Adventures by Morse. Courtney Morse presents the Cobra King Strikes Back, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me. There is a killer loose in the jungle of Cambodia in the north of Indochina, a killer named Fen Loh who was once the prisoner of Captain Bart Friday. Besides dealing in death, he is hand in glove with certain Cambodian priests in an attempt to bring about an uprising of the native Khmer people to throw off French rule and rediscover and re-inhabit the jungle cities of the ancient Khmer civilization, now gone to ruin these many centuries. But let Captain Friday tell it. There's a Cambodian legend that a famous emerald cobra idol disappeared with the fall of the Khmer nation, and that the nation will be restored when the precious snake statue returns. Now, there's rumor that it's been found. I'm in Cambodia for the double reason of recapturing the murderer Fen Loh and acquel the native uprising by capturing or destroying the emerald cobra should it actually reappear. Now, Professor LeBron, tell them about Dr. Carter. Dr. Carter, famed archaeologist, who was adding our expedition into the jungles, has completely disappeared. He has left his party under the care of Captain Friday and myself. Also in the party are Dr. Carter's daughter Celia, Patricia Young, who is Captain Friday's secretary, Perry Mills, assistant archaeologist, and a skip-turner. At Angkor Thom, we were kidnapped and were taken into the jungle aboard an elephant and camel caravan. We were abandoned in an ancient jungle temple and we were then picked up by a second caravan made up of wild mountain ponies under the guidance of fierce Cambodians of the back country. At the moment, we are each of us trapped onto a shaggy, vicious-looking little pony. We have been traveling through rugged, exotic jungle country all day. Our pack of dogs seem to have smelled another mouse. I never thought riding horses was like this. It's only like this when you're not used to it. We ought to be thankful that we're kept in a group so that we can talk to each other anyway. Listen to Perry Mills.  It's just the same. It would be ten times worse if we had been separated. Skip-turner's gone to sleep on his pony. Look, he's all slumped over. I'm not by a jug full. I ain't... Not that I ain't been trying to. Captain Pride has been trying to get some shut-eye, too. No, I've just been thinking. We've been climbing this tortuous mountain path for a good three hours now. I don't understand where they're taking us. Practically out of the jungle country, it's getting more rugged. Yeah, rugged is right. Notice we've left the banyan and frominger trees and the bamboo grows behind. There's hardly any elephant grass this high up. Oh, that's true, Captain. We're coming to more and more places where we have to travel single-file around precipices and through gullies. Yeah, and I ain't seen any of them big monkeys at Perishotus for a couple hours. You mean the Gibbons? All the wild animal lives are spinning up. What's the matter, Patricia?  Well, I don't think either of us bring a very high price at the slave market just now. Well, no man ever saw me like this before. This horse I'm tied on doesn't stop this jogging and stumbling and lurching pretty soon. I'm going to scream. I've bitten my tongue three times. Oh, it can't last much longer. See, the sun's already throwing long shadows down into the valleys. They've got to stop for the night very soon. Did I hear someone say something about stopping? Yes, they'll have to make camp before it goes dark. You know, I think they've got some objective in view. You notice how the whole caravan has increased its pace? Look at poor Skip. He's sagging down in his saddle as though he were dead. I admire that chap more than ever before. The rest of us have at least had a little experience on horseback, but he must be in a terrible agony. Yet there hasn't been one word of complaint from him. I'm just tired. That's all that's a matter with me. Good night's sleep, and I'll be as good as ever. Oh, it's different with Skip. He'll be incapacitated for a whole week. He'll never be able to carry on tomorrow. Listen, do you folks hear that? Hmm. Sounds like a waterfall. Hear that, Patricia? Oh, it is. It is. Do you smell how fresh the air is? We're coming to wash it. Hiya! Hiya! Hiya! Hey, look, the horses up ahead are galloping. I wish they wouldn't. I can't bear galloping. Guess we'll have to do the best we can, Celia. The guards are whipping up their horses. Oh, gee! Have the love of Mike. What's going on? Come on, Skip. We must be almost there. They're going to take us off our horses. I wish they'd hurry. I wish they'd hurry. I wish they'd hurry. What are you saying? I'm going to be sick.  You probably wouldn't be able to stand now. Here they come now. Don't let them put you on your feet. Oh, hurry, hurry. I can't stand it any longer. I can't. There, there, senior. They're unfastening your legs now. I can't stand it. I can't stand it. Oh, poor child. It's the natural reaction after holding out for so long. There, there. She's off. Good. Oh, they have the sense to lay on the grass. Well, thank heavens I'm next. Hello, hello. Something's going on over yonder. Hey, what's happened to Skip? What's the matter with Skip? He went into a paint when they took him from his horse. To be expected, he'll be all right, though. He has stamina. Are you all right, Patricia? Oh, I, I feel so absolutely dead to my waist down. The circulation has been partly cut off in your lower limbs. Now, move them about. Grab them.  Now, Celia, you would better do the same. I'm sorry. I was such a baby. I kind of lost control of myself for a minute. Oh, it was the most natural thing in the world. Oh, I guess I'm next.  Well, here I come. Oh, Professor, you fell. Did you hurt yourself? Oh, nothing but my dignity. That's what I get for being so cocky. I warned you to let them lift you to the gas, and then I turned right around, tried to get off by myself and landed in an heap. I thought sure that pony was going to kick you. You fell right under its feet. Yeah, let's see what we can do about getting a little circulation started around here. My, my leg is beginning to throb and tingle. The circulation is returning. Aye, Captain Friday. Yes. Having trouble making your limbs work? Oh, plenty. Well, massage them and move them with your hands. A skip coming around. Yes, he's all right. Don't wander away, Patricia. So with dark coming on, I should say not.  What? Well, look. Oh, the horses are gone. Gone? Why? So they have. This country seems to be the native aunts for all sorts of vanishing tricks. But they, they were here just a moment ago. They must be somewhere. Quite probably they are. Hello, hello. What do these particularly vicious looking fellas want? I've never seen them before. Go away. Go away, don't touch me. Oh, it's all right, Celia. It's all right. Don't be frightened. Now, look. One of them is carrying skip and another one has berry. They're going to carry all of us. Joe, what gigantic fellows. Look how that native handles Captain Friday. As though he was a child. You, uh, you think it's all right? I don't think we have much choice in the matter. There goes Celia. Oh, I hope he doesn't drop her. He's big enough to carry three of her. There's your man, Patricia. Well, the market street railway never was like this. Here I go. Hello. Uh-huh. So you're my back horse. All right. Let's go. Hey, look, there's the waterfall. See it around the precipice? Oh, how gorgeous. What's the matter with Celia? Can you see her? Yes. Yes, she's up ahead. She's struggling and fighting with the carrier in her arms. I wonder what it is. Celia, what's the trouble? I'm going to drown. What is she saying? She says they're going to drown us. She must have seen something up ahead. Oh, nonsense. They wouldn't bring us all this way just to drown. Look. Oh, look. They're carrying us straight into the water. But what on earth are they doing? Oh, is it being drowned? Oh, use your head, Patricia. The carrier has disappeared, too. He might possibly drown Celia, but he doesn't likely drown himself. And the same goes for Captain Friday and Barry and Skip. They've all disappeared, too. Well, then what has happened? I thought Celia disappeared on the water with my own eyes. Wait, wait and see. There is some sort of a natural phenomenon here. An optical illusion. Look. Our carriers are going down into the water, too. Oh. Looks cold and sullen, doesn't it? The roar of the falls is getting too loud. We won't be able to talk much more. Here we are, safe and sound. I'll bet you never had this experience before. Oh, and I don't ever want to again. We went right through that waterfall. Oh, I'm so glad to be on my feet again. An amazing adventure. We are in a cabin behind the waterfall. Can you walk? Yes, yes. I'm all right now, except I'm plenty scared. Come on, let's join the others. Well, hi there, Professor. How was that for a piggyback ride? Man, if I got something to tell my grandchildren, right out of nowhere, I threw a waterfall into a great big cave. Just like a page out of Persian night. I think you mean Arabian night. Yes, that's what I say. Listen, my voice echoes around like I was a giant. Hello. Well, Skip, you seem to have recovered rapidly. Yeah, I got well quick enough that I thought there was going to ask me in the river, John. Hey, what's this all about anyway? Oh, this seems to be part of somebody's idea of how to treat prisoners. Come on, let's only confer with Captain Friday while we're waiting for our guards to make the next move. Gee, when I saw you disappear, Celia, I thought you had gone down to the water. I was terribly frightened. Well, that's just the way I saw Skip disappear ahead of me. That's when I screamed. I thought they were drowning all of us. They just walked into the water up to their waists with us and then circled around the back of the falls. I didn't even get wet. Did you? Not the least bit. The native who carried me was a huge fellow. Current was awfully swift. Water was up to his armpits, and yet he lifted me up on his shoulder and carried me along as if I were a baby. Yeah, they did that with all of us. Hey, where do you suppose they brought us back into this cavern? I wonder. Oh, it's so dark. Those torches are much better than candles. Hello, Celia. You're covered from your horseback ride? Oh, Perry. I thought you men were holding a conference. Oh, no. It's dwindled into a bragging party. Everybody seems to think he had the strongest native carrying him. Well, let's go over and join him, huh? Why not? Oh, oh. What's wrong, Celia? Oh, I guess I'm kind of wobbly yet. Oh, poor kid. Here, let me carry you. No thanks. I've been carried enough today. And might get to be a habit. Good kid. Here, Perry, you walk on one side of her and I'll walk on the other. Isn't this silly? You're taking this a lot better than I am, Patricia. Oh, nonsense. It's just that I've always done a lot of horseback riding at home. Besides being Captain Friday's secretary, I'm used to being pushed around. Oh, what's this? Oh, kind of wobbly. That's all Captain Friday.  We've got something more ahead of us. Hey, ain't we had enough? You mean they ain't through yet? I was watching the guards. It's got something to do with this cavern. They're making some pretty elaborate arrangements. Since the leader of this expedition, Dr. Howard Carter, archaeologist and explorer, mysteriously vanished from Saigon, capital of Frenjindochina, the party has experienced one violence after another. They've been kidnapped and dragged through the Cambodian jungles until they are near exhaustion. Captain Friday and Professor Lebrun, as co-leaders of the party, have done their best to keep up the spirit of the members. But what the group need is the leadership of an old experienced hand such as Dr. Carter. At the moment, they have been taken from little wild Cambodian ponies to which they have been tied for almost 12 hours, transferred on native shoulders to a cavern behind a great waterfall. The two girls, Patricia and Celia, are lying on a thatch of grass resting. While the four men, Captain Friday, Professor Lebrun, Skip Turner and Perry Mills, assistant archaeologist, discuss the situation. Talk quietly so the girls can't hear us. Yeah. We're completely at the mercy of these Cambodians. There must be 20 of them in their savage brutes. The escape would be impossible. Escape where? We're trapping this cavern behind the waterfall. Well, there's no turning back now. What's going on? What's more, we're going to take the killer Fenlo out with us. Dead or alive? Yeah, and we don't care which. Oh, yeah. And we better watch that kind of talk. Have guards all about us. Just the same, Professor Lebrun. This crew of Cambodian cutthroats thinks it can chase us out of the jungle with all this hocus pocus. And it's got another guest coming. Tell me, Captain Friday, do you feel as antagonistic as ever thought Fenlo? Now that you know just what the country is like, could you either destroy or turn over to the French government the precious seven-headed Emerald Cobra if you should lay hands on it? I've given my word to do just that. You gave your word before. You had the faintest idea what it was all about. Would you have given your word so readily if you had known? How is anyone to know what he would have done under a given set of circumstances? Then you are still out to get Fenlo. Yeah, and I'll tell you something else. I'm going to smash up ever one of their blasted idols. I can get my fingers on just to get even with them for dragging me around the country on elephants and wild horses, see? Fair enough, Skip. Hey, boss, boss, here come our guards.  Here, take my hand, Celia. Let's stick together this time. Yes, as long as we're together it helps. They're coming with torches. Looks like we're making a trip through this cavern so it does. Hey, that big one over there's motioning to us to follow. Shall we go? How are you going to keep from it? I'll go first.  Okay, Chief. Hurry, you keep close to the girls. I'd like to keep with you, Captain. Well, let's move. Have you noticed the guards, Patricia? In this half-dark world you can see their teeth and the whites of their eyes. They look like something unearthly. They're so silent. What a wonderful imagination, Celia.  Nothing terrible seems to be happening to us. I've just got shivers of excitement. Excitement? Well, the way you've been squeezing my hand... Oh, that's just nervous excitement. Look at the shadows cast on the wall by the torches. Hey! Look at the torches ahead. They're climbing the wall. Watch your step, Einer. Coming to a tremendous cavity. Sheer drop into blackness. Hey, did you hear that? A sheer drop. And yet there they go. Up the wall with the torches. Look, look there. There's a couple of logs thrown across the pit and against the wall on the other side with crossbars like a crude ladder. You... You mean we've got to cross this deep pit on that shaky ladder? Oh, I hate high places. You'll be all right, Celia. I drop back to give Beria a hand with the girls. Like climbing a fireman's ladder. You don't mind it, Patricia? My hair is practically standing on end, but I love it. All right, Celia. All right. You come along with me. There's room for two on the ladder, side by side. Now, are you ready? Yes. Good. Peri, you and Patricia follow right at our ease. Coming. Now then, here we go. Oh, but it's shaky. Don't worry. It will hold. If you get nervous, let me know and I'll take over. I'm all right. I guess. Are you folks coming along, Peri? Fine. Patricia's in a nervous sweat, but she's climbing like a fireman. I... Do you mind hanging on to me for a minute, Professor LeBron? I... I feel kind of funny. Of course not. There, there, now. How's that? There. That's better. I... I've never been up in the air like this before. Just five or six feet now, and we'll be a cause. Yes, but look.  Oh, that won't be so bad. Now, shall we go ahead? Well, I... I guess as soon as we start, the sooner it'll be over. You don't need to hang on to me now. This is some climb. Down on your hands and knees. Great sport, huh, Patricia? Hey, Peri, not so fast. Supposing the ladder should break. Don't even think of it. Oh, I'm glad it's dark below us anyway. I couldn't possibly do this if I could see. Here, here. Keep your mind on your climbing. Oh. Here we are across. Wait until I scramble up on the ledge. There. That puts us across the chasm anyway. There's a couple of guards with torches to show us what to do next. Hey, look. There go more torches way up the side of the wall. Yes, and there's Captain Friday and Celia and Lebrun climbing along after them. Oh, I know I can't do that. Oh, it probably isn't half as steep as it looks. Yeah, well, it's steep enough. Hey, what do they think we are anyway?  Oh, hello, Skip. Phew. They should give you some new ideas on how to treat prisoners. Look at that precipice. Yeah? Hey, you don't mean we got to climb that wall. Hey, look, the guards are waiting to us to hurry. We don't want to get too far behind. We can still climb side by side. See you later, Skip. Yeah, well, you ain't going to lose me. I'm right on your heels. Whoo! Talk about your nightmares. This has got them all skin to mouth. Where in the world are you supposed to taking us, Peri? Well, it looks like we're on the inside of a hollow mountain. We'd better stop talking and save our breath for climbing. And don't look down. Just keep your eyes up and climb. Yeah, and don't fall. On the counter, I'm right below you. Well, I guess this is the top. Is that you just behind me, Lebarone? Yes, Captain. We've seen you. Jolly dark up here. Where are you? I think we've climbed the last of the ladders. I'm on a sort of ledge. The guards are waiting up ahead. Reach down and get hold of Celia if you can, Captain Friday. All right. She's exhausted. I can imagine after two hours of it. This has been terrific. Hey! Now, one of you fellas bring a torch over here. Come here! They don't understand you. Yeah, I suppose not. There. Got a hold of her. She comes. There you are. Don't make me climb any more ladders. I can't. Don't worry. Looks like it's all over. I never would have believed such a place existed if I hadn't seen it for myself. How's my secretary doing? Oh, Perry's bringing Patricia. Coming, Perry? Here we are. Patricia's about all in. Oh, there they come. I see their outline. Look at the way they're coming up the ladder. Like firemen. Here, I'll give them a hand. All right. Here she comes. Hey, Patricia, you're safe enough now? Oh, boss.  Quite a climb. How are you, Perry? Oh, OK, I guess. Hey, somebody get a hold of me, will you? You think I want to hang here on this ladder all night? Give me a hand. All right, Skip. Here's my hand on it.  Oh, thanks. You have to climb in all them ladders. I reckon I'm about qualified for the steeplechase, huh? Hey, why don't we get some light around here? What you laughing at? A steeplechase is a horse brace, Skip. Oh, yeah? Well, not the kind of steeplechase I'm talking about. Well, we can't sit here on this six-foot ledge a thousand feet up in the air talking about steeplechases the rest of our lives. I feel like I could lie right here and sleep for a week. There come the last of the guards. And those up ahead are waving us to follow. Professor, have you noticed the difference in looks of things? What do you mean, Captain? Well, the rock below and alongside the ladders was rough and rugged. Just as nature left it. This rock looks as though it's been hewn and chiseled smooth by human hand. Well, it was centuries ago, if it was. I don't doubt that. Hang on to my hand, will you, somebody? The edge looks awfully near. Well, that's my job, Celia. Hey, Patricia, how'd you like me to hang on to you? Oh, I think that would be sweet of you, Skip. Yeah? Well, that's the first time a babe's ever called me that. What's that? Oh, call me sweet. Oh? You seem to be following a sort of semi-circular ledge around the inner side of a hollow mountain. Yes, and we're still climbing. Not so much, though, now. Hello. The natives up ahead with the torches have stopped. They're waiting for us, all right. Oh, I see. Look there. They're standing in an arched doorway carved out of solid rock. Looks as though we're entering some kind of an underground building. There's a bit of civilization for you. You see that iron chain stretched across the passageway? Hey, they're unfastening it. But don't they, they intend taking us through. We'll be getting near the end of our trail. Come along, they want us to follow. Well, we'd left the chasm behind anyway.  Hello. Look at the passageways leading off in all directions. It looks to me like same kind of underground passageways we got trapped in at the guerrilla temple. Hey, Joe, Skip, I bet you stuck it. Huh? Struck what? I believe we're on the lower floor, another of those old Khmer temples. Of course, that's it. You think so, LeBron? I haven't the least doubt, Captain. Look, we're going up some stairs now. What's the matter, Sylvia? You're awfully quiet. I'm so tired I can hardly make my legs move. Oh, poor kid. I guess everyone's just as bad as I, but I hope they got real beds in this place, not just straw on the floor. Remember, we're prisoners here, not guests. No, it doesn't make any difference. I'm too tired to care. Look, look, what's that funny light at the top of the stairway? What? You don't recognize that? Patricia? I know. Do you? Of course, and so should you. You've seen it often enough. Oh, I don't know what you mean. Lady, that's the moon. We're outside again, out in the open night. On top of the mountain, we climbed from inside. Evidently. Yeah, looky there. Oh, on a sort of balcony. Hey, you were right, Professor LeBron. Look at those inscriptions. There's no doubt about this being an old Khmer temple. Hey, one of them guards has motion enforced to tag along again. Oh, isn't there any end to this? Apparently, they're going to take us inside the monastery. Well, it won't be long now. Dinner and bed. Gloomy-looking dungeon. Built on the same principle as the Gorilla temple and Angkor Wat. Huge, dafty, high-seating recesses. Hello? You evidently reached our destination. Look at those bronze pictures on the door. Everything bronze, even to a knocker. Hey, watch. One of the guards is going to use it. I suppose this here is another prison cell for us. I can't tell. There she opens. Look, who's in there? It's my father. Look, I'll catch her. She's fainted. Well, I'll be dog-gone. Dr. Carter. So the same thing has happened to Dr. Carter. He likewise is a prisoner. Listen next week to the seventh episode of The Cobra King Strikes Back, entitled The Face of a Beast. You're listening to Adventures by Morse.


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For the first time ever in human existence, we have a secondary option to a non-governmental controlled currency. Now that is mind-boggling. Now for the first time ever, you and I have a secondary option and this is why Bitcoin is so important or any cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ether and many different other ones, but Bitcoin was the first one created by Satoshi Nakamoto. Now the reason why Bitcoin is so important and the reason why you need to understand it, not technically speaking, but understand the concept of it and understand how cryptocurrency works is because it gives you an option to opt out.  So if you look at our banking system right now and I'm not going to go into crazy details about it, but if you do look at it, you look at the federal reserve system, you look at how they do banking with inflation rates and actually lending out, lending out nine tenths of what they supposedly have in the reserve. So that's fractal reserve system they have. It is absolutely absurd, absurd. 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Well, for the first time ever you and I have the option of buying cryptocurrencies from our phone, whether that be Bitcoin, whether that be ether, whether that be dash, there's thousands of different alternative coins, but now we can buy it, bring it to our phone and have an actual economy that is not connected to a cabal that's controlled by men in suits that we have no idea what they're doing and what their purpose is. So this is why I'm such a proponent of Bitcoin. This is why it's such a proponent of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency and we can take this a step further. You know the World Bank says or the World Economic Forum states that there's roughly two billion people who are unbankable in the world. That's two billion people who do not have a bank account because the government doesn't trust them and won't give them a bank account or because it's too corrupt in their countries. Now for the first time ever all they need is a phone and an internet connection and they can have their own Swedish bank account on their phone. Now they can do global commerce, they can do local commerce, they don't have to worry about corrupt governments, they don't have to worry about the mafia around them because they are their own bank and this has ramifications everywhere. Just imagine if we just hand out affordable phones to everybody and bring them on to this crypto economy online on a decentralized distributed platform and this is why I'm a huge optimist of the future and I think the future is bright and I love the fact that this type of technology actually empowers people. Furthermore, if we're looking at charities, we're looking at foundations, a lot of charities are corrupt, I have no idea where my money goes in a charity and with a blockchain technology and cryptocurrency everything becomes transparent. So instead of us trying to give money to a charity, what's half the times oxymoron would a charity because the whole point for a charity to exist is to solve a problem but yet the charity has been around for 50 years, the problem still exists, in fact the problem probably is more exacerbated than ever. So that's an oxymoron in my mind. However, why should I give money to a charity which it's a trickle down effect, a dollar here ends up being a penny down there when I can give from person to person. Same idea as GoFundMe, instead of crowdfunding, literally if a person is in need and they need some money, I can send them Bitcoin whether that is $10 worth of Bitcoin or $100 worth of Bitcoin instantaneously in real time.  For the first time ever, we have a second option. We can opt out of the fiat currency system and create our own economy and marketplace that is not controlled by anybody. Okay, and that's that. And to wrap it up, I highly recommend, get involved, you can go check out blockheeks.com for more information. Join an exchange, go to Coinbase, I'll leave a link below. Buy some Bitcoin, buy some Ether, download some apps. Great wallet is a person here from Toronto called JAX, J-A-X-X, there's a million different wallet. You can download the Coinbase wallet, bread wallet, there's a million different wallets. I'm not the privy or savvy to any single one or have any loyalty to any single one. I experiment with all of them but download a wallet, do some exchanges with people and really get involved in this and actually dive in deep and feel it, how it feels to buy some cryptocurrency, sell some cryptocurrency, transfer cryptocurrency and that's the first step into diving into this world. If you like this video guys, you know what to do, share, leave a comment man. I want to know what your thoughts about Bitcoin cryptocurrency blockchain technology is and I'll make sure to reply. Peace!


This channel does not promote the use of legal or illegal substances. This video has been created strictly for entertainment in harm reduction purposes. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today with a different format here. I'm seated in the half lotus position. And why do I do it? If not to talk about magic mushrooms. Yes, guys, I opened up a second channel. If you haven't checked it out already, please do so. You can click here and I'm going to link it in the description box. That channel is dedicated only to psychedelic and spiritual topics. However, as I said already, I'm going to keep the format here on the main channel as well. And let's be honest, it is just a lot of fun to trigger people. Let's be honest, guys, every time I do a mushroom video, the haters come out of the bushes. They jump onto the keyboards and they cannot wait to hate on Bobby. Did the mushroom tell you that? Yes, of course, it is easy to dismiss something that you have never tried before. Guys, let's be honest. This is why I am such a fan of firsthand practical experience. Studies can go only so far. In this life, it is all about practicality. That being said, if we look into the realm of psychedelics, we will see that we have anecdotal evidence for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. The ancient cultures practiced shamanism with ayuska and mushrooms and other hallucinogenic plants. So this is something that the ancients have been experimenting with since forever. Now we see the benefits because we've been experiencing it firsthand. The anecdotes are out there and now the science has to catch up with it. And this is why you have organizations such as MEPs that are researching the field of psychedelics to find out about the physiological and psychological benefits of magic mushrooms, of LSD, of ayuska, eboga and whatnot. It is a fascinating field. And therefore the practical application comes first, the research comes second. There is a phenomena that we observed in the real world and now we will have to figure out what it truly means. That is science. We see something works in this life, in this realm. And from there on, we will have to research it and see what the implications of that mechanisms are. Simple as that. So guys, now I went on to a long rant on why I am so fascinated by psychedelics. Let me dive into the topic of today's video. Today's topic is... Yes guys, the magic mushrooms made me eat meat. Yes, it is true.  Why didn't you go vegetarian? Why do you start eating meat? Why do you start gorging on the flesh? That's not what the mushroom meant. So first and foremost guys, you can't know what the mushroom meant because you haven't been in that experience. For people that never had a psychedelic experience, let me give you a little bit of explanation here. It truly does not matter if the experience is real, quote unquote, or not. The experience will be real to you. You will experience it as if it is real. I personally, if you ask me personally, I will say that I tend to believe that it is real indeed. I tend to believe that there is much, much more than the physical realm. Yes, I tend to believe that there is a creator. Yes, I tend to believe that there are spirits. I do, but do I know that for sure? No, I don't. I really don't. All we can do in this life is believe in something. That's what it is. Even if you do believe in science, you still believe in it. There are certain factors that will point you into a certain direction. That's all. And now it comes down to you to figure out what works for you. I always like to take the example of martial arts. If you look at martial arts, a holistic approach would obviously be MMA. And therefore you could say MMA is the way to go. It's the best. Don't even try anything else. But let's be honest, for the individual, Jujitsu could be the way, or it could be boxing, or it could be karate. It could be any of those things. In the end, it will come down to what will help the individual to build up discipline, to build up athleticism, to build up a strong persona, and to be able to defend yourself. So again, of course, the optimal, the ideal might be MMA. But in the end, it comes down to what is practicable for you.  But there is of course the other route of psychedelics. I personally love both sides. But first hand, I do experience psychedelics. Of course, because I do not spend my time in the laboratory. I studied pharmaceutical chemistry for around about one and a half years. And I gave it up. I gave it up and I started to travel the world. I couldn't be confined. I got depressed sitting in the laboratory. I want to experience life. I left the lab and I went to Australia later to South America, where I drank ayahuasca with the shamans. So therefore, guys, I was always about the practicality of things. I couldn't waste my life just researching things on a very one-dimensional level. But I salute everybody that can. I really have the biggest respect for researchers, so on and so forth. But again, I am drifting off today. I have all kinds of thoughts. You have to excuse me. Guys, today we are talking about a specific mushroom experience that made me eat meat. I was already experimenting with eggs and I did feel better. I did feel better, but there was still something missing. And even though I broke the chains of veganism, so to speak, and I progressed into eating animal foods, I still couldn't make myself eat flesh. I just simply couldn't. It was still such a humongous barrier. I mean, let's be honest, ancient religions in Hinduism, for example, you had people that practiced vegetarianism for millennia. So therefore, you can see how strong this belief system can be. Religions have been formed out of it. And I was there as well. I was in that dogmatic belief system. And I believed that I cannot allow myself to eat flesh. Honestly, I wanted to return to veganism. That was my biggest wish.  And hey, you can. I mean, it's pretty easy to write a hateful comment. Go for it. If that makes you feel better, I'm truly happy for you. But the point of the story is, if you can really listen, you will find out that I really meant good. That I really was invested in veganism. For what it's worth. I do not really care. Point of the story is, I couldn't let go of veganism. And then I had another mushroom experience in Kopangang, Thailand. And I asked the gods again, what to do? It wasn't directed towards nutrition at first. I had a pretty dark trip. I was sucked into the void. I was seeing demons, wolves, geometric pattern that seemed very, very dark. But then, when I came out of that darkness, out of the sudden, I reached a state of total bliss and total clarity. Absolute acceptance of the moment and the presence that I couldn't compare to anything else that I prior experienced. At least not in the last years. And I felt so sharp, so crystal clear. And most importantly, I felt thankful. Really thankful that I had the capacity to feel so clear. I totally forgot how it feels to be in that present state. Even though I was meditating, even though I was practicing mindfulness. Still, I didn't experience this clarity. I always had brain fog and depression. So I was sitting there, pretty dumbstruck, wondering why I feel so clear. Again, on that note, I know that you will say, that is because you were tripping balls. Of course, you felt clear because it was drug induced. I understand that. I get it. Yes, if I would listen to the story, I would probably think the same. But try to keep an open mind for a minute or two. And maybe you will understand where I'm coming from. In that crystal clear state, out of the sudden, I heard the voice. A familiar voice. It was the voice of the mushroom. Yes, I know I'm triggering people already. That voice told me that this clarity is something beautiful. And that this clarity is something that is my birthright. But I was denying it. And I could feel like that if I would do one thing. And you already know the answer. That one thing was to eat flesh. Again, if you haven't watched my mushroom egg video, you can click here. In that mushroom experience, I was denying it as well. And I was fighting that message too. I didn't want to eat eggs. And the same happened again. That vegan mind state is not something that you lose overnight, guys. I was fighting it. I was resisting it. I was trying to bargain with the mushroom again. But I soon realized that there was no option to bargain this. It was the core message of that psychedelic experience. And in the end, it was up to me to face that decision. If I would choose to stay in that confused state. Or if I would choose to go further and to break the chains of veganism to reclaim my health. So guys, try to look at it objectively. Try to look at it even as rational as possible. And try to think of it not as some sort of magical experience. But just a psychological mind game. Write an experiment that you conduct in your own mind, in your own consciousness. Okay, let it be so. And let it be so that I'm going to play devil's advocate to myself. Let it be so that I subconsciously had those thoughts of eating meat. Could be, right?  That I had tremendous depression. That I clearly couldn't figure out my health within the realm of the plant-based diet. Hence, through that psychedelic experience, I opened my eyes to the option of reintroducing certain foods that I totally eliminated from my menu. Right? And I'll look at people such as Jordan Peterson that are not into psychedelics. All they did is, on a conscious level, to dismiss all the plant foods and to reintroduce only animal-based meals. And it worked tremendously for them. So therefore, I'm not here to tell you that it is the gods, the mushrooms, speaking to me. No, I'm telling you about the valuable lesson of that psychedelic experience. This is how I found out how to listen to my own body. Honestly, I always say if I would listen to my mind, I would still be vegan because there are many rational facts to be a vegan, right? Sure, if you read certain research papers, if you listen to certain people, you could make an almost rational decision and say, actually veganism is the way to go. But all of that doesn't matter if you do not feel right. And this is why I am here for. This is what I am sharing. You can dismiss it as anecdotes. You can dismiss it as bro signs. You can say whatever you want to say. In the end, I am truly happy. And that is really what counts. Guys, I am exploring what is going on in the food industry. I was in France on a dairy farm. I will go to Australia and visit so many plant productions and whatnot. And right now I'm in Macedonia and I confront where my food is coming from. I said it already. The next step is to hunt and slaughter myself. I always had that thirst. I always had that desire. I always had that need to see everything for myself.  Hey, then so be it. If that is truly what makes you happy and I wonder how that can be. But okay man, more power to you. If you want to be a fruitarian, despite all the anecdotal and the scientific evidence and you want to chill on a lonely island, more power to you. There are certain factors that we cannot take into account. The psychology plays a major role. It is not all in the physical. It truly is not. The mind is still a metaphysical concept. We cannot pinpoint where certain desires originate from. If we all would be super rational, we all would just have sex in the missionary position. It is what it is. We all have certain desires and predisposition that we will have to research on our own bodies to understand who we truly are. Because it truly does not matter what I say, what anybody else says on YouTube. We all will only achieve personal happiness once we start listening to ourselves. If nothing else, that is the takeaway point of this video. It is not about me taking mushrooms on an island in Thailand and then realizing that I have to eat meat. That is my personal story. Take it or leave it. Listen to it for entertainment purposes or listen to it and start hating on me if that makes you feel better. In the end, we all have to make the decision and see what makes us great. What makes us feel good. What makes us perform in the best way possible. I couldn't care less if somebody on the internet tells me, hey, look at that vegan bodybuilder. Look at that vegan bodybuilder. He has clearly more muscle than you. Yeah, that is great. If veganism works for that guy, hey, then more power to him.  If that is the life that you want to live, then go for it. I'm not here to stand in your way. The only thing that I am against is ideology and dogmatic belief systems that are being pushed upon us. I know that the vegans will always say that as long as your food choice is affecting another being, it is not a personal choice any longer. And I understand that standpoint. But in the end, you will have to understand that when we are talking about food, we're talking about an ancient practice that goes beyond culture. It goes beyond conditioning. It comes from our core. It comes from our nature. It is what we truly are. And you can see it on every level that we as humans do perform the best if we eat our species-specific diet. What the species-specific diet is in detail for you personally, that is a different story. But we all have to agree upon that a certain amount of animal foods will be needed. It is what it is. That is pretty much undeniable. But yet again, if you want to fast your body and you want to rely on supplementation, hey, then so be it. I'm not your enemy. Do whatever you want to do as long as you're not imposing your belief systems on to us. And a belief system is something that only a human can hold. This is obviously transcending the animal realm. So please don't give me that spiel that my belief system is affecting another. Yes, it is affecting another as everything else in this ecosystem, but it is not affecting another human being. We are the only beings that can form social contracts. It is what it is. The animals are excluded out of that human realm. Animals do not point the camera at them. They're not holding mics in their hand. They're not ranting and raving here for ages. We have to come to acceptance. But yet again, back to topic eating meat through psychedelics. Yes, that is truly what happened. It was not an egoistical choice. You guys asked me, here is the answer. I truly had another mushroom experience after that egg. And I haven't talked about it since. But it is about time for you to understand that yes, even the psychedelic experience, and I know that is hard to understand for certain spiritual practitioners. Yes, even in the psychedelic realm, you can get messages of eating meat. Absolutely. This is what happened to me. This is what I followed. Every time I based my decision on a psychedelic experience, I reaped the benefits. Listen, I'm a pretty pragmatic, rational guy. Before I ever did psychedelics, I thought they're just drugs, they're bullshit, mumbo jumbo, woo-woo, leave that to the bush man. That was my opinion. I was severely sick. And I'm not going to go into the whole topic again, because that would lead to a two-hour video. But the point of the story is that I healed a physical illness with mushrooms. Since then, I applied those mushrooms medicinally, and they always helped me out. No matter if it was spiritually, physically, or mentally. And even beyond, general lifestyle questions have been answered by the psychedelic experience. Maybe you could reach the same through meditating in the forest, going for a hike, whatever it takes for you. For me personally, it always worked. And that particular mushroom experience showed me that the only way for me to be in a crystal clear state would be to reintroduce the flesh. And so I did. And the effects were immediate. Honestly, after a couple of days, I felt rejuvenated. Guys, I told you all about it. I don't want to sound like a broken record. But the brain fog was gone. The depression was lifted. Just overall, the sense of well-being. I felt like I was catapulted back into that psychedelic experience. And I felt great again. That is all the evidence that I need for my body. I really couldn't care less what anybody else will say. And I always have the freedom, of course, because this channel is called Bobby's Perspective. I am doing me. That is all I can do. I will never pretend to be something that I am not. I am Bobby. And I am expressing myself truthfully here. Hate it or love it, man. That is it. Maybe you will take something out of it. Maybe you will learn something. Maybe you will learn nothing. Maybe you will just use this to post a hateful comment. And that is great as well. Anyways, guys, I'm going to cut it off here. This was a very, very long video. Something different. Let me know in the comments what you think about this format. When I'm just sitting here ranting. Again, about different topics. Not very focused. Only on one subject matter. But this way, I believe you can get a more holistic experience. And you can understand more who I am and where I am coming from. Alright, guys. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, please do so. And as always, guys, much love and peace.


I appreciate you taking the time and joining. My name's Scott St. Marie and let's take things real slow. Let's be real gentle with ourselves. At this moment in time, a meditation, hold on, that's the space heater, one second. Turn that off. A meditation teacher would always say, you know, if you're breathing, that means there's more right with you than wrong with you. And I like that. If you're breathing right now, hey, hey, hey, hey, well done. So there's a lot that may be going on in your body, in your thoughts, sensations, a tight stomach, maybe a tight tummy. Your heart maybe feels a little tight. Thoughts of worry, the future, which is just a thought anyways. Needing to plan, needing to make sure things go well. Pressure we put on ourselves, eh? You realize that sometimes, don't you? Man, am I putting a lot of pressure on myself? You can laugh at it if you want to. Come on. Putting all that pressure on for what? For who? What would it mean for you at this very moment if you showed yourself some compassion, care and love right now? What would that mean? What would you do? I get it, the world seems just, there's bad energy out there. It's pretty chaotic, isn't it? It's okay if you feel a lot. But if you'd like to and you don't need to, but if you can and if you feel that it would be helpful, just close your eyes. Take rest, that's it. Just notice how it is in your body. Right now, what's there? Now the key here is don't judge what's going on. You can't mess up here. You can't do this wrong. Just notice what's there. Go easy on yourself. Go easy, that's it. And if you can, just breathe into the body. Through your nose and out the nose. And one more time, in through the nose and out through the nose. You don't have to breathe any certain way, we're not doing that, you just breathe. Let it into your body, you're doing it. Just notice what that breathing feels like for you. What it feels like with maybe cooler air coming into the body, warmer air leaving the body. Each one of those breaths, you signal to yourself saying, yeah, I'm taking care of myself right now. It's okay to feel it. It's okay to sense what's there in the mind and body now. Continue to breathe, just breathe. This moment in time, you breathing right there, where you are and how you are right now, it's the best thing you could be doing to care for yourself. Just stay with that rhythm of inhaling and exhaling. The rhythm doesn't have to feel a certain way, doesn't have to be perfect, it's just you breathing. Now, if you can, with your eyes still closed there, what would a best friend say to you right now? If you were feeling real anxious, what would you say to a best friend? That best friend is you. What do you wanna say to yourself now? It's a voice of care, isn't it? It's a voice of compassion. It's the voice that you matter. Mm-hmm, just notice what that feels like. Take that in, that sense of love and care for yourself. No matter how you feel. When you're ready, you can open your eyes. You don't have to look at the screen or your phone. Just open your eyes, see what's around you. And if you're on a screen looking at YouTube, you see me looking right at you, saying, great work. Great job. You know, sometimes it takes a lot of courage to sit and to be with that feeling. And sometimes the best thing to do is, yeah, I need to distract myself. I need to watch some TV. I need to watch some reruns of some old childhood cartoons. I need to go for a walk. I need to call a friend or talk to mom or talk to dad. And other times we can sit. It's all courageous acts when we don't feel our best. And what you did in this practice is you sat with yourself. And if you don't feel better right now, that's okay too. We can't get upset with ourselves because something didn't work out the way we thought right now with this practice. It's practice. He gave something, a try, and you sat with the emotion. And for that, you are courageous and brave and an incredible human being. Anxiety, what does it mean for you? And can we have a different kind of relationship with the sensations when they come? We don't have to love it. We don't have to say, yay, I feel terrible. But at the same time, we don't need to beat ourselves up. Either put ourselves down, shame ourselves for feeling it, yeah? You know, it took me a long time to recognize what anxiety meant for me and means for me. And my practice isn't over either. I practice all the time. I need to take care of myself and know what I need in particular moments. And this is life's work, everyone. It doesn't go away in an hour, in a 10-minute meditation. It doesn't leave us forever. You know, we think that we can get rid of emotion. That's not what we wanna do.  It's our emotions that drive us, that make us feel, that help us connect with one another. Love is an emotion, right? We don't wanna get rid of that. So we can't choose to keep the good ones and always get rid of the bad ones. There's balance in that. And that's why we practice this. To create space between that you, that imagine that best friend and you taking care of yourself. And the voice that says, I can't believe you're anxious again. This is terrible. Why me? That says it's really bad. Create space in a gentle way. It is the best way I know how in times of stress and anxiety to create some distance. It's you have a whole wide range of tools at your disposal. This is just one of those tools. Sit, breathe, don't judge. You got it. Appreciate you all listening. Appreciate you. Keep up the great work. And I'll see you back here, if ever you feel the need.


Your Excellency the Governor of Bouchie State, Senator Balak Mohamed, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Senator Gabriel Suzwan, the Honourable Minister of Power, Engineer Saleh Mamman, the Honourable Minister of State for Power, Mr. Gordy Jedy Agba, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Architect Soni Echenu, Israel Majesty, the Emmy of Bouchie, Alade Rohan, Suleiman Adamu, Israel Majesty, the Ewi of Aduikiti, and Pro-Chancellor Abubakar Tafaba Leua University, Oba Rufus Adeyemi Adejupe, Alade Somi III, Major Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Engineer Saleh Jo Ahmad, the Executive Secretary in National University's Commission, Professor Abubakar Rashid, the Vice Chancellor, Abubakar Tafaba Leua University, Professor Mohamed A. Abdulaziz, the Council and Management of the University, Staff of the University, the great students of Abubakar Tafaba Leua University. Honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen. I'm excited to join you today as we commission the 1.12 MHz captive solar hybrid power plant. This is yet another milestone in the Energizing Education Program. The objective of the program, as you know, is that all 37 federal universities and seven teaching hospitals will be provided with captive energy solutions that will ensure sustainable and reliable power for students and faculty. Already 22,000 students and faculties across the country are connected to completed projects in Kano, in Eboi, in Benwe, and of course now in Bauchi. But apart from providing a reliable source of captive power for these institutions, each institution will have a renewable energy workshop and a training centre to provide training for students on renewable energy. The project also entails the installation of street lights and the retrofitting of existing ones for better illumination and provision of security on the campus and its environs. There is provision for on-the-job training for 20 female students undergoing STEM courses in the beneficiary institutions. The training focuses on the design and installation of various components of the project. Renewables are the fastest growing segment of energy today and will certainly be a key economic driver well into the future. Indeed, Nigeria intends to have 30% of its electricity supply from renewables by the year 2030. Our future workforce therefore needs to be ready for this energy transition. In this regard, the training centres constitute a critical additional benefit of these projects. Besides, this programme reaffirms the federal government of Nigeria's commitment to global best practice as we transition to cleaner sources of energy in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. These projects, being implemented by the Rural Electrification Agency, are strategic to fulfilling our commitments to the agreement as they strive to reduce Nigeria's carbon footprint. The leveraging of renewable energy technologies is in line with the federal government's mandate and related activities. Nigeria's plan to reduce carbon emissions by 20% unconditionally and 45% with international support by 2030 aims to limit the damaging effects of climate change. While commending the implementing agency, the Rural Electrification Agency, for their hard work and resourcefulness in the implementation of this programme, I must charge you to redouble your efforts in rolling out the energising education programme with speed and quality across the country. I'd also like to acknowledge the contractor, Sterling and Wilson Nigeria Limited, for working collaboratively with the REA to complete this project. Most importantly, I acknowledge the strong display of partnership between the federal ministries of power and the federal Ministry of Environment, the federal Ministry of Education and the National University's Commission and the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission in coming together to make this project such a huge success. Today I join you in rejoicing with the students and faculty of the Abu Bakr Tafar Balewa University as this captive solar hybrid power plant is commissioned. Congratulations everyone. Thank you very much and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


So in this talk, I will start with a blue type reduction and cover hibernation, and then I will start, I will introduce a proposal for a new hibernation. And in this proposal, I'll talk about how to improve hibernation speed and how to extend the lifetime of fresh memory. So I used to use our older navigation system in my car and when I start our car, it takes a, I have to wait for a minute and 30 seconds to use it. And I think it's not a good user experience. And additionally, there are critical safety reasons for the automotive industry. For example, when you put your car into reverse, immediately up to start, and your rear view camera system must show you what's behind you right away. And also it can be used for marketing. Have you seen our one second Android boot? Have you seen, no? Actually, I have seen our one second Android boot on YouTube, you might Google it right now. Well, it's quite impressive, and it's a huge motivation for me. So I'd like to mention the traditional techniques and tools we have been using to reduce boot time. Because some of them we cannot use for hibernation. In terms of measuring, boot chart is a handy tool for profiling a Linux boot sequence. But we cannot use this tool for hibernation. And in hibernation, we don't need to put a lot of effort to optimize the user space. It was a maintenance burden. So before we further discuss how to improve hibernation boots, a little backgrounder for those who are not familiar with hibernations. Often hibernations, first step is to suspend all the devices so that they cannot change their system state. And then the system, the memory is copied and the device has a resume so that they can be written to swap space. And after resumption, the image is reloaded and the system is exactly as it was before entering hibernation. So basically hibernation is worked like this way. And I use this kit because one reason I use this kit is because both the suspend and the resume works fine. But if it doesn't work, then you might need to put a lot of effort and time to fix it. And my work is based on the top of the upstream links current hibernation. So it is generally known that hibernation is faster than cold boot. And cold boot means start a system that is turned off. So my question is how fast the fast boot is compared to the cold boot? So here is the result. The result shows that it's about two second faster than cold boot. But this hibernation is the upstream version and it's not optimized at all. So as you can see, the hibernation is faster than cold boot. But actually it's not exactly as fast as we expected like the one second Android but you probably not have seen those, but I have seen it. And there must be some place to improve in the existing hibernation, I mean the upstream hibernation. So here are things that are found through analysis and tests. The first one is the upstream hibernation is not very scalable on a multi-core system. It's limited. And the load image system, loading image system takes most of the time during the boot. And reducing the system, the snapshot image is can lead to the faster image loading. So I really try to focus on reducing the image size. And the snapshot image size, the snapshot image does not include the phases that swap out before entering hibernation. So I try to swap out as many phases as possible before entering hibernation. And also a clear page case as well because it's really helpful to reduce the image size. And lastly, I deduplicate the pages in memory and it also helps to reduce the snapshot image size. So what is about deduplicating pages in memory? So the first line represents the physical plane numbers and from second to fourth, then it shows the process of deduplication in memory. And at the bottom of the slide, you will see a table that has entry which points to the physical plane number. And it should copy to restore the page data during the region process. And here is the result. So the left chart shows the boot time and from the cold hibernation and the optimized one is just we have optimized by reducing the snapshot image size. And how fast it is, I mean the optimized version is two seconds faster than the upstream version and I think six seconds faster than cold boot. And the right chart shows the image size and as you can see the image size is reduced from around 900 megabyte to 200. So we can tell the existing hibernation can be optimized like this. So this is about extending lifetime of press memory. After press memory becomes very popular in better systems and but it has a limited lifetime and also it has a limited number of life cycle. So we just can switch in able to hibernation and let it create around 900 megabyte of booting time. So in order to extend the lifetime of press memory, I focus on two things. First one is try to use a raw search of long management to reduce the right amplification. And the second one is use a storage based data deduplication also to reduce the amount of image to be written. So I'm going to give details in the next slide. So this is about how we reduce the right application with the blog management. This are basically this approach is to ensure the sequential light. The chosen partition is but divided into divided up into closer and each closer is aligned with the elage block size. Closer is a composable block and a block, a block is four kilowatt in size and block which closer are written sequentially in a log light structure. Closer are not overwritten until discarded except a header. So not like the upstream hibernation, a new version has more closer type. So you might be familiar with map and metadata closer because it has been used in upstream hibernation. But data and user counter garbage collection clusters are added to the new design. And for example, the dedu cluster is used for deduplications and the users counter is used for keep tracking of each block usage count and the garbage collection is used to each cluster is reclaimed and discarded and this cluster is useful those ways. And we're still talking about hibernation not like five system, but this new version proposal has this clear up. This is how the partition looks like when it is used for data block management. The, as you can see, the header is the only block overwritten every time. And take a look at the data cluster and data cluster is a composable chunk table and chunks can be either compressed or uncompressed and they are packed into the data cluster. And this is about how to reduce the amount of image to be written. So basically this process is similar to the way we reduce the snapshot image size but it duplicates a page in stories not in memory. So after applied both are two things that I mentioned earlier, this is a result that you might be interested in the blue lines in red line because the blue line represent the deduplicating in memory and the red line means represent their duplication in stories. At the very first time the red line, red line just almost the same, but the second time the right size is dramatically reduced decreases as you can see there's second time and third time. And the green line represent the compressed one. So it's lower than the red one. Well, as we already expected, the snapshot image is getting fragmented by the deduplication process. So the image loading speed is getting slower because of a more randomized pattern. So as you can see this graph shows that the image loading speed is getting slower each time. So how to fix this problem? The snapshot image is getting fragmented but also we need to reduce the snapshot image size at the same time. First of all, I need to examine how this snapshot image is fragmented each time. So I use the usage count on each blur and use the HimMap to visualize their whole partitions. I will show you in the next slide how it looks like. And what I found is that there are some data closures which have only a few block to be used for the snapshot image. Every written time the number of those cross are increasing and each time the snapshot image is getting more fragmented. So there's a simple way to fix this through though it could cause an increase in snapshot image size. Just exclude the fragmented cluster from the data cluster pool. But it turns out there are too many fragmented clusters so I cannot get rid of all the fragmented cluster. So I came up with rating clusters with the usage count on each block. So each time a cold cluster are selected and excluded from their dedication process. So this is HimMap actually based on the usage count on each block and each tiny blocks represent their usage count on each block and each line represents the one cluster. And we can see the red block means it's a hot block and the blue one is cold block. It means they are used more frequently and the blue one means less frequently for dedication. So the image loading speeds is not just decreasing. So after apply, after use this or a method then you can see that it goes up and down but it's not just decreasing. So this is about the amount of data regions. The amount of write increase whenever hot cluster become cold because the dedication rate is lower. And I think there's a trade off between the amount of write and the image loading speed. But as you can see this approach improve the loading speeds a lot. So this is part of a block management I mentioned earlier. In this scheme, use cluster are reclaimed first before discarded by the garbage collector. Non-data cluster are reclaimed during the region process because they are no longer used but the data cluster are reclaimed at runtime when the number of either cluster is below threshold while hot clusters become cold. And also there is the order of the data cluster to be reclaimed, cold cluster first and then less hot cluster next.  The garbage collector is a background throughout of this system and it keep checking the number of reclaimed cluster and if the number is above threshold then it start discarding the reclaimed cluster by giving a discarded command to underlying crash storage device. So this cost command gives a hint to the underlying storage device. There are specify address range has nobody data. This command is sometimes called trim or unmapped. So yes, that's the end of that. So if you have any question, please. Yes, oh yes, yes, oh yes, yes, right. I see the point. Yes, that's very good question. So we're still working on it. But from actually we focus on the actual first screen, I mean the first screen because of course, if we are swab out all the pages to the device, then it takes time, especially when we are launching an application in Android, it makes slower than without the swapping. So that's true. So but we are still working on that problem. Thank you. Yes. Oh yes, yes, basically, you're all right. Yes, oh yes, yes, that's right. Actually, my work is based on the upstream corner hibernation, it's exactly the same version, but I hacked and added a more feature like this one. So and also we are trying to, use this scheme into the, maybe boot loader. Yes, it'll like you, but maybe you build or yes, actually this feature can be like a library. So we can use the API basically. Yes, yes, yes, currently, this implementation, we implemented the device. This implementation, we implemented this feature into the links corner and then the next version, we tried to implement it into the U-boot or like boot loader, yeah, all the boot loader, maybe. Possibly. Yes, that, yes, yes, right. Yeah, that's our final goal. Yes, all right, yes, all right, okay. First one. So far we only use the EMMC, but we can also use UFS too. Yes, yes, but as you can see, the test results came from the implementation we already have done into the corner. So yes, but also we're still working on the, try to implement this version into boot loader, but we're still working on it. We don't get the final result. Yes, yes, all right, correct, okay. That's right, yes, it takes more than the normal. So we actually worry about the time, but probably it's really hard to reduce the time, so we're just still working on it, but it depends on the hardware specification, but the boot we use is not very low level specification, but I think we can almost ignore the time delay. So maybe if we use more higher specification of hardware, then I think we probably ignore the difference. Thank you, okay, I'm sorry. Could you? Yes, yes, the last part, could that, yes, yes, yes. Oh, so based on the board we use, it takes our, okay, we can reduce more time. So the final version was, I think it takes five seconds, around five seconds? Yeah, from the power off to the launch screen, just five seconds, it takes, yes. The suspend and the resume time is not really, compared to the loading snapshot, it takes more than, not sure, but actually most of the time it takes, so suspend and resume time, it just takes maybe less than one second, yes, less than one second, but I think we can reduce the time, if we focus on the suspend or the resume, yes. So, oh yes, yes, oh yes, that's a great question, and I'd like to ask this question to my boss leader. So, actually I mentioned this, we discussed this, but the company, they say that it's not available right now, and not in public, but probably after we launch our product, then it will be available in the open source. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, that's a problem. Yes, yes, yes, for example, if we use our, you know, we use compression, but if we have their compressed engine, then we can accelerate the speed of loading the image, yes, I'm not sure, but yes, it's not yet done. And also, there is a case, if we use more cord, then it accelerates the speed of boot time. I think the average is 30%, yeah, 30% overall, but basically when it boots, there are too many zero-pays, so the compression rate is very high, but it depends. All right, so, if there is no question, that, okay, then thank you so much for listening.


Elite breakout age? Check. Strong market share numbers? Check. A little punt and kick return experience? Check. Jalen Rager checks a lot of boxes. If there's one red flag, it's that Rager's production dipped from his sophomore season to his junior one at Texas Christian. That can largely be explained by really poor offensive play in general, but his market share numbers also dipped, so he wasn't doing as much within the context of his individual team. Even still, we've seen Rager flash a lot of potential as an explosive player. Given his size, early breakout age and strong production outside that final season, a reasonable comp for Rager is James Washington, but with more upside.


A month back, the Chennai Traffic Police collected a fine amount of Rs. 48 lakh after the Tamil Nadu government released the G.O. regarding the motor vehicles penalties. CITU urged the public to halt their vehicles for 15 minutes in protest against the traffic police action, which is a result of the implementation of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act enacted by the Modi-led BJP government. In July 2019, Nitin Gadkari placed this bill in the parliament. Left parties and many unions had opposed it, but it became an act by the support of the ruling aliens. The government claims it reduces the road accidents in India, but trade unions say that the act is leading to privatisation and privatisation. For example, Section 8 and 9 of the Act says that driving licence authority will be moved from the government's hands. There are many such clauses regarding privatisation and news clicks spoke to the union leaders to understand the concerns. This is the main focus of the government. There will be a criminal case in the government. But this law will be changed into a criminal law and in the course of 14 years of jail time, there will be changes in the law. This will increase our spot fine by Rs. 50,000 or Rs. 100,000. But today, this spot fine will be changed to Rs. 50,000 or Rs. 100,000 in the new Motor Vehicle Act. If there is no Pogatastri, Pogatastri needs to be taken to Pasumichandri. But if there is a fine, Rs. 10,500. If there is no licence, I will also go to Pasumichandri. But if there is no licence, I will also go to Pasumichandri. If there is no licence, Rs. 500. If there is a licence, I will also go to Pasumichandri. In this act, the penalty is three times higher than the old one. It also abolished the state government control in vehicle registration and proposed to give it to the dealers. According to the union leaders, it will be the state government that will lose income and state rights. Vehicle registration tests are also going to private parties. Newly introduced section 66A66B was named as National Transportation Policy. It allows private agencies to give permits from one place to another. They said that it is to help the common man, common passengers and against the monopolization of the corporates. But actually what happened, actually it was aiming to monopolize and corporateize the entire transport sector. But that move we could challenge that move and that was defeated by us. Till 2019, though it was passed by the Lok Sabha, the act was passed by the Lok Sabha, we could challenge it and we could defeat it in the Ajay Sabha. But in the second time of Modi governments, within a minute of this 100 days program, they brought this bill again and that was passed. Not only in Lok Sabha but also in Ajay Sabha. Most of the, while it was placed before the Ajay Sabha, except 13 members, all the members who had opposed the bill previously, they also joined with the Modi government, including Congress and the bill was easily passed in Ajay Sabha. Only the left MPs and the MPs from BMK, they had only opposed the bill in Ajay Sabha and the bill was passed. In Gujarat and India, there were not many MPs in Gujarat. But in Tamil Nadu, our Tamil Nadu government has gone crazy. It is not just about Kannanam. It is also about going to Thoilala. There is a huge problem in petrol, diesel and gas. The work of that is not done in Motta Thoil. The work of oil is being done. The work of education is being done. The work of electricity is being done. The work of milk is being done. The work of house is being done. The work of medicines is being done. When it has been affected so much, this crime should not be committed in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu government should stop immediately. Tamil Nadu first. The government should return the bill. The old motor vehicle bill is enough. When the Tamil Nadu traffic police implemented this act through a government order, most of the road transportation workers and public faced difficulties. Many raised concerns that the penalties are unaffordable to them. They say that if the livelihood, facilities and infrastructures are proper, then there would be no room for violation. thereby CITU and other unions demand that the state government reverse the order and demand the union government to revoke the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act.


This weekend we went on grandpa's boat and given the successful trips that we did this year and last year, I had nothing to worry about. Of course there were gonna be some challenges. It's a tight space, we were on time constraints. The wind, but we were prepared. We had drinks and snacks and hats and towels and again, we've done this before. But the second we got out of the car, we should have known that things were gonna get ugly. Judah started crying the second I handed him over to Mima so that I could go to the bathroom. He's not normally like that, bad sign. Once we got all loaded up and driving away, I don't know where my watch started buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. Like I was getting a thousand text messages, wouldn't stop buzzing, another bad sign. And then the floodgates opened from there. Judah wouldn't let me put him down, which resulted in a solo tubing ride, which resulted in a tube getting capsized, which resulted in going underwater and swallowing a lot of lake water and getting really scared, which resulted in more tears, which resulted in us realizing that hand foot and mouth had spread to everyone in the house. Even though that's mostly an innocuous virus, it makes everyone cry. Oh, and did I mention the wind? 30 mile an hour gusts or more, 35. A stressful experience, doesn't even do it justice. The only picture I got from the trip was when we were all loaded up in the car and just almost like a joke like, hey, fun boat day guys. So why recount this really trying experience? Well, on our way back to the dock when we were done, I tried to shed some light on the morning. I said, grandpa, you remember the 2001 NFC championship game when the Vikings played the Giants and they lost 41-0, 41 doughnut, nobody saw it coming. A well-performing team gets to the game before the Super Bowl and they show up and they play their worst game of the year, not even close. What's crazy is that within five minutes of kickoff, anyone watching the game knew that this is what was going to happen. This game is over, this game is over, first one. It was going to be a disaster. You could just feel it. That was today on the boat, 41 doughnut. We had a laugh and everyone felt a little better about it. And then grandpa said, you know, after that game, you know what happened next fall? The fans were back in the stands, loving the team, ready to cheer them on. You don't forget that it happened, but they're still your team. And in that moment, an analogy really helped. When we got Judith's diagnosis in March of 2020, several people sent us a poem about Holland, about how when you have a child with disabilities and it's like planning a trip to Italy and then the plane lands and you end up in Holland. It's not what you expected. It's not as romantic as you thought it would be. But Holland's really nice and the people are nice. And once you take a second to step back, you're still on vacation. Analogies are super helpful with your kids to say, the sleep and the water and the food that we're insisting that you eat. Why do you need it so your body can turn that into calories and recharge and run the complex systems to make you a happy, healthy human being? No, you relate to something that's familiar. You gotta charge your battery. If you don't have any battery, I love car analogies and back in the day when I was beginning this health and wellness journey starting to eat better and take good care of myself, I said that my body was a Ferrari. And no, I don't want that donut because I wouldn't put sugar into the tank of my Ferrari. I think this is a Ferrari. Another car analogy, you're born with one body. Think of it like a car.  Put good fuel in it. Get a car wash every now and then. And yeah, of course, like take it on some trips.  In our work now, we use analogies to help people understand the product that we sell, the Vitamix. What's up with the programs? Do I need them? Are they automatic? And so for this, we use a microwave analogy quite a bit.  Well, it's gonna get your bag of microwave popcorn if that's even a thing anymore. Cooked pretty good, but it's just a timer. It starts and stops automatically. Same thing with the programs on the Vitamix. You still kinda gotta be there to monitor it so your popcorn doesn't burn. Another way we rely on the microwave to explain the Vitamix is setting the timer to get walk away blending. You put something in the microwave, 30 seconds start, walk away, same thing with the Vitamix. When we make our green juice, 90 seconds start, turn up to high speed and walk away and it'll stop when it's done. Another work analogy that we use. What is it that you guys do exactly? We're like the guys that you see at the State Fair that demonstrate the Vitamix and sell to people walking through the fair, but we do that on YouTube. We're like demonstrators, pitchmen. How do you find the right analogy if you just notice what you're feeling in the moment of a difficult situation, something that's complex and challenging to explain that feeling or that sort of situation? I don't need to explain to you how to come up with an analogy. It just kinda happens.  Leave a comment, love to see it. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week.


We're here at GSR 16 in Shemashake in Egypt and I've got the great pleasure of being joined this morning by Mr. Alan Sarri Al-Mashakbe, who is the Vice Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Jordan. Mr. Al-Mashakbe, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you. Good morning and thank you for receiving me today. Well, it's a pleasure to have you in the studio. Now, I'd like to start off, there's been a lot of talk about digital financial inclusion here. A great deal of attention and focus has been paid to it. I wanted to ask you, in your opinion, how can we include the unbanked and unconnected in today's smart society? Indeed. Thank you very much and let me just start by thanking the government of Egypt and the ANTERE as well and the ITU for organizing and for the generosity that we have received for the 16th GSR. Actually, the digital inclusion, digital financial inclusion is an important theme that the GSR has focused on. Especially, we had the first day, an open dialogue about how we can address all the issues related to digital financial inclusion. An important part was how to include the unbacked and unconnected percent of those which is actually based on the statistics that we have heard are a huge number. So different themes were discussed and a lot of issues was raised, part of it related to cultural issues. We have a barrier where people are not used to deal with unbanked companies. They used to deal with banks. I mean, it is a new experience for them to deal with financial institutions. They are not well known for them. So they are facing a lot of difficulties and you need to spend a lot on education. People get to use their financial mobile wallet for paying their bills, doing necessary money transfer. Sometimes people are preferring to receive cash in hand and deal with it. So these are most of the issues that we were talking about and trying to see how we can deal about it. And what's the solution in your opinion? Each country has to do first of all to investigate what is in their opinion could be adopted as a national strategy. Because if you look at different countries, they have different experience and different business models that were adopted. I tried to give our experience in Jordan in a general theme so people can have their own learning experience by understanding the model that would suit their experience. I think the common issue that most should focus on is education for the customer and try to have some national initiatives where you will attract more customers to deal with the financial mobile money. And I think the government will play an important role because they first should use it for their own government services. So people, they have more trust when they deal with government due payment. And this will ease others. Then when more private services come to place, people are get used to and they will have more trust in the business as usual dealing with financial mobile payment. So very much supply and demand then? Yes, issue of supply and demand and how we will attract people to get used for this. And how important is collaborative regulation in order to foster an enabling environment for digital financial services? Very, very important theme that you need to focus on. Because you have this, you have the financial regulator, you have the ICT regulators. Part of them looking and you have the operators. Most of the business perspective will rely on the infrastructure of the mobile operator. And legally, the financial regulator have no power to impose on the, you know, the mobile operator. So they should collaborate between the ICT regulators and themselves. Part of this method of collaboration, they can sign memorandum of understanding and just to play the who gonna be responsible for what. And how to cooperate in terms of auditing if needed, checklist for security requirement. And I think this is a best successful model. So first they have to sit together to discuss the issue to see how we can approach it. There is a need for some legal changes for the legal framework. They can do some common regulations where each part have his own role and duty. So I think this is an important thing. And you have to be dynamic in the regulatory model that you adopt. You should not say that this is the regulation and you have to abide with. You should listen to the business perspective of how you will encourage and include more people in the digital financial mobile services. Great. And finally, I'd just like to ask you very briefly. We're here at GSR 16. This is an annual event that brings together regulators. It brings together people from the industry. Lots of great conversations here. But I wanted to find out what's most important to you about attending this event? This is the 16th GSR since 2000. And it was very important and will continue to be a very important event because you will have this inclusive dialogue and many important issues. And now we talk about the smart society. We could talk about the digital economy. And the GSR try to touch in all aspects of the future.  And you know, GSR, it is important because you have different side events. You have different dialogue means. So everyone can talk about his experience. They can, you know, try to explain what are the problems. Trying to change the challenges to opportunities. And I think this is an important gathering. And we, most of the regulators in the world are benefiting from this. So I wish the successful, you know, results for the event. And I guess the guidelines that usually are the outcome of the GSR are very important. And it can be a reference legal framework, regulatory for a future countries who are still lagging sometimes behind other countries. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Amashab, thank you very much for your presence in the studio today, and some great and wonderful insights. Thank you. My pleasure. Thank you very much.