems. Anything you'd like to see from EMC to be able to either pull these together or make life simple? I mean, what's missing from that overall picture that will make your life even better? Well, I mean, some of the things I can think of is that you're seeing some of the really cool additional abilities added to the data domain that aren't necessarily added onto the Avamar side. I'd like to see some of that come along. I know that one of the neat things they're working with the data domain is the ability to actually bring up a virtual backup, bring it up online, and be motioned it over, or be storage motioned it over live. Just stuff like that, just being able to meld those two together, it would be really cool if it actually became a single environment with a single pane of glass to look at both. Right now, they've kind of got there, you've got the single dashboard now with an Avamar, that's a much, it's vast improvement, but nice to see that get to mesh a little bit better. So what would be the one thing you would give advice to your fellow co-hosts, your fellow practitioners about if you're going to make this type of a transformation? Hey, heads up, you should probably pay attention to this. I guess the best advice I could give them is that you got to know it's going to be a little bit slow at the beginning.  If you try to implement replication, the one unfortunate side effect of our replication is that we weren't able to see the device prior, so we're sending across the country, so that took a little while. That took a long while, but it did actually eventually start working, so it's just stuff like that, just know that it's not going to be immediate, but you're going to see some immediate results that you wouldn't be able to do with your current system. Once that initial seeding is over, you're kind of on your way. Right, right, and now the best part I have is you talked about not being able to sleep at night, I sleep like a baby now. Every morning I get in and I look and everything's gone through. If there wasn't a minor problem, it's usually, I have to say it's usually user end, they shut down a system when they weren't supposed to, or anything like that, but for the most part I get solid backups every night. All right, we got to run, but I'll give you the last word, EMC world for you. You know, what's your takeaway? This is my first one ever, so it's actually kind of cool to be here. It's neat to actually see what all you guys are doing, some of the new technologies that haven't even been released yet that they're seeing, especially in the data protection and the storage migration realms, some really cool stuff, and I'm looking forward to seeing it in the real world. Excellent, Craig, well thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, great to see you, and we'll hopefully see you next year at EMC world, or VM world, or wherever theCUBE is next. All right, keep it right there everybody, we'll be back with our next guest right after this. This is theCUBE, we're live from EMC world 2014.


I'll try to explain the philosophy behind what we're doing. We don't think it's necessary to do this to animals. If it was, I wouldn't be having this conversation with people. We think it's completely unnecessary.  I'm trying to find the reason why people eat me, and it's usually a few. It's tradition, cultural, taste, convenience, not survival. It's about veganism, where we don't use and exploit animals for their bodies. Is that the truth? Have a guess. Pig? That's a pig. It's free, not to hurt animals.  It means we don't use animals at all. We don't put their flesh in our bodies. It's healthier, bravo. Bodies are temple, bravo. Are you guys eating animals at Christmas? Not you? Are you a vegan? No. Maybe I'll try a vegan there over here. You can do veganero? Yes, that's it. Or, this is a challenge 22. You know, there's 500,000 vegans in the UK. Wow. 500,000, huge. Merry Christmas and compassionate Christmas. Is that us, me?  They're animals, yeah, not me. They get turned into meat, but they're animals, sentient beings. You think it's f***ed up what we do to animals? Yeah, of course. Yeah. You think they deserve it or? Do you notice the saying, the meek will inherit the earth at one point? What's the meek? What's the meek? Poor people, the meek will inherit the earth. Inherit the earth.  I've got it all in here. They will inherit the earth one day because of the wrong that's being done to them. Wow. And that's interesting because one of these documentaries is called Cowspiracy and it talks about how animal agriculture is destroying the earth. So maybe they will destroy the earth to a point where only animals will live here because humans will be wiped out. You thought about not eating animals or stuff that comes out of them? Are you a vegan? I know. Unfortunately. Oh yeah, because that's a dairy farm. It's pretty horrible. We're pretty aware of it. Are you aware of it? I've tried to become a vegetarian. You've tried to become a vegetarian? Yeah. Okay. The transition was really hard on you, so maybe I'll try again. Do you know the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? Yes, a vegan, yes. What's the difference, do you know? Vegan milk, eggs as well, anything that's viable about it. We're vegans, you know what vegan is? Yeah, yeah, vegan. We don't use animals at all. Entertainment, animal testing, food, milk, eggs. The word meek will inherit the earth. If it's happening to the animals, if you look around all the people around you, they've got a scalpel sticking out of their head.  I didn't even know that the human product existed you. There's people making money out of people, do you know that? Yes, we're exploiting each other, we're exploiting the animals. It's happening back to us, yeah? So it's like a circle of karma, yeah? Do you believe in karma? Yeah, it's, yeah. Yeah?  We're eating these animals that have suffered, and people are dying of preventable illness in hospital. They've got heart disease, they're getting cancer. So we are suffering along with the animals, using animals for entertainment, shoes and circuses, yeah, I'm against that. Testing, are you against all of that? I'm against, yeah, for animal cruelty, like cruelty-free makeups. Oh wow. But it's just the food. Yeah, the food, yeah. Let me give you a little statistic. About 98% of all the animal abuse and cruelty happens because we eat them or something that comes out of it. Yeah, I'm a worker. So do you think you can still advocate against animal cruelty while consuming all these products that can- Uh, well, not really. Could you be an animal lover while you're consuming the flesh of an animal that didn't want to die? I think you can, but is this that, if you don't believe- You can think you can, but do you think your actions reflect that? Or do you- Um, it depends actually on what you eat as well. But, what's the ratio? Why is that, why is it necessary for healthy, me? Yeah. Okay, you don't think you can be healthy without me? That's coming out of the- You can't, but once in a while it's all right, I don't know. You can't be healthy without me? Yeah, you can't, like- Okay. I think it becomes even more wrong the more innocent the individual. Animals are the most innocent. They can't speak for themselves? Exactly. Okay. They can't defend themselves. And human beings are in a position of power and we're exploiting that power. Yeah. You think- Yeah. You think you can eat animals and still be consistent with your view on loving them? Yes, I actually, yeah. Because I think that they have emotions, they have personalities and all that. Yeah. But I think that because me, myself, I've been Muslim- I'm Muslim? Yeah. So we do eat meat. You should say in the Quran that you have to eat animals, does it? Yes. I'm not really eating animals. So I'm saying, do you think you can love animals while you're paying for them to go into the slaughterhouse? No. Yeah, that's what I wanted to- That's it. Ah, she was Muslim? Yeah. Are you vegan? No, I'm a Christian.  Yeah, no. Yeah. No, they might be a loophole that you can. That's true. But back then when it was written, it was a survival situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But not now. Not now. I agree, but I totally agree.  Have you thought about one?  Oh, this is just a card. It's got ethics, environment, health. And are you a pretty strong Christian? Yeah, I'm not. But you believe in God, yeah? The creator? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Of course. Yeah, yeah. Um, and do you think God would be happy with this? Yeah, definitely. He would be happy? God would be happy with this? Yes. No, of course not. Oh, yeah, that's- Yeah, of course not. It's a soul at the end. These animals are innocent beings. Yeah, we're animals. Yeah. So we're part of the creatures on this planet. So do you think it's a sin to pay for this to happen to animals when we don't need to? Do you think it would be a sin? Yeah, it is a sin. To take the life of an animal that doesn't want to die? For an unnecessary reason. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying I am aware of it.  Yes. Okay, and I think it's written about 192 times in the Qur'an that God is compassionate and merciful. Yes, yes, I am aware of it. And I did have a discussion with my friend and we think that to be a vast Muslim nowadays we have to actually not eat animals. So- Do you know what heart disease is? Yeah. Oh, we have a heart attack? Okay, cholesterol, okay, is what builds up in your arteries over time? It kills people. Okay, cholesterol is only found in animals. Okay, so it's healthier to not eat animals? Yeah. What about creatine? What about creatine? Creatine? Yeah, omega. Your body produces creatine and omega-3s and 6s can be found in nuts and seeds and avocados and all the amino acids you need are found in plants because all the nutrients that the animals get come from where? They eat the plants, okay?  Yeah. We're filtering our nutrients through another animal so we're getting the second-hand nutrients from these animals when we can just go straight to the plants. I just want the animals to be left alone, eh, bro? They've done nothing wrong to us, you know what I mean? Yeah. If you think about adopting a plant-based sort of lifestyle, every time you pay for a glass of milk, every time you pay for a burger, animals, innocent animals, are being put into a slaughterhouse on your behalf so the power is in the hands of the consumer and that's all we're asking people to do.  They're good, they're bad, some of them. And plants are good, mate, you know? Smoke plants, eat plants. There's an issue. Yeah. Trust me, yeah. I am aware of it. This is the transition that I throw. What if I help you with it? Now, I can give you a really good website that will help you and it's like maybe you can do it for a New Year's resolution, right? Okay. But this is called and you'll like it? I will see it, I will see it. Challenge, oh, have you already heard? Oh, this is just challenge 22. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So what do you replace it with, though? Oh, let me show you. This is called challenge 22. Capital J, capital V. You can replace it with all the plant-based alternatives in Tesco's and Sainsbury's. You've got vegan milks, almond milk, rice milk, soy milk. Okay, we've got vegan cheeses. All the rice beans, potatoes, corn, pasta, the cheapest foods on earth are already vegan. Any animal product you consume, animals will be murdered for, all of them. Any eggs, dairy, they suffer. They have their children taken from them. God doesn't want this. I agree. Anyway, thank you. So we're changing the world, man. Slowly, slowly, we're trying our best. We just want innocent beings, vulnerable, to be defended. They're like they should be, you know? When you complete it, you're like, that was too hard. My hair fell out.  Or you can say, wow, that was really easy. I like the food. I feel better than I'm morally consistent. I'm not paying for animals to be taught. If you are against animal cruelty, the only logical decision is to be vegan. There's no other way to be, there's no other way to oppose animal cruelty. If you're not vegan, you still participate in it. So, yeah. That's why I think so. I don't know if you're allergic. You're allergic. Trust me. You're allergic. No, no you are. You're there, you're there here, but just, your actions don't reflect it. Actions do. And actions mean more than what you think. You know? Because in the animals' eyes, they're still going to the slaughterhouse because you're paying for them too. So, yeah. I do. I do. And it's empowering. It's really empowering to say, I'm not going to participate in that. I choose not to, you know? People are still going to do what they're going to do. Animals are probably still going to go to the slaughterhouse, but not because you paid for them too. I do, yeah. Thank you so much. No worries. Thanks for talking to me. Peace. We're just showing people where their food comes from so they can make better choices, okay? Now, if we stop feeding that grain to animals and this animal agriculture slowly went under, we'd have a lot more resources to spread out to the world, yeah? We could actually eliminate this world's derivation tomorrow in 24 hours if we wanted to. That is impossible. No, it's not impossible at all. Tomorrow in 24 hours we could eliminate, we couldn't even, we couldn't do anything in 24 hours worldwide. We could, we could, there's plenty of food. But you couldn't even choose a vegan burger over a beef burger.   No, not for four years, yeah. Yeah. Before that you didn't. Before then, like bacon, eggs, cheese, big steak. So you were as bad as everyone. Yep, exactly. Exactly, that's what I say to people. I'm not trying to be superior or anything, but I just found out. So I'm just trying to let people know and hopefully they go, well, wow, that's thanks for letting me know that information. I can do something with it. But now I just, I used to eat animals more than anyone else probably, you know? So I understood, I'm glad I found out because I was on my way to a heart attack. So you're not attached to it? Like I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but I just, I, You could easily live without it.  Well, it's just going for food. Yeah, but okay, let's just say we don't need to eat animals to survive because there's obviously 2018 as alternatives now.  So you're almost there and you sound like a very conscious individual and you take things, you know, you think about things logically and you believe in karma and things like that. I do, it's not particularly easy to eat. It's actually easier not to, but that's another story. Yes, lucky to. Very Christmas. Brett, there it is. Cheers, brother. Do you think you can still be healthy while eating the suffered flesh of an animal that didn't want to die in your stomach, in your body, in your temple? That's just from a health perspective. We talked more about, you know, from the animal's perspective, the animal's perspective. Yeah. We think it's unnecessary in 2017, nearly 2018 now. Still got slaughterhouses. That's a dead body of an animal who didn't want to die, hey. I'll leave you with that, brother.


The Rotary Club of St. Lucia collaborates with the Seeds International Program to aid those in need. Hermadi Mark has that story. The Rotary Club of St. Lucia has collaborated with the Seeds International Program. The program aims to alleviate hunger by providing vegetable seeds to persons most in need around the world and especially in small island developing states. The Rotary Club made an application to Seeds International and was successful in receiving 1,500 packets of vegetable seeds. The president of the St. Lucia Rotary Club, Lehthan Khan, says the strategy of the St. Lucia Rotary Club this year is to collaborate with organizations locally and internationally to continue their charitable work in St. Lucia. At a time like this, when the world is facing a number of different crises, we have a health crisis, we have climate change, we have the possibility of military and economic conflicts and political conflicts that could seriously disrupt the food chain supply. And this is why Seeds International is pushing this program to help individuals in smaller territories at St. Lucia to find a way to produce their own food. So it's like a first step towards self-sufficiency at the individual domestic level. And so Rotary is very happy and delighted to partner with such a prestigious organization who is seeking to do good in the world. At a small presentation ceremony, the seeds were distributed to organizations with existing farming programs to grow and produce with the intention of distributing the grown produce to persons in need. The Uptan Girls Garden Center was a recipient. Deputy Director Olympia Vitalis accepted the seed donation on behalf of the center. At Uptan Gardens, we do have an agricultural program that have been operating for the past 41 years. And so this contribution is going to go very well with what we do. We provide food for our girls. We cater to girls between the ages of 12 to 18, and we encourage them to be able to develop that level of subsistency living that we speak of. So this initiative is really going to go a long way in helping them provide for themselves at the center, as well as their families. So again, I want to thank you for having us receive this gift. As they say, caring and sharing, so we appreciate your care. Wang Sonson, Director of the Boys Training Center, BTC, receiving the donation on behalf of the center says the BTC currently has a hydroponics and aquaponics agricultural program. During the last year, when COVID really came onto the island on the lockdown, we saw that a number of our boys, apart from these programs, they too started their own farms. So a number of them today is harvesting day for some of them. Some of them have Chinese cabbage and whatnot. So this will go a long way. And I must say that we have all come to realize how important food is to us as a nation, and it is good that we can help the young people to continue to live that legacy moving forward. So once again, I thank you and your seeds will go a long way towards our programs at the Boys Training Center. The other recipients include the Sarfalos Community College, National Skills Development Center, Cassie's Comprehensive Secondary School, St. Mary's College, and the Rotary Club of Grosly. The organizations are expected to prepare a summary report on the successes and challenges during the planting process, as well as include photos of crops to be sent to the seeds international program for accountability purposes. From the Government Information Service, I'm Hermitie Mark reporting.


Hi all! A term called Heronry is in news frequently nowadays. Here I am talking about the Panamaram Heronry which is located in the Malabar regions of Kerala. See recently the Kerala Government has also devised a plan to rejuvenate this Heronry. So what does this term Heronry mean? That is what we are going to decode in this video. Just stay tuned. See Heronry typically means a place in which Herons breed. Here Herons are nothing but a group of water fowls. Now that water fowls is a term which comprises of all the birds which predominantly live near water. They have webbed feeds and are generally better swimmers with waterproof wings. Now let us move on to the location of this place. See the Panamaram Heronry is one of the less known Heronry present in Kerala. It is located near the Panamaram town. This town lies 650 meters above the sea level. It is located in the district of Vayanad in the northeast part of Kerala. Remember it is a small natural islet that covers approximately one acre formed by the bifurcating flow of Panamaram river. Here note that Panamaram river is a tributary of Khabini which subsequently flows into Karnataka to join Kaveri at Mysore. Also remember vegetation of the Heronry is mandated by bamboos and rest of the sandy ground is covered with grass, weeds and bushes. This area usually receives rainfall both from southwest and northeast monsoons and the Heronry supports a huge water fowl population. Here note that if the Heronry is declared as conservation reserve, then it will be able to receive some of money for its conservation from both central and state governments. So to know more about terms like Heronry, please do subscribe to Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel. Now thank you for listening.


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