On behalf of the leadership team, faculty, staff, students and alumni at the University of Alabama, it is a distinct honor to present this special video to recognize the ongoing and impressive accomplishments of the members of our university community. In lieu of a traditional fall campus assembly, during a time that has been anything but conventional, we invite you to join us virtually as we recognize several faculty and staff who embody the spirit of the capstone. Through their collective efforts, as well as the combined activities of all of our faculty and staff, UA continues to educate and empower students to success. It may be an unprecedented year, but the university is thriving. Our influence and profile in both the state and nation continue to demonstrate our critical role as a flagship university. We will begin our program with an important message from the President of the University of Alabama, Dr. Stuart R. Bell. Faculty and staff, thank you for joining us today as we commemorate our award recipients and reflect on the many remarkable ways the University of Alabama is advancing and preparing students for a life and a career of influence. First, I want to share my gratitude for all you do every day to serve our students. This past spring through creative approaches and forward thinking practices, you helped us smoothly transition over 6,000 courses to a remote platform while continuing to challenge and encourage your students. You met with students virtually, probably from a home office while also caring for your families, safeguarding your health, and in many cases also educating your own children at home. I realized it was a challenging time for everyone. You found innovative ways to remain focused on your students, your research, and your projects again during the summer sessions while we were proactively planning for a safe return to campus. Zoom meetings, long hours at times, and probably some frustration as well, but you persisted. You stayed positive and productive and the university has prevailed because of your efforts. We have continued our mission of transforming the lives of those we serve. This fall, we're educating nearly 38,000 students who enrolled at the capstone to reap the benefits of all we offer as part of the Alabama experience. We saw an increase in the number of in-state undergraduate students and record-setting graduate school enrollment in the fall 2020 total student headcount. Back in the spring, the initial projections for universities nationwide were bleak, with some experts predicting an up to 20 percent decrease in student enrollment. We did not see that happen at Alabama and you play a key role in why our students wanted to be back home in Tuscaloosa. They arrived on campus with different goals in mind, but with one stated expectation. Here at UA, through your instruction and expertise, our students are determined to build their futures. They are futures that will impact all of us through their success as trailblazers in research, as advanced medical specialists, as ethical business leaders for our communities, and as highly skilled professionals who begin their journey right here on this campus under your guidance. In nine carefully socially distanced commencement ceremonies this summer, we celebrated more than 2,500 graduates as they received their degrees. Among our spring and summer graduates, nearly 1,000 were first-generation students. Through the education they received at our university, they have changed the course of their lives. They would not have succeeded in that endeavor without the support you provided. I have proudly witnessed how the challenges we have faced have not deterred your resolve or passion for the talented students you teach, advise, or support. The pandemic has not limited our opportunities to serve. Instead, we have seen our people rise up and respond to help others and to thrive through their impressive academic, scholarly, and service activities. COVID-19 and 2020 will always be connected, but 2020 should be viewed as a year to remember for many other reasons. Let me share a few triumphs from our United efforts. We welcomed our entering freshman class, which includes 221 national merit scholars. Currently, UA has more than 700 national merit scholars enrolled, which is more than all the other universities in Alabama combined and places us among top of all public institutions. We celebrate the 57th UA student to be selected for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. We applauded three UA students who joined the ranks of Hauling Scholarship recipients, bringing our total to 36 Hauling scholars for the university. We recruited Dr. James Dalton, who opened our video ceremony today. Dr. Dalton is a distinguished academic, researcher, and member of the National Academy of Medicine who joined our leadership team as executive vice president and provost. We called home three-time UA graduate Dr. Myron Pope to serve our students as vice president for student life. We recognized nearly 16,500 students on the deans or presidents list during the spring 2020 semester. These resilient scholars stayed the course during the unique challenging period of remote learning. We witnessed other important achievements, including UA's ranking as one of the top tier research institutions and doctoral granting degrees in the nation. In fact, the remarkable and unparalleled growth in our research enterprise ranks the university 17th in growth for all 650 public and private universities that engage in research. We commended two of our engineering students who were named among the nation's top 20 science, technology, engineering, math, or STEM students in their 20s. We were honored to receive recognition by Forbes magazine as one of America's best employers for diversity, and we were the only institution of higher education in the state to receive that distinction. And we took pride in the 4% increase in number of students enrolled at UA who are identified as African American, Hispanic, or Asian American. We remain committed to creating and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming campus where every member of our community will thrive. Friends and colleagues, I want you to know our influence has not diminished and our responsibility is even greater than before to equip and empower the next generation of Alabama students. I sincerely appreciate everything you do, and I know this past year has not been easy. I recognize as well that we are still navigating challenges. Thank you for your continued efforts to educate, develop, and encourage our future legends. I consider it both a privilege and an honor to serve as your president, and I remain firmly committed to our people, our work, and the outcome of our combined efforts at the University of Alabama. Congratulations to all the award winners being recognized today. We are very proud of you, Roll Tide. From the spring semester, we are honoring three individuals through the following prestigious awards. First, we present the E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Award, which was created in 1996 by members of the President's Cabinet in honor of University President Roger Sayers, who led the University during a time of tremendous growth and accomplishment from 1988 to 1996. The 2020 E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Award is awarded to Dr. Kajindo Matua for performing in an exemplary manner to further the mission of the University. Thank you, Dr. Matua, for your service and commitment to the capstone. Next, we present the Dr. Minnie C. Miles Endowed Excellence Award, which was established in 1995 to honor exempt non-faculty administrative employees and name for Dr. Minnie C. Miles. Dr. Miles was a long-term business faculty member who faithfully served the University from 1942 to 1978. This year's recipient is Karen Carpenter, who has chosen for her role in fostering the mission of the University and for performing in an exemplary manner that exceeds the expectations set forth for her position. Thank you, Ms. Carpenter, for your dedicated service. Today we also recognize the 2020 SEC Faculty Achievement Award winner for the University of Alabama. There are approximately 14,000 full-time tenured faculty members in the SEC, and to be eligible for an achievement award, the individual must have achieved the rank of full professor, have a record of extraordinary teaching, and have a record of research that is recognized nationally and or internationally. The SEC Faculty Achievement Award is presented to Dr. Subha Chakraborty, Professor of Statistics and Moro Faculty Excellence Fellow, for his outstanding teaching accomplishments, scholarly contributions, and discoveries. During nearly 36 years at UA, Dr. Chakraborty has received numerous awards for his significant and influential contributions in a number of research areas. Thank you, Dr. Chakraborty, for your service, and congratulations to all our spring award recipients. We have asked our deans and directors to share more details about our honorees and their specific contributions through division and department emails in the coming weeks.  In 1976, the University of Alabama National Alumni Association began an innovative program designed to annually recognize four faculty members at the capstone who demonstrate outstanding commitment to teaching. This year, a number of highly qualified educators were nominated. Our 2020 recipients are as follows, Heather Elliott, School of Law, John Hines, Culverhouse College of Business, Dr. Lumarino, Culverhouse College of Business, and Charles Skip Snead, School of Music. Congratulations to our four honorees. We are grateful for your dedication to excellence in teaching and for the commitment you have to our students' success. Next, we want to honor several individuals who are receiving the outstanding commitment to advising awards. The Outstanding Advisor Award recognizes the importance of academic advising at the University of Alabama by celebrating outstanding academic advisors. For this past year, 424 advisors were nominated as candidates for the most outstanding faculty or professional advisor. Our two honorees are as follows, Dr. Colleen Geary, College of Education, Jeff Clark, Student Services. Congratulations to our award recipients for this recognition of your commitment to advising our students at the University of Alabama. Each fall, we also award the SAM SMA Commitment to Service Awards, named for a remarkable staff member from the Department of Chemistry who, in addition to his regular duties, volunteered many hours of his own time to tutor generations of students. The SAM SMA Award recognizes a department, team, or center that provides exceptional service through commitment, innovation, creativity, and continuous improvement in customer relations. Our 2020 honorees are as follows, from Academic Affairs, the Arts and Sciences Office of Student Services, the Instructional Technology and Academic Services, and the Center for Instructional Technology. From Finance and Operations, Transportation Services, Crimson Ride Team, and the Maintenance Team. From Student Life, the Blackburn Institute, and our campus-wide recipients, Collegiate Recovery and Intervention Services, the UA Counseling Center, the UA Student Health Center and Pharmacy, Health Promotion and Wellness, University Recreation, and the Women and Gender Resource Center. Congratulations to you all, and thank you for your service and commitment to the Capstone. One final award is being presented today to two enterprising employees, who, by action or idea, contribute to the University of Alabama's critical mission of teaching, research, and service. The Virgil Parks McKinley Senior Employee Award was established by John K. McKinley and the late Helen H. McKinley. The award honors Dr. Virgil Parks McKinley, a longtime professor at UA, who began his career in 1918 and retired in 1945 as head of the Trade and Industrial Development Department in our College of Education. Our 2020 honorees for the Virgil Parks McKinley Senior Employee Award are as follows. Kathy Yarbrough, Advancement, Daphne Wright, Finance and Operations. Kathy and Daphne, thank you for your service to the Capstone. Congratulations to all the award winners honored today, and thank you again for your commitment, dedication, and service. You represent the University well and make us proud. We celebrate with you and appreciate your important contributions. We've asked our deans and directors to share more details about our fall honorees and their specific contributions through emails in the coming weeks. It is now a pleasure to introduce the presidents of several organizations on our campus, including Faculty Senate, the Professional Staff Assembly, the Office Clerical and Technical Staff Assembly, and UA's Student Government Association. These dedicated leaders will be sharing important reports and updates for the fall semester. Since inaugurating the current Executive Council and Executive Cabinet in the spring, the Student Government Association has stayed true to its mission of students serving students, even while off campus and in virtual settings. On April 1st, SGA leveraged Zoom to virtually inaugurate the 25th class of SGA Senate, with representation from each of the university's colleges, the graduate school, and the school of law. SGA spent the spring and the summer promoting a number of important messages, including continued adherence to CDC and Alabama Public Health guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19. SGA encouraged registration for the U.S. Census and provided academic resources and support for students who had moved to 100% remote instruction. Additionally, SGA supported two thank you campaigns for nurses and doctors at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa and for essential workers across the United States. As the national conversations surrounding racial and social justice began in late May, SGA served as the leading student voice and resource for racial reconciliation, education, and action. On May 31st, I published an open letter to the student body detailing my experiences as a black man. I wanted to offer encouragement and called on each member of our student body to use their voices and become allies. In response to a student led petition to change the names of campus buildings with racist namesakes, SGA called upon the university to begin the renaming process. We are very proud of our campus's new Honors Hall and we are grateful for the university's systems swift efforts to rename the building. Last month, SGA launched an anti-biased speech campaign called One UA, with the slogan hate doesn't roll here. This campaign was among the first few initiatives that SGA conducted to promote racial reconciliation on our campus. It will be a consistent part of our campus engagement within the SGA this year. With these efforts, it is my hope that SGA will continue fostering and encouraging healthy dialogue about the differences that make us us, while encouraging all students to celebrate the diversity that makes our campus so strong. SGA has also partnered with transportation services and the safe center to create a safe center shuttle.  We are also pleased to announce that our DEI certification program has begun. This year, our Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has created a new section of the program, which will allow individual students to gain an advanced certification. SGA recently held Academic Excellence Week, which featured special guest speakers such as our new Provost, Dr. James Dalton, and our new Honors College Dean, Dr. Tara Williams. This week was jam packed with important information on how students can remain successful while navigating classes virtually. Although our educational and student experience is different this year, rest assured that SGA will continue to serve as a voice and advocate for every student at the capstone. On behalf of our Executive Counsel and Cabinet, thank you for the privilege to serve as your voice. If SGA can be of assistance to you, please reach out on our website, sga.ua.edu. I'm honored both to be here today and represent the Professional Staff Assembly as our President. The Professional Staff Assembly, or PSA as commonly known, represents over 2,300 professional staff employees. PSA has three primary functions. Serves as an advisory and policy referral organization, promotes social responsibility, and facilitates and maintains open lines of communication with all stakeholders, administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni. PSA serves as an advisory and policy referral organization. PSA has recently worked with transportation services to advocate for alternative parking plans to accommodate staff working remotely, working alternative schedules, and refunds during future limited business operations. The results of these meetings were an increased pay-as-you-go parking, and month-by-month or daily pass options. PSA continues to serve our stakeholders as we work with similar initiatives including health care coverage, child care possibilities, benefits tailoring, and more. PSA promotes social responsibility through community service and volunteer activities. PSA has been a long-time supporter of Habitat for Humanity, Brewer's Porch, and Alabama Reach. While UA staff participate in volunteer activities on varying levels, the efforts are not accurately documented. To address this issue, PSA has established a pilot initiative utilizing the Center for Service and Leadership's Tracking System, BAMAPOLS. The establishment of this pilot program provides a consistent method for UA staff to participate and document volunteer activities for organized community service, of which benefits include both staff morale and recruitment, which research has shown as a leading factor for millennials in consideration of an organization, increases awareness of UA and UA staff commitment to community service through local, regional, and state press releases. Documentation of data can be used in the SAC certification process, supports the mission of UA, teaching research and service, aligns with UA core values, and supports UA's strategic plan, and strengths in the case for increased higher education funding because of the impact of these contributions. The PSA in October will continue a decade of awarding the Mark G. Foster Endowed Scholarship to a deserving professional staff member. This scholarship honors our colleague and longtime member of the UA community, Mark G. Foster, who is active in the formation of the PSA and served the UA in many capacities. PSA is working with other organizations on campus on the renaming council for buildings on UA campus. We will continue to collaborate and support this initiative. PSA facilitates and maintains open lines of communication with all stakeholders. These goals are accomplished by inclusion on hiring for executive position, presidential advisory, human resources task force, and university standing committees. This includes PSA's work with the UA administration to expand the return to campus operations committee to involve more stakeholders in communication efforts. PSA recently accomplished a long-term goal to be inclusive of all professional staff by our use of Zoom and Facebook. Zoom allows us to interact real-time with staff unable to physically attend, record, and post our meetings to PSA's Facebook page to maintain transparency and accountability. Our recent two-year strategic initiative to promote the awareness of PSA includes posting more social media content. Whether you're a faculty, staff, student, or alumni, I would like to encourage you to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Bama PSA, speaking at university organization, staff meetings, and community at large to engage stakeholders, and rebuilding our website to allow for better navigation and dissemination of PSA information. Again, let me encourage you to join PSA on social media at Bama PSA, and check out our website at PSA.ua.edu. We appreciate your input. Thank you, and roll time. Greetings. At our last campus assembly, I spoke to the programs and goals of the Office Clerical and Technical Staff Assembly and our one simple aim, to promote our presence on campus and advance the agency of our individual members and organization. Hourly employees reached new levels of involvement this year, and it's my pleasure to report that there are now more non-exempt staff serving on university-standing committees than at any point in our campus history. We continue to support the important work that these committees undertake and increase our efforts in guaranteeing that all staff have a voice in our university's shared governance. In addition to our ongoing work with the Alabama Reach Program, the Brewer's Port Children's Center and Adopt-a-Mile, the OCTSA is partnering with our fellow representative assemblies under the leadership of the Black Faculty and Staff Association in efforts to rename buildings whose namesakes portray the values of an increasingly diverse community of scholars. We continue our partnership with the Student Government Association in co-hosting the annual DEI Leaders Reception, and together with the Faculty Senate and Professional Staff Assembly, we will continue to support the formation of faculty and staff affinity groups to highlight that at the University of Alabama, representation matters. Every day, countless non-exempt staff from custodial and maintenance workers, mailroom clerks to program and administrative assistants go about quietly performing the essential tasks that enable our university to operate. You are the glue that holds together our greater UA family during these trying times. You have always been and will always be essential. Thank you for all you do. Stay safe, mask up, and roll tide. When it became apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic would prevent UA students and employees from returning to campus after spring break, the decision was made to pivot to online instruction to complete the spring 2020 semester. In one week, faculty transitioned more than 6,000 courses to an online format, a truly amazing accomplishment by any measure. For the remainder of the spring semester and throughout the summer, the Faculty Senate worked hand in hand with the UA administration to enable the spring 2020 semester to be brought to a successful conclusion and to make plans for reopening the university this fall. Faculty Senate recommendations adopted by the administration include a pass-fail grading option and extension of the drop deadline, an option for probationary faculty to extend their tenure clock, and modification of the fall 2020 academic calendar. Several faculty members served on the academic subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Return to Normal Operations and I joined the advisory committee this fall along with the presidents of the Professional Staff Assembly and Office Clerical and Technical Staff Assembly. I'm happy to report that shared governance is alive and well at the University of Alabama. Since the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, the Senate has been preoccupied by COVID-related concerns of the UA faculty. A resolution passed at the August 18 Faculty Senate meeting resulted in the UA system office establishing the COVID-19 dashboard. Subsequent communications with the system office have led to greater testing data transparency. President Bell and Provost Dalton addressed the Faculty Senate at the August meeting and answered faculty questions. The Faculty Senate also organized two town hall meetings in September to provide additional opportunities for faculty to meet with members of the UA administration and the system office. The Faculty Senate Facebook page was created and used to livestream the August and September Senate meetings and the two town hall events. Collectively these events were attended or viewed by hundreds of faculty members who were able to voice their concerns and have their questions answered. I am very grateful to UA administrators and system office staff who took time from their incredibly busy schedules to participate in these events. I know that everyone is looking forward to the time when we don't have to hold meetings, conferences and workshops via Zoom. However, as difficult as the last six months have been, many positive things have also resulted. The pandemic taught us several things. We can quickly adapt to new circumstances, overcome unforeseen challenges, be more resilient than we ever imagined and even old codgers like me can push through their technological envelopes. I would like to recognize and express my appreciation to UA faculty members who continue to go above and beyond for their students, both in and outside of the classroom. Special thanks to all those who presented an assembly report today and congratulations again to everyone who was honored with awards. The University of Alabama is a special place and you, our faculty and staff, play a critical role in the delivery of a world-class experience for our students. We are honored you shared in our celebration and we look forward to our next campus assembly in the spring. Roll Tide.


The Nubian Pyramids, a series of hundreds of pyramidal structures and ruins, making up part of the ancient cities of Kush and Meroe. The structures incorporate styles from many different, equally ancient ruins from around the world, displaying to all the reach of this once global civilization. The first recorded settlers in this part of Sudan date back as far as 300,000 years, both the civilization that is claimed to have built and indeed painted these structures are dated as far back as 4,000 years. The city of Kush is renowned for having the finest pottery in all the Nile Valley, evidence of the builder's past capabilities. Yet what we've found the most interesting about the ruins is a decorative piece found within one of these ancient structures within the ancient city of Meroe, amongst over 200 sandstone pyramids, a depiction can be found within, a rather peculiar mural. Like that of the ancient depictions of Gilgamesh, repeatedly showing carrying an adult male lion like a kitten, this image in fact shows an ancient giant carrying an elephant in each hand. And although this is clearly a remarkable detail, it is not the only features of note that are to be found within the picture. It is brought to the attention of mainstream study in 1821 by the French mineralogist Frédéric Calieux. It has since been noted that the giant's features were seemingly Caucasian in appearance, with his hair a light red in color, something we have touched upon in the past, with witnessed testimonies of ancient remains of red-headed giants being reportedly found worldwide, in particular Love Lock Cave, thus one wonders, could this be a true depiction of not only the builders of the Nubian pyramids, but possibly Giza's great pyramids and the many other either publicly studied or covered up structures found around the world. It is a possibility which we find incredibly compelling. We have in the past investigated the still unexplained now lost stonewalling technique, now commonly referred to as polygonal masonry. We have described the incredible feat that this technique involved, the mystery of how an ancient civilization once cut and perfectly fitted together these enormous jigsaw puzzles, sometimes comprised of megalithic blocks weighing many tons in weight. However, we have also covered the coalescence of this polygonal technique with another, which has become known as Cyclopia within Italy, with the Cyclopian walls built upon those by those who possessed the ability to create polygonal masonry. All but proving that this Cyclopian technique predated that of seemingly more competent polygonal technique, but just how old these techniques are, or indeed the age of these structures themselves, is now lost to history. However, our next area of interest may shed some light on these sites' considerable age, if you consider the evidence that the site itself presents. Known as the Palasgic Wall, it is located upon a gigantic, once-leveled natural rock within the acropolis of Athens. The wall, during the time of Thuclitides, was claimed to have stood several meters high and six meters broad. It surrounded the entirety of the ruin, with a large visible fragment of the original wall, demonstrating this claimed scale still standing and located upon the southern side close to the original entrance. Yet today, the beveling can be seen, but the wall has all but vanished, with the foundation of the wall laying below several feet of natural sediment buildup, indicative of a tremendous age. Said to have been built by the Palascians, hence the name given to the wall, not only does the sediment present at the site suggest a far more tremendous age, but the sheer size of the structure, along with the rock it now sits upon, that was entirely leveled at some point within ancient antiquity, all points to an ancient feat far beyond the capability of known ancient Grecians. And just like that of polygonal masonry, predictably can be seen at sites just like that of polygonal, which are often surrounded by controversy when it comes to the claim, construction, and origin of said sites. We logically conclude that these attributions to different groups within known history, easily identified in other locations where these groups never ventured, is solid proof that those who state such false truths know they are indeed being deceptive. It is a ruin which we find highly compelling. It is now an undeniable reality that our planet's climate is changing. The pollution we, as a species, are creating atmospherically and environmentally is undeniable. And although many are oblivious to this effect, or sadly they simply don't care, there are countless others who are passionately invested in cultivation, salvaging, and repairing the damaged parts of our planet's habitats. Iceland in particular is taking on the climate shift in their country by using a method left by a lost civilization. Having minimal scattered and declining forest habitats in the country, top horticultural specialists are now seemingly mimicking a technique which, thanks to heavy historical research, is a method rediscovered for its origins being Peru, possibly during the polygonal era. And then the climate changes. The winters have become milder. Many of the trees that we planted in the 1950s, especially Siberian larchs, are literally dying after several decades of being reasonably good. The genetics of forest trees are important. These are all things that are genetically determined in the trees. And through the years we've found the species that we can use, and now we're selecting individuals that are best adapted, bringing them together in a seed orchard and using their offspring in a forestation. Known as moray, its use was to acclimatize and then grow forests in places that the original parent plant species would have simply failed in. As stated by the lead directors of the project, quote, we are using a technique to regrow forests for the first time in over a thousand years, end quote. Referring to the supposed Incan site, moray, a site in which we ourselves established its purpose via our own research. An enormous, terraced garden, which practiced strained selection and phenotyping. It consisted of growing out many plants, selecting plants with highest vigor, thus better established for said environment, raising their altitude with every selected generation. Until, eventually, they could grow sea-level herbs, fruits, trees, and all other types of plants high above the clouds. We find the fact that Iceland is finally recreating intact, unbroken forest ecosystems with a prehistoric technique which, if applied in other areas of the planet experiencing decline in ecosystems with the utilization of modern technologies, could have immense potential. A truly genius creation. Its potential, if we apply our modern technologies to the ancient practice unravelled as the purpose for moray is enormous. Growing food in otherwise once inhospitable countries, for example, seeds created through exhaustive selective crossbreeding could create staple food crops, impervious to drought, or with the ability to drive a core into groundwater which their ancestors could not. Moray not only proved the astonishing knowledge and ability of its creators, but also the potential in the incredible adaptability of plants over just a few generations, something we are again finally utilizing. Could these ancient ruins' ultimate legacy be that of the colonization of Mars? It is a resurrected ancient technology we have perused and mentioned for many years. And finally, the over 1,000-year-old masterpiece is now once again rebuilding forests. We undoubtedly find this highly compelling. There are many areas of physics, and indeed quantum physics, which can often leave one rather perplexed. Quarks, for example, the tiny elementary particles of matter smashing into and destroying one another, instantly creating a new and sometimes entirely different pair of oppositely charged particles of matter. These strange things being what makes up the inside of a proton, an atomic nuclei, which along with the electron spins around the nucleus of the atom at tremendous speed, resonating at the frequency which makes up our reality and the solid objects we see all around us. These areas of physics, as mentioned, can leave one quite baffled when investigated too deeply in one sitting, yet such areas of science can also undoubtedly lead you to some rather wild conclusions, one of which involving our very own sun and a conspiracy regarding what could be powering it. It is the thing which allows us to see all the beautiful and the not-so-beautiful things within reality worship since the birth of civilization. Yet advances in technology have just added to our understanding of its complexity. The discovery of photons charge particles which bounce off of the objects all around us, creating an instant interference pattern, or rather the absence of photons in the form of a shadow. This not only demonstrates that photons work just like electricity, but science has long confirmed that these particles emitted by the sun are indeed electrically charged particles. This fact of reality has now led some to take what others have asserted is a leap of faith, with many now having parted ways on their conclusions. The Electric Sun Hypothesis The hypothesis, supported by several rather strong scientific points, yet explained problems and or anomalies in current understandings, claims that the sun is in fact electrically powered, rather than the traditionally claimed process of fusion. It is a theory that has garnered quite a number of followers over the years, from various scientific fields, many with prestige. They have either claimed to believe this is the case, or that the theory could indeed one day be found to be true. Although, as always, it is those who passionately dismiss such claims and their motives for doing so, so adamantly, that we find the most intriguing regarding such posits. Why do so many unexplained anomalies support the claimed hypothesis? Why do some so passionately object to it being studied, within a field looking for definitive truths? We find the hypothesis, and indeed the controversy surrounding it, highly compelling.


Hi, everybody. This is Dave Vellante. We're here at Wikibon headquarters. Adam Fuchsia is back. He's the CTO and founder of Squirrel. We've been doing a number of whiteboard sessions around Accumulo, some of the innovations that Accumulo brings, some of the things that Squirrel has added to Accumulo. You hear a lot about schema-less databases in the NoSQL database world. Well, how do you build structure and add schema to a schema-like environment? And that's what Adam's going to talk about today. So Adam, take it away. All right, thanks, Dave. Yeah, so I get a lot of folks asking me, once I've got my database up and running, I can store key value pairs in it. I can do searches. I can do range queries for those. But how do I organize my data? And there are basic ways of organizing their data. And there are some more complex ones. And we're going to touch on a couple of more complex concepts there. One of them is denormalizing data, bringing it together to answer a particular set of queries. And the other is secondary indexing. So I'm going to show you a basic diagramming technique that we use to diagram data models inside of Accumulo. And then I'm going to show you how that applies to indexing techniques. So to start off here, we'll look at a simple organization of data, which we have diagrammed here in what I like to call a hierarchical data decomposition diagram. Obviously, I need to find a better name for that. But what we have is essentially a data set centered around people. And people have friends. They're friends with other people. There's some history of those relationships. They have things that they own. And maybe there's a count of those things. So inside of Accumulo, we have a couple of features for storing and retrieving data. We can insert keys in random order. So we can transform this data into a set of key value pairs, insert them, update them in random order. But then when we query them, essentially we're limited to range queries inside of that key space. So a range in a sorted key space actually turns into a hierarchy in the row, count family, count qualifier value format. So every key has elements in it. It's got a row, a count family, a count qualifier. And these are associated with a value or potentially a set of values. So if I have a range, I can select a particular row. I can select a row in a particular column family. I can select column qualifiers under that. And in fact, I can select prefixes of those elements as well. So if I want to query for a set of people and all of the things about them, if I use this hierarchical data decomposition, then I can query for prefixes in this tree structure. So a range would translate into a single person or a person and their friends or a person and their particular other friend. Any of those hierarchies inside of this hierarchical organization really translates into a very simple query for a cumulon. So if we take this abstract view and we instantiate it, here we have Alice and Bob, which are two people in our person table. And Alice has friends. Alice has friends with Bob and Charlie. And they have some history. Alice also owns a couple of Oldsmobiles. And Bob is over here, has a couple of friends, and owns five houses. Why not? All right, so what we've done here is essentially we've grouped all of the information associated with those people together so that we can query them all at the same time. So if you think about a document store in general, where you might have a hierarchical document, you have a number of features that are all grouped together underneath the title of that document. We've done a similar thing here. And in fact, in this instantiated view, I can take a traversal of the tree from root down to leaf. And this actually forms a key value pair. So Alice being perhaps the row portion of that key, Alice is the fact that Alice owns something, being the column family, and the thing that she owns being the column qualifier, and an account being the value in that case. So we have a number of concepts that sort of tag along with this mapping of data concept into key portion. In the row portion here, what we're doing there is really controlling how the data gets partitioned throughout the cluster. Inside of the column family, we're doing column-based partitioning. So these are locality groups or vertical orientation of the database. Inside of the column qualifier, that's where we put anything else that has to do with uniqueness. So row, column family, and column qualifier determine the uniqueness of the thing that we're trying to store. And then the value is any extra information that we would want to tag onto that. So here's a very basic concept. We can also take this basic diagramming technique, and we can make a couple of other abstract versions of it. So some basic models that we use, or some basic table designs that we use for indexing in particular, one of them is a document table with an inverted index table. So these are two tables that we would pair together. The document table is organized by having UU IDs, or just IDs of the document. Within that, we have fields of the documents. And within that, we have values associated with the documents. So given that I can query ranges on this, and ranges turned into prefixes, that essentially gives me an ability to very quickly retrieve all of the fields in a document or a particular field in a particular document and retrieve those. But maybe I don't know my document ID. Maybe I don't know exactly which document I'm trying to query, but I know characteristics of that. And I want to search on it based off of those characteristics. So that's when I start querying on the value itself. And this is our basic secondary indexing. That's the basic concept of secondary indexing that we want to use here. So in order to support that, we'll take parts of the value. We'll create those as inverted index entries. So from that value, I generate a set of terms. Each of those terms maps to a set of UU IDs. Those UU IDs are references to this other table, to our document table. And then maybe I keep which field was seen in there, and perhaps some other information. What that looks like is when I'm ingesting data, I have a record or a document. That record goes into a single place. Everything grouped under the same UU ID in my document table. And then I generate a set of index entries. So one place in the document table becomes multiple places in the index table. On the flip side, during query, if I have a particular term, I'm going to find that term at one spot in the index table. But it's going to map back to several UU IDs inside the document table. So that's basic what we would call term-distributed information retrieval. And it's a great technique. We use it all over the place.  But it has flaws. It's not perfect. And in fact, in the field of information retrieval, there are two dominant spaces. One is term-distributed information retrieval. The other is document-distributed information retrieval. And for document-distributed information retrieval, we tend to group things together into partitions or into shards. So we take a set of documents. And this is the diagram associated with that. We take a set of documents, group those together in a partition, and generate index entries, and put those index entries for that set of documents into the exact same partition. So in this type of hierarchy, I've grouped my index entries and my document entries together. That gives us a different view here. As we're ingesting data, we'll take a record, put that into one partition in our table. And inside of that, it has document portions and index portions, just like our simpler indexing model. On the query side, if we have a single term, we can map that term into each of the partitions and look for the index entries associated with the documents associated with that particular term in each of those partitions. So we parallelize the query across all of our partitions. So these are a couple of the simple generic table designs that we're using, in particular inside of Squirrel, inside of our product. We've extended these. We've added a whole bunch of others to do graph organization, to do some other specialized types of indexing, and some modeling associated with schema. But there you have it. That's really how we're adding a little bit of organization to a schema-less world. Thank you, Adam. So you're seeing the infrastructure for big data becoming hardened. And it was so-called enterprise ready. Everybody talks about that. Accumulo is playing a key part of that, not only in terms of its ability to provide fine-grain levels of security, but also high levels of scalability and performance. So check out squirrelsqrl.com for more information. Some of Adam's work will also be on there. Also, check out youtube.com slash silicon angle for these and other videos associated with this topic. Go to wikibond.org for all the research and check out siliconangle.com for all the blogs. Thanks for watching, everybody. This is Dave Vellante of Wikibon. And this is The Cube. We'll see you next time.


Hey there, Chad Bonja here for our high university libraries. I have several hundred business students doing the same project. They're working on a feasibility analysis of opening a fitness center in Indianapolis, Indiana. In order to really do good on this project, they're going to need to understand local consumer trends and do a local market analysis in Indianapolis, Indiana using data that looks like this. So this video is going to show you how to use SimplyMap, a market research database, in order to get good data for this particular project. I should also say that the skills learned in this video can also be transferred and applied to most other consumer market research that you're going to be doing in the U.S. as well. So here you go. So when you first get to SimplyMap, if you're going to be doing some pretty advanced searching, you'll want to create an account here and just use your Ohio email address to do so. You don't necessarily have to do this, but your work inside SimplyMap will not be saved if you do not create an account. So use your Ohio email address and create an account and it'll save your work for later on. I want to sign in here as me. And when you first arrive here, if you've never set up an account before, you've got two choices. Either to do a map or to do a report. I'm going to start off in a report because basically I want to create a report of all kinds of data for Indianapolis, Indiana and anything to happen to do with exercise or yoga or fitness or health concerns, things like that. So I want to start out doing a standard report here. And if you've never done this before, what you can do is actually launch this standard report wizard and we'll click right there and it first asks us to look for a location. So I'm going to click on locations here and we're going to do by city because we're looking for Indianapolis. Then it makes you select your state here. So if we just type in Indiana, select that. And then in our next list here, we can type in Indianapolis and then click use this location. Okay, the next thing we don't do is select variables and these are basically the data points we're going to be looking at for our report. So I'm going to click variables. And because we're just getting started here and we don't necessarily know what we're looking for, I'm actually going to X out of this and do a search here. Okay, so I want to do a search. So in our search box here, we can say if you're going to search for a, if you're going to build a fitness center in Indianapolis, you want to look for some of the services they provide and see what kind of interest people have in Indianapolis for that particular activity. So if I search for weight, now weight's a pretty common term here. So it's going to find stuff on like watching diet or watching health or weight, it's going to find terms like that. But if you just kind of scroll through some of these, you'll eventually see there'll be things that deal with, for example, entertainment leisure, I do weight training, things like that. So maybe you want to go up here and search for, let's get rid of that. And let's try to search for weight training and see what that brings up. Okay, so it's much better there. So we get a list of results here. And so here we have a percent who have participated in weight training the last 12 months. So we want to click on use this variable. And what it'll do is it'll go in and add that to our list. But let's say we want to do some more. Let's say here's people who do weight training every chance they get. So we'll click use this variable as well. Okay, now one thing I want you to pay attention to as you're doing this is look for the folder that this data is contained in because we're actually going to go look in this folder as well to see other information. Okay, so if we want to do another search, let's clear this search and let's do maybe yoga and do a search here. Okay, so here we have, again, percent participate in yoga and things like that. Okay, so look, there is this entertainment leisure, sports and fitness, sports played participated section. Also again, this Simmons local folder. So what you might do is you can obviously add this as a variable here. Or if we close out of this, you'll see it does bring up some data that will get you what we're looking for there, okay? So you can actually go in here as well and do variables again to add more information. And because that information was in the Simmons local section in that folder, we can do Simmons local and we can do entertainment leisure. And then here we have either physical fitness programs or sports and fitness.  And I'm using percentages because that's easier to compare across different size locations. So if you want to say what's a percentage who work out two times a week or people who work out three or four times a week, we can use that variable. And people who work out five or more use this variable. Percent who work out none use this variable, right? And then here's the sports and fitness section here. And here we have maybe you want to say people who, let's see, if we do sports played, we have different kinds of activities here. Okay, so here we have sports played every chance I get, sports participating occasionally, things like that. So we have all kinds of information we can look at as well when we're searching for our topics as well. So good way to get information that way. Now if we close this out, we can see here we have Indianapolis versus the USA. Now if you want to compare it to another city, say for example, we want to compare Chicago, we can go into locations here and then change this to like cities. And then do Illinois and then do Chicago and use this location. And it adds that to there so we can compare multiple variables there as well. And if you want to, you can actually go up here and download this report as an Excel file. You can continue to add variables that way as well. So you can also use the same data to create a ranking within Indianapolis area here. So if you want to, you can actually launch the ranking wizard here and say do locations. And if you want to, you can actually close out of this because we've already used Indianapolis here. So we wanted to go up here and do recent and then do use this location and then we close that and then we can go under variables and we can do recent as well. And so let's say we want to see the percent ranking in Indianapolis of people who work out, let's see, three to four times a week. So we'll use this variable here. All right, and we close that out. And so what it'll do is it'll go in by zip code and compare by zip code in Indianapolis to look at where people are more inclined to work out by zip code. So here we have, and it kind of ranks that way. You can also go in and say I want to change this and look at things rather than by zip code. So look at things by census tracks, which would be a more granular way of looking at that as well. And you can kind of see it'll go through and look at the top 10 there as well. So you can actually change if you want to to top 50. If you wanted to look at census tracks, you can kind of see that information there as well. So a good way to kind of get an idea as far as where what's the highest percentage by location in the various zip codes around Indianapolis that are active in physical activity of various forms and that sort of thing. So a good way to kind of pinpoint your target location, if you will, for potentially opening a fitness center. Hope for this video helped you better understand how to use the database and how to better understand the fitness center market. Should you need more help, look for the contact link on the business blog. We'll be glad to help anyway. Take care and have a great day.


Someone sent this in and it's just a classic. I don't know how I missed it when I was watching this game live. We've got the blue team versus the red team in Japanese college football, and they're going for the first and 10. He starts to get tackled there. He runs another, like, 20 yards, just moves the entire pile, and he's getting punched in the nuts as it goes. We'll slow it down and take a look at it, because it's just not fun. A, gets the first down, plus a ton more. B, was it worth it? Because he's in a lot of pain. It's not having fun at all. Now, here's another look. And at this point, number 10 on blue grabs him, and it's very embarrassing that number 10 couldn't take him to the ground for 20 yards. Didn't even. Now, number 29 on blue, he just starts throwing punches. I'm guessing he's aiming for the football and not his balls. But the left hand gets a little bit, and the right hand right there, bam, right to the nuts. You see him wincing the pain. And now he collapses. If he didn't get punched in the nuts, I think he would have taken that pile another 20 yards. Unstoppable. And now he's going to get on the stretcher and get carried off, which is a little much like, hey, we all know it, dude. It doesn't feel good. It hurts a whole bunch, you know? Goes up your stomach to your throat and all that. This seems a little unnecessary, especially since once they get off, they just hang out. Now, this is the kicker.  And now he tells his other buddy, let me go back. He tells his other buddy, he says, yeah, he just uppercut me right to the junk like that. Meanwhile, the kicker then has to make a kick for the blue, for, no, he's on the red team clearly, and he misses the kick. Nut kid brought his bad energy over there. So now you can all say that you've seen Japanese football and you've seen a Japanese running back get punched in the nuts, because like me, you probably missed it when you watched this live.


Hi everybody, my name is Brynston, I'm a student here at Highline and I work as a tutor in the Academic Success Centers, I'm going to show you around.  So the Academic Success Center is available for all students at Highline and it includes the Math Resource Center, the Tutoring Center, the Writing Center and the Public Speaking Center. The Academic Success Center is not just a great place for tutoring, it's also a great place for studying. A lot of study groups meet up here and if you do need the help, the help is here. The Academic Success Center is open from 8 to 5 Monday through Thursday and 8 to 1 on Fridays and it's located at the sixth floor of the library which is building 25. So come get the help you need to succeed by using the Academic Success Centers.


The wars of the 20th century were prophesied in 1788. Carnival does not mean a celebration. An orchestra uses two cannons for base. Can you imagine that? This is Lindsay McHarrie back with another gathering of out-of-the-way news articles and facts with which to make you say, can you imagine that? And until we all return in one minute and a half, we hope you'll be waiting. Keep yourself on the lookout for confidence operators, whose nefarious vocation comprises the bilking of unsuspecting victims out of as much money as they can bilk. Modern police methods and radio have probably done more to reduce the number of victims of con games than anything else during the past few years. But time was when these gentle grafters really plied their trade with the vengeance. For instance, well, I ran across a situation that occurred in San Francisco in the month of March, 1917. One day in police headquarters. Okay, who's next, sir? I'm the next. I've got to tell you about it. Wait a minute, one at a time. All right, you, what's your trouble?  This is a man. Here, come to my start. Now, wait a minute. What's your name? Abela, John Abela. This is a man. He's a come into my fruit store on a San Bernard Avenue. He's a come in on a Wednesday. He's a buy one dollar and a five cents worth of fruit. And he's to give me a check. This is a check right here. Yeah. He's to give me this check for $19.75. Now, I look into my money drawer and I've got the $8.70 a cash. He says, oh, that's all right. I come back tomorrow for another $10. Then he's to go away. I think to myself he's a fine fella. He's a very nice man. He trusts Abela for $10. He's a nice fella. Yeah. You sent the check to the bank and it came back marked insufficient funds. Is that it? Yeah, sure. That's it. That's what happened. Now, I want you to find this man and get my money. Okay, we'll see what we can do. Now, what's your trouble? Well, I'll tell you, Sergeant, I want you to find a gypsy for me. A gypsy? Yeah. You see, well, a couple of months ago, I went to this gypsy fortune teller up on Howard Street and she told me that I was going to have a run of good luck and that pretty soon in about eight weeks, I was going to get married, inherit $500 and get established in business. She told me I should leave all my valuables with her for safekeeping. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, well, I gave her my gold watch and my purse. Oh, well, how much was in the purse? $225. Well, I went back eight weeks later and she was gone. Yeah, and I thought she would be. All right, what's your name and where do you live? Well, my name is Gus Harris and I live at a coffee shop. Can you imagine that? Poor Gus Harris and John Abello reported their losses in the same police headquarters in San Francisco on the same day. I think it's probably safe to assume that John Abello posted a sign in his fruit store reading, no checks cashed and that Gus Harris assiduously avoided any future contact with gypsy fortune tellers. Well, that certainly sounds like someone is having a high time, doesn't it? In fact, it sounds like a carnival and just what do you think of when someone mentions the word carnival?    Well, it comes from two Latin words. The first is carne, meaning meat. The second is valet, meaning farewell. Literally then, carnival means farewell to meat. Carnival was first used to denote the days of merrymaking, feasting, and general hilarity that preceded the Lenten fast days. It was a period when the people let off steam in a riot of fun and frolic that had to last them through the 40 days of self-denial and reverent living before Easter. The famous New Orleans Mardi Gras is exactly the same thing, for it precedes the period of Lent. Today, of course, we use the word carnival for any celebration where costumes are worn. So just remember that when you say you are going to a carnival, that what you really say is that you are going to a farewell to meat party. Can you imagine that? Our next little item we submit as neither for nor against, soothsaying, fortune-telling, nor astrology. I'm going to report it just as I read it. It was in October of 1937 that Maurice Piva, the French seer, cast a horoscope for the year 1938. Among other things, he said, and mind you, he said this in October of 1937. He's in the stars. I can read them and tell you the future. And what I see for 1938 is baleful, evil. For here I can read the signs that tell of disaster. In particular, do I read the sad fate for the nation, Austria? I see her laws, her independence in 1938 during the first quarter of the year. On March the 14th of next year, 1938, she will have reached the climax of her affairs. She will no longer exist as a nation. Thus wrote the French seer, Maurice Piva, in October 1937. And on March 14th of the year 1938, Hitler's troops and Adolf Hitler himself marched into Vienna. Can you imagine that? But that isn't all I've dug up in the way of prophecy. Kept in the Viennese University Library under the catalog number I-246341 is a little book that I'll brochure. It is mellowed and yellow with age for it was first published in the year 1788. A Polish monk was the author. Well, can we imagine the old monk gazing out into the limitless expanse of the sky, watching a star's flicker, his senses attuned to some weird mysterious influence. At his feet sits a neophyte, listening in breathless wonder as he hears the voice of the old monk, deep, vibrant, calling off the prophecies he has seen. My son, there will come to pass many things. I see in the year 1793, I see a man who was once a king mounting a scaffold to feel the merciless cold knife of an instrument of execution. His name, his name is Louis, Louis the 16th of France. But Father, how can you see those things when this is about 1788? I know not, except that it is given to me to tell. Then I see a bloody war between France and Austria in 18005. Then I see plague sweeping all Europe. I see carts and tumbles carrying away the dead. That will be in 1889. And then what, Father, after that? My son, be glad you live now. Be glad that God has not given you life in the 20th century. For that will be the accursed century when brother shall kill brother, when terror shall reign from the skies and sweep all the earth, when men shall kill, kill, kill.  God help them. Father, tell me, does your prophecy seem no peace? No peace at all? Someday man will know that to kill and make war is not to correct the ills and evils of the world, but that he shall not learn until far into the 20th century until the year 1986. Thus in the year 1788 wrote and prophesied an old Polish monk in a solemn monastery. He foretold the murder of King Gustav III of Sweden. He prophesied the partition of his own country, Poland, in 1793 by Prussia and Russia. The French revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the burning of Moscow in 1812. Well, we leave it to you.  Were his prophecies based on cold calculations arrived at through a brilliant deduction? Did he base future happenings on the happenings of the past? Or did the stars whisper these things to him as he gazed up at the inscrutable sky? At any rate in 1788, he accurately and positively foretold the future. Can you imagine that? Now for our sally into the musical world for this part of Can You Imagine That. This time I've dug up a novelty which I think will amuse you. It doesn't have to do with the writing of a certain song nor does it concern itself with how a popular song may sound like one of the classics. Instead it's all about a house party and a house warming that was given by Mr. Jacob Lease at Yarba Buena, California on July 4th, 1836. The details were very kindly furnished to me by the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Lease hurried the building of his house which was one of the first two to be erected at Yarba Buena and helped to form the beginning of the city of San Francisco. To the house warming were invited the most prominent families. To it came the stately Spanish dons, the Castro family, the Martinez and the famous Mexican general, M. G. Vallejo.  They marveled at Mr. Lease's house which the records say was 60 feet long and 25 feet broad and in those 1836 days it was a very giant of a structure. But I guess you're wondering where the musical portion comes in. Well it seems that Mr. Lease's partner Captain Hinckley commanded the American barc Don Quixote which was lying at anchor in the cove. The men from the barc came ashore and with them they brought an orchestra. Where did they get the orchestra? That's easy. Captain Hinckley had a passion for dulcet sounds and he always carried an orchestra with him that consisted of a clarinet, a flute, a violin, a drum, a pipe and a bugle. It was possibly the most stylish orchestra ever heard in California after that time. But to make it even more imposing Captain Hinckley borrowed two small six-pound cannons from the Presidio to form the base. Can you imagine that? Now it puzzled us, no little, to try to find out just what piece it would be that required two six-pound cannons for the base. We weren't able to find out, but we've used our imaginations and we've concocted what we think is a good imitation of that early Yerba Buena orchestra playing. Well, you listen and see if we haven't made a good choice of a number. Yes, sir. Pop Goes the Weasel does seem the logical song to need six-pound cannons for its base. Well now it seems time has come for me to turn you over to your own announcer and until we see you again soon. Until then this is Lindsay McCurry saying goodbye now.


The Nigerian Senate has on Wednesday suspended Senator Abdel Nenge for three months over allegations of 3.7 trillion pardon of the V-24 budget before Senator Nenge's suspension, the Opel Legislative Chamber, was thrown into a chaotic session following deliberations on budgets pardoned allegations made by the lawmaker. Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Appropriations Solomon Olamiliko, who moved the motion that led to the suspension of Senator Nenge explained now the figure is not contained in the budget because some of the agencies are on force line charge. However, Senator Nenge, who was given a fair hearing, argued that 3.7 trillion Narek cannot be accounted for in the 2020 budget. The two documents we have here was shared to the 109th Senator of the Senate containing this document under the volume 1 paragraph 2, 3 and 4 is the breakdown of the 28.77 trillion budget that was passed. And from paragraph 78 are the breakdown of the budget, which we call the budget details of the entire MDAs. And when you add this figure together as containing this document for the entire MDAs, it comes to 25.4 trillion Narek. If you are listening, all your agents have listened to the Arise interview and the Correspondent Chapel interview. I said categorically, the President's powers stopped as a proposal budget. And I said, there is no way the National Assembly will add anything on the budget and it will become padding. The tapes are there. I said the National Assembly's powers and you cannot call that powers padding. And I said I'm very grateful to the presidential spokesman who encountered me said the National Assembly added 2.1, 1.27 trillion. And I was very clear. I was not aware of the addition. I was not even aware as I'm sitting here of the full budget of the National Assembly. I have a Senator Argo Garibay emphasise that all lawmakers are comparable in their alleged budget by the scandal with some receiving 500 million Narek and others as much as 100 billion Narek. This led to a round the session with Garibay's claim causing a delay of nearly 30 minutes. What I'm back on these issues and coming up with issues of the budget and individual issues concerning what came to our various constituencies. If we want to go into those issues, all of us are called people. Some senators here, so-called senior senators got 500 million each. I am a ranking senator I didn't get. Did I go to the press? Most of you got. And yes, if we want to go into those issues, excuse me, if we want to go into those issues, yes. I'm very bummed that the Senate leader accused Senator Inge of plotting a coup against the Akmabio Senate presidency claiming it was a result of the June 13, 2023 election which elected Akmabio as a Senate president. Number one, I stand with your respect to say that what my big brother, distinguished senator Abdul-Ninghi, who I respect so well, planned to do or set out to do was tantamount to his civilian coup which has failed. And in doing this, he wanted to use the platform of Northern Senators Forum.   The last time the entire people of the South had a chance to be Senate president was during Abbas's regime when he went to the South East. Five people were elected because they were impeached in quick succession. But as soon as he left the South, we had peace and stability again because we were always cooperating. Now, Chairman Inge Bryan, a Senate Appropriation Committee member proposing his suspension for 12 months due to allegations of criminal misinformation and breach of peace. However, Senator Asukou Ekweyong argued for an amendment requesting a reduction in the suspension. The Senate should send a warning letter to Senator Suleiman Abdu'l-Rahman Kau and should be warned to stop posting exciting information that are not rights. And then it should turn to apology. It should stop posting all those informations with a way of distorting facts. I would like to amend the prayer as moved by Senator Jim O'Ibraham. I amend that the suspension period be reduced to six months. I shall move. Let me second that. Now, on the Senate's President, Gossip Bible's leadership, Senator Inge was therefore suspended for three months from Parliament activities while Senator Kau received a warning. I agree that where the Senate Abdu'l-Rahman Kau shows remorse in writing through apology to the Senate that such should be deliberated and decisions should be taken by the Senate if such occurs. Is this a true reflection of what transpired in the Committee of the Whole? Accordingly, the Senate hereby warns the single Senator Ismail Akawu from posting or reposing falsehood or items capable of causing division or breakdown of law and order in the country. Now, shortly after his suspension, Senator Abdu'l-Rahman resigned his position as the chairman of the Northern Senators Forum.


American superstar gymnast Simone Biles has spoken after her shock withdrawal from the individual all-round final at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles spoke to her over 5 million fans via a post on Instagram on Thursday. She wrote, The outpouring of love and support I have received has made me realize a more than my accomplishments and gymnastics, which I have never truly believed before. Biles, who won four gold medals at the Rio 2016 Games, including the individual all-round title, announced early on Wednesday morning that she has chosen not to defend her title. She made the decision after consulted with US gymnastics officials, which expressed support for her. This followed her sudden withdrawal from the team competition on Tuesday. A decision cost the American team the gold medal at the team event, which was won by Russia. She later commanded her team-mate for winning the silver.


shiver 1000 here and the lovely Mrs. Monkey 1000 so today we're gonna be doing this as promised we waited all night to do it let's check us out see how they are okay guys so here we go we got the fire yakisabi yakis yakisabi whatever it's the spicy beef okay so I'll get the nutrition facts for you here this is a this is a little bit lighter than the other one this is Japanese style Japanese homestyle noodles I think the other one was Korean green yeah this is net weight of point of 3.99 ounces so just shy of four ounces and at 113.3 grams here's three we get focused on you here case you guys want to pause and read that so I'm guessing you pretty much make it the same way you open the lid halfway yeah yeah you got two packages but if you didn't see the other one I'll go and go through this open the lid halfway remove the two packages mark one and two open pack one containing dried garnish and empty into the side between the noodles and the container shake gently to settle pour water over noodles until it reaches the fill line indicated by the arrows which I'll show I'll show that to you too in case you guys missed it closed lid and cooking microwave on high for four minutes after cooking leave a microwave for one minute now this is at a 1000 watt microwave so ours 900 watts so I'll be putting it in for about four and a half minutes four minutes 20 seconds right in there then you will grab the corners of the tray and carefully remove from microwave product is very hot okay so what they want you to do is use the corners like this when you take it out remove the lid carefully and pour in the contents of packet to mix the powdered sauce until it is until it is evenly dissolved through the noodles then enjoy okay that's what we're going to do and get some water but we also have coming up in future videos we've got the chicken flavor and we have the teriyaki little chicken there must be teriyaki chicken flavor so we've got these to try to coming and soon coming up soon in future videos right now let's go ahead we'll get our water we'll pour it in here and then we'll put a microwave for four four it says four minutes I'm gonna tell you that but I'm probably gonna put mine in a little longer because our microwave is only 900 watts so hang tight and let's get these cooking okay guys so let's go ahead and open this up it also tells you there to four minutes this is the fire spicy beef flavor and open it up and just like the last one it's got the instructions here as well in two different languages so and open this up halfway in and also have these little dotted lines here so we're only going to go halfway because it does close up pretty good don't know so we're going to pack one here's our dried well this looks like it's got carrots in it see what they say now it just is pouring before it looks like carrots and I don't know what else make the one last night had onions in it yeah pretty cool all right so what they want us to do is kind of monkeys checking the other package see if it says what's in here okay smells good so we're just going to dump this right down in to the side there and then they want you to shake gently so okay so what we're going to do is we're going to fill it up to this line right here it's this real line right there okay you guys can see that vegetables it's carrots onions carrots onions and help help me bane bannero jalapeno and then there's paris jalapeno so it's an H H yeah I can barely say it's it right there okay I'm trying to see what this is right there I've been arrow how will be Nino okay so we're going to go ahead and we're just going to fill up to this line right there and other spices it's okay so I understand but we're going to fill this up but they don't tell you what the other spices are no just other spices this actually took on took about almost a cup even so okay so what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and put it in the microwave for four minutes like I said it says you magic may have to adjust your cooking time anyway so like I said yesterday I easily go you know I'll go maybe 30 seconds more for 900 watt microwave it calls for a thousand watts so we're going to put this in microwave we're going to come back mix this up and then we get to eat hang tight okay guys it's been four minutes well five because we leave it set you gotta they want you to leave it set in the microwave for a minute so let's open this up and again be careful I don't know why I tell you that it's hot had a comment one time I deleted it because I did something I forgot to mention well didn't you put a disclaimer to be careful and blah blah it's like look all right so stir this I might have added a little bit more water in this than I should but now we'll put our flavor packet in here this is flavor packet to pack well pack to thank you for reading up on me what was in the other stuff mama what you said it kind of fast and I was like what so what we want to do is we're gonna mix this up and yes last night I did turn down the chomping noises so I didn't have to hear that no one's ever mentioned that before but I don't like it either so I do turn that down because this this camera the ax 53 the Sony HDR ax 53 has got a kick-ass microphone on it and it will pick up the sound of chewing and I don't like that either so I try to turn that down when I can so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take turns mixing this up really well I'm gonna try out for you guys so stay tuned for more right monk yeah okay guys we're back we're gonna try this out having this cameras on this that we got it on the little tiny tripod as we got you sitting up here on the countertop and it's like if you listen real close in the video I did last night okay this camera is vibrating and we thought maybe the fridge because the fridge was kind of up against the counter so I moved the fridge over a little bit so I know it's not that but this thing if I move it a certain way you can feel this whole camera vibrating so the the mic picked it up yeah you can hear it if you well you don't even have to listen real close but you're just yeah you can hear vibration I don't know what's going on with the him okay here's your forky thank you all right we're gonna try this you got a drink all right get you heaping helping I need one of the spinning forks that's what I need to play the jeopardy tune all right ready all right we're gonna dinky dinky dinky don't you don't think you don't don't we're gonna try not to chew her loud so that's hot oh I'm about out too nice just make a friend of you we'll be back wow okay guys so we had to we just took another bite off camera there's a challenge for you let's see that thing there's a challenge for you eat this without anything to drink and give it a five minute burn time because it is hot if you guys like hot stuff you'll love this if you do not like hot and spicy do not buy it oh no this is a creeper oh it's a creeper you don't feel it until it's lying down your throat and that's when I was like whoa yeah did you say how she's like she's looking at me like yeah look and then I want one she's I did not expect it to be that spicy I give this a two thumbs up and I'm gonna give it a nine because yeah because you like it or because of the fire both it says what it says it's a fire all right yeah that's if you like hot stuff if you don't you're not gonna like this nobody don't try it to me I won't eat it it's too much for me but it does me to it does what it says it says it's a fire and I believe you you're freaking on fire know where in Florida but dad yeah so I probably I give it an eight oh not because I like it because of what it says now for because I what I like about it I like the noodles are good they give you good flavor that's great let me ask you this whoa but I'm still let me ask you this the heat factor what do you give it one to ten oh that's a ten I agree ten on the heat factor oh yeah I'm going nine on the flavor so you're going eight on the flavor ten on the heat and two thumbs up right yeah I cannot I can't eat that no I could not finish that I know I can't not without being on fire so if you guys want to do a challenge hey me up with a video and challenge me back and I'll do it or milk maybe it's milk oh hit me back hit me up and and I'll do the challenge too but I challenge you guys first very good wow that's a creeper so it does say what it yeah usually wants to fire hot like that one stuff we had it wasn't really hot at all it was good but it wasn't really hot I can't remember what it was but this is fire that that was a big surprise I was not counting on that one no I thought it was gonna be like you know okay you know I got better taste buds than she does too so it hit me first and I'm thinking go ahead earn a minute oh my god so well her second bite was only about eight or nine noodles I took a whole another bite I'm feeling I feel it do you feel your stomach like on wild hogs that part someone's someone's throat blood she was like your throat won't bleed remember that all right well guys anyways thanks for watching stay tuned for some upcoming videos oh yeah I like to somebody eat all that oh I'm sure there's a lot of people that water without nothing I don't I couldn't do it well I'm sure they could I mean it's not as hot as the death net mmm well no it's not as hot as the death net I guarantee it's not even done that yet no she mentioned it to me the other day oh did she need to do that and so anyway guys yeah there you go awesome and this was a dollar as well yeah now is that the original price of them or yeah is it oh cool so I gotta go my throat starting to bleed I got blisters on my tongue saber the miss male legend I'm gone for now I gotta go help her deal with her issues we'll see you guys in the next one bye bye and take care I can say she's out by guys that's staying in okay now bye guys he's made me spit on my camera stay tuned after this clip we have another outtake though for you right dude yeah remember I had a trouble I had trouble doing my intro we'll see you bye bye bye everyone she barely met the man legend gone for me what this video on YouTube I don't know my own throat


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While young star Hailey Steinfeld could have afforded her own mansion years ago, she's long chosen to live with her parents in their family mansion. However, that's finally about to change. While Hailey loves the Thousand Oaks residence she grew up in, and why wouldn't she, the home is massive with luxury features like a pool, she's finally got some real estate of her own. Just recently, it was reported that Hailey dropped $8 million on a recently renovated mansion in Encino, which formerly belonged to another famous face. In this video, we're gonna see where the starlet calls home. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Hailey Steinfeld is an actress and singer who began her career as a child actress, being born and raised in the Los Angeles suburbs by wealthy parents. Her breakthrough came in the 2010 film True Grit, and since then, she's landed many TV and film roles from Bumblebee to The Edge of Seventeen and much more. Hailey is also a musician, and her 2016 single Starving was a definite chart-topper. With a net worth estimated at about $10 million already, the 24-year-old could have afforded to move out of her parents' house years ago, but she was no doubt comfortable at the family mega mansion. Now, it seems she's finally left the nest with the purchase of a new multi-million dollar home, but it's only about 30 minutes from her parents' house. Hey guys, it's Cara the Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment. You guys requested this one, so today we're checking out the mansion of Hailey Steinfeld. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to chat. And now let's get into this video. While Hailey's fame and fortune could have afforded her a lavish house years ago, she chose to live with her parents in their California mansion for a while. After all, it was a setup the actress claimed to absolutely love, and it's easy to see why. While we don't know the details of her family home, it's located in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood of California, an upscale area also home to celebrities like Britney Spears. From aerial views, we can see that the home is massive, and includes features outside like a sprawling pool. Back in 2016, Hailey confessed on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she was quite happy to still be living at her parents' place, saying, I'm still at home, not ashamed. The actress also explained she considered moving out of her parents' house many times, but could never quite take the plunge.  It seems Hailey has been able to remain down to earth, even with all her success, partly due to her close bond with her family. While she's finally gotten a home of her own, I'm sure that bond won't chain. While we can't see interior photos of Hailey's Thousand Oaks mansion, reports say Interior has spanned 4,556 square feet of space, with five beds and 4.5 baths throughout. While the views we can see show a luxury backyard with a huge pool and spa setup that's hard to miss. The 2020 quarantine may have been Hailey's final push to spread her wings and move. She admitted going into nearly a year of being locked up with the family was making her go kind of crazy. Hailey was in quarantine with her mom Sherry, an interior designer, and her father Peter, a personal trainer, who also built a home gym on the property. Her older brother Griffin, who's a professional race car driver, was also staying at the family home. We can see that Hailey utilized the home gym her dad built during the pandemic, and she had set herself up a home studio to work as well. More recently, Hailey snags herself her very own mansion, but luckily, the Encino property is less than 30 minutes away from her childhood home, so she isn't going too far. In November 2021, it was reported that Hailey bought her first home off of rock star John Fogarty of the group Credence Clearwater Revival, or CCR. She actually purchased the home for $8 million back in August, but it wasn't revealed at the time, and it's located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino, an area growing more and more popular amongst the rich and famous. While Fogarty made a $1.2 million profit off the sale, he also did a pricey and thorough home renovation during his ownership. The house was only built in 2016, but the CCR frontman transformed the traditional mansion into a super contemporary and trendy work of art. I mean, it doesn't even look like the same place. Nowadays, the mansion looks completely different, boasting features like reclaimed wood siding, stone walls, and disappearing glass doors, just to name a few. The property spans over half an acre of land, and Hailey's new home is set at a small and less known street in a leafy and tree-lined area of Encino. Her house is also hidden from the streets behind tall gates, and boasts a state of the art security system, along with home automation. The entrance of the estate is eye-catching, with storing ceilings in a curved staircase, as well as two shiny chandeliers overhead. The mansion boasts an open-plan layout, and there are lounges on either side of the foyer. The room seems to be a formal living area, with double-height white brick fireplace and a chic black-and-white theme. Opposite that room, the other lounge offers violet-colored walls, a black vaulted ceiling, another fireplace, a wet bar, and a moody vibe. Hailey's residence spans a total of 9,000 square feet, almost double the size of her family mansion, with six bedrooms and eight baths throughout. The formal dining room has plenty of mirrors and an expensive chandelier-style to look like falling raindrop. The kitchen area is less formal, made up of a neutral color scheme but no less impressive. The all-new kitchen boasts a white quartz island, breakfast bar, and glass cabinets. A motorized glass door here opens fully to the backyard, giving the entire space the ideal indoor-outdoor vibe. This area blends into a family room, which flows easily together and looks like the perfect space to hang out. This room boasts an entertainment wall, built-in modern fireplace, hardwood floors, and more glass sliders out to the pool. Another hangout option is the soundproof movie theater in Hailey's mansion, which is set up with tiered seating and a completely black theme, making it feel extra cozy. Upstairs, the master suite is the perfect retreat for the actress, and it's centered by a double-sided fireplace which warms up the sleeping quarters and the separate sitting room. The master also has dual-walking closets and dual bathrooms, one of which offers a unique stainless-steel bathtub and elegant vanity. Aside from the five guest rooms, each of which have their own en suite. Another impressive feature of the home is the plush rooftop terrace, which has comfy furnishings and views of the San Fernando Valley, as well as a mountain range in the distance. Out in the backyard, Hailey has a paradise to unwind or entertain friends and family. There's a handful of dining terraces, much of which are shaded from the sun. There's also a full outdoor kitchen and bar. Other features include a barbecue center, sitting area with outdoor fireplace, and of course, the impressive swimming pool with built-in spa and water feature. Mature trees protect Hailey's property for extra privacy, and they also have string lights wrapped around the trunks for the perfect nighttime ambience. Now that we've seen where Hailey Steinfeld's currently calls home, I think that brings our house to her to an end. While we know the young star loved living at her parents' mansion in Thousand Oaks, I think she was just waiting for the perfect crib to come along. And it seems like she found that in her new mansion. What do you guys think about her stylish Encino estate? I think every detail was thought out and it was renovated and modernized to the nines. It's no wonder Hailey jumped in to buy it as her starter home. What was your favorite feature? I love the unique theme in each room and how differently every space was designed, all the fireplaces inside, and of course, the jam-packed backyard. Be sure to let me know your favorite thing about Hailey's home down in that comment section. Thanks for watching! Don't forget to follow me over on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye!


There's been a huge decline in mental health around the world, which is why we're so committed to creating more content than we ever have. Thanks for being a part of our journey. The habits you have, good and bad, are mostly subconscious. It's not something you often give much thought to, but these little things have been dropping hints about your personality all along. So are you curious about what links your personality and your habits? Let's look at seven habits that reveal your true personality. Number one, clothing preference. Do you like to wear casual clothes or do you prefer professional attire? A study by Erickson and Surgey revealed that formal and business-like attire is used by career-oriented individuals to reinforce self-image. A study from the University of Manchester found that those who prefer to wear casual style clothes have low conforming attitudes as they want to enhance their sense of freedom. Meanwhile, socially conscientious individuals prefer evening-style outfits. Those with more conventional personality types prefer to wear formal clothes with a lack of color or design. Number two, shopping habits. A new pair of shoes from your favorite brand has just hit the shelves. Would you prefer to buy them online or do you go to the physical store? A study conducted by Briziel and Luik, comparing offline and online shopping behavior, showed that more extroverted individuals spend the most time and money at the mall and the least time online. A different study demonstrated that those who buy impulsively tend to have a higher tendency to experience psychological distress. This might be due to their belief that shopping can temporarily alleviate mental distress. Number three, daily routines. Did you know even your mundane every day to-do list can reveal a lot about your personality? A study by Chapman and Goldberg found the degree of agreeableness in individuals can be revealed by the kind of chores they do. For those higher up on the scale of agreeableness, you spend more time doing domestic chores such as ironing or washing the dishes. You are also highly motivated to keep other people happy. In addition, you are more likely to sing while in the shower or in the car. Extroverted individuals are found to spend their time planning parties or talking on the phone making plans for the next adventure. Number four, professional stress. How would you describe yourself when you're faced with workplace stressors? Are you more prone to think of it as a challenge or do you tend to view it from a negative lens? A study by Shen and Specter demonstrated that personality is associated with perceptions of the work environment. For example, extreme conscientiousness or someone who is anxious about the tiniest of tiny details is more inclined to perceive the work environment as stressful. Number five, the way you walk. Have you ever sat on a bench and observed the myriad of ways that people walk? Some walk with heavy stamping, some with strong lengaging steps, or some walk slowly with soft steps. A study published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior found that individuals with high physical aggression possessed greater relative movement between the upper and lower body. In other words, an aggressive walk is characterized by exaggerated body motion. Apart from that, Cesario and McDonald reported that extroverted personalities are more likely to walk with confidence. On the other hand, you're more likely to be introverted if you walk slowly with soft steps. Number six, hobbies. Do you spend your free time lost in fictional worlds or do you spend your time sweating it out on the tennis court? Have you ever wondered why you prefer to participate in certain activities during your leisure time? And what does it say about your personality? A study by Eisnik, Neaz and Cox demonstrated that extrovert people are more likely to spend their free time in sporting activities. Moreover, a study by Wilkinson and Hansen reported that individuals who are more open to experiences were more involved in cultural aesthetic leisure, such as cultural arts, literature and writing. And number seven, written words. Do you tend to write in large or small letters? Is the dot on your eyes placed high or low? It's okay if they were tiny hearts instead of dots. According to a theory by Kay Amend and others, the word slant, writing pressure, connecting strokes and spaces between lines can convey specific characteristics of the writers. If you write in a vertical slant, you are someone who finds it easy to control your emotions, while writing with a moderate left slant may show you find it hard to express your emotions. Those who want to be in permanent control and have low self-esteem write in an extreme left slant. As for those who can easily verbalize their emotions and opinions, they tend to write in a moderate left slant. Finally, individuals who are impulsive and lack self-control write in an extreme right slant. Contrary to popular belief, your personality is not set in stone by 30. It was recently discovered that your personality is quite malleable as you grow older. Based on a study on personality, there is roughly a 25% chance that your personality traits will change over time. You can always acquire new habits to be the best version of yourself. So, did this list help shed some light on habits that give away your personality type? Do you know any other habits that can reveal personality? Feel free to leave a comment with your experience, feedback, or suggestions. If you found this video helpful, be sure to hit the like button and share it with others too. Don't forget to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit that notification bell for more new videos. Thanks for watching!