I recall that on Tuesday, August the 29th, 2017, I was in a new state to commission the Boas Cement, the Obu plant, in Opella. At that time, the chairman of Boas disclosed that the Sokoto factory would be ready in 2018, and he's gratifying it indeed that it is done and ready just as planned and even ahead of schedule. This commissioning is an important milestone, not only for the Boas Group, but also for the cement industry and the Nigerian economy. This plant, together with others in the country, will consolidate Nigeria's self-sufficiency in cement production and our status as a net exporter of the product. The significance of this cannot be over-executed, as we explore and implement strategies to diversify the country's earnings away from oil and gas exploitation. The investments of Boas totaling almost US dollars in terms of US dollars, about 2 billion in their dope land, and 350 million in Sokoto is a clear demonstration to the world that Nigeria has vast capacities and potential for profitable projects. After so many years of inadequate attention to national infrastructural development, the next few years will be defining for infrastructure development in Nigeria. The National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan estimates that an investment of 3 trillion US dollars is needed to bridge the infrastructure gap and increase our infrastructure assets from the current level of about 35% of GDP to at least 70% by 2050. To be where we ought to be in infrastructure development, investments in construction materials in particular is crucial. Cement is of course literally the building block for much of the infrastructure that we need in Nigeria today, from housing to roads to bridges to dams etc. Currently Nigeria produces over 40 million metric tons of cement. Annually, more cement than any other country in Africa, indeed when put together, several countries in Africa put together will still produce more cement. Nigeria's huge market size, a high urbanization rate of 3.5%, and even now, local per capita cement consumption of about 125 kg and an estimated housing deficit of 17 million. These are key drivers of the growth of the Niger cement industry. In the medium term, we have plenty of capacity to consume cement locally. As mentioned earlier, two issues I believe will require attention. The first is the price of cement. It surely can be cheaper. I know the standard arguments, power, transportation plus etc. But it is still a very related business. And I know that it is possible that between Samard and his dear brother Aliko and others, they can bring down the price of cement. The second is concrete roads. The second issue is concrete roads. We can change the narrative on road construction dramatically if we think through using concrete for road building in Nigeria. Already, a few projects have demonstrated the viability. In 2016, the government commissioned the 26-kilometer Hitori Blashe concrete road in Ohio State, which is currently the longest concrete road in Nigeria. The Federal Executive Council also approved the construction of the 42.5-kilometer Obajanga Kapa Road with cement. The Obajanga Road, when completed, will be the longest concrete road in Nigeria. Similarly, the 2-kilometer Apapa Wharf Road, which should be completed this year, is also being rehabilitated using concrete to withstand the weight of the heavy trucks that constantly move goods back and forth from the ports with the Hitori Blashe. With our current capacity in cement production and the effective control of producers over the price, it is possible as a matter of national interest to begin a programme of building our roads with concrete. The possibility of building cheaper and better roads is one which I would like to throw to all of our cement producers. You can revolutionise road construction in Nigeria. You can do something for this country by simply deciding that we can build our roads with concrete and I'm sure that we can do so cheaper than current methods of building our roads. I have no doubt that this newly completed factory will further boost employment generation and human capital development in Nigeria, particularly here in Sokoto states, where the poor group has consistently maintained its position. And it is indeed today the second largest employer of labour after the state government. As I'm informed, the plan is projected to generate 2,000 direct and over 10,000 indirect jobs. Without a doubt, this is significant and when we add to that all of the corporate social responsibility work that poor have been doing, I think that this is commendable indeed and it is exemplary and a good example for all of the companies that operate within our borders in Nigeria. Without a doubt it is a private sector, not government, that must lead the way in jobs and opportunity creation in Nigeria. The potential is so obvious. President Buhari from day one of this administration said that our primary role as government is to provide a business friendly environment. Importantly also that industrial and commercial policy is the joint responsibility of government and the stakeholder private sector. This is why he instituted our quarterly business forum where we meet with major stakeholders in the business and commercial community. Every quarter our industrial and competitiveness council, Pebeck also, which is the presidential enabling business environment council, and the MSME clinics, which is a regular interaction with the private sector where we take all of our regulators around the country. One the country would be here in Sokoto. Sokoto was the second state that visited with all of our regulators to ensure that they are able to interact directly with the private sector. For us as federal government, working with the private sector is therefore not just a preference, it is the only way to go. And I want to just repeat that it is the commitment of Mr. President that we must as a government offer all of what is required to ensure that the private sector is able to do its business in the friendliest possible environment. And that both local and international businesses are able to thrive in Nigeria. And that they will be able to provide the opportunities they are providing in comfort and peace. The cement factory exemplifies the expectation of the government in the economic growth and recovery plans launched by the president in 2017. The president was explicit in that Nigeria's economic growth must be private sector led and driven. This is a Nigerian story that we are proud to propagate. The story to buy and sell Nigeria. We will produce here and we will produce what we eat, we will produce what we consume, we will sell and we will export. Let me, as I close, commend my dear brothers Amak and his chief for this bold, audacious and patriotic investment. As I was saying to Matawa earlier, there are easier and safer ways of making money than building a plant of this massive size. And it takes an incredible level of commitment and courage to do a project on this scale. And so I commend you for this great investment and for the courage that you have shown in doing this. Let me also congratulate these experts in the government for creating the enabling environment for a major investment such as this. Our vision as a federal government is to ensure that every state in Nigeria can compete with any African country. And I think that we are already demonstrating that in so-called space that we can compete with any country. In a few minutes, we will be commissioning the plant and I very strongly believe that our country is so much better by what the world has done in so-called space and by what they have done across the country. Congratulations again, brothers.


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On today's Visual Studio Toolbox, Aaron and Katie are going to show us the great resources available through Visual Studio Subscriptions. Hi, welcome to Visual Studio Toolbox. I'm your host, Robert Green, and joining me today are Aaron Mast and Katie Bushland. Hey, guys. Hey, thanks for having us. Welcome to the show. You guys are program managers in Visual Studio Land, and you're joining us today to talk about Visual Studio Subscriptions, which I think are an under-appreciated and under-utilized resource. As we're going to see, a lot of people watching probably have one, and there's great resources in there, but if people don't know that they have one and what's in there, then they can't really make use of it. So we're going to clear up a lot of confusion and point people to some really nice resources that they probably already have access to. Sound good? Sounds great. All right. So, Katie, why don't you kick it off and tell us what is a Visual Studio Subscription? Awesome. Yeah, so Visual Studio Subscriptions a couple years ago was actually renamed. It was MSDN Subscription, and so a lot of you may be sitting there saying, I don't have one of these Visual Studio Subscription things, but I do have an MSDN Subscription. So it actually is the same thing. You would have just been rolled over in your subscriptions program when the rebranding happened, and it basically gives you access to almost anything that Microsoft has released in the past for software downloads depending on your subscription level.  You have access to Azure through your subscription. So depending on what subscription you have, you can get up $150 in a monthly credit towards Azure. We have Pluralsight training, but it really is a huge collection of different pieces of software and training material that you get with your subscription. Okay, so if I had an MSDN Subscription, it's basically renamed and the things in it shift around from time to time. So that would be pretty obvious. How do I know, let's say I get Visual Studio from my employer, I may or may not have a subscription. How do I know? Yeah, the easiest way to check is just go to my.visualstudio.com. And if you have a subscription once you log in, you'll either be showing all of the benefits and everything that comes along with your subscription as long as what level you get as well. And if you don't, you'll be given a little message saying you don't have one and prompted to either register one that you previously purchased or purchase one or sign up for one. Okay. Yeah. Cool. So do you want to show us what it looks like? Yeah, for sure. All right, so once you come into the portal, you'll see at the top here what subscription you're actually signed in with. You'll see I'm with a Visual Studio Enterprise with GitHub. We have a featured benefit here and we're always changing what we're actually featuring and what benefits are offered. So it is good habit to come in here and check frequently to see what's changed, what's been added. We do put a little new tag on the new ones so that you will see easily what's been added since the last time you were in. You can toggle here between tools, your professional development. And the other cool thing is we have some support ones here too. So if you're stuck and you're coding something and you really need some one-on-one help, we have four, up to four technical support instance where you can actually get that hands-on support with someone who is hopefully an expert and can help you get unblocked there. So that's a really cool one to check out. For professional development, you know when you're at home right now, we're all stuck at home quarantined, everyone's trying to learn new skills. We have Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, which are really great ones, as well as Data Camp. And these ones, six months, six months, three months, I wouldn't recommend activating them all on the same day, kind of spread them out so you can extend your learning. Hopefully we're not in quarantine for the next year, but it's a good thing to stretch out. And who's my admin if I contact my admin? So if you contact your admin here, it opens up a web form and you can type a message to your admin. So if you have a question, you have a professional and you wanna get enterprise, for example, or someone in your company is trying to figure out how the heck they find a subscription, they can click that button and send a web form to their admin. Okay, and so the subscription dropdown shows me which one I have, but it also shows me what other ones there might be. Yeah, exactly. So most people will probably only have one. You may have two if you've signed up for DevEssentials as well. And DevEssentials is a three program, so I would recommend you take advantage of that one if you have Visual Studio standalone and you don't have a subscription yet.  So if you have standalone, you can then upgrade to a subscription? You can join the DevEssentials program. Right. Which it's not a full subscription, like the Visual Studio professional subscription, but it does come with one month Pluralsight, two months of data camp, one month of LinkedIn, as well as one of the other really cool things is the, sorry, the Azure $200 credit as well. So it's not a monthly credit like the paid ones, but it does give you enough to get your feet wet and start playing around in Azure. Got it. Yeah, and then we have the download section here. So you can come into here and like I said, you can search for Windows DOS if you want. Depending on your subscription level, you will see different software that is available for download. But we actually have a list right here where you can download and Excel and actually go through and look for a specific product if you're not seeing it to see if it does come with your subscription level or not. Got it. It's a really good way to look at the differentiation between subscription levels for downloads. The best way to look at differentiation between subscription levels for benefits is actually on visualstudio.com, which I think is worth pointing out. There's a good tool on there that will show you the difference between, okay, it looks like she's bringing it up right here. Okay. Yeah, so visualstudio.microsoft.com slash vs slash benefits. You can toggle the dropdown here between subscription levels to see what exactly comes with each level. I see. And then toggle between the different categories here. Very cool. So it's a great way if you're trying to decide which one would work best for you. So we've talked about how I might already have a subscription through my employer. What are some of the other ways I can get a subscription? So the best way to see what your options are at any given time is to go to visualstudio.com to learn more. This is one of the pages you'll find there on visualstudio.com that shows some of the different options. We're looking at professional right now. This first column where it says monthly subscription, this is where you can license the IDE from month to month. If you click on my professional there, it'll take you to Azure and you'll go through an Azure flow to essentially rent the IDE from month to month and also some Azure DevOps access. Then there's the standard subscription that comes with much more of the benefits that Katie was showing on the portal earlier. And you can basically, if you buy a professional there, you'll be sent to the Microsoft store to purchase a license through their storefronts. Those are the two best ways if you're a consumer that's interested in getting a subscription, you can go and grab those. If you're at a company that assigns out subscriptions, then you can work with your administrator through the button that we talked about earlier or ask around, find people that have a subscription in your company, learn more. What we see in our data is that there are a lot of customers that have subscriptions that aren't being assigned out. So it's very likely that you may be in a situation where there's a subscription that's available, just they just need to know that you're interested. And so it's worth looking into it. Cool. One of the other important things I'll note, because I have heard a little bit of customer confusion over this, is just clarifying that visual studio professional subscription comes with the professional version of the IDE. So when you're looking at subscriptions to get, it's also important to look at the IDE and compare the features to make sure that you're getting the features in the IDE that you're looking for, be it professional or enterprise. Right. Okay. So if people have general questions about what's in the subscriptions or any questions about this, where can they, is there a, someone they can ask at Microsoft, is there a help page or a help alias or anything? Yeah, visualstudio.microsoft.com has a ton of information on it about subscriptions. So that's probably the best place to start. There's all sorts of comparisons there that you can use, be it comparisons for the IDE itself or the subscription levels or the pricing. If you're still stuck after that, you can find the support information on there and call our support team for help as well. Okay, cool. And then of course, Erin mentioned that, your company may have some available. For that one, our support team, of course, can't make your admin assign you a subscription. But if you know someone in your company that has it, ask them to use that contact at my admin button that we saw earlier and bug the admin on your behalf. That's probably the easiest way. That's probably a good place to start, right? In your company, find that if you have a subscription and then turn it on. All right, so one more thing. We have a newsletter that goes out generally on about a monthly cadence that lets you know of any new benefits have been added, anything cool that we wanna share with you. So if you're already a subscriber, make sure to go to your profile and opt in to get that newsletter if you're not already. Cool. So where can people go to learn more about this? There's a lot of cool stuff here that we've seen. Is there a central place people can go? Yep, you can check out aka.ms slash vs.substoolbox for more information. Awesome. So we've seen a lot of great stuff here, a lot of great resources. Highly encourage everybody to go check this out and take advantage of this great stuff. Thanks so much for coming on and showing this to us. Yeah, thanks for having us. Thanks. And we will see you next time on Visual Studio Toolbox.


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Majesty and Might of London, cradle of the culture which unites the English-speaking world. The gentle countryside of the land Shakespeare called this blessed isle, the storybook cottages, the villages carved from the past which dot and dignify the landscape, the warmth and richness of country life with its strong traditional flavor, its sense of continuity, its quiet enduring values, the variety of British life, the sounds, the sights. This is the great Britain that lies waiting for you to discover and to enjoy during your tour of service here. The special magic that Britain casts and always has on civilized men is yours to experience. You will feel the pull of British history for its marks and its monuments are all around you. And pageantry rooted in the past is carried forward and laced into the routine life of the present, the pomp and the ceremony, the stately institutions. All are part of an epic tale which for a thousand years has been Great Britain's story, a history which has paced the progress of Western man, a history rich in beauty and grandeur, crowded with spectacle and martial glory and with the dreams of mighty kings. But history is above all the story of people, their character, their spirit. The English have exerted a force on a modern world stronger perhaps than that of any other group and yet they live and always have on an island barely the size of Minnesota. Indeed it is this fact which in part accounts for the direction in which their history moved. For the English people locked in by the sea, turned to the sea for new markets, for new lands, to find wealth and in the doing to carry civilization around the globe. Britain's navies and her merchant fleets became the wonder of the world and from their power and in the wake of their path grew an empire on which it once was said the sun could never set. Men such as Lord Nelson whose life stories are linked with the sea and the spreading of the empire are among the most illustrious names in Britain's long line of heroes. Today's Britain is a product of that history but the history itself has changed its course. New states have been created out of England's far-flung possessions. The empire is no more. It's swept away with the tides of the time and the world is a far different one for all of us. Great Britain is united with the U.S. and other free nations of the West in an alliance to preserve peace in the world by blocking communist aggression and to that end to ensure free world strength and readiness. She permits us as her partner to maintain and operate a number of United States bases on British soil and this of course is why you watching this film are in Great Britain today. Now in order for you to do your job to the best of your ability and in the process to reflect credibly upon your country and enjoy your time it is important that you get along here and that's what this film is all about to help in your introduction to British life. There are no special magic rules for getting along here or anywhere else. The rules of common sense are what apply. First of all it seems reasonable wherever you are to look for similarities and in Great Britain there are many more perhaps than any other country England is like the United States in basic attitudes and beliefs. You will find this similarity everywhere beginning with the strong religious tradition which underpins her national life and the freedom of religion evidenced in the houses of worship of all faiths. The similarities between our political systems are evident in the regard they show American leaders whose ideas have leaped across oceans. You may also see a certain similarity at least on the surface between the famous pub and the corner bar in the cities of America. The pub which is practically an institution in Britain is something like the stateside corner bar only more so. It's more like a friendly club a neighborhood gathering place where men can meet to share the quiet pleasures of a glass of beer and conversation where nothing is hurried a little world all soon. Chances are you'll enjoy it but in full fairness let it be said that in spite of all the similarities there are differences between the British and us they're bound to be differences you know don't imply either superiority or inferiority they're just separate ways of doing things. You'll become aware of them and perhaps be disturbed at first by some of them. I think these British are kind of hard to get to know well it seems so at first until you've been here a while maybe they are a bit more reserved than we are but there's a reason for it after all there's 50 million people on this little island that's enough to make anyone respect privacy is old and everyone else that's about it sergeant but you'll find that the British respond to friendliness in much the same way we do. I think I'll ask these guys if I can play darts. In their quest for privacy the British make the very most of it they can. The garden is the Englishman's traditional refuge and practically every Englishman has one which he tends with pride and care. Behind the mansions of the rich and the cottages of the modest alike bloom lovely oases in which life is all discipline and color and a man can live at least for a while out of the crowded day close to the nature he reveres. His home is his castle however grand or however modest it may be and here as in his garden he creates a sense of order the respect for tradition and continuity for values which have endured for generations for family ties and the belief in the home as the central unit of civilization is a major influence in British life you may find yourself a guest in such a home and when you do you should treat the occasion with the dignity it deserves for an invitation to a man's castle is not lightly given but even here as you relax in the strong similarities you are finding between British life and your own you will be reminded of differences small but inevitable where's your home bill well I grew up in Cambridge sir did you really I grew up in Cambridge too you did you mean you've lived in the States oh no father means our own Cambridge we have one here too maybe a bit older than yours would you like anything more what do you know no thanks I'm fine can I help you now mother not just now thank you do I'll let you know I'd be glad to help with the beating if I can the beating thank you I can manage I used to do it all the time for my mother before we got the electric mixer electric mixer yes it makes it much easier does it indeed father thinks that if he ever went to America he would see one vast gadget factory electric beaters I wonder what they do to the food the traditional British reluctance to acquire gadgets and mass produced items is not as strong as it once was you may still encounter it occasionally however but don't let it mislead you British ingenuity has long pioneered in some of the basic industries Britain remember set the pace in jet aviation radar television British workmanship has produced and is still producing some of the finest manufactured items in the world but let's get back to the subject of differences though they obviously will intrigue you most of all at first take money now we'll make no bones about it the British currency system is a nightmare for the American the basic unit is the pound the equivalent of two dollars and 80 cents every pound is divided into 20 shillings worth about 14 cents a piece half a shilling is a six pence then there is a two shilling piece and a half crown which is worth two and a half shillings a preference is half a six pence there are 12 pence or pennies to every shilling and half a penny is called a hate me and half a pound is a 10 shilling note the prices are also given in terms of guineas a coin which doesn't even exist but which is worth 21 shillings all clear good next subject language we share a common language with the British but there may be times when you don't believe it I think it's important sir could you tell me if there's a hardware store in the neighborhood an hardware store sir oh you mean the ironmongers I do I want to buy a garbage can a garbage can sir now I think you'll find it's a dustbin you're after well sir you um you keep to the near side down to the bottom of the footpath right round the roundabout and then it's just past the bull you can't miss it sir but differences you know can be exaggerated out of all proportion consider the British teapot poor overworked symbol of misconception and an appropriate illustration of how exaggeration can distort reality and the simple truth is the British like tea most of them and they down a fair amount of it each day but to repeat differences can be exaggerated out of all proportion there's nothing in the British approach to tea drinking to justify the wild exaggerations prevalent in so much American folklore you know the picture people chattering like squirrels while they swill and nibble in a ceremonial ritual as stylized as the tango be ashamed not to meet them they're such enjoyable figments of the imagination but they don't exist whatever you may have thought and the part of England they represent is on the far side of the moon misconception growing out of unfamiliarity is of course a two-way street you may not have thought of it that way but listen no any yanks yes one or two like them well yes rather nice enough chaps take a bit of knowing though now we may not think that we're so hard to get to know but from the British point of view well permit an Englishman to sit in your seat and see how bizarre some American customs and habits might seem through his eyes particularly in exaggerated form and not only sights but sounds too remember we are discussing the difficulties of understanding English as the English speak it but consider what an Englishman might think of this conversation come on daddy this buzz cool it man let's cut that quick no wait oh sweat man we'll split although the British are a sports loving people there are many things they don't understand about our games listen for example to how one English reporter describes the great American pastime of football men in brightly colored helmets like the crew of a spaceship rushed on and off the field play seemed to be a mixture of conjuring slight of hand and human skittles and was constantly stopped by the referees the stoppages provided the fun pretty girls leapt up and down in a sort of Maori war dance to stir up the crowd shouting how do you like your oysters roar roar roar strategy is evidently based on this assumption nobody knows who's got the ball so to be safe knock down everybody in sight the biggest pile of bodies indicates where the ball is to soften the effect of differences that do exist and to help you adjust to life in great Britain is a task taken on by the community relations advisor whom you will meet on the base for your station the community relations advisor a woman is a British civilian appointed and employed by the British government but working on the staff of the US commander a C.R.A as she is called is stationed at each of the major American bases throughout the United Kingdom she is there for your convenience and benefit her job is to provide a link between US personnel and the local British community in which they are based she can and will assist you in many ways she will find out your interests and those of your family your particular needs whatever special problems you might have with this she can help you smooth your way into the British community in which you'll be living advise you on any difficulties you might encounter and how to surmount them she will provide you with information on Britain where to go what to see how to get there and other items of interest that'll be useful to you during your time here as part of their effort to make the US airmen's adjustment easier the community relations advisors in Britain have made an informal survey of the problems which servicemen encounter most frequently we might call them gripes the British however are somewhat more restrained in their vocabulary the shortage of suitable housing emerges as the number one problem on just about every list and all the things that are said about this problem we're joking you know please bear that in mind the situation is not anywhere near as bad as all this but a humorous approach makes the point better as you Americans say and the point here is that not all the flats and houses offered are as ancient and unmanageable or as haunted as the tower of London oh this is discouraging you bear any more of it oh dear this poor chap is having a frightful time of it isn't it now joking aside let's look at the housing situation seriously for a moment Britain is building feverishly to catch up with the population figures which have grown so rapidly in the last several years and at the same time to replace the millions of our homes that were destroyed or damaged during the war there's a long way to go yet but progress is being made and we do want you to find a nice place to live in while you're here we'll be delighted to help in any way we can driving on the left side of the road and the right side of the car is another thing which can confuse Americans it all can be so bewildering to newcomers confusion particularly at first is understandable but if you're going to drive it is extremely important that you get to know the rules immediately and observe them every time you're in a car traffic safety is a very big problem here especially among Americans who aren't used to our driving customs and regulations it's a problem which worries your commanders and our authorities alike he's learned his lesson please learn yours an easier way keep to the left guess what another problem is the weather Americans don't seem to like it very much they find it too wet too often it's reasonable enough that people might become annoyed by the weather but now really there's not a great deal we can do about it is there and anyway to tell you the truth some of us don't care much for it either you'll find in great britain as in every free society strong differences of opinion expressed over many things particularly when you go to hide park where the mallocontents have full sway you'll hear points of view ranging from crackpot to radical or both but we need in this country is a little more talk about peace and let's talk about war that you hear all the time in these western imperialistic countries let's close our like in russia i suppose you said it i didn't you said it like in russia you would rather be red than dead i suppose that happens to be my motto made you hit it right there i'd rather be red that's a view in the kremlin have your way that disagreements are not always so violent but you will find that the britain takes his personal point of view seriously and he will defend it volumely it's best to avoid getting into arguments if you can but if your opinions are solicited in a way in which it would be rude not to give them weigh your statements thoughtfully taking care not to intrude into what might be strictly a british matter and while we're on this subject you might be asked from time to time to explain some aspect of american life even questions which might be considered touchy or embarrassing but it's not likely that your questioner will intend to be rude he probably is really interested so the best policy is to answer all the questions you can as honestly and as frankly as you can despite their day-to-day differences most british people by far are united in basic things such as their respect for the crown and their fundamental bone deep belief in democracy for england is after all the world's oldest democracy and of all her glorious traditions free government resting on the rights of the people is the most sacred these beliefs are the source of the british determination to defend with vigor its way of life and resist any attack upon it king john is generally credited with democracy's introduction into the modern world 750 years ago when he signed a document which in guaranteeing certain rights of noblemen became the basis of the idea that the rights of the people themselves can be guaranteed by the state he was pressured and persuaded john was by men who perhaps had no conception of the extent of the force they were unleashing in the world but history cares little for that only that the magna carta endured to become the touchstone of democracy as we know it today you can see this precious document yourself if you visit the british museum in london see it and feel odd in the presence of an idea born centuries ago in english mines on england soil which has had so much a hand in shaping you and your own beliefs and traditions all there is much in britain to thrill and awe you great monuments of great ages past bidding you welcome such as the stately westminster abbey and if you go inside you can visit the ports corner where you will be reminded of the rich heritage of literature which england has given us all men who glimpse some abiding truth about man and life recorded it in words that live forever poets such as the immortal shakespeare spoke for their own time all ages after them about the human condition what else can you do in britain well do is the british do become a soccer fan the cup finals may never quite replace the world series in your affection but you won't be bored whether you're a horse racing fan or not you're likely to be entranced by the show put on by the bookies chances are however that you'll become a racing enthusiast british people of all classes are and there are many colorful tracks to accommodate them and plenty of excitement to satisfy them ish love sports they have all kinds for all seasons take advantage of as many as you can it's a great way to swing into the life of any country their interests are scholastic too you will enjoy visiting the great universities quiet serene but alive with intellectual ferment mind of england as its hallowed ceremonies are its long living memory its history is all around you telling in stone and spirit the tales of a noble adventure which produced a race of kings and the proud and sturdy people whom you will meet in britain today bring to your experience with them the qualities of fair play in which we americans take pride remember that it's their land and their way of life and we are transits passing through respect their rules and their customs look for the similarities which unite us and the differences will diminish the glory of britain will open to you and your life will be richer


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. This is gonna be a short video and Arguably not necessary, but as I am open sourcing my backup and data preservation approach And this is something I really care about. I am spelling out all the little details So in this video, I want to show you guys what I'm doing regarding Backup from an NASC to an end disk M disc. Excuse me. I did a couple of videos about the M disc last week It's a very very interesting form of technology. It's a form of optical storage media that is specifically archival grade So your regular blu-ray for instance writes data on to an inorganic layer And the M disc kind of tries to replicate literally the process of etching data into rock Like if you think about someone writing, you know carving into rock So that's a difference and that these m discs are supposed to last for 100 to 1000 years So it's actually really impressive. It's about the best most durable offline cold data storage medium currently in the market occur according to my research now I do own an NAS more classically for my YouTube channel and my video work in general So this is kind of how I organize it. I've showed this a bunch of times. So my folder structure is is is pretty Pretty classic or it's been seen at this point. So, you know, this is the way I work is I have a rendered folder I have a stock folder. I dump my b-roll Into the stock folder and then organize it according to 4k or a theme and for rendered I just kind of usually put into this now my m discs m discs are available in 25 50 and 100 gig capacity so Depends really how active I am in generating video and it is probably a smarter way to do this But this is a way I'm doing because I'm probably only going to need to burn One m disc a month to keep up with my current production, maybe even a little bit longer So periodically as in maybe once a week I'm just going into the the videos I have since my last m disc was burned I'm clicking on properties and we can see I'm now at 2.53 gigs. So the m disc usable usable capacity on the 25 Gigabyte ones is about 23.5 gigs So I try to kind of aim for 23 now this I'm sure a programmatic way to do this In uh windows for instance, but what I do is I actually bundle up The archive and I create a new folder called spillover Which is basically the stuff that was just a little bit above that 23 cutoff that I want to keep for the next burn Um, and if I need to drop one or two files in there, that's what I'll do And then once I have all my videos what I'll and this is why I said the Is why I'm doing it this way I just do a right click and a download and you can see I have the option to either download the individuals or download as a dot zip I'm actually downloading it as a zip because I don't really see much Um, you know reason this is just really a sale faith sale face Failsafe precaution and what I'm doing instead is uh labeling each m disc according to the months So this one's going to get labeled when it gets produced, you know May to june youtube archive and uh, if I ever for some reason really need to Find a video I put up on youtube in may That's on m disc. I can just open up that that particular file from my backup I'm going to be doing a video later today on how to uh duplicate m discs You can either buy a hardware duplicator or you can also um You can also if you if you don't want to invest in more than your standard blu-ray burner There's also a way at the software level that you can burn an m disc and say hold on to that data Or you could just and this is another reason to use archives rather than files You can just have that archive and burn it twice onto two different m discs And one of them will be your off-site backup and then you can just uh post it to your friend or However, you want to do physical arch archival backup. So this is the old school isch non cloud backup methodology for video backup through to one compliant three copies of data to Data medium one of those off-site, but this will get you there. So this is my current m disc NAS to m disc export process And uh, that's about all there is to be said for it. Thanks for watching


Today, brain tumors and masses. We have a young adult teenager with an intracranial mass. An axial T1-weighted image without contrast shows bithylamic hypointensity with mass effect, although the ventricles are not very enlarged. Following contrast administration, there is little to scant enhancement. A T2-weighted image shows the lesion across the midline with surrounding perilesial edema. The flare sequence adds little more to the diagnosis. Let's begin with our first question. Question number one. The most common primary brain tumor of the adult is A, neurocytoma, also known as central neurocytoma. B, meningioma. C, polycytic astrocytoma. D, glioblastoma multiforme. E, anaplastic astrocytoma. Take a minute, generate your answer or pause. Question number two. The most common glial neoplasm is A, ependymoma. B, glioblastoma multiforme. C, astrocytoma. D, oligodendroglioma. You can pause. Take a moment to generate your answer. Question number three. Who or world health organization grade one neoplasmic lesions include all of the following except amen and geoma. B, pituitary adenoma. C, schwannoma. D, epidermoid. Might have to think about this one a little bit. Let's go to question number four. Which of the following statements is false? A, glioblastoma is a world health organization grade four lesion. B, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma is a grade three lesion. C, polycytic astrocytoma is most commonly a grade one lesion. D, anaplastic astrocytoma is a grade three lesion. E, pillow mixoid astrocytoma is a grade two lesion. Let's attack the answers, shall we? Let's go to question number one. Most of you would have said that glioblastoma multi-forming was the most common primary brain tumor of the adult. If the choice was glioneoplasm, then that would be true. But glioblastoma is a subset making up about 50 to 52% of all glioneoplasms. Therefore, by subsetting it, meningioma, which is 27% of all intracranial primary tumors, is the correct answer. The correct answer is B, not E, not E. Neurocytoma is far less common. And polycytic astrocytoma is another subset of astrocytic neoplasm seen in young individuals. Question number two. The most common glioneoplasm is, I just gave you that answer, glioblastoma multi-forming making up at least 50% or more of all glioneoplasms, which is most unfortunate. Question number three. Who, or World Health Organization, grade one neoplastic lesions include all of the following except. The answer is epidermoid. Epidermoid is not a neoplasm. It is a developmental inclusion. The other three are neoplasms, and they are who grade one lesions. Finally, question number four. This is the toughest of the questions, and they do ramp up in difficulty. Which statement is false? Yes, glioblastoma is a grade four. Pleomorphic xanthroastrocytoma is not a who grade three. It is a who grade two. And that is the false answer. Polycytic astrocytoma, while there is a grade two variant, it is far less common. It is almost always a grade one lesion with a very good prognosis. D, anoplastic astrocytoma is a grade three, and E, pillow myxoid astrocytoma is a grade two on par with the PXA or pleomorphic xanthroastrocytoma. So the answer, the false answer to this question is B. A few items to discuss as we introduce brain tumors. First, as a basic approach, the first thing I do is where is the lesion, extraxial, intraaxial, or intraventricular? Where is the lesion? Is it supertentorial, more common in adults, or infratentorial, more common in children, with the exception of the corioplexus tumor? How old is the patient? Child, adult, infant, neonate. What about the sex of the patient? Often irrelevant, but relevant in some cases like meningioma, which is more common in females. Let's talk about the approach to astrocytomas and brain tumors by histology, using the central brain tumor registry of the United States, which includes over 37,000 primary central nervous system tumors. Meningioma, at 27.4%, is the most common. But all types of glioma combined. If you're given the choice glioma, you answer glioma over meningioma. How does glioma break down? Well, GBM, 52% of gliomas. Astrocytoma, 22% of gliomas. Oligo, 4%, a big drop-off. Endomomas, 2.2%. Nerve sheath tumors, 7.5%. Potuitary tumors, 6.6%. Lymphoma, 2.7%. Embryonal tumors, like medullo, 1.9%, and all other, 12.6%. The other thing I try and do with brain tumors is not only do I divide them up, intraaxial, extraaxial, intraventricular, but I also try and figure out whether they are primary intraaxial, secondary intraaxial, primary extraaxial, secondary extraaxial. The extraaxial non-glial neoplasms include meningioma, schwannoma, and pituitary neoplasms. The intraaxial neoplasms are going to be overwhelmingly glial, but there will be some others. Let's stop right there and move on to our next case. Shall we?


Welcome back to our lecture series, Math 1220, Calculus II for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'm your professor today, Dr. Andrew Mistledine. This is our first video for lecture 41, for which we're going to talk about the ratio and the root test, the ratio test being the foremost important thing in this lecture 41. These are going to be our final convergence test that we're going to top out for series. In order to preference the ratio test, we're going to talk about this idea called absolute convergence. Suppose that we have a series, you take the sum of the sequence a sub n, we say that this series is absolutely convergent. If it's absolute sequence, I should say if the absolute series is convergent. We had actually talked about the absolute sequence earlier when we talked about the alternate series test. The absolute sequence is you take your sequence and you take absolute values of everything. The absolute series would then take the sum of the absolute sequence. We say that a series is absolutely convergent if its absolute series is convergent. Hence why we call it absolutely convergent. Now, let's look at some examples of such a phenomenon. Consider the series where we take from n equals 1 to infinity, the sum of negative 1 to the n minus 1 over n squared. Notice that this is an alternating p series. We start off with 1, then the second term's negative, then the third term's positive, and the fourth term's negative, and you'll alternate back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. This is an alternating series. If we take absolute values of these terms, like we did here, well, then that negative 1 is just going to poof. It just disappears, and we're left with the sequence 1 over n squared. If you add those terms together, the sum n equals 1 to infinity of the sequence 1 over n squared, then you'll get 1 plus 1 fourth plus 1 ninth plus 1 sixteenth, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This will then be a p series, a p series where p equals two, which is thus convergent by the p test.  One thing I should mention that if you have a positive series, that is every term in the series is positive, convergence and absolute convergence will be the exact same thing, right?  Well, it's absolute series with something different, and therefore the convergence might be, you know, a different question, Han, right? Take for example, the alternating harmonic series, right? We've seen this one before when we talked about the alternating series test. This is an alternating series. It's alternating harmonic, so it goes 1 minus 1 1⁄ plus 1 3rd minus 1 4th, et cetera, et cetera. If we take the absolute series right here, then we're gonna get the harmonic series, which we know is divergent. So because this series, if you look at its absolute series, its absolute series is divergent. So this series is not, it's not absolutely convergent. But on the other hand, we did see that the alternating harmonic series by the alternating series test is convergent. So we see that in this series, it's convergent but not absolutely convergent. So the two things are measuring slightly different things. And so to describe this, if a series is convergent, it's convergent but it's not absolutely convergent, then we say the series is conditionally convergent. It's sort of a play on words right there because absolute convergence doesn't actually mean like, it's guaranteed, brother. It just means that the series of absolute, the series of absolute values is convergent well. The opposite of being absolute is conditional. So a series is conditionally convergent if it's convergent but not absolutely.


We're gonna launch them on this side. Alright, hey guys. Last chance to pick some water. Just break a little mud in between. I don't know what I'm gonna wait for. All the way up. Yeah, you got this. This is so fun. You don't have to. Yeah, no problem. You know it. Man, it's all start time. Try to get on line. We need my own best warrior partner. I love it. Hell yeah. Okay. Grif whenever you're good. Head up top. Ma'am and top are in the van. And they're... Push the pole. Try to pull. Push the pole. Set boys. Push the flag.


I am Aotearoa, and Aotearoa is me. Koau te rangi, ko te rangi koau. I am the sky, and the sky is me. Each day brings light, warmth, energy, from the blustering gales of the gentle kisses of the wind. We harness power, and from the sun's rays, flowing plentiful and free, above the clouds that burst and clenched the soil to feed our forests and our trees. This we shall know, with every fresh breath of air that we breathe. Koau haute moana, ko te moana koau. I am the ocean, and the ocean is me. The tumbling waves, where the land and sea meet, roaring, wild and relentless, but never taking or inundating our cities, our towns, or our homes. Only a tonga, a treasure. The taste on your lips just before you plunge into a sea of colour. Weaving in and out of the weeds are a shimmer of scales. No need to search, only to see, in a vast stretch of water, a sanctuary from you and me. Koau te awa, ko te awa koau. I am the river, and the river is me. A silver ribbon, winding from the serrated skyline, down to the lakes in the sea. Pure ripples of glass, swimmable, drinkable, liveable, undulating with light. Koau te ngahiri, ko te ngahiri koau. I am the forest, and the forest is me. The whisper of leaves and their rich aroma, infused in the air we breathe. A war of wings, the scuttle of preachers, seen and those unseen. The symphony, trumpeting down from the trees, a chorus restored in a land preditive-free. Koau te whenua, ko te whenua koau. I am the land, and the land is me. The earth beneath our feet, the place we call home, the soil that sustains us, our crops, our pastures, our forests, our land of tonga. Where every resource is reused, not left to fester, buried deep within Papatūanuku. I am Aotearoa, and Aotearoa is me. Our environment sustains us, supports us, is a part of us. Our future is interconnected. We are inseparable forces, and we are powerful forces that can make a difference. Once we truly understand that the world today is ours to borrow, only then will we start thinking about tomorrow. Kite kāhurī he whaka ki tinga ka ngāro te iwi. Without foresight or vision, the people will be lost. So do not be afraid to be the first to change. Do not be afraid to be the first, the first to aspire or the first to inspire. We must see with our emotions, just as we see with our eyes. Because if not us, who? If not now, when? You are the kaitiaki, the guardians for the children, grandchildren and children yet to be born.  Kia ora whanau. Great to be here, and I've been contemplating what can I add to the amazing richness that we've talked about in the last couple of days. So that video was shot from a group of our summer interns. Some of them are still at school, and they did it within a day and then presented it back to us as a challenge to us about reminder about why we do what we do. And it's been very powerful. It made some of my people cry. We also showed it to a group of business leaders who also were moved by it. And it's just a reminder that why we're here is for that future generation and channeling Yohan about we can't wait for them to come through to shift this for us. So a couple of things I wanted to add to the kind of conversation that we've been having. You'll get it. You'll know our planet is finite. It is amazing, and we don't thrive unless we have a healthy planet. So you get this.  I don't need to tell you more about that, but there are a couple of thoughts I would kind of flick in. Before I do that, I do want those who are overseas visitors to know that New Zealand, while we may be better in the world in some aspects, if we keep going like we are, actually we're not as great as you reflect back to us. So a lot of people have said to me over the last week, wow, it's really amazing. A few stats for you, and we've done our environmental studies. So our waterways are increasingly coming under stress. So what we're seeing now in terms of nitrogen levels, other result of 30 years ago, two veterans coming back and being given land and putting nitrogen on the soil. It is not the current intensification of farming in terms of the nitrogen application in the last 30 years. So our nitrogen concentrations have worsened 55% in a very short period. And the amount of irrigated land has increased by 70%. The amount of intensive daring has increased as well. Another big thing is sediment in this country. So we have 190 million tonnes of sediment going into our waterways every year. We have about 308 caterpillar trucks worth of topsoil going into our freshwater rivers and streams, but also going out to ocean and into the marine environment. It's having a major impact on not just the quality of the waterways, but also seafood and ability to grow fish and farms. 75% of our freshwater fish and 30% of our plants are threatened at risk of extinction. In New Zealand we have endemic species, so species that only are here. And we have 3,000 of those that are either at risk of extinction or threatened to be at risk of extinction. So yes, New Zealand has a lot of good going for it, but also we're not on the right path, either. So I don't want to make you depressed, as Yohan does. He does a great thing of being able to make you depressed and then make you hopeful, so I'll try as well. So some thoughts, because everybody in this room is a change agent, effectively. And I wouldn't say just change, because change is just incremental things that you do better. I think the thing we've got to really challenge is the transformation. How do we transform? So a couple of thoughts. One is we have a moment in time, and I have to believe this, because otherwise I would get depressed in my job, but we have a moment in time where we have a new administration who is looking at some fundamental pieces in our architecture which will lock in the ability to transform the way we think about New Zealand and the way we grow. So for example, the Climate Act that we will be coming out to consult in May and June is one of the pieces of architecture that will be world-leading, even if it is not as aspirational when we get there as we would like, but having targets in legislation binds future governments, and that is massive. So I encourage you all to be involved, get engaged, get up to select committee and tell them this is possible. So that's kind of that piece of it. In terms of architecture, we've got ministers and we've just come from one of them in Yohan in front of them. It was just an amazing conversation, really interested in putting in sustainable development measures into our public finance act or wellbeing measures into the way we think about running this country and having a wellbeing budget hooked off that. Now that's all laudable and great, but one of the things I got really excited about today is we're talking to Yohan about, and this is where the and comes in between Yohan and Charles, I think, about thinking about how to use the planetary boundaries framework in setting and together with the wellbeing measures indicators. So thinking about doing a mash-up on that with Yohan and some overseas people. But I think coming to measures and what do we measure here in New Zealand and coming away from a conversation that says, well, yes, we really want to do something about climate change and water quality, but we can't do that because people are going to be out of jobs, right? So that's the kind of conversation we have and what this allows us to do is start to think about the integration between all of the measures of environment, so not just climate, but biodiversity, water, et cetera, and also you can have better wellbeing of people. So this is the and between Charles and me and Yohan for me. So really exciting. That is really exciting. It'd be a world-leading piece where we're trying to take planetary boundaries into how we think about targets in New Zealand. So I'm really excited about that. If you're interested in helping, that'd be cool. Felix, I've got you on my list. The other thought is food. And I actually take that a little bit like Melissa to land use. So thinking about how we grow our food and turning that into a positive thing rather than a negative and binary conversation about how do we work out to how to do farming just a bit better? How do we actually grow something here that is truly sustainable? So I think that is one of our biggest challenges. Agriculture here is our biggest challenge. We know we have 80% renewable energy. We will have 100% renewable electricity as one of the things that we will move on in the next little while. Agriculture is it in terms of the biggest shift. And again, with Yohan, he emphasises that the platform to get to Paris is not just decarbonising your economy. It's sustainable farming and also the carbon sink. So he talked about that. So that piece for us, if you're interested in doing anything in New Zealand, find a way into that. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a direct way. I kind of raised this yesterday. New ways of technology, sensing, new precision farming, things that might be outside of, you know, even Andy in her blockchain and health data, how does that fit with food production? So I would just be open to think about how you might work as a collective community to think about some of our biggest issues. The new financial tools too. So I think it's great that we have government wanting to invest in regions and that sort of thing. But I think as a country, you know, we can't afford what we've got right now. We have a very small tax base. So I think we might get a grant for three years and then, you know, you don't have anything and that's not going to sustain change or transformation. So thinking about impact investment, new financial tools, how do we bring those into New Zealand and really scale up or scale up in my language, not in the economic language, leverage of what we've got here. So our freshwater improvement fund, for example, we not only have required that it be 50% leverage with other funding, but that it's actually targeted to the vulnerable waterways in New Zealand and not scattergun to cross New Zealand so that we can stop them from tipping over. So it's that kind of thing. Where can you leverage, where can you get partners that aren't just looking for government handouts?  Small tax base. So just something in there for you. The other piece I talked a little bit about is, effectively, how do we scale up values? So the thing about New Zealand that is really cool, and I'm over time, but I'll just finish now, but is that, you know, when we've gone out to water in New Zealand, what we've found is it's a real identity issue for us. So it's as important to us as our children. It's as important to us as looking after our old people. It's an identity issue. So that combined with Māori culture, which allows you to think about Indigenous old ways of knowing to find new ways of doing, allows us to actually create change here that might not be quite what you could do elsewhere. So I think there's something to tap into there. It very quickly goes to the negative. So I think if we can find lots of examples of more positive ways forward, I think, you know, that people in New Zealand will get on the bandwagon and come along, is my sense. So scaling up the values underpinning what you're doing. So if you're thinking about making money, maybe thinking about the global good impact that you're trying to have, because I think that speaks to the heart of New Zealanders as well. Interesting, yesterday we had a rights of nature conversation and New Zealanders kind of, you know, actually it's a responsibility to nature. Yeah. So those are just some thoughts. So I'm really excited. I said it at our EHF fellows. I see all of you as friends now. And I think that is, you know, in my role. Quite often the size of the challenge is really huge and when Yohan stands up there and says, you only got a decade, I'm going, and I've only got three years, right? Because we've got a lot of things through this government. So friends help each other out if I can help you and if you can help us, you know, please come along that journey. That's probably enough for me. Tena koutou katoa.


Upcycling is actually recycling old material and turning it into something new. Only in the last hundred years, we forgot about this way of efficiently used material. So even in Roman times, they used the Fu packaging, like Enfora, the terracotta packaging, to use as building material for aqueducts to fill the cement. Espolia and the Renaissance, they took the old classical Roman marble columns to build the churches. The Chinese used rice husk as a reinforcement, a natural glue for the cement to build a ram-earth foundation and for Great Wall of China. In modern context, for example, this water bottle that we're very familiar with on a daily basis, in any urban economy, you've got water being packaged this way. This is PET, this is PP. Even these two raw material are actually single material. They can be separated mechanically. And these are literally one of the most abundant resources we have on a daily basis. And the resources are actually ever-increasing. The supply of these packaging materials, these polymers, actually are perfectly good to be reused in the second life or the third life. E-waste recycling is the next trend of huge amount of trash resources that's coming in. First of all, it has huge amount of precious metal that's in any electronic waste. Traditionally, that's what people collect. Many developing nations are collecting electronic waste and open-burn them. This is the most toxic way of extracting precious metal. So we collaborated with STTI, one of a big e-waste recycler in Asia, and they're actually doing mechanically e-waste recycling. So they're basically chopping them down and separating the metal and the plastic out. So now all of a sudden, instead of burning the electronic waste, now you have the metal part, then you also have the plastic part. The plastic are actually quite precious in the electronic waste. Alongside, of course, with gold, platinum, silver, those are, everybody knows, that's valuable. But the waste plastic in electronics are very high-grade, like polycarbonates, like CDs. Even in the electronic waste recycling, there's a lot of leftover material that you cannot use at the current system. So for example, like the circuit board, you will have lots of epoxy, lots of short-chain glass fiber after the recycling. These materials normally are really bad if it goes into the air or the incinerator. So what we're trying to do is take that. These are naturally fireproof ingredients or aggregates. We're using that for building material. We're actually using that for sunshading facades. So the whole system is naturally fireproof because of, just imagine, sand and glass, it doesn't really burn. So that project is about demonstrating, first of all, the mechanical e-waste recycling at a different scale, massive campus scale. The other is obviously using a lease amount of carbon footprint, taking the waste of a waste of e-waste recycling and turn that into something that's useful for building applications. One of the biggest challenges we have is that people overestimate the risk. They worry that whether the consumer is going to take recycled material. The designer overestimated the risk of using recycled material too within this linear supply chain because they're not familiar with it, they're not comfortable, they're used to traditional material that achieve a certain consistency. On the supply end, it's also difficult because people overestimated the risk of integrating recycled material into the manufacturing. There's a fear, okay? There's an overestimated risk and fear that doing sustainable recycled material is going to be more expensive. It's going to be more costly. The cost of recycling, it's the energy required. So the price of recycled material can definitely be cheaper than virgin material. 100%. Without the desire by the leadership of corporate leaders to push down the supply chain, it's almost impossible for any of this closed-loop concept to be executed because without that forward thinking or a long-term thinking, strategic thinking of the leadership, it's really difficult for that urgency to trickle down all the way down to the material supply and to prove to the leadership that the circular economy works. One, financially it has to be lower, lower than the existing whatever you're procuring right now. If you just recycle existing resources or trash resources that's out there in the market, post-consumer or post-production, it doesn't matter. But in general, you will have tremendous carbon saving. The energy footprint you embedded into the new production if you use recycled material is at least 60% to 80% less. If you use less energy, you use less chemical to produce new material, of course you're going to have financial savings. The supply of trash is growing by 70% a year. This is crazy. So just imagine you have a raw material supply source that's potentially going to keep growing, keep growing, keep growing. I don't see how you can increase costs. You're going to have lower costs, lower costs in the long run. The second is has to have higher performance. You want to make trash material very desirable. It has to have better performance. It has to be sexier. It has to be even more interesting than the existing product offering. So you kind of create a poll with recycled material on the marketing design side. The third is definitely also a strategic level for the management. You got to think about the future of innovation process. It's going to deal with transparencies. It's going to deal with accountability. It's also going to deal with this matrix-based thinking, the cross-disciplinary innovations. By using closed-loop economy and as a way to instigate your own team or creative team to groom a set of creative professionals internally within the company to deal with this new way of thinking, new innovation within the supply chain, I think you're going to optimize the system further. You can even make your company even more efficient. And that is both in the midterm and long run. It's going to be very beneficial for any corporations.