We hebben een praat gegeven en we hebben de naam voor het ook gevolgen gebruikt. Deze praat is originaly door mijn collega Rudolf van der Berg gebracht. Hij zei dat hij hier niet zou zijn, maar hij is hier, dus Rudolf, please stand up. Hij deed de meeste werk en hij gaat in een paar dagen in de United States van Amerika Ik weet niet hoe slecht het is wat ik ga vertellen. Wie weet wat een voet over LTE is? Heel veel handen. De tweede vraag, is er een Amerikaanse of Canadiens in de ruimte? Nee, dat is niet zo. Want ik zou een interessant vraag vragen. De vraag hier is, moeten we de schuld stoppen om 2G, 3G te save leven? Het belangrijkste punt is, op de eerste van juli, AT&T in de United States had stoppen met 2G, 3G. En hij werkt nu met een voet over LTE, over 4G.  Het belangrijkste punt hier is dat er een laag van standardisatie in de voet over LTE is. Dat heeft voor iedereen gesproken, omdat je de handen op de originele 2G en 3G volgen. Dus de meeste mensen zijn niet ervaring van, totdat je schuurt. Dit is de presentatie. Er zijn ook een paar slijgen met achtergrondmateriaal. Er is niet een site waar we kunnen uploaden. Maar ik heb gekeken dat we een URL in de beschrijving kunnen maken. Dus we hebben het gezet daar. Rudolf heeft al 2 keer de presentatie gegeven. En hij heeft al slijgen op internet en op accounten. Maar hier. Dit is effectief een call. A call to everybody who is currently involved here in MCH 2020, who is looking at its fire streaming. The call for everybody who is currently doing some work on voice over LTE, which is the voice application that would run over the data network. Who work for a telecom operator, an MVNO, a mobile virtual network en NABLER. That's supporting handsets. And what we also have IMS platform builders. The reason is, if you also maybe already have bumped into issues you could share to wish, and we can be a little confidential. But we also have a call for people who work for emergency services or who are in the car industry and working on e-call. That is a car making a call to emergency service when you have a collapse or a crash. We have put it up a bit in the Netherlands now and also at the European Commission. But most countries aren't aware that this is coming and effectively is now starting to happening. You can contact my colleague Rudolf van der Berg, who just waved his hand. En of myself and I am the last one. Go to the meet. The reason is 30 years ago about 2G started really starting to do the first field trials and has been done with a lot of industry cooperation and they have been quite a success. So much a success that even in the United States a number of operators moved from the American standards to the European. And it effectively has delivered global roaming and you can use 2G, 3G, especially when 3G came to Japan. Also came compatible nearly everywhere. And the key ideas were original GSM, 3G, UMTS, SIM cards, built in emergency call number. In Europe is 112, but in America is 911. And it works with every operator even without subscription. This is all going to the drain now with voice of LTE 4G and it wasn't discovered because devices fall back to 2G 3G mode. If you are moving now into the United States in your AT&T you get a welcome, welcome your roaming on AT&T. Due to network technology incompatibility this is meant voice of LTE compatibility. Traditional voice calls will not work. Please use data, SMS and app based calling. We going to explain that in a number of countries SMS also doesn't work, which is nice if you do two factor authentication with SMS but Swedish can't get his SIM working in the USA. France is an operator, Iliad, and they got a choice. Either get data roaming with AT&T or for a subset of their users voice roaming would work and data roaming. So they chose one. There are some URLs on it but now T-Mobile was initially stating it would also shut down but it shut down. It's 3G in the USA, it still has some 2G working but T-Mobile USA is not the best coverage operator so it become an adventure. Why is Swedish not working? It turns out their country is too small to start up roaming testing. It's broken effectively. It's for Dutch people broken, Germans, British we start to get all kinds of messages from people after the first post on LinkedIn and all the platforms were made by Rudolph. Can't call SMS and internet works. My calling doesn't work. I can only call via T-Mobile. I have my bundle but it doesn't work. There has been some media coverage now starting in May-June but it's really beginning in Germany. There is also some about photo phone customers who have problems. There is already warning going out. There is a wireless telecom association. They are warning what can be done and there is voice and 4G LT without roaming capability. Voice service including emergency calls in AT&T won't work for Canadians always and there is no impact on data service. Data roaming has been done and 4G was interested and reasonably well tested but the voice app was secondary. Here is the real issue coming up. Consumers can't see it. Apple decided to see incompatibilities, varieties, options and it was too complex to do some shortcuts and also to ignore some settings. iPhone mostly works if you are buying a Samsung S20 for 5G so quite modern device. The devices when you do work the ones with an N don't. So even the type of device you have doesn't say what works, what doesn't work. There are some painful settings. Where is this coming from? This is coming from deals.  So the first guideline is don't travel. If you want to do something with 40 and with 112 calling, take an iPhone because Apple neglects some settings use the biggest mobile network in your country because then maybe the roaming is fixed earlier because AT&T looks at the size of the nations where they can do roaming and they started with the largest countries in the world. Buy a new phone because old phones aren't updated probably anymore. You should live in a big country. Sweden is too small. Netherlands is just at the edge. Stay at home and stay with the network and use post-paid. The reason is we also ran into details that mobile virtual network operators also probably because they don't use handsets seems to have been blacklisted, whitelisted in some of the chipsets in mobile phones to get it working. So if you're using a mobile virtual network operator who doesn't buy a big chunk of handsets from a major handset manufacturer chance is low that you get things working. There is an issue with emergency calling and why are we pushing the emergency calling line in European telecoms regulation the real one item that's still a stick in the hands of politicians and regulators is the 112 emergency calling. If you don't have that working you can be hit out quite hard by politics. But nobody was aware of it. This is only presented by Rudolph in the late of April to the European Emergency Number Association and most of them were completely flabbergasted and shocked that this was coming, this train. But this is what in Germany for the phone puts out no truth meet voyage over LTE. So what's the issue? It's not backwards compatible with the old course of circuit switching. There are more than 700 LTE networks 232 of a voice over LTE in 106 markets. Slightly more than 50 have roaming agreements. Having roaming agreement there was a few days ago an announcement of the Slovakian telecom operator they have four international roaming agreements. So maybe Denmark doesn't work so if you're going to travel from Slovakia on your holiday to Denmark your voice over LTE might not work. Still currently everywhere in Europe tends to fall back to 2G3G so most people don't discover it yet. But we want in Europe also to shut it down Some testing, Bundesnet's Arkanthul has done some testing and about 50% of the German SIM cards are on phones that can't use voice over LTE. And still we see the announcements that 2G3G network will be shut down in 2025. So this has now started to air There is a body, the GSM association and the problem is they put out profiles but it says this is non-binding permanent reference documents. So it's non-binding. The next, the remote season was on 18 July I checked it yesterday evening like if what we stated here was still correct but they haven't changed it yet. They have discussed that they have said your end-user device must support both IPv4 and IPv6 and a set of protocols. The point is not all networks do both. You might be on an IPv6 network and going to run an IPv4 and somewhere your device doesn't flip. Because there are some intricacies. So the texts are not quite right. People are starting to point their fingers to each other. They should do the change. They should make the change. Some regulators have not been aware of this so in the Netherlands Voice Over LTE and Voice Over Wifi was for emergency service implemented lots of pressure from the regulators and now incompatibilities are going to break it again. The GSM association says the shutdown is coming soon. They say sometimes 2G going down 3G is not always perfect. Sometimes an operator shuts down 3G a network operates still 2G or fights versa. But the idea is now America and parts of Asia starts to happen and Europe. Why is this an issue? We've gotten a message back from an IT manager who was in holiday in India and he was in an area where there was only 4G coverage. He got an emergency and to log in remotely from his holiday address. He had 2-factor authentication and the 2-factor came to him via SMS. It doesn't work anymore. So he couldn't log in. So it hits more than you think. Now I'm hitting out. So who needs to act? You can act and start to raise alarm also in your own country. Contact members of parliaments. Talk to telcos if they are aware of it. Not all of them. Talk to manufacturers. There are some standard organizations. Manufacturers go further than, say, the device ones. Chipset manufacturers have sometimes influenced tool and settings. So it's really the entire industry which is screwing up. The government, yes, shutdowns have been announced in most countries. They should stop. There is some suspicion by us that there is antitrust mechanisms going and working. There are some firms. Business favoritism. So maybe they are starting to collapse the entire mobile market structures in countries by technical means. And you should demand that it should be interoperable. It has been working for decades with 2G 3G.  And demand. So the demand global access is effectively enforceable by law. But key point for governments is that they also should start verifying and testing which they don't do because the market solves everything today. This same applies for telecom operators. And many of them will now need testing and aid and knowledge. And it can go down really to device versions even if things work. Especially if there are some tricks like whitelisting, certain mobile network codes, and others not. It can be very tricky because everything seems to work. Most extreme case I have heard was someone who had an Android phone didn't get the voice of an LCA working, took out a SIM card, put it in an iPhone, got it working. Put the SIM card out, put it back in the Android, it works. So there are a lot of issues going on. But there is a lot of test and fixing and testing needs. It's currently a month needed to test and fix. That's because it's so complex. Effectively the standard voice should collapse all these options into a simple set of profiles. Apple did it a bit, but Apple effectively just neglects some settings. It is very problematic if you want to use that part of field in the protocols. Because suddenly you can discover that Apple doesn't work anymore well as you expected. The key issue is operators and telecom operators, especially such start to save the sharehold model and compliance issues should be avoided. But this is pan-European and effectively a phone bought in Sweden might work in Sweden and then brought to the Netherlands might not work anymore here, but an operator here. So burner phones, I don't know how they will do it soon in the future. The first presentation was given late April by the European Emergency Numbering Association, IEENA. They were quite surprised. AT&T effectively continued shutdown. We have contacted some people in the United States, a consumer advocate in the telecom specialist. He went to the FCC commissioners, the Democrats, they weren't interested. Thank you very much. It's quite well in time. I'm going to have some questions for you now. We have the Dutch government taking action. We had been inquiries for parliaments to the ministry. They are now trying to set up a first meeting on the issue in September 2022, but not every operator, not every MVNO, not every MVNA is aware of it already, that this is really a problem in the screw up. There were some off the records messages, like emergency calls to USA. What makes it different if you call 911 in the USA, you end up somewhere in a state. In the voice of LTE, it will be directed by the core here of your home operator and he uses the GPS coordinates given to him to know in which state you are. Not everything is already working in that realm too. There are really complexities and complexities coming up. Outbound roaming, inbound roaming. E-call worked in cars because GSM worked. This wasn't quite probably known or isn't still known in the car industry, how it's just screwed up just when it's introduced. There will be now some... I have some slides, more or less explaining how bad things are and some final slides where we are. But I have also space and room for questions from the room. So I can do the backgrounders, but I can also do the questions. Are there people who want to ask a question? Yeah. And then ask the question. Okay, hi. Thanks for the talk. Like if you take the SIM card out of your UE in let's say US where they sat down the 2G and 3G networks. So does that make it easier for the emergency call to go out using the Volty network? Is it only dependent on the UE implementations of the Volty stack? Can you give rid of the microphone? Okay, you answer it on the microphone. Yes, so I'm the weird guy who looked some of this up first. So in theory anonymous calls should work over Volty except that when I talk to Volty testers they tell me that well, you know, on T-Mobile they had an issue that T-Mobile sent the wrong codes for an emergency call and it needs to send I think a 380 and it sends a different code. And so when they complained to T-Mobile like you guys, you're sending the wrong code so our phone isn't processing the code correct for an emergency call, the response came well, it works on an iPhone. So they checked on the line what the iPhone did and basically the iPhone just ignores the entire packet and error code and just looks if there's a server address in there and tries to make a call to the server. And if that works, well, then you have an emergency call, brilliant. There's other stuff in the packet that might need checking. No, it works. So basically that was T-Mobile U.S. solution.  AT&T does IPv4 on its normal Volty network but somehow did IPv6 on its emergency calling network not every phone understood that it needed to do a context change for emergency calls. Plus there are some folks who go like, well, the GSMA standard says both networks need to do IPv4 or the network needs to do both IPv4 and IPv6. I have checked, it only does IPv6. That's wrong, that's not per the standard. It should do both, so I won't do an emergency call. That is a bit too strict an interpretation of the standard. The GSMA could have fixed that. It didn't, hasn't yet.  If this was just about voice calling and it's not my problem, you know, it's telco shooting themselves in the foot and killing roaming revenues, et cetera. Well, you know, what else is new? We've been seeing that for decades. But because this is emergency calling and I really want to be able to dial 9-1-1 or 1-1-2 when somebody is in trouble. And this is a European right and it should work in every European country as we all agreed in 1991. That's why I get annoyed. And thanks, Hendrik, for doing the talk because I wasn't supposed to come, but it was still awesome. Okay. Are there some other questions? No, okay. I can give some few examples about how bad things are and how disastrous it is. Every example makes it more painful. So a kind piece that you should get the emergency calling and working for 1-1-2 and so on. And effectively it's in the law so you can even call your parliamentaries to just maintain the law. But your operators don't have an argument but how they break it. Also, this is not a phone compatible with our network. It's a bit difficult to maintain and we have also put it into consumer organizations in Europe. They have in some countries been to supreme courts about back older device updating by suppliers. This might be a next run for the same issue because not every judge got that quite issue why it was the issue. Students have been a problem but effectively for quite some years they didn't look at it and they weren't called on because you had the full bags. There is a number of issues who are effectively have to go in consumer authorities commission even. It's also fine if you have worked for a company and your executive is going to travel to the USA next week and you're buying phone service for him. The firmwares, this was really the surprise white list should never have been there who got that ID is very peculiar.  Many people, many around. All kind of visions, no choices. And it was a side issue and it was a side issue en now it isn't anymore. And then the real problem we've seen this with SPAM about 15 years ago. There are some people in commercial departments who think a bit different about this. Want to link things about sales of new devices, sales, new equipment. And so if you're going from with the same device to another operator maybe it doesn't work. Well, yeah, that's effectively not the way it should work. But it's needing a lot of testing. There are some issues with IP version 4 and IP version 6 and I let it sink in a bit. Blacklisted and whitelisted handsets, chipsets, manufacturers. So even the device manufacturers point to broadcom or to Qualcomm as being the culprit. Back to standardisation. This is the revolting and I am in the last minutes, yeah. That's quite a... It should be done right. There should be a lot of testing and effectively figuring out what's working, what's not working, why it's not working is needed for the coming years. It should work everywhere but it certainly not isn't working in this way. 5G doesn't call us to save you because it is an issue of IMS and in the software layer. It's not about the radio interface. So that's why you have the problem and of course it would save lives and we plead for a stop on 2G, 3G shutdowns before this isn't fixed because that will be very dangerous and effectively it is. Nou, I put up... This was my own slide where I can be contacted and this is root of what you're seeing here. Thank you very much.


Dear students, in this topic we shall discuss the cognition and problem solving behavior of animals. Cognition is the process of intellect which is represented by awareness, understanding, reasoning, recalling memories and judgments. Cognition is the most complex form of learning. It is practistically exhibited by primates, jinn mein insaan bhi aata hai. Iske ilawa cognition bohot sare other mammals mein bhi pahe rati hai or it is also shown by cephalopods and many insects. Dear students, the problem solving behavior is a cognitive activity in which an animal can devise a method to face any apparent obstacles or problems. This behavior or this capacity depends on the processing of information by the nervous system. The problem solving behavior is highly developed in some mammals including the primates and dolphins. It is also highly developed in some birds mostly belonging to the crow family that is ravens, crows and jays. Aapne thirsty crow wali kahaani jo suni hui hai that actually is a reflection of problem solving behavior of birds. Dear students, animals may also learn to solve problems by observing the behavior of other members of their population. For example, young chimpanzees observe other experienced chimpanzees and only by seeing them they eat palm nuts and they learn how to crack them by using two stones. Another classic example of problem solving is also seen in chimpanzees, ki agar ek chimpanzee ko ek bant kamre mein rakh diya jaye, jis meke bohot sare boxes mojood hoon aur ek banana ko centre mein heng kar diya jaye. Jaha tak chimpanzee direkli nahi pojhsakta, to dekhah yeh jata hai ki chimpanzee un boxes ko utha kar ek dosa ko par rakh ke banana tak pojhne ki slahiyat rakhta hai. That means ki chimpanzee has solved a problem how to reach the available food.


Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya of JSA joining me here today at the telecom exchange NYC 2018. My good friend Mr. Melvin Greer he's the chief data scientist of the Americas of Intel. Melvin welcome to JSA TV. Jamie I'm so excited to be here thank you for inviting me. We're so honored he's our keynote here at telecom exchange and truly a respected thought leader in the field of AI. So let's start there Melvin. What do you see as coming trends and evolution of AI? Well certainly Jamie every business leader is trying their best to figure out how to take advantage of all of the data they acquire and so we see three really important trends. First people are hiring a data scientist or a chief data officer somebody whose primary responsibility is to turn data into a strategic asset they're really focusing in on a precursor to an artificial intelligence strategy which is really a data strategy. Where is it from? How is it stored? How can I use it? And then the number one impediment to the use of this data they're focusing on is cleansing, labeling, tagging and making sure they can get access to metadata that helps them derive the insights that they want. Right because data just left alone not useful data with where we can draw some insights from it now we're talking but there's some implications. I know a lot of folks are a little bit nervous about how this data is getting used and the security behind it. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Yes sure so there's some legal ethical and societal implications associated with artificial intelligence and it's important to have that discussion one of the things that's happening is that there's an organization called Data for Democracy that's focused on creating a code of ethics for data scientists by data scientists and so the more we have this conversation around ethics and privacy the better we'll be able to drive adoption in AI. And certainly something we're trying to do here today more education more communication certainly the way to to move forward and and you're very very active in growing the the next leaders of tomorrow in the technological field. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Sure so one of the most important challenges associated with adopting AI is the lack of workforce and talent. We have about three million open jobs in data science today in the US and so I really applaud you and your organization JSA for really making that kind of effort to to get more people involved in the discussion. I've created a nonprofit called the Greer Institute as well that I'm really happy that you're supporting that is designed to figure out how to identify underserved communities underserved populations that are very capable and interested in supporting artificial intelligence and data science and so the Greer Institute is really happy to be participating with you and and driving this kind of change. It's so exciting for for to be part of the Greer Institute story literally the money we were able to raise here today is going towards a scholarship for young lady and she'll be studying aerospace engineering as her study and so we're very excited I can't announce who it is because she's going to she doesn't know who it is yet but we are going to support her academic career and we're going to provide her some mentoring and coaching as well so that she can as she matures through academic career move that into a career either an entrepreneurship like you or into some work workplace that is going to be materially impactful to other underserved communities and populations. We are so thrilled and we'll be following her story on our blog as well because we're we're already in love with her although she doesn't know it yet. So again tell us from a visionary standpoint where do you see where do you see this all going in the next three to five years I mean are we going to be living in a more of a virtual world than a reality one or how do you see the future coming? Well the future is actually here already in many ways we think about artificial intelligence and data science as something that happens in a Star Trek movie but today every day we use machine learning and cognitive computing to decide is that cancer can this person get alone will they be able to go to this school what kind of financial and social benefits will they be able to acquire and so today these kind of things happen on a regular basis even in great places like marketing and sales we see human avatars or virtual avatars in modeling and in advertising so the future is actually now and but in going forward I think what we will continue to see is a need to focus on use case development we'll see the advancement of prototypes that have small scale implication that can then scale directly into production and I think ultimately the the prediction the forecast that Gartner put together for the next 18 to 24 months around 40% of the development of data science products will come from citizen data scientists this is going to mean that data science is not going to be the preview of a few hopefully the data literacy will grow and that people will be able to acquire the meaningful ways to deal with data just like they do with addition and subtraction in in school the future is certainly exciting one and with visionaries like you to to help us get there we're very excited thank you so much Melvin for all that you do thank you Jamie I'm happy to work with you to do it and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV happy networking


Do you have a desktop laser or even a CO2 laser? Well, I have 10 great gift ideas for you or someone you know that does. My name's Jim and this is the edge of tech. Number one is safety glasses. I tell you what, these are laser glasses. These are for my desktop diode lasers. And I really like these because they actually go over the top of my glasses and allow me to still see and look cool. These are awesome. They're much better than what come with those desktop laser machines. I really, really like these. They're from free mascot, I believe. Link in the description below for all the stuff you're about to see. But number one, make sure you get a good pair of laser glasses. Number two is paint. I really like the Rustoleum Painters Touch 2X. I find this at the local stores. You can find this on Amazon. You can find them at a lot of places. I like this stuff a lot when I'm doing any of the projects that require paint that I burn off on the lasers.  They shake really nice. They spray really nice. And you can actually put those little handles on. Bonus, I'll put the handle in the link in the description below too. But the little handle goes and you can actually spray this like a spray gun. But this paint is really good. It doesn't take much, as you've seen in a lot of my videos. But I suggest you find some good paint and this is what I use. Next on the list is this VivoSun Air Pump 32 watt. Air Pump here. It is for the air assist on your desktop diode laser.  If not, this could be okay too. I suggest probably something bigger than this for the CO2 lasers. But for the desktop diode lasers, this one's really good. I really like it. It's not crazy loud. It gives good consistent air. And with that comes the silicone tubing you need as well. This stuff is cheap. You can get a lot of it and you'll need this from the air pump over to your air assist on your desktop diode laser. So don't forget your air pump and your hose when you're doing air assist. So number four on my list is scratch paper.  This is actually a copper scratch paper. So when you scratch off the top coating, there's like a copper foil underneath it. This one right here has gold under it. And this particular one is just like a rainbow scratch paper underneath it. But all of this stuff is really cool when you start doing laser engravings and you can actually just burn off the top coating and reveal your picture in whatever colors are underneath. This stuff is a must, it's such a fun project and you can give it to your kids and they can actually just use it for scratch paper too. Of course we need to talk about canvas for number five. You can get this in so many different sizes. There are multi-pecs on Amazon. You can find those in the link below. But canvas is a must. Now, the way I use canvas is I take the paint we talked about a little bit ago. I spray the coats over it and I do have a video. We'll put it right here. And then I burn the coats of paint off to reveal the picture in the canvas.  So don't forget your canvas. Number six, cork coasters. These things are awesome. They are so cheap and you can make some great money or just make some really cool coasters for yourself. Now, I really love these particular ones. They're a little bit thicker. They're rounded on the edges and they're really, really easy to burn. I've been through a few different styles for thicknesses and these are by far my favorite coasters. So if you wanna make some money or just some really cool gifts yourself, don't forget coasters because you definitely wanna try these. Now on the topic of coasters, some people really like to use slate. Slate is awesome to burn as well. It burns really nice. As you can see here, this is just a test pattern. I actually, all my slate coasters have been sold so I don't have any around right now. But this is a good example of a piece of slate that I burned and then the next thing that I wanna suggest is these stick-on pads for the back of the slate. Now this is cork on one side and tape on the other so you just simply peel the backing off of the cork like so, like that.  You push it down really nice and then you can take a knife and trim the edges if you need to but then your slate coasters or any hard coaster has a nice soft back on it with that cork. These are great, you can set them on tables, they won't scratch and the slate is really good for coasters and that was number seven on this list of 10 great gifts. Number eight on my list is this right here. This is a switching power strip. Each plug has its own switch individually. It has a really nice long cord on it. You can plug it into the wall and then plug all the parts of your laser in here. If you have air assist, the laser, you have LED lights and an enclosure. If you have anything that's USB, it has two USB ports right here as well but then you can just simply turn everything on or off as you wish. Maybe you just want the lights and the laser on. Maybe you have a blower on your enclosure. You want to turn that on. I definitely suggest a switching power strip. It's a must have when you have multiple things that need power in your laser setup. Number nine on my list goes with number eight. This is a smart switch. This particular one is an e-fun smart switch. I could find four packs of these for a great price. You set this up, you give it a name. This one's called diode laser. It plugs into the enclosure that I have and I just tell Google or any smart home that you want to turn on your diode laser and it turns this switch on and powers everything up at the same time. Now I love these smart switches. I use them for my 3D printers. I use them for everything. What's really cool is when you're done with a job you can just tell Google or your smart home to turn it off and it'll shut everything down at once. You don't have to go pull plugs or turn off a power switch. It does it for you just by voice command. So smart switches, definitely a must check them out. So last but not least, number 10 on my list is actually accessories for your desktop lasers from King Gubby Designs. You've seen several videos on this channel where I feature King Gubby Designs on the Or Tour Laser Master 2 Pro and I absolutely love their designs. The price is right. It's a small business and what better thing to do to help a small business at this time of the year. So check out King Gubby Designs. The link is in the description below and get some accessories for your desktop laser. So that's it. We just saw 10 great gift ideas to give yourself or someone else who has a desktop laser or even a CO2 laser really. So all the things we just saw have a link in the description below so check them out. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you have another great gift idea drop it in the comments below. I'd love to see it and we'll see you on the next one.


Share courses to MoodleNet in Moodle 4.3 MoodleNet is our site to find, share and curate open educational resources. Admins can set up an OAuth 2 MoodleNet connection, allowing teachers to share individual activities. This has been since Moodle 4.2. Now in Moodle 4.3 additionally, teachers can share whole courses or selected parts of courses and can view the progress of their shared items. Here our admin is enabling sharing to MoodleNet from Development Experimental Settings. She then goes to General, MoodleNet and clicks MoodleNet Outbound Settings. She needs to add the MoodleNet OAuth 2 service so she can click here to create it. And then she returns to the Outbound Settings screen to select MoodleNet. Once this is done, managers, teachers or anyone else allowed the capabilities MoodleNet share activity and MoodleNet share course can share to MoodleNet. Let's go into the Effective Memory Techniques course as our teacher Mr Wilson. Since Moodle 4.2 he's been able to share individual items by clicking into an activity or resource for example this book, clicking more and then share to MoodleNet. Now in Moodle 4.3 we see from the More tab on the main course page he has the option to share the whole course to MoodleNet. A screen appears confirming his decision and when he clicks share the course will be sent to his MoodleNet account and saved as draft until he makes it public so others in the community can benefit from it. Alternatively with Edit Mode on by clicking the renamed bulk actions link he can select specific items from the course and from the footer click share to MoodleNet and share just a part of the course. From the More link a MoodleNet share progress page helpfully lets him see the status of courses and activities he has shared in all courses he teaches not just in his current course. To summarise, whole courses, parts of courses and individual activities may be shared to MoodleNet when the experimental setting is enabled and the OAuth 2 service is configured. Teachers can access a MoodleNet share progress page showing the status of items shared in all their courses.


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I don't need it. I don't. I don't need it.  All right on reality though. Welcome back to pack-and-play. I'll be honest the pack-and-play Experience goes against everything I believe in Yeah, the pack-and-play squad goes against everything I believe in which is giving EA money So I don't know if I will continue this series next year, but for now I've already sold out to this degree So I guess we're just gonna keep it going. I also have had some amazing Experiences on the pack-and-play squad. So I don't know next year. We'll think of something extra creative That's different than wheel of butt, but also doesn't give EA money. We'll think of something Alright well as you know this team is awesome like awesome awesome 94 overall But there can always be improvements done like for example I have wide receivers that would have only been good like four months ago And if you watch wheel of mutt, which I guarantee you do you will know that having good wide receivers is very important right now So we've got these brand new free agent packs. I'm very excited to get into one This has nine free agency fantasy packs and the fantasy packs give you a choice from one of two 87 pluses two of three 80 plus overalls and two of five 70 plus. This is actually a really interesting pack Okay, I'm excited. All right boys wish me luck. I would not mind Alan Robinson There's also 98 JJ watt and 98 Come on man. Oh my god. It's so obvious and there's a 98 deck press got although I don't know if they're pullable. I am pumped though Hey, one of the most fun things to see in the pack animation. We're gonna see it here I think not on this round actually I take it back not this round 88 mark Clayton and I get braider, but I don't need a That's sick.  All right now We got to figure out what the big pack animation is because we got two mediocre players right there But what happens we pull something super good. Does it change up? Does it change up or is EA getting lazy here? I'm excited for this various letter. I don't mind I don't really need it, but I don't mind either Nick Fairley Merlin Olson. No, I don't think that's gonna be a big Romeo Aquara and Famous wait, okay, so either the animation is for the 95 and better or there's no new animation Not gonna help Gino Joe Thomas John Randall. Nope. Nope.  I don't know how I feel about the card art but that animation animation gets me going bro, that's dope Casually got a 90k makers, I guess I'll take it Ken Norton. So no, that's not a big animation Curtis Samuel That's exactly what I need Curtis Sam, dude. He's gonna have wheels. This is exactly what I need, bro Yeah, he's gonna have wheels. He's got to let me see those actually boys. I mean at least We're giving this man Ronald technicians, and we're gonna go off. Yes, bro, that's so clutch I would have been so sad I didn't even know he was in the past to be honest I would have been sad if we didn't get anything that we needed because honestly our peg-a-boy squads It's a little too good right now. I'm kind of excited to get to the playoffs and reset this team I love having a good team, but you know, I want to I want to be excited about building new players out of the team So right now there's not too much damage. I can do Troy Vincent Kalil Mack power-up I guess I'll take it team Hutchinson Bradbury. None of those are gonna help Marlon Mack again and No special animation, I totally thought there'd be a special animation. Damn. I'll take it though We take those two brand new wide receivers that we absolutely needed couldn't have asked for anything better in this bag opening No offense.  He's just so good. He's like one of the fastest titans in the game right now What let's go. It's a very good one. Wait. Do I already have that no offense? I almost think I already have that no offense, but I benched him because I have Todd Haber Anyway, you gotta keep Todd Haber, bro. You can't disrespect Todd Haber in 93 James again He won't help us this time. In fact, I never actually needed him I'll probably just end up quick selling him, but now we're on to the toppers. We'll see if we can do a little damage here I'll be cool with that, but do pre. Oh wait, it's 92 plus wait I got it. I got so excited like it was 87 plus or something, but do pre already got him already Let me see somebody new I've tackled Russell O'Connor. So I'm talking about I don't know if that's an upgrade to the team But we take those fully cooker. Love your last name, man It's awesome, and I do kind of need a free safety See if he's better get by do pre again. All right. Let's go check this team out real quick. We have a 92 left tack Oh, no, we got Dwayne Brown. He's staying in there and we do already have no offense actually mr. Chris Hogan I'm sorry man, but 93 speed compared to Curtis Samuels 96 is just not gonna cut it Alan Robinson has 94 So I'm gonna make Curtis Samuel my primary may Alan Robinson my number two and the hops coming out I'm so sorry D hop row, but Chris Hogan is better by some stretch of the imagination.   Okay, Alan Robinson definitely gets it. He has damn Curtis Samuel dropping the ball on the abilities He'll still be really good though. That's who worked up about it But yeah, you know what? We'll just keep Ted at apprentice so Curtis Samuel won't get any abilities But we get Alan Robinson DeAndre Swift Aaron Rodgers and Todd Heap. I like that. Hey little NFC North action We got Packers Lions and bears presumably I assume he resented the bears I guess I don't know and then defensively. How does Malik Hooker square up with 92 Brian Dawkins Dawkins is so much faster that Dawkins is a sleeper pick actually I got to keep that Dawkins in there man. All right boys two more wins till we make the playoffs Let's see what we can do. 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Thank you for sponsoring today's video guys Enjoy the rest. Oh, there's a Justin Simmons. I just learned there's a Justin Simmons. All right boys first in ten Let's see if he's in man coverage Let's see if I have to cry or not. Oh never mind. I don't I don't know what he was in cover four palms Okay, that's a good sign though, dude If you start up a game and your opponent has a 99 overall everything and they're running cover one man You're in trouble, but I like to see this though. I like to see Todd.  I'm so disappointed in you my man Hey, but Todd doesn't have to carry the team anymore because we got this new Alan Robinson, bro So I say we uh, I say we distribute the wealth.  I really thought that was a dog Never mind more than 16 from my own 13 the obvious choice here is to go for it, right? Let's look for Alan Let's look for mr. Allen. Oh, he's not there. Oh god. Oh god. Nobody's there, and I didn't even get a throw off We can say though we can say that I did not throw an interception on the first drive Let's see if he just takes off with Lamar. I feel like he's just gonna take off with Lamar. Is that the strat here? No, he's looking for a throw that that isn't there third and goal. Come on boys Let's get them big clamps right now. Yeah, the only way I get screwed here is if he runs this book All right, we good We looking good. Oh We we're not looking good good start Huskers. Let's be smart Let's hand this ball to Jonathan Taylor when he's only got four down line Look at that. Nobody in the box got no huddle and do it again. Did you guys switch your defense? I don't care who you use it, bro. I'm gonna bully you like this. I'm gonna pull you like this That's not even the adrey swift. That's my backup. I'm gonna do it again All right, let's see what gap he shoots. Nope All we have to do is read which gap the user shoots and we're cash money to run this the entire day Yep, my boy D. Swift is in yeah, that's how we get back in the game boys This is how we get back in the game boys. This is cheese.  Oh Rogers Allen Robinson was open way over there, but he's obviously getting in the back feel really fast Yeah, this dude's getting so lucky right now. I'm not losing this game He's just getting super lucky edge heat right now. This does not happen very often. All right Todd Hebrew Allen Robinson All right, Todd all right, Todd God damn. Oh, no, he's gonna return this all the way. Oh, thank God. What a weird start today. Oh my god I'm out of my element Just gonna hand off to Pollard I third and a Definitely a passing definitely a passing down here. Oh, he's gonna throw here.  I just get on Lamar. Are we good boys? All right, little play action Well play actually we're all over Lamar. He has I'm gonna turn it I shouldn't pick that off. I did was hurt myself on the yardage there some pretty clean Usering though. I'll say that much. Oh my god. Are you shitting me? What is that shit? Why I think I've been sacked four times? I I'm gonna start throwing this ball instantly. This is crazy. Got a score right here All right, Derek Are you kidding me, bro? He hasn't even touched the ball. How is he getting hit stick fumbled? He hasn't touched the ball yet. How is he tired? Oh my god It was a fumble six Like did I get it if I'm running no huddle and I keep hitting the ball It's my hat back any fumbles like okay. I get it. He's tired. This dude has even been in the game. All right second and 11 There's Todd what is going on today, man? What is going on today?  Oh my god It's gonna be one of those days, bro fourth and two. I'm gonna hand this off to the under a swift should definitely definitely be there You're kidding me, bro. You're kidding me Derek Waddle fumble, but Lamar Jackson in the open field will not fumble. I guarantee it It's gonna look like that this whole game. This is crazy, bro I don't even want to play right now if I wasn't a youtuber. I would have turned my Xbox off already by now, bro I'm serious.   Let's see if it's open It's insane. He doesn't even have an x-factor. What's going on? This is crazy. All right first and ten Get a touchdown wait get out of bounds a touchdown is not out of the question I just can't get sad and I have to throw a good pass here no matter who I throw to all right Todd He percurtis Samuel right that's kind of the read here first and ten. Oh Up for that Wait, I can't catch him.  I guess I'm kind of getting cucked but also, you know, that's a horrible throw So that's not me. I don't know what he wants to throw here though. Probably just this deep one Yeah, bro. He's one for six for six yards. It's 14 to zero One for seven six yards an interception. We have to score here, dude My offense has been sorry though. I got zero points. Of course. My offense has been sorry. Let's do something here, man Not a good potential though. I kind of want to hit Todd heat here I'm hoping he's there. He's saying this out to Jonathan Taylor. There's so much room here in the middle We just need mediocre blocks.  He's missing all his switches second and gold Let's get there. Let's get there Oh get me end zone.  Is that a real handoff? It is ooh No, no way Yep, I figured I figured he'd do that. All right, everyone get ready for the run. We know runs coming Solid yo, hey man, could I get that um that hit stick fumble touchdown you gave him? I would not mind one of them. I'm I'm run committing and sending eight and getting four yards on your head is so frustrating Now you give me the fumble. You want to give me the fumble out of Bowser. He's going for this.  That was boldest fun respect. All right. That's the first respectable thing. He's not all game All right clean underneath the Jonathan Taylor who's gonna She I see Jonathan Taylor. All right, so he's not usuring the middle at least right there It wasn't that's what's nice about identifier because if they don't use to the middle Todd heap can get that every time Sketchy, but we got that to go through. We're not moving fast and move efficiently I think he's gonna leave Todd heap open because he's gonna take the slant. Oh, he does it He picked me up on that twice now. Ooh A little read option. I respect that. I don't like the fact that you don't fumble, but I respect the play calm. Oh Man, can you please fumble bro like this is so lame I'm depressed to look at the stats of this game because I'm gonna win in every category He threw three for nine for 24 yards All right, well, I'm a little depressed right now that's super lame I did not have any fun today.  That was ridiculous. All right boys Hey, thank you watch as always. Yeah, yeah, thank you watch those ways. I'll see you the next episode. Peace out


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Okay, good morning everyone. I haven't talked at all to any woman Mainly because I'm trying to figure out What we're gonna do if anything today here And we're definitely not gonna do this now yep, well that takes care of that So I didn't like this initially and now I definitely don't like it That's not happening. So we're not doing Oracle Let's check out the last guy here Today is not an easy day I mean, I thought we'd have an easy day here today because there were so many big names but I will tell you that the market looks very strange and Even though there is, you know, some longs that look good. They are very expensive and The spy for whatever reason is down and I'm not saying doesn't rally today, but I'm definitely, you know I feel like these things are gonna need the market to go and I Don't know what the market does here. It's not clear. It's not a hundred percent clear what the market's gonna do today It's the best way I can That's the best thing I could say Cost would be the only long watch and I think it needs a market So I think CSX is the one will watch if it sets up I prefer to hold 52 when to be open which it didn't hold just right here now But doesn't mean I'm off of it because it's been trading around trading around trading around but I really feel like 52 Is that number hard and fast? Oh gala had knows that it's going up today. Well good So gala had says that it must be true Huge volume here in CSX spread isn't half bad. I think 50 is reasonable for this if it sets up and works today I'm gonna be very careful today. It's been a positive week. It's been a good week 52 75 that is not what I want to see I may not be doing anything today. I'm just like, you know I've got one watch and it just had a pop-up in there and I'll go flip to Cossk if for some reason Which would be a long but I don't even know if that's gonna set up the way that I wanted either I don't know what I'm doing today. I may be doing nothing. It's one minute for the open I'll look at fit if this doesn't set up for any woman. It's very well my work. I'm not saying it doesn't But I'm saying I know what it needs to do. It was gonna I didn't ideal world this holds 58. I mean, uh, 52. Sorry Man, this would be super aggressive, but you can go long Costco here if you want it over the high stops got to be 191 50 I'm gonna pass but that looks like a valid set up Expensive and big stop one 190 you can buy it right here if you want it stop 191 50. I'm passing I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I've had a good week, but this is a solid train huge stop 194 stop 191 50. It's a real call if you want to do it go for it there. It's going I'm gonna scan it see if there's anything else. I like I really did not want to do that today, but it's gonna work Let's look here at the market cues are at the highs and spy it look completely opposite and that makes no sense to me and This am I off this or not is the question All right, what did Oracle do? Oracle actually dropped. All right. I'm flipping over to Oracle if you did cost it looks great Oracle actually broke and I didn't call it or watch it was watching the CSX that's off now flipping over to this You got to stick with me here today Let's do 75 by 25 Oracle and I'll tell you the minute to take it if it hits which would not be in this bar And that would not be a half bad entry here for this for late a late entry Oracle short 75 I hear it wait wait don't do it in this minute though 75 by 25 You can do it if it hits 75 by 25 now if it hits in this bar there It just did it just did it just hit it that was quick put the stop in a 25 one quick play in Oracle 4825 on the Oracle and we're gonna see the brakes through the low and then we're just gonna scalp it right out because of the market 4660 4760 Or 4760 4750 47 one scalp an Oracle and a race that up CSX you're off cost your end if you want I can't look at anything else. I decided to do this and here we go under the here You got to be in it if you want an Oracle or you can wait for the five minute if you really want But I think this is probably not half out of a stop if you didn't do it You could do 74 by 25 This should absolutely hold if it doesn't it's gonna flip But I don't think it's gonna happen here because it actually did open pretty weak And we could have done this immediately although I don't think I would have gotten out But it did break right away is Oracle for scalp in here market could be anybody's guest today because they look completely different Which is very unusual cues at new highs spy gap down It's just weird, but cost should work. I'm not in it though, but I called it if you wanted it Or you could do an option in that watch McCall you could do an option in the cost CSX I wouldn't touch or where it's gonna go and that's the matter of the day So that's where it bounced 47 61 47 63 very Interesting here if you did not do Oracle you can do it here if you don't it's too late here Oracle under the low Is 61 and we're gonna just go and scout this here today again. It's been a good solid week It's Friday market is here Here Oracle here, we didn't break 50 yet You can do it. You can do it Here see the breaks 50. It's what I'm talking about When a quick trade today, I had a good week didn't really know we were doing anything do whatever you want 47 looks in sight Whoa, wait, was that real? 47 was that real was that invisible tick I got out before that happened Was that real was that it did that happen get printed here? Let's check it either that was an invisible ticker it happened Before that tail here, let's look at this and this and this and this and this and this no it looks like it happened It touched on 47. I got out like a second before that happened if you happen to actually still be in it You didn't have much time to take it out there You almost would have had to put your order to sit at the number to fill you Which I don't even know if it would have because it looks like it touched it for like a millisecond Is it anybody get out of anywhere in there in the low low 47 through the teens but as a brick now Let's go look at the cost Holding the options for the cost Longer term journey woman still in oracle. All right. Let me just look at the cost options to see if there's anything here to


We're glad to know you're still there and watching the run-up and it's exciting right now. We're drawing closer and closer to 2023 and our concern is that under international standards both men and women should have equal rights and opportunities to everything worldwide, most especially to participate fully in all aspects and at all levels of political processes. Globally, women constitute over half of the world's population and contribute in vital ways to societal development generally and in most societies women assume some key roles which are mother, producer, home manager and community organizer, social, cultural and political activist and all these many roles mentioned. The last has been endangered by women movement. Nigeria has been recording low participation of women in both elective and appointed positions. This is growing concern to many Nigerians however consented efforts have been made by government and non-governmental organizations to increase the level of participation of women in politics. And of course these are the issues that concerns that presently we're going to be looking at and of course despite women constituting 50% of population and about 51% of votes in elections.  Overall political representation in government is below 7% according to unavailable status. Also women have not still attained the recommended 30% seats in government as prescribed by the Beijing platform of action to which Nigeria subscribes. And it was not until 1979 that women in northern Nigeria exercised their voting rights or began to exercise their voting rights and this implies that they could not contest or contest for political positions nor participate in choosing their political leaders. I mean until 1979. Yeah but also worrisome it's not only that it's happening in Nigeria in Iran right now a footballer is marked for hanging because he was canvassing for women's rights. But we may not be as concerned with the things happening in Iran as we are concerned in Nigeria even though sometimes when things like this happen people can be pointing fingers and saying it has happened here why can't it happen here. We don't want us to get into that situation where someone has to even be the one to talk. Everybody should just know that everybody has the rights. But we are not the ones who are going to talk about this today. We have Mary Ogweji a lawyer and politician who has just joined us who will be talking about this. Hello and welcome to the run up Mary. It's still morning here maybe you are elsewhere you are not in Nigeria but in Nigeria it's still morning. Yes it is. Welcome Mary. Okay now a lot of people think that women have been marginalized politically do you share that notion as well? Absolutely because the statistics actually show this we have less than 6.7 or even 7% of women representation in Nigeria. I think the number of senators we have in Nigeria are 8 as opposed to the 109 seats. So we have 101 men in the Senate and we just have 8 women actually that are senators and under the House of Representatives we have just 13 women representing different states. I think 360 House of Assembly and House of Reps members and House of Assembly across the whole states we have just 21 and I think the total number is 400 plus which shows that we actually are less than 7% and in Nigeria I think CDD statistics shows that we actually women are like 50.1 or 50. something which shows that we are even above like the men population and we should be given a place at which we are given more space is in the political space. Alright lots of conversations have come up around this marginalization of women politically and then you've given us statistics which is nice I mean you mentioned numbers but then who do you think is to blame? Is it that the women are not as enthusiastic as they should be about political offices or coming out to vie as much as they should or they are not enough level playing ground for them to thrive in politics? Who is to blame? I think everybody has its own faults first of all the society that we live in Nigeria is a patriarchal society and by that I mean it's men dominated and also gender roles actually affect women's participation in politics because generally the society has actually given the role of parenting the whole of home building to women and have left the leadership roles for the men and we also have our religious factors affecting us religiously we are always taught in churches that the man is the head and whether we like it or not our religious and cultural beliefs actually builds up to what we have today even the constitution the foundation of the constitution and many of our legislations that we actually practiced today found this bearing from the laws and religious and our cultural laws so we can't actually take religion out of it and because many people actually misquote these words to mean that women should actually not take leadership roles outside the church instead of them preaching in the churches I'm going to say church because I'm a Christian I don't really know so much about the Muslim faith but I can see that very little few Muslim women are actually taking political positions too but as a Christian you hear them telling you as a woman you have to be submissive you have to listen to your husband your husband is first in the your husband is first takes first place in your life and so whatever your husband tells you if your husband does not support you to go into the political field you won't be able to actually go there and rather than preaching things like okay when Jesus Christ died for example it was the women that first that he appeared to first at least those kind of teachings will actually motivate women leadership roles and besides that we also have our legislation our legislation is not helping us like the 35 percent affirmative action that was denied us is actually very alarming we are not asking for 50 percent we are asking for just 35 and even the national um gender policy that's Nigeria I heard you talking about the Belgium and I granted that was 1995 women and conference or so I think that was when it happened Nigeria actually subscribed to recent I think it was 30 percent that was giving us affirmative action Nigeria came and said 35 percent under their national um gender policy and today they are actually having an issue implementing it we are only saying implement what you have actually said you are going to implement and it's now an issue and even when the women trust fund actually sued the government to implement it and won the case at the federal high court the government went to appeal so then you ask do this government does this government actually have the love for women participation in politics because it's very amazing when you hear political speeches you hear people saying um the political parties will tell you that they have given the women spaces like PDP for example has 35 percent affirmative action written in their constitution but we don't get to see them so I think we have an implementation problem and the women too we have issues with women one we have issues with other women but um other women supporting women and you won't really blame them because for a society that have been under male leadership and like I said before are cultural and religious background affects us a lot so a woman we only support another woman if her husband or the people around her the people that she sees as how like put it as her head tell her that okay let's support this person that's the only way you see a woman going to support another woman and which is very rare every man will prefer to support a man you hear some people saying that they can never allow a woman rule over them god forbid you hear some people even saying that it's better for them to go and commit suicide and die than for a woman to become um to get leadership positions and then again whether we like it or not if you say we are practicing democracy in Nigeria then we need to practice democracy indeed and democracy is about inclusiveness as far as I'm concerned Nigeria women hold women generally across the world we hold 50 percent of the sky and you cannot say you are practicing true democracy when a large number of people that are numbering almost 50 percent are marginalized and which happens to be women and another problem we have with women is that a lot of women are actually not coming out and I always tell my fellow women whenever we get to speak or sit down I would say if you want to be selected you need to participate because we need knowledge we need to be in the system you don't expect anybody to come and pick you out of the system because now my fear of implementation now is the fact that if they give this 35 percent affirmative action how many women are there readily available to actually take up this 35 percent and if there is no chance for an immediate implementation it will now become another demand law again and that's why I encourage women before you can be selected you need to come out you need to participate when you participate and you get selected then we cannot elect you we cannot elect you in your house so one of the problems that we have also is women participation now you cannot blame them it's because of the society women are getting to politics are actually being called different kinds of names we are actually stigmatized you hear them calling you maybe a woman of little virtue or somebody a prostitute we are actually called different kinds of being because of the ascribed negativity that we give to politics here because most times politicians are seen as evil people people that have very little consent about human rights because of the many promise and failed because of the many promise and failed issues that we've been having in the past so as a woman once you and you know generally many many people see that it's okay for a man to actually have like a bad character but as a woman who ordinarily has the nature of nature naturally they see it that you are an extremely bad person to be going into politics and nobody would want to be ascribed such a status so I think all these are not actually affecting women's participation okay well 35 percent sometimes I find it difficult to fathom what it will look like because in elective positions for instance you cannot control the will of the people it is people that vote for the person who has who is vying for that elective position which also includes women that are part of the voters now is there something that the women are doing wrong or it's something that needs to be done more to make sure that people see the women as those who are worthy enough and even the women themselves seeing themselves as let's do for ourselves at least this one time or these two times and all that because you cannot give 35 percent to women and then there are no women to come out and even if there are women that will come out the women themselves will not even vote for the women so what is lacking what needs to be done to change this narrative I think one of the things that are lacking is education we need proper education we need to educate the public in general not just the fellow women we need to educate the men too because generally if you are saying okay women should get political power you need to tell people what are the advantages like for example I think was it's last month or so there was an NGO that actually went to build a borehole for a community for women so that it to ease their water supply and when they finished and erecting the borehole nobody went there to get water and when they found out they got to ask questions like why were they not getting water they now said that the place where they put the borehole was not convenient because they normally go to fetch water at a particular place for bonding reasons and for other reasons and so that particular spot where it got where it kept the water was not good for them and that gets to show that women we have our own we have our personal issues we have our differences we have reasons they may they may not be able to relate with us on the same level but a fellow woman can like for example some of the laws that we have against women like the three years before a police woman a single policeman gets married which he must actually must have stayed two years and after staying those two years she must actually take permission from the police commissioner before she gets married and she must submit records of her husband we have the penal code section 55 that actually gives the man the right to beat up his wife we have different sections we have them even the NDLEA acts there are a lot of acts and there are a lot of laws that are actually against us as against women and before we'll be able to as punch these laws we need more women we need more women voices we need many he's for she's we need to educate the society only women alone won't be doing it and how do we do that by creating specific for example if you give women appointments appointments one of the reasons why the society don't like votes for women is because of money you know elections we can't take money out of elections in Nigeria we are not even talking about even sipping will I say sipping maybe the political party officials and the rest I'm not talking about even sipping them we are talking about the general logistics we have over like we have thousands of them polling units you need to send your representatives there you need we need we need money for a lot of things in politics and because women have not been given good spaces even for jobs we are just expect them to harness or has just money from and a lot of political parties are not giving support but if you are able to educate them and tell them okay this are the advantages of women getting there tomorrow your daughter is going to be in that position and the mistakes that you normally make is that we forget that whatever we do today affects everybody affects every one of us because if you are cutting a tree you never can tell where that tree is going to fall tomorrow maybe if you land on your daughter maybe you hear some men they'll tell you that your wives can never work but when you tell them that okay would you want your daughter to work they'll say yes they cannot spend that kind of money on their daughters and not let them work so that means that there is hope and their daughter is a woman and so that means that there is a way we can actually speak to them to allow women then I think another issues another issue that women have generally is that we come into the political system with competition like we are trying to be competitive knowing that everything is against us we are supposed to be complementary that is how to get you don't come into somebody's don't come into a place that is dominated by you don't come into a military space that's called dominated by a particular set of people and you now come with an axe and you are just three or four and you expect that you are going to win the battle when you come you come as an ally you come as a friend you come to compliments I think women should actually use their family most times try to be like the men in the political spaces rather than us take charge rather than us take advantage of our feminine of our feminine nature there is nothing there's nothing wrong in actually negotiating that the political time for a political meeting should be brought down to 7 p.m rather than 12 a.m or 1 p.m but most times he's here when I say even if it's 1 a.m we'll be there at the meeting that is not where our strength lies our strength is in realizing that okay we see have children to take care of at home and because of that we want this meeting to be held 7 we are not going there to fight you are coming here to say okay I know that yes people are doing well and we know that you are doing some things and but there are some things you are not getting right but crying out loud we as women actually did step some spaces but in order to do this we are not here to fight you people we are not here to say you are not doing well but at least take us along at least if women are given positions like um appointments in different and space at least to make them to pick up if we are being made like deputies at least for a start I'm not saying that is good enough but at least for a start is a starting point for us being that's right now as you level of women participation is politics is very low so we really need to be strategic rather than competitive at this point Mary just just a moment you you have rendered all of us evangelists to go now and preach the gospel to the people but you keep mentioning the advantages of having a woman in politics or in leadership positions give us some of these advantages of having a woman in an elective position or a position of power okay I already like kind of explanatory gave one of the reasons like some of these laws that actually discriminate against against women you know most of the men when you tell them about these laws they may not be able to relate with us at same um points but when they say okay you are telling a woman that okay before she gets into um the before she gets married in the police for she must take two years we are the ones that actually have um biological clocks running down men actually don't have that issue so when you tell when a woman goes and she sees that kind of loss she will be able to give very good reasons why those kind of laws should be expunged like beating women for example we are the ones that feel the pain a woman may be pregnant and you beat her and if you beat her she loses the pregnancy only a woman knows what she feels to lose the pregnancy so we relate with each other and that's on one side and women generally we are meant to not show you cannot tell us that every great man that's every great man that we see in leadership position actually came from our house and who runs the house the woman so you cannot tell me that will be good at running homes and won't be good at running nations because whether we like it or not when those when men are stressed and they come back home the woman is the person that gives some good gives him good advice and tries to calm him down so women have this the women have this way of being able to give like an equity balance to things and because of our nature that's why it says that women generally seek their feminine nature as they are to an advantage rather than try to be like the men because you will never be able to compete you will never be best at being somebody else so we should try to be ourselves and try to win by being women and not try to be win by trying to act like the men we should take our positions women generally they are meant to not show once a woman gets into any place for example let's say if two men are fighting and the woman comes in the middle they'll say ah because of this woman I don't want to hit her because generally men just have this feeling that women are very fragile and you see before you know those fights are already has been halted and you see some men they won't want to insult themselves or show themselves in front of the woman this is just social reasons anyway so you're gonna have to you're gonna have to mention a lot of things that are challenges facing women in politics and you've also mentioned that how how that you know women participation in politics is poor due to most of these reasons that you churned out to us this morning so my question is because we're actually rounding how if you got that vantage position and you have all these women that you need behind you what would you do differently what would I do differently if I get the position I will actually relate because representation when you talk about representation you are not talking about representing yourself you are representing a constituency representing people and the mistakes some of our leaders make is that they don't even have knowledge of the positions that we hold so the first thing I'm going to do is that I'm going to reach out to my people what is our problem what is really the issues what do people want which what are we going out first to speak about if you carry people along because whether we like it or the problem with our politicians these days is that they forget that they are deaf as in at representing people they go there as they represent themselves you have full of ego and they don't even do the right things but as a woman I will go back to my society and I will ask them what do you think what are the what are the things we should put forward what is the problem what are we are going to put it in preference and when I'm doing that I'm not going to go there and start promising bridges or promising roads where there is no I'm going to make sure that I put a strategic step and I make strategic make strategic policies and make sure okay like for example you hear some persons expecting a house of rep or house of assembly member to actually come and build roads that is not the work of house of rep or house of assembly member it's for the house of rep and house of assembly member is supposed to bring out laws and policies that we help so I'm going to bring out laws and policies that will help my people for example we are suffering from flurry headers clashes in my place so what are those things that are going to actually help those are those kind of policies that are those are the kind of policies I want to make on behalf of my people then for example if I'm the local government chairman I would definitely try to make sure that okay they are good roads they are I would try and invest in social investment and also use my position to actually reach out to different NGOs and see how they can actually come and bring their good view to my people and aside that if you train a woman today if you train a woman today you are motivating other women and other girls being that we are in a society that women representation is very poor so by giving me that opportunity you have given that girl that's mindset that you can become what this woman is actually right now so to motivate a lot of women and the woman who is in position is going to be more enlightened and that enlightenment is going to reach down to her children that's why you also hear the phrase train a woman train the nation all right thank you so much mary for coming on the run-up this morning it's been quite amazing and very enlightening speaking with you thank you so much thank you very much it was nice I was speaking with you too thank you for coming young girl you seem to have something we are all evangelists now but we cannot say enough you know we cannot we cannot say enough when it comes to telling people that we have equal rights and there are some things that women can do even better than men we just have to identify them but a key thing from what you were saying and from what we've observed over the years is that the women have to build their self-confidence on them in themselves so that you have to be there like my people you know don't get me to save you don't get me to save you but it's everywhere not just my people they say you cannot crown an absent king because the crown has to go on a head and when the head is not there you cannot crown that person so you have to come out and women to stand with the women it will do us a lot of good you go to churches there are more women I don't know about the most I think it's you go to a lot of places there are more women I don't know about the statistics of the the whatever body has been counting us but I think women might even be more than the men how can that kind of a population not make its impact felt it's the orientation that we have women have been thought to be quiet to not be seen to not be heard and you know the society curves that and makes it look like submission it makes it look like obedience meanwhile that is timidity that is shutting down it is an orientation that we've served the women over the years generations after generations like she said it cannot be done overnight we need to start reversing that mindset we need to start reorientating our women making them understand that they they they need to be heard they can be heard they can be heard they can lead because the society agree with me or not have made it you know made it more popular for people to feel that leadership positions are for the men actually I think where women belong is even better we are in the directional position the bible says we are the neck now we're neck carry head go ego go well that's just for another day you see even though the time is going but you see a lot of societies that I know actually respect women and give them positions even as chiefs it's not a matter of argument that I'm trying to put up now so the thing is I ask myself all the time this society that they have said have made has made sure that women don't get heard and all that where is that society it's not in the west they say it is african in the society I come from women lead like traditionally women lead they have their own women and when they decide things the community either does it or nothing moves again so I don't know when they talk about women where did the mindset come I always ask myself this have you heard the word propaganda by who because it's not my community for instance I don't know if it's a wine it was just a name that is what it is not just a name as a why is not just a name as a why is actually the woman king but that's that's conversation for another day because we need to go on this quick break and the news will come up at noon when we return we'll probably might have to touch on this again before we move on but stay with us the run-up will be back


I was born in China, in the city of Yangzhou, it's close to Shanghai, about 300 kilometers away, and I was raised up in the countryside. Before I, you know, know something about Buddhism, I have no, you know, religion background. I have never, you know, studied or learned or practiced other religions. I have a master of law degree. I studied in Peking University, and I got bachelor degree and a master degree in Peking University from 1984 to 1991, seven years in that university. I used to be a lawyer in China, so I was in Zhejiang province to deal with the, you know, a case, you know, and my client is in that small town, and we visited our clients, and there's a small temple just by the river, and that is the first time I met with the master.  I've never been to Beijing before. So, okay, I said, okay, you're more than welcome to visit Beijing. I can accommodate you. I can pick you up at the train station. So the master left in my apartment for one week, and he told me something about Buddhism, and oh, I realized that Buddhism is not as I imagined it before. Oh, they have some, you know, they have some wisdom in it. So I began to learn, I began to explore, and I began to visit many, many masters all over China, and also I went to Taiwan to, you know, learn from them to ask questions. Yeah. At the very beginning, I had no interest to learn, you know, something more about Buddhism, because, you know, before when I was in high school, when I was in university, some people told me that, you know, religion is not good things.  But when the master came to Beijing, and he told me something about Buddhism, I found that things is not as I imagined it before. The first thing I learned from Buddhism is that, the master told me the goal of Buddhism are two things. One is be free from, you know, some bad things. For example, you have to, you know, you don't have to worry about something. The second thing is that you can have much more wisdom. Oh, these two things, you know, I love it. So, you know, I began to study. I have been practicing Buddhism for more than 20 years. So in the first 10 years, I read a lot of books, I visited many masters and asked questions, learned from them. But I still find that, you know, it is very difficult for me to break through. And finally, I got a chance to live in a temple in Taiwan.  I forget about anything else. I just concentrate myself. And suddenly, I realized something. And I also realized that I have to do something for the whole world. Because I found, I realized that we human beings have big problems because we are on the wrong direction. So when I came back from Taiwan, I, you know, meditated a lot, you know, and many, many times at the end of my meditation, something came to my mind. It was a new idea. It's an excellent idea about our human society's future and how to solve the problems. So in 2014, I established a foundation in China.  And in 2017, I wrote a book. It was also published in Taiwan. In my book, I summarize the essence of Chinese traditional culture. I summarize what's the fundamental problems of our human society. And I also proposed some solutions to those problems. And I made it, I made up my mind to pray for people all over the world since that time. This style of praying is traditional style of praying in China. It is called three steps and one bow. In Chinese, it is called three steps plus one bow. Okay. So it is very common in China. But, you know, when I, you know, when the idea came to my mind that I should pray for people all over the world, it also came to my mind that I should pray a distance that is equal to the radius of the earth. So it is about, you know, 6,372 kilometers. Okay.  So in each city, it will be about, you know, three kilometers. So in together, in order to pray 6,372 kilometers, I have to pray in 2,124 cities. Okay. So I, and then I, I, you know, I explore which city I should pray in and I found that the United Nations, they have a list of cities with a population of more than 300,000. There are more than 1,700, this kind of cities in the world. Okay. So this is the main part of cities I will pray in. But in some countries, for example, for in United States, I also made up my mind that I have to pray in each capital city of all states. Even their population is not, you know, as big as 300,000. Yeah. So altogether, more than 2,100 cities. Portland, I pray in Portland because, you know, there are many, many Portland's in the world. For example, in Oregon, there is another bigger Portland. But that Portland, the city's name is came from this Portland. So that's the reason, because Portland is a well-known city name. So I decided to pray in Portland. I also pray in Augusta.  Of course, United States and Canada and Mexico. Yeah. I also pray in Greenland, Iceland, you know. I also pray in Trumso in Norway. It's within the Arctic Circle. I studied in April the first, 2018. This whole mission will take more than 21 years to accomplish. So far, I have been prayed in 334 cities in Oregon City, Portland. It's 334 cities I pray in. So in this city, I have accumulated 1,000 kilometers of praying on road. It will be done in 2039. Still 18 years left. When I get there, I will be more than 73 years old. When I was in Ethiopia, there was a civil war there, people that killed each other. And when I was praying on road, I was got by some armed people. They pointed a gun at me, but they cannot speak English. I cannot say local language. But I understand that they want to take me away. So I just follow them, one person leading me and the other person holding a gun. They took me to their camp, a huge camp. And fortunately, the commander, I came to a very strong man. He can speak English. I told him what I was doing, and he asked, wow, because of the pandemic, it's so serious. I was daring to pray all over the world. I was still traveling all over the world. Okay, I told him I want to pray for people. I don't want to stop.  So he just let me go. When I prayed in the capital city of Bolivia, because in that city, most residents are local Indian people. So almost every family, they have dogs. So the day I went to pray, the civil dogs, they just came to me and bark. And one dog and two dogs bite me. And I got bleeding on my left leg. And finally, a young man came to come up and he helped me to get the dogs away. And I had two options at that time. One option is to go to the hospital right away. And the other option was to continue with my praying. But a voice from my heart said, it's okay, you can continue. So I just continued praying. After I finished praying several hours later, I feel my left leg was paralyzed. But because I'm a practitioner of Buddhism, I know how to deal with this situation. So I just sit down and meditate for hours. I remember maybe when I meditated for about two hours, the paralyzed just disappeared. Everything is okay. And I know no problem at all. When I pray on the road, it's kind of like you lost yourself. You are not doing anything. So you will never feel too tired. But in some cases, for example, the temperature is too high. It is difficult for me. But for today, for example, today the temperature is not very high. Okay, it's more comfortable. So in this situation, I just feel like I lost my body. Now, I have immersed with the whole universe. So I don't look around. I just let it be. Things like that. I pray for three things. First, I pray for people's happiness and self-improvement. Second, I pray for thousands of ideas to be communicated and integrated. Third, I pray for the human society to be on a virtual cycle of development. I pray for these three things. When I pray, first, I count the number because I pray 999 times. So from 1 to 999. So I count the number. But at the same time, especially when I bow and I touch my forehead on the earth, I pray. I recite these three prayers in my heart. I go to 100 cities all over the world each year. And in each city, I spend three days. First day to arrive. The second day to find a road that is about, you know, at least three kilometers long. And the road condition is suitable for praying. And the third day to pray. So in each city, I spend three days. So in total, I spend more than 10 months on road every year. Basically, I don't have enough time to accompany my family. And I don't have time to earn money.   I live in residence instead of, you know, hotel. Because living in residence gave me opportunity to make food by myself. So that is also good for me to reach local people, to see their real life, to communicate with them, to know what they are thinking about. So I learn a lot of things from this experience. It is a good way to practice Buddhism.  You have to keep your heart calm. You have to keep your calm to deal with all these kind of things. So it is not just, you know, learn from books. We learn from the real life. So it is very important for our Buddhists to learn from life, real life, not only books. So I think, you know, this travel experience gave me very good opportunity to learn from real life. At the same time, because, you know, I also have something in my mind. I was thinking, what's the problem of our human society? How can we solve the problem? Before I started praying, I have already have some idea in my mind. So I wrote those things in my book. But I have to go, you know, go to everywhere, go all over the world to communicate with people, to talk to people, to tell them my idea, and get some feedback from them to improve my idea. So it is very helpful. The most important thing I learned that, you know, people's, you know, idea, people's mind, or people's thought, is just like the world we live in. The world has three dimensions. One dimension is a line, two dimensions is square, three dimensions is cube. So we can find that things happen in higher dimension is difficult to be understood for lower dimension. For example, there is a basket with some apple in the basket. If we want to take out the apple from the basket, it is very easy in three dimensions. We just, you know, put our hand in and get the apple out. But it is difficult or impossible for two dimensions because on square, if you want to get the apple out from outside of the basket, the brim, it is not impossible unless you break the brim. Okay. I learned that, I realized that our human beings, you know, thought is also half dimensions. So I used the thinking level to describe these kind of things. You know, the first level of think, the formula is that if it is A, it must not be. For example, we can say Portland now is daytime. When I say it is daytime in Portland, it must not be nighttime now. So you only have one. You have to choose one. This is the first level. The second level, the formula is also A, also B. For example, a paper has both side A and side B. Side A is not side B. Side B is not side A. But side A and side B, they cannot exist without the other side. They are always together. Okay. This is the second level of thinking. The third level of thinking, the formula is that A is B. B is A. They are the same and together all the time. So in China, we have a saying, water can carry a boat, can also overturn a boat. So we see everything, both good and bad. For example, food. Food is good, but if you eat too much, it will damage your health. Okay. So everything is both good and bad. So we have to find out the balance point, the middle point in Chinese traditional culture. Okay. So this is the third level of thinking. The fourth level of thinking, the formula is not A, not B. Okay. We just mentioned that day and night. Okay. It is important for earth, for our human being also for other living on the earth. But if we ask, is it now day or night in solar system, in galaxy or in the whole universe, we have no answer. Because day and night are phenomena of planets that are rotating by themselves. So everything has a scope. Day and night is in the scope of planet rotating by themselves. If we jump out of this scope, if we leave this scope, these kind of things doesn't exist. We cannot talk about it. So this is the fourth level. So I think our human beings many many of our human beings problem are caused by lowest level of thinking. We have to move up. We have to take advantage of higher level of thinking to solve our social problems. In a practicing Buddhism, especially meditation will help you to realize, to achieve higher level of thinking. It is very important. I wrote a book and today I made a declaration, summarize the problems and my proposal to the solution. So I will tell people my idea. When I pray all of the world, I will communicate with local people and share with them my idea so that more and more people realize that, oh, we have problems. We have a better way to improve it. We deserve a better world in the future. For the first level, if our thinking is on the first level, first level formula, if it is A, it must not be. So people will fight each other because if you get this, I will lose. So it is a get and lose way of thinking. So there will be many many disputes, many many fights on the world. If our thinking moves to the second level, we will realize that also A also B. We are in the same boat just like in the side A and side B work together. So we can compete, but at the same time we can cooperate. We can make things happen together, not just fight each other. Okay, for the third level of thinking, something in our life that happened, we cannot change the result. But everything has both good and bad. For example, yesterday, we cannot manipulate the camera. That is a bad thing, but it is good because if you solve the problem yesterday, you will do things better today. So everything, if you cannot change the result, we have to look at both sides, both good and bad. We can take advantage of good side. For example, if we suffer something, we cannot change that result. We can also learn something from suffering. We can also grow up from suffering. Suffering actually can help you better to grow up. Okay, this is the third level of thinking. Okay, fourth level of thinking, everything will pass away. Good, bad, success, failure. Okay, as time elapses, everything will go away like a wind. You don't have to worry about it too much. Take it easy.