Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for having me here. My name is Anshal Meena. You can call me An and I'm a product designer and an independent researcher and writer based in the Bay, but originally from LA, so I'm psyched to be back here. I should start my timer. I'm talking about different sorts of divides, but specifically around language divides, and sort of biases around language that exist in our technologies and our technological spaces. I want to take a moment to imagine this next billion group of people who are coming online, and the sort of languages, the sheer diversity of languages that they're speaking. It's hundreds and thousands of different languages, and one language might be Khmer, a Cambodian language. A colleague of mine, a researcher, Ben Valentine, pointed out that when he's based in Cambodia and when he's looking at Khmer websites with certain browsers, the very language, which has its own custom script, appears like this. It looks like boxes. So literally the language of Khmer is invisible to many technologies. It's just one example of how the language that you speak shapes the internet that you have access to, both as a reader and as a listener, as a reader and as a speaker. Take a moment to, when we think about network graphs, when we talk about how the network affects that make up an important part of how social movements and how information is distributed online, there's this assumption in those visualizations that every node in that network is equal. But very often, and you can slice data in many different ways, but the languages that we speak actually limit the networks that we have access to and that we're interacting with. This is a visualization from 2010 by Mike McCandles, who's a researcher who scraped the Twitter data for the languages that people are speaking based on their geolocation and the location that they're tweeting from. And then Eric Fisher then visualized this. And you can see how the languages that people are speaking, each color represents a different language that actually falls along geopolitical lines. And this is not people just sticking to, speaking Italian because they're in Italy, and we're not visualizing what people are speaking based on this map. It's actually, the language itself recreates the map of Europe. And you can expand this with other countries and other regions as well. This can have an effect. One specific example of this, so much so often people talk about the importance of Wikipedia and the importance of open knowledge and open access to knowledge and the ability to contribute to a collective database of knowledge. And Wikipedia has built-in translation features that allows people to contribute language and translation. But again, if you're speaking a minority language, your access to that knowledge can be severely limited. These are the numbers of articles available for different languages. If you're speaking majority languages or languages where people have made a concerted effort to translate that content, give access to millions of articles. It's a great database. But if you're speaking, especially minority Asian and African languages, that number starts to drop significantly. 10,000 for Africans, Tagalog, Kiswahili, down to 100 for even smaller minority languages. We can kind of expect those same patterns, I think, moving back. We can expect similar patterns, I think, with other websites and other sorts of content. And Wikipedia just being one example. And then in addition to reading, it's also the access to voice. I think a lot of us are familiar with the role of the Internet in building social movements and the ability to amplify one's voice. Certainly the umbrella movement in Hong Kong and Black Lives Matter here in the U.S. rely on the ability to broadcast the message, to use hashtags, to amplify a voice and create a pipeline from social media to mainstream media and then hopefully to other audiences. And certainly we've seen, you know, we can think about, like, major hashtags and major movements that have been in English or in a majority language. You know, like a foreign journalist in Kenya, was it a critique of media coverage of East Africa. And then Jesui Charlie is, you know, simple enough French phrase for people to remember and to understand. But there are a number of other movements, and I think the chairs are actually, I hope you guys can see that, but it's kind of fitting, actually. The number of other movements in other languages that are more difficult to understand and more difficult to, and get significantly less attention. Sa Sufi in Congo, there's a Gao movement that's part of the Hong Kong umbrella movement, but is a sort of separate group with sort of different aims and strategies. Lumad Dinaqo, that's in the Philippines, and then this Arabic hashtag means Egypt Delights. It's kind of a parody on a parody hashtag, which I'll talk about a little later. These sorts of movements and conversations are often limited to the language sphere that they're in, because they're often working with minority languages. I just illustrate this even further. I just love this quote from Sarah Kenzior, who's a writer on social justice in Bosa, Middle America and Central Asia. And she's speaking about the kind of quandaries that a Uzbek activist might have to go through to raise awareness for their cause. Uzbek, and I just want to read through the whole description, because it really shows you some of the challenges with amplifying voice when your language is not very well represented in technological platforms, and also there's no pipeline for translating those languages into mainstream and majority media. So the Uzbek activist might know Russian, or Uzbek, and so if she knows Russian, she has to decide whether writing in Russian and potentially reaching an international audience, as well as the 41% of Uzbeks who can read Russian outweighs not being able to reach non-Russian-speaking Uzbeks, or seeming to value a foreign language over one's native tongue. So even the decision to speak Russian over Uzbek, even though there are benefits to that amplification, there are political consequences to not speaking in Uzbek. But then even if she writes in Uzbek, she has to choose which alphabet. And here's where the availability of fonts, typography, and input systems of the Uzbek language have consequences for political action. Does she choose a Cyrillic to reach older generations in Uzbeks in neighboring former Soviet republics who only know the Cyrillic version of their language, or does she choose a Latin alphabet to reach the younger readers who comprise the bulk of Uzbekistan's internet users? So these sorts of dilemmas are much more common when you're speaking a minority language, especially if that language has non-Latin script. So in terms of, you know, as a designer as well and a, you know, product thinker, it's, I'm also thinking about what are potential solutions. And I just, for provocation and for conversation, I wanted to throw out some potential ideas for what, for how we can think about, you know, improving language inclusion, language access across the world. And also here I think in the United States where people are speaking many different languages. I think one of the, one of the possibilities here is crowd sourcing, and crowd sourcing certainly has a lot of problematics. But when you think about the possibilities of translation, machine translation is, can scale very quickly, but it's often inaccurate, right? And anyone who's, who's done translations even between English and Spanish, it leads to much hilarity. At the same time, the translation model as currently exists just simply cannot scale for, for the way that we're, for the sort of content and sort of conversations that need to be translated. And currently, you know, again, crowd sourcing can have its problems. This, this is not a crowd sourced subtitle. This was actually a very famous meme of all your base or belong to us. But it's, it's a sort of risk that happens when fan, when fansubbing communities, you know, translate media popular fansubbing as a fansubtitling. So an example of translating anime movies into English or translating American English movies into Chinese can be done by communities. But you have to have a great deal of faith and trust that those translations will be accurate. At the same time, there, there's, you know, the fansubbing communities can be very, very quite successful. And, and there are more formalized ways of doing crowd sourced translation that are also seemed to be having some uptake. Ted has the open translation project where they, you know, hundreds of, you know, hundreds of volunteers who are translating into hundreds of languages can translate these videos. And that's, and we can see similar examples with, with sites like, like viki.com, where people are can translate content. And I think there is, you know, part of the risk of crowd sourcing, of course, is that the risk of free labor. And I think we need to talk about what, what, what, you know, fair compensation looks like. But at the same time, a broader model for translation can, can be, can help, help ensure that content reaches other languages. EN in, in China is, it's another crowd-sourced site where people are translating, have, were translating articles from English into Chinese as an important way of increasing access for sites like The Economist. It was shut down, and then it's, it's kind of at a, a neutral space right now, but it's, it's an example of the potential for this. And then my own experience is, is building a live platform for translating the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei from Chinese into English with, and his tweets, which, you know, back in 2009, 2010, were, were very, very understood by English-speaking media, despite the fact that he had a major media presence. And, and, you know, this is, is, this model kind of shows that, you know, maybe just five translators can have an impact with 31,000 followers. So it doesn't take a lot, but it does take motivation, it does take interest. And we're trying to productize that with a, at Midan, with a product called Bridge, where, that allows for crowd-sourced translation around social media. And secondly, we need to change the structure. Is it language inequity? It's a, it's a full stack problem. I think you can translate all the things, but if your language is not supported, if your fonts, and this is Amharic, you know, Amharic alphabet with over, I think we'll leave over 300, you know, letters, or alpha syllables. And we have to design better ways to input these languages. We need to design better ways to read them, to access them. And, you know, we, we just need better, a better structure for supporting languages, ensuring that they can be read and input, especially on mobile devices. You know, one, one possibility, and this is a picture of Leo Messi interacting with an app called WeChat, is we also need to think about audio interactions, and audio input. You know, and a researcher friend of mine, Christina, she has pointed out that QR codes are very popular in China as a form of input, because typing in, a very active typing in a Chinese URL can be burdensome, and so it's much easier to take a screenshot of a, of a QR code. So we need to think about different interactions, and especially when we get to languages that may not have a formal written form or any written form, audio, audio interaction and, and oral, oral engagement through technology, I think will be, will be very critical and important. And just, just to close, I'll just give one example of, you know, this has been a, is a full set of color that, that can be exposed through translation and why this can be both a very exciting, but, and, and, and interesting. And, and I think it's, you know, there's really this process of building our global imaginations, that our ability to empathize and interact and, and value people from other cultures in different parts of the world that can often be invisible to the West is, is through, through bringing out that citizen content, bringing out content that can be interesting and valuable. And this is just one, one example of the 2011, the one Joe train, train crash in China was a major train crash where, you know, hundreds of people were killed and injured. And, and this was a sort of event that would have been censored in, in Chinese media, because it was a, it was a sort of, sort of example of a potentially of government mismanagement. But the role of social media in, in, in bringing, in bringing this out was so compelling. And actually telling the specific stories of this is a way of, of highlighting, you know, how, how and why, you know, how and why translation, you know, these, these online engagements can be quite powerful. And, and it really takes translation though to, to highlight these. This was, this was one image where someone photoshopped this into, you know, into this sort of, you know, monster movie. And, and you can see that it's kind of the parody conversations. I'd rather believe this in the official explanation for the train crash. You know, there's different sorts of memes. You cannot escape the blame of profaning the dead. Time to disembark. We're home. There's kind of poetic messages. And this was a friend of mine who had photoshopped a train ticket, starting point hell, destination hell. And that specificity that, of trans, of translating this content and bringing it out becomes important active journalism, I would say. So running out of time. So I'm just going to skip the ones about Egypt. But just to close, I think, you know, as we, we think about the, you know, the, the role of language on the internet. It really biases our, our experience. And, and there's certain, there are a lot of, a lot of risks and challenges there, especially for as, as people from, you know, the global south are coming online. The ability for them to access content for them to contribute to important conversations online will be severely limited. It'll look more like this. And I think, you know, some, some of the most important work we can do in tech is to, to bring it out into languages that they can understand. So thank you so much.


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Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at the 6 hour P365 TACPAC. This combination is what SIG offers. They started this about a year and a half ago. Many people got in the TACPAC deal goes around $600 on average and I was able to pick this up locally. Now every time I featured a 6 hour P365 I borrowed it and I've always wanted one something always came up that I couldn't live without and so I never got that but I continued to borrow them as I did comparisons and other things but I knew I needed the P365. I mentioned this was the firearm that started it all the micro subcompact some people will say it's the Kel-Tec P11 others will say it's the Glock 26 I say it's the P365 they started the real micro compact double-stack 9 millimeter handgun that has become so popular and then you know many others followed suit. January of 2018 about three and a half years ago is when this was released. Initially came out there were some problems but 6 hour cleaned them up and a lot of people carry this handgun with confidence. You may notice this is the non-safety model I'm happy about that and I got a very good deal the gentleman I bought it from great guy I've had such good experiences by selling and trading with people locally I do treasure those times we stuck around and talks for quite a bit but he sold this to me now when he sold it it had talent grips on there I took them off I wanted the little heavier stippling on there but he also added the X trigger flat face trigger measures right at five and a quarter pounds and so if you like the X trigger that's available for about 50 bucks he added that so I think I mentioned I paid five and a quarter now my CIGX compact has the X trigger right if it says X on there chances are it has the X trigger and it breaks right around the same same weight so I was happy about that now the tech pack offers three 12 round magazines a little bit of a larger case and a kydex holster now the three 12 round magazines I think is just a bonus everybody wants mags they want higher capacity mags and the 12 rounders allow three finger contact giving you a full grip on the pistol it also comes with this holster now this is an abaductress holster you can see it has these clips here you can make it left-handed right-handed inside the waistband outside the waistband it comes with these additional clips here you can pop those on and run a belt through them if that is your choice and it's okay it will get you to the point until you get another holster that's what I think now it you know just to use it and to enjoy it possibly you know it'll get you to that point but it's just not a great holster easy does have retention I just struggled to pull it out but I do enjoy the six hour I always have the P365 and I look forward to comparing it now I took it to the range already because I am prepping for a comparison with the P365 versus the M&P shield plus highly requested by the way when I featured this a lot of people said I want to know the difference between that and the P365 so I've been working on that shot these side-by-side and I have my opinions already but I will be sharing that shortly and I'm also going to do a compilation with the P365 the Springfield Armory Hellcat the shield plus the Ruger Max 9 the Taurus GX4 and so in order to do that I needed a P365 and I saw this deal with the TACPAC and I have no regrets and I got a good deal and the gentleman was very very fair and included the flat trigger and the no-safety model he didn't do that but it does have the 3.1 inch barrel and the day night night sights okay X-ray 3 SIG calls it and of course the three 12 round magazines the front serrations the rail for SIG optics and everything else that people love with the P365 plus P rated and enjoys an incredible reputation and I'm happy to finally own one and so I have big plans guys big plans with this gun and many others in the same class I still say six hours started the micro compacted you know where there's not a great difference with the grip width with some of those single stack 9's that were so popular years ago the double stacks seem to have really taken off and not great price differences and the additional capacity is always a nice touch so that's what I got guys I got the TACPAC model I bought it used from the awesome guy who sold it to me for a fair deal five in the court I'm happy to have it and I have big plans with compilations and comparisons as well as just some additional range time with this P365 that I've wanted for a long time put it off long enough and now it was time to jump on it if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Thank you for staying with us. Malaria is transmitted throughout Nigeria with 97% of the population at risk. According to the 2021 World Malaria Report, Nigeria had the highest number of global malaria cases, that's 27% of global malaria cases, and the highest number of deaths, 32% of global malaria deaths in 2020. The country accounted for an estimated 55.2% of malaria cases in West Africa in 2020, and the case numbers increased 5.3% between 2017 and 2020, from 298 to 314 per 1,000 of the population at risk. Debt also increased from 4.7% from 0.9 to 0.97 per 1,000 of the population at risk during that same period. Wow, these numbers are really daunting and we really want to know how we can eliminate malaria in Nigeria. Please just say what you have to say, remember you can join the Conversation Centers and SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>. You could also Twitter us at WeshawAfrica1 with the hashtag Weshaw. I was saying that I heard, well, actually, I heard for the first time today that malaria kills. I didn't know people actually die from malaria. So that means that we actually take these things for granted. Yes, we do. Sometimes. Yes, we do. Okay, one of us are doctors but thank God that we have an expert in the house tonight who is actually going to talk to us and let us know how we can actually eliminate malaria because it's very disturbing when you see these numbers and see that Nigeria is even one of the countries, you know, the top countries in the world, you know, where people actually die from malaria. In the studio today, like we have Dr. Akinthi Miloluwa who is also known as Dr. Seven. She's a medical professional from the College of Medicine University of Lagos. She's also passionate about bridging the knowledge gap in the health sector and the general Nigerian populace through advocacy, particularly leveraging technology and social media. She currently corons an online platform that allows medical professionals the platforms to leverage technology to solve problems in the health sector. Dr. Temi is the co-founder of Kea Medicals, an online platform that is passionate about quick response to medical emergencies. Thank you for joining us, Dr. Temi. You look so beautiful by the way. I barely ever see doctors that look this way. Okay, so first thing's first. How is Nigeria or why is Nigeria one of the top countries costing debts. So I would say that we actually have a population that everybody knows of Malaria. So you go to the next one and your voice tells you that who I have Malaria. So you know that information about Malaria is quite widespread. But I feel like we are also in a nation where it's self-manecuting and not just self-manecuting, it's a lot of mysterious beliefs about health is like applauded. So it's like you are shocked that Malaria still kills people. But it's a thing because right now people come to the hospital, they are like in the end stages of Malaria. They've done everything they can do before they come to the hospital, they ask their neighbor, they've asked their friend, somebody has prescribed somebody has diagnosed, they've gone to a chemist, so they've exhausted all options for coming to the hospital. So I think that's one of the major reasons that Malaria is still such a thing in our nation. And also it's like an environment where we have a lot of people in this social economy class. So you can't ever remove the fact that hygiene, where you leave, all of that predispose people to Malaria. So definitely I think those are the top two reasons. Okay, so before I get the ladies go, let me also ask, because this is another question that has been in my head for a while, cerebral Malaria. So there's actually Malaria that affects the brain. How does that work? So cerebral Malaria is like when you have high levels, you know, Malaria is caused by parasites, you know, so plasmodium. So when the other parasites is, the numbers are quite elevated, it entices the brain and then you begin to see manifestations of cerebral, that's what we call cerebral Malaria. So basically it's Malaria in the brain. So you begin to see a lot of the scoma. Different people come differently. Some people may just be lethargic, some are responsive. I've seen it once in a friend and it's terrifying because it's like, it's, you are watching what is wrong, it's terrifying to say this honestly. But how do they get to that point? So like I said earlier, you know that we said Malaria is such a thing in our nation where everybody thinks they have Malaria.   And oftentimes you have people use Malaria drugs to the point where they become resistant. So you've used the drug several even when you don't have Malaria. So when you actually have Malaria, the drug is not working. So the parasite is able to reach high levels such that it crosses the brain and you actually have to go to the hospital to get treated. And then the truth we are wondering, okay, is the parasite resistance to this drug? Is it resistant to that drug? What drugs have we used to treat this particular Malaria in this person? So yeah. What are the likely symptoms of cerebral Malaria? So we can see lethargy, we can see coma, unconsciousness. The person is saying things you don't, sometimes it looks like madness in fact. But then it's not. So one of the things, but one of the things that when he's an adult too, I said, oh, I had a person had fever for maybe a number of days, I was self-treating, I was sneezing, I used social and social drugs. And when a person comes to the hospital and says, oh, that person is not answering me anymore, I quote him, he's not responsive, he's not eating, he's just looking, he's just turning into thin space. And all of that. So you are thinking, oh, there are different differentials, but you are thinking first things first because of the, how endemic Malaria environment is your first thinking, okay, maybe it's a cerebral Malaria, then you check. So just a quick question, how many types of malaria do we have? So I do think there are types of malaria. So is it the advancements of the illness? Yes. Okay, so how does that, both at the stages? So there's malaria. The regular malaria. Regular malaria. Then the cerebral malaria, I think that cerebral malaria just has its own name because it is different from the regular malaria that we see. So there are not really stages of malaria. So there's the normal fever, the headaches, different symptoms for different folks. But the cerebral malaria is different because she's not the normal fever you are having, you are wondering what exactly is wrong with this person. Is there a, so like I mentioned earlier, the myth of AA. Is that really true? Because, yeah, so what's your take on that?  So what I actually know of is the fact that something about the AA genotype gives you a resistance to malaria. So you are not easily predisposed to malaria as the normal person. So maybe the regular people are AA people, so they are less resistant to malaria than the AA genotypes. So is it reason why? I think it has to do with the shape of the red blood cells and all of that. So going into that deeply now, I mean going through pathophysiology and all of that. But I think he has, majorly has to do with the shape of the red blood cell because AA has a little bit of S. So that's why we advise AA not to get married. So they have something in the red blood cell that makes it difficult for the malaria parasite to easily enter and begin to light across all the symptoms that we see in malaria. So when people say AA are more predisposed, I think it's because they have, the AS has a higher level of resistance to coming down malaria. So that's what I know. I'm glad you said that because I was telling them yesterday that I literally get malaria every month and they were like, what are you talking about? But no jokes. Like, so I've noticed that maybe every month is a stretch. Let me say every other month. I just know that, okay, by the time I start feeling that weakness in my joints, please don't joke with me. It's because I know it's always been like that for me. So once I start to have a headache, because I barely get a headache. So once I start to get a headache and then I start to feel weak in my joints, I'm just like, okay, maybe it's time for me to go get malaria. Now that you've talked about drug resistance, I want to discuss that because I know that most times that's what happens to people. People, once you just have a headache or you just, there's just one slight fever. Sometimes even stress, maybe you just have a flu or something. The next thing they are jumping to the pharmacy to go and buy one at a whatever or once. Come or whatever, you know. So what would you say? What would you say about that? So I would say that the truth is that stress predisposes people to malaria. And in our climate, we're very stressed. We have ridden Nigeria. And in fact, if you're living in Lagos, you're already stressed. So definitely you have, most of the time, whenever you come down with something and there are different symptoms of different people. That's why we advise that you know your body. So you know that, okay, maybe when I have malaria that you've tested, I'm very sure I went to the hospital, I did the test, I did laboratory and everything came out with malaria positive and all of that. I had these symptoms. So when the symptoms are coming up, I'm beginning to, so in fact, oftentimes when people come to the hospital, we treat them symptomatically because we have a list of symptoms. When somebody is saying, oh, I have a fever, I have a headache. We're first giving malaria drugs. But the thing about resistance to malaria is that a lot of people abuse drugs. So you have to be very careful. You know that when you have a headache, you're already popping malaria pills. You have slight, you're feeling dizzy. Somebody is popping malaria. I feel like, apart from Parastomol, malaria drug is the next abuse, most abuse drug in Nigeria. It's crazy because I feel like one of the biggest, if I was going to open a pharmacy, I would just be selling malaria drugs.  And we give anti-malarial to prevent, especially in pregnant women, because we know how bad malaria can be in pregnant women and it can affect their children. But when we are now seeing people who go into the chemist and we do outreaches, medical outreaches, right? And people are begging you for malaria drugs. Please give me, I need it. I'm having a headache. Just in case. In fact, so what you said is valid, but you also have to put in points that, okay, have I used Parastomol and it's not working? Have I rested and it's not working? Because the antidote to stress should be malaria drugs. It should be resting. It should be, okay, have I eaten properly? Am I well hydrated and all of that? And when all of that is not working, then you resort to malaria drugs. But I would always advise that if you can get a test done, or there is this thing we call rapid diagnostic tests, is very, I don't know whether pharmacy sell them now, but then you can self-test for malaria at home. I think that's one of the ways. When we're going to talk about elimination of malaria, one of the things we should advise is testing your house. So if it's positive, by the malaria, nobody's stopping you. But if it's not positive, it should be, you're not a doctor. So are you popping pills? Yeah. Okay. So another thing, people usually would say the climate in Africa, the tropical, it's a tropical climate and all of that. So do you think that has anything to do with the high level of malaria in our continent? Absolutely. I think especially because mosquitoes tend to thrive in that kind of environment. So that's why you want to travel out and then people are not coming. In fact, before a white doctor can think about malaria, it won't take a while because their climate doesn't allow for the growth of such insects, I guess. Mosquitoes are insects. Yes, but that is majorly why it's a problem in our environment. And the fact that we have a lot of people who are, like I said earlier, in the low social economic class. So you can't remove that because you can't, there are some things that hygiene can't take away.  So while our environment and our climate actually encourages the growth of mosquitoes, you are breeding, I would also say that in fact that we have a high level of uneducated people who are living below the poverty line that also really skyrockets the amount of malaria cases we have. So yeah, just a quick one. I wanted to just quickly find out, I mean, I know that there are symptoms, right? But there are also some people that their body doesn't really show symptoms in time. So you mentioned earlier that the hydration can cause headaches and a couple of other symptoms that could people could think of. So is there a particular way, like what are the things, if for instance, I'm the person, what do I need to pay attention to for my, I mean, to my body? What are the signs I need to pay attention to just so that am I stressed? Do I have malaria? What are the things I need to just focus on just to be able to determine? Do I need to go get tested? Do I need to just rest? What are the things that you would ask? So I would say that it varies because everybody is different. But there are some common things that we can see. So fever is one of them. So when you see fever and an adult in a climb, especially fever that is relapsing. So it goes today in the night, you are fine during the day and the night comes back and then you're not all of a sudden you are feeling like especially that's how my body works. So in the morning, I'm jumping in the night. I'm wondering what happened, what's going on? You are hot. Then headaches, requiring headaches that, okay, are you sparse and when I've rested, like I said, you have to go through, you have to know your body well enough. You're observant. Yes, you have to be observant. But then when you're thinking headaches, fever, then you're also looking at, okay, lots of appetite suddenly. I'm not eating properly. Food is irritating me. And then there's this thing for a lot of people about a bitter taste in their mouth. Oftentimes it's pointing at malaria. We are thinking, okay, most likely malaria. And then we're asking, when last do you use anti-malaria? Is it maybe three months or a go? Or are you resistant to malaria? How often do you use these drugs? So you're telling us every two weeks, I'm using malaria drugs. Okay. So there's off here. So I read that the World Health Organization, they recommended the use of a particular vaccine. I think RTS, and that's for children. How well is that going? Is that in full effect? Is it working? Have there been any good results from it? Or is it something that should be dropped? So if it is, the malaria vaccine was just recently signed by the, I think by the president, to allow the apprehendant to get in. But so I would say that so far, because it's just, I feel like it's not something that will be adopted quickly. So people, already we have a certain resistance and they believe, if you know the amount of stress like in with the COVID vaccinations, people are telling you that, oh, they want to implant something, something. So it's going to take a while before it's accepted. So we haven't really done testing and all of that. So we can't really say that this is the efficacy or this is how well the vaccine works because it is not yet well adopted. So it is something new. We are still looking at, okay, is it going to work?  So you have to be looking at them, okay, is she crying when I give the vaccination? How is she two hours after? Has the malaria fever dropped? Is there a spike? So you have to be, and it's going to take a while, maybe some years. So you can know, okay, this is how well the vaccine is going to be working. And should we adopt it? Should we drop it? It's still a new innovation. So I think it's something that we'll still be looking at for the time being. Have other countries adopted it, Ghana, Kenya? I'm not so sure about other countries, but I think for, I'm President, I think it is, I can't say for sure, but I think some African countries have adopted it, especially countries that are endemic because Africa has the highest rate of death, 95% of death from malaria. So I think several African countries are looking to adopt it, but some have already, but Nigeria's giant of Africa, if our country adopts it and it works, definitely all that African countries should be looking to. If you're just tuning in, we're discussing eliminating malaria in Nigeria with Dr. Akintemi Lolua, aka Dr. Seven. Please, let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation. You can also send an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER> or Twitter to us at Weshawafika1 with the hashtag Weshaw. So now let's get down to it. How can we eliminate malaria in Nigeria? So first things first, I think that we have to sit down to look at why is at the levels of malaria still high. If you do not know why there are still high, you can't talk about eliminating it. So we have to look at why are the people, is it that people do not have access to hospitals? Why are they always abusing malaria drugs? So I think one of the things we must do first is to evaluate the current system. Is it working? In my opinion, it's not because for us to be topping the charts of malaria globally as a 2021, it is bad. I don't know whether new research has been conducted, but we have to evaluate the system and say, okay, how can we better the systems? And then we can also ever take away the fact that political will comes in handy a lot. So I would say that if you're going to be doing anything, infrastructure, healthcare infrastructure will be playing a huge role. So we'll be looking at, okay, do we have public health centers that people can go to when I'm having it? So why do you have to come to Luth when you're having a headache or a fever? That's a tertiary health center. That should be the last resort. So why can't you go to the hospital, the primary health center next to you and then tell them that, oh, I'm having a headache. Please, can I get a rapid diagnostic test kits to check or can I walk into the next pharmacy next to me if I can afford it? Why can't I buy it? But we also have to look at the fact that people can afford a lot of things. So the primary health center should be able to have these things at snap of fingers. Okay, you know, we'll let us check. And then I think another thing which also do is that intersectoral and participation, you should encourage. So it is not just a healthcare problem. Obviously malaria cripples the economy. When someone is sick, it doesn't count function properly. So we should be looking at how can we bring, why can't we have financial institution, partner in the health institution? So, okay, you know, we'll let us fund innovations for combating malaria, malaria vaccination. I don't think, I don't, I'm not so sure now whether I was in Nigeria and I developed the vaccine, but we have the highest level of malaria globally. Why aren't Nigerians in discussions? Why aren't Africans talking about this? Why aren't we the ones innovating our way out of malaria? Why do we have to wait for the whites? And we'll hear people saying lack of funding, all of that. So when we have intersectoral partnership, so we are talking about, okay, malaria is our focus now, bring innovations that solve our problem. And then we'll be looking at, okay, how can we partner with you? How can we scale this? How can we make it affordable? How can we make it something that everybody has access to? How do we remove the stereotypes surrounding all of this? And then you also have to look at the fact that the doctors in Nigeria are not enough. So you can't ever say that until the doctor treats you. So we have to remove that and say, okay, how can we get people on board to actually combat this issue? So you can't be waiting for doctors to come and, okay, malaria has to be treated in the hospital, definitely. But then why can't we have people that, okay, we train them with skills, we equip them with skills to, you know, combat malaria. It's not, it's not, if it's, it's just like COVID, it wasn't medical practitioner, you gave the vaccine. So we should be looking at things like that. How can we get people to, you know, join the healthcare force just to equip them with skills to fight against malaria? I think there are so many ways to eliminate malaria, but I think it's a just field that come to mind now. This thing that you just said now, it takes a village. So imagine areas like Makoko, that these people are living in a swamp. So there's no way these guys will not have malaria. I'm sorry I'm being emotional, but you just have to say they'll keep going to the hospital every now and then. And for people like that, the drugs wouldn't work in their system anymore because they're going back to, it's a lot, it's a lot that Nigerians are basically going through. So if anybody, I mean, this, we need like people in the real estate sector to partner with the government in ensuring that this works because this is a healthcare problem. At the same time, it's also affecting every, like it's a, you're treating malaria today. You still go back to the house to go and sleep and you still get bitten by the malaria, by the mosquito again. I mean, you talked about doctors, you know, not being enough and living the country and training people who are not particularly medically inclined and bring them into the force. So they can also maybe administer, or you know, help people who have these conditions as well. But I would ask, do you think that's actually feasible in this country?  And if we do not enter, we'll still be topping the chart, come 2030. Of course. So all of that, so all of that has to come to play and we are thinking about this is something we have to join hands together. So if it's feasible currently, I would say to an extent, you already see people self-treating and they are not doctors. So why not just equip them, equip them, you know, give them, tell them, okay, these are the symptoms you should be looking out for. These are the things you should not do. These are what we advise you should do. You know, come get the vaccine and all of that, equip, not necessarily none.  If you do that, this can lead to this and all of that. You explain to people that this is what we are bringing you aboard. You know some, there's no how we cannot say that we know a family member who currently has malaria or a brother who is currently on, you know, there's always that in that coming to play. So I think that it is feasible if we all decide that, okay, this is a national problem and we have, we all have a role to play. Alira, you said something about the real estate guys partnering with the government and all that. I feel like that's hysterical because we know the country that we're in. But I was going to ask, do you think providing things like maybe insecticide-treated nets and maybe the insecticides itself, and do you think things like that can't work? I mean, actually for people living in those kind of unhygienic conditions, I think the best thing to provide for them is a vaccine.  You are wondering how many times, because how long will we continue to fight? Okay, let's prevent malaria. Let's permanently eradicate it. So the things we should be looking at is how can we subsidize the vaccination for people in this kind of environment, so that we go there and vaccinate them en masse. So it's not just giving them, because there's no how you want to give them. Definitely they will go to work and be beaten by a mosquito They are fishers Fishers are men They even live underwater They live right in the swamp They are not going to school People live in boarding schools My mother was born in 2010 But the mosquitoes in that my boarding school They were more than I said thank you They would pierce through Oh my God I get you I mean It's a sort of temporal Solution So the vaccine is more of a permanent Absolutely Anything even be done for The people that actually self-medicate Is it possible for instance These pharmacies I'm sure they are regulated So is there a regulation that can be passed That will make the pharmacies Not sell drugs without prescription I mean malaria is Just like a regular drug But people still have to go to the pharmacy And show a prescription to buy certain type of medication But to avoid self-medicating I feel like something has to be done What do you think? So the issue is that It's double It's like that sword So the moment you begin to ask a prescription To Get malaria drugs Somebody is going to start making drugs And selling it At the back of this house Making herbs And selling it back to this house So you are pushing people away from Okay this is a problem We accept it as a problem but we still know it's safer So it's safer It's like Between a D plus C I mean even the prescription That means you're asking people People have to go to the hospital Which a lot of people avoid them Because of the cost of seeing a doctor But the fact that the number has gone up You mentioned that before Is it 2021? Before then the number was not this high So what needs to be done To ensure that the number doesn't go up again Because it will go up again Something has to be done Even our environment Where we live in It's not exactly conducive The kind of mosquitoes I see in my house Allero Those things are like soldiers And they don't look small They are big So once you just see you I will not be able to sleep until I'm just looking If I catch you So just imagine In the kind of area where I stay Which of course is not exactly so clean It's not swampy But it's not exactly clean You get And you probably have They say Loma will come take up your refuse And stuff like that We are getting to rainy season And then sometimes Once there is a flood It doesn't go down to maybe two days after And which of course Exactly you have stagnant water You have mosquitoes coming in You see people always trying to change their nets There's a time See there's no insecticide that doesn't work anymore You know this Sorry that I'm digressing The advert that most of this mosquito Those When you see the animation Mosquito coming This is exactly what they do Because when you spray insecticide They still don't die They are becoming stronger by the day Mosquitoes are also building resistance They do See I wasn't wrong after all Because we advise you to change your insecticide Just shock them That's the one that lasts Mosquitoes I never experienced Today is one brand Next one is another brand If we hear you correctly You are saying that the permanent With eradicate or eliminate Malaria in Africa Is a vaccine Absolutely Honestly I think that's the best thing I heard the news and I literally jumped for joy Because there is no innovating Your way out of malaria Without getting a permanent solution Such as a vaccine So give people the vaccine And build permanent immunity No matter how many times It's probably the bites for people who have Those sensitive skin You have to be buying cream every now and then Because the vaccine doesn't cover that But at least you know that you are short Every month you will be at work You will not be down with malaria Alright ladies Anything else? I can't remember the last time I had malaria Are you AS? I'm AA But the reason why I'm saying I can't remember Who I'm feeling I feel feverish But what I do is take rest Because first of all I'm telling myself I'm stressed Because I know that I've stressed myself So I just go lay down The next day I wake up and I'm okay The last time I got sick was October Last year And it was malaria I said for my kid that I wouldn't lie See what comes next Because the way it came at me I feel feverish Like cold all of a sudden So I was like okay let me just rest for a bit I rested for like 30 minutes And by the time I woke up My body was hot And after a while It seemed like it was subsiding And in the next one or two hours It knocked me off And I was preparing to travel So I was just like If I go to the hospital Before my result comes out So I had to self-medicate For a few days For like two days and then I got myself back But by the time I traveled I had to go get tested Run a proper check to be sure that I'm actually fine Today I saw a video I mean it was malaria day yesterday And then there is this Medical hospital So this medical team They actually went to Makoko And they were testing them as usual Mosquito nets Insecticides and all of that And something one of the guys Who actually live in that area said And he said that there is a season for mosquito So there is a time When the water is salty There is no mosquito They won't breed but then It gets to the point where the water starts to become sweet Then the mosquito How do they even know? I'm sure they must There is something And they showed a child That was actually working inside The water You know where you see Gotta and there is like Refuse I think she went to buy something And she was coming back And she was working with her pants And I was looking at her like this And the guy said This is what you will see This is like a regular day So Giving them mosquito nets and insecticides Insecticides get more expensive By the day It's not 200, 300 like you used to buy It's not a 1.5 1.5, 1.8 almost 2,000 For you to actually buy insecticides So by the time you spray your room When you want to spray, I see they are spraying perfume You spray You spray very well So that means in a week or in two weeks You're done with one kind of insecticide And that's it So these people that have given it to I mean they've done a great job But in the next two weeks They're out of insecticide And there's nothing they can do about it So what happens then And there are lots of people living there People think they are not I think in the video they had mentioned About 200,000 or 400,000 people And that's a lot of people That's a lot of people I don't know what to say It's a very long way to go Eliminating malaria in our nation And by extension Africa And one thing we must also look at Is that Not everybody would have access To Getting tested For malaria So if we're going to be doing that We have to look for ways That people don't have to walk into the hospital To get tested And it has to be a 40% And malaria drugs should also be Needful to Until the vaccination is Gone round We should be seeing malaria drugs Almost free Because we know that a lot of times People can't afford it So I think that's it basically Okay They say if symptoms persist After two days After that Thank you so much It's been quite an insightful conversation The person that I have learned that So we should take this thing very seriously And I'm also going to appeal to the government as well I'm sure the government also has a role To play in terms of vaccine Helping to clean out the communities Making sure that people are living in more Hygienic conditions and all of that Thank you so much ladies It was great having you on the show tonight Thank you so much for having me Before we go to ensure you follow us on Instagram At Weshaw Africa Drop a comment and most importantly Follow all our social media Engagements And remember to like Share, comment and Invite your friends and family To watch us and follow us If you missed today's quotes here it is again It's not that easy living with malaria The reality of the high and all The toll should make that very obvious And this is by Tiki Naliaka See you tomorrow at 8pm Thank you so much for joining us on this screen


March Madness Sleeper, who are you going with? Baylor. Baylor. I'll go Baylor, too. Villanova. Villanova works. Villanova works, man. Villanova. Duke Blue Devils. Duke Blue Devils. Guys, Paulo, Bancaro is that boy. Ohio State. E.J. Ladoe. I'd say Ohio State. I'm going to go Ohio State as well. Malachi Brunheim, the St. V. Alumni. Got to go with him. Wisconsin. Badgers. Notre Dame. I think they've got it. Fuller! Easy! Easy! Because they score buckets. Kansas. Sleeper team, Kent State. Auburn, baby! Come on! Michigan State.  And if Rutgers make it, we're going to add those to my sleeper teams, too.


What's up everybody Jason here for Jasper's case race comm 21 22 panini Donner soccer hobby 2 box break random country number 8 Just sold out and again 17 total spots all-card ship. Just please note of course that there are no autographs for some teams of course So here we go Argentina down to Uruguay Here's a dice roller. Here's a customer names roll it 6 and a 3 9 times Good luck one two two three four five six seven eight Peter hang down Steven. All right. You go nine times one two three four five six seven eight Nine Peter with Belgium Robert on go to Argentina Nick with Spain Robert with Mexico Pamela of Portugal Robert with England Sweden, Norway Croatia combo Germany and Poland Joe Andreessen with the Netherlands Mike Tower with Colombia Steven with Francis Robert with the United States Rick with Brazil Zach with career Republic Bill Uruguay and Steven with Italy So if anybody wants to trade guys give you guys a quick trade window Posted a pic of my burn on Facebook group and people were telling me that it's only worth like 40 Those people just want to tell you that so that way you can low you can sell it on the low. That's why Sounds like greater fans Rex All right, well, I'm assuming no trade so Not necessarily Joe, but a lot of other fans for sure I don't think Joe has it in them to be a con artist or a thief No problem chat. Thank you for popping back in man. We'll get him tomorrow or another day I'm breaking with you. I'm sure this promo will probably be at least up and it's probably late next week. I assume We can average about five six promo breaks a day We'll probably get it done by the end of next week Yeah, man. Take care. Have a good morning. I'll be here at two o'clock Pacific Most likely only working eight hours, but we'll see and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. I know there's a Too big playoff game. So I wonder how the playoff games will impact people wanting to break tomorrow I feel like a lot of people are gonna want to sit back and relax and watch the games Have a nice little barbecue But yeah, man You're a good night trust man. I know you're getting up early. All right. So Joe doesn't here. Go bangles. Go bangles All right, man. Have a good night when Joe gets mad at me for rooting for the bangles I'm just gonna say customers first, right? So Chad always says Customers come first All right, bro. Do you two buddy? That's always a pleasure Whether you're in a break or not. I had fun as well. I think you got into a break for tomorrow I think you got into something. I seen your order.  Yeah Maline Vincent company Virgil. Oh, that's that should fill tomorrow, Brody We're just that pack filler away and I think honestly if we had more times people would have filled it But the fact is that we were so booked That I don't think people stop I think people stop buying into that filler because they figured it was gonna break till tomorrow So it should go tomorrow buddy It'll sell out the random teams and the picker team number four. So we should be good Yuri telling me Yeah, because the one thing is that Rex I did a lot of breaks today that were not promo breaks You know a lot of breaks that were kind of sitting there for a few days already Or even up to a week and I think Joe yesterday like Just you know got like ten promo breaks and I feel like more people broke all the promo breaks yesterday Probably more excited that that popped out, but then also to you know people love diamond icons We did like four of those and shit, you know, so a lot easier breaks promo breaks sold out yesterday per se Jack Gulsher, but yeah I mean I figured four to five to six breaks a day promo breaks We should be done by next week and then you know because we had to mix in probably breaks that are not promo breaks as well Yeah, I mean I was super booked today. I mean I did what like four of these Donner soccer breaks Soccer's hot right now So that ate up, you know like two three hours Nikolas Think he's a big player there for United States and have a good night Mason Mounts Andre Silva Baddie and Jacob Mulder You know Mohammed Yeah, I think make was doing this, you know to maybe have this planned order for this to start of the new year for like kind of a Kind of a big promo, but yeah, I'm sure we'll do the superb hour or something If we don't do superb al-squares, then I'm sure like we'll still do a big football mixer And just do a bunch of crazy giveaways as we always do But yeah, I think that all just depends on how quickly we get this promo done If we could get this done by the end of next week well, then you know, it's barely divisional round Then we'll have a solid, you know, two weeks almost three weeks actually to sell it out by the Super Bowl, right? Because you'll have the championship week Then you have the off week for the Pro Bowl and then you'll have Super Bowl week So I think so I think like something like Super Bowl promo could probably happen Think it all just banks on this selling out by the end of next week. Maybe or we just don't make this for violence as That many breaks maybe more Squares being given out per break rather than more breaks I had to do press proof. That's very nice Ryan Graven birch Mathias Norman. All right. So there you go. That's the first box. No kaboom in the first box, but a lot of nice stuff Got all the hollows got all the numbered cards colors any marvels Especially marvels that are press proofs there and there was your first autograph for England that was going to So I know this is I know it's late guys for people that are watching. Thank you guys for staying up with us So seconds last break of the night. I'll we'll repost another Donner us after this So that way for you people that are still watching want to grab your spots. You can I mean if for some reason if it sells out Super fast, I'm not gonna break tonight, but it'll break tomorrow But at least I'll finally repost it That way you guys can buy your spot, so You would be doing our third break. So pretty much almost half the case done when we do number nine So if we don't get a kabooms here, obviously, I know people are gonna go crazy For a break number nine, and I'm sure once we saw that out. Nothing pops there number 10 and so on all the way up to number 12 Honestly, depending on if we pull the room or not, I mean we could do probably four more of these tomorrow Number nine ten eleven and twelve, so let's keep it going All right, so let's finish off this box here Thank you guys for a very busy day. It's been a long time At least I can honestly say that I actually broke past midnight Like literally still breaking Been a good while It's fun actually Palisades Joe Wang we got a Pedro Neto and we got Jared Borghetti autograph from Mexico Mexico Rubberrunkle Pedri marbles and a pope press What the man? Let's line up. I see press pretty nice shoulder Ramos and Carasco press proof and a Uriel Antuna From Mexico Diego Lugano Pursech. All right, here we go the other half See we can get in here Robert of Roberto Alvarado killing in Bob a Vinny jr. And you don't Sancho for England to 99 Ronaldo marbles Frederick Diego Linus We have a number of Julian Brandt 349 red Robin Gosens 250 There we go guys so That was the break so no kaboom here. So again, I'll post up another one guys We can get that rolling. Appreciate it guys. Jasper's case breaks calm


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Salams you're watching the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, our selection of some of the top stories from around the world. Let's first take a look at today's headlines. Israeli forces kill a Palestinian teen near Jenin. Missing Afghan women activists released from prison. Tunisians protest president's control of the judiciary. And in Seattle, construction workers strike for a fair contract. Israeli forces have killed a 17-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank on Feb 13. Mohammad Abu Salah was shot during a raid in the Salat al-Harithia village late on Sunday. Occupation forces arrived in the area to demolish the house of a Palestinian man, Mahmood Jaradat. He was charged and imprisoned in relation to a shooting near the illegal Homesh outpost in December. Deploying an illegal collective punishment tactic, Israel declared that the homes of the men named in the attack would be destroyed. Following reports of the raid, hundreds of Palestinians in the area began protesting. The Health Ministry reported that dozens of people were injured from live ammunition, as well as rubber-coated bullets fired by the occupation forces. The Red Crescent also said that its ambulances were prohibited from entering the village. Occupation forces also attacked Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah in the occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. UNRES grew after far-right Zionist legislator Itamar Ben Gvir set up a tent on the Salem family's land. Dozens of Israeli settlers had also stormed the neighborhood early on Sunday and attacked residents. Palestinian protesters gathered around the Salem family home to remove Gvir's tents. Occupation forces then proceeded to deploy rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and stun grenades. At least 31 people were injured and 13 arrested. The Salem family is among several Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah at imminent risk of forced expulsion and displacement. Four women activists in Afghanistan who were detained by the Taliban have now been released. They were reported missing after taking part in the protest rally last month. Tamanna Zaryabi Pariani and Parwana Ibrahim Khel went missing on January 19. Footage shared on social media showed Pariani asking for help, saying that the Taliban had arrived at her home in Parwan. Zehra Muhammadi and Mursal Ayar were disappeared just two weeks after. The Taliban consistently denied reports that the activists had been detained. The UN assistance mission in Afghanistan confirmed that on Feb 13, the women and their relatives had been released. However, Tolo News had reported the arrest of two other activists, Mardina Darwazi and Marjan by the Taliban on Feb 12. Darwazi's two children were reportedly also detained and all four have been taken to an unknown location. Afghan women have reportedly held protests to demand their right to education and to work. Such gatherings have been forcibly dispersed as the Taliban has banned all unsanctioned rallies. Girls have been largely excluded from education as most senior secondary schools, most secondary schools for that matter in the country remain shut. Women have been unable to return to their jobs in several government sectors and cannot travel outside their towns and cities without a male relative. Our next story is from Tunisia where hundreds of people have held a protest in the capital on Feb 13. The unrest was in response to a decree issued by President Qaiz Said, granting him effective control over the country's judiciary. Decree No. 11 establishes a temporary Supreme Judicial Council or CSM with no fixed term. Tunisia's actual Supreme Judicial Council was tasked with ensuring judicial independence and the appointment, promotion and transfer of judges. The President announced the dissolution of the body last week. While the official council was elected by legal professionals, a part of the new council will be appointed by the President directly. Said can object to the nomination or promotion of judges, after which the council must reconsider its decision. Said can also request the dismissal of judges for misconduct or failure to perform professional duties. The President will also be authorized to propose judicial reforms. Judges have also been banned from going on strike or organizing any collective action, which could disrupt the normal functioning of a court. The union of administrative judges has denounced the decree as a flagrant violation of the separation of powers. And our final story is from Seattle in the United States, where a major work stoppage has shut down a $23 billion construction industry. Organized by Teamsters Local 174, 330 concrete mixer drivers and workers have been on strike for almost 3 months. The action began on November 19th with 34 truck drivers at the Gary Merlino Construction Company. By December 3rd, an industry-wide strike had been declared, affecting six major concrete companies in the Seattle area. Workers have been citing unfair labour practices, accusing employees of refusing to bargain in good faith. The strike was approved unanimously, as the workers' contracts expired on July 31st, 2021. Teamsters have said that the companies are proposing contracts which are as much as 25% lower than what's been offered to other workers in the industry. On the 10th of February, the union's bargaining committee waited outside the Gary Merlino Company for over three hours to negotiate a new contract. Taking inflation and rising living costs into account, workers will actually see a decline in compensation over three years. Teamsters have also said that employers have refused to fund health care for retired workers. As reported by the South Seattle Emerald, many construction workers are forced to retire before they qualify for Medicare. They work up to 60 hours a week to provide high risk of both illness as well as injury. The employer's refusal to offer a fair contract has led to the slowing down of major projects and layoffs of hundreds of construction workers. That's all we have on today's episode of the International Daily Roundup. For more on such stories, visit our website, peoplesdispatch.org and do give us a follow on all the regular social media platforms for updates on all the work we do. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.


I think there was no some grand expression of love or this and that. It was just taken for granted relationship. It's taken for granted that we are of paramount importance to her. So it never occurred to us, oh, she loves her, she takes care of us, these thoughts never came.  She gave us that cocoon and I think that made a tremendous difference to all of us in those times. And as I've already many times said, she was she made everything with her hands in the house from cooking to embroidery, stitching drapes and stitching things, everything was her work. Her signature was all over the house. Without saying a word, it was simply everywhere. I remember when we went out to other places, always every pillowcase, every bedsheet, everything is embroidered, you know, some embroidery should have done. If when we went out to places outside and just before sleeping, if she saw the pillowcase is just a white pillowcase. She would say, how can children sleep on an empty pillowcase? And within five minutes she would put a small parrot. I remember those green parrots so well because looking at the damn parrot, I would just fall asleep. Those parrots are sticking in my head so strong or a little five petal flower, which used to be, you know those, I don't know what, I've forgotten all those names. They used to be anchor threads, anchor brand threads, which used to come like this, you know. If you stitch them, let's say it's pink in one place, in other place it'll be reddish, you know. When you stitch it, it'll come. I'm sure even now those things should be there, but I've not seen them in a long time. So I'm just looking at that five-petaled flower and just dozing off.  Why? You know, I remember this thing so well, I'm talking when I'm like four or five years of age. I'm just thinking, why is it those two petals together have come red and the other three have come pink? I've seen the thread, I've, you know, done all kinds of things. When I look at the patterns in the thread, it shouldn't be coming so close together, my mind is… So in all these little, little things, cooking enslaved us. It doesn't matter where we went, even if we were taken to a wedding or a party or whatever, we pretend to eat there and come home and eat well because there was no replacement for her cooking. It was like that. I don't know, it was not like a very active, loving relationship. It was just there all the time, you couldn't think of life without her, that's all. It's just there all the time there, never not being there. I think today for economic reasons, women have chosen to step out of their homes. I'm not commenting about that. But for the child, when a child comes home, nobody at home, he opens his own lock and goes inside and eats some cold food and sits there. This is the fate of most of the Western children. And unfortunately, this is becoming the fate of most of the Indian urban children. Just that thing, when you come home, she takes your bag and she asks you what happened and she… you want to run inside with your shoes on and she pulls out your shoes. These are not simple acts. These are life-transforming acts, you know. These are truly life-transforming acts. I think in many, many, many ways. The other dimension of who I am is different. But as a person who I am, I think she had a huge, huge influence quietly without saying a word, no teaching, no talking down. My father always tried to talk me down and tell me, this, this, this, you have to be like this, otherwise you'll become like this. None of it stuck in my head. But she just quietly, without saying a word about it. I think she impacted me hugely, very hugely, I would say.


Hello, I'm Joe Montaigne, and I'm honored to introduce an exciting project many years in the making, the National Museum of the United States Army. For the first time in its more than 200-year history, the United States' oldest military branch will have a National Museum honoring the service and sacrifice of the soldiers who've committed their lives to protecting our nation. This museum will preserve the history of the Army and will be a valuable educational resource for visitors from across the U.S. and around the world. It will be a source of pride for those serving today, and an inspiration for the soldiers of tomorrow. Sighted on a hilltop at Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, the National Museum of the U.S. Army will be set in the scenic landscape of the Potomac River Valley in Northern Virginia, just south of our nation's capital. The museum consists of 185,000 square feet of exhibition and support spaces within a simple yet bold architectural design. The glass and steel facade reflects both the beautiful natural setting and the museum's important mission. Museum patrons begin their visit by following a line of soldier-story pylons, marching in elegant formation into the spacious lobby, which features rich representations of the Army's history. Illuminated, colorful glass campaign streamers overhead represent each of the Army's campaigns. At the southern end of the lobby, an engraved honor wall commemorates each of the battles fought in the Army's history. An oversized Army emblem is inlaid into the center of the lobby's terrazzo flooring. The lobby can be reconfigured for large private events with capacity for up to 460 guests. Most of the time, however, this area serves as a nexus for all of the museum's major exhibits and experiences. To the east, the Soldier Stories Gallery, the Army Theater, and the Army Concourse invite visitors to delve deeper into Army history through immersive 360-degree video, full-scale artifacts, and interactive exhibits. In the Army and Society Gallery, visitors learn about the symbiotic relationship between Army and civilian life. They'll explore the impact Army innovations and technology have had on our everyday lives. In the Fighting for the Nation Gallery, visitors will experience the history of the Army from its humble beginnings in 1775 to its emergence as the world's most advanced and capable global fighting force. The museum also offers a unique, immersive learning space for young visitors. The Experiential Learning Center helps students develop skills in geography, science, technology, engineering, and math as their squads work to complete Army missions. The Growing Up Army Wall will present first-person accounts of Army families around the world, and Fort Discover offers a hands-on exploration space for small children. The museum also houses a special gallery space for temporary installations, a museum store and a café with adjoining outdoor garden terraces. The museum campus will include a variety of outdoor elements. Visitors can take in the natural beauty of the surrounding landscape or learn Army survival tactics as they wander the interactive Army trail. The amphitheater serves as a focal point for outdoor ceremonies and events, and a parade ground provides ample space for demonstrations and reenactments. The museum will also feature intimate garden spaces where visitors can reflect and pay tribute to the service of generations of American soldiers. The Veterans Hall will provide visitors with the opportunity to learn about the Army firsthand through conversations with veteran soldiers. Like the lobby, the Veterans Hall can also transform into a formal event space for reunions, banquets, ceremonies, and other special events. The Medal of Honor Garden will be a tranquil, dignified place for small events and quiet reflection on the service and sacrifice of extraordinary soldiers. The Garden's design will memorialize Medal of Honor recipients and will incorporate symbolic references to the qualities recognized by the Medal of Honor, valor, gallantry, and intrepidity. As a place to both commemorate and educate, the National Museum of the United States Army will provide a welcoming home for veterans and offer visitors of all ages the opportunity to better understand the role that American soldiers play in shaping the history of this nation and the world. For our soldiers, it will be an engaging way to explain to their loved ones what they do and why, and an inspiring place to connect with those in whose footsteps they follow.