In Kaduna State, the government says it is ready to continue providing more opportunities for young people to learn, share experiences and work towards achieving a common vision for the future of the state and the country at large. Governor Rubasani said this at the graduation of the 5th cohort of Kashim Ibrahim Fellows in Kaduna State. Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship KIF is a one-year leadership training program for young Nigerians between the ages of 25 to 35 years. It is aimed at creating a network of high potential youths who are expected to rise to top leadership positions in the public sector and other spheres of activities. Governor Sani says the Fellows program is worthy of emulation by any state interested in empowering the youths to realize their potentials, develop themselves in leadership programs and governing processes at all levels of the government. The Vigo attitude and intellect of our young persons are crucial to the future of our state, from sports to education to skills development and healthcare administration programs aimed to empower young people to strive. This fellowship program supports young individuals in gaining invaluable public service experience, honing their skills and advancing their careers. Fellows are posted to ministries, departments and agencies as special assistants to the governor where they actively learn, engage in high-level meetings and provide monthly reports to the governor. More opportunities to provide for young people to learn, share experiences and work towards a common vision for the future, the stronger our nation becomes. The governor believes that for nations and states to achieve progress and development, the younger generation must think outside the box to achieve their full potential. If our youths come together to fashion a common vision for our country and commitments to the service of the nation, we shall in no time join the league of developed countries. Some of the graduating fellows commend the government for putting the program to shape, saying the young generation must rise up and contribute immensely to the progress of the country. Most gratefully thankful to the Cardinal State government for creating this avenue, which allows for me to come and benefit from the training and shaping of both character, etiquette, work culture and as well imbibing in me the spirit of one Nigeria and the spirit of leadership and progression. I feel very excited. It feels like yesterday, 11 months ago when we started this journey, but today I'm super excited that it has come to an end. And most importantly, I've been able to learn a lot of things in Kashimi Brine Fellowship. I'm a better person than I came here. If it's a beautiful experience, a lot of young people say adults would be scammed and all of that. But I would tell you that you need to put in your best to everything that you do because it's important. So just stay committed, keep going and you would get what you want to do, provided you're committed to that thing. Cardinal is the first state in Nigeria to launch KIF in August 2018 and has since graduated 94 fellows who have continued to excel in their chosen career fields.


Chronic migraine is defined as 15 or more headache days per month for more than three months within the previous 12 months, with at least eight migraine days per month. Chronic migraine usually evolves from episodic migraine with peripheral and central sensitization in the trigeminal vascular system, contributing to the pathophysiology. The first line treatment of chronic migraine is pharmacological. Acute medications treat migraine symptoms and preventative therapies help reduce the frequency, severity, and duration of migraine attacks. Unfortunately, several of these medications show inadequate efficacy, tolerability, and adherence to treatment. This has led to the development of novel therapies, such as onobutulinum toxin A, a preventative option formulated from botulinum toxin type A. In the peripheral neuron, onobutulinum toxin A targets SNAP-25, an essential protein of the SNARE complex. This complex mediates the release of neurotransmitters associated with the genesis of pain from vesicles in neurons, after which pain-sensitive ion channels are inserted into the membrane and remain active. By cleaving SNAP-25, the drug disrupts SNARE-mediated vesicle trafficking. Pericranial injection of onobutulinum toxin A may reduce the peripheral sensitization and consequently, the central sensitization associated with chronic migraine by modulating two SNARE-dependent processes, decreasing the release of pro-inflammatory and excitatory neurotransmitters that transmit no susceptible pain and decreasing the upregulation of pain-sensitive ion channels. Onobutulinum toxin A is administered intramuscularly by a health professional every 12 weeks. 155 units are injected into 31 sites across 7 head and neck muscle areas. Up to 8 additional injections of 5 units each may be given in up to 3 muscle areas. Clinical studies show that onobutulinum toxin A is effective in preventing headache in those with chronic migraine, including in patients with overuse of acute medications and regardless of whether patients have previously used recognized prophylactic medications. Compared with placebo in the pre-empt studies, onobutulinum toxin A administered every 12 weeks was associated with sustained and clinically meaningful improvements in multiple assessments of headache symptoms, including the frequency of monthly headache days, headache-related impact and or disability and migraine-specific health-related quality of life. Reductions in headache and migraine days per week were seen within one week of treatment with onobutulinum toxin A in the pre-empt studies and cumulative prophylactic effects were evident with successive treatment cycles over one year in the pre-empt studies and two years in the compel study. In clinical practice, onobutulinum toxin A shows efficacy similar to that observed in clinical trials. For instance, in the multinational repose study in Europe, treatment with the drug significantly and progressively decreased the number of headache days per month and improved quality of life measures related to migraine and general health over a period of two years. The most common adverse events reported with onobutulinum toxin A have been neck pain, muscle weakness and eyelid ptosis. These are consistent with the known pharmacology and tolerability profile of the drug, which is more favorable than that of oral topiramate and anti-convulsant approved for preventing migraine. Effective and well-tolerated onobutulinum toxin A is one of the most widely used preventative options available for chronic migraine and it continues to be a central component of chronic migraine management.


Many thousand years ago, there was a yogi whose name was Sunira. We believe Sunira was just the next generation after Saptarishis. He lived and worked in the mountains, which are presently in Nepal. She took on an impossible project. Sunira saw that human consciousness could be evolved. If you produce a perfect human being who could render this to all sorts of people, in a way, he comes from the tradition of Shiva, somewhere it's his dream to build another being like that. He wants to build a living Shiva once again. A perfect teacher for the world who is completely multi-dimensional, not this kind of teaching or that kind of teaching. As Shiva gave, explored the whole human consciousness and human body in every possible way, he wants that kind of a living being. So he started building the energy body for that kind. And then he believed that he could build a physical body on top of that and let him lose in the world with a lifespan of a few hundred or thousand years so that he will transform the whole world by the time his time is done. So he started working on this project and of course he died unfulfilled. So here and there, down these forty thousand years, many ambitious yogis picked up the same project that Sunira had left and tried to reconstruct this energy body of a perfect teacher who can transform human consciousness. They called him Maitreya. Maitreya means a friend, a true friend to the humanity, to come and change humanity, the world teacher. Generation after generation, many yogis tried to continue to work on the same half-made project of Sunira. It's always been in the yogic lore but in the last century it came to the surface. It came to social knowledge because the theosophists worked on it. Anibiscent, Leadbeater and Madam, whatever her name I can never pronounce, Lavatsky, all three of them took this project up. They said we are going to make it. They amassed a vast amount of occult knowledge probably for the first time in the last few hundred years and definitely for the first time, not in a traditional way but in a modern way. They took up this project, they tried to locate this being. This unfinished project, they want to take it up and complete it. Some work was done, they had the knowledge but they did not have the capability. They acquired much information but they could not acquire the necessary means to do anything like that. Twice they made serious effort to simply declare that they have completed the project, the perfect being has come but it did not work. Another parallel line was also being drawn for the last couple of millenniums where another set of yogis who were aware of this Suniras glorious but quite impossible project, they started working upon a similar force to create a similar possibility but with a completely different understanding of the same, creating a perfect being. But not as a human being, not in human form because putting it into a human being as such a possibility. Human system has all the capabilities but still it doesn't have the necessary integrity of boundary to hold it. There are previous experiences of creating or attempting to create the Analingas in many places. Any number of projects have started in the last two thousand, three thousand years and they've been abandoned halfway because of some problem or the other. In Bhojpur they attempted Adhyana Linga about a thousand years ago, little more than a thousand years ago. This was supported by a local king so it was hugely funded and they built a magnificent temple which is half done and the rest of the plans they drew it on the stone, you know. Because there were no drawing boards, they flattened up a rock and they made an elaborate plan of the temple. In all detail, the architectural thing on the stone, they had a grand plan, a beautiful setting and everything. But half completed it stopped because of certain things. The lingam itself, they worked on it for more than three years. They had fourteen people working on it, one yogi who started this whole process. But this yogi worked for over two years and produced these fourteen people, seven men and seven women of enormous or extraordinary accomplishment and they started working. They created this lingam almost ninety-five percent done but at that time an invasion happened. The invaders came, found these people in certain states which whatever looked rikish for them and they attacked. When they attacked, his left foot was chopped. Because of this damage in the body, he could not continue. So he decided that they will merge themselves into the lingam and complete the work. So they asked another yogi trained another yogi to lock the energy stream. This yogi left their bodies and merged into the lingam. But the other yogi who was supposed to do this was so overwhelmed by the situation that he could not lock it. Because they did not lock it in time, the lingam just cracked up. Even now you can see it is a straight crack in the lingam. About three to four inches has just opened up, now they patched it up with lime. The archaeological department has patched it up with lime but it just cracked. Building such structures has been the want of many yogis because creating tools for enlightenment, not just as teachings, not just as practices that one can do but living tools that people can walk through. Living tools by which people can be impacted towards that process has always been the great desire of the yogis. One of them who had such a desire fixed me up for the job. My visible proximity with him was just for a few minutes. It is in these few moments that this fabulous crafty man enslaved me for his project. Everything that I did was around it because it was my guru's dream. And it was his vision that the Dhyanalinga has to be established. This is my guru's will and grace. I think I must tell you something about the madness from where I come. After two lifetimes of heart-breaking sadhana, very intense, very truly heart-breaking sadhana, these two lifetimes I was referred to by people as Sivayogi. And when it was needed, when my guru appeared, when he felt that he did not feel fit to touch me, he touched me with his stick and everything that needs to be realized was realized. I was at the very peak of anything can be. So, that being was referred to as Sivayogi, trying to fulfill the mission that was put into him. He didn't work, came back again. I said, Guru Sri Brahma tried very hard, almost successful. But couldn't fix the goodwill in the society because the intensity of who he is could not be understood in the social circumstances. He couldn't fulfill that. He prepared a few people and then went up the mountain, just checking himself. Why has he failed? He's got everything. Why is it he didn't happen? He knew it's not that he lacks the competence, it's just that he did not garner the social support that was needed. So, he went up the mountain for the last time. Before going up, he announced here at the foothills, a few of his disciples gathered. They said, what now? He said, even Tirpi Varvara, that means this one will be back again. And he went up the mountain for the last time and he did a rare thing. He left his body through all his seven chakras at the same time. This is, he's just checking himself. He knows it's not so, but still the first blame should be on you and something doesn't work. So, he's checking in case, I'm not good, but I'm not good enough. So, he left his body through all his seven chakras. This phenomenal energy, this very distinct energy, which is nowhere else you can experience on the seventh hill. It's very, very different from anything that you would find anywhere. It's distinctly different. So, with that done, he knew it's what is the problem is you didn't handle the circumstance properly. This round when we came, we planned everything to a point where we decided a few people that I need where they are born, in which home, how. Everything was planned, it went accordingly. Poor people needed for the consecration. I placed them in the right kind of places so that everything comes together at the right time. In spite of that, took it eighteen years of preparation in this life. To put it together, to put the people together, to remind them of their past, to get them there. Now, this is too fairy tale-ish for you, but this is something that's a living reality for us. So, the consecration process itself took three-and-a-half years, a very intense process. People who witness these things, their lives are never the same again. Things that they have not imagined in their wildest dreams, they witnessed, they still can't believe that it actually happened in their presence. Yogi Sunira, she worked through his lifetime and towards the end of his life, when this dream of creating a perfect being remained unfulfilled, Yogi Sunira made a prophecy that long time from now, long, long time from now, this work that I have started will find fulfillment and reverberate, not here, but in the green hills of the south. Our hills are green, we are in the south. So, whatever Sunira's prophecy has come true, but not the way he thought it would. Dhyanalinga is like a living guru. The role of a guru in a spiritual seeker's life is not just about giving teachings and guidances. The most fundamental thing why a spiritual seeker seeks a guru, because a guru can ignite his energies into a different dimension. That aspect of guru's role in a spiritual seeker's life is very well fulfilled by the Dhyanalinga. Once a person is in the sphere of Dhyanalinga, he cannot escape the sowing of the spiritual seed of liberation within himself.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch where you bring your major news elements from around the world. Our headlines, at least 3 people killed after Afghan flag raised during protests in Jalalabad. New report documents, human rights violations during 2019 Bolivian coup, climate change and lack of safety place outdoor workers in the US at growing risk, protesters toppled statue of Canada's first PM for atrocities against first nations. In our first story, at least 3 people were reportedly killed in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on August 18th. This told Reuters that the violence took place during a protest against the Taliban. Local residents had tried to hoist Afghanistan's national flag at a square in the city. It was then that the Taliban fighters opened fire, leaving more than a dozen people injured. Al Jazeera reported that hundreds of protesters had also gathered in the coast's province. The killings on Wednesday took place just as Taliban leaders are meeting with Afghan politicians. The group has stated that it wants to form an inclusive government. Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has also arrived in Khandahar. Meanwhile, the UAE has announced that it is hosting Auschwitz President Ashraf Ghani. The US has also frozen the Afghan Central Bank's assets worth nearly 9.5 billion dollars. Around 5000 diplomats and civilians have been evacuated from the country so far. However, the ANP news agency reported that US forces did not allow any Afghans to enter the Kabul airport on Tuesday night. 17 people were also reportedly wounded during a stampede at a gate on Wednesday. This was just two days after at least 7 people were killed as thousands of Afghans fled to the airport. In our next story, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts has released its report on the 2019 Bolivian coup. The report states that the Jhani-Nanesh regime was responsible for massacres and summary executions. These include the violence at Sankata, Sakaba, Pedregal and La Paz. At least 38 people were killed and hundreds of others were left seriously injured. The report examined the period between 1st and 31st December 2019. The GIEI interviewed over 400 people and examined over 120,000 documents. The report points to discrimination against indigenous, rural and poor people. Far-right groups also used religion, including the Bible, to justify the actions against ever-morales. 28 cases of racism have been identified by the GIEI between October and November 2019. The group has also documented the systematic use of torture and sexual abuse against young indigenous detainees. Military forces were protected from any criminal responsibility under Dec. 4078. The landmark report was presented to Bolivian President Louis R.C. on August 17. He announced that his sentences of victims will be conducted and reparations will be given. The immunity granted to the coup regime's security forces will also be revoked. Meanwhile, all paramilitary and illegal armed groups formed during the coup will be disbanded. President R.C. has also asked the prosecutor's office to implement the recommendations made in the report. We now go to the U.S. where at least 384 workers have died from environmental heat exposure in the last decade. They include people working on essential jobs such as farm labour, garbage collection and construction. At least 12 companies have had more than one worker die from heat. These findings are part of a new report by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations. In some cases, the workers died after not having enough water and schedule breaks in the shade. People of color have been disproportionately impacted. The report found that Hispanic workers accounted for one-third of all heat fatalities. Moreover, the Occupation, Safety and Health Administration, that is the OSHA, often did not penalize companies for worker deaths. If it did, it reduced violations and fines after negotiations. The official death tally has also been vastly undercounted. OSHA has not adopted a national heat standard to protect workers. Under current rules, companies are only required to provide water and no other safety measures. These findings were published alongside the report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions will make outdoor working conditions more unsafe. Workers in the U.S. could face up to four times as many days with hazardous heat by 2065. Without proper measures in place, workers will face reduced working hours and income losses. Between 4.1 to 7.1 million workers could see their earnings cut by 10% per year. Once again, black and Latinx people who comprise 40% of all outdoor workers will be especially hit. UCS argues that these income losses will worsen inequities in health outcomes and poverty rates. And finally, six more First Nation communities have launched inquiries into residential school sites in Canada. This follows the discoveries of over 1300 unmarked graves at these sites since May. During a protest on August 14, people tore down the statue of former Prime Minister John MacDonald. This was after the Hamilton City Council decided not to remove the statue. MacDonald was responsible for some of the worst atrocities against indigenous people. It was during his time that Canada adopted the residential industrial school system. Here is a video feature on Saturday's protest. That's all we have time for today. We will be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Cis Match.


13th. Just about four o'clock. That I know because I looked at the clock. We are in downtown Lake Oswego. Walking around just for no reason. We're on a Sunday afternoon drive. That's a good enough reason because we can. So we'll bring you with us. We'll be back. I should say this is only about 10 minutes from our house. This beautiful outdoor venue space with a fireplace. So great. Not you anyway. Got me anyway. I just did that and I didn't have the thing on. So once a month or once a week we're going to try to find some new local mom and pop places to eat. Right now we're on a place on a kick to find a good burger place. So today we're going to try the Oswego Grill and we'll let you know what we think. I'll be right back. Okay so Oswego Grill. Good place. It was it was really good. That was a good burger. I had the bison burger and it was delicious. You had the bacon burger. Bacon cheese burger. Bacon cheese burger. His burger had not only had garlic. Barbecue bacon cheese burger. Yeah it had not only had garlic aioli on it but it had fried deep fried onions. Have fried onions. And mine had some sort of it tasted like oh no light. We're in the dark. Oh there we go. Mine had some sort of homemade thousand mile in dressing. It was delicious. Now I will say that it was a more posh place than we were looking for. Does that mean there was anything wrong with that? No.  But you know he's in a sweatshirt and everybody else seemed like in the restaurant was dressed up except us. For the most part. Yeah but but I would go back again in a heartbeat because they had really good food and they had a lot of other things on the menu. I think we're still on the hunt for the perfect sort of dive bar burger place with really good food. I think we're still on the hunt for that. But Oswego Grill is now on on the menu of places to go eat. It's good. Yep. All right we'll be back. Morning October 14th. I think I think that's the date anyway. It's still morning because it's like five minutes before noon. So technically I'm cool. If you ever had one of those days mornings where you sat down with your morning coffee and we're just going to read a little while you sip your coffee and the next thing you know it's lunchtime. My Monday. Anyway I've got two Etsy orders that have to go out today so I'm going to take care of them and get some other stuff done. We're headed to an overnight trip at the end of the week back to California which I have no problem telling you all about because by the time you hear about it we're going to be back. Okay Doki. So helps if I take off the parking brake. I popped in right aid really quick and I needed a new curling iron and some pantyhose and tights things like that. I'm going to a few events this holiday season starting next weekend and some of them are dressy events, conservative dressy events which is just best if I save the whole argument of my tattoos and things by just wearing pantyhose or tights and covering them up. It's just easier people. Do I care what people think that really?  So there you have it. So anyway I got that done. I did find a pair of actually cute leggings at right aid. I didn't even know they had that sort of thing there. I don't know what the quality is going to be like but they weren't very expensive so that works. I'm going to stop and I shouldn't say I'm going to stop. I'm debating stopping at Safeway to get chocolate let's be honest. It's in times of stress I eat and I'm already getting stressed out about something that hasn't even happened yet this weekend. The trip to California. So anyway I don't know. We'll see. I'll let you know when I get home if I stopped or not. I'll be back. Back home now and I ate my lunch and yeah we stopped at Safeway and got some chocolate. Not going to beat myself up about it.  Good afternoon it is Tuesday October 15th. I got no clue what time it is. I've been chatting with friends and editing video all morning. We're going to go check the mailbox. 16th I think and yes it's raining. Sure it's sleeves no coat. It's fine I'm good I'm not the wicked witch I won't melt. I was told recently that means I'm a true Oregonian now. I don't know that that's true but anyway I'm out and about running a few errands. I had to get some stuff at Staples. Popped into TJ Maxx really quick to see if they had something to wear to this weekend's family event. I didn't really think they would and they didn't. TJ Maxx is really not my store I keep trying but but I have stuff in the closet I can wear so I'm going to just do that. It may not live up to others expectations of what I should wear but am I awfully concerned about that? Not really. We're going to pop over to Fred Meyer since it's like kitty corner from here really quick. I want to see if they have a couple things for the house and then go home and I've got some art to do and video to film so I'll be back. I think it's a good thing that I'm done with the errands now because it's starting to rain a bit harder than it was and yeah I don't mind being out in the rain and it's not that cold it's 53 but for me that's not that chilly I'm you know fat fat since late right um but I'm done with my errands and I think it's time to go home and either have an extra cup of coffee or a nice cup of tea or something it's getting close to lunchtime I'm starting to get hungry all of those things so I'm going to go home I'm going to unpack everything I'm going to get my little midi travel sketch bag ready or start to get it ready I will go over it with y'all when I get ready to pack it um when I'm going on short trips like this I don't take of course my full arts suitcase with me that's a bit too much um so but I have a small delphonics bag I bring things I can do either in the hotel room or on the airplane my daily sketches I can keep up with the daily sketches so anyway all right that's it I'm going to head home I don't know if I can get there with that way so I need to get off the video and I'll be back merch samples just came in so I got two new tank tops one with a logo that's been in the store for a while it's actually a combination of two logos be a decent human and don't be an a-hole it doesn't say a-hole fyi if you're offended by foul language some of the merch in my store may be offensive just saying it all right then one of the new ones that's in the shop own your shit and I don't mean literal poop y'all know what I mean just own it and then a new pair of leggings with my artwork on them cool I can't wait to wear them okay so while I'm not ready to actually pack this yet I've got a couple days yet I wanted to show you all this is my large delphonics bag you see the front's covered with lots of buttons this is what I take when I'm just going on a short trip and I'm not taking a ton of art supplies and or I'm not taking a ton of art supplies with me this is the very basic basics mostly just my daily drawing stuff I don't really keep a ton of stuff in the outside pockets because I'm usually putting this in a backpack and as it is the buttons can get caught on things but then also things don't really stay super well in the pockets but I have a pair of scissors here a small pair of travel scissors and then in the back here I have my daily pages journal where I write in and I have a mini clipboard as I hard place to put my journals on if I'm like drawing in my lap or something I have a pair of reading glasses my nice fountain pen my whatever journals I'm working on currently are in here right now I've got five little journals oops those three littler ones and then these two bigger ones and then make sure things don't fall on the floor okay and then I have a rag and a chamois and there's two small mini paint brushes here these are for wiping brushes off smearing graphite that kind of thing and then I have the pencil case inside this is a home cube case I will it both the delphonics bag and the home cube case are both from amazon and I will link them in the description if you're interested the delphonics bag comes in this large size and there is a small one which I actually have here and when I'm bringing more watercolor things with me I bring this one which is packed full of watercolor stuff I'm not bringing it this time I'm going to leave this one at home I'm only gone for an overnight trip so um anyway the home cube case um has my travel daily drawing stuff in it so normally my daily drawing bag this actually sits on the sofa we're down in my family room quite a variety of pens and pencils um rags ink um rulers drawing guides um different various things in here um and this actually zips up really nicely into a sort of duffel bag shape and I can stow it away when we're having company um but it just stays down here and when I'm working on the watercoloring uh or maybe my uh black doodle journal um which that stuff is upstairs I'm not working on it at the moment anyway that's like stuffed in the corner that stuff with me this time I'm just bringing this daily drawing stuff um and so I have a variety of black pens in here a couple of water brushes of course I have my black bic crystal pen um I've got here's another water brush I've got some pastel highlighters I do use highlighter markers or at least I have been uh lately uh in my daily drawings I really love them I'm still using the gel um highlighter crayons and then smearing them with water but these sort of highlighter markers are great um I got these today and these are by these are from staples and I I'm bringing these because they're thin and they're the same basic colors I use every day generally I use these which are my favorite castel and these are great I love them I use them all the time but they're too big to bring so I got these smaller ones and then of course I've got a variety of the gel crayons that I love and some uniball signal white gel pens a couple of pencils in the bottom and eraser um a blending stuff and that sort of thing so every all the basic stuff that I really need to get some um you know quick easy daily drawing stuff done this is what I'm going to bring with me uh for the quick family thing that we're doing this weekend and that way I have stuff to work on while we're traveling so anyway I hope it gives you guys some ideas of what you can do when you're on the go hey guys it is 5 11 p.m thursday october 17th don't get excited I'm looking at the ipad um I was up um I slept in a little bit after um the husband went to work usually I get up with him but the last couple days I've had trouble getting to sleep which means that I am just there's I have no energy to get up with him when he gets up but and goes to work at I don't know 6 30 in the morning so I've stayed in bed a little bit later and I did that again today and then I went ahead and started getting ready for our trip tomorrow and getting some things done here around the house pulling out a suitcase packing I'm really hoping we can just get everything into one carry on and one or two uh backpacks um my husband and I are notorious for overpacking I'm really hoping that we can get everything in one suitcase but I don't know if that's gonna happen I don't know we'll see um I would make things quicker when we land if we didn't have to check anything which I won't get into right now on camera but let's just say that our time commitments are tighter than we thought they were on friday so um yeah and I'm gonna I'm not flying in a address and heels and makeup and no just no so anyway um but I did go ahead and get some work done today that I needed to get done upstairs in the art room some paper clips done for the next few days that I can share over the next few days and some really cute ones I think this time not that they're all not cute but these this next batch is pretty cute um I did my daily drawings already for today early I usually don't do them until after dinner but I did them already and I've got my little bit of drawing stuff that I'm gonna take with me um already packed I do take even even no matter no matter how long or short the trip may be I usually take the very minimum a sketchbook and a and a pen um it helps keep me um saying it on an even keel so and when I can't sleep um having something to do like that to do helps me get sleepy or read I will take my mini um tablet with me so it has all my books on it anyway yeah it's been in the focus of my day is getting ready for tomorrow sorry the light is funky but is that better that's a little better at least my eye bags show up a little less it's a little less unattractive um but it's overcast and cloudy out um it's been raining off and on all day so I don't know if we're gonna go walking or not um we didn't get any walking last night because it was just by the time he got home it was black outside not that we mind walking in the dark but it's probably not the smartest thing to do um but I still don't mind doing it I bring a flashlight and I wear I put on a white sweatshirt at the very least um my husband has really bad circulation like really bad even bundled up with gloves on we will come back from a walk and his fingers will be white they're so cold so that's an issue so I don't know I don't know if he's going to be up to it so I guess we'll see when he gets home which should hopefully be in a bit I don't know we'll see anyway I'll bring you with us when I can on the trip and uh yeah and I'll try to film a little something at the wedding we'll see what I get we'll see what happens all right I'll be back in case I didn't say we're going back to California for a family wedding that's why we're going it's actually tomorrow evening and um then um we come home Saturday so I'm hoping we get some time in to like do a little driving around in California maybe go to Diso I'd rather go driving around see some sites do a little shopping you know so we'll see what happens I'll be back remember what I was saying about going walking yeah more than a little drizzle I guess we're staying home all right I'll be back overnight trip for a family function and planes I don't like airplanes I've been on a lot of airplanes the last two years but I don't like airplanes what are you gonna what are you gonna do so anyway it is a pretty Portland it's you know for me it's perfect weather Fred's probably chilly you're good he's good big surprise so anyway we're hoping to get to the terminal in enough time to grab a cup of coffee before we have to go to the gate but we'll see what happens anyway I'll bring you with us where we can I got my drink tickets he has complimentary drink coupons from Southwest Airlines because of some prior issues of the flight so he's hoping for a morning Bloody Mary just FYI Bloody Mary anyway I don't drink so it's good whatever all right I'll be back landed in California literally a few minutes ago and we're in the rental car we haven't even left the vicinity of the airport and we already saw two stupid drivers and what does he say welcome to California this is gonna be fun I'm gonna get in the left hand turn lane and go straight right or make a u-turn over a double yellow over double in the middle of a street with no warning yeah welcome to California stills and video from the wedding which I'll include right about here it was a very nice wedding here at the holiday in a very nice facility we're in the executive suite which is a nice room anyway your girl here holy cow my middle name's not grace I've said that right so they had a bouquet toss for luck instead of tossing it to see who was the next one going to be to have a baby or get married as is more traditional this is for luck which I think I like better anyway they made all the women get up and I made sure to stand in the back because I really didn't want to catch it because I don't like anyway guess who caught the bouquet with her face you're you got it so your girl here she's so graceful like I caught it it smacked me right in the face and then I had to go pick it up I don't know how I'm gonna get that home anyway Fred's still downstairs partying hardy everybody was dancing I didn't want to interrupt them I told him to tell them all good night I came up here because I need to put my knee up because it's bothering me a bit and I want to do a little bit of drawing and sketching and so I'm going to do that and I will be back probably in the morning unless Fred does something cute because he's a tad toasty yeah it was also really not fun to be a part of a party where everybody was drinking it was only sober one and I couldn't dance because my knee hurt so anyway what are you gonna do all right it's Saturday morning October 19th morning don't get excited I only know that because the wedding was yesterday that was the 18th anyway we are up it's 9 17 a.m. and we are going for a drive around the back roads of Auburn California what are we in Newcastle Newcastle right now we're gonna be stopping over at Amal in Roosevelt so I can go to Daiso before we go home and one more I think quick visit with family before we fly home but we will bring you with us where we can we'll be back fun trip but we are glad to be home fully it's not rainy and storming we were worried about how bumpy the landing was going to be and how wet we were going to get getting to the car as you can hear if you can hear the kids next door are having a party evidently they're having a great old time which is good we are going to sit and chill have a snack it's something I don't know what time it is but it doesn't matter we're hungry so anyway it was a fun trip it's been a fun week we hope you've had a good one if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links my happy mail address places to follow me on social media the Etsy store and 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Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at the adoption expense tax credit. This topic is covered in your accounting courses, tax course, and the CPA exam. Now if you are studying for your CPA exam, I strongly suggest you check out my website forhatlectures.com. I do not replace your CPA review course, whether you are the Rebecca, Roger, Glyme, Wiley, or any other course. What I can be is a supplement, is a vitamin pill, is that extra help that's gonna add 10 to 15 points on your CPA exam. So here's my offer to you. Are you willing to try my system for a month to find out whether you can add 10 to 15 points on your CPA exam that's gonna jumpstart your career? If you think it's worth it, I would suggest you give it a chance. Also, if not for anything, check out my website to find out how well is University of the Wing on the CPA exam. I also have, in addition to CPA resources, I have resources for your accounting courses, tax audit, governmental, financial, managerial costs, as well as international and others. Please connect with me on LinkedIn, like this recording, and connect with me on Instagram and Facebook. Let's take a look at the adoption tax credit. So simply put, a taxpayer, if they adopted a child, they can deduct, they can get a credit, not the deduction, they can get a credit, a maximum of 14,300 per eligible child. Now, bear in mind, this amount changes from year to year. So you can claim this adoption credit as long as you paid up to that amount. Now, if you paid more, you are limited to 14,300 per one eligible child. Now, the couples must file jointly, they must have a joint return, and those expenses, they have to be eligible expenses. What are eligible expenses? Well, something like adoption fees for an adoption agency have to pay fees, and those fees are very expensive, court cost, attorney fees, and any other fees related or somehow related to the legal adoption of that eligible child. Now, what is an eligible child? Well, an eligible child, it's a child that's under the age of 18, and notice or not and or incapable of taking of hers, of himself or herself. But that child does not include the child of an individual spouse. Let's assume you, you got married to a person who already have a child. Well, you cannot say you adopted that child. That's that does not count. Okay. So qualified expenses also do not include any reimbursement under an employer program. So simply put, if you paid those expenses, the adoption fees, the court cost, then your employer gave you money to kind of reimburse you. Well, you cannot have it both ways. Get the money from your employer and claim the credit. And we'll talk about this topic a little bit at the end. You have to understand that adoption proceeding, they could spend over several years until it becomes final. So we have special rules on how when to take that adoption. So in the case the expenses paid in the years before the adoption becomes final, taxpayer take it, take the expense immediately after the year it's paid. So simply put, let's assume you made some payment in 2019, but the adoption was not finaled in 2020, then we have 2021. So let's assume you paid an amount here. If the adoption is not final for in that year, then you can take the, the, the expense in 2020. Now expenses paid in the year, the adoption is finalized or after. So once it's once the adoption is finalized in any years after, if you paid any expenses, then you can take the credit in that particular year. And remember the total per child is 14,300 subject to obviously changes from year to year by the IRS. So this is basically, this is for 2020, but it could, it could change. Let's take a look at an example. March and Homer legally adopted a child in 2020. They incurred and paid qualified expenses, 6,000 in 2019. Notice the year before and 4,000 in 2020, the year of the adoption and 5,000 in 2021, a total of $15,000. So what, how much can they deduct? So without any AGI limitation, Homer and March would be entitled to an, to an, to adoption credit of 10,000 in 2020. Why 10,000 in 2020? Because they paid 6,000 in 2019, which going to be taken in 2020, 4,000 in 2020 together is 10,000. And an additional, this is not 4,080. This should be 4,300 in 2021. So why 4,300? This is a mistake here because in total you are, you are eligible for 14,300. They already took 10,000 in 2020. What's left is 4,300 and they did incur 5,000. Now without the limitation, if there was no limitation, they could, they could have took 15,000 in total, but there is a limitation. Okay. So anything above 14,300, you might incur it. Some people pay a lot of money to, to finalize an adoption, but that's, you cannot use it for the tax credit. Now there are special rules. If the child is not a US citizen or residents of the United States under those circumstances, you cannot take the credit until the adoption is final or in later years. So the credit is allowed only in the year in which the adoption you have to wait becomes final or later year, later year of the expenses were paid or incurred or after, if you incurred any expenses, you can take them, but it has to be final. Now there are special rules for special needs child. So placed, if you are placed with an adoptive parent where the state agency financial help is needed. So the parents adopted a child and that child needs financial assistance from the state maybe due to a mental, a mental handicapped or a physical handicapped or some medical issue. Under those circumstances, it does not matter whether you paid 14,300 or more, 14,300 or more, you can get the full credit. So let's assume it only cost you $6,000. Well, it doesn't matter because basically you're helping the state. Therefore, they would allow you 14,300 because now you're taking care of a child that has a special needs. Therefore, the government want to encourage you to do so and help the state as well because you're alleviating some of that help from the state. Now, obviously, there's a phase out for the adoption tax credit, not everyone gets the credit and simply put the phase out. Once your AGI or it said modified AGI, don't worry about modified AGI for the CPA exam, just know that AGI modified means you might have to add or subtract certain income from your AGI. Once your AGI exceeds to 14,520, you will start to lose some of that credit. Then once it reaches 254,520 and you're above that, then you would lose the whole thing. So the phase out range is $40,000. So simply put, this is to 14,520 and this is 254,520, there's 40,000. So once you reach that amount, once you reach to 14,520, you will start into the phase out range, you will start to lose some of that credit. Once you go to 254,520 or above, that's it, you no longer qualify for the credit. Now, if you are in between, if you are within the range, here's what's going to happen, you're going to take 254,520, which is the upper range. And again, those numbers will change from year to year and deduct your modified AGI divided by the phase out range. So let's take a look at an example. Homer and Marsh spent $18,000 in qualified adoption expenses. Notice $18,000 is first of all more than $14,300. Their modified adjusted gross income is 220. Their modified adjusted gross income is higher than the, they went into the phase out range. How do they compute their adoption credit? You will take the upper limit minus modified adjusted gross income divided by 40,000. And you will take this ratio and you multiply it by 14,300. You don't multiply it by 18,000. So some students, what they do, they multiply it by the qualified, by the total adoption expense. No, you multiply it by the limit and that limit will change from year to year. And this upper limit might change from year to year. So you just have to know the formula. It's the upper limit minus AGI, if you are within the limit divided by 40,000. And this 40,000 could change, but for a long time, that phase out range is 40,000. And then you multiply it by the maximum credit. Therefore, they are eligible for 12,341, although they paid 18,000. So remember to multiply the fraction by 14,300. Now, if the taxpayer received any assistance from their employer, if the taxpayer received employer provided adoption benefit, like simply put money, the amount of qualified adoption expenses is limited to the amount that you paid in excess of your employer. So if you incurred 8,000 and your employer gave you 8,000, then you have really no adoption tax credit because you were reimbursed. If they gave you 8,000, you incurred 9,000, then you have a 1,000. Now, what happened if they gave you more than what you incurred? You incurred 8,000, but they gave you 10,000, then you have 2,000 of taxable income because they gave you more than what you needed. Let's take a look at a couple more examples to see how this all worked together. Homer and Marsh incurred the following expenses in the adoption of their infant daughter, which was finalized in 2020. They paid 10,500 in 2019 and they paid 3,950 in 2020. If their modified adjusted gross income is 120, how much they can claim in 2019? How about 2020? Well, for one thing we know from their AGI, their way below the threshold, so there's no reason for any phase out, how much can they claim in 2019? The 2019 zero because remember, it was not finalized. Their amount is moved to 2020. How much can they claim in 2020? Well, they can claim the maximum. What's the maximum? Well, remember, they actually incurred. Let's do the math so we'll see that how much they were incurred. They incurred 10,500 plus 3,950, which is 14,450. They can only claim 14,300. Therefore, the 150 they cannot use. So the maximum, so in 2020, 14,300, 2019, zero. Let's look at another scenario. Marsh and Homer spent 16,000 and it qualified adoption expenses in the adoption of their son. The adoption was finalized and all the expenses were incurred in the current year. Assuming their AGI is 236,000, how much can they take? Now remember here, their AGI is or their modified AGI, I'm just going to call it AGI. Notice that it exceeded the phase out range. Remember, the phase out range, let's go back to the phase out range. What's the phase out range? It starts at 214,520. 214,520 and we have to add 40,000 to that. So we're going to take 254,520, which is the upper limit minus 236, divide that amount by 40,000, then multiply the whole thing by 14,300 and that's going to give us 6,621. And this is their adoption tax credit, adoption tax credit. And let me just do the math just to make sure this all adds up. Let me just get the calculator here. So I'll show you the percentages as well, so this way you can see the percentages. So we're looking at 254,520 minus 236,000 toward the upper limit, divide this by 40,000 and that's going to give us a ratio of 0.46. We're going to multiply this ratio by 14,300 and that's 6,621 grounding. Now, if once again, if you are a CPA candidate or an accounting student, especially if you're a CPA candidate, I strongly suggest you check out my website for additional resources, especially that if you are finding difficulty or hard time with your CPA review course and you need that additional vitamin supplemental tool to pass the course. 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Kubernetes as universal infrastructure control plane. Kubernetes is generally related to as a piece of software that is pretty much useful for orchestrating and managing containerized applications. However, Kubernetes by its inherent extensibility is useful even to manage infrastructure outside of a Kubernetes cluster. I am Raghuraman Balak Chandra and I am a co-founder at Invisible Cloud where we offer gravity as cell service Kubernetes platform that simplifies the developer experience for Kubernetes while DevOps teams and central teams can use gravity to standardize Kubernetes across the organization. So Kubernetes operators are useful to perform custom automations that are not natively offered by the Kubernetes APIs available out of the box of any Kubernetes cluster. So what we can do is, so if you have, let's say, some kind of a custom automation that we want to run, then we can write our own operators where we define what the spec or the schema looks like through a custom resource definition. And then when the user creates a custom resource, the user provides essentially a desired set of inputs that is required for the custom resource to be created. And then we have a piece of logic that takes those inputs and then performs whatever automation that is required. While you may not have written on operator by yourself, you're very likely to have used a lot of operators. So whenever you install any kind of add-on to a Kubernetes cluster, they essentially are operators written by irrespective vendors. So operators allows us to perform these kinds of custom automations, right? So why not we use these operators to even manage cloud resources? Why should we use a third-party tool to even orchestrate cloud resources, such as a database or an object store and so on and so forth. So we can use Kubernetes to orchestrate cloud resources through these custom operators. And the key benefit is that users can use then the familiar Kubernetes-based models like writing the YAML definitions, like how you would write for a deployment or an increase or a part. And in the same fashion, you can actually even provision cloud resources, right? And then you can manage them using the rich set of tools available within the Kubernetes ecosystem. So in the past, there have been attempts made to achieve this from a Kubernetes cluster itself. So one of the earliest implementations were done on using the Kubernetes service catalog API where you can have an open service broker implementation to provision cloud resources through Kubernetes itself, right? And currently today, all the cloud providers offer their own specific operators. So for example, AWS offers something called ACK, which is AWS own controller for Kubernetes. Azure has something called Azure service operator and GCP has GCP connected. So all of them are custom operators provided by the specific cloud provider where you can use these operators, install them on the cluster and then provision respective cloud services through these operators. One of the other interesting things that is happening in various organizations currently is what is called as the rise of platform teams, right? So many organizations are building internal platform teams where these platform teams are tasked with building abstractions where these abstractions are offered as shared services to developers. And the abstractions actually take care of implementing a lot of these best practices, policies and guardrails, right? So for example, if a developer needs, let's say a database or a queuing service or a messaging service, then the platform team actually builds these kinds of abstraction and offers it to developers where developers simply say, okay, I just need this queue and the service actually takes care of provisioning the actual infrastructure. Developers on the other hand, expect a self-service way of consuming these abstractions where they can simply use a self-service experience to provision infrastructure so that they can actually move fast without being limited by DevOps teams bandwidth and so on and so forth. And the key thing is they don't want to deal with the infrastructure directly where they'll have to be required to provide a lot of configurations and parameters, right? This is exactly where Crossplane comes into the picture, right? So Crossplane is an open source project where it can be used to orchestrate any cloud infrastructure from a Kubernetes cluster, right? So Crossplane exists as what's called as an universal control plane. And using Crossplane platform teams can actually compose various abstractions and offer them to developers. And these abstractions hide away all the complexities of provisioning the infrastructure. And the abstraction can actually also implement all the guardrails and policies and controls that is required by a particular organization. Developers when they want to provision an infrastructure they simply use these abstractions. And the key thing is that they can use the same Kubernetes style declarative way of defining the infrastructure and provision those infrastructure directly. And Crossplane has out of the box support for all the major cloud providers. And you can pretty much provision any cloud service through Crossplane currently. So let's dive a little bit deeper into Crossplane. And at a high level, there are six major building blocks that Crossplane offers. We will dive into each one of them to understand what they are and how we can use them to compose our infrastructure. So before I dive into those concepts, so let's look at a simple use case. So let's say a platform team wants to offer a simple PostgreSQL service or an abstraction where the service takes care of a lot of these configurations and the developers simply specify what is the required storage and in which cloud provider they would want the PostgreSQL instance to be created. And the rest of the configurations, everything will be automatically taken care by this particular PostgreSQL abstraction that the platform team is offering. So with that as the context, so let's look at how we can use Crossplane to offer such an abstraction or a service. So the first concept is providers. So providers as the name suggests are the actual infrastructure providers. So these are the actual Crossplane packages that gets installed on a cluster and it deals with the actual cloud service APIs whenever a particular resource needs to be created. So in this example, you can simply install, for example, a provider AWS which has all the required managed resources which I'll talk about in the next slide. And it can be used to create any resource within the AWS cloud. The next building block is called as managed resource. A managed resource within Crossplane actually represents an external resource such as a cloud service. So it could be an RDS instance or a GCP is Cloud SQL instance any AWS or a GCP or an Azure service, for example. And this is a fundamental core building block that can be used to create corresponding cloud services. So what you see here on the right side is where you can create an RDS instance by specifying various properties and when you apply this YAML, a corresponding RDS instance actually gets created. So while you can directly create a cloud resource through managed resources, most people will not use this directly because most of the time we would want a higher level abstraction that takes care of even composing other required infrastructure as well. And that's where compositions come into picture. And we start composing infrastructure through compositions and the first step to do that is to define something called as a composite resource definition, XRB in short term. So an XRB essentially has the spec or the schema that defines what kind of composite resources exist within the system and it can be used to create various resources downstream, right? So think of XRB is very similar to the Kubernetes custom resource definitions if you have dealt with that before. Or if you're, let's say, coming from the data form world XRB can be thought of similar to variable blocks that you will have in a typical TF module. So here is a simple example for a composite resource definition. So in this case, for our Postgres SQL example, so we are defining a kind called as X Postgres SQL instance and simply we are defining this spec of this composite resource definition. So this is again left to the platform team, right? So they're actually creating a custom definition and this spec can be defined as they are going to define the actual abstraction. So in this case, we are defining a spec which simply expects the storage GB as the parameter from the end user, right? Okay, so now we have a spec, then the next step is to actually create different compositions. So a composition essentially allows us to create various resources in the form of a composition, right? So you compose various resources using a composition and these can be used by cross plane to create the actual underlying resources. So the composition in turn creates the corresponding managed resources such as the RDS instance or a Cloud SQL instance in the respective cloud provider. So as a platform team, what we will be essentially doing is creating different types of compositions. So whatever abstractions we want to offer, we will create different variants of that abstraction through compositions, right? So in our example of trying to offer a Postgres SQL instance, we could have a production Postgres which automatically configures high availability and encryption while a Dev Postgres composition restricts let's say instance types, so let's say small or the medium, right? So like that we can create different flavors of our composition and offer them to developers to actually provision the resources. So a composition can be thought of something similar to a Terraform module or a Helm template that is used to define how a particular resource will get provision. So for our example of trying to offer an abstraction for creating Postgres SQL instance on both AWS and GCP, a platform team essentially creates two compositions but both of them if you see are of kind ex Postgres SQL instance. This is also of ex Postgres SQL instance and the GCP one is also of ex Postgres SQL instance. But where they differ is that in the AWS case, the actual underlying managed resource that is getting created is obtained already as instance, whereas on the GCP side, the managed resource is actually a Cloud SQL instance. Then as part of the composition itself, we can pre-configure a lot of parameters. This is where you start baking in a lot of those best practices and guard rails and so on so forth. So we can do that as part of the composition itself. And then when the user gives the inputs, let's say in this case, we want to accept the storage GB as an input, then we can merge those user inputs to the actual managed resource that is getting created. So in this case, we are saying we are accepting storage GB as a parameter from the user. In a GCP scale is map the parameter to the data disk size GB on the GCP side, while on the AWS side, map that same parameter to the allocated storage on the AWS side. So this is how we create different types of compositions depending upon how we would want to create our abstractions. Now, once the compositions are available, the next step is to actually create those resources that we want. So that's when we create a composite resource. A composite resource represents a set of managed resources that will eventually get created in the underlying cloud service provider. So a composite resource provides the required inputs from the user to the composition. And then the composition kickstarts creation of the managed resources in the underlying cloud provider. So composite resource can be thought of similar to a custom resource in the Kubernetes world or like a TFRs or a Helm avaliage.yaml, right? That's how you would relate to a composite resource. So let's say we switch the persona and we go to a developer persona and we want to create a resource, then essentially we create a composite resource. We're saying that we want an X Postgres SQL instance database and we're saying that, okay, we want 20 GB and the provider is AWS. That's all we are saying. And when we apply this YAML, the respective composition is automatically picked up and the corresponding managed resources are automatically created by cross claim. There's also another concept called as composite resource claim. A composite resource claim is very similar to a composite resource. It actually one-to-one maps to a composite resource and also has the exact same schema like a composite resource, right? The key difference between XRC resource claim and a composite resource is that typically XRC, the composite resource claim is used by developers and DevOps teams and platform teams can use the composite resource to create resources, right? And the other key difference is that the composite resource claims are all namespace scoped. They reside within the namespace that is specified and the composite resources are actually clustered scoped, right? But one-to-one they have a exact same spectrum schema and they relate to each other in a one-to-one fashion. So how does all these things actually get assembled and you put together how does it look like, right? So the first step is the platform team defines the spec through a composite resource definition. And then the platform team can create different compositions which create the actual composite resources. And as a developer, they initiate a composite resource claim to be created by creating a claim which in turn creates a composite resource and the composite resource starts creating all the required managed resources in the underlying provider as defined in the composition defined by the platform teams, right? So that's how this whole thing is going to work. Okay, so with that, let's actually jump into a demo where we will see things in action. So I've got a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS EKS and I've got it connected to my local and you can see that my Qube config is currently connected to that, right? Now the first step to do is that we can start installing cross plane so that can be installed just by using a helm and install the cross plane helm template. And once cross plate is installed, then the first step is to actually install the provider that you would want to enable. So in this case, you can simply say I want to have provider AWS to be installed because we are going to deal with AWS primarily. And I've already got that as well installed on the cluster. So if I just say, okay, get providers. So I've got the provider AWS installed on the cluster, right? Now, so let's say we want to create an SQS abstraction where we want to offer an SQS service where developers can create a Qs on the fly. So what we will first do is we will create a composite resource definition for SQS. And we define, okay, it's a composite SQS and it can be claimed by the developer using the name SQS and we simply define the spec for this particular abstraction that we want to offer. It's a very simple spec where we simply accept name, region and the visibility time out from the end user, right? So that's the first step to define a composite resource definition. Then we define a composition, right? Where we are saying that, okay, that's a composite SQS kind. And in the composition, we are pre-defining the message retention period and we are accepting visibility time out region from the user. And that's actually mapped from the user specified parameter to the actual visibility time out property in the actual underlying managed resource. Similarly, region is also mapped to the region parameter in the managed resource, right? And so that's the composition. And as a user, when I want to use this composition and create a particular SQS queue, I simply say, okay, I want to create a queue. The name is whatever demo SQS and region is us each one and the visibility time out is 30. And I can also say that, okay, once this queue is created, I want the queue connection details to be available in a particular secret because my application needs to be able to connect to the particular queue, right? So that's actually good and install all of this. So let's say we first install the CRD, right? So let's actually apply the CRD ML. That should happen. Yeah, so we have got the composite resource definition created. So the next step is to define the, to install the composition, we'll go ahead and actually install the composition. So typically this activity will be performed by the platform steam and the compositions will be available. And then when it's available for the developer, they simply initiate a claim which actually creates a queue, right? So now that the composition is actually available, we can actually go out and create a particular queue as well. So before that, let's actually switch to SQS console. So we don't have any queue available here. So let's actually go and say SQS claim.yaml to actually initiate creation of a particular SQS queue. So yeah, so there you go. SQS demo is created. See if I actually say go to cube CTL get SQS demo. I should actually see out. So I actually have the SQS demo queue created. So what you see here is, you now start managing SQS itself from Kubernetes, right? So you now have that custom resource created here itself and actually can manage that particular queue from Kubernetes itself without even going to the AWS console or using any other tool, right? So if I switch back to my AWS console, a queue should get created in another few seconds. Maybe yeah, there you go, right? So the queue actually has got created. So as simple as that. So now the power of Transplane now comes into picture where like I mentioned, you can now manage everything from Kubernetes itself. And because it runs in Kubernetes itself, all the aspects of Kubernetes like your reconciliation loop, all those things also apply to even this particular cloud resource, right? So let's take for example, somebody goes and modifies this particular queue where they actually go and change the visibility time mode. Let's say 60 seconds instead of 30 seconds, right? And say go and save, right? So now because the queue was created from Kubernetes through Transplane, it will automatically try to maintain the state as defined in your desired state, right? So the reconciliation loop is always going to keep reconciling and finding out whether there is any change and automatically detect the drift and you know, revert that change. So if I actually go back and refresh this, so it's one minute now. And if you give another a few seconds while the crossplane kicks in and finds out that you know this particular thing has changed, it will actually revert it back. So let me actually see if it happens. I think we just have to, yeah, there you go, right? So the time out, visibility time out has actually come back to 30 seconds as defined in our claim, right? So that is the key difference between crossplane and other infrastructure as code tool, right? Where drifts can be automatically detected and automatically reconciled and you can go back to your desired state as defined in your spec, right? So that was a simple demo. And if you just want to delete this particular queue we can actually again, simply delete it from here itself, right? Entire lifecycle can be managed from Kubernetes itself, right? So that was the simple demo of how you can use a crossplane to provision cloud service like an AWS SQS right out of your Kubernetes cluster. Now the next question is what about part identities, right? So now this queue has got created. How does the application connect to that particular queue because it needs credentials to talk to the particular queue, right? So in terms of AWS IAM roles or whatever, right? Now every pod when it wants to connect to a particular cloud service then it needs to have those fine-grained permissions that are specific to what that particular pod needs to connect to. Let's say there's a pod that connects to SQS it needs only SQS permission. If there is a pod that needs to connect to let's say DynamoDB it needs to have only that particular permission. So this whole thing needs to be again dynamically created whenever the pod comes up and you need to create those respective IAM roles and policies and also create those respective service accounts, right? So if you're operating as a platform then this whole process needs to be again automated, right? So how do we do that? So again, the operators are to the rescue, right? So what we can do is we can actually have our own custom operator to manage the whole pod identity aspect, right? So you can have your own custom operator written where what it does is whenever a pod comes up and it needs to let's say connect to a particular cloud service it identifies which service it needs to connect to it automatically creates those required IAM roles and policies and also creates the required community service accounts attached to the particular pod. And you know, immediately the pod can actually start connecting to that particular queue, right? So hopefully that gives you an idea of how we can automate the entire infrastructure of provisioning cloud services and even provisioning IAM roles everything through operators through a combination of cross-plane and our own custom operators. So in terms of the benefits that cross-plane offers I think the first fundamental benefit is that because we are managing everything through Kubernetes itself now as users we can use the Kubernetes ecosystem and its tools to even manage cloud resources, right? You don't have to use another third party tool to manage cloud resources. The entire state of your cloud resources are available within your Kubernetes clusters itself, right? And that's a big advantage in terms of simplifying the entire infrastructure pipelines. And we also saw in the demo where the reconciliation happens automatically so that any drifts that happens in the infrastructure outside of cross-plane is automatically detected and it maintains a desired state as defined in our definitions, right? This is very, very powerful where any drifts is actually automatically rolled back. So that's pretty much it. So hopefully that was useful. So if you have any follow-up questions so please do reach out to me. Thank you and have a great day.


Hey guys welcome to another episode of percussion in the news today We are talking about some really cool zilgen ads. So to jump into this first one. This one's really neat This is from the Modesto B, which is in Modesto, California from August 30th, 1929 It says holds symbol secret Constantinople there are symbols and symbols but all of those Noisemakers owe their origin to a family in Samatia a suburb of this city Which has guarded its secret for several hundred years the name of the family zilgen means symbol makers The secret method of making instruments is now held by the head of the clan a woman more than 80 years old So I have to remember back to the podcast episode with Paul Francis about zilgen But I'm pretty sure that this is Aunt Victoria where there was a period where she was the only one who had it I believe she actually was the reason why then more than one person had the family secret and Mikhail the cousin Mikhail got the secret and I think that trickled down to what later became Sabian but I believe she then passed it on to Arum zilgen and So on and so on and so on but at one point. She was the only one who had the family secret So it's kind of cool to see that History actually written up in a newspaper in the Modesto B. Let me read my sheet here This is from the Boston Globe in 1938. This one's interesting Let me read it and then we'll talk a little bit more of how this is connected to Some drum history that we've heard about before So it says investigate theft from Quincy cruiser Quincy November 21st Special officer Thomas Fallon of the Quincy police is investigating the theft of marine equipment stolen from the luxurious cabin cruiser of Armin zilgen famous symbol designer from a local yacht yard over the weekend the equipment included expensive binoculars a Crenometer and a bronze propeller the boat had been stored at the yacht yard for the winter Okay, so this is obviously cool because it includes Armin zilgen in here But I think what makes this stick out a little bit is because I've heard before that his boat Which I believe was called the Mahal was where he would take drummers like Gene Krupa Buddy rich Joe Jones, he would hang out with these guys and his boat was sort of like they're like Place to go they're like get away where they could go and do whatever they want have some drinks smoke some cigars I'm sure at that time so hopefully special officer Thomas Fallon got to the bottom of it And Armin got his binoculars back and stuff like that. So next we've got an ad from 1929 This is from the Indianapolis Star January 13th 1929 it says symbols now made in American factory Quincy mass January 12th INS a local factory has begun the manufacture of zilgen symbols the first time that these musical accessories have been made in America I looked up what INS means and I think that's immigration and naturalization services Because they're immigrating to the country and I guess that had to be included. I'm not really sure But I think that's what that means. That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it I want to thank my friend Jerry Rhyman who has put together this awesome book for me Which I'm working through called percussion in the news And there's lots more to come. I got a new camera. So this probably looks a little different I'll probably still tweak the settings and kind of where I'm looking and all that stuff But anyway, I hope you like this one be sure to comment below if you like this and maybe some ideas of brands You want to hear about next and I'll see if I have them Subscribe give me a thumbs up and we'll see you on the next one. Thank you You


Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva. We're very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Barry Cooper, who is from the Center for Financial Regulation and Inclusion, or SEMFRI. Barry, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now, I'd like to start off by perhaps we could talk a little bit about your experience in your organization, in the area of digital currency or central bank digital currency. It is a while. We keep a lookout for instruments and payment systems that can benefit particularly developing economies. That's been on our radar. And we started looking at the deeper research in from 2016 onwards. And that's culminated in our first note, our first explosion note into the risks and benefits particularly with a developing economy mindset. And then that prompted us to look at particularly mobile money and the implications for different types of being agnostic to the different types of CBDC or DFC, overlaid on mobile money schemes, typical mobile money schemes that we found in our research. And there was a very interesting piece of research because it pointed us to the simplification of something that was quite complex and had grown up passively in various jurisdictions and was quite meaningful for those jurisdictions. So let's focus on central banks. Why should central banks consider issuing digital currency? Yeah, so that is a... I mean, some should and some most should consider, but some should really just consider it very, very well. Depending on all the preconditions, what is it that present themselves in each jurisdiction? But typically, what it can do is it can bridge the gap between a cash economy and a formalized economy. And that's very, very important because in most developing economies, you have upwards of 80% plus of the transactions in that economy done in cash. Cash is very expensive. Cash is difficult to transact over distance. And so a CBDC has a lot of those benefits, but it comes with a lot of health warnings as well. Now, you were based in Cape Town. What's the financial landscape like there? In Cape Town, we have the... I mean, in South Africa, obviously, not just in Cape Town itself, yeah. Cape Town and South Africa, we've got the full spectrum. We've got from very indigent people to very affluent. And so it gives us a really good insight into how these different systems interoperate at different market levels and with different needs. And so that's provided the impetus to look at other developing economies. Now, we mostly work in developing economies. We hardly do anything in South Africa. And I presume that the differences are quite varied, I mean, in terms of developing economies and developed economies. Yes, and particularly what we find important is not to take a developed economy mindset and try and cut and paste it into a developing context. The context really matters and harmonising a technology or a system into a developing world is very intricate. You need to really understand how that economy works and how things need to get sewn together. What are the main challenges, let's say, facing central banks in issuing digital currencies? Well, they're a number. Particularly in the developing world, capacity or expertise. Typically what happens is that as you develop expertise in the developing world, they migrate to the developed world. So it's getting their core expertise there. But it's also getting the prerequisite conditions like ITC infrastructure, communications infrastructure is vitally important to support it. You need to look at offline online capabilities. Those are all important. And those aren't usually problems you find to a significant degree in developed worlds. And finally, in what areas of digital currency are standards required for central banks and how do you think that the output of the digital currency focus group or ITU could help bridge the standards gap? Well, rigid standards are difficult to employ in developing markets. And the ITU focus group is assisting with creating guidelines of guidance that are not as rigid as standards, but that can in a sense create the potential for interoperability or harmonisation between different countries because ultimately, DFC or digital currency at some point will interoperate between countries. All right, well, Barry, thank you very much for joining us in the studio today. We hopefully will catch up with you again at some stage in the near future. And thank you for your work in the focus group as well. Thank you very much. Cheers.


Good morning traders, welcome to another tick mill chartit with me Pat. Morning traders, welcome to another joy of attention today to developing opportunity in gold on the daily time frame. Gold has been trading in this large corrective pattern which has an ultimate objective here of 1653 versus this 1960 high so that would be the equality objective for this correction to complete. So what I'm looking to do here is I'm looking to be short gold through 1718 to target this 1653 then I'll be watching to see if we set bullish reversal patterns there. Obviously you want to see that momentum divergence and I think we can trade higher in a move to test the yearly pivot from below at 1800. As always traders, plan the trade, trade the plan and most importantly manage your risk until next time. Thanks very much.


RealisticGaming here. Today we're playing the scary mansion in Roblox. Oh my god, and we got the rake, which he is a new killer.  Dude, he just murdered somebody. That is not cool, man.  And they added the rake in SCP-96 and AO-oni as a new killer. Oh my god, look at Shrek. Oh my god. Alright, so where's the rake at? I saw him go this way. Okay, so I haven't played this game in a cool while, so I don't know if they updated the map. There he is.  I'll help you, man. Just help out the poor guy. He's getting slaughtered by the rake over here. It's so dark, man. Okay, I think I'm gonna head out this way. I'll catch you later, rakes. Bye, you later, alligator. Okay, so let's go check out the map and see if there's any new parts that they've added. I don't think he has. I think the last time he updated was when he added this cemetery, which is pretty cool, I mean, but come on, update the game one last time. For Christ's sakes. Okay, let's have a look around. Oh my god, what is that? Sonic EXE? Oh my god, the classic Sonic. Hey, what's up, man? Oh, look, there's a flashlight right here. Can you take that one? Nope. Okay, now you can. Darkness mode. Oh. Okay, so it seems like this darkness mode is like new to it, to the game, or at least from what I know of. Okay, so oh my god, there's a lot of killers we're Sonic at. Why is there a new? Oh, there's a new blancher? I hear Sonic. Oh, there he is. Oh my god, the men is in Sonic EXE. Oh, yeah, my boy Sonic, I'm gonna need you to tone it down a bit. Okay, this guy is on a roll. Oh my goodness. Dude, that guy is crazy. Oh my god, look at him go. He's chasing after Ghostface killer. No.  Okay, he's got the other guy. That's what you get for standing. Oh, okay, I'm out of here, man.  Oh, that's a cool bendy outfit. Ooh, Jeff the killer. Okay, that is super loud. Where is he at? Oh, there he is. This guy's doing the moonwalk on him. Oh my god, okay, nice. We've managed to survive. Dude, there's major blood over here. What is going on over here? It looks like somebody got murdered or something.  And then ate an alien. Okay, that is weird. I have the idea what to make up of that. Okay, Ram has been chosen. I don't think I've ever played this before. Oh yeah, I have. Okay, nice double points. Ooh, let's go. Let me get my points up, man.  Oh, okay, Sonic, you need to chill, man. Jesus, he's so loud. I think Sonic has the worst jump score ever, just because it's so loud. Whoa, Sonic, relax. Okay, you think you're faster? You think you're faster?  Okay, let's race this dude. Oh, okay, that did not work out as planned. Okay, I was trying to race him, but he got me. Oh my god, I like how the fog moves in this cemetery. That is some pretty cool texture, man. Yo, what's up, bookmarks? Look at bookmarks over there, my boy. What's up, man? He's over there. Hey, what's up? What's up, man? All right, so he has the outfit from Stranger Things. That's pretty cool. Okay, so let's see if there's any other rare paintings or pictures on the wall, because they're pretty weird if you stare at them, like this one. Look at this. It's made up of a lot of monsters. Oh my god. Dude, they're so weird. Look at this guy down here. It's like a baby man. It's a man child. Okay, that one looks like Humpty Dumpty. Dude, they look so weird. Oh, Jason Vorreys. Jason, where are you at, Jason? Oh, oh my god, he's right here. Okay, maybe I should have caught out the killer's name, because then they're going to get us. Oh my god, it's so fast. Jason Vorreys. Oh my god. Okay, so let's see. Oh, the healing pets. Oh wait, they have healing pets now? Oh my god. Okay, so it's closed over here. Game passes. No, thank you. I don't want to waste my rope, but I'm good, man. Okay, the crazy elevator, every 51, and the scary elevator. All right, let's go back with Jason Vorreys.  Okay. No, that's what he gets. He was trying to run in circles, but it did not work.  Okay, let's take him to the crowd. Jason, can you stop following me? He's not stopping. Somebody's telling him to leave me alone. Okay, there you go. Okay, now he's coming for us again. Great. Oh my god. Jason is something else, man. Okay, so that was definitely crazy. Okay, yay. Oh, look, that's a sans pet. Cool, they have a sans pet. Let's go check out the healing pets. Let's see if they have... Oh my god, why is she bald? Bald Tiffany Mayumi, man. Okay, so are there any new weapons? Oh, new blancher, two 320 survivals? I only have 28. That does not seem right, man. I think he changed the survivals.  Oh no, the rake. It's so dark, it's dark to smoke again. Why is she just there? Whatever, man. Let's go look for the rake. Rake, where are you? Where's the rake, you guys? Have you guys seen the rake? I heard his laugh somewhere. Yo, is the rake anywhere out here? What's that? Oh, it's like a cool trail. Oh, there he is. Hey, how's it going, buddy?  Dude, man, you're trying to get him in circuit. Okay, get him. Jason, why is he not chasing him? Oh my god. Okay, so it seems like, oh, he actually got someone. Okay, so if you get too close to the glass, I think he can damage you. And let's test the theory. Okay, you're just going to stare at me, man? That is weird. Oh my god, this guy looks scary, yo. He has, like, blood in his mouth. That was a little spooky, man. Okay, oh my god, this dude's over here.  I wonder who that is. He probably works for, like, the Black Swatch. Oh, man. Okay, let's get out of here. Why did I get this guy? What is he even? Oh, he's like a caveman. Right, whatever. What's up, guys? Right, Ghost Face School has been chosen. Okay, so now we're off to school, where the killers go. I mean, now you're somewhere to go to school because it's Ghost Face School. Oh my god, okay, let's go in here. Do they have Baldy in here? No, they don't. Okay, I'm confusing it for the Scary School, which is another game. And it's in the Scary School right here. Okay, oh my god, where's Ghost Face? Dude, it's that guy that does the moonwalk. Why aren't you doing the moonwalk to survive, man? That's the only way you can survive.  They're just trying to learn in here at school. Oh, why did her hair fly off? It's like she had a wig on. Let's play basketball. Oh, we can jump up here? Oh, we can't. We need like a boost. Let's try to jump. Hey, can you give me a boost, man? Oh, we can't jump on players. Oh, we can't make it. Okay, whatever. Let's get out of here. Let's goodaddle. Okay, what? Why is Ghost Face on top of a burning car? What in the world is going on? Let's go check it out, it looks insane. Yo, get off of her head. Dude, he was jumping out of her head. My jigsaw. Oh my god, okay, not this guy. Oh, look, this one's weird, too. It's like two dragons. Oh my god. Okay, where's he at? I don't want to play any of your games, man. You're crazy. Anybody out here? Dude, you scared me, man. Oh my god, me? Oh! Oh my god, okay. I definitely think jigsaw's one of the louder ones, too, which is not cool. Excuse me, let me take the coin. Thank you. Okay, let's move on over here. Okay, so they took all the coins. Let's go back to jigsaw. Oh my gosh, he has an it balloon. That's pretty cool. Where is he at? Oh, there he is. Come out here, jigsaw. Uh-oh, he got stuck.  It would be so creepy if he hopped on his tricycle and started riding it around.  And it would be cool if these blow up, too, you know, like randomly because, I mean, why is there traps around the map if they won't go off? And he's gone, just like that. Yeah, guys, I don't know what to tell you. Okay, nice. Look at the old man. They're closer to my child. No, thank you, man. But I will, I want to get this hand. Headshot 150. Dude, we only have 31 survivors. Baldi says minigame? What? There's a minigame now? I had no clue about that. Hey, hey, hey, what's up? Yeah, I'm just getting lit. Oh my god, what was that? Is that a screaming coffee? Oh, okay, let's see what this is about. Oh, it's like Simon said or something. Okay, Baldi said stand on yellow. Oh my god, there's a humongous Baldi up there. Stand on red. All right, man. Oh, everybody died.  Hopefully we can beat this thing. Okay, so it's just been switching between yellow and red. Can you pick a different color besides yellow and red, Baldi? This might be his favorite colors, actually. You see, this is what, that's what I'm talking about. He's back to yellow. Okay, whatever, man. Okay, let's just do as Baldi says and we'll get out of here alive.  Oh, we're back to yellow. Okay, five seconds, you guys, we got this in the bag. Stand on red. Oh, okay, we made it. Bravo, everybody. Congratulations. Okay, nice. A lot of people actually died from that. I was surprised. Okay, so let's go see the killer board one last time in case I missed anything. Yo, what's up, y'all? Just checking out the killers. What is that? Is that like the zombie hoard around? I'm not sure Baldi has been chosen. What? We just got Baldi, now he's back to haunt us again. Okay, sand looks pretty cool right there. Oh my god, the rake.  Baldi! What's up, man? What's this model? I don't really like this model. He looks like a potato face. Oh my god, okay, so it's a Baldi run around circle party, as we can see here. Everybody's spinning circles. Oh, okay, this is not working out. He keeps smacking me. Dude, he's just smacking people on the left and right. Oh, okay, I'm out of here. He's doing some serious damage now. Look at this man. Okay, I'm out of here. Let's go over here. Oh yeah, I'm gonna go check out the pets over here. I haven't seen if they added any new ones. Okay, bubbles, just like a little ghost or something, and then we got the dodge, the eyeball. Oh, I want the peanut one. Okay, 65 points required. Oh, those adjacent ones? Kind of like this one though. It's kind of funny. Oh, nice, we got the floating banana now. Nice, okay, oh, smile dog. I don't think he's ever... Oh yeah, but it's like the smile dog that stands. On like two feet. Oh my god, it's like the dodge smile dog, I think. Where is he at? I want to see this guy. I want to see the evil dodge. Dude, what's up with that big finger? Okay, where is he at? I can't find him. Lio, Mr. Dodge. I mean, Mr. Smile Dog. Where are you at? Oh, there he is.  Okay, this guy is definitely fast.  Okay, let me try to get him stuck here so we can get a visual of him. Oh my god, he even talks? I'm coming for you, that is creepy, yo. I'm out of here bad, you're never gonna get me alive.  Okay, nice, I think we lost him. I'm gonna hide in the restroom, hopefully he can't find me here. Okay, I think we're safe here. Hey, I'm hiding from the dodge, man. What's up? Oh my god, that's scary. Okay, let's get out of here. There's like eye with the giant finger again. All right, you guys, well thank you guys for watching. 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Dear Mr. Ma, ladies and gentlemen, but above all, ladies in the room, I am delighted to share some thoughts with you before the start of Alibaba's inaugural global conference on women's entrepreneurship. As UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and as a mother of three daughters, I welcome the opportunity to address a conference with so many inspiring women. Under quality lies at the heart of development progress. We know that women deliver the highest return for social and development investment. When a woman is able to save money, expand her business and get ahead, she invests her earnings back into her children's education, healthcare and her family's future. In my own work, I was recently reminded of how persistent the gender gap remains. New data was just released showing that access to financial services for the poor has improved a remarkable 20% in the last three years, cause for huge celebration. But during the same period, literally no progress was made on closing the gender gap. Women remain 9 percentage points less likely to have savings accounts, insurance, payments, credit or any other basic financial service. This, while these are essential to stabilize their lives and pull themselves out of poverty. I have seen how hard women work, how high the hurdles are that they face, and how essential their empowerment is for the welfare of families, communities and for entire economies.  After some years raising livestock for a living in Hebei province near Beijing, she decided to switch over to cultivating tomatoes. Her first crop was a success, so she sold her livestock and invested the money in 13 greenhouses. It came as a shock to discover that the greenhouses were not insulated well enough to protect the plants from the severe winter temperatures. She took out her first ever loan, which she used to purchase a protected cover to shield her tomatoes against the cold. In Aminta, she has hired 13 local villages to help. Her husband now works for her and she's placed a family on a more solid financial footing. I think all of us can recognize a little something of ourselves in Guozhi's story. The vision, the hard work, the willingness to take educated risks. Guozhi had help from her mother, her husband, her community and from the local microfinance institution. But in the end, she was a driving force behind her success, as many women are. Guozhi's story reminds us that if we can give women the necessary financial tools, their drive and determination will benefit not only themselves, but their families and communities as well. So please, let's give them that chance. I hope you have a very productive conference. Thank you.