You're welcome back. It's time now to go to the press and see what the headlines are this morning in the national dailies. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. My name is Jampungul Aghaji. Okay, we're starting today with nature news. Nature news headlines. The first headline there is Nigeria needs 3.4 trillion Naira to tackle flood disaster. That is according to presidential counsel and you'll find that story on page 3. We also have Dangote refinery petrol heats market July. That means we'll have to wait till July before we begin to see the dividends of having that. Environment monitor flags of renovation of conference hall. Okay, we have biodiversity day. Expert demand collective efforts to build back biodiversity. Biodiversity experts are calling for collective efforts. Okay, that will be for nature news or there are so many other headlines in nature news as well. We have this one saying embrace agriculture with technology advancement. That will be on page 11 if you get that nature news. Addition Africa needs 2.7 trillion dollars to finance climate change. You'll find that on page nine. Addition is the president of the Africa Development Bank. Okay, SGF loads a demo of a passion towards sustainable development. Right, Nigeria's wheelchair is so odd. Nigeria wheelchair basketball peaks 2023 African Games ticket. Well, I didn't expect to see that on nature news, but as it goes, that's how the cookie crumbles. That will be all from nature news this morning. Moving over to what we can find on the nation newspaper. The nation newspaper leads with we borrowed for projects to create wealth says Buhari. The writer there is president speaks on debt burden. Second Niger Bridge roads offices inaugurated. We also have the story about the tribunal tribunal orders consolidation of PDP LP APM petitions. OB LP get three weeks to prove case hearing must end August 8 witnesses to testify from May 30. Okay, up on that newspaper at the top end of the newspaper, you find Biden's team for tinobu's inauguration. Blair will lack will back incoming government. Okay, those are the words of a foreign countries, other countries saying they're going to back it. Tony Blair was a former UK minister, foreign students, but from bringing family members to the UK. Stop harassing Kogi officials. Supreme Court tells anti-graft agencies agencies. Yeah, and then Belima, Belima oil president, Jack Ridge celebrates wife a little bit at 30. Okay, that's not much of a headline. Okay, happy birthday to whoever is celebrating. We move now to the Guardian, the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian leads with the, the Guardian leads with division over oil search in North as NNPC returns to Lake Chard. That story is on page six. NNPC is returning to Lake Chard to look for oil. Buhari clays over 40 pending memos appoints agency heads. Nigeria absent as African leaders fault global debt financing models. You'll find that on page 16. We also have in the Guardian concerns as Buhari withholds absent to sexual harassment bill days to exit. You find that on page four. We also have Supreme Court cautions against harassment of Kogi officials pending outcome of suit. And page three, we already found that in the nation. Buhari's fragile pieces, governance sans rule of law. Part two. Okay, that's an editorial on the Guardian. You can read that up and it continues on page 12 from page one. Okay, we'll move to the next newspaper and the final one for this morning. That is The Punch. The Punch leads with a story on security. Security agencies raid hotspots. Biden names U.S. delegation. The riders there are housing and urban development secretary to lead U.S. team to May 29 handover. Security agencies to restrict movement to Eagle Square beginning from Friday. UK ex-prime minister Blair meets president elect says running government a tough job. Other stories are CBN revokes 179 microfinance banks, others licenses. You may want to read that up, especially now that a lot of people are banking with these microfinance banks. A lot of them whose presence on the internet is more than the usual banks that we have, the orthodox banks that we have. So you better read that up and find out if one of the banks you're banking with is among the 179. Panic in Oshun has 35 pupils hospitalized after inhaling tear gas. We hear that the police fire tear gases and pupils are hospitalized because of that. I'm also going to blame dangote relocated refinery to Lagos. I'm also going to blame dangote relocated refinery to Lagos. Okay, maybe it was supposed to be to be located in a state, but now it moved to Lagos state. And I'm also going to blame tribunal. We tackle Tinubu as hearing begins on Tuesday. That's on page two. And finally on the punch, Buhari years infrastructure deficit remains wide. That's the story also on the punch. Well, those are the headlines that we are going to be taking this morning. As much as possible, we will take these headlines and we have to discuss with it with us. Tunde Kolawoli, a legal practitioner here in Lagos state. Tunde, good morning and welcome to the program. Tunde, can you hear me? Good morning and welcome to the program. I can't seem to hear Tunde talk back to me and I do hope that he's going to correct whatever the problem may be and get back to me. We need to discuss a lot of these things that we have found in the headlines. Some of them we know them already. We need more insight to it. Especially as Tunde is a legal practitioner and we're hoping that he's going to unravel some of the things that we might find as gray areas when it comes to the tribunal. That is the talk of the town as it is because May 29 is here and we have three months. We have from now till August actually to make sure that everything is heard. Every judgment is given. Justice is being done. That's the word I'm supposed to use. We will have an authentic president or we will find out what will happen after August 8. Tunde, can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you. Beautiful. I was the one who couldn't hear you. Let's begin with some of these headlines. First of all, division over oil search in North as NNPC returns to Lake Chad. In the 21st century, we're returning to Lake Chad to spend all the money to look for oil. Is this a good venture or not? Yeah. Let me say that it is good for all that will continue to search. You and I will remember that oil has been found in Nigeria Republic and some parts of Cameroon. And the northern part of Nigeria belongs to that division. So if it is possible to get oil in Nigeria Republic and some parts of Cameroon, I should think that it is not impossible for us to also get oil in the northern part of the country. Yeah, but Tunde, my concern. Excuse me. And I think I have been said to continue how it is possible. But the question to ask now is when it is discovered, if it is not in commercial quantity, if it is not in commercial quantity, then the exercise might not be worth the while. Furthermore, we must remember that oil is no longer an energy source that the development of the world is to occupy it with. Even here in Nigeria, they are beginning to see glimpses as sooner than later. Oil will become a non-solar source of energy for technology. The legacy government, for example, has started investing in electrical and mass transit. The whole of Europe and America today, they are talking about clean energy. So why we are the third world country? Why do we think it is useful for us? We shouldn't devote too much energy and resources to the development of oil. When the whole world is not turning away from it and looking for very clean energy for power, engineering, oil, technology, and water. Furthermore, the oil that has been discovered from parts of the north is a lesson to others in Nigeria and Australia to the Niger air traffic. Before now, long before now, I have always said that the people in the Niger air traffic should be magnanimous and be ready to share the poses of oil with a counterpart in the north that it is not impossible that oil could be discovered also in the north. And I think if it is not discovered, oil is likely to be like coal which nobody is using, also not energy. So when that happens, and things are discovered in the north like gold as it has been discovered today, lithium and water. Will the Niger air traffic be happy if they don't say they are not? We need to share the process of that discovery. And with them, the answer is no. So the lesson here is that we all require to be collaborative. No matter what circumstances that we find out. Okay, well, because I was concerned about the fact that a lot of money will be voted into doing this, to explore and get whether they are going to have oil from the north or so. Why not use this on clean energy and what the world is diversifying into and all that. But here we are looking for oil at this time and buying electric cars on the other hand at the same time. And I was getting worried whether we are wasting money or we are using it well. Because if we spend billions, we've seen situations in Nigeria where committees are set and money is voted for these committees to look into an issue that required less money than what was going to be given to the committee. For instance, if let's say ASU is looking for 100 million, you set up a committee and give 120 million to the committee to look into the issues of ASU. And things like that have happened in this country. But that's matter for another day. Right now, we've heard that everything about the election petition tribunal should end if we understood it well. Maybe we didn't understand it well. But they said everything should end in August. By August 8, everything should be ended. And then there is this need for the consolidation of the cases of PDP, Anaticu, and LP, and OB, and the APM to get a consolidation. So what does that really mean? Is it going to affect the outcome of whatever is taking place at the tribunal now or not? Let's help us understand why people, three individual people, will have to merge their cases together. And what does that really mean to the layman? Tunde, can you hear me? Have I lost Tunde's audio again? That will be unfortunate. Hello, Tunde, can you hear me? Well, we seem to have lost Tunde's audio. I'm sure he can hear me wherever he is. And whenever he's back, we're going to bring that to the fore. We're going to be looking at the headlines, or we are looking at the headlines on the national dailies. And what I wanted him to really talk about right now was the fact that the courts have asked, the tribunal has asked the Atikwa Bubaka, the presidential candidate for the PDP, and Peter will be the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, and the APM to consolidate their cases. We do not understand what that is and how it's going to affect the outcome of the whole process. So we needed him to explain that to us as a legal practitioner himself, so that we get to know, because some people are saying that it might affect it negatively and all that. So, Tunde, I understand you're back. Can you hear me now? Yes, I'm hearing you. Good. Help us and explain to us what this really means, that the tribunal has asked, that has ordered, in fact, the consolidation of PDP, LP, APM petitions. What does that mean, and how is it going to affect the general outcome of the exercise? Well, it simply means that rather than take the petitions, one after the other, all the petitions will be had at the same time, and then ruling, or decisions, or judgments, will be given one. Because you now have three petitions before the fourth, and if it has to be taken one after the other, the tribunal will not be able to conclude this assignment. Within the allocated, or within the law given time, the thing which it should do is to work, which I think is about 180 days. I suspect that it should save time and make room for judicial hearing and delivery of whatever it is that might come from participation. That's why they did it. But I don't know. These are three individuals, let me put it that way, because PDP and Atiku, and then we have the LP and OB, and then the APM, and they're now bringing people who should have been talking from different perspectives and will now bring them together, and it's like a me against them kind of thing. I don't know how that works anyway, but you are the legal mind, and I do hope that they know what they're doing, and a lot of people have expressed the fear that it might give us an outcome that we did not like. So one fails, everybody fails. One wins, everybody wins, and if there's a win for the people who are petitioning, who takes the spoils? I don't understand. We lost your audio for a while, and if you're back, can you continue, please, to address the issue? Okay, we're still expecting today to rejoin us. We lost this audio there, and if you can hear us as soon as you get that back, please let us continue with what we're talking. But like I said, PDP is a different entity, LP is a different entity, APM is a different entity, and all the grievances may not particularly be the same. So right now they have to match them together so that the judgment will be fast, the proceedings will be fast, and everything will be fast about it. But like I asked, if jointly they have this case and judgment is passed, if it is in their favor, who takes the spoils? If it is not in their favor, what can they do? Can they now go back as individuals to repetition or to go to a higher court of competent jurisdiction and seek for redress or something? I do not understand all these things. Toonday, we really need you to come right back and explain to us some of these things that we do not understand. I don't understand it not being a legal practitioner myself.  Okay. We're still waiting, Toonday. He might come back anytime. But we do know that a lot of things are happening. August 8 is like the deadline that everybody is expecting that everything will be done. But we're just keeping our fingers crossed whenever we have the opportunity we'll have the experts unravel the situation for us. Tomorrow, or rather, May 30, hearing actually begins. Witnesses will begin to say what they're going to say and all that. But this is a time to call on Nigerians. If you know something that will help in this case, whether it is for the president-elect or against the president-elect or whoever else is standing trial as it is, please come out to say that. Whether it's in any space but bring your evidences, not conjecture, not supposition, not just assumption. If you have concrete evidence that will help in this case or monitor the case, even if you don't have any evidence, just monitor the case and know what is happening in your country and let's know how Nigeria goes. Dividends of democracy is not building of roads. It's not building of bridges. It's not building of schools. That's what governance is. Governance has no type of government as it is. Governance, whether it's autocracy, whether it is a democracy, whether it is whatever kind of crazy, it means that you will have to do these things as a must. Even if it is the Queen of England or the King of England as it is nowadays, that is superintendent over the entire UK, he will still need to do things, build bridges, build other things that need to be built, bring schools, bring healthcare and all that. That's not democracy. Democracy is the fact that you and I have a voice. We decide what happens in our community. We decide who governs us at any point in time. We decide how our country is run. So if people are in court because they want to rule our country or they are ruling our country, we should get interested in it. Whatever we can do to make sure that process is seamless, that process is transparent, that process is good enough for all of us, we should do it. I'm not calling on people to go and protest. That's not it is. But I'm calling on people to be interested in whatever happens or whatever will ultimately lead to the kind of Nigeria we want our country to be. So get interested. Listen to the radio, watch television, read the newspapers, go on social media. But if you are on social media, be sure to decipher between what is good and evil, what is true and what is false, and get some kind of checklist and say, okay, this passes the test. This must be true and all that. Check your facts and all that before you go public, if you have to tell somebody else about what is happening. But go to everywhere you can get information. Be interested in your country because the more people who are interested in what happens in our country, the more the people who are leading us will sit up because they know that we are looking like they always do the sign, my eyes are on you.  Ask the relevant questions. Go to places where you can find out what is budgeted for what and how it is being used and so many other things and cry out when you see that it is not done well. I give you an instance of things that are not done well and you can cry out. There was a time I was traveling from my village to the state headquarters. I come from Cross River State and my tiny little village is Bansara. And a less than one kilometer from Bansara itself to the major highway, we used like two hours because the road was terrible and we had to go in that car. The road was terrible. I got to Calabar that evening and I saw on the news, in fact a documentary done about the road of Bansara and it was the smoothest road I've ever seen and there was a signpost actually directing people to Bansara. A signpost I didn't see from a village that I came that same day that the road was done and we cried out at least even if nothing is done there will be people who will know that if they told a lie the lie has been discovered. Whether the government does something about it or not is another case. Whether the relevant authorities do something about it or not is another case but let them know that you know the level of lies or truth that they are dishing out to you. So get interested in your country and what we can say. There are a lot of things on the headlines we hope that you will read them and find out what is going on in your country. Don't just sit and read things on the social media and watch skits and all that because at the end of the day when everything goes wrong or when something goes wrong we all will have to suffer for it. Well, this is our country. Let's sit up and do the right thing. Well, we'll take a break now and one of me is World Menstrual Hygiene Day and we'll be looking at some of the issues in that regard. But just stay with us. We'll be right back in a moment.


The Great Search, brought to you by Digikey, and I thank you Digikey for supporting The Great Search. Every single week, Lady Aida uses a power of engineering to find you all the things on digikey.com. Lady Aida, what is The Great Search this week? Okay, so this week I am working on the ST Spin Breakout Board. It's an ST stepper motor driver with current limiting, and it uses resistors to make sure that the current limiting stays within the desired limit. And to do that, we need to have this breakout board that we're designing, and it's a fixed size. We need to have these kind of large current sensor resistors, so I want to show how I found the current sensor resistors of my dreams. Let's go to the computer, I'll show you the design. So this is the datasheet for the ST Spin 220 to see the stepper motor, and then there is two resistors, one for each coil. This resistor actually has the current pass through it, and it's quite a high power resistor. If we search for, you can determine what sensor resistor you want. The sensor resistor sets the current limit. So I'm going to follow the datasheet recommendation values, but of course depending on the stepper motor you want to drive, whether you want to drive at a full 1.3 amps, or a little bit higher, maybe 1.5 or 1, whatever, you know, do the math. But in this case it's .33 ohm, so it's 330 milliohms, because it's current sensing. You want to measure the voltage going over it, and the current is quite high. So in this case we're dealing with a .33 ohm resistor times, you know, maybe 1.25 amps times 1.25 amps. So it's over half a watt, because voltage times current is power, but we don't have the voltage necessarily in this case, so it's just current times current times resistance, which is like the same thing. And it's over half a watt. And usually when people are just buying resistors, you're buying a .402 or a .603, you don't care about the wattage, because it's a pull-up resistor, or a signal resistor, or a voltage divider. The amount of current going through is like under a milliamp, and so that, you know, you're never going to get over a quarter watt, or a tenth of a watt, or a sixteenth of a watt. So you can use these little itsy-bitsy resistors. But in this case, these current sensor resistors, because there is a full amp plus going through them, the wattage is quite high, which means physically the package has to be larger in order to dissipate that much current.  That's what the current is passing through, it has to be really large in order to dissipate that heat. One thing, you know, early in your engineering design, you'll probably spec the wrong size resistor for current sensor resistors. It's easy to be like, oh, I'll just put an 0805 or a 603. And then it'll immediately overheat and melt off, and it'll be super cool, because this will just go right off your board, pop. So let's go to Digi-Key to find a current sensor resistor. So again, I'm going to follow that datasheet recommendation. They say 330 milli ohms, one watt, why one watt?  You never know. That could be ambient temperature rises. It could be plus or minus 10%. So they recommend one watt, and we'll go with that. So in this case, we can look for this resistor. I know it's like, you know, you don't think you search for current sensor. But even though current sensor resistor is what I would consider a subclass of resistor, it's not sold separately than plain resistors. There are chassis mount resistors and such, but, you know, and adjustable power resistors which are kind of specialized. In this case, it really is just, it's just a resistor with a very high wattage. So first off, we're only going to look at stuff that's in stock and active because I'm, I want to purchase them and I also want to spec them. You might want to purchase them. I want to purchase them. Make sure you can purchase the things that you want.  And so I'm like, look, I just want to get the ones that I can buy. For resistance, you know, you can put it, I'll actually use these limit boxes. So let's go from, you know, 250 to 350 milli ohms. So that's kind of nice. It will select for me the, the, the area, I guess, if you can't select both. And then of course, the most important thing is that wattage. So under power watts, go down here and select one watt. Now there's 0.75 watts and I don't know, you can also select that, but I'm going to stick to one. You know, I think as I, as I really, you know, cause I'm just laying out the design to test it. Um, as I do more testing, I can actually verify like how much wattage am I burning off of this resistor. And then if I can get away with 0.75, you know, cause it's still more headroom than necessary, but I have to, um, want to, you know, verify that. Um, tolerance 1%, 5%, it doesn't matter. I mean, current sensor resistors, you're not going to get high precision because they're, they're just differently made. Um, they're meant to dissipate a lot of heat. And in fact, if you look, um, there's some cool weird, um, resistors out here.  Um, see, there was a really cool one. I don't know if it's, there's one where you can actually see there was like three elements in it. Let me, uh, let me go with stock. This one. No. There was just, oh yeah. Here it is. So this was kind of cool. I saw this, I was like, oh, that's kind of interesting. So you can literally see there are three resistors in parallel so that each one can dissipate and it has a little bit of this, you know, space in between them. So it's, you know, it's the old hack of like, oh, you need a, like half watt resistor. You only have a quarter watt. You pick twice the resistance and double them up and you get twice the wattage and half the resistance. Um, okay. Same thing, but done for you in SMT format. So one thing, um, I do want to note is, you know, which I've never seen before and you do have to watch out for is, it's like, it's an O805, but it's wide style, right? It's the wrong way. It's, it's like couch style or whatever.  And that's important because, um, you know, usually for this resistance you, you get 2512, right? Which is, which is kind of massive, um, for a resistor. I mean, we can, um, I think, uh, this is the resistor, right? Yeah. So this is 1206. Here's a 1206 on my board. Um, and if you change this package to 2512, it's like half the board is this resistor. I couldn't fit two of these. And so in this design, normally I go with price and I don't care about the size because who cares, but like I am fixed. I have to have it in this package so that this break up board can fit into like the standard, you know, 3d printing, uh, stepper motor controller. So the size of it is important. Um, in which case I'm going to do what I normally don't do, which is, uh, make sure that I don't have these massive packages. So I'm going to say, you know, 1210, 2010, I don't even want 2010 to be honest. I kind of want the smallest possible. I think kind of 12, 1218 or 1206 is the largest. And that'll really, um, reduce the number down. And, um, let me see if I can see what this was the 0805 wide, but this is a weird package. Oh, okay. So what happened is because it's a weird package, it actually doesn't appear here anymore. Uh-huh. So let me go back. So under supplier device, I think I need to click this little tick. Yeah. So what I ended up doing is that the one I found is, oh, interesting. It did not bid in one moment. It was, let me get rid of this package case. Oh, okay. So yeah, it's sometimes called 0805 or 0508. Um, so I did find this one, um, which I really liked because it has, uh, 48,000 stock, which I really like. Um, however, like I said, it's, it's weird. It's, it's like sideways style. So I actually have to, in Eagle CAD, make a new package because there actually is no default resistor package that I've already used that is this like wide style. Um, but what's nice is that it's a really good price. It's like, you know, under 20 cents per resistor and it's 0805, which will like fit quite nicely. It's just like, it's just what, you know, it's just, it's just backwards. Um, so, you know, one thing I learned is, is that as you saw, when you're searching for the package is just be careful because it's like, you call this 0805, but it's actually not, it's 0508. And, and I see this whenever you're dealing with stuff like, um, resistor networks and other like kind of non standard, like not jelly bean, um, resistance capacitors, if they come in a slightly unusual package. Um, sometimes you have to be a little bit flexible on how you use the search terms to determine it, because this would be categorized under 0805 even though like technically it's not. And then of course, uh, don't forget you have to create a new, um, package layout in ChiCad or Eagle if it doesn't exist yet. Cause this is an unusual package.  So I'd haven't done that, um, the layout for that, uh, 0508, but it'll be about this size, just, you know, a slightly different, you know, layout. And this, this will give me plenty of space.  So, um, current sensor resistors, very interesting, uh, you know, I've never had to pick one based on size, but as long as you're kind of flexible with your, your package options, um, you can get something quite small and there's a lot of it in stock. And that's a great church.


Thank you. So I'm waiting for my slides. Okay, there you go. This is what I wanted to mention that it is an European development and I'll talk about it. I'm from the University of Porto in Portugal and I'm Vice-Coordinator of NEP. NEP is the Network of Academic and Professionals of Eden and I will say some words about it because it's a very interesting organization. I will spend five minutes about it. Then I'll about 20 minutes for the presentation and I hope that we will have time for questions and discussion. Of course, you place your questions in the chat area and I'll try to to answer your questions. So getting to the point of what is NEP it's indeed a network. So it's a big network inside Eden or with Eden, but it deals with persons, with those that are dedicated to online or distance learning and it is a place where you can contact others and discuss issues and use also materials that are available on the blog in the Eden website. I'm currently Vice-Chair of this network. The chair is Professor Antonella Pochett or in University of Rome from Carlo where Carlo De Medio is also working. She's was supposed to do this introduction. I'm taking her role as placing some information about NEP. NEP is autonomous from Eden. Let's say it's Eden has a steering committee and Eden works with the steering committee, but it has its own initiatives and this webinar is one of them, for instance. It's one of the initiatives that NEP has to present some subjects to those that are interested. It also has a chat. Today, there's a chat on by Professor Antonella Pochett. If you are available and you want to attend, you can participate in the Eden web chat. It is for members and like I said, it's a communication forum where we those that are interested, as you know, there is no definition of an online professional or academic. So this is somehow a guild for everyone that wants to participate and discuss with their peers subjects that are interesting. You have placed by the Eden secretary at the link to the Eden chat today. So and it's about the roads to the next conference. So it's kind of an introduction of what's going to be and Professor Antonella Pochett, our the chair of the NEP will coordinate that. Just to give you an idea of the activities of the NEP, we are planning 11 webinars this year. So as you can imagine, it's a lot of effort. It's a lot of work. People are willing to participate in the webinars. The subjects are very different. You can see it on the Eden web page and you can also check other webinars in the previous Eden chats. Some of them have been more active than others, but there are some interesting things. So it's a peer, like I said, a peer forum, a blog where you can participate. And there are about 1000 registered members. Of course, there are many others that have somehow participated in Eden activities, but according to the Secretary General of Eden, he told me yesterday, there are about 1000 members in NEP. 1000 members is a lot of members for any organization. I mentioned already this question of the relevant topic, so participate and get involved. Okay, so that's my introduction to NEP. I will start with them now. Let's say with what I think it's relevant for my presentation. It's this question of the use of the EuroPASS as an e-port show. And these are the targeted audience, the type of people that may be interested in this development of the EuroPASS. The EuroPASS is not digital document. It's sometimes a world file or a PDF. It can be online, of course, but the idea is to advance the current EuroPASS to a digital format and template with different uses and different utilities, different benefits for individual end users, who are the ones that will use it daily or regularly. The facilitators, because it's intended that there will be facilitators financed by the European Commission or by the European Union nations, countries, that will assist the individual end users to improve the use of the EuroPASS as an e-portfolio. And of course, there are the recipients like employers or organizations or other peers of the persons that are applying the EuroPASS as an e-portfolio to receive information and process that information. These are the targets that the audience is of this project. This is, like I said, a project from the from the European Commission. Yesterday I was in Brussels together with the Secretary General of Eden on a workshop about how to improve SMEs qualifications and performance using online training. And the representative of DJ Grow from the European Commission presented precisely this EuroPASS as one of the steps to digitalize the tools that are available for a more efficient Europe. And this project, it was subcontracted to a company, Everest. It's called EuroPASS and it has like I mentioned the intent of developing the current EuroPASS to digital portfolio. And it has fundamentally six tools. This will be available this year, probably after the summer. And the first tool is the profile, which is the most common known usefulness of the EuroPASS is to have a profile, is to have a CD where you compile and you store information about you. That's one tool that will be available. All these six tools are independent from each other and they will be available on the EuroPASS website for everyone to use. This is for free. And the second one is online editor where you can use several possibilities, like to create and download a CV, to use language passports so you can translate your CD in other languages. And also cover later that will somehow introduce yourself and introduce whatever you're doing in terms of your digital portfolio. The third tool is skills profiler. It is a formatted I've seen it as an example on the on by the company that is doing this subcontracting for the European Commission and it's really useful because the point is sometimes you don't know how to list your qualifications. And this skills profiler is how do I say directory of the skills or better I would prefer to call it competencies because skills is just one part of the competencies that people have. But in any case it shows your your possible uses of this template, this directory of the several skills either in your job or some personal skills or in terms of your attitudes, your autonomy, etc. It tries to match what you do or what you are towards an overall list of competencies available for several profiles. So this is something that will help everyone to define who you are, what you can do, and now you will act. Most of the time some people exaggerate, some others are very timid when they present these these competencies of each one, but in this case the idea is that you try to fit yourself, your profile into a list of possible competencies that are available from this skills profiler. Now the fourth tool is where you plan your future. You try what I'm an engineer. So one of the things that we do in certain professional engineer organizations and in companies, mostly companies that are interested in that, is what we call a personal development plan. So you try to identify where do you want to be in one year? Where do you want to be in five years or 10 years? And this is what the SurroPass tool number four will help you to do that. And of course this will be available for everyone. You will have control of what kind of information you will be furnishing to the different persons that can take at your can take a look at your Europas. It's not how do I say open to everyone? You have control of the access to your information. And of course this not only helps you organize your life and your work, but it will also be possible to show to other people what aspirations you have, what type of work you want to do, what you intend to learn, where you want to work for instance as a volunteer. It's a very broad tool, but it will enable you to how do I say to materialize your future. That's basically what this will do. Now tool number five is a tool that where as you have seen one of the target audiences were the receivers, where receivers will be able to place their job opportunities and with the description of the skills and competencies and attitudes that they want for the for the job offer. And you can use this tool to try to match who you are or what you want to be towards what the receivers, let's say will be willing to accept you as a future worker. Of course in all these tools you will have access to the second target to the audience which are the facilitators. Like I mentioned the Europas is the intention of having facilitators that will work for free trying to to help you use any of these six tools. The sixth tool, the last one, is what you can use to formalize your application and submit it. Since number five will show you what is available number six will try to fit who you are or what you want to do with what is requested from any employer or any government or agency that wants to have a certain type of person. So these are the six tools that are scheduled for the Europas which as you can see is a little bit different from the current Europas, but this is what's going to happen like I mentioned in this here in a digital form. What are in a nutshell, what are the functionalities of of this Europas too? Of course it tries to be a hub a centralized platform where both those that want to hire people are looking for professionals and those that are professionals and are looking for another position they will meet in this hub, in this centralized gateway that European Commission wants to create. Like I mentioned, there are these six tools that are somehow a match with some of the existing tools that are available like the self-assessment tool which they want to use is a tool that will somehow compare what you are doing and try to assess with evidence, with proof that you really have those confidences. Like I mentioned before it's available for free, so it's a free web platform and it will be used to perform these these functionalities and like I mentioned this will not be public. This is just for registered members and the registered members have access to some of the advanced facilities but not to all. So there will be somehow here a match between your privacy and what you want to disclose to possible employers and to other peers. The conclusions and that's my personal experience from what I've seen and the participation I had with with the persons that are developing their web tool from the company's Everest. I mean you can look for it, it's Everest. It's a big company that is providing this subcontract to the European Commission. My impression is this is a well-rounded web tool meaning that it's easy to use and it's comprehensive on one hand and on the other hand it's aiming at certain functionalities and objectives. So I think it will be a success. Next year we can talk about this, but it's my impression. The other is that you can disclose your qualifications either with certificates or diplomas or with digital badges or whatever proof of your qualifications and they will be recorded and displayed to those that are willing to present those qualifications. The third one that I think it's very useful and it's a novelty is this support. You will have facilitators to support both the receivers and the individual users that want to somehow to present their own qualifications and their own profiles. It is intended to manage lifelong learning when you talk about lifelong learning and one of the things that is not usually done it's the proper recording of your progress in terms of your qualifications and this will somehow be a tool that will help you not only predict your learning in the future but also to record what's going on and at the same time to present the proofs and the evidences that you somehow had some kind of lifelong learning and progress in your own qualifications. Of course this is something that it's being mentioned constantly. The need especially in Europe for the upskilling and also the re-skilling. Upskilling when you need to improve your own qualifications and the re-skilling when you have to adapt it to new situations. So basically these are the conclusions and I would like to mention the next wave shots like I mentioned the road to bruises today and another one on the 19th of june concerning the conference about summing up the annual conference with the conclusions. So this is what I wanted to to mention today. I hope that I gave you an idea of what will be the era pass and I'm available for questions. I haven't received anything on the chat but I feel free to present any questions and I'll try to answer as best as I can. Pantonella is online so she can she can also talk about the nap if needed and present any answer that you may have that you may want and I I'm finished for now. So is there any questions so sure it was a pleasure if you have more questions you can ask me or Eden secretariat and they will pass it on to me otherwise if there are no questions the webinar will be available so you can take a look at what I said and consult the slides also well if there are no questions I think that thank you and goodbye Okay, Matthew see you in Baruch. Yeah all Eden fans good. That's very good so I was talking to the convinced people thank you ciao I think the Eden secretary yet may now close the the session I think the the the subject is simple, but It's you should be looking forward. Do I close the session or do you close the session?


TheCube at IBM Impact 2014 is brought to you by headline sponsor IBM. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Paul Gillan. Hey, welcome back everyone here live in Las Vegas for IBM Impact. This is theCUBE, our flagship program where we go out to the events to extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by my co-host here, Paul Gillan with SiliconANGLE. Our next guest, we're excited to have Stanley Carter, GM of the Ecosystem Development a social business evangelist for IBM. Excited to have you here at theCUBE, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thanks for having me, I appreciate it. So we've been following your career obviously in social media for quite some time. IBM has been a big leader in social business, obviously a big part of your entire company's kind of religion now, if you think about it. Just a few short years ago, it was kind of experimental. Now social business and social media is at the heart of the value proposition. Give us an update, how's it going? Is it still pumping hard? Is big data lifting that tide or all the above? Well, I would say that social has really become embedded in the fabric of so many companies. In fact, one of the latest studies from IBM show that more companies are doing social inside their four walls now than outside their four walls, which would have been unheard of three or four years ago. And IBM still considers this a true competitive advantage. It is the future of work. It's the way that people are working today. And I'm pleased to say that IDC just named IBM for the fifth year in a row, the number one social business leader globally across the world. And Sandy, I remember attending IBM Connect, I think it was last year and hearing some of the case studies, Caterpillar and McKesson and three Ammons and huge companies. Which are there on? Yeah. That TD Bank North doing big social rollouts. What is it that makes companies successful or not successful with that kind of technology? Because certainly we have heard of the failures as well. What do these big companies do right? Well, I would say there are three things that I think are consistent across the successful deployments. And first one is about culture. So one of my favorite things is culture eats strategy for lunch.  If the management team is very protective and doesn't want to share ideas and it's not invented here, then you're typically not successful. The second big thing I see as being a success criteria is the ability to articulate return on investment. So a lot of these big rollouts, we just heard from Pepsi and Petrobras this year at Connect. And they purposely went out and said, this is the process before, this is what happened after, and here's the measures of success. So they really had a strong way to demonstrate that return on investment. And I think the third thing is that they really used and leveraged engagement and influence. And I know we talked a little bit about influence earlier, but I think doing some of the gamification, so you have a leaderboard, you know who's influential. You curate your content and you get it out to them so that they help impact your customer message or your employee message as well. Those are the three things that I see consistently across those companies who are wildly successful. So I had to ask you about some of the things around social, because we're like, we love the social religion, we love the cubes live, pump it out on all channels. But the crowd is a big part of this now. Crowd sourcing is just a real part of the production.  So how is that changing some of the content development, whether it's content for the company to talk to customers to input for product development? Can you share some perspective on that? Yeah, I mean, I would say that those companies are going to be competitive in the future, have to crowd source. They have to. They have to do what you guys are doing, right? Bring in the crowd to impact what you do and how you do it and listen to the crowd and shape that as you go forward. One of the things that just came out of our IBV study is that those companies who leverage the crowd to drive their products and drive their offerings yield about 62% higher acceptance rate, which you would imagine, right? Because the crowd helped develop it. They're involved, yeah. They're involved, they're engaged, and they're part of the process. I think that whole process needs to be automated and we're seeing a lot more tools come out to automate the ranking of that crowd sourcing and ideation areas where you can vote and you can add on so that it's more automated versus haphazard or ad hoc today. IBM's C-suite study, which came out, I believe early this year, at the end of last year, found for the first time that C-level executives put direct customer involvement in the strategy of the company at the top of their list. Are you finding that this is a transition that executives are making naturally or are they having difficulty with this idea of the customers being involved in the early stage at developing and even marketing the products? You know, I think it depends upon the company, but I'll tell you a funny story. I was flying from New York up to Canada and I was on a plane, got stuck on the tarmac, sitting beside a CEO, and finally after four hours, he turned to me and he said, so what do you do? So I said, oh, we do social visits and I started telling him about all this social stuff. Halfway through my little spiel, he stopped me and he said, wait, we've opted out of social. I'm like, you've what? He said, we've opted out of social. We don't want our customers or anybody commenting on us. And I had to bite my lip so I didn't laugh like, how do you opt out of social, right? So luckily that perfect storm hit for me and I had a little dashboard where I could show him comments customers were making and it just so happened that one of the competitors had done this really funny spoof on him, the CEO of the company. And he said, how did this happen? We opted out of social. And so right there on the plane, he said, hang on a second, call the CMO. Needless to say, he's now adopted social. I think a lot of it comes down to CEOs and senior teams don't understand what social is, right? I mean, if you don't do social, it's hard to explain social, right? They think they can control it in other words. I think they can control it. They're afraid. They're afraid because they don't know what it is. So this has been some, this is a huge issue. It's a cultural thing. And it's also like, hey, you know, the future, don't turn away, stick your head in the sand, wake up because if you're not part of the conversation, it'll define you. The narrative of the conversation. But people are seeing things like the bashtagging going on. The New York City had, you saw the New York City thing where they put out the hashtag, hey, you know, share your experience with your, but people are putting the brutality and the narrative was negative. So that scares people. So how do you answer that? Is it a, do you have to build the army of crowd with you? You need protection? Is there a philosophy? Because in a way, you're out in the wild. Yeah, and here's what I think. I think that if you build up your brand army, right? If you don't just say, oh, the first thing I'm gonna do is have people talk about it, that you listen to others, that you respond, that you do that crowd sourcing ahead of time, then you go out with a campaign like that because then you have listened, you've changed and then you're more in tune with the crowd. I think that is really essential. Do you think that incident is representative of the fact that that's now a full 360 real time view of brand equity in the sense that it's not so much hiring an army, that if you have good brand equity, then it's naturally just basically people sticking up for you. Definitely not hiring an army, for sure.  So brand army, not for hire? Not for hire, for sure. You're not, okay, good, get that on the record. Not for hire, yeah. But the earned media is more of the philosophy then. If you earn the trust, the way you see it. Yeah, and in fact, here's the other thing I see as a big trend, is that I believe that clout or some sort of social influence score will become the new SAT for business. So let's think about that. You can think, my daughters have a 15 year old, she's gonna be applying for college. One of the elements of getting her into college will be that SAT score. And I'm starting to see companies do their hiring and really look at reference clients based on their clout or their social influence. It doesn't have to be clout, but some sort of social influence. Equivalent, clout equivalent. Some sort of clout equivalent, thank you, yes. And I think that is gonna be the way of the future, that people will look at and be measured on their digital reputation and their social influence. And I think you have to build that. That doesn't, you can't buy that, you can't hire that, you've gotta build that up. And the same thing is true for companies, right? You have to build up that social influence and then be trusted by the crowd so that when you do go out and do something like we saw in New York City, then you'll get some negative, but you're not going to get overwhelmed with negative. You mentioned engagement and influence. So that's a really amazing area I want to explore on. That's a hot topic. Engagement is the ultimate definition. The kind of engagement could be negative or positive. So the interaction is important.  Is there targeting information? Is there tools that are out there to help you understand the contextual relevance of the interactions? Just because someone retweets it, you don't have context to the person. And that's been some criticism of Cloud we were talking about earlier. Yeah, right. I think that to me, of course, I'm, you know, truth be told, I'm with IBM. So I use our IBM tools, of course, right? But I think that IBM has some powerful tools in the big data and analytics space, right? I mean, all the social data and chatter that's out there is big data. And you've got to use analytics to take a look at what is the sentiment? What is the engagement? What's driving the engagement? And how do you make adjustments and tweaks to increase that along the way? Interesting project that we've just done. We've taken 200 tweets, and in 200 tweets, we can determine 52 elements of a person's personality. I didn't believe it at first either, but we've now done it for 500,000 people. And it is dead on. So persona, algorithmic persona calculation. On 52 different personality traits. And the value here is that, using that big data and analytics, is that now you've got a solid way to look at the traits of a person. And then your recommendation engine is not based on, well, you bought it, you bought it, therefore I'll probably buy it too. It's based on, our personalities are the same. And therefore, so some of the pilots that we're doing, we're seeing tremendous increases in recommendation, tremendous increases in engagement because of that type of work. And of course, it's all based on IBM tools. If you know who you're talking to, you can be more engaging. Yes. That's your thesis. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Sandy, IBM could do the industry a great service by coming up with a social metric better than cloud. So I'll just put it in my vote for that. I would love that too, yeah, I'm with you. One thing I noticed this morning at the keynote was there was a lot of talk that was about cloud, about analytics, and about mobile. Social was not mentioned. And I'm wondering, of course, in every conference I've been to for the last three years involving IBM, social has been the center. Is social now simply a component of unstructured data for analytics? Is that where its home is? So here's how I would view it. You know, today we talked a lot about mobile. If you think about social, 68% of social interaction is done on mobile device. So when we talked about mobile, and many of the examples we used on stage, IQ for instance, where they have the mobile retail, it's all social, it's all social. And so I think today maybe the emphasis was on the mobile side in that particular example, but social is embedded and lives throughout it. Do you see IBM as continuing to be the advocate for social business? Absolutely. I mean, you basically coined the term and have been the evangelist for it. Is that a role that IBM will continue to fulfill? No question, absolutely. I think we'll remain number one in that space and we'll continue to do that because we do see it as such an important element of a company, right? Of its workforce and engagement. The new data sets you mentioned, Shadr is a many predictive analytics behind that. The younger workforce coming in are not necessarily used to using the telephone or it's an email, that matter. What's a telephone? They didn't even set up their, my son doesn't even set up his voicemail. I said your voicemail, no, that's what old people do. Text me, like, okay. They don't even use email anymore. And I love Snapchat. They love things that come and go fast and there's no record. So this is the new, these are new vehicles. Yeah, this is the new way we're going to be working forever. So IBM will continue to play because it is the new way to work and I think we'll continue to be the leader there.  So you'll hear us talk about that as an ingredient in everything. So I'm the CMO of a big $100 million campaign we're running, we're putting all this money into social. I want closed loop. Yeah. What are you seeing there? I mean, that's the holy grail. Everyone wants a closed loop and I know it's a little bit more elusive right now but ROY is now coming onto the table. What are some of the closed loop techniques you're seeing that are working and what areas need more kind of evolution, if you will? Well, I mean, one of the things I see that I think is really important is having some sort of software behind the closed loop. I still see many companies that have a front end or a gateway and behind the scenes is all manual and that's just not going to happen with the amount of data, the number of consumers. You can't do social in a non-automated fashion. I think that's number one. I think number two is designing the campaign so that it's not a traditional funnel but that with social you're nurturing.  So it's really a perpetual campaign and therefore you've got to pick a start and a stop but it's not your normal marketing. It's not your father's or your mother's marketing. It's completely different today. It's not a media buy and you move on to the next thing. Right. Exactly. I'm going to ask you about marketing. An economist study last year found that marketing organizations about 80% of companies marketing owns social. Yet we're seeing social permeate customer service, even product development. 10 years from now will marketing still be responsible for social and who should own it? I don't believe so. Now in fact if you take a look at some of the more progressive companies we talked about earlier they have either the CEO that owns it or they have actually a digital office that owns it that reports and covers product service, purchasing, marketing, the whole nine yards because social can be embedded in every process that you have. So I think the more progressive companies don't have social owned by their marketing teams. Their marketing teams still do social, digital is still an element but it's not owned by them. In terms of IBM's role in the social ecosystem going forward obviously you have no aspirations to become Facebook. Are you going to be the plumbing company? Are you going to, do you want to put all the pieces together to help companies fully implement social throughout their interactions with customers and their constituents? Yeah I think that we will have the ingredient called social and I think again you're going to see us in smarter cities, have social for citizens, smarter commerce, social for consumers, smarter workforce, social for employees, you'll see it there. But you also saw something very significant today that is also social which is that IBM cloud marketplace. We announced that today and imagine that. That is the market voting. That is the ultimate crowdsourcing. That is the market voting on the services that will win in different areas. That is the market defining the services. That is the market collaborating together in that overall marketplace. So I think that will be another leadership position that IBM takes in social is creating these mashables where people can mash up their social application, their closed loop process, their whole EMM system will come out of that I think that marketplace. So you're the team of the ecosystem that is what you're referring to the marketplace. Is that tied to socials? Is that separate is all one big? Well it's socials embedded in it because if you think about it the marketplace has a set of services in it and the market votes if you would votes for the top services. So that's crowdsourcing right? They collaborate together to create. Gamification meets. Right, gamification. You collaborate together in a social setting to create the next thing. I mean, it's essentially socials embedded throughout that marketplace. That's an important distinction though, Sandy. And I saw your tweets about this morning, a lot of exclamation points and your tweets about the cloud marketplace. Obviously something you're very excited about. That whole aspect of sharing, I think we think of marketplace as being in the Apple mode or the Google Play mode where it's discrete apps that you grab. What you're saying is this is a different model of a marketplace? Yeah, they're actually, as someone described it, which I thought was great, is instead of doing development you're actually going to do mashing. You're going to mash up services. You're going to see ratings from others on a service. So a rating system, a recommendation system. You're going to see comments on what's needed in the marketplace so that others can maybe create or you can help create with it. I mean, it's really becoming together cloud, social, mobile in a single place. It's people-centric. Someone has used the service IFTTT, if this, then that. I'm sure you've seen it. It sounds sort of like that where people create, that people create little apps and then others use them and adapt them to their own purposes. And they can mash up and use it as an element, right? So think about, you may want price optimization for a territory. You can mash that into what you're doing in your application. It's so powerful and it's living social, right? It's social as the ingredient to drive the success. Social, it's more of a membrane. It's ongoing. It's never ending. It's constantly, it's being mature. I like that philosophy. I'll give you the final word on our segment here. Here's Sandy Carter, social media evangelist, GM of the ecosystem development. What is the, in your words, the next wave of social going to look like? If we're now kind of like, I compare to the web and when everyone's poo poo in the web in the 90s, you know, the web is the obvious thing. Webmaster was just a role, like kind of like a social media manager. Came really prominent in digital. If you believe that, we're in social and wave two is coming. What do you expect to see in wave two? Well, I expect to see a couple things. One is more gamification. I think gamification is just getting started. I think it will be embedded everywhere. I expect to see social playing a more of a role in internet of things. So if you look today at VC investment, it's happening today primarily in that internet of things and imagine all of that data and the potential for social sharing from that internet of things in healthcare and financial services. I just think it's going to be a phenomenal next step for social as we move forward. We're here live at theCUBE. Live doing our part, live social media here and the social impact lounge in the Venetian IBM Impact. This is theCUBE. Thanks for watching. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break. Right back.


Tommy here from Learn Systems and should you trust your network with ubiquity or should you trust yourself to install ubiquity? And that's probably a bigger question. As far as the brand itself in terms of being able to install it and does it do with claims, does it do with the marketing people say, which is provide wireless access or provide switching or provide routing? Yes, yes, and yes. We've actually installed quite a few of these devices, actually looked it up just for 2022 on the projects internally that we worked on as in we deployed them directly for clients. We spent over $200,000 just on access points and switches. And we have had extremely low failure rate. They work wonderful. I wouldn't say the failure rates any higher than any other product we've used. I've had people complain saying there's high failure rates, but that doesn't really seem to hold up. And I don't really know the authority of the people commenting because they're often anonymous random usernames on YouTube, occasionally some random usernames on other social platforms that seem to really just want to dump on a product and tell me that's garbage, get their caps lock ready and don't give me any other context to have me understand why they think it's garbage. Now, my experience besides buying the hardware also comes from consulting on it. And that's a pretty broad term, I know, but let's break down the stats of just how much consulting we do on Unify. Now we use a service called You Can Book Me. It is a service that we have plugged into our booking process. So when we send people a link, they can fill out a form and put their credit card in and easily buy basic consulting hours from us. Not 100% of our consulting is done this way. Sometimes people buy block hours, but this will establish kind of a perspective for how many bookings just came through this particular form. So this is between 1 1 2022 and 11 29 2022 today. So these are bookings done this year, it sends it to an email address. And we've already downloaded that file. So then we're going to go grip CI booked. And what that is is count and ignore case for number of books in this particular file, which gives us 544 so far this year. And then we're going to filter this for the word Unify. Because people fill out a description of what they want to consulting on. And there's a 126 of them. And if you're curious, how many people capitalize Unify like I was, I was like, well, let's go ahead and how many have a capital Unify and maybe how many capitalize the f in Unified. Oh, okay. So it gives you some other numbers and maybe how many people just do it lowercase. Why not while we're here? All right, 19 of them. And all those other businesses we've consulted with many of them are internal IT teams or sometimes individual IT companies or IT business owners who need a little help building out and establishing their network. That is just something we offer something we do. So yes, I know that's a little self-serving thing that we offer as a service. But I want to establish after all these bookings, even, you know, me consulting with all the technicians, I'm not the one doing it. I have an entire team of doing it. And I always ask my technicians, what was the problem? Would you find what was, you know, the issue? Was it an unsolvable buggy Unify software? Or was it just misconfiguration? And 99% of times the problems we run into are misconfiguration, all kinds of things like people using mixed environments being one of the more common things we get consulting for because they only want to replace a segment of their environment, not all of it at once. And that makes sense. Now, in terms of scale, not just quantity, but the scale that we've installed that we have plenty of sites that we've done, they have well over 300 access points and 100 switches at that location, distributing a series of separate networks, sometimes guests, sometimes internal or secure networks across there. So it's not just home users or anything like that. When it comes to the bookings, it's quite a few large scale projects. And that being said, once again, we wouldn't recommend or be deploying these if they didn't work.  But I have no business affiliation with them with the exception of the affiliate link I had. And I say had because briefly me and several other people on YouTube like crosstalk solutions, we all had affiliate links from ubiquity, which we were happy to say, Hey, click our affiliate link, and we'll get a commission. But that was a short lived idea that ubiquity had. And hey, cool, while it lasted, I'll take the free clicks. But well, there's no more affiliate links.  And that's it. In terms of me sharing this knowledge, other than doing consulting, something that my company offers, there's not really any reason for me to tell you other than just to be honest and just to be truthful about the product. I don't have anything else to gain. Well, maybe a few more consulting calls for people that want to learn about it. But I also have a lot of videos that, well, people can watch and there's not just me, many people create a lot of ubiquity videos to talk about the product, how it works. And it's been a good way ubiquities done their marketing by just kind of sending products to people. Now, in the past, distant past, they did send me products. But I think I've ranted a few too many times about my dislike of their firewalls, because, well, they just quit sending me things. And I've always disclosed upfront when something was sent to me, just so you can understand that it was sent to me, but it's never, you know, changed my review. Hence the reason that when they sent me a firewall, I ranted about the problems I had with it. But I think that's why they don't send me anything more. So I just been buying everything myself every time I want one of the ubiquity products to review, to test, or to do some teaching on. But my goal today was just to kind of establish that, yes, it's still a trusted brand to me. I haven't really found any alternatives that made me go, wow, that is a great solution. I have been reviewing and testing some of the new Cisco stuff. And once again, I think someone at Cisco heard the F word, free word. And Cisco, what I thought was going to become out with a system that allowed you to host the controller like ubiquity does, but there's still licensing attached to it. Once you have over, I think it's 25 devices, I'll have to look it up because reviews coming on now. And then the other companies have found ways to have licensing fees or not allow you to self host the controller. They put it all in their cloud, which even if they're not charging for it today, this goes with many of the companies, the cloud's never free. If you have to host and pay for the infrastructure, there comes a point when someone goes, hey, we have enough people that we can probably just start charging for it. This is one of the reasons ubiquity has established this self hostable controller, and it's done so well. They really, and there's not much competition in the market for that. I think it's one of those other companies just can't get with it. They're just hoping ubiquity will fail. They'll hope in that this idea that ubiquity has had that's been running for a number of years and they're a publicly traded company with fast growth, that it will just fail and it won't work. And people will eventually have to go to the paid model again. And that's just the way the old companies have always established that you pay for these controllers, you license it, and you don't get to own any of your products, you just have to keep paying licensing fees forever. Ubiquity is kind of still standing alone in the market as far as an established competitor that will work without the licensing fees. People always ask me, what's the alternative? And I'm like, I don't know, I would love it. I would love more competition in the market, but I'm not sure which company is going to really step up to plate to actually do it right. I haven't seen it yet. And yes, I've tested plenty of other products. Feel free to leave other suggestions down below. And yes, I've tested trend net ones as well, which I was not real impressed with security. Now, my final thoughts on ubiquity being the solution for everything. And that's certainly not the case. If you have a network design that requires switches that have routing capabilities, then don't choose ubiquity. Yes, I know there's boxes that say, into marketing, people say, yes, it does layer through routing on the switch. And I wouldn't recommend using it. Same thing with their firewalls. I'm not a big fan of them. We use PF sense instead. That's kind of my go to firewall. We've actually found with the exception of the sonic wall DHCP problem, which if you Google that, you can find some problems where DHCP leases wouldn't go through the APs. I don't remember why I think there was a series of firmware changes that you had to do to fix that and find the right version of the right firmware to make that work. But for the most part, most other firewalls that we run into, which is actually a lot of 40 nets as well, don't seem to have any problem with the ubiquity. Our preference is PF sense, but you know, it's not the only one it will work with. Now, the last thing I'll comment on with all the hardware we bought and all the consulting we did, what about failure rates? How many times have you found these to fail in terms of specifically access point and switches? And as under a percent, we just don't have that many return. We've had more switches than access points fail. I just think that's kind of be the nature of things because it's almost always when a switch fails. It's usually a PoE switch. Sometimes it's in a room that may have been a little bit hot and that's probably a contributing factor on there. And PoE switches the earlier ones, especially if you had one of the old 16 port ones, yeah, those ones would definitely run a little hot. The eight port ones would run a little hot too. But they've always surprised me of not failing. I don't recall any ones that we've installed of the eight port variety, which is I believe an older discontinued version. Those were hot switches that, well, shockingly have held up over the years. We even have one in my office that's been running number of years now without any problems at all. And it's running several cameras on it. It actually runs our unified camera center office. We've just been kind of curious how long it will last. And so far, I'm impressed. It's working very well. But the Gen2 switches with better airflow, I think they've kind of mitigated that in case you're in a overly hot room. But I will quit ranting on this, leave your comments and concerns down below as I'm always curious what people's sales objections are for it. And as I said, I'm just trying to serve as a data point. I'm not here to tell you this is the product. I'm not a spokesperson or a sales person for the product, but it is a product we implement a lot. So I wanted to share my knowledge and experience on that product right here on my channel. 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What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. We're ripping 22 Panini Obsidian football hobby, 12 box, full case break, number three, random division style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website, under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. It's good luck here, everybody. Let's do some Obsidian. All right. What about... Konseko is a good one. Konseko is a really good one. He said A-Rod, right? Yeah, we said A-Rod. Willie Mays. Maybe he was... All right. It's a top 30. Top 30 in OPS since 1960. Since 1960. With a minimum 5,000 plate appearances. Yes. Sauce Gardener to 100. And Trevor Lawrence to 50. Mays 23, all right. That's top 30. Michael Carter. Josh Allen, 37. Yes, 37 out of 50. Patch for the AFC East. AFC South, we've got 92 out of 99. Jalen Petrie, the AFC South on the Orange. 26. No, 28 out of 50. NFC North, that is going to be a lightning strike. Amonra St. Brown. Amonra's the Brown. Trout, yeah, we got Trout. Trout's actually number two. I don't think Judge has 5,000 plate appearances yet. 16 out of 75 is Hunter Renfro. Nice one there. Manny was in there somewhere, right? Yeah, he was... Manny was... Eddie Murray is a good one. Eddie Murray is a really good guess. He's got to be in there. Because he's a 3,000 hit, 500 home run guy. Never mind. Rashad Bateman to 100. And Kyle Hamilton, 12 of 50. There's a tealock. One of 100. Tyrion Davis Price for the NFC West on the rookie eruption jersey. We've got AFC West. 17 out of 125 is Russell Wilson. Trifecta material. AFC South on the Auto. 54 out of 199. John Mechie. 99 out of 175. NFC North is Christian Watson. Bagwell's a good one. Nice one there for the NFC North. Yeah, Bagwell and Murray, those, those, they have to be in there. Have to be. Murray's not. You think Murray's not? He already said it. Oh Murray, oh no Murray, wow. He was... Tommy was 7, I believe, yes. Murray's 120, geez. Malik Willis to 100 for the AFC South, rookie. And yellow Marcus Mariota at his 20 out of 25 for the NFC South. Here's the rookie Jalen Naylor. Bagwell number nine, nice. Good poll on that one, Greg. 47 of 50. Garrett Wilson, rookie eruption, three-color patch, AFC East. So missing 8 and 10. 8 and 10. God, three of 100 is George Kittle. The NFC West, George Kittle. Followed by AFC South, 14 out of 100. Adam Venetieri on the Aurora Auto. Very cool one there. Now they do. Let's go, dude. It's a, what, 12 point game? Hell yeah, man. We've got Wondale Robinson. Blue Finite. That's a one of one, I believe. Yeah, it is. Let's go. Go to the NFC East. Pretty sure. I mean, you can double check. I want to double check that. I think that's a one of one right there. Almost positive, that's one of one. Yep, Blue Finite. One of one. Let's go. NFC East. That's going to Allen K. There you go, Allen. Can you mind magnus just not writing on it yet? Okay. Because I'll take a picture and just you can just stick me noted, I would say. Okay. Nice one there. One of one, Wondale Robinson. Let's go. That's a good one. What about Paul Goldschmidt? Legal. Legal's got locked all the time. Sosa, do we say Sosa? I say up a check up to 100. AFC West and Vitrius, Josh Allen, 46 of 50. Got a canine rookie. To 125 is Clyde Edwards-Hallaire, AFC West on the atomic material, followed by 22 out of 50 is Trey Lance. Two color, two color, two color. NFC West. Todd Helton. Yeah, Todd Helton's got to be one. We've got 166 out of 199. AFC West is George Carl Aftis. Southern Texas. Nice good call on Helton. I was going to say Helton when they said Walker. Southern Texas. And then we've got 43 out of 175. Malik Willis. Nice one there. So it's got to be what? Ranger and Astro. Well, we got Bagwell. Yeah. Looking south. Chasing Joey Delicards. Pudge, not Pudge, right? Juan Gonzalez. Juan gone. That's a good one. Rafael Palmero. There's Devonta Smith, 250. DK Metcalf to 100. That is scary Terry. Trey McBride, NFC West, Unbreakable. Trayvon Walker to 125. AFC South, Unbreakable. 10 of 25 is Derek Stingley Jr. Nice one there for the AFC South. And 17 out of 175 is Drake London. Nice one there for the NFC South. Ooh. Is it Prince Fielder? Oh. Is it? Is it? Because of Prince of Dewwild? Swords sometimes. Fair. Maybe? I don't hate that guess. I was going to say Prince Fielder earlier. Lance Berkman. That'd be cool. Is it really? Is it really Lance Berkman? No way. Oh my God. He's number 10. Wow. Chigazim Ekwankwo. That's crazy. To 100. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Orange Chris Olave. Congrats. 55 out of 75. Vaughn from the top road. What a pull, man. What a pull is right. There's a Pashkma Holmes. Man, this division's killing it, dude. Going to Allen K and the NFC Eastman. What a time to get this. How about a Sam Howell on the color blast. Let's go. I have Jake just dust this off a little bit. It is a little bit dusty. That's awesome, dude. We'll get that mag for you. To 75, Derek Henry for the AFC South. NFC North is Tresen Ebner to 199. We've got to 199, Garrett Wilson for the AFC East. Was just rambling random medieval sayings and names playing and Lance a lot put a weight over my head. That's amazing. That's awesome. What a pull. What a pull is right. And 43 of 99. Jalen Tolbert going to the NFC East again. That's a good one, too. Carson Wentz to 100. Nice. Green, Desmond Ritter, 42 of 50. NFC South. Jeremy Rucker at rookie as well. AFC North, 75 of 75. It's Calvin Austin. Nasty patch on that, too. And AFC North again, 51 out of 75 is George Pickens. Rookie Eruption. Redemption is Donovan McBabb. Going to the Eagles. Nice one there. NFC East. Larry Walker, Tomi Hell and Bagwell Berkman. Wow. Two of the killer bees on there. I love it, dude. And nice one here to 175. NFC South, Chris Olave. Chris Olive. Grats on that one. Yeah, I agree, smack. They are really clean. Is there another category you can come up with? That was fun. Yeah, Yukon is almost up 20 here. Clio Shakir, 275. And Tristan Ebner to 100. We've got going to the AFC South. How about another color blast? Damien Pierce. Let's go, man. That's awesome. Two color blasts in this case. It's a good case so far. Great for passing the time while grinding road to the show. Stefan Diggs to 10, four of 10. Partial bills patch there. That's awesome. That's nice. Cutting edge. Partial bills patch for the AFC East. 29 of 99. AFC North is the Marvin Leal. 49 of 50 for the NFC North. That is Christian Watson on the color match. L.O.B. since percentage since 1960. With L.L.J.K. Got 76 out of 99. That is NFC North Romeo Dobbs. That'd be pretty cool, Bebo. That'd be really cool, dude. Are you working tomorrow night? A pile here too? Yeah. So you're going to sort and ship again soon? Yeah. Skymore Orange to 75. AFC West. And Leo Chanel to 100. AFC West. Got Jalen Watt, 15 of 50. Chris Godwin, two color patch. NFC South. As well as 31 out of 50. Brian Robinson, Jr., two color patch. NFC East. Nice one here. Six of 15 going to the AFC South. It's going to be Jonathan Taylor on the lightning strike. 46 out of 99 for the NFC South. Another Drake London. Take that all day long. Yeah. What else would be out there? What other good trivia categories are there? I think he's cooking. I was going to say, Alesle's definitely got to be cooking one off. Hold on. Let him cook. You said McNam was not evil, right? Evil, yes. So NFC East. Elmune to 100 for the NFC North. And Skymore. 17 out of 50 for the AFC West. Yeah, see. See. Well, Marty Jackson. He's working hard. Hold on. I'm letting him cook. I'm letting him cook. Seven out of 25. Eden Hutchinson, three color patch for the NFC North. Nice one there. Congrats. NFC North. We're just getting started. 65 out of 99. Montrell Washington for Denver. That's AFC West. Out of 50 for the NFC South. That is DJ Moore. That could become top 10 OPS. 95 out of 99. Isaiah Spiller for the AFC West. Petani possibly. Probably Jose Trevino. Yandy Diaz. Just because he's only a fantasy team doesn't mean he's top 10 in the OPS. Brendan McKay, of course. Of course. Why not? Got Debo Samuel. That is three of 25. NFC West. And AFC West, 11. With Danny and Tomlinson to 99. Chad Mumo Rookie. Caleb Superclaw. 16 out of 100. Going to the AFC West. That's Rookie Eruption. Isaiah Spiller. There's 11 out of 125. K9. That actually worked out well. 250 points as well. Nice one there for the NFC West. Random to all those 250 at the end as well. And to 175. Another John Mechie for the AFC South. Last one up. Christian Kirk to 75. AFC South. And a Supernova Najiharis, four of 99 for the AFC North. James Robinson. Got 15 of 25. Sauce Gardener. Nice little patch there for the AFC East. Souths. Got three of 10. Red is Chigo Zim at Juan Cuo. Going to the AFC South. Gold standard. What is this? November? Gold label. Gold label, you mean? There's 60 out of 199. Is Marcus Jones for the AFC East. Now, but just all the jokes aside, we hit an O'Neill Cruz. It was pretty big, I would say. An O'Neill Cruz framed auto. And then a one-of-one Frank Thomas, just like the base parallel. And 54 out of 99. Danny Gray going to the NFC West on the Jersey auto. All right. Let's do a quick points random. I'll see my way out for Chris. You're good. Let's roll the dice. Got 11 times. Whatever division is on top after 11 times, we'll get the points. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Going to the AFC East. Get in the points. AFC East. You got it? Okay, cool. Three count time. We've got patches. This is Walker. Tray McBride. Trayvon Walker. Clyde Edward Teller. Russell Wilson. Isaiah Spiller. Tyrann Davis Price. George Kittle. Derek Henry. Calvin Austin. George Pickens. Chris Godwin. Ryan Robinson. Josh Allen. Trey Lance. Garrett Wilson. Sauce Gardner. Aidan Hudgensen. And Stefan Diggs. Really cool Diggs patch there. Autos. We've got Donovan McNabb. Marcus Jones. Tristan Ebner. Garrett Wilson. George Carlaftis. John Mechie. Drake London. John Mechie. Chris Olave. Christian Watson. Malik Willis. Adam Venetieri. Galen Petrie. Montrell Washington. Isaiah Spiller. Danny Gray. Jalen Tolbert. DeMarvin Leal. Drake London. Romeo Dobs. Hunter Renfrow. DJ Moore. Jonathan Taylor. Christian Watson. Amon Ross St. Brown. Derek Stingley. Chickasam McQuanquill. We had two color blasts in this case. Sam Howell and Damien Pierce. Nice ones there.  Rookie Jersey Ink. Electric. Etch. Blue Finite. One of one. That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up we've got the NBA mix.


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Lonely piggy. I wish aliens were real for better or worse, but we're lied to so much. It's very hard to say. It's very hard to say I'm lonely piggy. However That's only on the level of aliens in regards to the spaceship stuff, right? The the normie alien discussion, right? Those are flying saucers and all that jazz, right? We've reached a point in time where we're calling people to talk about aliens normies. I I believe there are entities that you can definitely interact with outside of the limits of this material world that we occupy, right? Shamanism shows us that and I've explored that realm extensively in the past and I continue to do so to a certain degree and There are definitely entities that we cannot interact with or we do not interact with on a daily basis and most people do not that We have the capabilities to interact with If we saw if we follow a certain Lifestyle makes certain choices Some people call them aliens


In a bid to escape the bank holiday crowds, me and my friend Nick jumped in his convertible hairdresser's car and headed out into the Yorkshire Dales, armed with just a pair of speeders and a flute. Stay tuned. Hello and welcome to another video. I'm out and about in Yorkshire. Not camping. I've just come out to explore these waters. Maybe handball a few crayfish into my mouth and just have a nice day out. And this video is sponsored by, kindly sponsored by Hello Fresh. If you don't know is a meal prep thing so that it takes all the stress out of going to the shop and getting all your meals sorted. You just go online, choose what you want and that'll just get delivered to your door with all the instructions on how to do it. Everything's numbered so it corresponds with this easy to use menu. And I've been using it mate and it's been just making me fall back in love with using recipes and getting it kitchen and just putting my tunes on or an iPodcast and just getting into it. And they've given me a code which is here and that'll give you this. And so if you want to check out downstairs there'll be a link below.  Cheers. Back on with it. And there we go back look. I'm here with me mate, Nicholas. Nicholas Wichel. There he is look. The human, human whatever. And we've got some musical instruments. We're going to catch some crayfish, eat crayfish and Nick's going to serenade me with the penny whistle. Look at this. No latch, no lock. Just what we're working with. Just human kindness can shut that and that's what we're all about. Follow latch and locks for more. Can't stay in for long. I've got no wet suit. I've got none of me gear. And it still is early into April so it's freezing cold. We'll see if we can smash and grab a few crayfish and see what we can bring you. Nice. We're off in. Stopwatch on. We're using a stopwatch because we know our limits. We don't want to get that carried away because I've done this before and I've carried away and it looks like I'm going to die. Cool. The Maldives. She's gone. It's what they're getting into and this is nothing diving for crayfish. Definitely got a little feed here. He's going to try and break his crayfish cherry but we'll keep an eye on the tide because he's getting chilly.  We'll eat tonight. Bag it and tag it. Well done, mate. Make our way back up river. Sun's coming out. Glorious. So we're going to make our way back up river, pull out whatever we can. Just seeing a trout could have tickled it's bit.  It's clear, mate. We're out now. I think we're in for about 15 minutes but I prefer to make sure. It's starting to get a bit cold to say the least so we got out. We've done all right. Nick managed to get one. The hook is crayfish cherry. The rest are just in the dry bag so I'll have a little look. And here they are, look. So that's 15 minutes worth. And these 25 minutes we're in there. We've got a corralum because they'll get away. That's a beauty. Look at these. These are the signal crayfish but we'll talk a bit more about that later. Right, get him back in. Too cold to float. Hi guys. Welcome to another video. I'm out in the Yorkshire Dales doing a bit. I've not eaten for about two weeks so I'm going to go and see what I can forage just to keep myself alive. Peace and love yo. A bit of char cloth, a bit of flint and a steel. And that's how I end the corp. Into the nest we go. We'll have to see if we can play our cards right. It's going to snare, that's not going to go anywhere. I've made these little clips on it. And I've made a video on how to make these clips. I'll leave it here. Check it out. Right, let's dispatch these crayfish. I'll show you how to do that. Look at a decent sized one. I can show you. This is quite big for the crayfish. And this is the American signal crayfish. You can tell by the orange under there. The sheer size of them compared to our native white claw crayfish. These are an invasive species. And because of these our own crayfish is on the decline. I'm going to dispatch this to show you how to do it. I'll probably cut this bit out for you who can't handle it. Using the spider core. It feels nothing. Any residual movement now is just the nerves. And then it sees all flopped out. And you see that tail there? The fan of the tail. You want to be using the central bit of the tail. Get hold of that. I'm going to move it to one side. You'll hear a click. Click. And then another way. Click again. And if we just pull that. It takes a little bit of a month. But there you go. And the intestinal tract will come all out attached to that in a one-er. And then that's your crayfish. It's dispatched and it's cleaned out and ready for the pot. You know any meatloaf? RIP meatloaf. What is it? What meatloaf? Now I was going to try and play my favourite things. Do Lord at Rings. A bit of a stir.  Get cooking. You stick to cooking. I'll stick to fluting. Yeah. Okay. I'll just crop you out. Until they're nice and pink. We'll bring that to the boil. Again, now that it's cooled down with the crayfish in it. We'll bring that to the boil. And once it's boiled, that'll be it. We'll just take it off and it'll just simmer. And they'll be nice and done. It's a woodland stew. The main meat that you want to be having is in the tail. We'll have a look at the claw meat. That is quite a different taste. And then you can use the heads as a stock. If it was a survival situation, they'd go back and we'd make like a bisque or a stock and reduce it down and get the nutrients out of the shells and that. So I'll just get them and crush them at the side. Like that. And it just loosens them up. And they just pop out. That's your classic crayfish tail. So as you can see, definitely a labor of love. That's good actually. I like it. That's really good. And then you can go into claws as well. That bit comes out. So just dirty that cartilage there. The tough like, tough little, little bleeders.  And there you go, that's a decent bit of claw meat which has a different flavour to the tail just like in lobster. That's good. There's a bit of arse still in it. It's a bit of head stuff. It's fine. You can eat that. So this is Nick's that is caught, killed, cooked and he's going to eat it himself. Yeah? Good good.  Cheers. Well this is what our ancestors would have done many moons ago. We'll be full after this like ready for a few pints. You're right. A bit claws. There you go. Two more of these and I'll be full. Yeah, who's going to carve? You're going to carve it. Or what this wet patch, it's mainly just crayfish juice that I've been sat in for the last 10 minutes which is pretty much just marinated my left bum cheek. So that's that because that's going to smell good, isn't it? When I get in Nick's car. To the naysayers who doubt me for wearing a bum bag all the time, I've had to wear these leggings for crayfish arse and this bum bag's coming in. It's manned down my pockets.  There's not much to tidy up because it was on it bush box, no heat in the ground. It's only a little bit of ash so we've tidied all our crayfish away. We'll just kick that about a little bit and then absolutely no trace there whatsoever. It's influenced us in the wild. It looks like he's fallen for a portal in the 80s. A VHS workout video. Sweat band on, leggings on. Finished with a flat cap, the cherry on the top. To the right, to the sun, to the moon! Right, we're absolutely bursting at the seams now after that crayfish medley. A delightful end for there. It's good. Just to be able to see them. Hunt them, it's nice and real hunting but it kind of feels like it. That's where your food comes from. We're losing the light but we've decided as it's Easter we're going to try and make a run for this waterfall and see if we can get there before it gets dark. We're going to go in it anyway so the next shot will either be us in the waterfall or in the dark or in the light. We'll see you there. There we go. Nice little punch fill. The lighting is great on this because it's really good in low light and it's a lot darker than it makes out. We've maybe got about 10 minutes, 15 minutes so it's deep enough there to get you up to our neck and just not look for crayfish just chill out a little bit. Wash some of that crayfish. You know that old saying about washing the old crayfish due to the day off here. I'm hearing from the front line that it's significantly colder. Oh, you won't!