Live from Boston, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit East 2017. Brought to you by Databricks. Now, here are your hosts. Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Welcome back to theCUBE, everybody. We're here in Boston. theCUBE is the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. And this is Spark Summit, hashtag Spark Summit. And Robbie Strickland is here. He's the vice president of engines and pipelines. I love that title for the Watson data platform at IBM Analytics, formerly with the weather company that was acquired by IBM. Welcome to theCUBE. Good to see you. It's always by standing tongue in cheek line as the industry's changing. Dell buys EMC, IBM buys the weather company. Wow, that sort of says it all, right? But it was kind of this really interesting blockbuster acquisition. Great for the folks at the weather company. Great for IBM. So give us the update. Where are we at today? So it's been an interesting first year. You know, actually we just hit our first anniversary of the acquisition and a lot has changed. You know, part of my role, new role at IBM having come from the weather company is a byproduct of the two companies bringing our best, excuse me, our best analytics work and kind of pulling those together. I don't know if we have some water, but that would be great. So, excuse me. That's all, let me chat for a bit. Thanks. Feel free to clear your throat. So we were at IBM, the conference at the time was called IBM Insight. It was the day before the acquisition was announced and we had David Kenney on it. David Kenney was the CEO of the weather company.  You guys like prime, you going public? You going to sell this thing? I know you have an M&A background and he goes, oh yeah, we're having fun. Next day was the announcement that I read about the weather company. I saw him and I'm like, ha ha. And now he's the leader of the Watson Group. That's right. That's part of our, the weather company joined the Watson Group. And the cloud and analytics groups have come together as in a recognition that analytics and clouds are peanut butter and jelly. That's absolutely right. And David's running that organization, right? So. That is absolutely right. So it's been an exciting year. It's been an interesting year, a lot of challenges, but I think where we are now with the Watson data platform is a real recognition that this is the use case where we want to try to make data and analytics and machine learning and operationalizing all of those. You know, that that's not easy for people and we need to make that easy. And our experience doing that at the weather company and all the challenges we ran into have informed the organization, have informed the roadmap and the technologies that we're using to kind of move forward on that path. And the Watson data platform was announced in I believe October. You guys had a big announcement in New York City and you took many sort of components that were viewed as individual discrete functions and brought them together in a single data pipeline. Is that right? That's right. So maybe describe that a little bit for our audience. So the vision is, one of the things that's missing in the market today is the ability to easily grab data from some source whether it's a database or a Kafka stream or some sort of streaming data feed, which is actually something that's often overlooked. Usually you have platforms that are oriented around streaming data feeds or oriented around data at rest batch data. One of the things we really wanted to do was sort of combine those two together because we think that's really important. So to be able to easily acquire data at scale, bring it into a platform, orchestrate complex workflows around that. So with the objective of course of data enrichment, ultimately what you want to be able to do is take those raw signals, whatever they are, and turn that into some sort of enriched data for your organization. And so for example, we may take signals in from a mobile app, things like beacons, usage beacons on a mobile app and turn that into a recommendation engine so we can feed real time content decisions back into a mobile platform. Well that's really hard right now. It requires lots of custom development. It requires you to essentially stitch together your pipeline end to end. It might involve a machine learning pipeline that runs a training pipeline. It might involve, it's all batch oriented.  And then the results of that get fed back into some data store that gets merged with your online application. And then you need to have a restful API or something for your application to consume that and make decisions. So our objective was to take all of the manual work of standing up those individual pieces and build a platform where that is just, that's what it's designed to do. It's designed to orchestrate those multiple combination of real time and batch flows. And then with a click of a button and a few configuration options stand up a restful service on top of whatever the results are. Either at an interim stage or at the end of the line. And you guys gave an example. You actually showed a demo at the announcement. I think it was a retail example and you showed a lot of what would traditionally be batch processing and real time a recommendation came up and completed the purchase and the inference was this is an out of the box software solution. And that's really what you're saying you've developed.  I mean, I'm hearing- That's exactly right. It's just web-sphere, just web-sphere repackage. No, it's not that. So one of the things that we're trying to do is if you look at our cloud strategy, I mean, this is really part and parcel. I mean, it's the nexus of our cloud strategy is the Watson data platform. And what we could have done is we could have said, let's build a fantastic cloud and compete with Amazon or Google or Microsoft. But what we realized is that there is a certain niche there that of people who want to take individual services and compose them together and build an application, mostly on top of just raw VMs with some additional, let's stitch together something with Lambda or stitch together something with SQS or whatever it may be. Our objective was to sort of elevate that a bit, not try to compete on that level and say, how do we bring enterprise-grade capabilities to that space? Enterprise-grade data management capabilities, end-to-end application development, machine learning as a first-class citizen in a cohesive experience so that the collaboration is key. We want to be able to collaborate with business users, data scientists, data engineers, developers, API developers, the consumers of the end results of that, whether they be mobile developers or whatever. One of the things that is sort of key, I think, to the vision is that these roles that we've traditionally looked at, if you look at the way the tool sets are built, they're very targeted to specific roles. The data engineer has a tool. The data scientist has a tool. And what's been the difficult part is the boundaries between those have been very firm and the collaboration has been difficult. And so we draw the personas as a Venn diagram because it's very difficult, especially if you look at a smaller company and even sometimes larger companies, the data engineer is the data scientist. The developer who builds the mobile application is the data scientist. You just, and in some larger organizations, you have very large teams of data scientists that have these artificial barriers between the data scientist and the data engineer. So how do we solve both cases? And I think the answer was, for us, a platform that allows for seamless collaboration where there is not these clean lines between the personas, that the tool sets easily move from one to the other. And if you're one of those hybrid people that works across lines, that the tool feels like it's one tool to you. But if you're two different teams working together, that you can easily hand off. And so that was one of the key objectives we're trying to do. Definitely an innovative component of the announcement, for sure, go ahead, George, that's right. So help us sort of bracket how mature this end-to-end tool suite is in terms of how much of the pipeline it addresses from the data origin all the way to a trained model and deploying that model, sort of what's there now, what's left to do. So there are a few things we've brought to market. The probably the most significant is the data science experience. The data science experience is oriented around data science and has, as it's sort of central interface, Jupyter notebooks, as well as, we brought in RStudio and those sorts of things. The idea there being that we'll start with the collaboration around data scientists. So data scientists can use their language of choice, collaborate around data sets, save out the results of their work and have it consumed either publicly by some other group of data scientists. But the collaboration among data scientists, that was sort of step one. There's a lot of work going on that's sort of ongoing, not ready to bring to market around how do we simplify machine learning pipelines specifically? How do we bring governance and lineage and catalog services and those sorts of things. And then the ingest, one of the things we're working on that we have brought to market is our product called Lyft, which connects as well. And that's bringing large amounts of data easily into the platform. We have, there are a few components that have sort of been brought to market. DashDB, of course, is a key source of data, CloudInt. So one of the things that we're working on is some of these existing technologies that actually really play well into the ecosystem, trying to tie them well together, and then add the additional glue pieces. And some of your information management and governance components as well. Now maybe that is a little bit more legacy, but they're proven. And I don't know if the exits and entries into those systems are as open, I don't know, but there's some capabilities there. Speaking of openness, that's actually a great point. So if you look at the IIG suite. It's a great on-premise suite. And one of the challenges that we've had with in sort of past IBM Cloud offerings is a lot of what has been the MO in the past is take a great on-prem solution and just try to stand it up as a service in the Cloud. Which in some cases has been successful in other cases less so. One of the things we're trying to look at with this platform is, how do we leverage a open source so that whatever you may already be running open source on-prem or in some other provider, that it's very easy to move your workloads. So we want to be able to say if you've got 10,000 lines of fraud detection code in Hadoop MapReduce, you don't need to rewrite that in anything. You can just move it. And the other thing is where our existing legacy tech doesn't necessarily translate well to the Cloud. Our first strategy is find, see if there's any traction around an existing open source project that satisfies that need and try to see if we can build on that. Where there's not, we go Cloud first and we build something that's tailor made to the Cloud. So who's the first one or two customers for this platform? Is it like IBM Global Business Services where they're building the semi-custom industry apps? Or is it the very, very big and sophisticated like banks and telcos who are doing the same? Or have you gotten to the point where you can push it out to a much wider audience? So that's a great question. And it's actually one that is a source of lots of conversation internally for us. If you look at where the data science experience is right now, it's a lot of individual data scientists, small companies, those sorts of things coming together. And a lot of that is because some of the sophistication that we expect for enterprise customers is not quite there yet. So we wouldn't expect enterprise customers to necessarily be onboarded as quickly at the moment. But if we look at sort of the, so I guess there's maybe a medium term answer and a long term answer. I think the long term answer is definitely the enterprise customers leveraging IBM's huge entry point into all of those customers today. There's definitely a play to be made there. And one of the things that we're differentiating, we think over an AWS or Google is that we're trying to answer that use case in a way that they really aren't even trying to answer it right now. And so that's one thing. The other is going beta with a launch customer that's a healthcare provider or a bank where they have all sorts of regulatory requirements, that's more complicated. And so we are looking at, in some cases, we're looking at those banks or healthcare providers and trying to carve off a small niche use case that doesn't actually fall into the category of all of those regulatory requirements so that we can get our feet wet, get some, you know, the tires kicked, those sorts of things. And in some cases, we're looking for sort of less traditional enterprise customers to try to launch with. So that's an active area of discussion. And one of the other key ones is the weather company, trying to take the weather company workloads and move the weather company workloads. I wanted to come back to the weather company. When you did that deal, I was talking to one of your executives and he said, why do you think we did the deal? I said, we got 1,500 data scientists, you get all this data, it's the future. He goes, yeah. And it's also going to be a platform for IoT, for IBM. And I was like, hmm, I get the IoT piece. How does it become a platform for IBM's IoT strategy? Can you, is that really the case? Is that transpiring and how so? So it's interesting because that was definitely one of the key tenets behind the acquisition. And what we've been working on so hard over the last year, as I'm sure you know, sometimes boxes and arrows on an architecture diagram and reality are more challenging. Don't do that. And so what we've had to do is reconcile a lot of what we built at the weather company, existing IBM tech and the new things that we're in flight and try to figure out how can we fit all those pieces together. And so it's been complicated but also good because there are, in some cases, it's just people and expertise and bringing those people and expertise and leaving some of the software behind. In other cases, it's actually bringing software. So the story is obviously where the rubber meets the road more complicated than what it sounds like in the press release. But the reality is we've combined those teams and they are all moving in the same direction together with various bits and pieces from the different teams. Okay, so this vision and then a roadmap to execute on that and it's going to unfold over several years. That's right. Okay, good. Stuff at the event here. I mean, what are you seeing? What's hot? What's going on with Spark? I think one of the interesting things about going on with Spark right now is a lot of the optimizations, especially things around GPUs and that. And we're pretty excited about that being a hardware manufacturer. That's something that is interesting to us. We run our own cloud. We can, where some people may not be able to immediately leverage those capabilities, we're pretty excited about that. And also we're looking at some of the, taking Spark and running it on power and those sorts of things to try to leverage the hardware improvements. So that's one of the things we're doing. All right, we have to leave it there, Robbie. Thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from Spark Summit East. Hashtag Spark Summit, right back. Since the dawn of the cloud, the Cube.


Hi there, this is Krishnanj from Bytescout and in this video we will be going to learn about the next physical operator of TSQL execution plan called an adaptive join. The adaptive join was introduced in Azure SQL Database and in SQL Server 2017. It is a new join type that can enable the choice of a hash join or nested loop join method at runtime until after the first input has been scanned. So a query plan can dynamically switch to a better join strategy during execution time to decide when to switch to a nested loop join or a hash join based on the threshold defined in it. So as a query executes and it is determined that it has either met the threshold level or exceeded it, the processing continues down the correct branch of the adaptive join. So the way it works is that it starts out building an adaptive buffer of join input and if the join input exceeds a specific row count threshold then your plan continues with a hash join and if the row count of the join input is small enough of threshold that a nested loop join would be a more optimal than a hash join then the plan switches to a nested loop join. Here one thing to note is the adaptive join is applicable only to column store index scan which is used to provide rows for the hash join build phase. Now let's see this join in action. Alright so now before executing this query first I need to create a non-clustered index on this cells order header table. Well as I said earlier that it is mandatory to create a column store index to use the adaptive join. So first let me create this column store index and now before we go ahead this is the same query which we have used in the earlier demo. The only difference in this demo is the change in the where close. So here in the where close I have specified the territory id equal to one. Now let's execute this query and now let's check the execution plan of this query. So here we can see that our query is using a new adaptive join operator. Now this adaptive join operator uses a threshold that is used to decide when to switch to a nested loop join or a hash join plan. So in this example when I hover over this adaptive join operator here you can see the threshold row count is 1074 rows. So that means anything with greater than or equal to 1074 rows will use a hash join and if the less than the threshold row count then a nested loop join will be used. Now in our case this query is returning the 16,865 rows. So that means this exceeded the threshold row count limit and hence we have a standard hash join operation which you can see over here and now let's modify the where close. So over here instead of territory id let me add the customer id and now let's execute this query again and in the execution plan tab when I hover over this adaptive join operator again you can see that the adaptive threshold row count is 391 but our query is returning only 10 rows which is less than the threshold row count. So that means we have a nested loop join operation which you can see over here in the adaptive join type. So technically this adaptive join does not represent a new type of join but the behavior of dynamically switching between the two core types which is nested loop and hash match makes this effectively a new join type.


I'm joined by the first feature film is which is in theaters now. Please welcome Jonah Hill Thank you for having me. No, how do you like being out here in the streets of New York with all your fans behind you They love you. I'm sorry. This is amazing It's loud rowdy fun. It's great. Well, I should get like me. You went to temperature within the mid 90s But you're really so in the world you can do it all you're a great actor Oscar nominated actor now You're directing your first feature film and and how is it switching from being on one side of the camera to now being on The other calling the shots. Well, I want to be a writer and director my whole life And I took this accidental amazing 16-year journey into acting and I'm so proud of this film And it's a really about a bunch of people that form a family outside their house And it's about the craziest time in your life when your family means more than your friends and It's something I'm really proud and excited and care about and it's just amazing to bring it out to the world today And you know skate the script skateboarding scene in Los Angeles is a big part of this movie But that was you or that guy you love skateboarding in LA when you were growing up It's terrible. I was terrible at skateboarding, but I say I was a hundred percent dedication 14% skill. Well, you were terrible. We brought a skateboard once you get But you spent three years writing this movie and so for you how is it to finally see it come to fruition to have it in theaters It was amazing We basically got a lot of people who are very, you know successful in their own right of skateboarders But a lot of time their first-time actors and it was so amazing to watch these young men become great actors and care about it and In the movies funny, it's emotional, and it's something I truly stand behind. It was the best experience of my life I miss it every day. I'll tell you what man. You're acting. You're directing. You truly can do it all


We recently covered the enigmatic ancient civilization that could once be found among the tops of the mountains within northern Peru. Known as the Chachapoyas, or cloud people, they were a race of possible ancient giants that are said to have been responsible for some of the most precariously positioned and most amazingly constructed ancient builds to be found anywhere on Earth, let alone And the most astonishing of these has to be the ancient site known as Kulap. Kulap is a little academically shared, thus little known ancient Peruvian site, located within the Peruvian mountains near the towns of Maria and Tingo, in the southern part of the region of Amazonas. According to particularly funded parties, it was built by the Chachapoyas culture a mere 1400 years ago on a ridge overlooking the Utkubamba Valley. However, once one has an opportunity to visually explore this untouched, once lost ruin, the unexplainable extent of the groundwork that went into creating the site becomes apparent. What first appears to be long brick-walled fortifications are soon realized to actually be enormous seemingly unimaginably huge groundworks built by brick, creating multi-meter reinforced walls, backfilled and leveled with Earth, creating a ruin which is now what can only be seen as man-made geology. Groundworks the size of no other anywhere on Earth created apparently quite recently within history without any real record of the astonishing event, or more importantly, cataloging of the methods used found anywhere among the sites. The city has three entrances, two to the east and the other one to the west. The main entrance has a trapezoid shape, having once also having a corbel large. This entrance was siege-proof due to its cunning shape. It becomes narrower and narrower until it allows the passage of only one person at a time. Astonishing architecture built with precision into enormous constructions. There are over 550 structures within the fort, nearly all of which having once been circular. On the southwestern part of the settlement there is a 5.5 meters high structure known as El Tentero or Templo Mayor, Spanish for main temple. Ceremonial archaeological remains have been found at this location and it is hypothesized that the building may have been used as a solar observatory. Kulap was accidentally rediscovered in 1843 by Juan Crisostomo Nieto, a judge from the city of Chachapoyas. In 1870, Antonio Reamonde made the first known survey of the site, ever since details regarding the site have slowly been revealed. Astonishing ruins, a place like many others around the globe, which also display seemingly impossible feats of engineering, accompanied by complete lack of any recording or explanation for said tasks, undoubtedly predates its academic dating. The question is, who could have built such astonishing architecture atop the largest groundworks anywhere on Earth? How did they complete such a mammoth task at such a high altitude? Perhaps one day we will find out. Tambomachai is an ancient site located within Peru that, like so many others within this remarkable landscape, clearly demonstrates a level of sophistication within its stonework, unquestionably far out of the reaches of those who are academically claimed to have been the builders of these remarkable sites. It is a site that not only possesses the same mind-boggling methods of polygonal masonry as that of Machu Picchu and Saxe Huaman, among many others, but also exhibits an excellent example of the levels of refinement that also went into the building of the irrigation systems throughout the area, systems that, although unimaginably old, still function perfectly to this day. Furthermore, and perhaps most intriguing regarding this area, even eclipsing these astonishing feats of ancient engineering, is an area in particular which exhibits some of the most perplexing peculiar feature to be found anywhere in ancient Peru. This area of stone is not merely vitrified, but was, at some point within the distant past, turned to lava. With the limited investigations available, predictably none of which undertaken by funded academics, it has been revealed that this mysterious event did not occur as one would have presumed from a heating from above, but from beneath, or perhaps from within the center of the stonework, successfully melting the stone wall in its entirety into a pool of liquid magma. And although largely overlooked by tourists, and indeed academics alike, the evidence of the stone having once turned to liquid is undeniable. The question then, what turned this stone to liquid? Was it some form of weapon? Or perhaps, is this evidence to suggest how polygonal walls were once built? Perhaps, these as yet unexplained polygonal walls were constructed with such precision due to a past ability of its builders, able to melt and shape these stones prior to placement. Or perhaps, could this melted stone be evidence of a war? One that occurred between the inhabitants of these ancient ruins and an unknown entity, ultimately resulting in their demise. Perhaps, being the reason why these highly advanced, highly capable ancient people from these civilizations not only mysteriously disappeared, but left many a quarry amid ancient stonework seemingly abandoned, left where we find them today. In another area of the world, far away from Peru, there also exists compelling evidence of such a war, having actually once taken place with a possible entity from above. Eerily, this site is claimed as the remnants of a battle with God, specifically surrounding the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sulphur balls embedded among the landscape at this specific site is undoubtedly compelling evidence to support these accounts of war. A holy war undertaken at this specific location that, regardless of holy scripture, was fought with a foe of considerable ability.  The sulfur found at these sites has also, intriguingly, been tested from 93% to as high as 98% pure sulfur with trace metals such as magnesium found within that would have produced astounding heat, easily capable of melting stainless steel and indeed the stones within Peru. Furthermore, the brimstone found is significantly different to sulfur found elsewhere, almost as if this brimstone was specifically designed. For example, sulfur from within natural geothermal regions is yellow in crystal form. We find all these evidential factors highly compelling. Chachapoyas is an ancient city once effortlessly mingled among the mountains of northern Peru. At an elevation of 2,335 meters, it is still an inhabited location that was once the home of a little known or indeed understood enigmatic civilization known as the cloud people. Situated in the mountains far from the Peruvian coast, although this didn't apparently stop them somehow, creating elaborate jewelry from seashells, Chachapoyas remains extremely isolated to this day. Only ever accessed by enthusiastic hikers, adventurers, and airlifted scientists, it is a site like many others we have covered which dot our planet, that through our own research has been revealed to have a contradictory explanation for their construction. Indeed, these sites are dated to and subsequently tagged to convenient culprits. We have not only found compelling evidence to suggest that this most isolated once thriving location is one of the oldest pre-Incan relics anywhere in Peru. But that the datings of such sites is often a funded conspiracy rather than a reality. Los Pinchudos is an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex molded into a high rock face. It is a natural and cultural world heritage site and is guarded 365 days of the year and closed off to all except specific scientific exploration. What is remarkable about the site is the fact that the wooden statues marking the tombs have mysteriously survived the ages. These statues were used by academia to date the site. However, although the explanation for the statue's survival is apparently, quote, an arid climate end quote, the actual site displays evidence of a far greater antiquity than these timber ghosts. Wooden artifacts rarely survive the humidity found within the Peruvian mountains and although scientists attribute the figure's preservation to the site's location in an arid climate, the site, when discovered, was in such disrepair an emergency conservation effort was launched to save it from further erosion. Many believe that the tombs would have been lost completely without church and Peruvian conservator Ricardo Morales-Gamara who restored the eroding foundations. The clay and stone tombs of the complex also have wooden roofs and have surviving Inca paint in red, yellow, black, and white. We feel, due to the other compelling evidence that has been gathered and subsequently shared upon our channel, along with the extensive erosion found at many of the sites attributed to the Chachapoyas, that there may be a high chance that the wooden roofing and statues commemorating the graves may have been another conservation effort performed by people placed more recently within history. People, modern academia, claim as the original builders. Is it possible that with the extensive erosion evident at the site, in contrast to the highly preserved and seemingly recent wooden monuments and protective roofing, that we are actually looking at more than two building phases upon these tombs? An original construction, followed by a later Incan conservation effort, and then a modern correction? We find the evidence to suggest such highly compelling.


You didn't know how people be like, so do you want the good news or the bad news first? And most people when they answer that question, they say they want the bad news first, but the Ravens today, they were like, nope, we're gonna give them the good news first because we want these Ravens fans in good spirits, we want them happy, we want them in just a very great mood. So they told us in the press of John Hobb himself, Rashad Bateman is coming back to practice, he's practicing this week and Miles Boyk and he's practicing this week. Hey, how about that? There you go. Ravens fans, you keep on asking about Rashad Bateman every single week, I keep telling you, I'm not speaking about injuries, but they'll be practicing this week. Take that. It's good news, you should enjoy it. Great, right? Right. But then they crept this in about an hour afterwards with Daelyn Hayes, rookie fifth round pick, the only fifth round pick this year that survived remaining a Raven. Daelyn Hayes, Daelyn Dip Hayes. He had been inactive, he was already dealing with an injury before and he had been inactive for the first two games. But this was his NFL debut game, this was it right here. And it was expected because the workload got a lot heavier for everybody who was still left because Justin Houston was out.  So Daelyn Hayes made his debut and early on in his very first NFL game, his very first regular season NFL game, of course, he ended up getting injured. And when he, he was on the ground for a little bit, but then he got up and he was putting, he wrapped his arms around both trainers and when he was taking his steps, he was stepping on with both feet, with both ankles, both legs. So I was thinking, and I said it during the stream I'm like, okay, I don't expect him to come back in this game. I don't expect him to come back in this game, but at the same time, I don't expect this to be a long-term thing either. So Ravens today, they placed him on injured reserve. Now, it hasn't been clarified yet. I'm sure it probably will sometime this week, maybe even by tomorrow. If they have a presser, which I mean, they got pressers every day, but it should be clarified sometime this week. If that's gonna be short-term IR or it's gonna be long-term, I would assume it will be short-term IR because again, it didn't look like a season ending injury. So we just got to wait it out. But it definitely sucks for Daylan Hayes, man, because, and then just the Ravens in general, but for him specifically, that could just mess with your mind, man. That can mess with your mind because this for the first two weeks, especially the first week, they said that he was dealing with injury from the first week and that he didn't look 100%. So they held him out the first week, held him out the second week and it's like, oh, all these opportunities open up because all these guys are out now. This is my time. Oh, I finally, I'm getting it. I'm getting to be out there on the field and then boom, you're out there and it's done that quick. So hopefully he can be in a good state of mind mentally and then of course physically as well for when he does come back, for whatever rehab he has, for whatever therapy and whatnot, whatever he has to get done to get his ankle right. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later. He'll be good to go in a few weeks, but now with him being put on injured reserve, he is out for at least three games, at least. Could be more, but it will be no less than that. So Daylan Hayes, they also cut Devon Gray, I believe from the practice squad. So that opened up a spot there. So Ravens opened up a practice squad spot and with them putting Daylan Hayes on injured reserve, they opened up a roster spot as well. So we'll see how they use those spots because they got a lot of guys that could be eligible to return. So we'll just wait it out and see. So Ravens have been super, super busy today. They've been very, very busy, just making a lot of moves, making a lot of announcements and it has just been, it's been quite a day. So anyway, I love y'all team, Keep It Clean. I appreciate y'all and like Daylan Hayes is for at least the next three games, we out.


Today, City Council is another wonderful day, a lot of things going on here. Gun violence office, funding, food insecurity options, but also putting money back into our system with fleet, new fire trucks, new police cars, dump trucks, backstrucks, signing contracts along in our water and sewer for $4 million. Once again, continuing to invest in our city as we work really hard to improve the quality of life here in Colombia.


Since 2007, Sinead O'Connor was living in a stunning seaside home in Bray, located in Ireland. However, in 2021, the late singer had put this multicolored house back on the market for £683,000 after previously failing to sell the property in 2017. At the time, it was said that Sinead had been staying at her holiday home instead. The eccentric and multicolored home that she'd put on the market offered six bedrooms, four spacious common rooms, views of the nearby Irish beaches and more. While the home was built in the 1860s and maintained a Victorian feel with classic touches, Sinead had added her own twists as well with colourful walls and artwork throughout. No wonder!


The big shot blocker, John, and Jones can't get it to fall. Still no score, a minute and a half in. Remember, Theo, John, one personal foul, did a good job of playing defense without fouling. How about that little floater in the lane in the first bucket for Howard? Jones is the leading offensive rebounder in the big east. So that goes as no surprise. Look at that. And then knock it down. Shot clock in 11. Howard being defended by Marshall. They switch off. He blows right by Jones in the left hand. Wow. Look just had a terrible time, making the three since the big game against Appal a month ago. Wow. And Howard at the other end. And a timeout by Travis Steele. Defended now by Struggs with Marshall out of the game. Shot clock at one. Are you kidding me? Wow. That's just, that's a pro shot. Step back. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Addie, Xavier trying to pull off a stunning upset here. Even on its home floor against the 12th ranked team in a land. Look at this. Oh, by the Lord. Howard for three. Bang. Somebody's sleeping defensively for Xavier. Two thirds of the games played in the Big East Conference this year have been decided by seven or less. And this one's on that kind of track. Wow. Shot clock down to ten. Run to screen. Jordan now matched up with Jones. Pulls up for three and knocks it in. Marcus Howard.


So, if you've been browsing the repository list on Next.Late, you might have seen a repository called CdavLibrary and wondered what the heck is that. So we'll talk what it is, why we need it, what it can do for us and what it can do for you as a developer as well, and how you can get involved in development. So, what is CdavLibrary? It's basically a JavaScript ClientLibrary for Cardf and Cardf, so you can easily integrate it into your app, you just have to point it to the dava endpoint of Next.Cloud and you can easily grab all the calendars and address books of the user. This library will also be the core of the Next.Generation contacts and calendar apps. Obviously, like everything we do at Next.Cloud, it's completely open source and free software, so it's HGPL licensed and our aim is that it's easy to use. So, as I said, you just hand over the path to the dava server to the constructor and you can easily access everything you need. It's not in single purpose but yet powerful, so it will help you to solve the issues you have with color and it will easily give you access to everything. Why we need it, yes, so at the moment, calendar and tasks are basically using their own color implementation. The Cardf library used by context is not that well maintained and also not extensible enough, so we thought, hey, Cardf and Cardf are pretty similar, why don't we join forces and build our common library that also provides Next.Cloud sharing and publishing capabilities. So what it can do right now already, it can do Cardf and Cardf, it will be able to do sharing and publishing very soon and what's coming up in the near future is kind of scheduling and availability so that you can easily access free busy data from within that library and we are also aiming for implementing collection synchronization so that you can easily get like the diffs and what's new on the server when you use that library. But it's also something it can do because we want to keep it single purpose. It can't do any parsing of iCalendar or vCard whatsoever, that's still your job as an app developer then. So yes, how to get involved if you are interested, John and me are going to meet up later upstairs if you are at the conference right now or you can just ping us in IRC either in Next.Cloud Calendar or Next.Cloud Contacts or you can simply open a ticket in the CEDAF library. Thank you. .


Hi guys welcome back to my channel today's video. I am taking you guys through my Sunday routine Sundays for me are for resting and recharging for the week I talk a lot about working really hard and motivation and productivity on this channel But equally as important is rest so I'm taking you guys through what I do on a Sunday to recharge for the week Coco's got some bedhead going on her sweaters kind of messed up. Good morning guys I just woke up. It is Sunday. I need chopsticks so bad. Well, actually I've been waking up at 6 30 completely naturally like wide awake It's very weird. I've been up for the past hour and a half reading my book and it's just been such a nice Relaxing morning. I'm gonna have a really Speaking of relaxing the dogs. I'm gonna have a great Sunday. I want to get flowers. I want to go to walk I want to just cook. It's gonna be great. These are the dogs right now. Oh, dude You want a con? Oh, wow, now you really do.  I'm wearing a set active set I like the neutral kind of white cement almost tones my Yeezy is that I have trashed and I wear them all the time This gray zip-up is revolved my hoopster Jennifer Fisher So I can't really use my downstairs as we know because we're dealing with water damage So I feel like especially at night. There's a haunted house right there. It's really unfortunate Worst things have happened. Hopefully it'll be done within the next two weeks But I can't really use the downstairs and it's so loud so I can't film down here. So it's very unfortunate Same things we don't I'm outside drinking coffee eating my breakfast. It's such a nice morning. We're back home. I'm about to get a little workout in Okay, little gym update reveal. I replaced the floors. They might not look that different to you first off This has got to be fixed. It's driving me insane Also, I always leave my water bottles down here. Okay, great So obviously this is gonna be more organized, but we did get rid of the boxes That's just Dom stuff. So when Dom is here We'll be able to finally get this like cleaned up and it's gonna be really nice These mats are actually horse mats from tractor supply a lot of you recommended it to me and my dad This is actually what he uses for his trim floor. They're great. I'm gonna return these two Today, okay, so I'm kind of organizing a little bit and then I'm going to clean the mirrors I just don't know which I think I need more bins. I mean, I know I need more bins I want it to look better than it does and maybe it's just the cords and maybe it's just me being really critical And also, maybe it's the dresser in the stuff in the corner It definitely is a dresser the stuff in the corner But even then I don't know I'm gonna like put here glass cleaner And then I have a cord cover and a new extension cord for that TV so it sounds ugly So I'm gonna start with cleaning the glass up here So I fixed the mirror I did change out the cord so it does look a lot better without the big red cord however Covering a cord is a lot harder than I thought the one that's covered in my room was covered when it was mounted So I already have someone coming over to set up a lot of other like random smart house type things for me So I'm gonna have them cover the cord because I just honestly nothing here. Here's the update on the garage I just I don't know guys. I really love it But I just think it can be better and I don't know if it's lighting I don't know I really have to keep this couch here and I absolutely love the couch That is the main problem Like I wish so badly that it fit upstairs and I understand that getting caught would probably be a smarter idea So I could like pull those out for guests. I get that but I don't know. I just I don't know Let me know what you guys think. I really love this couch. I don't want to get rid of it Also, I need it for Dom anyway, so I do like it. I just think that we're not done Also, where do you guys think that I should put my? Mini fridges should I just keep the dresser and move it over and then put mini fridges there Should I move the dresser over is that what's gonna happen? Don't I know Dom has a good ton of clothes in here that she's selling I'm pretty sure so like this is not so that's gonna be stank anyways So then she'll be able to fit the rest of her stuff in here We will talk about this later because I'm going to declutter but clutter just gives me so much anxiety Like I don't want anything out of place. I want my house to be as clean as possible. So that's where we are I'm gonna do a little mini workout. Maybe like 12 through 30 or something I'm not feeling a full workout today, but I do want to get a little bit more movement in so my set is set Active my fave also. I look a lot tanner in person. I promise and I use the Isla Paradise tanner I normally use the Luxe unfiltered tanner, which is my fave But I wanted a little bit more instant color. So we did it Coco's down here. The dogs love coming to work out with me It's just didn't care I just accidentally spilled water all over myself so Jim update thoughts. Sorry, the lighting is horrible Let me see if I can go to the gym update thoughts So I'm thinking I'm going to measure and get the black flooring all throughout the garage I'm actually gonna measure this couch and see if by the grace of God it would work upstairs I know it's not going to some of you said I should do Lights around the mirror like I'm tick-tock and I don't want it to look tacky with all your stuff So if there's a way to do that where it makes the lighting better and it looks nice Then I would consider I've also thought about if I get rid of this couch. I might do mirrors all over there I'm not really quite sure yet But I think that doing the flooring all throughout the garage will make it look a lot more cohesive Even though I did get these garage floors redone, but whatever So I think I'm going to measure for two things to see how big the couches and then to see how big my mats are I actually did 12 through 30 I wasn't planning on doing the full thing because I'm really lazy today But I watched a blog and before you knew it I was at 25 minutes and I'm like I'm gonna finish this thing So I feel good. I've got it worked out. I'm gonna get the tape measure and we will see how many more of these mats I need So before I shower, I'm gonna do a little cleanup. I need to declutter Clean the bathroom to services vacuum things like that laundry Sunday activities I have been wanting to declutter my nightstands And just make them more practical of things that I'm grabbing for all the time like these books I just have out. I don't need to have them out. I can put them down there So I'm gonna go through and move some of the stuff to there make them a little bit more organized Okay, now I'm in the bathroom I've been meaning to go through this just because there's way too much stuff also clean the products get rid of things clean the counters Window mirror all of that through them feels so much better. Look at this guys. I decluttered I just kept the products that I reached for the most are the ones that I want to try also I've been meaning to try this for so long. I got this from Lush a while ago. Maybe I'll try it today It's silky underwear dusting powder I've never used dusting powder before so alright. I just got ready. I showered. I put on this cute little set from H&M I've actually been wearing it a lot recently. It is so cozy. I did some light makeup. I just kind of felt like it I have to carry this basket all the way down three floors to my To my laundry room that might not seem like much to you, but it's so big So that is a huge task for today So my room my bathroom feels so decluttered It just feels so clean and I'm just ready for the week Which is something I really like to do on a Sunday just make sure everything's prepped So I don't even have to think about it. It also affects my mental health immensely So I'm always cleaning always organizing things like that. Okay guys watch me do my least favorite chore that I have The other day I said I'm not really interested in getting on but I would solely for the purpose of them I'm carrying my laundry basket upstairs for me and if they had a branch of horses It's just really big. It's not even really the weight It's just the size of it is so awkward and of course to my fault I wait until there's way too many clothes. Of course I do. Yeah, we're going downstairs For the background noise. I'm going to make lunch. This is not a deal But green chef actually I work with them on my podcast, but they sent me meals, which I'm really excited for I love Food delivery services. Oh, this looks really good. I think I'm gonna do the truffle linguiney with chicken This is not I'm gonna make I'm gonna listen a little instella and cook I wish I could feel more but it is so loud and you guys are all gonna be so over me I feel so much better just having a cleaner space besides a haunted house over here Here's what I just made. This is two meals. So maybe I'll have it for dinner tonight again This isn't sponsored, but I do work with them on the podcast So if you guys want a deal, I'll have it on the screen from the podcast offer It's a beautiful day out. So I'm going to go on a walk. I'm going to Trader Joe's to get some flowers Just to maybe make my space a little less depressing with the haunted house over here Also haven't finished my coffee.  Here's my outfit It's nice out. So I don't need to wear a coat, but this is really just my ideal Sunday guys The line for Trader Joe's is just not what I'm feeling today, but I really want flowers So as you saw that was a little bit of a fail But it's honestly a blessing in disguise because I forgot I have Whole Foods gift cards So I went on a little walk I listened to Chandler Moore if you haven't listened to his recent album. It's really good But ignore my returns that I have to do back there. It's fine. So I'm going to Whole Foods I'm gonna get some flowers and then I might pick up some beverages and do a little beverage haul because As we know I am basically part-time drink influencer nice Sunday afternoon drive when the weather is nice Like I'm just really loving today guys I'm currently setting a new screen saver have some on the I love you so much podcast Instagram page bones cute too They're all really cute. So if you want a screen saver, go follow $20 here. These are a legit cap at Trader Joe's. No, I think it's actually less than that Really always my favorite part of the store. I love a good beverage guys I really true to myself Whole Foods is so expensive, but I have a gift card first things first Here's my beverage haul. I'm also gonna film one for IDTV if you need to come back. It's on my Instagram I got three better butchers to try because Lauren has been telling me for the longest time that I need to try them Because we both love kombucha and this is her favorite kombucha. I love health aid honestly I'm a very simple gal, but I love the branding of better be which it's definitely cuter for what it's worth This guy is staring at me like I also got a ollie pop vintage cola. These are basically healthy I think rebiotic. Yeah, I'm here biotic so does so does so good, especially the root beer one really really good Okay, I was curious brew their kombucha. This one's love lavender chamomile jasmine green tea And then we got the clear mind, which you know feel like I'm always needing oh two more things I got the blue bottle ice coffee. This is my favorite coffee ever at the New Orleans from blue bottle Oh my god guys who remembers I really miss those days What I miss the most about living in LA is honestly my blue bottle order and hot pilates and then I have this green juice That's the size of my head. I'm going to drink some of it today and not all of it It's tropical greens, which I tend to love anything named tropical greens, so I'm excited about this anyways We're heading off. I got my flowers. We're going home this Wow Just got home to my order I made an order on chamberlain coffee because I love Emma and I really wanted to try it I'm gonna go back to making cold brew from home. Obviously not this week because I just bought so many drinks All right guys now I'm gonna grab my green juice and Grab some books. This just actually came in the mail one of my best friends got this to me for Christmas It's one of her favorite books, and I'm so excited to read it I thought I would share what I do for like a devotional, but I would recommend this to anyone especially on a Sunday I do divos like every single day some days are shorter than others like some days I just use this book. It's my current favorite devotional emotionally healthy spirituality day by day It's a really quick read. I read it in the morning and at night So I do it with my five minute journal that has been such a game-changer Essentially, it's like one page basically per reading so it takes like two or three minutes But it totally changes my day every time I do that. It's Sunday So it's afternoon. I have a lot more time, so I'm gonna do a little bit more reading I'm also going through this like women of the Bible study. That is really cool. There's my chocolate brown Bible Love chocolate brown guys I'm gonna go through and do this if you guys are ever interested in more of my faith content I have the living room which is like basically an overall brand, but there is a patreon under it That has all the content so I have videos Bible studies podcast you guys are into that I will have it linked down below, but definitely subscribe you guys will get so much content also just follow the Instagram So anyways, I'm gonna go through And do some of this it just feels so good in my room. I might even open the door to my balcony I'm just having like the best Sunday ever guys. I just want to let you know how fresh I already feel It's only like four p.m. On a Sunday, and I just had the best day I think rest is one of the most important things when it comes to like being productive and being efficient without rest You basically just burn out also knock it for your mental health. You can't produce this good of work I can go on and on I actually have an entire episode up about anti household culture if you guys want to listen on my podcast Go check it out. Also this juice is actually so good.  Let me show you my cave's the current favorite pajamas fun facts I wear matching pajamas set to bed every single night. I love them I probably have like 20 or 30 pairs and I always need more You know what I have found is that these from j-career. I have these in two colors are the best ones I love the material. They're so soft so cozy of them I'll have them linked down below But I must prefer these over even like over more of the like linen-y ones because those just dry really weird And I'm not gonna iron my pajamas. You know what I mean? It was so relaxing. I'm in my pajamas. It's currently at 5 19 I am just going through this week's to-do list and I'm gonna do a little bit of computer stuff today I try to not work on weekends, but it does make me feel a little bit better if I have my to-do list and everything prepped I'm also recording tomorrow, which I normally don't so I need to go over the episode Make sure everything sets send over the zoom links and stuff. I'm doing just a few emails and These are the dogs with me. Oh my gosh in here They're always with me. All right guys. This is what I'm wearing I was just on my laptop doing a little bit of work for like 45 minutes to an hour And the support like my workload has just been higher lately And I just needed to get some stuff done more so planning for the week And it relieves so much anxiety from me. We're going downstairs now to make some dinner I'm just gonna heat up the pasta I made before and I go take the dogs out So as we know, I'm a big bed birds gal every night I honestly take like two or three up to my room for my nighttime routine The first one that you guys saw is my racist drink. These are hemp drinks They really help me relax and calm down and then of course liquid IV my sleep drink I love both of these. I do a quick little cleanup as well before I go upstairs for the night Because I'm a homebody and love my night routine I have an entire night routine video if you guys want to see it I'm thinking about filming like my one-hour bedtime routine I saw it on tiktok and I thought it could be fun right for the black lines But I just make sure my room is very calm very zen normally this is when the dogs bark I go through I do my five-minute journal. I do my nighttime portion of my diva I journal a little bit and then I get to reading so Fitzhouse clearly made himself comfortable for the night We're in bed. Hi, dude. Hi Hi, sweetie. Oh my gosh. I just love these dogs So this is when I read and I'll probably read for the next few hours If you guys ever need book racks be sure to follow me on Instagram I have an entire highlight. I'm constantly talking about them there. Alright guys, that is the end of today's video I hope you guys enjoyed these lines on the screen are really bothering me I'm just going to read for the next few hours and then hopefully have the best week But I love you guys so much. Hope you guys enjoyed be sure to subscribe if you guys haven't already Check me out on Instagram tick tock podcast all that stuff. I love you guys so much and I will talk to you soon. Bye So I first started on social on YouTube in 2012 So it's almost been nine years now since I uploaded my first video and Looking back now. I had no idea what I was doing But I actually still use a lot of the products that I was using then


So here we go, let's play with ClickUp. And so they're gonna set up the workspace for us. And right away, you're brought into one of the space views. But before we dive into that, I would actually like to take you home. So this is the home view. It's actually really neat how they lay this out. I love that they have a lineup feature where basically you can drag tasks up here so that you know, maybe there's just like those most important tasks that you should be working on. For example, it might be a project for a client, maybe it's you have to get your taxes done, you name it. That's a great place for you to put it first and foremost. And just to give you an idea, so this currently the workspace that we're in, we're gonna click up 3.0. However, the home screen that you're seeing is actually not the newest home that will eventually become what the home screen experiences like for click up 3.0. So let me show you what that looks like right now. So click up 3.0, they've already released many of these features for some of the workspaces. Some people haven't gotten it yet. So if that's you, I'm sorry, but hopefully they'll be able to release it to you soon. But this is the future of what this home screen will look like. And I'm pretty excited for it. It's a very clean, minimalistic looking. I like the way that they have this with a personal list so that you can manage some of your personal items. You've got your agenda on the side. You can customize it. You've got your my focus. So that I'm guessing is will replace the lineup. I love it how they have it numbered like the order that you're gonna focus on. You can change the background. You have different parts. Super exciting stuff. But again, that's not what you'll see currently, but something to look forward to in the future. So this is what it looks like right now. Woo-hoo, you're all done for the day.


And, as still the breakfast and plus CV Africa, time for us to talk about other issues that affect the economy or has affected the economy in 2022. There are several concerns. The Chairman for Agricultural Commodity Association, President Sadiq Umar, says that the reopening of land borders has been moved by some of the front runners in the footcoming presidential election poses a threat to the nation's quest to attain self-sufficiency in rice production as well as food security. According to him, we will receive with mixed feelings the news that some of the front runners in the footcoming presidential elections have been clamoring for the reopening of the country's land borders and resumption of importation of rice and other food items that have heath or been banned by the current administration. While we do not discountenance the merit of such preposition as stakeholders in the agricultural sector and direct beneficiaries of positive impact of well-thought-out policy that led to the closure of land borders and eventually banning the importation of rice, we wish to implore proponents of both sides of the divide to consider the advantages, vies, are disadvantages of the position in the overall interests of the nation. It is a considered opinion that although candidates are required to put forth their value proposition to the electorate during campaigns in order to solicit votes, it is not in the interests of the nation for anyone to politicize agriculture as it pertains great danger to the well-being of the nation and its food security. Now several questions were also raised. One of it is that with the reopening of land borders, not encourage a massive inflow of small arms and light weapons into the country. Thus also he added that fresh on our minds is that the blow, the uncontrolled importation of textile materials had a huge impact on the textile industry and that's why you have the cackers of moribund textile industries in Kaduna and other parts of Nigeria staring us in the face and we hope that the history will not repeat itself in lifetime. He also said that no nation can boast of being sovereign if it's still dependent on other nations to feed its population. It will be recalled that President Zemohamba de Buhari and his government in 2019 shot the nation's border to protect farmers among others of all the spin some partial reopening of the borders. Not entirely. But let's have a guest now share his thoughts on the issue Nneka Adesanya, she is an entrepreneur food business owner right here in Lagos. Thank you so much for joining us. Hi, thank you so very much for having me. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you too. Merry Christmas to you too. Okay, so adding to that, I mean the first question I would, the first thing I would say is, in the real sense of it, I believe so strongly that Nigeria has a whole lot of potentials. I mean we have been blessed with so many resources, we're blessed with so many things that would help us to be self-sufficient as a nation. But I can share his concerns about, you know, if we open, if we reopen the border what's going to happen, would we be able to, would we be able to still be as self-sufficient as we expect to be? But you know, some of the pointers that I put here is, would this necessarily threaten food security as a nation, right? Because in the moment we open the borders, even before we open the borders, we have survived. Let me start with that. Before the borders have been opened partly, but I mean in the last three years we have survived as a nation with or without the borders in the real sense, if you get what I mean. So you know, I would suggest that, you know, opening the borders to specific items, right, would probably, you know, help us as a nation. But I still feel that we should not open the borders to literally everything. For instance, I run a food business and then Rice is there and Rice is still in politics, one way or the other. We can't even argue that. Rice still finds its way into the nation, you know. So I still believe that, you know, food security is premised on the access and the affordability of food to the general public. So would opening the border, would it give us more access to food? Would it, you know, would opening the border also reduce the tariffs, you know? Because one of the reasons why we have so much food inflation, one of the reasons why everything seems so high today, you go and buy Rice, it's different from the cost of what you bought last week. You go and buy Bains, it's different from, I believe it's the tariff. It's the tariff that is placed upon literally everything that is being imported. So my question would be that if the government chooses to open the borders, right, would the tariff placed on the cost of clearing goods, would it be reduced? Okay, so let's, you know, get back to it now. This argument is that if we open the food borders, I mean those who are clamoring for the reopening of the borders, I said the food borders, reopening of the borders would pose a serious threat or is a danger to, I mean, self-sufficiency and, you know, food production in terms of food security. So I'd like to ask you, as a person, do you think that that's an issue? So Eve is a yes, why? And Eve is a no, then why? Okay, so I think I would say that I don't want to sit on the fence, right? But I believe that if we, if we, like I said earlier, right, we have survived without the borders being opened, haven't we? In the last three years, we have survived without the borders being opened. Okay, that's the land borders. I also pointed, you know, I really had to think again and realize that the sea borders are open. So even if you don't open the land borders, you have the sea borders where things are coming in on a regular, on a day-to-day basis. Okay, so if, if, you know, my question or my answer to your question, if I believe was, if the open, if we open the land borders, would it be a threat to food security? My answer would be a yes and a no. I say a yes, because if we open the land borders, then that means we're going to have more importation of every other thing, right? And at the end of the day, we would probably not be as self-sufficient as we want to be as a nation. So to speak, the rice farm has catered to quite a number of needs, you know, to us as a nation. So we're able to produce more rice.  Also, like I said, it would be a yes and a no. Would it also be a threat to food security? I would say no, because I would point out again and say that we have survived without the borders being opened. And one way or the other, certain goods have come to us. We have, because of how tenacious and how dogged we are as a nation and as a people, we have been able to cope with the rise and rise and rise and rise. So if Mr. Daware, yes, I can't exactly say that it would be a threat. If he's talking about arms, you know, arms getting into the nation, everything in between, I think that, you know, well, I just think that, you know, that's not news to us. I don't think it's news to us. It has been getting into the nation one way or the other. So would it be a threat to food security? I'm big about the cost or the tariffs that are placed on clearing literally everything. If you're bringing in chicken, they're bringing in rice, they're bringing in some of these things. Get to the land border, even tomatoes, beans and everything in between. You get to the land border for as little as setting thousands of nair. I may not be able to put. No, but also, Nick, let's talk about, you know, the band Festival. We remember vividly that in 2019, there was a shutdown of our borders. And the essence of all of that is to protect, you know, the farmers, ensure that, you know, local production is protected. So we become self-sufficient. Mostly the highlight is rice. Do you think that we have, you know, within this period that the borders were short, you know, totally up until when it's partially, you know, open, do you think that we have been sufficient or the farmers have been protected enough? OK, so if you're going to talk about that, I don't think that farmers have been protected enough. I think beyond food security, we as a nation, we as a nation need to be more secure. The insecurity level in the nation right now is quite scary. Right. So I don't think that, you know, we've been as safe as as we should be as a people and as a citizen, you know, on Nigeria. So beyond food security, the insecurity in the nation itself should be a source of concern because, you know, they produce rice. They get tomatoes before tomatoes can get into Lagos. Some of the some of the truck drivers tell you what they experience or what they encounter to even get into Lagos because they are either shot on the way or there's some traffic or I mean, they're just different things to name a few. So opening the land borders, you know, I think for me, it's beyond the land borders being opened, you know, that would serve as a threat to food security. There are other issues that should be treated, you know, in terms of our security as a nation. There are also concerns because we know that Addiction had raised some of this concern as regards availability of fertilizer, which might also be a major problem, you know, for farmers and it would also affect, you know, the output. What are your thoughts on this? OK, so at the moment, I think I have a bit of statistics right now. We literally import almost everything as a nation, literally importing everything as a nation to fertilize and is imported as at 2019, Nigeria's import for 2019 was eighty eight point seventy four billion dollars. That's about a twenty seven point fifty nine increase from twenty eighteen for from from twenty seventeen. We also have the same increase of forty point forty eight percent increase from twenty seven from twenty seventeen. So it's the increase, the import rate is still high. You know, the level of our importation is still high. And, you know, so I can't exactly say that, you know, excuse me, that the opening of the borders is, you know, I can't categorically say it's a plus or a minus, but I believe that, you know, however we script, however we flip it, however we choose to flip it, you know, there are benefits on both sides, excuse me, there are benefits on both sides, whether we choose to open it or whether we choose to leave it closed.  Is the availability of food in the country? Do we have enough, you know, meals or enough food produced to go around? You know, the citizens of our country to the average man around it. So adding to the top some factor lies that literally everything is important.  I don't believe that's going to happen. And when we have the conversation about, you know, food sufficiency and being able to, you know, produce what we consume, there should be several things that we should consider. We should have been able to put in place policies to encourage and support local production. Do you think that we have actually done that? And if not, what are the things that we should do to encourage, you know, local production and encourage farmers? OK, so I think first of all, to encourage farmers, right? I think it's important that, you know, we make security a big thing, right? So you have lots of farmers who don't even feel safe going into their farms to be able to plant or to be able to, you know, do certain things within the comfort of their state or comfort of their regions. So I believe that as a nation and our leaders have a lot of work to do for us is to provide security, right? We need to feel safe even if we're going to just farm as little as vegetables.  Adding to that, I think that the nation can let me not say the nation, because I'm also part of the nation. I think that our leaders can also give an opportunity. You know, I think they can just, you know, provide support in every way they can possibly do, you know, to encourage farmers to keep farming, give you grants, you know, make funds available because I believe that we have these things and, you know, if we stop looking on the outside and begin to look inside and invest, you know, in the quality of what we have as a nation, then we'll become self-sufficient. But I'm looking here and based on a few researches that I have done, we spend, as of 2020, Nigeria spent 16 billion and we're on beans, like beans in partition. I have to be very sure that it wasn't coffee beans. We need to invest in ourselves. We need to look inwards as a people. We need to look inwards. We're squaring enough. We're enough. I think that's what we need to. That's the point we need to get to as a people to realize that you and I are enough to make Nigeria a great again. Well, very important points that you have actually raised as regards being self-sufficient as a country and encouraging local production, whether it be in agriculture or in other sectors. But I mean, you want to begin to ask what are the specifics? Is it just general security concerns? And apart from the aid or giving loans and what have you? But just before I let you go, this is in less than one minute. They are also issue of export. Now, usually we know that some of our products, when we get to export them, are usually rejected because they don't meet the international standard. Why have we constantly struggled with meeting up with, you know, international standards of agricultural product? Are you specific about cultural products or are you training everything? Agricultural product? Agricultural products. OK, so I think that when everybody keeps saying international standards, maybe if they probably showed us what these international standards are because I get to use lots of Nigerian produce, Nigerian products, right? Nigerian food products. And if you ask me, I feel that, you know, when leveling up, OK, it's getting better by each year.  What exactly are the standards? Can we know what the standards have? And that's why you have lots of bodies.  So we have this oil that we get to produce, which is called offada oil, ready to use. You're ready to use offada oil, right? And the same, you know, on different occasions, I've gone to napdak where they tell you, OK, this is the standard you want. This is, you know, this is how your stickers should look like. This is where your your your pictures should be. You know, and all of that, I believe that there's a template already that is that can be applicable to everyone who uses, you know, who wants to export their product.  Show us how this symposium, how it confronts people who are in that kind of industry and tell them what is applicable. Tell them what they should be, how their product should look like. Show them what this international standard is, because this same international people still reach out to us. So, I don't think that that's the case, but we we need to move on because we don't operate in isolation really. And if you probably might not know, there are several reports I remember once upon a time, you know, in our country where tubers of yam were rejected because they are requirements.  And so it's quite competitive.  It's one thing to produce for the local consumption. That's for the market in Nigeria, but it's also another thing, you know, to also look at the market outside of Nigeria. And that's also another big issue. But I'm being prompted that we have to leave. And I know that you want to respond. But I'm sorry, we would definitely have another time, you know, to talk about more of these issues. Thank you so much for being part of the show. Well, Neka, a day son here has been part of our show this morning. She is actually an entrepreneur and also she owns a food business right here in Lagos State. Thank you so much. We appreciate you. We take a break. When we return, we'll be looking at the second conversation. Please stay with us.


Sexual selection may have also played a role in penis size. According to the best available science, three quarters of women find both penile length and girth somewhat or very important. What does that have to do with diet? Phthalates. Phthalates are chemical compounds using a wide range of consumer products, including pesticides, paints, PVC plastic. However, the contribution of dietary intake to phthalate exposure has not been well defined until now. What's the problem with phthalate exposure? Effects on sexual health and development have been observed in recent human studies. We've known phthalates affect the genital development of lab rats, but for the first time ever, human data has been published. Simple study, they measured the levels of phthalates flowing through the bodies of pregnant women, and then later measured the size and characteristics of their infant son's genitals after birth, between ages two months to three years. There was one phthalate particularly associated with a smaller penis, mono-2-ethylhexylphthalate, M-E-H-P. The researcher concludes these changes in male infants associated with prenatal exposure to some of the same phthalate metabolites that cause similar alterations in male rodents suggest that commonly used phthalates may under-viralize humans as well. So what foods should pregnant women stay away from to decrease their phthalate exposure in hopes of avoiding the phthalate-related syndrome of incomplete viralization? The urine levels of thousands of Americans all across the country were measured along with their diets to find out which food was most significantly correlated with phthalate body burden. They looked at dairy, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry, potatoes, tomatoes, vegetables in general, and red meat. The food associated with the greatest exposure to phthalates was poultry consumption. So for our example in one analysis, while total dairy consumption was significantly associated with one of the phthalate chemicals, it was the eggs and the poultry consumption, in particular there was a significant predictor of levels of MEHP, as well as total phthalates. This is consistent with what's been found measuring phthalate levels directly in foods. I guess there's some in other meat products, fish, fats, oils, and milk, but poultry was the worst. Suggesting that an increase in one ounce of poultry per day is associated with an increase in DHP metabolite levels of approximately 5.7%.  In fact, that was the most statistically significant finding in the whole study, the correlation between poultry consumption and MEHP. In addition to a smaller penis, MEHP appears to increase the odds of boys later growing breasts, 25-fold, and then decrease testosterone later in life. Now just because you have a smaller penis doesn't necessarily mean you're less masculine, as was widely reported, but there was actually a study published last year showing that the phthalates found in chicken were significantly associated with less masculine behavior in boys, such as playing less with trucks and more with dolls, for example. The chicken phthalates have also been associated with increased odds of cesarean section, diminished child intelligence, particularly in boys, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, ADHD symptoms, later in life with abdominal obesity, altered thyroid function, damaged sperm, and, as we learned this summer, a lower sperm count. Why is chicken so contaminated? Is chicken just leaching into the meat from the plastic wrap packaging? Probably not. The finding that egg consumption is significantly associated with levels of the penis-shrinking MEHP suggests that chickens themselves may be contaminated, and that food is not being contaminated just through packaging and processing. Maybe it's in the feed? Phthalates have been intentionally fed to chickens in the hopes of decreasing the cholesterol levels in their muscles and eggs, but it didn't work. Regardless if there's one thing pregnant women may want to avoid during pregnancy, to protect their son's normal development, it would be to avoid poultry.


My warmest congratulations to the launch of our book, Big World Small Planet, Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries in Estonian. This is a really important accomplishment of launching our book in Estonia to reach the wide, very important audience in a country that has meant so much for environment and sustainable development as Estonia. This is a book, as you are aware, that combines the latest science, showing that we're now the largest driver of change on planet Earth. We've even entered a whole new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, which means that we are now undermining and putting at risk the stability and the resilience of the Earth system, which is why science has brought forward the whole concept of planetary boundaries, which defines a safe operating space for a human future on planet Earth. What this book tries to do is very special to combine the latest science, the rational understanding of the need to reconnect world development with planet Earth, with the emotional, with the need to now become planetary stewards of the remaining beauty on Earth. Everything from the Baltic Sea to the temperate forest in Estonia and in Sweden, the tropical coral reefs and the immensely important glacial ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica. That we now actually have to become planetary stewards and that I believe personally that we need a mind shift where we reconnect our own prosperity with the biosphere and that this is not only a question of science, it's also a question of values. Therefore, I'm so particularly excited of now being able to share these insights from science and photography with such an important audience as in Estonia. I want to congratulate you for the launch and hope that this book comes useful in our joint efforts of transforming world development to global sustainability, not to protect planet Earth because Earth doesn't care all that much about us humans, but really to secure human prosperity in the future. So it's all about gaining of sustainability. Thanks a lot.


We can do little with tensors alone. We need to be able to do math with them. There are several operations with which we can combine two tensors A and B to form a new tensor C. We can add two tensors A and B of the same order, A i, j plus B i, j is equal C i, j. The result is a new tensor of the same order. If we represent the tensors A and B as matrices, then adding tensors is adding matrices component by component. The component A11 of the matrix A in the first row and first column is added to the component B11 of the matrix B, which is also in the same column and same row. The result is a 11 plus B11 in the first column and first row of the resulting matrix. This is how matrix addition works. We proceed in the same way with all other components. The result is the matrix C. We can subtract two tensors A and B of the same order, A i, j minus B i, j equals C i, j. The result is a new tensor C i, j of the same order. Subtraction works in the same way as addition. The next operation is probably new to you, namely the tensor product. Sometimes it is also called the outer product. Here, the components with equal indices are not combined as in the addition and subtraction of tensors. For the tensor product, we therefore have to label the indices of the tensors differently. The result of the tensor product A i, j with B k, m is a tensor C i, j, k, m. If we form the tensor product of tensors of the second order, the result is a tensor of the fourth order. If on the other hand, we form the tensor product of first order tensors A i and B k, the result is a second order tensor C i, k. This is how the tensor product works with two tensors of any order. The only exceptions are zero level tensors. In this case, the result remains a zero level tensor. The tensor sign is usually omitted in index notation. Let's take a concrete example of the tensor product that we can illustrate, namely the tensor product of first level tensors A and B. The two tensors are represented by the vectors with three components. The result is a second order tensor. This tensor represents a matrix. By definition, the first index, the index i, numbers the rows of the matrix, and the second index, the index k, numbers the columns. The tensor product does not necessarily have to be between two tensors of the same order. For example, we can also form the tensor product with the third order tensor A i, j, m, and the second level tensor B k, n. The result is a fifth order tensor C i, j, m, k, n. As you have probably already noticed, B k, n represents the k, n component of the tensor B, and A i, j, m is the i, j, m component of tensor A. If we form the tensor product, then this is the tensor product of the components. The result is the i, j, m, k, n component of the tensor C. When we write down a tensor with indices, we always mean its components. Nevertheless, we casually refer to its index notation as a tensor. Of course, the tensor product also works with superscript indices, which we will get to know in the next videos. If the indices i and j are at the top of the tensor A, then they must also be at the top of the resulting tensor C. The next operation we can perform is the contraction of a tensor. As an example, let's consider the fourth order tensor, T i, j, m, k. The contraction of this tensor means the following. We choose two of its indices. For example, the index i and m. Then we set the two indices equal. We can call them both i, for example. We then sum over the index i. In three-dimensional space, the index i goes from one to three, so the contraction of the tensor T gives the following sum. If we want to communicate these three steps to another physicist, then we say, contraction of the indices i and m of the tensor T. Or, contraction of the first and third indices of the tensor T. Contraction is very useful because it reduces the order of a tensor. For example, the contraction of the fourth level tensor T has reduced its order by two. The result of the contraction is a second order tensor, which we can call C j, k, for example. In physics, we use the Einstein summation convention, which states that we can omit the sum sign to simplify the notation if two identical indices appear in a tensor. In the tensor T i, j, i, k, in combination with the Einstein summation convention, the summation is performed using the double index i. If we contract a second order tensor T i, i, then the contraction is also called the trace of the tensor. The result is a zero order tensor that is a scalar. Of course, we can also contract the indices of two different tensors. For example, let's take a tensor m, i, j, and a tensor v, k. The tensor product m, i, j, v, k, without contraction, results in a third order tensor. Now we contract the indices j and k. In the matrix and vector representation, this corresponds to the multiplication of a matrix m with a vector v. The result ui is a first order tensor that is a vector.