I'm a double agent. Who are my two masters? The Drupal Association and the community. I was going to start with the Mission Impossible theme song, which I did when I did this at Bacamp, a kind of rough early version, but I didn't get the track onto my computer, so you're just going to have to imagine right now the Mission Impossible theme song. Or maybe the Austin Powers theme song would probably be more appropriate.  Because I'm not going to talk to that side of the room. There's only going to be a few of us.  German Precision, 215. Oh, there's people streaming in. I don't know, do you want to introduce me? I'll introduce myself. Hi, no, he said. Shall I start again? Alright, let's go. Guys, it's started. Okay, so I'm a double agent for the Drupal Association and the community. This is me. I also run my own small business, but that's really got absolute nothing to do with today, except that it is very small. And I like to think that I am trying to represent voices of smaller Drupal users. In my mission on the board. This all began in 2010 when I joined the Drupal Association. When I first joined the Drupal Association, I then went to a session at DrupalCon San Francisco about meeting the Drupal Association, and I think it was called Stewards of the Drop, and I heard about how it worked, and then I went, so how do we vote? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Members don't vote. For the Drupal Association, you just pay your membership fees to support the work of the association. Well, that sounds a bit weird. Okay, fine, alright. So anyway, that's sort of where I first started to really understand what the Drupal Association was and what it did at DrupalCon San Francisco.  And at DrupalCon London, I also went to a session which was about sort of the Drupal Association, kind of a bit, I guess, like the session you're at today, except I'm hoping this will be a little bit different. So at that session, there were a lot of people there from Drupal Associations around Europe who had formed national groups to get stuff done, run local camps, have a bank account just to, you know, be able to pay for t-shirts and, you know, the sorts of local things local communities do. And they had formed associations such as the, I'm going to murder this word now, the Denmark-Vereiniging-something. There's this, thank you. So effectively it means the Danish-Drupal Association, but in Danish, so it doesn't sound like the Drupal Association. And there's an Italian one and a Portuguese one and I think there's one in Singapore and there are basically a few of these. So out of this session, this kind of growing, I guess, bubbling sense of dissatisfaction came out of it and a bof was convened, the birds of the feather, the International Drupal Associations was convened, to which I totaled off. I think I've gotten way ahead of myself. Five continents were represented at the bof. Yes, I am very short. This Scotland was somewhat over-represented. But otherwise, Africa was there, no one from Antarctica, no one from South America, but it was very productive. And out of that we formed a group on GDO, on groups.drupal.org, International Drupal Associations. There being for these kinds of people to get together and share, you know, experiences and ideas. There hasn't been a lot of traffic there, but it's there we've started to at least build connections. I think, though, we really kind of need... I mean, these organisations are happening. Some of them have the blessing of the... No, well, actually none of them really have the blessing of the formal Drupal Association. Some people ask the Drupal Association if they can do it first and they kind of get told, oh, no, well, it's kind of tricky and others just go and do it and then it's done. I'm a bit of a ask for forgiveness, not for permission kind of a person, so that works for me. It may not work for others. So the United Nations of Drupal, what many of you are probably unaware of is that this is a contingent of Australians who went to San Francisco in 1945 to help to get a meeting which formed the United Nations. They got involved in all the different meetings and they lobbied for two key things, one of which they were successful and one of which they failed. The one they failed was about the veto for the Security Council. They didn't think that was a very good idea, giving just those people all that power. The one that succeeded was that they said that everyone in the General Assembly should have a vote, everyone. No, regardless of how big they are, how important they are, whatever, everyone in the General Assembly should have a vote. They won that. So Australia and Australians in international forums actually have a bit of a reputation for sticking up for the little guys. And that's what I feel like I'm doing. We also have a reputation for getting engaged in electoral reform. There are a few things we did first. The idea of the secret ballot was an Australian invention. We're the second country in the world to give women the vote. And we also have reformed electoral systems, preferential and proportional voting systems. These are very common in Europe, not very common in the US or the UK or Canada right here. But it basically means that you'll vote, we go beyond first past the post, and we really look for who do you really want to be there, and if you can't have your first preference, who would your second preference be? This is quite important. And it was one of the things I argued for in the process of setting the first elections for the Drupal Association. Remember when I said that I joined, I thought it was weird I couldn't vote? The association's been through a major reboot. And one of the things that's changed is we can now vote. And you ended up with me and Steve Perkis as your elected board members. Stand up, Steve, just for a quick minute. Which brings us to 2012. The first elections were held in February. Steve and I were elected to the board in February. And we went to our first in-person board meeting in Denver. And until that point I was like, oh, what have I done? I have no idea what I am in for. But going to the meeting kind of settled me down. It's like, okay, I can deal with this. This is good. There is another in-person board meeting tonight. Which you are all very welcome to attend. I don't know how interesting or entertaining it is likely to be, but you are very welcome to attend. And the important thing is it's about ultimate transparency. These are open board meetings. All our board meetings are open and that you can dial in and you can listen. And they're recorded and sometimes put online afterwards when people remember to do so. If you want to hear a recording because you missed it and it's not online, you bugger me and say, Donna, get that recording online. Well, I'm going to talk about executive sessions later. After Drupalcon, there was a change in the track chairs. And a new track chair was appointed. And the new track chair was American. And I looked at the list of track chairs, global track chairs for Drupalcon. And they were all American. Global. I do not think this word means what you think it means. At least it doesn't mean what I think it means. So this is the world, the Drupal world. This is four of the five world's most populous nations. Let's just flip back. That contains one of the world's five most populous nations. And four of the others are there. One of those is getting our first Drupalcon. So let's rewind a little bit. The Drupal Association was formed in 2006. There was a big bang. The server melted down. Dreech replaced Drupal.org with a PayPal button for donations.  Now what? So he needed to open a check account to bank the money and buy the server. So he formed a Belgian nonprofit association to do that. And that's how it began. My hasn't it grown. In 2009, Drupalcon Inc. was formed for kind of similar reasons. A massive kind of surplus had been generated by the huge success of Drupalcon DC. And so that money was banked and an American corporation was formed to be able to handle that money and use it to build the next Drupalcon and what have you. In 2011, this whole process was rebooted. Most of the functions that had kind of begun to evolve inside the Belgian nonprofit were transferred to the U.S. Corporation and the U.S. Corporation was turned into a nonprofit 501C3. And this really just happened late last year. And the new board was formed in, I think, late November. They had their first in-person board retreat in December and a whole bunch of goals were set. Which brings us to the Drupal Association today. This is its mission statement. I have highlighted the bits that I think are actually the most important. The Drupal Association fosters and supports the community and everything it does is about doing that. But what does foster mean? No, no, no. It means encourage, cultivate, promote, nurture, cherish, raise. Most importantly, I think, it means to look after something without owning it. The Drupal Association does not own the community but it is there to look out for it. It also means to grow. And our community has grown hugely since 2006. And with growth sometimes comes pain and things need to be resolved in new and interesting ways. So the Drupal Association developed, along with the mission statement, it tries to make that happen with these six things. Now three of these things, I think, are what I call boring but important. And three of them I think are fundamental to what the Drupal Association is all about. I'll leave it as an exercise to the audience as to which is which, depending on your point of view. This one, I think, is incredibly important but kind of dull. Legal work and advocacy. Sorry, I should go back. Sorry, the GPL. Important but dull. Legal work and advocacy. And there's a lot of stuff that goes on to make sure something like a Drupal Con can exist. I mean, really boring things like contracts and making sure we have insurance and there are all sorts of little legal bits and pieces that need to be done. This is the kind of stuff that the Drupal Association looks after when it needs to. One of the things it doesn't do is look after the trademarks. They belong to Drees. Drees pays lawyers to make sure the trademark is protected. The Drupal Association does not do that. But in all other respects, everything to do with Drupal Con, everything to do with the associated stuff which is not necessarily GPL. Legal and advocacy work is done and handled by the DA. The servers, imagine Drupal without Drupal.org. It is number one priority. If something is going down on Drupal.org, it actually surpasses anything that might be happening to even a Drupal Con. So the servers are very important but also not really that exciting. Unless, of course, you're into real servers and then I know it's very exciting for you. I'm not. I don't know what's going on. And this is one of the ones I think is really central. We're all here, right? Drupal Con. It's a big event. It requires a lot of energy, investment, expertise. But it's really fundamentally about bringing the community together to learn from each other, to share their knowledge, to work on the project. This is about fostering and supporting the community. Communicating the benefits of the Drupal software. This is something I don't think we're doing as successfully as we could yet, but Marta is part of a team that's working on that. We're getting better at this. But it's also if there are challenges here, how do you communicate the benefits of something like Drupal to the vast world, the vast Drupal verse of people who can use it or might use it for different things? There's a lot of going on here. We're not talking about just, you know, what does the Drupal Association do. We're talking about the whole project and the community. And then empowering a Drupal community to participate. And for me, this is what, this is really important. I mean, actually, three of those photographs were taken at Drupal Con. So Drupal Con, as I say, is still, it's really central to what the Drupal Association is about. And the Drupal Association is, let's be honest, it's bread and butter as Drupal Con. There are other revenue streams, and I'm coming to that, but Drupal Con is what the Drupal Association spends most of its time and energy on and where it gets most of its revenue. Speaking of revenue, ah, damn it. I'm so sorry. I forgot to bring the annual reports. Okay, there are annual reports which have these figures in them floating around. Some of you will have them in your conference packets, and these figures are there. These are too small to read now, and I'm not going to go into detail anyway. The real point here is that now that the Drupal Association is a 501, this stuff is all transparent. You can go see this, and the latest 990 has been filed and is online at association.drupal.org. You can download the report from there as well at association.drupal.org. And you can scrutinize these numbers. And if you have questions about these numbers, bring them to us. This is not in the annual report, but is in the latest 990. And I wanted to pull this out because I think this shows that, whilst there is a very strong and I think valid perception that the Drupal Association is a dincey bit too American focused, ah, we are starting to fund and support projects and events outside of the United States. There's two key categories there. Cash grants for travel expenses. So sending developers to sprints and regional summits and Drupal cons and all that sort of stuff. And the community cultivation grants. I've got the fizzy version, it's quite nice. So you can see there that, you know, the rest of the world, I like the rest of the world, is kind of there. In 2012, the Drupal Association Board had decided to concentrate on six things. Improving Drupal.org was number one. And number six, for site builders and developers. This was a huge project. There was a lot of work done by our good friend Angela Byron. I don't know if she sleeps. But she really rallied people to talk about how could we improve Drupal.org. And she ran consultations and she talked to people and she came up with this huge list of things. And it pretty much kind of settled into two buckets. There was stuff that developers wanted to make it easier to work on code and there was stuff that site builders wanted to evaluate modules and a whole bunch of things. So these were the kinds of things that bubbles to the top. Now improving the site for developers was number one and improving Drupal.org for site builders was number six of the six objectives for 2012. But a lot of them depended on should we upgrade to Drupal 7 before we do all of this new development? And that was a big question. Should we do this development on D6? Well, it might have been a bit biased by Angie's love of D7. But D7 seemed to make more sense. So the Drupal Association has invested a lot of time and a lot of money into this upgrade of Drupal.org to D7 and there have been some improvements along the way. That's not something we're all waiting for the upgrade. But it's actually a really big job. But it's seen as kind of critical. If we're not running our most current version of Drupal on our own website I think that's a kind of compelling argument. The training directory. So one of the things that's been identified as a problem for Drupal is the lack of talent. How do we get more people knowing Drupal? How do we put them in touch with people in the local part of the world where they can learn more? So we're building a training directory to help people with that. And part of that is a big communication challenge as well. So we've started global Drupal training days which allow people to... allow those companies to say, okay, let's do training on this four days a year and concentrate our communication so that more people know about it. So the next one's coming up. 14th of September. There are already a bunch. Roughly how many have we got signed up now? We've got about 18 or 20 signed up more.  And engage in the global kind of buzz around it. Have a hashtag. Learn Drupal. And I really want to see kind of you know some buzz around this as you know as we get towards it and on the day itself. It's right before software freedom day so that could be good too. Regional events for developers. Now this is the one I know least about. Can you do a quick update on regional events for developers? Code sprints around the world. Right, code sprints around the world on things and help get developers to these events is one of the things that we're also been looking at. Drupal is a career choice was one of our six objectives and it is the one that has received the least love. The Drupal Association staff kind of ran out of energy and time to put into this. But I think the community still has a place here. This is an idea to reach out to universities whether it's creating student user groups on campus or reaching out to academics who might be teaching web and teaching computing to start looking at Drupal as part of that mix as an example set and just generating users. There are heaps of universities using Drupal so I feel like we have connections where we could be doing more with this than we are. And if the Drupal Association can't now my double agent hat here the community can. We should be working together on these kinds of things. Which brings us to now. Munich, DrupalCon. Awesome DrupalCon. It's pretty good. Food? Air conditioning? Food, good. There's a board meeting tonight. So this will be my third in-person board meeting. And this was one of the things that I also kind of argued against when we were sort of talking about how we're going to have these first elections. But one of the things that was said was that board members had to commit to a certain number of teleconference meetings a year and four in-person face-to-face meetings. They also said we want to have a more diverse kind of board. And I went, so you want a more diverse board and you've got to go to these four meetings and you have to pay to attend those meetings yourself. And that's like halfway around the world for me. I don't think I couldn't afford it. And I was up front about it. There's no way I could afford it because effectively three of those meetings would be in North America and one would be in Europe. Two at Drupal Cons and two at other times. I just thought I couldn't do it. So I think saying you want diversity and having this requirement to attend meetings and pay for it yourself, these are mutually exclusive things. Sure, you can, you know, have either of them but you can't have both. Make your choice, which is more important. And I was compelling apparently in that argument and the Drupal Association acknowledged that they would support the travel funds for people who couldn't afford it. And I said, well, I think that's fair. That means we might get people from parts of the world for whom this kind of expanse is just not doable. Thank you. I also got involved in the election in the debates about how we should have the elections, about preferential voting thing I mentioned. I also talked about who should vote in their debates about setting up this election. And there were a few different ways. Should it just be members of the Drupal Association? Remember, way back at the start, I was like, I remember, where do I vote? So should we give those people a vote? Should it just be members of the Drupal Association who elect these community members of the board? Well, it's not really representative of the entire community either, is it? So we settled on people who have accounts on Drupal.org, who have been active in the past 12 months and created their accounts more than two weeks ago when we announced the elections were happening. So that was kind of how we defined what I call the citizenry of Drupal, who are a citizen of the Drupal verse if you have an account on Drupal.org. Some are more active than others. Some just go there, submit an idle bug report and nick off again. Others spend their days and nights hammering the issue queues, deeply involved in the project. All of these people are part of our community. I also think there are parts of our community who do not have accounts on Drupal.org. There are probably colleagues in our organizations. There are our clients. There are users. There are hobbyists who have, you know, found Drupal on a shared host that was installed by someone else for them have set up little websites. I feel like they are part of our community. Not everyone agrees. But we settled on having an account on Drupal.org active in the past 12 months as our citizenry. I really didn't segue well into this slide. So I mentioned before that fit one of those countries that is largely populous. The first Drupal con in the Southern Hemisphere is happening in Sao Paulo in December. I think that's pretty cool. I think this is even cooler. I might be a little bit biased in both directions because, see the sound from Melbourne? No, I won't get into that. It is really important from my perspective that we, that those of us who are not part of the sort of North American community are loud and in Australian terms obnoxious about being invisible. We're not invisible. We're great friends at parties. That the global community, Drupal community is as global in its representation and in its actions as the association as it is in reality. There are people at this conference from all over the world. I would like to see them participating in the governance of our project. Now, like I said, the Drupal association has nothing to do with the project itself. It's about fostering and supporting the community. And I'm a community elected at-large member of the board. So you see how I see these things are like this. I just wanted to, how am I going, can someone give me a time check? 242, excellent. So we've got a bit of time here. I wanted to just pause for a moment. And ask you a few questions. This is a bit of a twist. I know you usually ask the presenter, but I actually want to ask you some questions. Is that okay? Excellent. What I might, what I want to do, we're going to have a bit of a dead spot in the recording now. I apologize. Maybe they can cut it out later and whatever. Is get you just within sort of your groups to just turn to each other and have a quick chat. So there's two things I really want you to just talk about amongst yourselves. And that is why did you come to this session? Like back in 2010, I went to the stewards of the drop Drupal Association session to, you know, find out more about it. And I know some of you here know deeply about the Drupal Association. So it wasn't pure curiosity. Some of you, it would be.  And what do you want to get out of it? What do you want to go away and think, change, do, feel? Just want you to quickly talk amongst yourselves. What is it about the Drupal Association that you want to know? Share what you do. Share what you change. And then we'll have a quick report back. Okay? We don't have a lot of time. That's why I want you to clump. So there's lots of discussion. So I'm going to sort of clump here. You guys turn around and talk to the people behind you.  All right. Go. Okay. So I'm going to hit the play button and get going. So before we really dive, they can do it. I really want to thank you because I know that was a bit weird, but I always found that you come to these things and ideas come up and you sit in these talks and I really think that it's important to communicate amongst each other. I'm not the only expert here. There is expertise in the room and ideas to be shared. So thank you for indulging me in that. The big thing now is, so now what? So some people have said that the Drupal, they didn't really know that there was this kind of global Drupal association. Well, the global bit, of course, is debatable, right? But, you know, there is the Drupal association. Get involved. This is why I say if you do not like the way the new Drupal association works, there is but one way to change it. Well, actually, there are always two ways to bring about change. Evolution and revolution, right? Well, I actually think there has been a kind of revolution, but I think it was a bit top down, right? There was change, but it was driven by people who discussed it all in kind of private. Sure, they posted what they were doing. There's very much, you know, happened behind closed doors. A change happened. But now that change has happened, I think it is up to us to get involved and say what we want. How do we want this to work for us? Again, my two hats. Double agent, remember. Stand for the board. You know, as Shua was just discussing, Steve and I did that.  I think there were 10 candidates. There were 10 candidates for these two spots. Some people thought there should have been way more than that. I was pleased there was 10. But I think Steve would say, you know, at some point I think someone, Vessa, who was on the board, tapped him on the shoulder and said, you should run. There's only been a couple of nominations. So I hope we see a lot more than 10 nominations in the next round. So Steve just said, I'm just repeating for the recording, that it was back at one of the CXO events in Europe. He went up to Vessa and said, so how many people have applied? And Vessa said, oh, we've only had two. So Steve thought, well, I'll throw my hat in the ring. Sorry, that's a colloquialism, isn't it? I will have a go at that. That's probably also a colloquialism. Anyway, I think you get what I mean. So standing for the board is something that I would recommend if you really want to be involved at, it is the highest level, but that doesn't mean that you're removed from the action. Like I've spent hours at Drupalcon volunteering and it's been fantastic. I'm working directly with the staff and part of my infiltration, I had to go to Portland to one of the Drupal Association meetings and I spent a week in the office with the staff and that was fantastic. Boy, was that, you know, an eye opener because it really, you know, I really got a chance to understand that they're human beings, they're not just staff, right? I met them all. We hung out.  You know, these are real people, not just the staff of the Drupal Association to live all the way on the other side of the world and Marta is a staff member and she's here. So thank you for coming Marta. It's really cool. But it is a huge commitment. It's a big time commitment. So that's not for everyone. Maybe you could encourage someone else to stand for the board. Like maybe you know someone who would bring a voice that is unheard and we know that, you know, seven of the, seven of the, no, no, no, that's not right. I've got my wrong, no, that's not, that's right. Seven of the current people live in North America. No, six, sorry, six live in North America. Vessa lives in the UK. He was in Finland. Steve is also in the UK and I'm from Australia. So still primarily North American, couple from Europe and then me representing the rest of the world. And that, you know, I'm a native English speaker. So that's not really all that diverse. I'm a girl. That's a big tick for diversity. We're not doing too badly because we've got Tiffany and Denise and Angie as well. So, you know, gender diversity is not too bad on our board. But if you know someone who would, you know, who has the kind of craziness to do something like this, encourage them to think about it at least. I am surrounded by amazing people and I'm quite sure that the next board will also be an opportunity to work with incredible people. Dris will be there. That's pretty cool.  Sitting there with Dris and Angie going, that's just me, sorry. But, you know, Tiffany and Steve, who's here, which is a fantastic investor, Carrie. Carrie was involved with running Drupalcons before we had staff. So he's put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it. And Denise is someone who was sort of from outside the community but has a lot of experience in open source associations. So she brings that. Jeff runs phase two. So he has a more sort of managerial kind of corporate thing. And I'm an Angie, I think. Do I need to introduce Angie to anyone? Maybe the person who doesn't know Drupal. She's the release manager for Drupal 7. She works like 24 hours a day. I don't know, she's amazing. So really great people, honoured, honoured, humbled to hang out with these people, discuss Drupal, the issues of the Drupal Association. You could join them. Or you might know someone who could join them. One of the really easy things, who here is a member of the Drupal Association? Who here is not a member of the Drupal Association? Who here is going to become a member of the Drupal Association as a result of me waxing lyrical? Two? Three? No. No more? If you do, you can sign up here on site in the bookstore. Go and speak to Chris. She's another one of our fabulous staff members. And sign up. Those of you who are members, please talk about the Drupal Association and what it does and how it supports the community. Because membership, whilst it's fairly small amounts of money, I think it's something like 22 euros to join as an individual and 72 euros to join as an organisation.  It's not a lot of money. We also have a sliding scale. So if it's too much money, you can choose to pay less. If you think you could pay more, you can choose to pay more. That's fairly new. We also have a renewal system now. So if you used to be a member of the Drupal Association, we kind of had a bit of a problem sending out renewal emails that seems to be fixed. So, you know, renew, but encourage others. This is a pretty low bar to get involved and help. Because membership is one of the revenue streams which is not DrupalCon. So it's actually really important as a separate kind of income stream. Follow us on Twitter at DrupalOSOC. Talk to us on Twitter. At DrupalOSOC. We've also got Facebook. Think. And there's email and there's forums and there's the IRC channels. Come and talk to us. If something's giving you the irets, something is annoying you, if you think something is fantastic like DrupalCon and you've had a great week, let us know. Come and talk to us. Groups.drupal.org slash Drupal Association. We have a group there. Stuff like the elections, the debates that I was talking about, that happens there. If you really want to get involved in how things work and where things are up to, come here. We have issue queues for the stuff around the Drupal world. Drupal.org has an issue queue. Get involved with that. That's helping. We need people to engage in the kind of engines and infrastructure and the things that make our world tick. Get involved in the issue queues. Get involved in the development of Cod. Like I mentioned that DrupalCon is so core to what we do. Well, we're using the conference organizing distro. We need more bodies. We need all the help we can get. Whew. No, it's a big part of what the Drupal Association does. But I can't emphasize enough the importance of doing this. Voting. So, you remember I said about we had the arguments about who could vote? Well, once we kind of crunched the numbers, that came to about 250,000, a quarter of a million people could vote in the elections. How many do you think actually did? No, no one who knows can say that. Sorry? 15,000? 50,000. Any others? 500? 3,000? 655. You get the chocolate if I had one. 655 people actually voted out of the 250,000. Now, I know we have one big job and this is going to fall in Marta's camp. We need to get the word out that the elections are happening a lot better. We absolutely must. So, you are now all my agents of change.  It's not just the Drupal Association members. It's for every member of the Drupal community who has an account on Drupal.org. Can you do that? Would you be willing to do that? I think this is important. Voting is compulsory in my country. Some people think that's weird. For me, this is like a bottom, this is like the lowest common denominator of participation in a community, in your organization, in your world, right? Lowest common denominator. Just vote. For some people, it's a really hard thought, right? We shouldn't take it for granted. I started with wondering where I could vote. I ended up elected. I don't know how that happened. But we can do it. Let's do it. Thank you. And this is the feedback slide. I've made a big QR code, if that's your thing. I've also got a couple of short-hand URLs to get to basically my session node and feedback. The feedback is an important part of helping the track chairs know whether or not they should ever let me talk again. But in general, across the board, if you've been to sessions, please do go and give your feedback. It is, again, a very small part of your duty to participate, to feedback on what we've done. So I hope you do. Please feel free to get in touch at cutacrub.net by email. Hashtag double agent if you want to talk about what we've discussed today. And thank you all so much for coming.


What's shaking? My name's Cam, welcome to another video. What's good? And also, hi there. You look nice today probably. So, I gotta be honest with you guys, I have a confession to make. Not all of my story ideas are good. Super shocking, I know. You know, sometimes I'll be like doing something really mundane and then I'll get an idea for a new book and I think it's super deep and profound for just a little bit I will feel like I've ascended the realm of mortal men.  Just one more time! The point is, I'm only human, believe it or not. And I'm just guessing here, but I would say that a lot of other writers are only human as well. In fact, I ended up asking all of you if you've ever had any terrible story ideas. I asked you for the weirdest and the worst and you delivered. I'm gonna tell you about my bad story ideas, but first, I wanna have a read through some of yours. By the way, I make a lot of videos about writing, so if that interests you, maybe think about subscribing. If you want to. A young man of 18 years obliterating his whole hometown. Yes, I was an angry teenager. I don't see anything wrong with that, necessarily. Is that weird? You know what? This actually gives me like hardcore chronicle vibes. Remember that movie that came out years ago? Point is, I could definitely kick back in the recliner with a smoothie and imagine my hometown being completely Terminator 2'd. I mean, to be clear, you're definitely on a watch list now, Leirena, but not a bad story idea. I had an idea for a group of warlocks living in a forest and protecting it from destruction, only to realize I basically just rewrote Fern Gully. That's just the Lorax, but not quite as good, only because the Lorax has Danny DeVito and of course, a beautiful mustache. You might not be able to tell because it's only the 4th of November so far, but I'm actually growing a mustache during the month of November for the Movember Foundation. I'm doing that in memory of my father and if you want to help fight to prevent suicide as well, you can find a link to my Movember page in the description below. Don't feel obligated at all, but if you have a few extra dollars, I really think you'd be making a big difference. Plus, towards the end of the month, I'm gonna end up looking like a dollar store hopper from Stranger Things, so that's fun. Superheroes, but they are gods. Ah, well that just makes me think of Homelander.  Tell you what though, I've never seen a god that fond of milk. Being trapped in a shopping center. You know what I don't get? People always talk about how fun it would be to be stuck in a mall overnight, like it would be like having a theme park to yourself. I don't really think about it that way. I mean, really think about it. Think about being locked in a shopping center overnight. You've got endless walkways of just empty darkness.  No thanks Tom Hanks, I'm good. Wanted to write a fantasy. Thought of a plot that was cool. It was actually just Lord of the Rings. Literally every writer who has ever started by writing a fantasy story. Tell me I'm wrong. A body snatcher parasite plot line in my book series. It just didn't flow well. That sounds mad spooky, my guy. Big Junji Ito vibes. A girl falls in love with her kidnappers after they killed her parents. Love quadrilateral. Yeah. That might be one of the most recklessly chaotic things I have ever read.  Just slap some Microsoft Word font over the top of a picture of a dude with a six pack and you've got a top 100 romance. Easy. Hit. You can even use me for the cover if you want. It's okay. Like it or not. This is what peak human physique looks like. A story I wrote in fourth grade about a penguin named Frank wanting to pass his math test so he can go to Club Penguin. He goes through many challenges such as encountering a farting bear on his way home from school and hallucinating his teachers telling him he sucks in the bathroom. Uh, okay. Sarah, I'll be honest. There's a lot to unpack here. First of all, Frank is a cool name for a penguin. To be Frank with you. Okay. Here's my question though. In what way does a flatulent bear provide support to Frank? Is the farting an important quality in the bear giving Frank assistance? Also, let's break down this next bit. The next sentence here.   Uh, do you mean that the teachers are in the bathroom telling Frank that he sucks? Or are they saying that Frank is in the bathroom? S- Strangest? Probably Pride and Prejudice meets Charmed. Take the overall story of Pride and Prejudice and add witches to it. I mean, they did it with zombies. Why not? You know what? Go ahead and just do the whole pantheon of monsters. Pride, Prejudice, and uh... Ogres. A story where everyone just suffers from the lack of story and their want for something more. I wanted the characters to be inactive and thrown around by fate until the last act where all of them would suddenly make the craziest choices anything to give them a story. I don't actually think that's a bad idea. A story that is a meta commentary on plot structure could actually be pretty interesting. It would be extremely difficult to do well and to make entertaining especially with a comedic spin. But it's a decent idea. A superhero fish less Aquaman more shape of water. Right, so uh... Aquaman but gross. I wrote a story for a school folio that only had three characters in it that I killed them. My teacher didn't like it. Well, let's be real. You probably...  Such a hard question to answer for someone that doesn't have bad ideas. Yeah. Me too. I sometimes want to write my dreams because they feel so impactful but make absolutely no goddamn sense. You should get a dream journal. If you don't have one, make one. They're really cool to have and especially really cool to read back at a later time. That's what I do. And it's actually helped with some stories as well. So all of them. It's my thing. Yeah. Yeah. A self-insert of me meeting the three Stooges. Of all the fanfics in the world, I can't say I ever imagined a three Stooges one. I mean more power to you, I guess. It might have involved Dracula on a space station warring against the personification of time and his hordes of werewolves' sicker fans. But then again, it might not have. Yeah, I feel like I'm not smart enough to have even been allowed to read that sentence. I had some really nasty ideas for torture scenes that are very violent, too disturbing to mention since it deals with the R word. Sorry, luckily I never wrote it down because it got too far. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're definitely on a watch list, my friend. Turning my character into a world slash nation, pulling the reverse countryballs thing and then having a story in there. When I was 14, it was really weird. Huh? A possessed woman who falls in love with her demon possessing her. Okay, or...  Stop it. I took my writer's block and turned it into a story where at the end the character shoots himself in the head leaving his story all over the wall. I love that as writers we get to take pretty much anything in life and just make it as utterly depressing as possible. Very cool. Any of the self-insert fanfictions I wrote in high school, they were the worst thing I've ever done and I cringe when I think about them. Self-insert fanfics, they're fine. They're just like an innocent way of fantasizing. It's like a very wholesome form of masturbation. Those were all of your terrible story ideas. Now I'll tell you mine. I honestly think I might have all of you beat, to be honest. And hey, if you wanna have your reply featured in a future video make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel here and make sure you follow me on Instagram at cam underscore wolfshot because every now and then I'll like ask a question there or I'll get your help with a video just like today. So the first full story I remember ever writing and finishing was an absolute hurricane of cringe and just mind-boggling nonsense. I wrote it when I was like... 10. And I have talked about it on this channel before very briefly and a very long time ago but I imagine not many of you will remember that. It was a fantasy, a very ambitious fantasy. It had action, romance, it had actual children riding space portal motorcycles, leather onesies and even a celebrity cameo. The short version is that the story involved me as the main hero of course and there were also three of my closest friends along with me. I know me with friends, I have friends, okay? One day we go to a magic show at the local carnival and when we leave we discover we have powers. I have telekinesis, my right hand man has like super strength and super speed, etc. The female of the group can turn into a wolf, a great big wolf and the other bloke can control plants. Very cool stuff so far. I know. Anyway, we go back to the carnival where the old man is with the magic show to try and get an explanation and he tells us that our powers are gifts. They're gifts that he had to give to us because there is an ancient evil coming that we have to stop and only we can stop.  I'm paraphrasing. Naturally this strange old man takes us for actual children back to his home. And even more naturally our parents are just okay with it, I guess. But here's where it gets really wild. Just before we set out on our quest the old man like pulls away his magic mask and reveals himself to be Toby Maguire. F***ing Spider-Man. And I don't mean Toby Maguire in the story as Spider-Man. I don't mean Toby Maguire in the story as a character who looks like Toby Maguire. I mean the actual actor Toby Maguire who played Spider-Man was in my story as a magician that takes kids to his home. I don't... Anyway, we all put on our cool leather suits. I'd just seen X-Men 1 so I thought it was really cool obviously. We hop on our full-sized Tron bikes and we go through a portal. The rest of the story is just a jumble to be honest. We fight like zombies and vampires one after the other, blah blah blah. And then we get to the climax where we meet the villain like two minutes before defeating them. The end. Yep, that just happened. And also, you're welcome. That's the worst story idea I've ever had but I would literally eat dog food for a year just to get my hands on that manuscript again. Other highlights in my writing involve a story about a man who finds a mountain that actually just turns out to be a giant with a skin condition. A story about a girl finding out that the boy she rejected in school ended up being really rich and famous and handsome. Shout out to my first heartbreak. And a story about a group of teenagers being killed by a psycho in a wax museum. This one's actually true and it's a little bit crazy. When I was much younger I wrote a little short story. It was like a horror. Anyway, it had almost the exact plot to House of Wax.  I wrote that well before the movie came out and I just couldn't believe it. My story didn't have Paris Hilton though. So it is what it is. Hey, let me know what your worst story idea ever is. Let me know in the comments below. If you can beat my Toby McGuire story I will be shocked, but also that is impossible because it won't happen because it's impossible. Thanks so much for watching. Especially if you've watched this far in the video. Extra special thank you to you. Have a nice day. Catch ya.


I want to specifically talk about the Ray Epps case because I mean even people I like and I think are usually pretty sensible right wingers They are all down with the with the Ray Epps conspiracy theory Wow, they got Ann Coulter too apparently not that I was ever a big fan But far right Ann Coulter sucking up to the New York Times and bashing the right Either she's ignorant of the facts and is also totally desperate for attention or there's a chance that I'm completely wrong and Everything we've been told about Ray Epps is totally legit, but I doubt it I know I've done a bunch of Ray Epps videos over the past year and you should definitely go check those out when you're done here But I just can't pass up a ratio wing like the one Ann Coulter's getting after she claimed that she could debunk the quote Wack job conspiracy theory about Ray Epps in less than two minutes Yeah, I think it's less than two minutes because the more she talks the dumber her explanation gets look I don't even consider myself a conspiracy theorist, and I don't follow any outside of maybe the relation of government and UFOs But anybody with a shred of critical thinking skills has many questions about the anomalies surrounding Ray Epps Now I'm gonna show you the interview she did today with the New York Times Jeremy Peters where she calls Tucker Carlson a wacky conspiracy theorist right after you take 30 seconds to consider a Plan to secure your investments especially in these times of economic decline dark clouds are gathering as markets shudder stocks are sinking Currencies stumbling fear and uncertainty rain the Middle East Ukraine Taiwan the debt it's endless yet one asset stands firm gold in crisis after crisis Gold is there in the background It's enduring value guards against lost like a missile shield against incoming while paper wealth burns gold persists Listen to me right now shield your savings against looming threats war Recession contagion and avoid the frenzy panic of the unprepared fortune favors decisive action So get a hold of gold now before it's out of reach right now Noble gold investments offers a free five ounce America the beautiful coin with every new IRA claim your free coin today to secure your Financial future as this new storm gathers panic looms and some of those places that you were thinking of for your money Well, they're not looking so clever anymore secure your future against disaster open a noble gold investments IRA and claim your free Bullion coin today go to noblegoldenvestments.com now. That's noblegoldenvestments.com The only gold company I trust and remember there's always risk of investment and there are no guarantees of any kind I Wanted to specifically talk about the Ray Epps case because I mean even people I like And I think are usually pretty sensible right wingers they are all down with the with the Ray Epps conspiracy theory and Look Democrats do a lot of really bad things. I've spent my life covering them I Hate bureaucrats. I hate Christopher Ray the head of the FBI But the New York Times. Sorry. I often hate the New York Times, too Had a full and complete description of why Ray Epps was there How he was defamed and had to sell his business his wife He was a true Trump supporter.  He literally had to sell this going business. He had in Arizona with his wife It was a wedding venue now.  Alright, so I wanted to play the whole thing for you So I could just go down her list of claims and address them individually because if you weren't already buying the official state position on Ray Epps This interview certainly didn't make you change your position Especially if you're well informed and not just repeating the dubious claims of the New York Times All right So her first claim is that the New York Times explained everything in detail about why Ray Epps was there The New York Times had a full and complete description of why Ray Epps was there Miss Coulter we never needed the New York Times to explain anything to us because we have those pesky videos People like you like to downplay or pretend don't exist at all No, and the New York Times prevented a spin hack job to portray the only guy on video Literally telling people to store in the Capitol as some sort of a victim All right now on to claim to that Ray Epps was somehow defamed. I'm sorry What how in the world do you defame a guy who is on video for multiple days telling people to enter the Capitol and even store in the Capitol um how he was defamed and had to sell his business his wife He's on video doing the very thing. He's being accused of doing so how exactly has he been defamed? They seriously got to Coulter. She must be broke and they offered her a gig if she did this Nothing else makes sense.  Um, he was a true trump supporter He was going his nephew the nephew You mean the nephew that Ray Epps sent to text message telling him that he orchestrated it Here we go again. She's just going down the list of talking points that we always hear from democrats and their media Who cares if he was a trump supporter? How does that change any of ray epps actions? He could be a trump supporter and still be working for the government How can you even prove that he was a trump supporter anyway? It's just a shit argument that has no relevance All right now number four and I love this one Is that tucker was bad somehow because he kept playing the video of ray epps saying that he wanted people To go into the capital the the clip that tucker kept playing of him saying and then we're going to go into the capital Or what is something like that? Isn't this for real and are you okay? Seriously? You just totally glossed over the main problem with ray epps while theatrically rolling your eyes and treating tucker carlson A journalist as some kind of a pest for showing us this video She has no answers to any of these questions. Just eye rolls and state media talking points Oh, I love this one number five that he was only inciting a riot to storm the capital the night before and that's no big deal And then the coup de gras to my sanity She acts like it's no big deal that he was inciting people to storm the capital the night before Because he whispered to one guy just before the riot started to don't go into the capital The the clip that tucker kept playing of him saying and then we're going to go into the capital Or what is something like that? That was the night before The day of he and the person he was whispering to Both told the fbi Separately no, he was telling us don't go in don't go in don't go in And they both allegedly told the fbi that which just debunks the whole thing And that's the end of that chapter Except there's many legitimate questions to be asked like one the riot literally started as he was whispering to this guy Epps pulled this agitated rioter aside and said something Conspiracies say he was giving marching orders because seconds later this happened Two he may have known the guy he whispered to and perhaps they coordinated on stories three Maybe he did say something and maybe he did it to warn this guy four There's zero evidence That's what he whispered to this guy and even if he did it doesn't negate the fact that he was inciting people to Literally storm the capital I'm not kidding. We're here to storm the capital. Hell yeah Lastly, how dumb do you have to be to believe the guy who was inciting a riot and telling people to storm the capital Tried to stop it by whispering to one guy just as the riot started I don't think so and of course he was only charged with a misdemeanor disorderly conduct Not a felony inciting of an insurrection and an ray epps himself described his own actions on janitor way the six as quote Orchestrating it. That's what he said in his own words And yet this guy who's on video literally inciting an insurrection is treated as a victim by the very same people In the media and in the democrat party who are blood thirsty for anybody involved in january 6 Even if they peacefully walked around and then left no, these are all legitimate questions that deserve legitimate answers So yeah, and culter in the state wants you to ignore your lying eyes and ears and believe that ray epps is a victim Because he supposedly whispered to one guy not to enter the capital just before the riot like i pointed out Donald trump told people to march peacefully and that's what over 120,000 people did that day It was a relatively small group of people that got violent that day And it's not hard to imagine that ray epps was able to incite that group All right, folks, let me know what you think in the comments and if you've watched this long Might as well hit that like button. See you all in the next one


On the Ground, presented by theCUBE. Here's your host, Jeff Frick. Hi everybody, Jeff Frick here. We are On the Ground in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center for a special On the Ground presentation. You've heard a lot of stuff about blockchain. Of course, we all know about Bitcoin, but blockchain is really starting to get some traction outside of the context of Bitcoin. And we're seeing a lot of blockchain conferences pop up. This is a little one happening here in San Francisco. We wanted to come up, get a feel for what's going on, share the information with you. So really excited to be joined by our first guest, Bruce Pahn, the founder and CEO of Ascribe. Bruce, welcome. Thank you very much, my pleasure. Absolutely. So you've got a session coming up later where you're talking about blockchain. Make sure I get it right as the ownership layer for the internet. What does that mean? What are you talking about? Yeah, what we saw was, we were actually one of the very first use cases of non-financial use cases of blockchain technology where we're using the Bitcoin as a normalization layer for intellectual property. An idea was that, you know, there's a lot of intellectual property created in the world right now. And most of that, the attribution gets lost, the provenance gets lost, and it just spreads out there on the internet. And this is by design of the internet.  And so that later on, if you find some content, you can find out who the original creator was and maybe reward them. And so we hear all the time about how difficult blockchain is and it's heavy technology and you can only kick out so many Bitcoins per unit time, you know, to be safe. But how do we start to apply blockchain technology to a problem like that where you don't want something heavy, you don't want something onerous because obviously to make it work, you want to be touching a lot of pieces of intellectual property, you want to be exchanging that data. How does it work? How's that heavy lifting work on something like intellectual property? Right, so this is exactly one of the problems we've seen. We saw that if we were going to ascribe a photo marketplaces content, we were working with one in Berlin, they had 100,000 photos a day that were coming online and they said, well, if we put this on the blockchain, is it going to be norderized? You know, is it all going to be reliable? And you know, the throughput of blockchain is about 100,000 transactions a day. So if we were to put even just that one marketplaces photos on the blockchain, we would explode it. It wouldn't be able to handle the throughput. Right. So Scott is actually looking at other solutions to say, hmm, how can we take it off Bitcoin blockchain and put it onto some other scalable type of blockchain? And was that because of the original purpose of the blockchain, at least that you were using for this application, was for Bitcoin? So there really wasn't a concept of high transaction rate, high throughput rate, high volume. Is that why it was architected in such a way? Yeah, so Bitcoin blockchain was architected in a really smart way.  You're trying to secure money and make sure that people aren't messing with the system. And the initial design was kind of a beta release. And the thing with Bitcoin was it took off as a beta release and it baked in its current form, right? It wasn't able to mature and harden to build in these concepts of scalability throughput, all this kind of stuff. Right, right. So now you applied it to an electrical property, but then as you said, I talked a little bit off camera, you discovered that it wasn't the perfect application, the Bitcoin application for blockchain as the platform for doing some of these other non-financial services, non-paranoid applications, as you said. So found an opportunity and as all great entrepreneurs did, you jumped on it. So talk about your announcement today.  So today we announced that we're rolling out big chain DB. It's the world's first scalable blockchain database and what it does is it completes this stack of modules and components that allow for people to build applications in a decentralized way. Like today we have different platforms like Chain, Enigma, Tenderman, all these type of things that make blockchain accessible to all developers around the world and enterprise. You have Ethereum, which does smart contracts, and you have File Storage, which is IPFS. What has been missing in a database that can handle the throughput that's necessary for all these transactions to occur? So if you're going enterprise grade, where you're talking global transactions from multiple different sources, and you're talking throughput of thousands of transactions a second, there is no blockchain out there that currently can handle that. We built it, and it's big chain DB that we announced today here. Awesome, and then what is the impact on an optimized database for the blockchain build up? It allows for enterprises to, right now there's a thousand enterprises experimenting with blockchain technology. Starting with financial services, now we're going into the industrial sectors. And the key question that most CIOs and CTOs have is, great, we can do a proof of concept, but when we're done, Bitcoin blockchain does two transactions a second, and all the other ones do 30 to 100. Is this gonna be my enterprise grade solution? Because we can play in a sandbox, but if I can't deploy a production, then it's useless to me. Two per seconds, not cutting up these days. Yeah, yeah. So what applications do you see this enabling to move from a POC around a Bitcoin based, you know, kind of financial services test to wow, we can use this technology for all types of things. What are you seeing from some of your customers out in the field?  We play well with everybody. So we play well with Ethereum, we play well with Tenderman, any other blockchain company out there because there's just so much to do. And the way it's gonna work is that we work with enterprises, we work with our channel partners like the blockchain companies to roll out this technology to enterprise. And there's a whole bunch of use cases from getting transparency across your supply chain. So currently in a supply chain, you'll have multiple databases at various node points. So at the manufacturer distribution, all this kind of stuff, right? And it's really easy to lose sight of how your supply chain is doing. So that's a great use case. Banking, capital markets, easing the whole process of settlement and reconciliation in the banking sector. Payments, so being able to cross-border payments in a much, much faster way, reducing risk, reducing escrow costs, all this sort of stuff.  Blockchain is gonna insinuate itself in all facets of society as an underlying kind of pipe on how our society runs. It'll make it faster, more efficient, just better for everybody. So what was the secret sauce? What was the breakthrough that you guys were able to develop that makes us database better for this use case? So, blockchain itself was a fundamental breakthrough in technology on a whole bunch of different levels. Most of the people in the industry didn't come from big data though. Neither did we, but what we did was we said, if we need to scale this to the world, is there any other example out there of scaling with high throughput, petabytes of capacity and low latency? And the answer is yes, distributed databases. So we actually started with this concept of using distributed databases and then building on top of that, blockchain characteristics. And that was the breakthrough. That was one of the breakthroughs, was just opening our mind saying, we can't start with the blockchain architecture and then try to scale it up. We actually start with something that already scales and then build in the blockchain characteristics. First one, second thing is what we do is, in the Bitcoin world right now, every single transaction has to be verified before it goes on the blockchain. We switched that around. We said, the limiting factor is to take that away and just put all the transactions on there in different blocks and then check them afterwards. So what you're doing is you're laying down the railroad track and then the train comes afterwards. And the train only passes over that block when all the transactions are verified. But by doing that, you're able to put a million transactions every single second on as a rail and then later on, you're verifying very quickly behind the scenes. If there's a bad transaction in one of the blocks, you kick that out and you put it back forward of all the good transactions. So let's say 1,000 transactions, one is bad. Take out the bad transaction, put 999 later down the road and verify that later. Pretty exciting stuff. We call that pipelining. So how can people, even the last word, we're here at the conference, how can people learn more about what you guys are up to? Go to our website, bigchaindb.com. We have an expansive white paper. We have Devhooks so everybody can start playing with it. Our goal is to make it so that people can have a big chain DB instance running in less than one minute. In less than one minute? Yeah. Very good. All right, Bruce. Well, hey, thanks for stopping by and good luck on your talk later today.


All right you're still watching Waze World Standards Day is marked every year on the 14th of October to raise awareness about the importance of using standardized measurements, technologies, and industries. And this day also known as International Standards Day thrives to educate consumers, policymakers, and businesses about the value of standardization. And the day is also used to commemorate the achievements of scientists for developing voluntary universal standards that can be used for various measurements. Like the Yoruba people say in Ibadon, maybe. Then a measurement. But is that Yoruba or is that Kalaba? No, I think it is. Oh really? Yes, Kalaba. I thought it was from Ibadon. You know, I hear them say that. Yeah, maybe. Sampion. Mayor men. But hey, I mean this is a very important day.  And you know, the beautiful thing about technology is sometimes when I look back, I just keep wondering how would we have been able to survive without certain kinds of things in place, right? I mean today I've been back to back on the phone with a few of my people trying to do finishing touches of the project that I'm doing. So basically I have my, I have my measuring tape, right? Yes, because we're doing the meeting on WhatsApp and all of that. So I'm having my measuring tape. We're doing a WhatsApp video call. I'm saying, okay, measure this place. This is the dimension. Just to be sure that at least we're getting it accurately, you know. So I mean, I can now imagine if there was nothing like this, how would I have been able to cope? They would have had to come. Absolutely. And then the time span. Time loss, money loss, so many things lost. So technology is actually a great thing, honestly. Oh, of course. It has taken us, you know, for the future. The future. Absolutely. All right, so Manny, what did you find for us? What did I find in the news? Why didn't I look for it before? Okay, so Ogun Man kills wife and burns corpse with iron. A 40-year-old woman, Folasha Day Badejo, has been allegedly killed by her husband, Uluranti Badejo, at their home in Moewe, Ogun State. Punch Metro learned that Folasha Day, fashion designer on Wednesday, got into an argument with her husband over the payment of their three children's school fees. The argument was said to have degenerated into fisticuffs as 51-year-old Uluranti allegedly smashed Folasha Day's head against the wall of their apartment. She was said to have fallen. Their 80-year-old daughter, Jumoke, reportedly said her father abandoned her mother on the floor as she re-said in pain. The victim was said to have died. The suspect was alleged to have subsequently burnt her corpse with a hot iron. Folasha Day's younger brother, Lekon Yusuf, said that on getting to their house on Wednesday morning, he saw his sister's body and it had been burnt with an electric iron and the blood was still oozing out of her nostrils and ears. He stated that he lived in the couple for three months and noticed that they quarreled every day and no day went by without his sister being beaten by her husband. And the fights were mainly over money matters. He stated that the husband even beat her while she was asleep. When I see stories like this and you see there's another one I wanted to add but I was like no there's no need to just be dishing out bad news. There was another one that happened yesterday in news where husband and wife got into a serious fight and burnt down the house and someone got burnt to death inside the house. For me it's what we always say about situations like this. Why do you stay after these things have happened continuously over time? So I feel so sorry for her because I can ask that question but I also know the answer to the question. I know why they stay. I know why women stay. So I just think that we should raise our daughters better because one thing that I know that is important is self-love when you totally love yourself. There are some things you cannot tolerate. Not because you are too proud or you know whatever you just cannot tolerate them. You know what you just said now and it's getting to me as I go older and older every day. Honestly speaking now I have zero tolerance. Thank you. So if I notice that I have to do more to be respected or to be treated with respect or dignity or something then it's not worth it. Honestly speaking no matter how much it is that I love the person or whatever I will just stay back because I love him. No you don't even get my point. Sometimes people just say oh no but I love him.  So you must prioritize yourself and that's what I've gotten to in this my life. I have so prioritized myself that there is absolutely nobody that is indispensable. Yes. You know I just choose me first. Thank you. And if I feel like you are disrespecting me or you're not treating me right I'll put you aside. I don't need to be in your space. No I don't have to. Because I'm not a tree. No I don't have to. Absolutely. Yeah so I mean if people just learnt that and start to be a lot more conscious and this goes both ways whether you're a man or a woman if somebody is not giving you you're giving respect to the person and you're not getting it back in return. What's the use? Why all means please step aside. And then when I think about this you know what else is very very bad. The fact that the children watched their dad beat the mother and killed her. That is another programming that would happen another circle. Thank you. So that's something else. It has calmed down and it's affecting the children. It's going to affect the children. Absolutely. So I think we should do better. Honestly. So I want to take my story but I also quickly want to take Elsie's story as well because it's really important that we talk about her story. First of all my story you know we had talked about one of the major generals that had said that and the answers what incidents that it was photoshopped. You know yesterday I took a story yesterday that he made the Peter Obey's list of what's he called his his list like his team of people in his list. So the Labour Party candidate Peter Obey has admitted that there were some erroneous entries into his presidential campaign and council right. And that list that particular list and this is said that he also promised to review and update the list because people were questioning that why would you put someone that said you know because answers to the youth is very personal. That somebody that said answers the incidents that happened in answer to the photoshopped. Why would that make your campaign thank you least as a presidential candidate. The youth are believing that you stand for you know fairness justice and all of that. So happy that he has responded. And he said this via his Twitter handle you know that he would check it and of course he's committed to transparency and accountability. I like that that's actually a very very good leader. Absolutely so let me quickly take Elsie's story because I really love the story. I saw it yesterday but I don't know for some reason it skipped me. So the new ranking for world university ranking 2023 is out and you know contrary to what people feel like all our federal universities are you know below power and all of that the story says that Unilag and the University of Ibadan actually tied first place. They are ranked you know they are ranked between the 401 and 500 because it is out of 800 globally. They are 401 and 500 Unilag and Unilag and what's it called UI sorry it's the top top university the total sorry out of a thousand seven hundred and let me find that number again a thousand seven hundred and ninety nine universities across the world. So they are between 500 and 400 and 501. Now this ranking was done across 104 countries and region and the citation 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications right that was what was analyzed for this to come out. It also included about 40,000 responses from scholars globally. So this is not just you know a ranking that just happened like that is a world ranking and University of Ibadan and University of Lagos tied first place. They shared the same spot in Nigeria. Then Convenant University a private university is the third best in the country. It was ranked between 601 and 800 globally. So there's a table for it. After Convenant we have sorry Bayero University Kano. We have Federal University of Technology Akure. We have University of Benin number six. University of Unsuka seven. About Femiahualoa University eight. Federal University of Agriculture Abiyakuta and Ladoke Akintola University. That's Lautech of Technology so that is number 10. So I mean this for me just really warmed my heart that despite all the things that we say and this is what we say that most of our graduates when they leave this country they do exceptionally well because for some reason we've just gotten it right. Even though we do not have the luxury of you know not having to not go through strikes. But if you talk about the quality of the graduates that we are churning out in all the hardness of the study and everything cramming and everything we still top you know we still top places when we when we leave the shores of this country. But you want to say something? Yes but you said globally 500. Yes and so yes we so globally Unilag is between the rank of so there's a range. It's between 400 and 500. Yeah 400 and 1 and 500 globally. Well that's kind of low. Well let's just let's celebrate it. Let's celebrate the little ways that we have. Yeah I just think it's 500. That's 500 or what? Covenant is 600 and 1 to 800 that's the range. Wow. Meanwhile people think that Covenant is better than Unilag. That's what the global rate is at. But at the end of the day we thank God that Elsie will talk more about it. I think she has something she wanted to say that's why she took this story. But let's take a break when we come back from the break. I think Elsie will join us and also what I have I guess stay with us.