Welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa in the early hours in the early hours of last Saturday, an identified gunman attacked and bombed the house of the president-general of O'Hanei Zendibu worldwide. Professor George Obioso at Awa-Omama in Orui's local government area of Imo State using what was described as improvised explosive devices, IEDs, and petrol bombs. Now eyewitnesses were reported as seeing the attackers drive into the compound of the president-general at about 6.15 a.m. shooting indiscriminately for over 15 minutes before setting the house ablaze. Properties worth and valuables worth millions of Nara were destroyed in the attack and Mr. Obioso's brother's houses were also set ablaze. The attack had the trademark of the indigenous people of Biafra leading to speculation that the outlawed group agitation for the creation or agitating for the creation of an independent state of Biafra from the southeastern part of Nigeria and some parts of the South-South may have been behind it. The indigenous people of Biafra had on Monday however exonerated itself from the attack. In a statement signed by Ima Parfal, its spokesperson, the group described the attack on Obi-Oz's house as a barbaric, shameful, and disgraceful act. A condemnation of the attack on the country home of the president-general of the Apex Ibo sociocultural organization has also come from leading voices in Nigeria with President Buhari among them. In a statement he described the attack as deeply distressing. I'm glad to say we have joining us to throw some light on this and you know answer questions regarding this unfortunate incident. The National Publicity Secretary of Ohane's Indigo Worldwide joining us from Inugoi's Dr. Cheadosi Alex Ibonia and Dr. Alex Ibonia thanks for joining us and good morning to you. Hello Dr. Alex Ibonia, are you there please? Yeah, I'm there with you. Alright, thanks for joining us and good morning to you. Thank you very much. Yes, can you please tell us for those who you don't want to hear from the horse's own mouth as it were, what happened on Saturday at the country home of Professor Obi-Ozo. Yeah, Ahane has not an issue statement on that and it's very deliberate. It's very deliberate because we don't want to be in a hurry to issue statement. Sometimes people may issue statement and sometimes maybe of suspicion of wanting to order, they may misstep. So because of that, it's very great to be decided to issue an example of some basic investigations are conducted before we are able to know the exact position. And the more of that, what most people suspected, the surface high-pub, that you can see Ipob came out to disclaim and also to condemn the water food that is given to us as barbaric. And of course, they associated themselves from such a great act and that they have anything, anything to force us to attack Professor Obi-Ozo. The same way, many other groups have condemned what happened. So I am sure that in the South East, as they go, there's a kind of racism. There's a rising up feeling of alienation and marginalization. Or there's a dignity that is immaculate on the people of South East. So people, a lot of people are angry and this is given into kind of post-relations with the system. So as most people say, Ipob, Ipob, but it's important to say that it is beyond Ipob, that is to say. There are many other groups, individuals, that feel aggrieved and want to express the grievances in their own ways. So that's why Haneja was pleading with all people who love Nigeria. You see, when I say we are the first, we are making of Nigeria, coming granted. And now the first is that in about 53 years after the Nigerian people were, they are not, years after they are not to be a good test of the logic in the governance terms of Nigeria. It is my belief that all these people have to reduce agitation and they have to speak to return in the South East. So like I said, a lot of people are aggrieved and that is the heightening insecurity of the, in the South East. Then let me quickly add that it is about a year ago, precisely about four, eight years ago, last year, that all this is certain. Before April 4, last year, the South East was considered the safest, the most secure, the most peaceful state zone in the whole Nigeria, until the connection terms of people was attacked at the way. And if you look at the way this place is located, you see that it is very very close to women house, very close to police and so on. So for any group who have the remote field capacity to overwhelm the police network there, and also to enter the correctional center and release the prisoners, then we think I do who has the capacity to do it. So all this is at the way level. It is difficult to say that those that have the most capacity to overwhelm the correctional center with all the secrecy that gets around. So all that is available, but we are not very clear how this is going to happen and for now, we are not going to try to slow down. It is also a sign of the failure of the secrecy system in Nigeria. It is also a long time it has been happening and it does not suggest to me that the secrecy network can help to overwhelm the miscreants that are going on carrying out these operations. So I made a call, rather a call to the federal government to improve on this secrecy network. You see how this can be solved today. Okay. Interesting. Dr. Alex Obonia, you are saying that the your organization has not released a statement officially, but we know what happened. It is documented. I am looking at pictures on my tablet right now of the burnt house. It looks like what can be described as a premeditated attack, you know, improvised explosive devices being detonated, petrol bombs being used. Would you agree with those experts who have also shared that same view to say that this is a premeditated attack, planned and coordinated? Yeah. I want to agree with you that it is premeditated and coordinated. But what I said is not clear. It is supposed to be a premeditated act, for us it is not yet clear. It was said the government is working hard and I am very sure they will come with their own reports. But Nagyam Police, for example, has also given out instructions that this group will be found out. So it is still coordinated, it is still that premeditated. There is also to that for now, as I am talking to you, we are not able to know who did it. We are not able to say this right, but to say this are the people that did it, this is where I am coming from, we don't have them now. Dr. Obonia, some people, some security experts that we talked to from time to time, are always out of the opinion that the chiefs and the traditional rulers of thought and even governments of certain states and communities where you have insecurity or acts of insecurity or security breaches know the people behind these things. If you are talking about mandatory, if you are talking about government attacks, if you are talking about terrorism, not a few security experts will always say that they know those behind this. Are you saying that no one in the entire Honeze and Igbo can put a finger to say these are the boys or the people who did this? Because they come from somewhere most likely in the southeast. That you know, it seems to me that all the specific rules of Honeze and Igbo, just like myself and my academic, I don't think I am giving to investigation. So, we wait for, we have division of labor, we wait for police, detainees, DSS and a lot of them to give us information about what happened. But do you have a leading within your group? I mean, whilst you are doing division of labor, do you know where these boys or these men or women, whoever they were, came from? Does anyone in the Honeze and Paratoz? All right. What would lead to such attack on the country home of such a revered personality, who is at the top of such an important organization, not just in the southeast, but in Nigeria? If you agree, it's premeditated, if you agree, it's also calculated and coordinated. What do you think could have been the reason, could have led to such a task? Because we know in the times past that Professor Obe also has had some statements, made some statements about so-called unknown gunmen, you know, about IPUB and all that ESN in the southeast. Is that indication as to what may have been the reason for this attack? Well, something that is very clear to everybody in Nigeria is that our youth, our youth, boys and girls in the southeast, they are almost infected with people of our class, by age group and in class. Whereas the other ones in the southeast are urging them to be patient, believing that which are the ones with Nigeria and the southeast, believing that maybe by 2023, the alienation and migration will stop, believing that people that are very petrified in this country, we read this together to see how the alienation towards the people will stop. So why the other, the younger ones are saying that what they are looking for is why good things, that is, that what they are looking for is not feasible. That is, this thing has started a long time that is likely to continue, that we are rather waiting for our clients thinking that the power will come to us, or they are very angry, even myself as I'm talking. So that is no longer what people call IPUB now. What I'm saying that they are putting proliferation agitation groups in the southeast who are agreeing. So what we do not know is that the group that did this, whether it is IPUB, this or that or that, or non-government or whatever, that is what we say we don't know. Then we know what is great that the people that did this are agreeing, premeditated, coordinated. We know. We also know that some of these are called from outside. They are disorganizing certain things to give them a bad name, to create a bad image for the certain. So that when you talk about certain things, you are there as people who are environment, people who are not organized to meet themselves and to an idea. So this is a possibility. Yeah, Dr. Obios, when you say Dr. Bonia, sorry, when you say it could have also groups from outside the southeast coming to lunch attacks in the southeast, which groups are you referring to? Honestly, you know, in politics, anything can happen. I want to tell you that some people are very happy that southeast is neglected now. I think that all this is happening in southeast so that they have, if they do their talking point in their own form of position of power, if they do their talking point, don't use what is happening in southeast. How do you think they can reason here? Look at what is happening. It is becoming their talking point, so they are happy. They got forced to do it. So who are these external forces or people you are talking about? That may be coming to the southeast to attack, you know, leading figures in the south. Who are these groups you are referring to? No, no, no. Like I said, I can normally have Bonia in southeast. I said it is possible in Tana, it is possible in Xana. So are you just speculating or are you conjecturing here? Is this in the realm of speculation? I don't understand. I said that many possibilities, including Xana, in Xana is a possibility. I told you that what happened in Correctional Center in Igmo was devoid of internal relative capacity, the need of devoid to overwhelm the Correctional, the integrity network in the Correctional Center, overwhelm them. The sky cover 1,700 image, whether they have the relative capacity to do so. All these are possibilities that they can come from outside. But we cannot say it now. And then what we are going to avoid it to do is to say that this is the people, this is the people that did it. So we take it to science and that's why we are issued of any kind. Perhaps maybe in a long, before long, this will come clear. But what take note, take for me, take home here is that people outside are not happy. And so long as one part of the country is sad, eventually the people inside will affect other parts of the country. That is why I made a good way to come together and think about how the marginalization and the elimination of the topic should talk. All right. Doc, doc, you were talking about marginalization.  And some would say that you're playing the same script again that has led to the current situation. In other words, some accused leaders, opinion leaders, traditional leaders, cultural leaders, social cultural leaders, the intelligentsia of Indigbo. You have the political leaders and religious leaders of massaging this situation until it became like this. Some have pointed out that the genesis of this situation was when someone came up and started shouting and talking and inciting people. And that all of you did nothing. None of you came out to condemn. None of you came out to say, keep quiet. This would lead us down. Whilst others were shouting that this is going to lead us down the road, we don't want to go. And you basically sat back whilst the Pandora's box was open. And now you are at the receiving end and suffering end, still crying marginalization. When you could have done something at the point when the Pandora's box was being open, and now it's too late, almost like what happened in the northeast. So the idea, for those who say these things, is that you're basically just enjoying what you encouraged. Now, except what was to be said to the leaders, about four years, five years ago, I was the president of 100 Indigbo in Enubu State, chapter, and the Funiawud was the president-general. As a point, the house of Funiawud was bombed. At the point, a girl of flesh was issued on Funiawud. Why was that? Because now, at the point, they wanted to stop election in Anambra State, where it would be another election. We have been urging them to stop, we are urging our youth to stop what they are doing. We have been urging them to stop in Anambra State, but we also urge them to stop what they are doing. If you go to Omani as a chairman, start a government forum, even opposed to the approach, even when there is the recognition of the alienation and migration. The point is that when you are talking to your children, the protest youth, sometimes you use the carrot and the stick mechanism. We have been talking. So if you go through the past remarks by the presidents of Anambra, you see that we are not but I do not buy it. But there is something very old here. But if you go to the police, the armed police and the secret architecture in Nigeria, you don't find anyone from the South East happening now. The secret is loaded in the hands of people from all sections of the country, a democratic society that has diverse ethnic groups, business, and the foundation for the agitation.  Indeed, it is a grim situation. And indeed the history we have recounted is true with the former Omani Zindigbo president in general, Nia Odo. But the situation right now in the South East and part of Nigeria is really grim. I mean, if those who have been traveling through that part of the country, either moving from state to state or moving from the South South to the South East or so, they report not seeing any security presence of either military or police or whatever. What they see is community vigilante who have become a law to themselves, who have blocked major roads, who are collecting rent and collecting money on the streets and are cocking guns at drivers and cars and threatening to shoot if you don't pay them money. I've had people drive through the South East who have reported seeing bodies. Someone told me they saw a human heart on the road. Some have been kidnapped. We have a situation on the border between a boundary between Abia State and Namras and Emo State, sorry. A lot is going on there. A lot of people have been kidnapped. Different parts of Emo State, including Okigwe, you have traditional rulers who can't stay at home. They've run away because their colleague traditional rulers have been kidnapped. One was killed last year. It's a grim situation. Now what's the solution to this? The current Anambra State governor, he said is one of those states that is going through a lot. Charles Solidore has said that he will dialogue with aggrieved parties. But we do not know some of these people. Like we heard a term on non-government. We're seeing in Oweri, for instance, messages being posted on people's gates on the streets telling them that unknown gunmen are coming. What's the solution to this very dire situation? Bearing in mind the fact that Governor Opuzo Dima was summoned by President Mohamed O'Hurray and he went to see him regarding the security situation, the President on Monday he was reported had approved the deployment of more security personnel, more arms, more ammunition to address the security situation in Emo State. This is something that has been done before. Whenever it's done, people of the South East come out to condemn the government asking, why are you bringing Operation Python down? So why are you bringing Operation Puff and all these things to our doorstep? We don't want it. But now we have a governor going to ask for it. Will this be a solution, this deployment of more security personnel, more arms and more ammunition? Will it be a solution to address the current situation? No. Let me answer it this way. On the thought of March, I was in Adiocuta. So, to celebrate with excellency, from a period of my idea, I traveled from Adiocuta to Lagos and traveled from Lagos to Adiocuta. And because of that reason, I didn't see any one checkpoint of any kind, whether police, army, or locality, or whatsoever. Adiocuta to Lagos. In any group, if we move from one local government to another, we find both police and soldiers and what has new. Not only that, they collect money from the motorists and they pass in the trip to America that's about to take action. He goes on making the trip in one hour or two hours. How this is not the way out? How to understand? Isn't it now? There is a statement that the presence of Nigeria can make now that the tribulation can go on in the whole of South East. From the pregnancy, there will be tribulation of the law. People will be dancing however the car is. And that will be about whether any other problem will be security. So, the more aggrieved they will become, whether you mark more of a critical point. Security is a collective consciousness. So when you do that, there will be happiness of everybody. So you are saying the deployment of more security. So you are saying the deployment of more security personnel, increased arms and ammunition in the South East will not solve the situation. Thank you very much. We have to go. Yes. When you go with good policy, there will be smiles on the face of most people. Thank you very much. Dr. C.A. Dozie Alex of Bonilla, the National Publicity Secretary of Ohane's and Igbo Worldwide. This has been a thrill talking to you again. And I hope to do some more talking with you as we look for peace and resolution to this situation in the South East. Thank you. His journey is life from Inukui in Southeast Nigeria. When we come back to do some more talking, President Buhari has been in a legacy state, of course, commissioning and inaugurating. We talked to an expert on the implications and prospects of these commissionings for the Nigerian economy. Please stay with us.


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Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter and I am participating in the United We Conquer blog hop for Ellen Hudson who's doing a breast cancer research foundation fundraiser with this great stamp and die set. $25 is going to be donated per set, not 25% but $25. So how cool is that? This is the stamp set. It's in one of the oversized big ones has tons of flowers, but look at all these great sentiments. There are a lot that are really perfect for survivors and for those undergoing the living nightmare that is cancer. But it also has sentiments that are going to be good for everybody because we all go through stuff too. On the backside it has lots of information about just a whole bunch of stuff and then it has a die set that has the nice ribbon in it too. So I am going to create a card using this today. What I started out doing is stamping out all of the sets because each one of these is a layering set and there's basically six-ish flowers and they stamp on top of each other in different colors. You're going to see on the blog hop, everybody else is going to do that. I'm going to turn six flowers into 16 by treating each one differently and I'm taking some Lawn Fawn inks that are Copic friendly and I am going to just stamp them randomly. A whole bunch of yellow, a little bit of pink, a little bit of green and just layer a couple different colors. But you can see I've just slathered the whole thing with stamps to make a nice background for myself and then I'm targeting a little bit of pink and a little bit of green on a few flowers and that sort of thing just to create a little bit of difference in those colors. I am going to go over it and do some coloring because coloring is what I do, right? So then I'm going to take it out of my misty and I grabbed a couple of markers. It doesn't really matter what colors these are because it doesn't really matter what colors you use on the whole thing. Yellow is my thing. That's my signature color and the person who's going to get this card, a friend of mine who is actually undergoing cancer treatment right now, is going to know that this is from me because it's yellow. Even though pink is the color for breast cancer, I do yellow everything so she's going to remember that I'm the one who sent her this when she receives it. So that's why mine's all yellow and I just picked some colors out so I could create some more flower shapes on top of each one of these. Now some of them I'm going to create the flower shadows and stuff just within the shape itself and some like this one I'm going to extend that light color beyond that little yellow middle part and on some of them I'm even going to add some extra little petals and create a little bit more of an extended look for each one of the shapes that's been stamped. This is basically just using each one of these as a takeoff to create a whole new kind of flower. If you don't know how to draw flower shapes then go look at some flowers on Google and look at how the petals come together and that sort of thing because it's really going to help to create different shapes, different sizes, make some of them smaller, make some of them bigger, do a whole bunch of different kinds of things with them so that you can create a different look for each and every flower. For some of them I'm making the tips darker and the inside layer and other ones I'm going to do the reverse and there's not a real science to this I'm just doing whatever comes into my mind at the time so don't stress out about trying to make it all perfect just fill it with flowers and flowers come in so many different shapes and sizes nobody's going to know if it's not an exact replica of a particular flower.  The Copic Friendly Ink from Lawn Fawn I have a whole bunch of the little cube sets and that stuff works really well I can go right over top of it and sort of smooth things out and they work really well together you can also use some Copic over top of Distress Ink I would just allow it to dry first so don't use it when it's really fresh and wet but I have used them occasionally in combination with Copic markers. You can also use a bunch of the Shadow Inks from Hero Arts and other companies that are that make inks like those will often work with something like this but for me I just chose the really light color so if you have a good selection of light pinks then you can make a pink card I just didn't have light pinks but of course I have yellows because that's what is always in my collection at all times right so that little flower got a fancy center to it and you can do fancy centers on some and simpler ones on others on these I'm gonna add little little tiny centers on each one of those little flowers to add a little bit more detail to them and now I'm gonna go for this big one and with each one of these the only thought that's running through my mind is do I want the flower to get bigger than what it is or do I want to stay kind of within the shape that's already stamped there from the stamp set and I decided I was going to stay within it for this one you can also take your markers and close up that center and make smaller centers on some bigger centers on others and you could even decide you're gonna just stamp a whole bunch of one of these and make a bouquet out of one of the flower shapes and do them all in different colors maybe do that particular flower and do some in in bright pinks and blues and greens yellows I just saw a beautiful bouquet at my grocery store with those Gerbera daisies Gerbera Gerbera daisies in the store and they were just beautiful they're always like crazy electric colors but they were really gorgeous and happy and they might be a really cheerful bouquet so you can do that with a lot of different colors and here I made one with just little tufts on each one of that little bit of green so didn't even worry about making them look like flowers I was just trying to come up with all sorts of different shapes for flowers and greenery on this to create as many different little different little detailed flowers as I possibly could because I think when my friend gets this she's gonna be in love with all of the different flowers here now this one seemed more like it might be some sort of an aster or a daisy the center portion of it so I'm stretching that yellow out beyond where it was stamped and then I'll take another marker and just kind of go out from the center and reinforce some of that shadow going into the middle there and then take a middle color and blend it out just a little bit but I'm not worried about my blending being perfect either I'm just trying to make all of these look like flowers so I have a whole flower background on my card add a little detail to the center portion of this one and then move on to another flower this one I decided to just use the tip of the marker to create a little point on each one of these little little do-jobbies and those fit with some of the greeneries by the way so when I stamped it it you could make it fit right on top of the little branch but I decided to stamp them all separately so each thing would just be very very different from each other one here I created one with more distinct petals and then up here I've got this guy I'm gonna I'm gonna do the little fronds that I did down below but since they're on a different different type of branch they look a little bit different and at this point my eye is jumping around and trying to figure out are there any flowers that need to be small because sometimes it's fun to have a real difference in size on a background like this so I might even add more flowers if I need to just draw in an extra one if there's a white space squinting at something will often help you to see whether or not everything is filled in well or not and now I went to my greens because there's a bunch of these that need a little bit more on the greenery because the stems are meant to layer with the leaves and since I didn't layer them and there's some like this one I added extra little flowers to so I want to make sure that I add a little details here and there as well and I'll flip it around and add more stems between some of the leaves that are here if there's any of my flowers that look like they need a little leaf or this one needs a whole branch can just draw that in real simply and I'm using a really light green so really no big deal to go over something if I mess it up even that's one of the good things about Copics is that colorless blender covers a myriad of things so I'm just about where I'm wanting all of my different parts looking around there's a stem here that flower looks like it needs a little something and then I realize I hadn't hit too much of the top yet fill in fill in I've got a little spot right here where I think I need another leaf and perhaps that little flower should be connected some of this I just like to connect to the outside of the card so I'm just looking to see if there's anything around the outside edge or I can make a branch that's just peeking in I could have gone back and stamped another one of the little leaf stamps around those edges just to fill in some of those spots but it's easy enough once I've gotten used to it to just throw in a couple branches here and there and attach my rose I think that's a rose or peony or something that's what it is since I drew it it's gonna be whatever it is since I am not a botanist to know in great detail about all those things little empty spot here looked like it needed a little bit of greenery maybe another one right here and just sort of playing around with it make sure you don't go overboard there will come a point where you might get a little bit too far so be careful and don't get too fussy with it can fill all of these in and I'm really excited about the stamp set by the way if you haven't noticed that a lot of people are excited about it on this blog hop there are tons of people involved they're all gonna be telling you their stories and I don't have a personal breast cancer story I have been blessed that my family has been healthy and we have not had to suffer through that knock on wood hate to even say that out loud because you know how that goes but I do have many friends who have been touched by it and I just think we need to find a cure for it I think we really do I'm tired of having diseases that keep keep coming back and keep wrecking lives and taking people off this earth who should be here but doing charity work like this makes me feel like I'm at least doing something I'm making a difference in some kind of a way and that sometimes is the only thing it's gonna get us through the day we could lose hope very easily if we don't take some action and this is one of those things that I'm gonna do to take some action and you can see on the blog I'm doing my own fundraiser oh by the way I'm coloring the dye here because I'm gonna insert the dye and then my friend can do whatever she wants with the ribbon she can hang it on her bullet board or whatever if she'd like to and it's also yellow so that it will remind her it's from me but from my blog I am doing a fundraiser where for every comment on my blog as well as every pin of my card I'm going to donate a dollar to the cause and it's gonna be expensive but I'm gonna do it so go and help me to decide how much it's gonna be by leaving a comment and go pin the card and then I will get together after a week and calculate all the numbers and see how much I will be giving away to the breast cancer research foundation so there's my finished card and the little ribbon that's going to insert on the inside of it very excited to see what my friend says and see if it helps her to feel better because that is the goal of a wonderful card isn't it so go check out the blog hop and make sure you pick up one of these stamp sets remember $25 is going to breast cancer research foundation if you buy the stamp set so go do it be generous and make a donation as well on top of that if you're able thank you very much and I'll see you another time bye bye


You're looking at dingus from my peripheral and upside down. I Was trying to figure out what that was on the box Because I did not see a toddler in a diaper. What do you think it was? It just looked inappropriate Okay, weirdo welcome back to our super director. It's up Corbin. I'm ready false a Instagram Twitter Also subscribe if you haven't already and please like this You're at snoop snoop album snoop. It's good. It's riproaring funny in some spots and If you want to have good time follow follow snoop on Instagram because he's just He's always on his phone. If you look at his story, just like He's got he's just on his phone all the time.  This is why muga silk is so expensive the golden silk of India. Oh A little informational video. I would like to know why it's so I was thinking about that just today. I was I was I was I was shaving and just pondering about the things in life I do when I'm shaving and it really occurred to me at that moment. Why is muga silk so expensive? Let's find out. This is amazing the serendipity To make muga silk laborers must unwind a muga caterpillar's cocoon into a single long seamless thread Wow, and to make just one sorry about 1,000 cocoons need to be unraveled Sorry made of muga silk can cost up to $6,500 thousands more than other sorry's Dollars, but the caterpillars needed to make the cocoons also called muga seeds might be in danger of disappearing And without them farmers can't produce muga silk at all So why is muga silk so expensive and what's hurting the caterpillars needed to make that's what I want to know Muga can only be made in the Assam region of India It's so central to the culture here, but there's even a traditional song about the golden thread Muga silk is unique because of its naturally lustrous gold color It can last up to 100 years and it's said to offer protection by absorbing 85% of harmful UV rays But these properties also make it more expensive and the labor and expenses required to make muga silk bump the price even further Farmers has to collect the seed cocoons with a very high price from different parts of the Assam This is because of the unavailability of muga seeds, number one And number two is the huge number of manual laborers to be put in for conducting the reeling of muga They pick a male and female moth to mate and tie the female to the coreca, a stick with a hook made of thatch grass or twine This is where the female will lay its eggs Rearers then transfer the coreca to a psalm tree, the host plant from muga worms Here, tiny ash-colored larvae known as chai muga hatch and begin to feed on the leaves But the larvae are vulnerable at this stage, so farmers need to keep a watchful eye to ensure they can form the cocoons needed to make muga silk They shoot clay pellets into the fields to keep potential predators at bay and protect the larvae After one or two months, they can collect and mature caterpillars Here the caterpillars rest and weave their cocoons for three days, until they fully empty the silk glands and enter pupation Not all cocoons are used for silk Some are stored in the sakori para, a bamboo box for keeping cocoons and moths so farmers can continue breeding muga silk The hatched cocoons are used for rougher fabrics, such as winter clothes and blankets But the most expensive muga fabrics come from unhatched cocoons That's because the silk in these cocoons isn't torn and can be unraveled into a continuous thread So the cocoons can be used for rougher fabrics, such as winter clothes and blankets But the most expensive muga fabrics come from unhatched cocoons And can be unraveled into a continuous thread Besides being limited in which cocoons they can use, weavers also need a lot of them For weavers who buy cocoons, this doesn't come cheap The only way to get the right amount is to use the same amount of cocoons That's why we have to make sure that we have the same amount of cocoons But the amount of cocoons we have is 50% To produce one kilogram of muga yarn, Manaka needs 5,000 cocoons Which is enough for about five sari's And that one kilogram could take her a week Because to make the yarn, she needs to reel the golden thread, a process that demands special care Traditionally, the asami's add dried banana peel or patty batch ash to the mixture Which de-gums the cocoon and gives the thread a better sheen And when it comes to muga, the shinier the silk, the more valuable it will be Two people then use a pangoi to carefully reel the long muga silk threads in a continuous motion Reelers gently pull from several cocoons and join the thin strings together to make one thicker thread They must make sure each thread has a consistent thickness, where the yarn won't be as valuable Finally, the reavers load the muga silk yarn onto banded wounds Where asami's women weave it into the desired fabric Some of the most intricate sari's made from regular silk can cost $250 in India But the same design on a muga silk fabric can kick the price up into the thousands Muga silk is the pride of Assam, which accounts for almost all of India's muga silk production But the profits are limited While muga farmers work tirelessly to ensure the moths survive, it's not only up to them The muga moth is continuously threatened by the climate crisis Muga silkworms are reared outdoors An exposure to even the slightest change in temperature and humidity can wreak havoc During high temperatures in 2018, farmers had to delay rearing for 10 to 15 days to avoid silkworm depths Losing this time during peak commercial season when production is ramping up Means producers can end up with less muga silk to sell This is one of the major threats to the muga in the coming decades And second is the pollution And the pollution generated by the tea gardens and petrochemicals Tea gardens use some very destructive chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, etc These chemicals have toxic effects on the muga moth that impact its mortality and ability to reproduce This can threaten the relatively low production of muga silk Compared to other expensive Indian made silks like mulberry silk Only about 239 metric tons of muga silk were produced in India in 2021 Compare that to over 24,000 metric tons of mulberry silk that were produced in the same year According to Jutol, this doesn't meet global demand for muga And it drives the price even higher The limited supply of authentic muga silk has led some producers to fill the gap with fakes To combat the rise of fake muga, in 2007 the Indian government designated a saan muga silk As a protected geographical indication or GI product This means authentic muga silk can only come from a saan But Jutol doesn't believe it's done much to help a saan's muga silk production That's why Jutol and other muga farmers are relying on environmental conservation efforts now and in the future to ensure the survival of this millennia old fabric I like her a lot Dang, it's just like all these things we've seen man The fact that all this, especially this though, is done by hand in an excruciatingly long process I don't even know how someone one day was like, caterpillar cookings Let's make something out of it Obviously I'm an idiot and I don't even know how that would I think about those things all the time where like, especially when we watch these videos It's like, how many trial and error and who even thought to begin the process to create that thing Clearly it's been around for a long, long, long time But yeah, it's no shock that it's the climate change global warming Yeah, because even if you get, let's say you got laws passed that made the tea manufacturers comply so that they don't pollute the area So let's say you just kept it pristine right now that doesn't change the fact that the planet's warming And has been for every year for the past many, many years And the only other thing would be so extraordinarily expensive to do which would be to create like greenhouse farms The amount of money that would have to be invested into that to create such an atmosphere for them is I'm sure cost-primitive to say the least Yeah, absolutely, they would need outside funding for something like that and I don't know who would do that I wonder if the percentage of things, because adaptability is pretty high with animals if the natural habitat is left to its own state So I'd love them to have the opportunity to just deal with climate change in and of itself and eliminate the pollutants I mean, we really would be a better planet just to get rid of pesticides in general regardless of climate change What a shock it's the humans that are destroying the thing Oh, not shocking at all We are a virus We need another play Don't say it!


Hai, mums, rungu gwST Mums, t possibility O, hanya Lide Mums mums I'm Don L McKinley This is Chris Dempsey I'm from Victoria University of Wellington Chris is from New Zealand Micrographic Services max Sullivan Senters Apologies today. Max was going to be speaking with his Victoria University Library hat on but unfortunately can't make it I do know a little bit about the project As does Michael Perry who's in the audience so if anyone's particularly interested in in what Max was going to be talking about today we'll have some time at the end that you can ask questions and we'll do our best otherwise you're welcome to contact Max afterwards. So it's a wee panel, it's a panel of two, but we'll do our best to keep you entertained. How we're going to run this session I'll start with my presentation and then we'll have questions after that Chris will follow and you'll have time to ask him questions as well and then we'll use any time at the end just to sort of open up the floor to discussion generally about crowdsourcing and certainly if you've got any questions related to projects that you might have on the boil you're welcome to throw them our way and we'll do our best to field them. So let's get started. So as I mentioned I'm from Victoria University, I've just started my PhD in the School of Information Management. My research focus is on non-profit crowdsourcing and crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector is particularly dear to my heart. My research focus is on user interface design in particular. There are two main things that I'd like to talk to you about this afternoon. The first, first I'm going to show you why I think evaluating crowdsourcing websites early in the design process can be worthwhile and I'm also going to talk about one method of evaluation that it's inexpensive and relatively easy to use. Before I get started I must give credit to David Ellis and co who gave a presentation at museums and the web a few years back and inspired the title of my talk, why evaluation isn't a party at the end. It did occur to me just a few moments ago that they did stick me at the end so I don't know if they were trying to say something. Crowdsourcing. Just very quickly so that we're all on the same page I'll just do a really quick crowdsourcing 101. Crowdsourcing outsources tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or a community through an open call. Crowdsourcing author Jeff Howe explains that it isn't a single strategy but an umbrella term for a highly varied group of approaches. Crowdsources working in cultural heritage and academic institutions share two common project goals. The first is to create or enhance digitised data and the second is to engage the wider community. Currently volunteers are performing an increasingly wide range of tasks and it is rather a long list that I have but I am going to go through them because you might sort of have heard about a few projects but you might not be aware of the greater potential for volunteers. Some of the tasks they're involved in include tagging, text correction, transcription, contextualisation, classification, curation and data collection, description, text encoding, mapping and geo referencing, identification, interpretation and translation. This is a new project upon the screen here driven by the very clever people at New York Public Library called Building Inspector. This invites volunteers to assist with cleaning up historical map data and if you haven't had a play with it I do encourage you. If you're coming to that camp tomorrow maybe we can have a play with it. The instructions laugh out loud hilarious they're just brilliant. So the success of non-profit crowdsourcing initiatives relies on meeting two key objectives and they are sufficient participation and quality contribution. Meeting these project objectives requires an understanding of contextual factors such as volunteer motivation as well as effective project and system design and evaluation and refinements to achieve optimal performance. For those of you who aren't so familiar with crowdsourcing a typical website for non-profit crowdsourcing includes a branded home page that describes the project and invites participation and then web pages for instructing volunteers and performing tasks. Additional web pages are commonly used for volunteer registration, presenting detailed information about the project and the project team, updating project progress, volunteer accounts and profiles potentially, project communication and in some cases presenting the outcome project for public use which might be open data for reuse. This is another recent project called LinkJazz driven by the Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science and this project volunteers classify relationships between jazz musicians to contribute to a linked open data resource. Again this one is very cool if you're going to look at any in the next hour or so I encourage you to have a play on LinkJazz. So this quote some of you might have heard me use before but I think it deserves sort of restating. Usability author Steve Krug talks about the reservoir of goodwill that visitors bring to a website and explains that each problem they encounter lowers its level. The role of evaluation in the design and optimization of websites is to identify real and potential problems so that they can be remedied and redevelopment. Usability is a broad concept that refers to how easy it is for users to learn a system and how efficiently it is for them to use, how efficient it is for them to use and how pleasant it is to use as well. Some of the website elements that can impact on usability include content, language, readability, website navigation, arrangement of page elements, consistency, visual appearance, page load speed and the number and complexity of processes required to complete the desired action. So in crowd sourcing terms these kind of design decisions can impact on the effectiveness of our invitation to participate, the effectiveness of our task instructions and the incentives that we put in place. These design decisions can also impact on the length of time volunteers spend on the site, efficient task completion and participant return rate, whether they return or not, how often they return. Evaluating early in the design process can help to better meet the needs of your volunteers and potentially avoid major website fixes later on. I'm going to give you just one example. I'm involved with the New Zealand Reading Experience database which is a crowdsourced history of reading project being developed at Victoria University of Wellington. Based on the UK project which was launched in 1996 the NZ Red will collect reading experiences of New Zealanders from the 19th century to the present day. Volunteers will be invited to identify instances of reading in diaries, letters, biographies and memoirs, from private collections, from libraries and archives and then contribute their discoveries to the online database. The fastest and easiest way to develop a user interface for the NZ Red might be well would be to use the existing UK Red as a template but our project team had a few issues with this. This is just a very small extract from a very, very long page. The task interface that UK Red volunteers use to input reading experiences is currently a very lengthy, somewhat daunting one page online form. Furthermore the current UK website hasn't been subjected to usability testing and there's no requirements documentation available. So this reads the question well how effectively and efficiently is the UK Red task interface supporting rich data collection and volunteer participation. So rather than blindly adapt the UK Red template for our purposes we were keen to pursue this question. So earlier this year as part of the Master of Information Studies program at Victoria I conducted a research project on the NZ Red. The aim of the project was to produce high level functionality and usability requirements for an NZ Red task interface and determine the extent to which the UK Red actually met these requirements. My findings will inform the design of a working prototype to be developed in the next stage of the NZ Red project and this in turn will undergo user testing before being incorporated into the overall NZ Red website design. I employed several data collection techniques to produce the requirements. Today I'm not really focusing on the requirements development as such. I'm really just going to be focusing on the evaluation of the UK Red task interface. So if you're interested in the requirements development there's a link to the full report on my website. One of the tools I used to evaluate the usability of the UK Red task interface was a set of heuristics which are sort of commonly thought of as rules of thumb but what I would prefer you to think of as design principles in this context. These heuristics are short statements about what a system should do. They're generally accompanied by a more detailed explanation and in some cases they're accompanied by examples as well. Heuristic evaluation is known as a discount evaluation method because it doesn't involve end users which in this case would be our crowdsourcing volunteers or potential volunteers. This can be time-consuming and can be costly potentially and heuristic evaluation requires minimal time and resources. So in a nutshell evaluators are guided by a set of heuristics to determine the extent to which user interface elements comply with the design principles. Any breach of heuristics is commonly recorded and rated using a four-level severity scale which was developed by Molika Nielson. The set of heuristics that I used was developed in 2012 by Petrie and Power. They were developed to support the design and evaluation of highly interactive websites such as those requiring users to input information. For those of you who aren't familiar with heuristics, I'll just give you an example from that set so you know what I'm going on about. One of these heuristics is avoid duplication or excessive effort by the users. This is accompanied by their explanation. Don't ask users to provide the same information more than once and don't ask for excessive effort when this could be achieved more efficiently by the system. So guided by these 21 heuristics, I was able to identify potential difficulties associated with the UK red task interface that might be impacting on the user experience and then report how these might be remedied. I identified 32 potential usability problems related to interactivity, to content, physical presentation and information architecture. Of these, I rated six as major or high priority problems, 23 is minor or low priority problems and three is cosmetic only. To validate the results of my heuristic evaluation, I then conducted an online survey of current UK red volunteers and potential New Zealand red volunteers who were asked to identify usability problems associated with the UK red interface. Survey respondents of whom there are over 100 identified 23 problems, 13 major problems, nine minor problems and one cosmetic only. Consistent with my heuristic evaluation, major problems related to physical presentation, content and interactivity and most problems again were related to interactivity. So I said I wasn't really going to talk about requirements but I'll just whip through them really quickly for anyone that's interested. So the outcome of my research was seven high level functionality and usability requirements for an NZ red task interface that supports volunteer participation and quality contribution. They were to minimise user effort, support integration of the task with research processes, enable new visitors and contributors to understand what the task involves quickly and easily, support accurate and controlled data entry, be easy to use for people only reasonably confident with the web, support flexible structured data entry and support bilingual data entry. My research found that the UK red task interface only partially meets four of the seven requirements. Its limitations are partially symptomatic of its age, website design and potentially user expectations as well have evolved since the UK red was last redesigned in 2009. So the first takeaway from my project was that using an existing crowd sourcing project template even if it's essentially the same concept as you're going ahead with is possibly not the most effective way to serve the needs of your volunteers and your project objectives and the only way that you can really determine that is by subjecting it to some method of evaluation. The second takeaway for me was that heuristics can be an effective and efficient method of evaluation. So as nonprofit crowd sourcing websites are in fact highly interactive websites that require user to input information in most cases, the heuristics developed by Petri and Power could be used to support the design and evaluation of other crowd sourcing user interfaces. However, they do have some limitations. Firstly, they were developed using a sample of government websites that unlike crowd sourcing websites you could argue users would most likely visit out of necessity rather than choice and possibly only once. Secondly, the set of heuristics by Petri and Power underplay several key elements that can impact on volunteer participation such as the value proposition behind the project and motivation and incentive. Thirdly, they don't incorporate any relevant crowd sourcing research such as the tips for crowd sourcing published by Rose Holly around 2009-2010 or the guidelines published by Michael Escarides in 2012. So the aim of my PhD research is to develop a set of heuristics for nonprofit crowd sourcing that supports user interface design and evaluation practice. The initial design of my set of heuristics will draw on Petri and Power's heuristics and other relevant sources that I've mentioned and then these will be evaluated and refined over the course of next year. I'll be making early versions of the heuristics available to practitioners for use and I'll be looking for feedback. So if you're interested please see me later or you're welcome to follow my blog for updates. So that's it from me. Thank you very much for listening. As I mentioned there's a link to the full NZRED report on my website. I'll also be making this presentation in the slides available there and I'm happy to answer any questions.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE! Covering AWS re-invent 2019. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services and Intel, along with its ecosystem partners. Hey, welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of AWS 19. To re-invent Las Vegas, where else would it be? Why? Because there are about 65,000 people here with Stu Miniman and myself, Lisa Martin. And we're pleased to welcome the guests from SAP Germany. Joining us is Glenn Gonzalez, the Chief Technology Officer in Germany. Glenn, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, nice place to be. Isn't it nice? Yeah. We think so. So this is day three of all the action. There is not a lull in the attendance and the expo hall, so much going on, so much news. But give us a little bit of an insight. SAP is a customer of AWS. AWS is a customer of SAP. Talk to us about all that you guys do together. Yeah, that's interesting about our partnership because it has so many dimensions. In the first hand, actually SAP is a big customer of AWS. We have huge workloads running on AWS or even our software as a service applications, like Concur, maybe the coolest travel software you can have. For me as a traveler, I use it every day. And on the other hand, it's like AWS is a big customer of SAP using Concur themselves. And yeah, I don't know. Maybe a lot of people around us, they will know what I'm talking about. And then adding to this, we are also competitors, which is great because competition drives innovation. Everybody knows this. So that brings me actually to maybe the last part is like innovation is that maybe the center of our partnership is that we together can do so much more than each of us could do. And if we bring these two parts together, then it's a real value for the customers and that's maybe the most exciting part about this. Yeah, Glenn, it's interesting. SAP Sapphire was actually the second show we ever did as theCUBE way back in 2010 before AWS re-invent existed. But even back then, we started talking about transformation. I think of SAP and SAP is like the global ERP company. You started talking about all the different pieces. How should we be thinking about SAP in today's modern transform cloud environment? Well, that's a topic I have every week because a lot of people perceive SAP as the ERP company and it's so much more due to the changes that are happening around the world. We stand for business processes end-to-end, safe and secure and business can run only if you have a software that can do this. But these processes are changing. They're expanding and they are technically changing. For example, IoT brings actually that not a human being starts the process. It's a sensor, but it's still an end-to-end process or technologies like blockchain or machine learning are changing the process itself. So some people think machine learning is only fancy if it's an autonomous driving, but put it into a process and it gets autonomous. And that's a real value for customers. You can even calculate a business cost. So it's so much more than ERP today. When we were at a Sapphire last year, so summer of 2018, one of the things that was interesting was a lot of messaging around ERP you can talk to. Of course, here we are at AWS, lots of people know Alexa. Talk to us about some of the innovations and the emerging technologies that SAP is bringing into your flagship products and your other technologies that are really helping to transform way beyond ERP. Yeah, that's interesting because we're doing a lot of this innovation together with AWS. Many of our biggest strategic customers are already running their workloads on AWS. And so many more are evaluating to do this. It's really exciting times. And as I mentioned earlier, new technologies kick in. So our business technology platform based on SAP Cloud Platform is that where the customers need this connection from these new technologies into the businesses. And we are developing so many softwares together now. Like Data Intelligence or Data Warehouse Cloud and even the SAP custodian that we are now brought out last two months ago on our tech head. Yeah, so Glenn, SAP's always had a great viewpoint into the productivity of the worker. And there's so many technologies you brought up, the autonomous bees. So it brought to mind one of the hottest areas in tech beyond just cloud is RPA, robotic process automation. Help us bring inside the SAPs positioning there and even broader about just how workforce can be more efficient, not just get cool new tools. That's maybe one of the main topics of the IT designers around the world is how can I make things more simple? How can I reduce the complexity of my IT? And it always starts at the user. It should at least, not always, but it should. And if you can make the work of a user a lot more simple and that's what these technologies bring in. Automize or partially-automize processes. The user of the software can do different things or you can only confront them with the difficult stuff and the rest can be done, can't buy the system. And that's why these things are really important. But main topic and you can put this new technology in with not such a big effort as others maybe. So to make the end user more productive is critical, right? Because we're all end users at the end of the day and sometimes it's very challenging to get worked on if you have so many processes or so many different applications that you have to work with. But to get the end user that productive, to really streamline the enterprise software space, a lot of things we're hearing about and Andy Jassy talked about this and his keynote Tuesday is organizations to truly transform a business all the way down to that end user level. You have to start at that senior executive level. As the CTO of SAP in Germany, are you starting to see conversations shift up from that more end user space to that C-suite is enterprise transformation really at that level in your experience? Definitely, definitely. It's a big topic, but you have to see there is, there are two versions of this. The one is to talk about it and the other one is the execution on it. So we see a lot of companies that talk about and start the execution and it's a real transformational part and it's really hard for many companies because the change is drastic. And what we really see it only works top down. So if the C-level is not in, it basically will not happen and that's something we've really learned within the last years. Glen, I always want to get to talk to a CTO, the changing role of technology in business today. You used to be able to say there are certain industries, well, they might use some technology but they're not technology companies. Now, the meme is everyone is a software company and everyone's becoming technology. So bring us inside your viewpoint as a CTO about how important this moment in time is in the technology industry. I think it's the master key for many companies and even the role of the CTO changes. For example, my role, I'm really customer centric. I spend time with many customers a week. So I'm not in the machine room fixing things. I'm listening to customers because if you don't understand what they actually have for expectations, you will never fit there actually the expectations or even putting one on top. Some of our customers need help to understand the expectations of their customers. And that's the part of this digital transformation and these new businesses coming up. And so it's a lot more exciting than maybe a few years ago where we only talked about tech. I spend most of the time about how to use it. And then afterwards, how the tech has to be implemented to make this possible. What are your conversations with respect to people and that cultural change? As to this point, as so many companies today have to be absolutely fueled by technology to be competitive because there are startups right behind a lot of legacy businesses ready to cannibalize a business. But that cultural piece is really difficult. Talk to me about some of the conversations that you have with customers to help them maybe reset expectations but also get them understanding that that cultural transformation is critical to the digital transformation. That's maybe the unfair part. We come in and want to talk about technology and users and then they start about change and they're not talking about technology change their mindset change. It's the critical thing. You can have the best ideas. You can have the best technology behind this. If your own organization will not go with this, you will not stop or you will not start, sorry. So that's why I just earlier said if it doesn't work top down, it will never work. If the decider or let's say the boss, if he's not in, if he doesn't understand the necessity to change this, it'll not happen. And the change is quite heavily. It's not agile. It's a lot more. It's about really thinking a different way or even understanding what the internet is doing to everybody. Some don't even understand that. And it's sometimes it's really surreal.  I don't understand her. And I said, well, let's start understanding it because that's how the world is turning at the moment. Right. And there are five different generations that are in workforce today.  Yeah. Which can be a big barrier. It is a barrier, but don't make the mistake to only get in the millenials and throw the old ones out because that's the biggest mistake you can do because it's about the mixture. It's about the diversity in a team. I mean, it's even, if you can even ask scientists, yeah, a lot of stuff you can read about this, but if you want to really make it happen, you have to live it. And this is where SAP, we had talked about it upfront, that we have actually five generations within one company. And it's so important because the business process had a beginning. There's a reason why we did it this way. And if the new people don't understand this, they may make big mistakes. So that's the magic, bringing them together and making new kind of teams. Yeah, Glen, I loved a couple of minutes ago, you're talking about the requirement of that top-down leadership to be able to help. And that really echoes what Andy Jassy talked about on the main stage. I wonder if you can give us a little bit of the global viewpoint, especially being from Europe here because very much we talk about that move from the bottoms up to the top-down and coming from both ways here. Is it very similar across the globe? Is there maturity or changes in some of the workforce that might be a little bit different in some GEOs versus others that you're working with? Well, there are big differences, especially in Germany, which is a very mature market. There's a lot of actually, there's a lot more talking about data security and privacy in Europe than we see in other regions of the world. For example, that doesn't say that it doesn't matter, but it's a different talk. Or even cloud. For some people, cloud is like, I don't know, I can't really grab it. So an interesting is a different understanding of cloud of people. So it's regionally totally different how to go in and it's also a difference if you're talking to a big company which is globally on the road or others that are starting to get global. Because for them, it's also a change. In other markets, it's not a problem to do it that way, but in your own markets, there are a lot of sayers like, oh, let's wait, we have to discuss this first. And that's maybe the wrong version, yeah. As we look at how cloud in and of itself as an operating model, but also the technologies that define it, how they've evolved and changed. One of the things too that Andy Jassy talked about with our own John Furrier is that, a lot of the businesses that are going to be successful tomorrow are either going to be born in the cloud companies, or they don't even exist yet. What are some of the things that you're seeing in the existing enterprise? Not just in Germany, but globally. Are you seeing any industries in particular that you think are really right to become reborn in the cloud, for example? Well, for especially in Germany where we have a lot of companies building machines, hardware, it's more difficult to get this vision of being a digital company. You mentioned it earlier, companies are becoming a software company, although they're building machines. And the machine is only there to enable the service. This is a big change. For them, it's of course a lot more complicated to understand how these new technologies can help them. And for them, they are actually in the beginning of understanding. But for others that come from a service side, for them, it's a lot easier. And for them that understand what these technologies can bring them an agility and flexibility and scalability, it opens totally new doors. But there's still a lot of education you have to do for them to understand that it's really the right door to go through. And that's part of my job, explaining these things, yeah. Great. Glenn, would love, you've been, I'm sure, talking to a lot of customers this week. Give us your final takeaways from AWS re-invent 2019. Wow. I'm a little bit overwhelmed by the input you can get here. I really try to go to all sessions. Maybe next time. There's only 2,500 of them. So unless you figured out cloning or time manipulation. Time manipulation is one of my best. I'm CTO, that's maybe, I work on it for next time. Excellent, we'll talk after. So maybe next year. So I need to be invited again and we can talk about that. Now it's a huge input we have here and it's a different stage. If I talk here to customers, it's a different talk because we have more input from many sides and they are also open to talk about things that they may not be open to when they're at home. Because here are things that have so much positive input and so diverse input that it really helps to start different conversations. Well, 2,500 sessions, that cloning thing will really help out not only with that, but also can you imagine how much better ERP would get if we had clones? So you'll have to come back because we have to figure this out. I bet on that, yeah. All right, Glenn, thank you for joining Stu. Thank you for your time. All right. For Stu Miniman, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE and stick around because later today, Andy Giasi stops by. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to the 2000 NCHA Ferturity. I'm here with the Unlimited Amateur Ferturity Champion, Rocky Davis. Rocky Road, Redneck Crazy and marked a 219.5. Congratulations to you, Rocky. Thank you very much, Mom. How does it feel to be a Will Rogers champion? Unreal feeling. Didn't think it would ever, ever happen. So it's a dream come true, huh? It's a dream. It's everybody's dream. I didn't think it would ever come true, but it is. How long have you been cutting? Eight years now. Okay, that's not too long. We started up in Canada by accident. I bought a ranch horse that turned out to be a cutting horse. I had done a little bit of ring cow horse and the guy said, well, this horse can make a cutter. You want to go cutting? I said, okay, we'll go cutting. So that's when we started. And you fell in love with it? I fell in love. It got to be a challenge, a big challenge. A lot of people, it takes them a whole lot longer than eight years to win a major title. Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. I just thought my progress was slow, but I guess we made it. So how often would you ride? How many hours a week would you put into it to be able to get to this level? I ride a lot. Probably four days a week and not always serious hard riding, but probably four or five hours a day, five days a week, four or five days a week. Okay, take us through your run today. Well, all I wanted to do was cut clean on cows. We knew there was some pretty fast cows in there, but I know I had the horse to handle them. And my whole focus just cut clean, get some cows out in the pan away from me, and then just not getting that horse's way, because I know we can work a cow. Now you were third last in the final. That's a tough spot. Yeah, how did you go with the cows? We still, my trainer, Salvador Cabral, is awesome at picking cows. And we've drawn last in her many times, and he's always found cows at work. He's incredible. And I didn't even question what he was looking at. I said, you find the cows and show me where they are, and I'll do my best to cut them. Yeah, sometimes you've got to have faith, don't you? I just, I just had total faith in him. Just let him take care of that. That's what he does the best. Now tell us about your horse, Redneck Crazy. Great name. How'd you come up with that? I didn't come up with it. He was named, we bought the horse, that was his name, and we even thought about changing the name when we bought him. But we thought, no, I'll just leave it. That's what they named him, and got to be a reason for it. We'll just leave it. What sort of personality does he have? He's actually pretty laid back. He's a little bit timid. He doesn't like to be in a crowd. Doesn't like a lot of action around him. Just likes to be sort of by himself, and just left alone, and very gentle horse, very well mannered, very gentle. Okay, so you're up in Northern Alberta, you said as where you're from.  I come to Texas and ride. Good plan.  So you can thaw out a bit. What are your plans now? I haven't got any plans right now. I've got some really big offers on this horse, say, and I might even retire now. That must be a good feeling. Yes. But general plans, we're going to do Abilene, and maybe one more show, and then the Superstakes, and that's the general plan right now. Congratulations. Thank you very much.


Meanwhile, the Biasa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence, has said the state is willing to be part of advocacy against excess consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. It stated this during a one-day regional stick oldest forum on SSB Task, organised by the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa and the National Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Talks Coalition, which supports from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator in Yanagawa. Why Biasa State will be willing to be part of this? But we believe that there are other dimensions to which we'll solve this problem. And that is why Biasa State has a way of trying to get a remedy to itself. We have introduced the weekly prosperity work. Every Thursday, everybody in government takes about five kilometres of work every Thursday. So we do that every week. And so you accumulate that for a period of one year, you will have more devolume of calories will have burned. That is not to mean that we're encouraging the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. But what we're trying to say is that behaviour change, communication will be a better way to solve this problem than because there's no way you can change people's behaviour and stop them because you have increased the tax. Noncommunicable diseases is becoming a major issue in our society. Some of them are not necessarily because of what we consume. Again, because of what we don't eat. Representatives of the Ministry of Health and Environment from Biasa, Hedul State, Rivers, Delta, Kwaibam, Cross River State, as well as civil society organisations, participated in the forum, which was aimed to deepen conversations on how to improve public health. Taxation in itself, I must explain, is a tool for behavioural change. And that has been proven all over the world in several of consumption-related patterns. And it might have just simply had, you know, Nigeria removed subsidy and all of us know that the consumption of fuel has reduced drastically. Essentially, we are doing this at the regional level to be able to mobilise the region to the federal government to be able to say, yes, it is good you have imposed a tenera per litre, which is extremely insignificant on sugar-sitting beverages, but we can do better by moving to 20 percent or maybe something much, much higher. Tax is a win-win situation for everybody because while on one hand you are improving health, on the other hand, you are generating revenues that can go back to the country, coming to the community, and even a map to health to improve our really poor and weak health systems in Nigeria. I just believe that there are many persons out there that don't really know exactly the constituents of sugar in the content of what we take from those beverages. So going out there for, you know, health education, health advocacy, then educating everyone on the voter changes we also have in reducing, you know, the intake of those items and again, reduce NCDC in our society.


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Hey guys, welcome to another year. I'm another year. Another week with my year 2017. So I'm gonna come out this week my week with a short series of three videos spaced out over the week. Demonstrating to you guys how I put this quick little easy cute journal together with things I had I didn't go out and buy anything. I already had everything that I used in my stash. Alright, so and I'll also talk you through some substitutions that you could make depending on what you have in your stash. So this first video is just to talk about the materials that I used for the cover. That's what we're gonna talk about today. I'm not gonna show you the inside yet. So the basic chipboard cover was a I think a Tim Holtz cover because it has had these two eyelets in it already. And I think it's intended for his little set of two binder rings that he has. I think that's what this is from. I'm pretty sure I got it on clearance somewhere, probably. I don't know if they make them anymore. You could definitely do something like this out of an old cereal box chipboard that you already have in your stash. And I'm gonna measure it for you real quick here. It measures about from one end to the other end. It's just a just a 16th of an inch shy of 11 inches. And it is about 7 inches tall. The spine is about one and a half inches. So that gives you some dimensions there to work with. It already had the fabric cover like I said, but you definitely could just use chipboard or a cereal box and create your own cover. You can you put eyelets in the spine or not in the last video you will you'll see why I have this here and I'm liking the eyelets. You also have been probably noticing throughout the year in our my year videos and other social media posts that I post throughout the year that I've been creating a lot of my own DIY embellishments, whether it is painted feathers. Let me zoom in a little bit. There we go. So whether it is painted feathers and broidery floss wrapped sticks, literally these are sticks off of bushes from my yard. In the background here, you can see a piece of the plastic stained glass. We've done that with my year before. And there's other found objects from around my studio. A piece of driftwood sent to me by my friend Cindy Utter wrapped with some metallic wire. I occasionally buy odd lots of stuff off of eBay and I have a bunch of watch parts from one of those odd lots. So I pulled a few things and some springs out of that box. I had some stencils from Mike Deakin helps me get my stencils cut and I had some prototypes that didn't quite make it, let's say, and he sent me the pieces anyway and at first I was like, what am I gonna do with that? And then I was like, oh wait, so you can see little pieces of them poking out here in the background. This is a Tim Holtz word card from one of his many little mini decks of cards and this is the one that he has as just words. This brass clip. You can find these in a lot of places. These were originally, as far as I know, made for Midori Travelers notebooks. I got these off of Wish for a couple bucks. They weren't expensive. And I just shoved that in there. Along with the cover, some elastic cord, some tags, a piece of cardstock, some notebooks, that's what you're gonna need. So if you haven't painted any feathers or made any plastic stained glass, you don't have to, base what you put on your cover with what you have in your stash, look around at those unique things you've been saving, like unique and or weird, honestly, like the driftwood, like the watch parts that you've been hoarding, collect them, put a little group of things together. I'm gonna show some clips in here right now of me doing exactly that, where you see me gathering my pieces and parts. There's just a little short clip and trying to figure out what's gonna work on the journal cover and what's not. And I'll be back in the next video and you'll see me actually attaching things to the cover and trying to figure out in my mind. I don't think that's actually, it's not actually on camera, but trying to figure out in my mind what's gonna go in the journal and how exactly I'm gonna use this, which is where that comes into play. So this is video number one.  Gather your decorations for the cover, whatever you think you might want to use. You're gonna need some glue. You're gonna need, I actually, I used some wire here, so you might want to use wire. You're gonna need some clips. You might need an inspirational word. I wanted to, I was thinking about putting another something else here, but I just, for some reason, I like the smile. So anyway, we will be back in a couple of days, and I'll show you exactly how I put this together and show you some more clips of what my process was for doing that and how exactly I did that. Don't forget to check out the video description if you're not part of my year 2017 and you'd like to be, which is what this video is created for. The link is in the description below. We are coming out with a new Facebook group for the new year and at this time it is open to having people join the new group in preparation for starting in January. The link for that will also be in the description below, along with links to my Etsy shop, my tip jar, if you'd like to support my free content here on YouTube and over at Facebook, and a bunch of other stuff. So check it out. I do sell some of the plastic stained glass and the painted feathers in my Etsy shop, if you'd like to just buy some rather than make them. All right, that's it for today. The most important thing, of course, is to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you in a couple of days for part two and that's it for today. Bye guys.