I'm a tribe presenter, actress, if you didn't know. I inherited Fifth Avenue, Myshaw Phoenix, entrepreneur. Hey, yo, her CV is long, guys. Just go, just go follow, just go follow. And you know, Senjen? Ah. Yeah. Yeah. And Joe. Yes. We have mutual friends. Really, were you an actress as well? I actually did, but I've only done stage plays. I've never actually been on TV. K&T, River, this Michael Joseph Center, and I can't remember the other one. So you did set books as well? Imagine, I did. You did do set books? I found people, and then I just started doing these. Alley on fears. Alley on heartstrings. So it's called Festival of Creative Arts. Oh, those are powerful. Yeah. As we bond on air. I know. This interview might last case. OK, what we're going to do for the interest of time is we're going to go back into the juice that is her life. And before the break, we were talking about peer pressure and all these things, and thinking perhaps that we need a lot of capital or money to start our business and all these things, and not really believing in ourselves because we think we're too young, because I don't know, it's taboo in Africa to imagine that someone young can do something good. I don't know. I don't know, really.  What? Anyway, so what she's going to is just guide us through. Tell us how she first found the courage to do what she's doing and now how it started versus how it's going. That's going to be very funny. So you know how people are like? People became entrepreneurs because you got this amazing idea. You were sleeping and came to your dream. The angel of the Lord appeared. Well, that was not the case. So I told you about my background in radio. So first, we go through this selection. It's like all over the country, they are looking for top presenters in the world. No, when you're just from uni, these things really excite you, right? We are selected, seven of us. Out of over 200, so you're so confident and you're feeling really amazing, then you go into it. So as with these things, yes, you're selected, but it's a competition. But it's not so clear that it is a competition. So you're just going about your business and then so before you know it one by one, it's checked out, checked out like that. So I remember when it was my time to be checked out, I was so devastated. I was, you know how like you get your letter that, oh, we may not be able to continue with this? So I went to the washroom and I wasn't here. No. Yeah, so I was, I think at 27, that's a crisis. Because it's the first time such a thing is happening to you. So I went and I was wailing and weeping. But when I got out is when I thought, but I can do stuff for myself. Yeah, luckily I was still doing the talk show, the TV talk show. So that was my pattern. So I had now so much time during the talk show and then now I have so much time. A friend of mine told me, why don't we do events? And I was like, yeah, I love events. Why don't I start an events company? So I started the events company and it was called Bell Enterprise-themed events. Wow. High ambition, right? Enterprise. That time I'm the enterprise. I'm the only person. I'm like solo, right? So yeah, so I went and I went that those days, it wasn't, you didn't register on the internet, you go to city hall. So I went to city hall and I queued and I asked for a business name. I paid for it, which is like, I think it's too such, is 200 shillings to register is 800 shillings.  So it's not even that complicated. So I did two. I'm like boss. So I am a company owner of two businesses. So it was Bell Picture and Bell Enterprise-themed events. Yeah, and that's how I started. So I bought a book called How to Start a Business, which I still have. So I bought the book How to Start a Business and I started reading. So it's like, oh, do this, do this. I did everything that that book was saying. Then it's like launch and tell everybody that you are in business. I did that. So I emailed everyone, my friends who are journalists and everyone and I told them, hey, I'm in business. I've started an events company and so I'll be organizing events. Would you believe people were so excited? Like, what did it take me to start that? Nothing, it's just an idea. It's still even at the idea stage and I've just written like a few concepts of cold guys and I've told them, this is my dream and this is my vision. Already people were congratulating me and they're like, amazing. You're doing a great job. So you see, it made me excited and I'm like, I can actually do this, you know? So I did that. I took that. Then now the first event, which was on Valentine's Day. Ooh. It says like, I'm like, I thought about a name. I worked solo. There was like, I thought of Dance Your Mate, so shady. Well, you think it's nice, yes. Me, I thought it was so cool, right? It does. Okay, maybe I'm just judging myself. A little bit. But Dance Your Mate, yeah. Be nice to yourself. Yeah, be nice, be kind, be kind. Good job. So yeah, and it went all right actually. Some people paid to attend the event but I wanted 30 couples to attend and so I got like about 10 who paid and the rest just came in for free. I did food and things like that. Then I even bought things for catering. So the money that I was getting on my show, I invested into it, right? And then because I didn't really like how that event I started also now branching into catering. That's how I ended up catering. And then I was realizing, okay, sometimes events, you may do an event and you don't get the return of investments but if someone calls you to cater, you may make your money back and already I had these tools. So then I started to cater, yeah. And it was fun. In fact, even my producer then gave me a job to go cater at one of my events and things like that. And so I did that for quite some time. Then I thought, okay, so how can I move this? I was like, then I should start a restaurant but then I realized now a restaurant is capital intensive. You don't just start a restaurant but if you're doing a kibanda, if there are people who do a kibanda, you actually get to do it. But then now it was in those struggles that I went through as an entrepreneur that I started the network, you know? The DreamTribe Network Africa because then I wanted to form a platform where all of us as entrepreneurs can network and find more markets for our businesses. For me at that time it was catering. I wanted to know if we come together as 1000 people, likely I'm gonna have like 100 people to supply food to. And they are the person who's doing whatever business they are doing. They would also have 1000 possible clients in the same space. And so that has now ended up being the business. That has ended up being the thing that has advanced me. I like how you started with one thing. And it didn't really work out that you wanted to. But you took a lesson literally and then went on to the next thing versus nowadays I feel like we give up a lot. I don't know if it's giving up or if it's burnout or it's stress, I don't know. Or it's us limiting ourselves. Because honestly, maybe just confess guys. Let me just confess. Yeah, I had a venture that I was following up this year. And it didn't work out, but I did everything right. It floored me. I was there telling me about it. I'm so tired. I lost the emotion now, I was like. And for two weeks I was just out there. Literally I was just out because I'd put so much energy. I'd put so much, so many resources into it. And I could not believe it did not work out. Then now later when I've relaxed I come back to my hormones have come down. Yeah, now we are thinking like a person. I'm thinking, okay, now what did I learn from that? How can I make this gloss and quotes a win? How do I do that? That's my favorite thing from the story. Okay, so in conclusion perhaps, how would you advise someone who is watching you right now? It doesn't matter what age bracket you're in because it's never too late to start. How would you advise them? Okay, now they've identified their niche. They know what they like to do. All right, so now what's next? What's next? Okay. So yeah, I like what you said that age is not a limit because I'm also doing the same. What I'm doing for the young entrepreneurs is also one that I'm doing to retirees.  So then I come on board and just take you through the journey because you are able to now go through the steps. And I think even for you, like you are feeling really frustrated because maybe you are walking alone. But what if you actually had someone to encourage you and support you through the journey? Wouldn't you feel, wouldn't you stick through to the cause or would you have like a different idea? That was what I actually experienced as well. But believe in the beauty of your dreams. Like everything that you see today was an imagination of somebody who took a chance on that. Even right now we're on Y254. It is somebody's idea. KBC was someone's idea and they took a chance and believed in that idea. So every time you get an idea and because I'm also religious, I'm saying believe that God has spoken to you and only you. Cause you know how you think at your ideas or they're all over, they're just being distributed. There are things like, I used to think everyone wanted to be a presenter like me. There are people who genuinely don't want, like to talk to people. They don't enjoy it, but they don't like it. So we are so different and that uniqueness that is in you is just in you. That vision, that idea that you have is probably just in you. So if you don't do it, then, you know. So I spent quite some time wondering, am I on the right track? And that's why I was on and off full-time employment or but I'm also doing consultancy so that I'm also in line with my career. So then I'm not just calling myself a hustler throughout. So I'm just combining both. But what if you don't have the choice? What if you don't have employment? Are you going to sit year after year after year waiting for the job? Or are you just going to wake up and say, I have enough, I am enough, I'm going to do it? So you have to just take the chance cause everything was imagined. Yeah, yeah. I like that. It's an inside job. It's an inside job. It's a, yeah, it's setting yourself up. You have to like wake up and just say, I am my hero. And would you believe it? Like you can imagine, I was shocked to become top 35 under 35. Cause all along I was just thinking, what am I doing really? Am I even on the right course? Yeah, so it's just belief. How did that feel? I can assume it was. Amazing. I laughed. I went to all the others in the house.  I did. She was so funny. But I was happy. I was happy. At some point I was, I just, I actually had some tears and I was like, finally these speeches that have been making on Facebook are legit. Yeah, so it was quite a journey. There's someone who likes to tell me, always be consistent in what you're doing. Especially if you love it. Cause you never know who's going to see you. Exactly. Or going to hear you one day. Totally, totally. Although some day is, I know, like you need to listen to motivational speakers. Those ones, I started with two glasses. Now I have two ribbons. The ones in network marketing. Yeah, those ones.  Cause I think you become inevitable. You have no choice. But it's good.  And just some good vibes all around. And pushing, you know, each other to be better, be greater. Journey to greatness. Yeah. Come here. When you see Kamala Harris, what do you feel? You know? Power, power. Yeah. I love that. What if she never took that? Can you imagine? Yeah. And we also can guest ourselves, I think. And she's a person of color. I.E. Black. I know. And she's of Indian descent. I know. And she's female. And she's just breaking barriers. Everything, yeah. Yeah. She's just, hey, St. Jay. There's no one talking about you. Don't even know who we are. Yeah. But it's okay. Thank you for inspiring us. And I'm quite sure that someone who you have no idea exists, but you have inspired them. So thank you. Thank you so much for having me. All right, one more time. What would you like to tell the people before we go? Go for your dreams. Go for what you believe in. If you imagine something, don't, okay, unless now it's like terrorism, don't do that. But if it's something good, something good that will advance humanity, do it. Don't hold back. Don't leave there in fear, waiting for the perfect moment, perfect time. Believe that you can do it. If you don't feel courageous, teach yourself to be courageous. Courage is not something we are all born with.  And so when you don't feel courageous, inspire yourself, take yourself, expose yourself to more things. I used to be very afraid initially, now I'm not. Like literally even making phone calls, I would have to think about it for 10 minutes. Now I just pick my phone and I call. If the answer is yes, it's yes. If it's no, it's no. Then you move on from there. And so those are things that come with time. And so don't think that you're not capable or you're not able to do anything. You actually could be the next, anything that you want to be. You could actually invent a company like Safari Comp. That could be you. And so be all out and just go for your dreams. Yeah. I cannot add or take away, but all I can say is God bless Estanema. Thank you for coming through. And whoever discovered that and brought her here, God bless you too. Now, we're going to take a break again, but we will be back with our final conversation over there.  And we're asking you, when you were small, when you were younger, what did you want to be? And what happened after that? Hashtag is over in the morning. My name is Valentine. Please do not go away.


Hello, my name is Elizabeth Abramchuk and this is my poem called Imaginative. I was inspired to write this poem to show how I view the world, imaginative. I see things that are not there, cups or swimming pools, laundry bins or prisons, scissors or swords battling, beds or coffins for the living, umbrellas or bats, blueberries or many pomegranates, robes or mommas to thread, doors or bars of chocolate, socks or sleeping bags for feet, mushrooms or swamp flowers. The world is just a marble, the wind is God's sneezing and old women are potato nuns. Thank you.


The U.S. Postal Service has always been under attack by Republicans who want to privatize it and even some neoliberal Democrats who want to privatize it, right? But it's especially troubling now ahead of an election where a record number of Americans are expected to vote by mail. So the question that we're asking ourselves is will the U.S. Postal Service under the leadership of Luisa Joy appointed by Donald Trump be able to function at full capacity to deliver all of the ballots on time? So those votes are counted and that is currently an open question. We don't know now There are pictures online of mailboxes being carried away by trucks So the question is how many of these mailboxes are being taken away? We don't necessarily know what's happening with regard to sorting machines that have been removed and are now being destroyed according to this journalist of mail sorting pieces. They're just large pieces of machinery that have been yanked out. You can see some of the cords are just they go they were just cut. In addition to that, there's also a dumpster right there. And according to an employee that works across the way, they tell me that that dumpster has been filled three times since last week with parts and pieces of what we're being told are the mail sorting machines. And all of this anecdotal evidence doesn't really amount to much unless the post office themselves are saying something is wrong here and they're saying something is wrong. So their warning states, they actually sent out a letter to states saying we might not be able to get the ballots to people on time. So as NBC News reports, numerous states have received letters from the U.S. Postal Service in recent days, warning them that the agency that oversees mail in the United States will not be able to fulfill requests for mail and ballots. The USPS said that there is not enough time for ballots to be requested, completed and returned before the November 3rd presidential election. A starling development as many states have expanded mail in voting because of the pandemic. NBC News reached out to all 50 states to see whether they had received the USPS letter, warning of issues relating to mail in ballots. 18, including Arizona, Florida and Michigan, shared the letters they received. Vermont, Wisconsin and Kentucky said they did not receive a warning from USPS. The letters sent by the Postal Service's General Counsel, Thomas Marshall, say that state selection deadlines for requesting and casting mail in ballots are incongruous with the Postal Service's delivery standards. This mismatch creates a risk that ballots requested near the deadline under state law will not be returned by mail in times to be counted under your laws as we understand them. The implication is serious as the ballots of tens of millions of American voters eligible to vote by mail could be discarded because of delays in mail delivery. It also comes as the agency founded by the US Constitution undergoes sweeping changes organizationally at the behest of the Trump organization and faces a grim financial outlook. In a 10 page letter sent to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Friday, top Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer asked for more information on the planned changes at hundreds of postal facilities across the country that risk jeopardizing the integrity of the election. Rather than strongly advocating for the Postal Service's request for emergency funding, it appears that you are now using funding shortfalls to justify sweeping operational changes that experts warn could degrade delivery standards and potentially impair the rights of eligible Americans to cast their votes through the mail in the upcoming November elections. The Democrats wrote the USPS had also intended on removing a number of blue collection boxes around the country. But a spokesman said Friday that it would wait until after election day and reevaluate its needs. We are not going to be removing any boxes, said USPS spokesman Rod Spurgeon. After the election, we're going to take a look at operations and see what we need and don't need. So they were removing mailboxes. Those photos that we saw were taken recently, even though some of the photographs that people are taking and sharing online, they're not necessarily new photos. But they are, in fact, removing some mailboxes and now that they've kind of been busted, they're saying, OK, we're going to step back and not actually do that. But here's the thing, people are downplaying this scandal, which it is a national scandal, because the Post Office has always been under attack. So they're using that as cover to suggest, you know, this isn't anything that's abnormal. But the Post Office, the Postal Workers Union is sounding the alarm and saying, we're telling you we're not going to be able to meet the deadlines. Like the mail in ballots are not going to be delivered on time. So there is something to be seen here, where there's smoke, there's fire and there's an issue here. And thankfully, Democrats have ended their recess and they requested that Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, testify before Congress. Now, he is actually getting a pretty substantial amount of pushback.  Now, this type of tactic is exactly what puts pressure on politicians. It's what arguably got the FCC in 2014 to reverse their then ordered to kill net neutrality. And on top of that, we're looking at lawsuits. States are speaking out and they're telling Louis DeJoy, this is unacceptable. And as a result, it seems as if he started to back off a little bit. But there's still a caveat, even if this is a good sign. So as the Olympian reports, as President Donald Trump continued to try to sow doubts about the election with his latest assault on mail in balloting, the Postmaster General announced Tuesday that he would suspend cost-cutting initiatives at the US Postal Service until after November. The announcement by the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy came amid growing pressure from lawmakers, state attorneys general and civil rights groups who have warned that the changes made could disenfranchise Americans casting ballots by mail to avoid long lines during the pandemic. And it came as several states moved forward Tuesday with plans to sue the Trump administration over the election year changes at the Postal Service. There are some longstanding operational initiatives. Efforts that predate my arrival at the Postal Service that have been raised as areas of concern as the nation prepares to hold an election in the midst of a devastating pandemic, DeJoy said in a statement, to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail. I'm suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded. His announcement came as the Attorney General of Washington state. Bob Ferguson said he would lead a coalition of states filing a lawsuit in federal court, charging that the changes could undermine the general election in November. Other states, including California, Pennsylvania and New York, also said that they plan to file or join lawsuits. So at face value, this is a good sign, right? He is saying, I'm not going to do this until after the election, whatever we were doing, we don't even want there to be the appearance that we're trying to rig this election in Donald Trump's favor. Except the problem is that he might stop everything now, but just stopping now might not undo the damage. Like, do you understand they already removed sorting machines from post offices around the country? They have already collected mailboxes, so there are fewer drop off locations for ballots across the country. So the question is, is the damage already done? Can it be undone, right? And that right now is an open question because we know that they were limiting overtime. So maybe if they reinstate that, then that will actually make a difference. We just don't know. But what I do see here, which is troubling, is he's trying to hide the facade of, oh, well, we were already doing this. There were already changes before I came to power with the Postal Service. And that may be true to an extent, like sorting machines gradually have been removed because people are mailing less and less. But isn't it really convenient that we're currently seeing a surge of sorting machines be removed as the US Postal Service is going to need them like the most?  Knowing that people are going to want to vote by mail in a pandemic. So we should absolutely not trust what he's saying here. It's a good sign that he's saying, I'm not going to do this because I don't want to be sued. But at the end of the day, the damage that he did, it may already be too late, right? We don't necessarily know. They've crippled the Postal Service. They've kneecapped it. So they're going to be unable to operate. People are missing their medication. Like there are delays that we're all experiencing firsthand right now. So for those of you who think, oh, well, there's really nothing to be seen here. This is just a conspiracy theory.  No, because guess what? Voter suppression is not a new thing in the United States of America. Voter suppression has been happening forever. And Republicans are going to do whatever they can to win because they're ruthless. They don't care if they violate democracy. They don't care if they break the law. They don't care as long as they are able to maintain their power. That's what they are concerned with, right? Make sure that the pressure on Louis DeJoy is constant because the minute you let off the gas and stop protesting, well, then he's going to get back to what he was doing. Make sure that you listen to postal workers when they speak out and say, hey, we're behind. We've never been this behind before in all of the decades that I've worked here because if there's a way that Republicans can fix the election in their favor, they're going to try to pursue that. They're going to try to pursue that.


biggest contributing factor is on this run that you guys have been on lately five straight eight of your last nine. I think things are just going our way this whole season. You know we've been playing hard playing good baseball but just called us and go our way. A ball doesn't you know land fair the way we wanted to or just something happens and I think just right now you know got to clean up great at bats pitching staffs coming through when we need them putting up zeros and then getting a couple lucky you know balls falling our way and I think that's kind of what it comes down to. A lot of those wins are come from the high winds. Does that just speak to how resilient this team has been? Yeah we feel like we're never out of any game you know it doesn't matter if they score in the first second third you know we there's too many outs to go around you know we still got plenty of time in the game and with this lineup the way it's stacked up you know the guys you have on the bench to you know throw in there for pinched opportunities we just feel like we're never out of a game you know so we just continue to go out there and put our head down and work and work our work and we keep pulling out W's. No knowing the state of the bullpen after yesterday Aaron Boone called Heaney's performance huge considering the first two innings just how would you describe what you saw from him and the way he was able to go on to give you guys six.


So I'm not sure how many people are aware of this story. I myself am a little bit late to the party on this particular subject but I wanted to talk about this on the program because I feel like this is one of the most important stories of our generation perhaps and I Don't really think that that's hyperbolic because the outcome of this particular story the lawsuit that we're going to talk about here It has broader implications on the First Amendment on freedom of speech And I think that leftists have kind of dwelled a little bit too much on the cultural aspect When it comes to freedom of speech like we we respond to political commentators Like Steven Crowder getting demonetized and Donald Trump getting banned from Twitter and short those are Related to freedom of speech. I think tangentially, but if you truly want to reach the crux of the issue in America It is a crackdown on Political speech the criminalization or attempt to criminalize political speech that currently is not politically correct And I'm of course referring to criticism of Israel in particular BDS now Abby Martin. She is the host of the Empire Files. She's a journalist She's a documentarian honestly. I admire her so much like out of all of the leftists She's at the top of my list in terms of who I admire just her work is so crucial But she has a lawsuit that is so important so she was invited to give a speech and That speech in order for her to give that speech it was required that she sign a pro-Israel loyalty pledge That also says that she will not boycott Israel Now she refused the speech was subsequently canceled and now as a result she is suing So she recently put out a video where she spoke with her lawyer and got an update on the particular lawsuit here And I want to share some of the details here because this is so startling that every single person Should be concentrating on this because what her lawyer says the justification used to crack down on criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu's policies is honestly jaw-dropping what her lawyer says here It sent chills down the back of my spine because it is extremely troubling In February of this year. I was supposed to give a keynote speech at Georgia Southern University Before the event I refused to sign a state mandated pledge to not boycott Israel in order to speak My invitation was rescinded and the conference canceled as a result I decided to sue the state of Georgia because signing an anti BDS clause in order to work in the state is a direct violation of my constitutional rights to free speech And to participate in political boycotts similar laws exist in 28 states across the country You can watch the whole press conference with my lawyers with care and the partnership for civil justice fund on our youtube channel Which we'll link to below Joining me now is one of the main lawyers to give an update on the case Mara Verhaden Hilliard of the partnership for civil justice fund. Thank you so much for joining me Mara So I first wanted to get an update on my lawsuit filed with care and the pcjf Back in February when we had that press conference. The lawsuit was filed that day Uh, can you give us any updates on what has happened? What they've done to respond legally since then Since we filed the initial lawsuit We have filed an amended complaint in this case and which we've also been able to include some of the material That has come out since the initial filing that shows the communications going on behind the scenes In georgia where they were taking action to stop you from being able to speak In a service to the law that acts as a censor against those who Support the bds movement They defendants in this case have since moved to dismiss which is what we expected They've filed a motion to dismiss We have filed an opposition to that And there has now been an amicus brief that's been filed in support of your case By j street and by a jewish human rights organization of rabbis in the united states Who feel very strongly that the first amendment cannot tolerate this kind of censorship And so they have joined in this effort because they don't believe that the bds law is constitutional Regardless of their own feelings about bds Just days after this lawsuit was filed and widely reported in the press Netanyahu tweeted this he said whoever boycotts us will be boycotted In recent years, we've promoted laws in most us states Which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel so here you have a foreign country essentially threatening economic consequences to dictate the constitutional rights of americans Then you had georgia state officials essentially Citing i mean actually citing israel netanyahu as part of their defense For these laws. I mean, this is a free speech case under the u.s constitution So why is it that you have a foreign leader, you know Making veiled threats for economic consequences. Um, and then you have actual state officials in georgia citing foreign officials as their reason to Undermine the u.s constitution here It's remarkable and fundamentally distressing that you have elected officials in the united states Who actually are willing To sacrifice americans first amendment rights cherished first amendment rights at the request of a foreign country And it's demanding basically that you and anyone else sign a loyalty oath to a foreign country in order To be able to contract with the state of georgia and the situation Is so extreme that in fact one of the state legislatures debor silcox When they were seeking to amend the law and raise that limit to a hundred thousand dollars to try and moot your case Actually said in a committee meeting at the state legislature That she had been asked to take that step By the israeli consulate and apparently even brought a member of the israeli consulate to speak in that meeting Okay, so we're gonna stop it right there I want to direct you to the video itself like the link on the empire files youtube channel I want you to go watch the full video there. Um, give them the clicks and the views and the ad revenue I think we've seen enough to kind of talk about the implications here, but her lawyer literally said that the georgia state government Is citing The leader of a foreign country To justify their crackdown on political speech that they disagree with What Stop for a second and imagine that mississippi Stay, uh, they created this law And uh, they said you are not allowed to criticize the government of russia You're not allowed to criticize their anti-lgbtq plus policies or their authoritarianism You're not allowed to criticize them and the reason why we are going to pass this law is because vladimir putin himself said That you shouldn't criticize me imagine if that happened Everyone on msnbc CNN perhaps even fox news would be speaking out against this But lawmakers in georgia quite literally cited the prime minister of a foreign country as their justification as to why They are cracking down on the constitutional rights of american citizens. That is horrifying Absolutely chilling Now her lawyer goes on to explain That um the lawmakers in georgia once they saw that abby martin filed this lawsuit They tried to change the law and make it more palatable because they know that this wouldn't hold up To a legal challenge in fact just this year a law in arkansas, which is similar to the law in georgia Was just struck down by the u.s. Court of Appeals and as elliott setzer of law fair explains the u.s. Court of Appeals For the eighth circuit on february 12th ruled that in arkansas law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott israel Violates the first amendment in a two-to-one panel discussion The majority ruled that the arkansas law was written so broadly that it would also apply to vendors that support or promote a boycott Of israel even if they did not engage in a boycott themselves And the court explained that supporting or promoting boycotts of israel is constitutionally protected expressive activity the ruling reversed a january 2019 district court decision Which had dismissed the case and remanded the case for further proceedings And that isn't the first time that a bds law was struck down. There's been four other bds laws Struck down in courts because They're blatantly unconstitutional Which is why once georgia saw that abby martin filed this lawsuit then they tried to change it It's just honestly shocking that this is taking place And very few people are talking about it now What you'll see is that there's a correlation between an increase in popularity for bds as a movement And these types of laws intended on criminalizing bds. Now, this is from palestine legal So you can see here there has been an explosion since 2014 of efforts to criminalize bds It was struck down in four states as i stated But in 30 states currently there's some sort of anti bds legislation that's currently still intact And again, this very clearly violates the first amendment and unlike other types of legislation that gets proposed and state Legislatures across the country usually comes in waves bds legislation anti bds legislation more specifically That tends to stick out of 219 bills proposed 49 of them have passed in state legislatures across the country So there is an all-out assault on freedom of speech But the battleground isn't twitter Or social media I think that's a different conversation that we should all be having about the power of big tech And i'm right there with you these big tech companies have too much control in our lives But the real battleground the issue of our time as it relates to freedom of speech is this story right here And abby martin is actually doing what no other leftist Has done up until this point She's actually taking action to defend freedom of speech So i mean this story is incredibly important I will highly encourage you to familiarize yourself with the details of this case Because it has broader implications On freedom of speech in the united states like the fact that us lawmakers are using what a foreign leader says to justify criminalizing freedom of speech against us citizens that should absolutely Horrify every single person


Hey everybody and welcome to this live ask me anything or AMA or Q&A or whatever you want to call it this morning My name is Sarah and I'm joined by my colleague Sonya. Sonya. Welcome to the show today Hey, Sarah. Thanks for the invite So we're having a bit of a weird time zone thing because I'm in Scotland and you're in Australia And it's currently 10 a.m. For me and it's what time for you Sonya. Yeah, so it's 8 p.m. Here It's been a long day. The kids almost ready for bed I've got a nice relaxing glass of my sparkling mineral water To close off the end of my day because they don't drink it's been a big one But no, it's always nice to find these little windows of opportunity where our time zones overlap enough to not be terribly Probably inconvenient for both of us Yeah, because I think this is probably the first time you and I have done Something live or something together outside of team meetings for a while now because of the weird time zone difference So it's definitely nice to work together for a change rather than Send meetings Absolutely, and that's because we didn't need to invite the Americans this time right because the North Americans I know what time it is for them right now trying to get the three parts of the world together is Impossible without inconveniencing somebody but now it's great to get together. I know I think sometimes when I'm talking at presentations I introduce our team and I say that we are a truly global team because I think we live in Different seven different locations and we skip span like seven different time zones or something crazy like that for the eight of us So, yeah, it definitely makes our meeting schedules challenging Yeah, what's an IT pro always an IT pro right? It's that follow the Sun model Absolutely, and so today's show is all about Answering community questions and this is kind of a follow-up from the event that our team did on the 2nd of February That we launched IT ops talks all things hybrid and we wanted to try and keep the conversation going with the community And the goodwill that we had with everybody For those that didn't catch your event or aren't sure about what it was Sonya Could you give them a bit of a debrief about what it was we actually did earlier this month? Yeah, absolutely And so we've been taking on board the feedback from the community and looking at how things are going in the online event space It's certainly different to be able to get together in person And there are pros and cons to being able to see content that you might not have been able to have traveled to to go and see But at the end of the day, it kind of feels like a big webinar And everyone's getting this online fatigue of watching presentations So a team decided to try something different We went out to the azure engineering experts the ones that represent our product groups in redmond and Talked to them about some deep dive technical topics And so we gave them the Ability to talk about what they wanted to talk about for as long as they wanted to talk about this was not a short Format 30 minutes here. This was an opportunity to really get deep into some of those Concepts and we recorded these interviews and these demonstrations with these experts and then release them as a series of videos So that you could literally choose your own agenda You could watch the topics that interested you when you had space in your calendar and you weren't Fighting production server outages. Hello again. I see pro life And then as well as that we spun up a discord server. So we had a discord server running prior to the event We set up a whole bunch of different channels so there was one channel per session And you could come in and out of those channels and chat about that particular session Ask the speaker some questions and get some answers and Find that place to make those community connections talk to people who were interested in the same things that you were But as I said at a time that was convenient to you and as we mentioned about all of our time zone spread It was an experiment to see if a format like this would work for our communities Yeah, and I think that's the great thing I saw on twitter today Someone had watched one of the session recordings even though the event the event was two weeks ago And they really got the value at it. So it's great that the content's there and you can dive in whenever you want I filmed one sessions for the event. I filmed a roadmap session on Windows virtual desktop So that was pretty cool to see where we're going with that product because it's been I think for a lot of companies a lifesaver to be honest during the pandemic And I actually talked about that in my session with tom hinkley You did a few sessions those on you. How many did you do was it four sessions that you recorded with orin? Oh, look, I think orin and I did five between us But you know it was the content was just amazing. So we talked with ned pile about securing smb And smb is one of those little protocols that I automatically associated with file shares, right? And when ned gets into the depth of what else uses the smb protocol I was like sort of mind blown about the fact that he was talking about things like the net log on and the sysfoil Shares being open and any windows computer will look for domain control was to go and connect to those shares And so there's nothing stopping somebody in the coffee shop spinning up a Rogue windows server that any of the other windows PCs on that coffee shop network You're going to go and look at and try and connect to like that's the kind of scary things That he was talking about so that one was really interesting Ben talked about virtualized and hybrid backup and that's been unstrong that took me back to the days of listening to a vendor presentation talking about volume shadow copy and the volume shadow copy service and how that In essence pauses the rights of the file so that the backup service can take a clean snapshot Of the data for the backup and then tells the service to to go ahead and do all the reading and writing again to disk He went through like how that evolution of that started from the early days of windows server Right through to supporting hyper v and now how we use some of those concepts and we scale it into asia So what it's like architecting it from an asia perspective where the scale of virtual machines You know on hyper v vms that we're backing up now across that platform is just Insanely huge and so that was a really interesting one as well. Look um Steve cyphus. That was another good one. So windows authentication internals in a hybrid world I learned things about the login process today and even you Including the process for you logging into a computer with windows. Hello and what actually happens in the background like where that Authentication process actually takes place on your local computer and the fact that with the fast login process It's going to log you on locally to that computer Before it's even gone to the server and gone to the clouds So you haven't done the authentication into those two different environments yet. So You can get to your desktop and I remember you know back in the olden days and we had like Windows NT for it and the login process you literally would type in your password and go and make a coffee It would be that slow to kind of log on to the network And so to see what the windows team have done with speeding up that process to get people to the desktop as fast as possible And then have all of the other authentication happen in the background It was really mind-blowing But that just sort of speaks volumes to the technical depth and nitty-gritty that we were getting into that I think the it pros love to hear about and we don't get so much these days is that really deep deep technical content And I think the great thing about some of the conversations we were having is they relate to both on-prem Data centers and the cloud, you know, there's there's very much a crossover between those skill sets that we need to have nowadays You know backup something that regardless of where your your workloads reside you need to take care of so understanding how all that works It can help you understand when you're troubleshooting I think we've all had to troubleshoot backups that have failed and stopped and we don't know understand why So understanding the underlying technology is always great as well Yeah, and I do I do wonder how much of that we're passing on to the next generation of it pros when I first started in the industry One of the the guys in the team actually sat down with a white board and taught me about tcpip addressing All right, and you're right building up that foundational knowledge of those core components of the infrastructure Certainly helps with your troubleshooting skills when things go wrong It makes it easier to eliminate things that may be more obvious And I I do just hope that the next generation of it pros that are coming in especially now that they're learning cloud You know, they might not be going to that level of depth because the cloud provider looks after it all so I wrote an interesting post on our team blog about cid annotation and how that works for tcpip addressing just to help Fill in the gaps of some of that foundational knowledge Oh, yeah, I think networking networking was something that I Used to know a bit about I used to have a team of people that looked after the network when we did on prem data centers Now when i'm setting up stuff within azure, i'm constantly having to use like an internet search provider to try and find how to do Subnetting and what does a slash 24 give me and when should I use that a versus all the other different ones Those core technologies don't leave you although I seem to have lost some of the skills in my memory bag But you know they still translate so networking is this just the same So yeah, it's there's there's tons of things We've actually got a question from one of our viewers Sonya and i'm not sure if you know the answer to this They're saying that they're brand new to azure security and they want to check if there's a lab or a sandbox for azure Sentinel within microsoft learn. Do you know if there's something specific in there? That's a really good question. I don't think that there is this I don't think that the microsoft learn a sandbox supports the azure sentinel capability What happens behind the scenes with that sandbox is you're basically spinning up a temporary A temporary environment inside of microsoft's azure environment and because of that there are certain things that we can and can't allow people to do in that sandbox Some some of the riskier things like some of the identity The identity things in the premium levels We just couldn't have people changing that in these test environments Even though they are these temporary test environments, so there's sort of certain levels of protection I don't think that sentinel yet Is one of the things that these sandbox supports unfortunately It's interesting though, but if you let me know what sort of functionality you were interested in because I had a conversation with somebody about We were talking about the fact that azure active directory is one of the sources you can ingest into sentinel And they're like cool the documentation will tell me how to set that up But then what would I do with it and one of the challenges when you want to go and test stuff like that is It usually does require some data to be in there if you actually see what that looks like Like it's really hard to investigate a threat if you don't actually have a threat trigger in the data to investigate So as a cloud advocate, I have access to some internal testing environments that are pre-set up with data to help us Build demos and and things like that to to show customers So if there's any particular things that you're interested in that you can't find in the Documentation or in the ms learn sandbox. Let me know we might be able to demo something up and get it published Awesome. That's it's good to know it's good to know that Um, we're a great conduit for adding resources into mix of learn because I think both of us have been involved in either reviewing content or writing content or making videos for mix of learn So definitely give us your feedback in terms of that. I do know that the azure security center team have released a kind of um additional lab Um that you can work through so it's hosted on github. I can't remember quite the links I'll need to dig it out But what they've done is they've given you kind of a step by step Guide on how to set it up how to maybe trigger some alerts all using the free 30 days that you get with azure security center So that's another great resource You do have to sign up for an azure subscription But if you use the free license within azure security center and work for the lab within the 30 days It doesn't cost you anything additional. So that's another resource to look out for Um, Andrew's got another question about where should people look if they're brand new to azure? Should it be microsoft learn? Should it be something else? um I think we're probably both going to see the mix of learn Fundamentals path is a great one because I think you wrote some of that sonja And I think I've got the views embedded in it. So we might be a little biased there Look, we are but the interesting thing about azure fundamentals azure fundamentals on microsoft learn got an update just before christmas because The exam objective domain was changing. So the az 900 exam the azure fundamentals exam Did have a bit of a content change and we wanted to make sure that the materials online that people could use to self study for that Obviously reflect reflected the new way of doing things It used to be just one learning path inside learn and then we split it out to about six different learning paths I think that focused on the different areas Part of that azure fundamentals learning path is an introduction to the different services inside azure So that just helps you get familiar with the names of things and what they do And when you use one service over another but the very first couple of learning paths Really give you that foundation for a lot of the terminology that you'll see all throughout microsoft learn No matter what it is that you want to learn on azure So you'll learn about the difference between a subscription and a reasal script for example And once you start to get your head around that terminology It does just make it easier to go into different paths of what you're interested with its Database or security or development or some of the infrastructure stuff It really is just setting that scene for more of the cloud jargon. I guess to get you familiar with it Yep, and I've been using actually microsoft learn this past week to study for an exam next month And it's been covering off security fundamentals across azure and microsoft 365 Although they're kind of separate products There's also an interlap between some of the things that they do Obviously identities the big piece that link them together, but there's a lot of Things that are similar I learned yesterday for example that we have a customer lockbox within microsoft 365 Which if you're having an issue you can approve one of the microsoft engineers to have access to your data for a limited time to help you troubleshoot That problem. I knew that existed in azure, but naively. I didn't realize we also had it for microsoft 365 So I learned something new and so yeah, there's a there's great content there and can teach even old dogs like me new tricks And orange actually popped up in the chat who's one of our teammates And he's saying that there is something in mix of learn that helps you deploy Sentinel using an arm template. So that might be an option to have a look at as well um, so I know you've had a busy week. So and yeah, can you share any of the projects or things that you've been working on this week? Or are they all hush hush? No, look, I've had a very public week this week microsoft australia have been running a week called the cloud skills bootcamp Which has been a number of sessions. Some of them have been Pre-recorded and they've done a live chat moderation and they've answered questions in the chat as the recording is played And they've also been doing some live q&a ask the expert type stuff And I also did a particular session aimed at students Which was an azure fundamental style on the difference between infrastructure as a service platform as a service and software as a service Which is something that and newbies get confused a little bit in terms of the the differentiations between those and and where their responsibilities lie But the cloud skills bootcamp was really interesting the one that I did today That asked the experts live was preparing for cloud adoption. So I know that that's topic That's very close to your heart to sarah with the cloud adoption framework And helping people navigate the sort of things that they really need to think about getting in place or the questions that they need To be asking at an organization level Before they log into the azure portal and hit that create new resource, which is so easy to do But that planning stages beforehand to make sure that your goals your stakeholders are on board Is really really vital. So that was a good little session Yeah, cloud adoption is something that I talk about all the time I I mostly tackle it from a migration path kind of process So when you're moving um all your on-prem work loads up into the cloud And I think like you rightly like you said people get so excited about the technology piece that they often forget about all the processes And the people that are involved in the success of these projects I think I often talk about how the fact that you need to engage with your business Make sure you're speaking to your business owners and understanding how your changes to the technology are going to affect them And how they operate And also talking to your people the people in your it department Lots of people might already be Aware of the cloud and be up skilled on that and be doing lots of extra learning But you've also got to take them on that journey as well because If you move all your resources from a place where you know how to do it You can physically go and touch them to a place where you don't get access to them physically And then you end up having to run about trying to support these workloads in a place where you don't even know how to log into Or log a support ticket. It's not going to be a fun journey, right? I think we've probably both seen customers do that my great workloads up into the cloud and then not really understand How to work in the cloud as such and do your operations. So Yeah, it's it's definitely an interesting journey It is and I think a lot of that is is trying to figure out what those responsibilities are because You know, there is this perception that the cloud is easy. Just put it in the cloud It's all looked after and you know Microsoft does everything for you and that's all great so much so that we went through this period and still get it Sometimes where people are going Is it pro still a valid career? Like are we going to disappear because the cloud is now a thing and all the workloads are up in the cloud And when I think back to the start of my career And versus what I do now The things that we do are very similar. We just do them in different ways And so when we used to spin up machines and servers, you know, we used to Copy files for DOS PCs from one PC to another or we'd use ghost and we'd clone images for example So now we've got different tools to do that same kind of stuff security still security And there are a few extra things to worry about now But we've got extra tools to do it too and I this job has always changed It has never been the same in all of the years that I've done it and cloud really is just an evolution of that But it does take time for people to kind of find their place with this and try and figure out What it looks like to operate workloads in the cloud and then coming back to our hybrid theme What about when you've still got servers on prem as well and and how does that look like to be wrangling two different Environments and and what can we do for consistency and ease of management with one tool set across those as well So these are kind of the you know, the big questions that the it pros are today trying to figure out Absolutely It's about that ease of management as well when you have your workloads split up into three four different locations And I was actually playing with windows admin center yesterday and looking at the The I am definitely jealous like in the days gone by and you're probably the same as on you when you were managing hundreds of servers You would probably have hundreds of mmc windows open rdp windows open and maybe different laptops to get into different subnets and It was a nightmare trying to manage all of that and windows admin center brings it all into one place And you can have one window open and do your job. I'm I'm very much jealous I'm almost tempted to go back to being a server engineer and managing servers Just to barely use it Um, but that's a great tool for doing that management And it's not just for looking after your windows servers that has that hybrid Kind of technology because you can configure your azure backups azure security center patch management Um, the integration is just um amends from that tool. So that's definitely one. I love using and talking about as well Yeah So we did a really good session with jeff woolsey at our hybrid event as well ops 107 Where we talked about hybrid as a management plane He's a big supporter and fan of windows admin center And we talked about some of the benefits that those cloud capabilities can bring to helping you to manage it on prem environments It was a really good session Yeah, because um netpile as well as a massive fan of I think windows admin center from the storage file kind of story as well You can do that migration from your Really old file server to a new server all through windows admin center and some of the cool tech his team is working on as well If I remember yeah, it's kind of it's kind of annoying that it's not quite as in your face when you connect to a server You know, it does take you have to kind of dig in to learn about windows admin center And then go and deploy it to somewhere where you can fire it up But once you have you'll never go back like it's just so epic to have all of those different capabilities in the one place So talking about fabulous tools and products. Do you have a favorite product or azure service or do you love them all sonja? I love all my azure products and services You don't have a favorite child look One of the things I love about this role is I am a kid in a candy shop um I've found myself gravitating to some services more than others And I think some of that is playing off the strengths of our team so we do have people in our team with a focus on Azure stack and iot and you know in azure migrate some of those areas that I let them play with that because this that's their thing But I've I've tended to focus on identity stuff I've certainly been playing with some of the security stuff with security center and azure sentinel I've done a lot with governance with policy and compliance And that kind of bleeds into security with things like the security benchmark so the one of the interesting threads that came through from the hybrid content that Orin and I were recording was just how much of the things we do actually have a security underlying theme so whether it's identity or configuration of you know NSGs for the for the network security that there's a ton of stuff that we do that's all security based even if we don't kind of label ourselves as being Someone who's a dedicated security engineer or in in that sort of security roles There's a ton of stuff that it pros do that security related or we do it for security reasons Yeah, absolutely. Um I think yeah, I I'm going to put my hand up and see I am the azure migrate expert or fanboy or fangirl That is my favorite product in the home Which kind of is a good plug because today I released a new video That I did with the azure migrate product team and we talked about The azure migrate product and some of the new preview features that the team are working on so Definitely look out for that because that was an interesting video and it's full of demo So it's not just us chatting. Um, it's very it's very good. Um, I'm biased though, right? Um, so we're kind of coming up to time. I think it's been awesome talking to you today, Sonia Thank you for staying up late or giving up some of your evening to do this Thank you to everybody that tuned in Please do tell us if you like these kinds of sessions because there is a whole host of us behind the scenes beyond Sonia and I and like we said at the top of the show We cover a whole different time zones because we can usually get a couple of people together to suit different time zones So, um, definitely let us know if you enjoy this session if people want to get a hold of you, Sonia Where's the best place for them to reach out to you on? Look, I'm on twitter almost 24 by 7. Um, you can find me at Sonia cuff Awesome. Um, and I'm on twitter at techie last so thank you everybody for tuning in today and hopefully catch you in another video soon


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Digikey and Adafruit bring you this week's Ion and PI is from Allegro Lady Aida. What is this week's new product introduction? Okay that's just cool. I like it when there's new companies. I don't think we've done the Allegro chip yet but I like Allegro and American company I think and they've got a cool logo. They're all logo I thought was awesome really cool but this one again I like that you know that the die chip didn't get the rainbow thing still going on that's cool. So Allegro is known for doing magnetic sensors and they also have some motor controllers and stuff they do robotics and current sensing they're very specialized and they haven't been purchased by Maxime I think so this is a great time to take a look at their new sensor the ACS 37002 so I'm just going to call it the ACS 37 because it's a long number and this is a new generation of isolated current sensor this is current sensors actually taking good advice from the medical community and staying isolated from others like their circuits this is an isolated current sensor. So how do we normally measure current? Well this is like an old project I did and a common way to measure current is you have a very small resistor and it's either on the low side it's between the device you're measuring the load up or the draw of and ground and then you have an op amp you see here in the center an op amp and it has like a high gain maybe like a hundred or a thousand and then after you amplify that you measure the voltage and then you kind of divide by the gain and it tells you and the resistor and it tells you the current. Okay well you can also you know do high side low side is kind of annoying because your ground kind of ends up you have two grounds you have the real ground and then the fake ground so there's also high side sensing and it's kind of like this but the other way that resistors on the top of the power supply but this also has some issues one the voltage that you're measuring on the power might be much higher than the voltage of your op amp or your circuit like you might be measuring a 12 volt battery or a solar panel but your circuit is running at three or five volts so you can get a custom chip and some of these have you know they do the gain and they can have high voltages and so you can do higher low side sensing but either way your measuring circuit is referenced against what you're measuring the load of it's the part of the same circuit the ground is the ground on both sides whether it's high or low side sensing and there are a lot of situations where you want total isolation you don't want any connection at all between what you're measuring and the measurement circuit this could be because you have high voltages you have AC you have you know there's you want to reduce noise that may couple across the two circuits a lot of reasons why you want to have isolated current measurement so these this series of sensors from Allegra what they use is instead of having a resistor where the current goes across the resistor and you measure the voltage differential it actually measures the magnetic field generated from current passing through a conductor now you may remember this from your E&M class you know as as current passes through right hand rule you have a magnetic field that is generated and in this case you just see here a hall effect sensor demonstrating that it can measure the output and with careful calibration you can take that magnetic flux and back correlate it to how much current you have to do a lot of calibration you have to make sure that your hall effect sensors the same every time and that the resistor is very precise but it is possibly a very good quality current sensing so you may be familiar with an earlier Allegra chip the ACS 712s was a very popular chip this could measure under 50 amps it had about 4% error it had high bandwidth and it basically you'd have on one side you have you can see the thick traces are the two traces that are in line with your circuit now it does have to be in series with the circuit but you can see it's on one half of the chip and it could be high side low side middle it can be anywhere you want because again it's completely isolated electrically and the output is a voltage in the voltage you know it's either zero with the middle and it goes above and below or it's ratio metric or it could be from zero to above if it's only positive voltages either way this is the old generation and so if you're familiar with that chip this is the next generation this is a really cool image you can see here there's the Hall effect sensor in the center and you see how there's like four pins for each connection so you have like a lot of current passed through and the there's a basically a resistance it's very low because like 0.4 oh sorry 0.4 milli ohms so it shouldn't affect your current draw your voltage across the chip as much and then there's an electrical isolation using a plastic layer between the Hall effect sensor and the magnetic plate it's sorry the the plate that it's measuring the electrical current coming through what's nice about the chip is it's a much higher quality chip than the ACS-712 the inline resistor is much lower I actually wrote that down so hold on so one thing is you can measure much higher currents so it can go up to 66 amps which is kind of nice the resistor is much lower I think it's about one half the linearity is a lot better it's about twice as good there's you know a lot of things that are improved with the circuit since there's a next generation so if you've been looking at the ACS-712 I recommend looking at this chip as an upgrade another nice thing is there's a gain selection so there's all these extra pins so they added gain selection so there's you can see here on the top right you can set the gain by there's two pins and from zero zero to one one you can have different gains from 30 millivolts per amp up to 60 millivolts per amp so you can tune it to get you know the best performance because you want to have your current range be very close to but slightly larger than what you're actually expecting to measure there's also interrupt pins and some other good stuff this chip does come in a wide variety one thing I noticed is that there's kind of like a high there's like a low noise version and then there's also like a high range version so you want to take a look it's like if you want different ranges of different sensitivities nothing unlike the ACS-712 this comes in a nominal 3.3 volt voltage for analogs and digital converters are just really nice because most chips these days are 3.3 volt if you do though you have to pick the 3.3 volt version so there's like a 5 volt the 3 volt just make sure you pick the right one look at the selection guide here shown from the data sheet you know basically decide is it going to be you know bidirectional current great there's a couple that do bidirectional what is your logic level voltage and then do you want higher precision lower noise and then you can kind of pare down to figure out the exact model you want to get but you can pick these up a digikey they're in stock now and I even picked up some myself so I thought I'd show on the overhead and then we could watch a video that's again it's for the older ACS-712 but the same kind of concept I normally read the product ID number but this one's super long but it's digikey.com slash short slash ZRB8P4 but you can also just search for it and let's check it out on the overhead and then we'll play maybe a little video from them. Yes so let me lock on okay so this is how the chip comes so it comes in at kind of a standard wide SOIC and it's of course going to be hard to peel it off so this is the chip and then you know one half I think it's on this side four pins are the you know the one side your connector four pins are the other side I know it's so it's so small yeah one on the I think that's on the right side and then so yeah four lower pins connect to one and four hot other pins go to the other end so that's in series and then you've got power ground two gain selects and the interrupt output this is too close yeah so it's nice and big and easy to use you can even prototype with it and very high current range and again you can use it I think the isolation is like 4.8 kilovolts or something and it's great for AC or DC mention that it can do up to 40 400 kilo 400 Hertz AC which is one of the things that like a current transformer won't do as nicely for you so I think solar panels use high voltage and high frequency AC it's one of the purposes of this is to help measure solar panel output all right and let's listen from the source got a little bit of video current flows in and out of the package it travels in the package through a three-quarter loop inside the package and then back out again this current flow generates a magnetic field around the loop that is proportional to the magnitude of the current flowing in the conductor the resistance of these Allegro sensor ICs is only about 1 milli ohm and therefore the power loss is extremely low making them highly efficient in sensing currents as high as 50 amps continuous current an Allegro Hall of X sensor IC is integrated into the package and it senses the magnetic field generated by the current flowing in the conductor the Hall transducer converts the magnetic field into a voltage flip chip technology allows the Hall transducer to be placed over the portion of the loop where the magnetic field is strongest the flip chip technology also allows for the connection of the signal leads of the IC to the package leads on the other side of the package this also provides the high isolation of these surface mount current sensor IC packages while the Hall sensor IC is in close proximity to the current loop there is an insulating layer of plastic between the two as can be seen in this cross-section this insulating layer provides high voltage isolation and allows Allegro current sensor ICs to be used in AC line tied applications and once again get that on digikey.com and that is


So most of you, I'm sure, have heard about the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. And what made matters worse was the 7.5 magnitude aftershock that came after the initial earthquake. Now, they had more than 100 aftershock earthquakes following the initial earthquake, but a 7.5 magnitude aftershock is fairly uncommon. So it's disaster on top of disaster followed by a rescue effort that's hindered by horrible weather conditions and it's just genuinely catastrophic. Now, the initial death toll was just under 3,000, but as of today, the New York Times reports 4,300, although that is likely to rise and that estimate is actually a more conservative estimate that I've seen. I've seen some numbers surpass 5,000, although right now it's very difficult to determine how many people have been affected, killed, injured and whatnot. And as I film this video right now, the rescue effort is going on. So the New York Times explains rescuers in Turkey and Syria worked overnight and in near freezing temperatures to comb through rubble in search of survivors after a powerful earthquake and aftershocks collapsed. Thousands of buildings killed more than 4,300 people and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster in an area of the world already wracked by war, a refugee crisis and deep economic troubles. The initial magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit at 4.17 a.m. local time on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey and was also felt in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel and Lebanon. Hundreds of aftershocks including an unusually strong 7.5 magnitude tremor struck Turkey in the aftermath, the USGS said. The series of shocks was the deadliest to hit the country in more than 20 years. Now let's look at this map here, courtesy of the New York Times. It kind of gives us a sense of how massive the initial earthquake was and the 7.5 magnitude aftershock as well. And as the article pointed out, multiple countries felt this earthquake. That's how massive it was. And it's really difficult to fathom just how destructive this earthquake was. I think that hearing the numbers don't really do it justice. So I do want to give you a sense as to how bad it was by looking at a couple of videos. One of these videos follows a Turkish reporter and as he's filming, you see an aftershock hit and how devastating that is. The sounds there, Max, are absolutely terrifying there. So the reporter here is saying, as we are heading to the rubble to film search and rescue efforts, there were two consecutive aftershocks with a loud noise and the building you are seeing on my left was brought down to earth. There's lots of dust. This local resident here, he is covered in dust. It looks like a scene from a disaster movie. I can't imagine the terror that these individuals felt as they're already scrambling because they just experienced an earthquake, but then you get another aftershock and then you see buildings collapse around you. It's just genuinely chilling.  They kind of update you on some of the individuals that they found and it's heartbreaking, but I think that this is important that we watch. More than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the initial quake itself.  Rescuers trying to reach those who are stuck under piles of concrete and debris like this little boy in northern Syria. You can just make him out in this video here buried under the wreckage. Thankfully, he was pulled to safety. Rescuers also pulling this little girl from the debris in another Syrian city. The U.S. and other countries are offering whatever help they can. And President Biden said he has directed his team to provide any and all assistance immediately. Yeah, really, really devastating. And it's nice to see them finding survivors. You know, finding the little girl from the rubble obviously was very, very nice to see. The problem is, you know, how many disabilities will she have because of this? You know, she was probably injured on top of that lifelong trauma. So it's not just like the initial destruction that this causes. There's going to be a lifelong impact that this has loved ones that have been taken from individuals. And it's just very, very sad. One important thing to point out is as NPR explains here that civil engineers say that outdated building techniques used in both Syria and Turkey essentially a short disaster with multi-story buildings just pancaking, which is the way that they referred to it. And so this is something that every single country has to take into account, right? Because earthquakes can happen anywhere. It happened in Turkey. It could happen where I live. It can happen where you live. So building buildings have to be built in a way so that way they can absorb these types of earthquakes. And not every single building is going to hold up with an earthquake that big, especially. But these are things that you have to take into consideration. Make sure that there's regulations so companies aren't cutting corners and whatnot. But that going forward is something that I'm sure that they're thinking about in the future. Currently, they're just focused on the rescue effort, because this is a massive, massive effort, as you can imagine. Now, Twitter user JaRain tweeted at massive streamers like Hassan and MrBeast asking for help since thousands of peoples are going to need tents, heaters, blankets, diapers, and food, of course. Now, Hassan actually responded to that saying absolutely devastating. I was in Istanbul in 1999, which was a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. This was a 7.8. I will do everything I can to help. And that he absolutely did by raising more than $700,000 in a single day. And for the second day in a row, he's raising money once again. And at the time that I filmed this, he is at $730,000. I think that by the end of the day, it's not implausible to think that his audience will give enough donations so that way they surpass one million, which is really encouraging to see. And of course, Hassan Piker is an individual who is Turkish. So it's nice to see, you know, everyone come together, put aside politics, put aside geopolitical issues and conflicts and just acknowledge that this is a very human thing. Like experiencing this level of destruction. It's it's something that none of us ever want to deal with, but we all could possibly experience in our lifetimes. So to have the world come together, various communities come together, streamers come together and try to raise funds for this effort is really encouraging to see. And it's kind of like the silver lining where this type of disaster fosters at least a small level of solidarity amongst fellow humans. But either way, it's just catastrophic. And my heart goes out to the people of Turkey and Syria and all of those who are affected. As the New York Times article pointed out, people in Syria have already been dealing with a lot for a long time. It's a war torn country. So to have this added on top of everything that they were already experiencing, I just it's a level of destruction that is almost incomprehensible. Like, literally, I don't think that our brains can actually process that level, that scale of a disaster, right? So yeah, I will link you to Hassan's donation link down below. And I hope that there's more money raised for this because they're going to need all the help that they can get. The priority number one right now, of course, is making sure that they save as many lives as possible. So my heart goes out to anyone who's affected. And I just hope that the weather eases up so that way they're more successful at finding survivors.


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